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An appeal to the conscience of a fanatick: : shewing that the King of England, by the fundamental laws of it, is as absolute and independent a monarch, as any of the kings mentioned in Scripture; and consequently as free as any of them, from any humane, coactive power, to punish, censure, or dethrone him. Whereunto is added, a short view of the laws both foreign and domestick, against seditious conventicles

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1684.
Call number: 33335
Creator: Lane, Bartholomew(Opens in new tab)
Dimensions: 21 cm (4to)
Associated people: Walthoe, John, (1657 or 1658-1744,)
Associated organization: Bridgewater House Library,
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