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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41435	A discourse concerning auricular confession as it is prescribed by the Council of Trent, and practised in the Church of Rome : with a post-script on occasion of a book lately printed in France, called Historia confessionis auricularis.	Goodman, John, 1625 or 6-1690.	1684 (1684)	Wing G1104; ESTC R6771	36,206	60

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