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Churches no charnel-houses: being, an enquiry into the profaneness, indecency, and pernicious consequences to the living, of burying the dead in churches and churchyards. ... By a clergyman

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1726.
Call number: 289263
Creator: Lewis, Thomas (1689-1749?)(Opens in new tab)
Dimensions: (8vo)
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