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A sermon preached at the funeral oe [sic] the incomparably vertuous and truly pious gentlewoman Mrs. Dorothy Litster. By Edward Smith.
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Smith, Edward, 1620 or 21-1682.
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1660
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Wing S4022; Thomason E1013_19; ESTC R208099
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