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A03636 A lesson of the Incarnation of Christe that he toke, [sic] his humanite in and of the Blessyd Virgine made the twentithe daye of Iune by Iohn Hoper. 1549. Hooper, John, d. 1555. 1549 (1549) STC 13760; ESTC S109478 11,816 50

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