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A93456 A sober vindication of the nobility, gentry and clergy of the Church of England: in answer to a late malicious pamphlet, entituled, A dialogue between Whig and Tory. : Licensed, Novemb. 28. 1693. 1694 (1694) Wing S4415A; ESTC R233299 11,552 16

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