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cause_n church_n great_a time_n 3,780 5 3.5201 3 true
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A33486 The converted capuchin, or, The recantation of Father Basil after he had continued nigh forty yeares a fryer of that order and perswaded many Protestants to the Romish-beliefe : with his answers to those reports framed against him since he left his convent at Roüen to be one of the reformed church at Sedan / English according to the French copy.; Declaration du sieur François Clouet, cy-devant appelé Père Basile de Rouen, où il déduit les raisons qu'il a eues de se séparer de l'Eglise romaine. English Basile, de Rouen, d. 1648? 1641 (1641) Wing C4738; ESTC R23037 16,013 23

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