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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26644	A reply to two discourses lately printed at Oxford concerning the adoration of our blessed Savior in the Holy Eucharist	Aldrich, Henry, 1647-1710.	1687 (1687)	Wing A899; ESTC R8295	52,095	76

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