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A43627 The lay-clergy, or, The lay-elder in a short essay in answer to this query : whether it be lawful for persons in holy orders to exercise temporal offices, honours, jurisdictions and authorities : with arguments and objections on both sides, poyz'd and indifferently weigh'd / by Edm. Hickeringil ... Hickeringill, Edmund, 1631-1708. 1695 (1695) Wing H1818; ESTC R10850 22,034 36

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