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A19406 The triall of vvitch-craft shewing the true and right methode of the discouery: with a confutation of erroneous wayes. By Iohn Cotta, Doctor in Physicke.; Triall of witch-craft Cotta, John, 1575?-1650? 1624 (1624) STC 5836.5; ESTC S116293 114,816 176

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