The signs of the times : a sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord-Mayor, and court of aldermen, at the Cathedral of St. Paul, on Friday the 8th of December, 1721 being the day appointed for a general fast for the prevention of the plague / by Edmund Massey.

  • Edmund Massey
Date:
1722
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Credit: The signs of the times : a sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord-Mayor, and court of aldermen, at the Cathedral of St. Paul, on Friday the 8th of December, 1721 being the day appointed for a general fast for the prevention of the plague / by Edmund Massey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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