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A93147 White salt: or, A sober correction of a mad world, in some wel-wishes to goodness. / By John Sherman, B.D. Sherman, John, d. 1663. 1654 (1654) Wing S3387; Thomason E1517_1; ESTC R203564 80,830 261

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