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A06710 A comfortable epistle, too Goddes faythfull people in Englande wherein is declared the cause of takynge awaye the true Christen religion from them, & howe it maye be recouered and obtayned agayne, newly made by Thomas Becon. Becon, Thomas, 1512-1567. 1542 (1542) STC 1716; ESTC S101288 27,898 66

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