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A12489 A brief treatyse settynge forth diuers truthes necessary both to be beleued of Chrysten people, & kepte also, whiche are not expressed in the Scripture but left to ye church by the apostles traditio[n] / made by Rychard Smyth ... Smith, Richard, 1500-1563. 1547 (1547) STC 22818; ESTC S1134 93,357 415

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