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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77428	A briefe discourse, declaring the impiety and unlawfulnesse of the new Covenant with the Scots. Together with the Covenant it selfe.		1643 (1643)	Wing B4580; Thomason E73_1; ESTC R14064	10,599	20

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