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A56780 The worth of a peny, or, A caution to keep money with the causes of the scarcity and misery of the want hereof in these hard and mercilesse times : as also how to save it in our diet, apparell, recreations, &c.: and also what honest courses men in want may take to live / by H.P. ... Peacham, Henry, 1576?-1643? 1641 (1641) Wing P949A; ESTC R12154 24,730 40

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