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A40538 A Full and certain relation concerning the horrid plot of the papists and the barbarous and bloody murther of Sr. Edmund Bury Godfrey, one of His Majesties justices of the peace ... with an exact account in what manner he was found and what wounds he had on his body : together with the most noble manner of his being buried and the text of the sermon there preached ... 1678 (1678) Wing F2275A; ESTC R26736 3,004 10

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