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A54123 Considerations moving to a toleration and liberty of conscience with arguments inducing to a cessation of the penal statues against all dissenters whatever, upon the account of religion : occasioned by an excellent discourse upon that subject publish'd by His Grace the Duke of Buckingham / humbly offered to the Parliament at their next sitting at Westminster. Penn, William, 1644-1718. 1685 (1685) Wing P1269; ESTC R32175 9,608 22

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