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A44244 Against disloyalty fower sermons preach'd in the times of the late troubles / by Barten Holyday., D.D., Arch=deacon of Oxford, and chaplain to His late Majesty, Charles the First, of blessed memory. Holyday, Barten, 1593-1661. 1661 (1661) Wing H2530; ESTC R43257 56,607 145

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