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A39302 A discourse concerning riots occasioned by some of the people called Quakers, being imprisoned and indicted for a riot, for only being at a peaceable meeting to worship God / written by one of that people, Thomas Ellwood. Ellwood, Thomas, 1639-1713. 1683 (1683) Wing E618; ESTC R39419 15,942 16

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