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A00279 To the reader. To my faythfull brethren, we geue thankes to God for your constancie and upryght delynge in this gret controuersie now raysyd by packynge of enemys about the wearinge of popish apparell ... 1566 (1566) STC 10391; ESTC S111887 21,197 58

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