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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50460	The cause and cure of strife and divisions being the substance of two sermons preach'd in London, March the 12th and 26th, 1695 / by Richard Mayo ...	Mayo, Richard, 1631?-1695.	1695 (1695)	Wing M1521; ESTC R3763	24,752	40

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