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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64687	Twenty sermons preached at Oxford before His Majesty, and elsewhere by the most Reverend James Usher ...; Sermons. Selections	Ussher, James, 1581-1656.	1678 (1678)	Wing U227; ESTC R13437	263,159	200

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