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A37428 An enquiry into the occasional conformity of dissenters in cases of preferment with a preface to the lord mayor, occasioned by his carrying the sword to a conventicle. Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731. 1698 (1698) Wing D835; ESTC R36086 13,515 16

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