Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n
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Mirabile pecci, or, The non-such wonder of the peak in Darby-shire discovered in a full, though succinct and sober, narrative of the more than ordinary parts, piety and preservation of Martha Taylor, one who hath been supported in time above a year in by H.A.
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H. A.
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1669
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Wing A9; ESTC R13065
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