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A09916 A shorte treatise of politike pouuer and of the true obedience which subiectes owe to kynges and other ciuile gouernours, with an exhortacion to all true naturall Englishe men, compyled by. D. I.P. B. R. VV. Ponet, John, 1516?-1556. 1556 (1556) STC 20178; ESTC S115045 90,036 182

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