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A95860 A brief relation of the strange and unnatural practices of Wessel Goodwin, Mehetabell Jones the wife of Edward Jones, and Elizabeth Pigeon the wife of John Pigeon. Vernon, Samuel. 1654 (1654) Wing V253A; Thomason E818_19; ESTC R18598 26,213 37

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