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A87809 A looking-glasse for Levellers: held out in a sermon, preached at St. Peters Pauls-Wharfe, upon Sunday in the after-noone, Sept. 24. 1648. / By Paul Knell, Master in Arts, of Clare-Hall in Cambridge. Sometime chaplain to a regiment of curasiers in His Majesties Army. Knell, Paul, 1615?-1664. 1648 (1648) Wing K683; Thomason E465_30; ESTC R204195 16,473 21

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