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A02402 Most true and more admirable newes expressing the miraculous preseruation of a young maiden of the towne of Glabbich in the dukedome of Gulische, and the strange yet worthy excecution of Iohn Honaver of Brunholf at Wittenberg, this present yeere 1597. Gurth, Alexander. 1597 (1597) STC 12531.5; ESTC S2702 4,588 19

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