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A06472 The glory of their times. Or The liues of ye primitiue fathers Co[n]tayning their chiefest actions, workes, sentences, and deaths. Lupton, Donald, d. 1676.; Glover, George, b. ca. 1618, engraver. 1640 (1640) STC 16943; ESTC S108921 238,060 544

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