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A52761 A most pithy exhortation delivered in an eloquent oration to the watry generation aboard their admirall at Graves-End, by the Right Reverend, Mr. Hugh Peters, doctor of the chair for the famous university of Whitehall, and Chaplain in Ordinary to the high and mighty K. Oliver, the first of that name as it was took, verbatim, in short hand (when he delivered it) / by Mercurius Pragmaticus. Nedham, Marchamont, 1620-1678.; Peters, Hugh, 1598-1660. 1649 (1649) Wing N397A; ESTC R12200 4,725 8

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