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A54576 A compendious history of the Catholick church from the year 600 untill the year 1600 shewing her deformation and reformation : together with the rise, reign, rage, and begin-fall of the Roman AntiChrist : with many other profitable instructions gathered out of divers writers of the several times, and other histories / by Alexander Petrie ... Petrie, Alexander, 1594?-1662.; Church of Scotland. General Assembly. 1657 (1657) Wing P1879; ESTC R4555 1,586,559 1,238

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