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A31087 Certain proposals humbly offered, for the preservation & continuance of the truly reformed Protestant religion, in these three kingdomes of England, Scotland and Ireland by a professor of the said truly reformed Protestant religion ... J. B. 1674 (1674) Wing B96; ESTC R11223 33,531 39

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