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A61561 The Jesuits loyalty, manifested in three several treatises lately written by them against the oath of allegeance with a preface shewing the pernicious consequence of their principles as to civil government. Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699. 1677 (1677) Wing S5599; ESTC R232544 134,519 200

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