A bookseller burnet at Avignon for selling Bibles in the French language with some of them tied around his neck. Engraving from c 1780 edition of The

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A bookseller burnet at Avignon for selling Bibles in the French language with some of them tied around his neck. Engraving from c 1780 edition of The New Book of Martyrs by Rev Dr Henry Southwell LLD

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