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A19241 The defence of conny catching. Or A confutation of those two iniurious pamphlets published by R.G. against the practitioners of many nimble-witted and mysticall sciences. By Cuthbert Cunny-catcher, licentiate in Whittington Colledge. Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592. 1592 (1592) STC 5656; ESTC S105058 30,088 38

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