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John Phillips

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contribution to Manx literature

In Celtic literature: Manx
…about 1610 by a Welshman, John Phillips, bishop of Sodor and Man, but it remained unpublished until it was printed in 1893–94 side by side with the 1765 version made by the Manx clergy.
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