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A08707 The ansvvere of the vicechancelour, the doctors, both the proctors, and other the heads of houses in the Vniversitie of Oxford (agreeable, vndoubtedly, to the ioint and vniforme opinion, of all the deanes and chapters, and all other the learned and obedient cleargy, in the Church of England.) To the humble petition of the ministers of the Church of England, desiring reformation of certaine ceremonies and abuses of the Church. University of Oxford. 1603 (1603) STC 19011; ESTC S113819 26,966 50

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novi_fw-la novas_fw-la res_fw-la meditari_fw-la isti_fw-la caepissent_fw-la &_o in_fw-la dies_fw-la moliri_fw-la peropportunè_fw-la succurrendum_fw-la censuit_fw-la academia_n &_o convocato_fw-la senatu_fw-la frequenti_fw-la admodum_fw-la &_o celebri_fw-la decernendum_fw-la ut_fw-la quicunque_fw-la ecclesiae_fw-la anglicanae_n doctrinam_fw-la vel_fw-la disciplinam_fw-la vel_fw-la ejus_fw-la partem_fw-la aliquam_fw-la legibus_fw-la publicis_fw-la stabilitam_fw-la scriptis_fw-la vel_fw-la dictis_fw-la