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A28159 Brachy-martyrologia, or, A breviary of all the greatest persecutions which have befallen the saints and people of God from the creation to our present times paraphras'd by Nicholas Billingsly ... Billingsley, Nicholas, 1633-1709. 1657 (1657) Wing B2910; ESTC R18441 104,705 230

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