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A08964 The tranquillitie of the minde A verye excellent and most comfortable oration, plainely directing euerye man, & woman, to the true tranquillitie and quyetnesse of their minde. Compyled in Latine by Iohn Barnarde, student in the Vniuersity of Cambridge, now lately translated into Englishe by Anthony Marten.; Oratio pia, religiosa, et solatii plena, de vera animi tranquillitate. English Bernard, John, d. 1567?; Marten, Anthony, d. 1597. 1570 (1570) STC 1925; ESTC S101618 90,089 234

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