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A64879 A sermon preached at Clonmell, on Sunday the sixteenth of September, 1683 at the assizes held for the county palatine of Tipperary / by Jo. Vesey ... Vesey, John, 1636-1716. 1683 (1683) Wing V281; ESTC R6797 12,340 24

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