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A51157 A letter to a friend giving an account of all the treatises that have been publish'd with relation to the present persecution against the Church of Scotland Monro, Alexander, d. 1715?; Meldrum, George, 1635?-1709. 1692 (1692) Wing M2440; ESTC R6566 25,533 32

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