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A76397 King Charle's [sic] triall justified: or, Eight objections against the same fully answered and cleared, by Scripture, law, history and reason. Being the sum of a charge given at the last sessions held at Trewroe in the county of Cornwall, Aprill 4. 1649. / By Colonell Robert Bennet. Published by authority. Bennet, Robert, 1605-1683. 1649 (1649) Wing B1886; Thomason E554_21; ESTC R949 10,917 16

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