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Now out of a like pious Care for the ſeruice of God, and for ſuppreſſing of any humors that oppoſe trueth, and for the Eaſe, Comfort & Recreation of Our well deſerving People, Wee doe ratifie and publiſh this Our bleſſed Fathers Declaration: The rather becauſe of late in ſome Counties of Our Kingdome, Wee finde that vnder pretence of taking away abuſes, there hath been a generall forbidding, not onely of ordinary meetings, but of the Feaſts of the Dedication of the Churches, commonly

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