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A67065 An account of some of the dying-sayings of Susannah Yeats, late wife of Samuel Yeats, of the parish of Minching-Hammpton in Glocester-shire with a sermon preached at her funeral by Thomas Worden ... Worden, Thomas.; Yeats, Susannah, d. 1688. 1688 (1688) Wing W3577; ESTC R31846 16,577 40

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