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A43254 A call to a general reformation of manners and manifesting in several particulars the great lets and hinderances thereunto / preached at the arch-deacon of Sudbury's visitation, holden at Kentford in Suffolk in April last, 1700, by Clement Heigham, Esq., now rector of Barrow in Suffolk. Heigham, Clement, d. 1714. 1700 (1700) Wing H1370A; ESTC R36595 13,878 32

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