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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18107	The vindication or defence of Isaac Casaubon against those impostors that lately published an impious and vnlearned pamphlet, intituled The originall of idolatries, &c. vnder his name, by Meric Casaubon his sonne. Published by his Maiesties command.; Is. f. vindicatio patris. English	Casaubon, Meric, 1599-1671.	1624 (1624)	STC 4751; ESTC S107684	28,694	88

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