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A70494 Looke about you the plot of Contzen, the Moguntine Jesuite, to cheate a church of the religion established therein and to serve in popery by art without noise or tumult. Contzen, Adam, 1571-1635.; Catholicke spy. 1641 (1641) Wing L3004; ESTC R3958 21,847 32

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