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A57286 A Rowland for an Oliver: or, a sharp rebuke to a sawcy levite In answer to a sermon preach'd by Edward Oliver, M.A. before Sir Humphry Edwin late Lord Mayor of London, at St. Paul's Cathedral, on Sunday October 22. 1698. By a lover of unity. Ridpath, George, d. 1726. 1699 (1699) Wing R1462A; ESTC R219686 15,209 25

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