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A30674 England's bane, or, The deadly danger of drunkenness described in a letter to a friend wherein are many convincing arguments against it and many aggravations of it in professors of religion, and many other things tending to a reformation of that beastly sin / by Edward Bury. Bury, Edward, 1616-1700. 1677 (1677) Wing B6205; ESTC R23888 45,031 92

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