DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES & QUERIES., Volume 11

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1921
 

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Page 226 - Kings auncestours half somoche at oon graunte ; ner I thinke there was never suche a presidente sene before this tyme. I beseke almightie God it maye bee well and peasibly levied, and surely payed unto the Kings Grace with oute grudge, and specially with oute losying the good wills and true herts of his subjects, whiche I rekene a ferre grettir treasure for a King then gold or silver. And the gentilmen whiche muste take payne to levie this money amongs the Kings subjects I think shalhave no litle...
Page 2 - For proofe whereof, when the hurling is ended, you shall see them retyring home, as from a pitched battaile, with bloody pates, bones broken, and out of joynt, and such bruses as serve to shorten their daies; yet al is good play, and never Attourney nor Crowner troubled for the matter.
Page 52 - Here endeth the boke of comfort called in latyn Boecius de Consolatione Phil. Enprented in the exempt monastery of Tauestok in Denshyre. By me Dan Thomas Rychard monke of the sayd Monastery / To the instant desyre of the ryght worshypful Esquyer Mayster Robert Langdon. Anno d.
Page 1 - Swiftness ; and they not being able to overtake it, knocked it down by throwing Sticks after it. At their coming up to it, it was dying and groaned like a human Creature. Its Feet were webbed like a Duck's, it had Eyes, Nose, and Mouth, resembling those of a Man, only the nose somewhat depressed ; it had a Tail not unlike that of a Salmon, turning up towards its Back ; it is four Feet in Height, and now publickly shown at Exeter.
Page 9 - ... walking there, he happened to cast his eyes towards the sea, and spying the fleet at a distance, withal being purblind in his eyes, as well as blinded by Satan in his mind, he presently concludes that it was the French navy (because he saw divers white flags) come to land the sons of Belial, which should cut off the children of God, or, as they call us, hereticks. And being transported with joy, he hastened to inform his own disciples of the house, and forthwith they sang 'Te Deum.

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