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A27115 The royal charter granted unto kings, by God himself and collected out of his Holy Word, in both Testaments / by T.B. ... ; whereunto is added by the same author, a short treatise, wherein Episcopacy is proved to be jure divino. Bayly, Thomas, d. 1657? 1649 (1649) Wing B1514; ESTC R17476 64,496 181

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