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A34574 Stafford's memoires, or, A brief and impartial account of the birth and quality, imprisonment, tryal, principles, declaration, comportment, devotion, last speech, and final end of William, late Lord Viscount Stafford, beheaded on Tower-hill Wednesday the 29. of Decemb. 1680 whereunto is annexed a short appendix concerning some passages in Stephen Colledges tryal / the whole now again set forth for a more ample illustration of that so wonderfully zealous pamphlet entituled The papists bloody aftergame, writ in answer to the said Memoirs, and published by Langley Curtis, 1682. Corker, James Maurus, 1636-1715.; Curtis, Langley, fl. 1668-1725. 1682 (1682) Wing C6306A; ESTC R40876 92,519 237

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84._o etc._n etc._n pa._n 87._o etc._n etc._n pag._n 145._o etc._n etc._n pag._n 163._o pag._n 175._o pag._n 147._o pag._n 163._o pag._n 168._o dugdale_n perjury_n pag._n 82._o etc._n etc._n pag_n 175._o pag_n 74._o page_n 147_o pag._n 83_o etc._n etc._n pag._n 80._o etc._n etc._n pag._n 32._o etc._n etc._n page_n 174._o pag._n 117._o page_n 175._o pag._n 178._o dugdale_n subornation_n of_o oath_n pa._n 93._o etc._n etc._n pag._n 138._o etc._n etc._n page_n 186._o dugdale_n improbable_a manner_n of_o swear_v page_z ●2_n pa._n 46._o etc._n etc._n p._n 728_o &c_n &c_n pag._n 130_o etc._n etc._n this_o oat_n affirm_v in_o langhorn_n trial_n page_n 101._o page_z 1●9_n oates_n new_a forgery_n pag._n 102._o page_n 25._o pag._n 126._o oat_n his_o apostasy_n and_o sacrilege_n page_n 123._o turbervil_n perjury_n in_o seven_o particular_n page_n 120._o etc._n etc._n pag._n 122._o page_n 152._o page_n 109._o page_n 131._o page_n 108._o page_n 113._o page_n 181._o page_n 106._o page_n 180._o page_n 112_o page_n 110._o page_n 182._o page_n 101._o page_n 116._o turbervil_n loose_a manner_n of_o life_n page_n 154._o page_n 163._o the_o sum_n of_o my_o lord_n plea_n as_o to_o matter_n of_o fact_n pag_n 167._o etc._n etc._n p_o 199._o etc._n etc._n the_o sum_n of_o the_o evidence_n against_o my_o lord_n page_z 17●_n page_n 171_o etc._n etc._n page_n 184._o pag._n 151._o answer_v to_o my_o lord_n plea_n in_o matter_n of_o law_n my_o lord_n be_v particular_a address_n page_n 198._o page_n 212._o my_o lord_n high_a steward_n speech_n his_o relation_n impute_v to_o he_o as_o the_o cause_n of_o his_o gild_n page_n 214._o the_o sentence_n page_n 54._o page_n 53._o ibid._n ibid._n ibid._n abide_v ibid._n a_o objection_n answer_v the_o intent_n of_o this_o epistle_n redemption_n in_o christ_n christ_n eph._n 2.8_o 1_o cor._n 15.22_o applicable_a by_o faith_n faith_n mar._n 16.16_o heb._n 11.6_o which_o be_v but_o one_o one_o eph._n 4.4_o etc._n etc._n etc._n jam._n 2.10_o 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