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… the covenant is for 1500, will take 7000 l. or 8000 l. at old prices, &c. I think you will find "few able, and none … 10; sawyers, 2; smiths, 2; lightermen, 4. Breaches in the old town walls: masons, layers, and quarrymen, 20. The Cowgate: smiths for enlarging of the old iron gate, &c., 6. Labourers at the long bridge, the …
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… on the Cowgate and bridge, bringing in some parts "of the old wale and earthe," such a piece of work as has not been … gentleman porter's fees too muchfor his fee is to have the old gates, which will cost the Queen 500 l. more than it might. Therefore you must write that the iron of the old gates must serve again, and those gates that can be any …
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… being 163 l. 5 s. to be distributed among such of them "old or maymed soliders," at 10 d. per diem. Lastly, a special …
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… after a sort. "Thus Sir I enlarge to far Petrarkes old verse Pace non troco, non ho far il guerra, the worst … him; and (3) I thought it not amiss, "according to the old proverbe (synce we have had our wills in everie thinge, …
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… had any other horse, as Maister Hews myne hoste att the Old Bailyea and Thomas the ostlear where he stood att the …
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… governor: "a noble and soldier-like change from a few old wretched watchers hired to the Queenes waged soldioures, …
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… and Acrigge to Burghley. [Dec. 7.] As the breach in the old town wall next the river was done last Michaelmas, also … at the quarries which will be chargeable, but out of the old Cowgate wall "neare hande," which will save carriage and … expediente tymelie to be prevented." And the taking said old wall, mended in sundry places only with "pales of …
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… losses done by the Bournes of Scotland, took prisoner old Jock of the Cote, a principal man among them, he enlarged … the King's assent to delivery of new pledges, for such old as cannot be gotten. I have laboured this with … in your letter of 22 d October, to deliver either old or new, yet so that "the thinge might rather growe from a …
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… them, except by a garrison always in readiness. 8. The old deadly feuds of some of these chief surnames of Scotland, …