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A87668 King Solomons's infallible expedient for three kingdoms settlement: or, Better men make better times. Delivered in a sermon preached in the renowned and famous city of Gloucester, the Lord's day before their election of burgesses for Parliament. By Samuel Keme S.S.T.B. rector of Allbery, near Oxon. Kem, Samuel, 1604-1670. 1660 (1660) Wing K251; Thomason E1021_9; ESTC R208389 12,634 22

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