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A38199 The Romanists designs detected, and the Jesuits subtill practices discovered and laid open collected from their own authors and other approved testimonies / by Anthony Egan, B.D. Egan, Anthony, B.D. 1674 (1674) Wing E251; ESTC R3340 16,045 42

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