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A94158 The gods are men: or The mortality of persons in places of magistracy. As it was explained and applied in a sermon preached at the assize holden at Hertford for that county on March 15. 1656/7. By George Swinnocke M.A. last Fellow of Bailiol Colledge in Oxford, and now preacher of the gospel at Rickmersworth in Hertfordshire. Swinnock, George, 1627-1673. 1657 (1657) Wing S6276; Thomason E919_1; ESTC R207499 42,242 46

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