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A27497 The penitent death of a woefull sinner, or, The penitent death of John Atherton, late Bishop of Waterford in Ireland who was executed at Dublin the 5. of December, 1640 : with some annotations upon severall passages in it : as also the sermon, with some further enlargements, preached at his burial / by Nicolas Barnard ... Bernard, Nicholas, d. 1661. 1642 (1642) Wing B2015; ESTC R3687 79,120 190

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