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A12622 An epistle of comfort to the reuerend priestes, & to the honorable, worshipful, & other of the laye sort restrayned in durance for the Catholicke fayth. Southwell, Robert, Saint, 1561?-1595. 1587 (1587) STC 22946; ESTC S111067 171,774 436

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