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A61731 A sermon preached at the assizes held at Dorchestor in the county of Dorset, upon the fourth day of March in the year of our Lord 1669 by John Straight ... Straight, John, 1605?-1680. 1670 (1670) Wing S5808A; ESTC R9809 21,640 33

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