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A10647 A booke called the Foundacion of rhetorike because all other partes of rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde: made by Richard Rainolde Maister of Arte, of the Uniuersitie of Cambridge. 1563.; Foundacion of rhetorike Rainolde, Richard, d. 1606. 1563 (1563) STC 20925A.5; ESTC S104585 88,800 132

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