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A15655 The schollers purgatory discouered in the Stationers common-wealth, and discribed in a discourse apologeticall, asvvell for the publike aduantage of the Church, the state & vvhole common-vvealth of England, as for the remedy of priuate iniuryes. By Geo: VVither. Wither, George, 1588-1667. 1624 (1624) STC 25919; ESTC S120316 70,447 142

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