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A46813
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Beaufrons, or, A new-discovery of treason under the fair-face and mask of religion, and of liberty and conscience : in an answer to the Protestant reconciler ... / by one of His Majestie's chaplains.
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Jenner, David, d. 1691.
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Wing J657; ESTC R32980
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