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A70044 Peace, the end of the perfect and upright demonstrated and usefully improved in a sermon preached upon the occasion of the death and decease of that piously affected and truely religious matron, Mrs. Anne Mason ... / by Mr. James Fitch ... Fitch, James, 1622-1702. 1672 (1672) Wing F1066; ESTC R35676 13,029 16

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