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A97181 The gayne of losse or temporall losses spiritually improved in a centurye & one decad of meditations & resolves. By John Warner M.A. sometimes of Magd: Hall in Oxo: & one of the ministers of the London Brigade in the late western expedition 1644. Warner, John, b. 1612 or 13. 1645 (1645) Wing W904; Thomason E1194_1 48,265 180

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