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A84131 An elegiacall commemoration of the pious life, and most lamented death, and funerals, of Mr. Josiah Shute, rector of the parish, of St. Mary Woolnoth in Lombard-Street. Who left us on the 13 of June. 1643. 1643 (1643) Wing E337; Thomason E75_1; ESTC R21939 10,148 24

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