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A18250 The firme foundation of Catholike religion, against the bottomles pitt of heresies wherin is shewed that only Catholiks shalbe saued, & that all heretikes of what sect so euer are excluded from the kingdome of heauen. Compyled by Iohn Caumont of Champany: and translated out of French into English, by Iohn Pauncefote the elder Esquyre, in the tyme of his banishement.; Du firmament des catholiques, contre l'abisme des heretiques. English. Caumont, Jean de.; Pauncefote, John. 1591 (1591) STC 4868; ESTC S104922 55,372 122

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translatum_fw-la ac_fw-la per_fw-la eximium_fw-la dominum_fw-la dom._n thomam_fw-la stapletonium_n anglum_fw-la s._n theologiae_n professorem_fw-la examinatum_fw-la ac_fw-la manu_fw-la eius_fw-la propria_fw-la approbatum_fw-la ac_fw-la postremo_fw-la ex_fw-la primaria_fw-la copia_fw-la manu_fw-la dicti_fw-la d._n stapletoni_n subsignata_fw-la fideliter_fw-la teste_fw-la venerabili_fw-la domino_fw-la d._n wilhelmo_fw-la clederow_n prefbytero_fw-la anglo_n transscriptum_fw-la tuto_fw-la posse_fw-la imprimi_fw-la ac_fw-la prelo_fw-la committi_fw-la praesentium_fw-la tenore_fw-la attestor_fw-la ego_fw-la infrascriptus_fw-la antwerpiae_fw-la 9_o octob._n anno_fw-la 1590._o michael_n hetsroey_n bruegelius_n s._n theologiae_n licentiatus_fw-la canonicus_n cathedralis_fw-la ecclesiae_fw-la b._n mariae_fw-la antwerpiensis_fw-la librorum_fw-la censor_n