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A30255 No sacrilege nor sin to alienate or purchase cathedral lands, as such: or, A vindication of, not onely the late purchasers; but, of the antient nobility and gentry; yea, of the Crown it self, all deeply wounded by the false charge of sacrilege upon new purchasers. By C. Burges, D.D.; Case concerning the buying of bishops lands. Burges, Cornelius, 1589?-1665. 1660 (1660) Wing B5676; ESTC R202286 78,792 78

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