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A91005 An easy and compendious introduction for reading all sorts of histories: contrived, in a more facile way then heretofore hath been published, out of the papers of Mathias Prideaux Mr of Arts and sometime fellow of Exeter Colledge in Oxford. Prideaux, Mathias, 1622-1646?; Prideaux, John, 1578-1650. 1648 (1648) Wing P3439; Thomason E466_1; ESTC R203318 211,216 358

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