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A80659 A treatise against recusants, in defence of the oath of alegeance. With executions of consideration, for repressing the encrease of Papists. / By Sir Robert Cotton, knight. Cotton, Robert, Sir, 1571-1631. 1641 (1641) Wing C6502; Thomason E205_1; ESTC R212611 26,099 47

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