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A01452 a pearle of price or, The best purchase For which the spirituall marchant Ieweller selleth all his temporalls. By Samuel Gardiner, Batchellor of Diuinitie. Gardiner, Samuel, b. 1563 or 4. 1600 (1600) STC 11578; ESTC S118892 98,748 224

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