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The allegeance of the cleargie A sermon preached, at the meeting of the whole clergie of the dyocesse of Rochester, to take the Oath of allegeance to his most excellent Maiestie, at Greenewich, Nouem. 2 1610. By Samuel Page, Doctor in Diuinitie.
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Page, Samuel, 1574-1630.
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