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A59904 A vindication of The case of allegiance due to soveraign powers, in reply to An answer to a late pamphlet, intituled, Obedience and submission to the present government, demonstrated from Bishop Overal's convocation-book, with a postscript in answer to Dr. Sherlock's Case of allegiance, &c. by William Sherlock. Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707. 1691 (1691) Wing S3375; ESTC R11110 75,308 83

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