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A61196 Essayes with brief adviso's accomodated capacity of the ladyes and gentlemen, sometime students of the English academy lately erected at London : to whose use and perusall they are recommended in exchange of their English lectures of late published. Sprigg, William, fl. 1657. 1657 (1657) Wing S5080; ESTC R32658 25,281 116

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