Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

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Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03640	A sermon preached before the queenes maiestie at Hampton Court, on Sunday the 16. day of October: By I. Hopkins, one of his maiesties chaplaines in ordinarie	Hopkins, John, fl. 1604-1609.	1609 (1609)	STC 13768; ESTC S114087	13,139	44

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