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A10906 A visitation sermon preached at the Lord Archbishops trienniall and ordinary visitation, in St. Margarets in Canterbury, vpon Aprill the fift, 1630. By Francis Rogers, Doctor in Diuinity, and minister of that parish. Rogers, Francis, d. 1638. 1633 (1633) STC 21176; ESTC S116094 13,546 28

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