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A05397 A sermon preached the thyrd Sondaye in Lente before the kynges Maiestie, and his honorable counsell, by Thomas Leauer Lever, Thomas, 1521-1577. 1550 (1550) STC 15548; ESTC S103745 23,406 90

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