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A67490 A brief account of the rebellions and bloudshed occasioned by the anti-Christian practices of the Jesuits and other popish emissaries in the empire of Ethiopia collected out of a manuscript history written in Latin by Jo. Michael Wansleben, a learned papist. Wansleben, Johann Michael, 1635-1679. 1679 (1679) Wing W710; ESTC R15140 23,426 44

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