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A29925 Vlastēma ex hypsous, or, The best vvisdome propounded to the gentry of Suffolk in a sermon at Ipswich : prepared for the 9th of April, 1660, the day of election of Knights of the shire for the afore-said county, but preached the morning after / by Benjamin Bruning ... Bruning, Benjamin, 1623?-1688. 1660 (1660) Wing B5231; ESTC R2801 32,130 63

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