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A67009 An account of the societies for reformation of manners in London and Westminster and other parts of the kingdom with a persuasive to persons of all ranks, to be zealous and diligent in promoting the execution of the laws agaist prophaneness and debauchery, for the effecting a national reformation / published with the approbation of a considerable number of the lords spiritual and temporal. Woodward, Josiah, 1660-1712. 1699 (1699) Wing W3512; ESTC R31843 95,899 198

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