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A91801 A sermon preached at Walden in Essex, May 29th. At the interring of the corps of the right Honorable Susanna, Countesse of Suffolke. Being a modest and short narration of some remarable passages in the holy life and death of that memorable lady. Who dyed May 19th. 1649. / By Edw: Rainbowe. D.D. Rainbowe, Edward, 1608-1684. 1649 (1649) Wing R141; Thomason E532_40 25,929 38

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