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A46818 The prerogative of primogeniture shewing that the right of succession to an hereditary crown, depends not upon grace, religion, &c., but onely upon birth-right and primogeniture, and that the chief cause of all or most rebellions in Christendom, is a fanatical belief that temporal dominion is founded in grace / by David Jenner ... Jenner, David, d. 1691. 1685 (1685) Wing J661; ESTC R17940 69,745 218

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