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A10852 The anatomy of the English nunnery at Lisbon in Portugall Dissected and laid open by one that was sometime a yonger brother of the conuent: who (if the grace of God had not preuented him) might haue growne as old in a wicked life as the oldest among them. Published by authoritie. Robinson, Thomas, fl. 1622. 1622 (1622) STC 21123; ESTC S115995 20,832 42

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