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A69802 The Lancashire Levite rebuk'd, or, A farther vindication of the dissenters from popery, superstition, ignorance and knavery unjustly charged on them by Mr. Zachary Taylor in his two books about the Surey demoniak in a letter to himself. Carrington, John, d. 1701. 1698 (1698) Wing C642A; ESTC R173402 30,143 34

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