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A80236 A commemoration sermon: or, A discourse on II Cor. V.I. Occasioned by the death of a most religious young lady Mary Hampson the onely daughter of Sir Thomas Hampson, of Taplow, in Bucks, ... who died August the 14. 1677. Together with a relation of her incomparable and exemplary life. 1678 (1678) Wing C5545A; ESTC R174182 19,868 49

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