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A78140 A sermon preached at the funerall of the Right Honourable and most excellent lady, the Lady Elizabeth Capell dowager. Together with some brief memorialls of her most holy life and death. By Edm. Barker, late chaplain to her Honour, and now rector of Buriton in Hampshire. Barker, Edmund, b. 1620 or 21. 1660 (1660) Wing B766; Thomason E1046_14; ESTC R38546 36,267 67

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