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A87789 The sufferers legacy to surviving sinners[;] or, Edmund Kirk's dying advice to young men vvrote by his own hand in Newgate, and delivered to his friend with a desire the same might be published, on Friday the 11th of June, 1684. Being the day on which he was executed at Tyburn, for murthering his wife. Kirk, Edmund, d. 1684. 1684 (1684) Wing K625; ESTC R230361 5,154 2

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