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A16306 The cities aduocate in this case or question of honor and armes; whether apprentiship extinguisheth gentry? Containing a cleare refutation of the pernicious common errour affirming it, swallowed by Erasmus of Roterdam, Sir Thomas Smith in his common-weale, Sir Iohn Fern in his blazon, Raphe Broke Yorke Herald, and others. With the copies of transcripts of three letters which gaue occasion of this worke. Bolton, Edmund, 1575?-1633?; Philipot, John, 1589?-1645, attributed name. 1629 (1629) STC 3219; ESTC S106271 30,252 83

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