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A06514 A treatice co[n]teining certain meditatio[n]s of trew & perfect consolatio[n], ... Written in the Frenche tung, and translated in to Englishe by Robert Fills; Tessaradecas consolatoria pro laborantibus et oneratis. English Luther, Martin, 1483-1546.; Fills, Robert, fl. 1562. 1564 (1564) STC 16988.5; ESTC S118884 48,129 154

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