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A10780 A frendly farewel which Master Doctor Ridley, late Bishop of London did write beinge prisoner in Oxeforde, vnto all his true louers and frendes in God, a litle before that he suffred for the testimony of the truthe of Christ his Gospell. Newly setforth and allowed according to the order apoynted in the Quenes Maiesties iniunctions. Ridley, Nicholas, 1500?-1555.; Foxe, John, 1516-1587. 1559 (1559) STC 21051; ESTC S115942 27,194 106

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