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A31414 Apostolici, or, The history of the lives, acts, death, and martyrdoms of those who were contemporary with, or immediately succeeded the apostles as also the most eminent of the primitive fathers for the first three hundred years : to which is added, a chronology of the three first ages of the church / by William Cave ... Cave, William, 1637-1713. 1677 (1677) Wing C1590; ESTC R13780 422,305 406

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