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A07396 The history of the Church of Englande. Compiled by Venerable Bede, Englishman. Translated out of Latin in to English by Thomas Stapleton student in diuinite; Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum. English Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735.; Stapleton, Thomas, 1535-1598. 1565 (1565) STC 1778; ESTC S101386 298,679 427

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