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A38199
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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.
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Egan, Anthony, B.D.
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1674
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Wing E251; ESTC R3340
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