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A91785 A ladies legacie to her davghters. In three books. Composed of prayers and meditations, fitted for severall times, and upon severall occasions. As also several prayers for each day in the weeke. / By Madam Elizabeth Richardson, wife to the late Sir Thomas Richardson knight, Lord Chiefe Justice of the Kings Bench. Cramond, Elizabeth Richardson, Baroness, d. 1651. 1645 (1645) Wing R1382; Thomason E1165_4; ESTC R210104 81,683 176

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