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Exceptions many and just against two injurious petitions exhibited to the Parliament· : The one Iuly 16. The other Aug. 4. 1653. Both of them not only against tithes, but against all forced or constrained maintenance of ministers, examined and found many waies faulty against piety and justice, and as such now discovered, by Theophilus Philadelphus.

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Main Author:	Ley, John, 1583-1662
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford, : Printed by L. Lichfield printer to the University, for Tho: Robinson., Ann. Dom. 1653.
Series:	Early English books online.
Subjects:	Church of England > Finance > Early works to 1800. Tithes > England > Early works to 1800.
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