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A decade of grievances presented and approved to the right honourable and high court of Parliament against the hierarchy or government of the Lord Bishops and their dependant offices by a multitude of people : who are sensible of the ruine of religion the sinking of the state, and of the plots and insultations of enemies against both.

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Main Author:	Leighton, Alexander, 1568-1649
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[London : publisher not identified], 1641.
Series:	Early English books online.
Subjects:	Church of England > Controversial literature. Church of England > Bishops > Temporal power. Episcopacy > Early works to 1800.
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