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... hold their Land by Taniftry ; which is ( say they ) no more but a personal Estate for his Life - time that is Tanist , by reason that he is admitted thereunto by Election of the Country . Eudox . What is this which you call Tanift and ...
... hold their Land by Taniftry ; which is ( say they ) no more but a personal Estate for his Life - time that is Tanist , by reason that he is admitted thereunto by Election of the Country . Eudox . What is this which you call Tanift and ...
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... hold up head against his Power in which their Weakness he brought in . his Laws , and fettled them as now they there remain , like as William the Conquerour did ; fo as in thus much they agree , but in the reft ,. that is the chiefeft ...
... hold up head against his Power in which their Weakness he brought in . his Laws , and fettled them as now they there remain , like as William the Conquerour did ; fo as in thus much they agree , but in the reft ,. that is the chiefeft ...
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... Holds upon every Border , and fortifying all Paffages . Amongst the which , he repaired the Caftle of Clare in Thomond , of which Country he had the Inheri- tance , and of Mortimer's Lands adjoining ; which is now ( by the Irish ) ...
... Holds upon every Border , and fortifying all Paffages . Amongst the which , he repaired the Caftle of Clare in Thomond , of which Country he had the Inheri- tance , and of Mortimer's Lands adjoining ; which is now ( by the Irish ) ...
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... Holds and Fortreffes of the English , defacing and utterly fubverting all corporate Towns , that were not ftrongly ... Hold behind him , but to make all plain and waste . In the which he foon after created himself King , and was called ...
... Holds and Fortreffes of the English , defacing and utterly fubverting all corporate Towns , that were not ftrongly ... Hold behind him , but to make all plain and waste . In the which he foon after created himself King , and was called ...
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... Holds : He rooted out the noble Fa- milies of the Audlies , Talbotts , Tuchets , Cham- berlains , Maundevills , and the Savages out of Ardes , though of the Lord Savage there remain- eth yet an Heir , that is now a poor Gentleman of ...
... Holds : He rooted out the noble Fa- milies of the Audlies , Talbotts , Tuchets , Cham- berlains , Maundevills , and the Savages out of Ardes , though of the Lord Savage there remain- eth yet an Heir , that is now a poor Gentleman of ...
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Page 158 - Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them; they looked like anatomies of death ; they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves...
Page 115 - ... to their lovers; that his music was not the harp nor lays of love, but the cries of people and clashing of armour; and finally, that he died not bewailed of many, but made many wail when he died, that dearly bought his death.
Page 80 - Iren. Because the commodity doth not countervail the discommodity; for the inconveniences which thereby do arise are much more many; for it is a fit house for an outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloak for a thief.
Page 241 - Gospel; for they spare not to come out of Spain, from Rome, and from Rheims, by long toil and dangerous travelling hither, where they know peril of death awaiteth them, and no reward or riches is to be found, only to draw the people unto the Church of Rome...
Page 80 - When it raineth, it is his penthouse; when it bloweth, it is his tent; when it freezeth, it is his tabernacle. In summer he can wear it loose; in winter he can wrap it close; at all times he can use it; never heavy, never cumbersome.
Page 81 - ... in his way, and when he goeth abroad in the night in free-booting, it is his best and surest friend ; for lying, as they often do, two or three nights together abroad to watch for their booty, with that they can prettily shroud themselves under a bush or...
Page 7 - It is a rule of right unwritten, but delivered by tradition from one to another, in which oftentimes there appeareth great shew of equity, in determining the right between party and party, but in many things repugning quite both to God's law and man's...
Page viii - Full little knowest thou that hast not tried, What hell it is, in suing long to bide: To lose good days, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed today, to be put back tomorrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Page 29 - ... so commodiously, as that, if some princes in the world had them, they would soon hope to be lords of all the seas, and ere long of all the world.
Page 29 - ... and ere long of all the world : also full of very good ports and havens opening upon England, as inviting us to come unto them, to see what excellent commodities that country can afford; besides, the soil itself most fertile, fit to yield all kind of fruit that shall be committed thereunto.