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A12763 De non temerandis ecclesiis A tract of the rights and respect due vnto churches. Written to a gentleman, who hauing an appropriate parsonage, imploied the church to prophane vses, and left the parishioners vncertainely prouided of diuine seruice, in a parish neere there adioyning. By Sr. Henry Spelman knight. Spelman, Henry, Sir, 1564?-1641. 1616 (1616) STC 23068; ESTC S100543 41,397 238

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