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A87669 The messengers preparation for an addresse to the King for a well-grounded peace. As it was delivered in a sermon, at Oxford, on Sunday, Novemb. 24. 1644. Before the commissioners of both kingdomes, the morning before their presenting the propositions to His Majestie. / By Samuel Kem, Batchelour in Divinity. Kem, Samuel, 1604-1670. 1644 (1644) Wing K252; Thomason E21_20; ESTC R14495 21,882 36

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