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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Powning, Beth, author
A measure of light / Beth Powning.

ISBN 978-0-345-80847-9
eBook ISBN 978-0-345-80848-6

1. Dyer, Mary, –1660—Fiction. I. Title.

PS8631.O86M43 2015          C813′.6          C2014-906378-4

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Mary Dyer’s 1659 letter to the General Court, written from the Boston jail

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