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B06882 An elegy on the death of the reverend and pious Mr. Thomas Wadsworth, sometime preacher of the Gospel in Newington-Butts, and late of London, who departed this life the 29th. of Octoben [sic], 1676. 1676 (1676) Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.20.f.3[157] 2,543 1

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