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A03857 The advise of a sonne, novv professing the religion established in the present Church of England, to his deare mother, yet a Roman Catholike Hungerford, Anthony, Sir, 1564-1627. 1616 (1616) STC 13971.5; ESTC S115241 23,830 40

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