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A69015 An Englis[h] expositor[:] teaching the in[ter]pretation of the harde[st] words [vsed] in our language. With sundry [ex]plicat[ions, de]scriptions [, and d]iscourses. By I.B. ... J. B. (John Bullokar) 1621 (1621) STC 4084; ESTC S115630 109,867 269

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