1671, Joseph Glanvill, A Præfatory Answer to Mr. Henry Stubbe, London: J. Collins, p. 57, […] the Waldenses[,] Antecessors of the Protestants
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Antecessor
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Yet who says, I have faith in the existence of George II., as his present Majesty’s antecessor and grandfather?
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This, then, is their horrid counsel and device—that each one of their gods should kill his antecessor.
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The Book of Change in the general form it is known today [sic] is approximately three thousand years old. It is the third in a series of such texts, its antecessors supposed by some scholars to have been composed six and twelve hundred years earlier.
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