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A03850 The nobles or of nobilitye The original nature, dutyes, right, and Christian institucion thereof three bookes. Fyrste eloquentlye writte[n] in Latine by Lawrence Humfrey D. of Diuinity, and presidente of Magdaleine Colledge in Oxforde, late englished. Whereto for the readers commodititye [sic], and matters affinitye, is coupled the small treatyse of Philo a Iewe. By the same author out of the Greeke Latined, nowe also Englished. 1563.; Optimates. English Humphrey, Laurence, 1525 or 6-1589.; Philo, of Alexandria. De nobilitate. English. 1563 (1563) STC 13964; ESTC S104304 130,119 392

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