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A70828 The saints support in these sad times delivered in a sermon at Tiverton in Devonshire, in the time his excellencies army raised for King and Parliament quartered there / by Tho. Palmer ... Palmer, Thomas, b. ca. 1620. 1644 (1644) Wing P255; ESTC R7586 53,831 49

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