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A18016 Remember Lots wife Two godly and fruitfull sermons verie conuenient for this our time: lately preached on a Sunday in the Cathedral Church of S. Peters, in Excester: the one, in the forenoone: the other, in the afternoone the same day. By Iohn C. Carpenter, John, d. 1621. 1588 (1588) STC 4665; ESTC S116841 50,873 124

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