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A43715 Historia quinq-articularis exarticulata, or, Animadversions on Doctor Heylin's quintquarticular history by Henry Hickman. Hickman, Henry, d. 1692. 1674 (1674) Wing H1910; ESTC R23973 197,145 271

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