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A90902 Nevves for nevvters: or, The check cause cure of halting. With 31 doores of hope for the good successe of the publick cause of the kingdome. / Delivered in a sermon, November 27. 1644: in the Colledge of Glocester, before that valiant and vigilant governour Colonell Massy, being the day of publick humiliation. By Walter Powell, M.A. vicar of Standish. See the contents after the epistle. Powell, Walter, b. 1590 or 91. 1648 (1648) Wing P3097; Thomason E474_8; ESTC R204200 56,910 62

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