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A05349 A treatise tending to unitie in a sermon preached at Droghedah on Whitsunday (being the ninth of Iune 1622.) before the Kings Majesties Commissioners for Ireland. By Henry Leslie. Leslie, Henry, 1580-1661. 1623 (1623) STC 15501; ESTC S102368 36,074 58

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