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A57816
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An answer to a scandalous paper of T. Hicks, term'd A rebuke to T.R. &c. with a reassumption our former complaint and charge against T. Hicks / by a lover of truth, Thomas Rudyard.
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Rudyard, Thomas, d. 1692.
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1674
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Wing R2176; ESTC R29339
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