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A70224 A vindication of the late sermon, on--Curse ye Meroz from the idle aspersions cast upon it and its author : with a full and true narrative of many material passages in Mr. Hickeringill's life. Hickeringill, Edmund, 1631-1708. 1680 (1680) Wing H1831A; ESTC R10893 26,495 47

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