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A48944 The honour of the magistrate asserted In a sermon preached at the assizes holden at Lincoln on Monday, March the 23. 1673/4. By Thomas Lodington, M.A. Sometimes fellow of Magdalen Colledge in Cambridge, and now rector of Welby in the county of Lincoln. Lodington, Thomas, 1621-1692. 1674 (1674) Wing L2812A; ESTC R217723 19,040 35

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