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B05097 Hierosulias mastix, or A scourge of sacriledge: in answer to a pamphleter calling himself Anthony Pearson, concerning The great case of tythes. Wherein many gross fallacies and untruths of the pamphleter are discovered and convinced. / By Joh. Reading, once a student in Magdalen Hall in Oxford. Reading, John, 1588-1667. 1661 (1661) Wing R447A; ESTC R182394 73,792 98

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