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A30732 A sermon preached before the right honourable the lord mayor and aldermen and citizens of London at St. Lawrence Jewry on the Feast of St. Michael, 1696 : at the election of the lord mayor for the year ensuing / by Lilly Butler. Butler, Lilly. 1696 (1696) Wing B6281; ESTC R24759 12,031 29

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