Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

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england_n	book_n	church_n	rome_n	3,625	5	7.0618	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17973	An examination of those things wherein the author of the late Appeale holdeth the doctrines of the Pelagians and Arminians, to be the doctrines of the Church of England written by George Carleton ...	Carleton, George, 1559-1628.	1626 (1626)	STC 4633; ESTC S1219	68,302	126

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