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A41725 A discourse deliver'd in two sermons preached in the cathedral at Ely, in September 1684, not long after the death of the Right Reverend Father in God Peter Gunning, late Lord Bishop of Ely / by Humfrey Govver ... Gower, Humphrey, 1638-1711. 1685 (1685) Wing G1458; ESTC R18728 39,015 72

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