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A41888 The great concern and zeal of a loyal people for a good king's preservation in the hazards of war. And the duty of such a people opened and enforced, in one of our monthly-fasts in a country parish. By the minister thereof. 1691 (1691) Wing G1679; ESTC R212854 49,196 44

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