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A63825 Forty sermons upon several occasions by the late reverend and learned Anthony Tuckney ... sometimes master of Emmanuel and St. John's Colledge (successively) and Regius professor of divinity in the University of Cambridge, published according to his own copies his son Jonathan Tuckney ...; Sermons. Selections Tuckney, Anthony, 1599-1670. 1676 (1676) Wing T3215; ESTC R20149 571,133 598

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