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Page 491 - Antiqvitie, shewing the auncient fayth in the Church of England touching the sacrament of the body and bloude of the Lord here publikely preached, and also receaued in the Saxons tyme, aboue 600.
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| Title | Biographia Britannica Literaria: Anglo-Saxon period Volume 1 of Biographia Britannica Literaria: Or, Biography of Literary Characters of Great Britain and Ireland, Arranged in Chronological Order, Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) |
| Author | Thomas Wright |
| Contributor | Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) |
| Publisher | J.W. Parker, 1842 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 21 Sep 2007 |
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