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Rochester, Funeral Sermon, &c (17  December  1835) Parsons, RobertA sermon preached at the funeral of the Rt. Honorable John Earl of Rochester, who died at Woodstock-Park, July 26, 1680, and was buried at Spilsbury in Oxford-shire, Aug. 9. 1680. WG's sale catalog lists:
Rochester:--Poems, by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, four editions, 1699, 1701-32, and 57—Letters to Henry Saville, and others, 3 vol.—R. Parsons, Sermon at his Funeral, two editions, 1680-1707—with Bp. Burnet's Life of the Earl, port. 1680; in all 10 vol. a very curious collection (item 631).

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