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A16906 A sermon preached at Westminster May 26. 1608 at the funerall solemnities of the Right Honorable Thomas Earle of Dorset, late l. high treasurer of England by George Abbot ... ; now published at the request of some honourable persons, very few things being added, which were then cut off by the shortnesse of the time. Abbot, George, 1562-1633. 1608 (1608) STC 38.5; ESTC S555 25,872 37

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