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A28613 The cities great concern in this case of question of honour and arms whether apprentiship extinguisheth gentry discoursed : with a clear refutation of the pernicious error that it doth. Bolton, Edmund, 1575?-1633?; Philipot, John, 1589?-1645. 1674 (1674) Wing B3505; ESTC R37123 30,025 126

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