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B07949 Out-port-customers accompt, of all his receipts, to a shilling, or a penny, without concealement or enstaulement of any; according to his oath at his first admission. Wherein he plainely sets downe, as well the motiues and occasions, as the method and style of all his former writings ... Milles, Tho. (Thomas), 1550?-1627? 1627 (1627) STC 17935; ESTC S123346 67,239 64

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