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A80411 The vindication of the law: so far forth as scripture and right reason may be judge, and speedy justice (which exalts a nation) may be advanced. VVherein is declared what manner of persons Christian magistrates, judges, and lawyers ought to be. / By Iohn Cooke of Graies Inne, now chief justice of the province of Munster, 1652. Cook, John, d. 1660. 1652 (1652) Wing C6028; Thomason E662_9; ESTC R206788 78,991 98

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