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When all things sacred were throughout ye nation Either demollisht or profaned Sir Robert
Shirley Barronet founded this Church whose singular praise it is to have done ye best things in ye worst times And hoped them in the most callamitous. The righteous shall be had in everlasting
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987:Victoria County History
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