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A57298 A brief and serious warning to such as are concerned in commerce and trading who go under the profession of truth, to keep within the bounds thereof, in righteousness, justice ad honesty towards all men. Rigge, Ambrose, 1635?-1705. 1678 (1678) Wing R1476; ESTC R31778 4,471 10

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