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A62891 Short strictures or animadversions on so much of Mr. Croftons Fastning St Peters bonds, as concern the reasons of the University of Oxford concerning the covenant by Tho. Tomkins ... Tomkins, Thomas, 1637?-1675. 1661 (1661) Wing T1839; ESTC R10998 57,066 192

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