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A71275 The Wonderful preservation of Gregory Crow being shipwrackt upon the coast of Kent : shewing how this poor man threw away his money, saying if it pleased God to preserve him, he would likewise find him sustenance, and that his whole care was to preserve the New Testament he had, by putting it into his bosome. Morse, Thomas. 1679 (1679) Wing W3373A; ESTC R20426 2,691 4

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