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Plus ultra, or, Englands reformation, needing to be reformed being an examination of Doctor Heylins History of the reformation of the Church of England, wherein by laying together all that is there said ... / written by way of letter to Dr. Heylin by H.N. ...
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Hickman, Henry, d. 1692.
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Wing H1913; ESTC R19961
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