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A11189 A way of reconciliation of a good and learned man touching the trueth, nature, and substance of the body and blood of Christ in the sacrament. Translated out of Latin by the right honorable Lady Elizabeth Russell, dowager to the right honourable the Lord Iohn Russell, Baron, and sonne and heire to Francis Earle of Bedford. Russell, Elizabeth Cooke Hoby, Lady, ca. 1540-1609. 1605 (1605) STC 21456; ESTC S101217 72,992 116

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