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B08395 The weapons of the people called Quakers turn'd backward, by the shield of truth ; the fountain whereof is the rock and sure defence of that despised contemptible instrument / Elizabeth Atkinson. Atkinson, Elizabeth. 1669 (1669) Wing A4129B; ESTC R215419 6,536 16

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