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A86930 The magistrates charge, for the peoples safetie. Laid open in a sermon, preached before the right Honorable House of Peeres, in the Abbey Church at Westminster, at their late solemne monthly fast, May 26. 1647. / By William Hussey, Minister at Chesilhurst in Kent. Hussey, William, minister of Chiselhurst. 1647 (1647) Wing H3818; Thomason E389_7; ESTC R201521 33,273 53

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