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A65469 The profitableness of piety opened in an assize sermon preach'd at Dorchester, March 24 1670/1 : before the Right Honourable Sir Richard Rainsford Knight, one of the judges of the Kings Bench at the request of the Right Worshipful Robert Seymer Esquire, His Majesties High-Sheriff of the County of Dorset / by Richard West, D.D. ... West, Richard, 1614-1690.; Rainsford, Richard, Sir, 1605-1680.; Seymer, Robert. 1671 (1671) Wing W1380; ESTC R8228 19,335 34

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