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A00356 De immensa dei misericordia. A sermon of the excedynge great mercy of god, / made by ye moste famous doctour maister Eras. Rot. Translated out of Latine into Englisshe, at the request of the moste honorable and vertuous lady, the lady Margaret Countese of Salisbury.; De misericordia Domini English Erasmus, Desiderius, d. 1536.; Hervet, Gentian, 1499-1584. 1526 (1526) STC 10474; ESTC S109811 56,190 102

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