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A94202 A reviler rebuked, or, Abraham Bonifield's envy, falseness and folly, in his late book, called The cry of the oppressed, etc., laid open in this answer thereunto Written by Oliver Sansom... Sansom, Oliver, 1636-1710. 1696 (1696) Wing S685; ESTC R43915 56,159 52

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