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A34915 God's holy name magnified, and his truth exalted by the testimony of his faithful servants who have suffered the cruel penalty of banishment from their native country by the rulers thereof as also an abstract of their names : with some of the barbarous dealings and useages they received and sustained from the hands of those instruments that were imployed in the imbarquing of them / R.C. Unto which is annexed Englands sad estate and condition lamented / written by George Fox the younger in the beginning of the year 1661 ... R. C. (Richard Crane); Fox, George, d. 1661. Englands sad estate and condition lamented. 1665 (1665) Wing C6812; ESTC R24785 24,205 34

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