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A61373 A confirmation and discovery of witchcraft containing these severall particulars : that there are witches ... together with the confessions of many of those executed since May 1645 ... / by John Stearne now of Lawshall. Sterne, John, 17th cent. 1648 (1648) Wing S5365; ESTC R28178 56,829 70

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