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A93388 A treatise of the best kinde of confessors by which preists [sic] in England may see how they may be, and lay Catholiks see how they may chuse the best kinde of confessors / composed by the most reverend father in God, Richard, bishop of Chalcedon, pastor of the Catholike in England. Smith, Richard, 1566-1655. 1651 (1651) Wing S4159; ESTC R43753 38,066 146

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