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A26728 Hieronikēs, or, The fight, victory, and triumph of S. Paul accommodated to the Right Reverend Father in God Thomas, late L. Bishop of Duresme, in a sermon preached at his funeral, in the parish church of St. Peter at Easton-Manduit in Northampton-shire, on Michaelmas-day, 1659 : together with the life of the said Bishop / by John Barwick ... Barwick, John, 1612-1664. 1660 (1660) Wing B1008; ESTC R16054 101,636 192

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