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A36213 An epistle of love and good advice to my old friends & fellow-sufferers in the late times, the old royalists and their posterity and to all others that have any sincere desires towards God. Docwra, Anne, 1624-1710. 1683 (1683) Wing D1778; ESTC R17010 7,092 14

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