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A26408 A plot for a crown in a visitation-sermon, at Cricklade, May the fifteenth, 1682 : being a parallel between the heir and husband-men in the parable, and the rightful prince and his excluders in Parliament / by N. Adee ... Adee, N. (Nicholas), d. 1701. 1685 (1685) Wing A573; ESTC R22248 20,134 40

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