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A23646 England's distempers, their cause and cure according to the judgment of famous princes, peers, parliaments &c., occasioned by a book of a learned frier, accusing the whole nation of perjury for abjuring transubstantiation and sent unto the author for a reply / written in defence of the true catholike faith by R.A. R. A. (Richard Allen) 1677 (1677) Wing A1043; ESTC R32701 10,647 29

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