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A65573
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The civil rights and conveniences of episcopacy with the inconvenience of presbytery asserted : as it was delivered in a charge to the grand jury at the general quarter sessions held at Nottingham Apr. 22, 1661 / by Pen. Whalley.
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Whalley, Penistone.
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1661
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Wing W1534; ESTC R27585
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