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A56903 Hell open'd, or, The infernal sin of murther punished being a true relation of the poysoning of a whole family in Plymouth, whereof two died in a short time : for which horrid fact, the malefactors were condemned before the Lord Chief Justice North at Exector, the last Lent assizes, the one to be burnt, the other to be hanged : with an account of the several discourses and religious means used by divers godly ministers to bring them to repentance ... / by J.Q., Minister of the Gospel. Quick, John, 1636-1706. 1676 (1676) Wing Q207; ESTC R11200 63,192 112

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