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A63318 A true account of the great tryals and cruel sufferings undergone by those two faithful servants of God, Katherine Evans and Sarah Cheevers in the time of their above three years and a halfs confinement in the island Malta. Also, how God at last by his almighty power effected their deliverance, and brought them back into the land of their nativity. To which is added, a short relation from George Robinson, of the sufferings that befel him in his journey to Jerusalem; and how God saved him from the hands of cruelty when the sentence of death was passed against him.; This is a short relation of some of the cruel sufferings (for the truths sake) of Katharine Evans & Sarah Chevers, in the inquisition in the Isle of Malta Evans, Katharine, d. 1692.; Cheevers, Sarah, d. 1664. aut; D. B. (Daniel Baker), fl. 1650-1660. 1663 (1663) Wing T2369A; ESTC R222517 121,326 292

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