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A84939 The gale of opportunity. Or, A sermon preached (at Lidbury-North) at the funerall of the worshipfull Humphrey Walcot, of Walcot, Esq. June 8, 1650 and now published, by Thomas Froysell, Minister of the Gospell at Clunne in Shropshire. Froysell, Thomas, d. ca. 1672. 1652 (1652) Wing F2249A; ESTC R177209 46,742 52

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