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A54219 The Quakers advice to the Presbyterians, or, Their evil practises against the now established government being friendly admonitions to exhort them to loyalty and obedience / written by an eminent Quaker and sent in a letter to a gentleman of the black cloak by W.P. W. P. 1681 (1681) Wing P137; ESTC R30078 1,880 2

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