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A58378 Reflections upon that act of the Gloucester Common-Council which occasioned Dr. Fowler's printing his Discourse of offences : together with A short reply to the late scandalous queries offered to the Reverend Dean of Canterbury. 1683 (1683) Wing R724; ESTC R2255 7,405 15

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