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A51833 Advice to mourners under the loss of dear relations in a funeral sermon long since preach'd / by the late Reverand Dr. Thomas Manton ... And now occasionally published on the much lamented death of Mrs. Ann Terry, who died the 9th of November, 1693. With a short account of some passages of her life, and papers left under her own hand. Manton, Thomas, 1620-1677. 1694 (1694) Wing M517; ESTC R32908 55,550 130

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