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A36377 The right use of an estate briefly directed and urg'd in a sermon lately preacht to a person of quality upon his coming to be of age / by Theophilus Dorrington. Dorrington, Theophilus, d. 1715. 1683 (1683) Wing D1950; ESTC R33460 42,593 62

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