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A01685 A vvork vvorth the reading VVherein is contayned, fiue profitable and pithy questions, very expedient, aswell for parents to perceiue howe to bestowe their children in marriage, and to dispose their goods at their death: as for all other persons to receiue great profit by the rest of the matters herein expressed. Newly published by Charles Gibbon.; Work worth the reading Gibbon, Charles, fl. 1589-1604. 1591 (1591) STC 11821; ESTC S101910 36,863 70

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