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A43193 A sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Chief Justice Treby at the Assizes held at Horsham in the County of Sussex, on the 23d day of March, 1696[/]7. By Peter Heald, A.M. and prebendary in the Cathedral Church of Chichester. Heald, Peter, d. 1728. 1697 (1697) Wing H1300A; ESTC R216620 11,478 30

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