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A00698 A vvoorke of Ioannes Ferrarius Montanus, touchynge the good orderynge of a common weale wherein aswell magistrates, as priuate persones, bee put in remembraunce of their dueties, not as the philosophers in their vaine tradicions haue deuised, but according to the godlie institutions and sounde doctrine of christianitie. Englished by william Bauande.; De republica bene instituenda, paraenesis. English Ferrarius, Johannes, 1485 or 6-1558.; Bavand, William. 1559 (1559) STC 10831; ESTC S102013 301,803 438

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