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B05113
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An elogie with an accrostick and an epitaph on the death of that laborious servant and minister of Christ, Mr James Janeway; who departed this life and put on imortality; the 16th. day of March 1673/4.
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S. R.
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1674
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Wing R70B; Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.20.f.3[76]
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