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A73391 Five sermons, preached upon several texts by that learned and worthy divine, Thomas Wetherel, B.D. sometimes fellow of Gonevile and Caius Colledge in Cambridge, and parson of Newton in Suffolke. Wetherel, Thomas, 1586-1630. 1635 (1635) STC 25292.3; ESTC S125573 76,283 292

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