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A36249 The doctrine of the Church of England concerning the independency of the clergy on the lay-power, as to those rights of theirs which are purely spiritual, reconciled, with our oath of supremacy, and the lay-deprivations of the popish-bishops in the beginning of the reformation / by the author of The vindication of the depriv'd bishops. Dodwell, Henry, 1641-1711. 1697 (1697) Wing D1813; ESTC R10224 66,791 94

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