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A28586 An exhortation to charity (and a word of comfort) to the Irish Protestants being a sermon preached at Steeple in Dorsetshire, upon occasion of the collection for relief of the poor Protestants in this kingdom lately fled from Ireland / by Samuel Bold. Bold, S. (Samuel), 1649-1737. 1689 (1689) Wing B3480; ESTC R15353 24,615 37

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