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A67235 The duty of honouring the King and the obligations we have thereto delivered in a sermon preached at Richmond in York-shire, on the 6th of February, 1685/6 being the day on which His Majesty began His happy reign : at a general assembly of the loyal gentry of those parts, held there on purpose to celebrate the King's quiet and peaceable succession to the throne of his ancestors / by Christopher Wyvil ... Wyvill, Christopher, 1651?-1711. 1686 (1686) Wing W3786; ESTC R9015 18,499 36

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