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A57683
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A sermon preached at a visitation in Honiton in Devon, on Wensday in Easter week, 1676 by J.R. Rector of Lezant in Cornwall.
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J. R. (James Rossington), b. 1642 or 3.
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1676
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Wing R1995; ESTC R23078
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