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A13263
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The Athenian babler a sermon preached at St. Maries in Oxforde, the 9. of Iuly, 1626, being Act-Sunday / by Humphry Sydenham ...
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Sydenham, Humphrey, 1591-1650?
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STC 23561; ESTC S530
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