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A44508 A sermon preached in his Majesties Chappel at Whitehall on the eighth of February, 1684/5, being the Sunday after the death of His late Sacred Majesty, King Charles the Second of blessed memory by Thomas Horne ... Horne, Thomas, 1610-1654. 1685 (1685) Wing H2814; ESTC R4564 12,577 36

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