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A48835 A sermon at the funeral of Sr. Edmund-Bury Godfrey, one of His Majesties justices of the peace, who was barbarously murthered preached on Thursday the last day of October 1678, in the parish church of St. Martin in the Fields / by William Lloyd ... Lloyd, William, 1627-1717. 1678 (1678) Wing L2700; ESTC R20443 19,287 44

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