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A sermon, preached at the funerall of that most honorable and worthie knight S. Richard Leueson vice-admirall of England: who dyed at London the 2. of August, and was interred at VVooluer Hampton in the countie of Stafford, the 2. day of September following. Anno Domi. 1605. By Samuel Page, Batchelour in Diuinitie, and vicar of Deptford in Kent.
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Page, Samuel, 1574-1630.
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