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B01083 A godly and frutefull sermon, made at Maydestone in the county of Kent the fyrst sonday in Lent, in the presence of the most reuerend father in God Thomas archbishop of Canterbury. &c. / by M. Thomas Cole scholemayster there, againste dyuers erronious opinions of the Anabaptistes and others. Cole, Thomas, d. 1571. 1553 (1553) STC 5539; ESTC S124208 30,464 70

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