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A46989 The King's visitatorial power asserted being an impartial relation of the late visitation of St. Mary Magdalen College in Oxford : as likewise an historical account of several visitations of the universities and particular colleges : together with some necessary remarks upon the Kings authority in ecclesiastical causes, according to the laws and usages of this realm / by Nathaniel Johnston ... Johnston, Nathaniel, 1627-1705. 1688 (1688) Wing J879; ESTC R12894 230,864 400

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