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A10579 A lytle treatise after the maner of an epystle wryten by the famous clerk Doctor Vrbanus Regius, vnto a specyall frynde of hys wherin he declareth the cause of the great co[n]trouersy that hath bene [and] is yet at this day in the chrysten relygyon and also the dyuersyte betwene the ryght worshyppyng [and] seruice of God and the ceremonis inuented by mannis institucion, very fruteful and profytable. Rhegius, Urbanus, 1489-1541.; Holbein, Hans, 1497-1543, artist. 1548 (1548) STC 20849; ESTC S115824 20,519 56

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