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Calendar of Border Papers
… 400 able horsemen, laying an ambush of 300 or 400 foot, "brake a day forray a myle beneathe Bellinghame, spoiled the townes men in Bellinghame, brake the crosse, toke all the cattell upp the water to the …
Calendar of Border Papers
… forbore the more fired was he of revendge, insomuche as he brake his speare of on of them and unhorst him, and with his …
Calendar of Border Papers
… to the horse garrison and pensioners, who before the pay "brake his credytt and rane awaye," whereby many poor men here …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… Braken flax [broken flax] FLAX that had been beaten with a brake to make the fibres more flexible. The term was probably … spinning. Not found in the OED as such, though the term 'brake' appears as early as 1440 See also BRACK HEMP. Sources: …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… was called Bury; the copse to the E. is still called Bury Brake. (RAF VAP CPE/UK/1994, 2083 4; air photographs in NMR) …
A History of the County of Stafford
… the third week of September travelling by horse-drawn brake, but the wake seems to have lapsed, like the fair, …
A Survey of London
… Armour and ranne with great rage to the Marshalles Inne, brake vp the gates, brought out the prisoner, & conueyed him … haue punished him, as I haue noted in my Annales. Saylers brake up the Marshalsey. More, about the Feast of Easter next … ranne to the house, wherein the murtherer was imprisoned, brake into it, and brought forth the prisoner with his Giues …
The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk
… the doore, and returning to the Steeple, rent the timber, brake the Chimes, and fled towards Bongie, a Towne six miles …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Edward VI
… the English men remaining our good friends,' and therewith brake off." The Comptroller of Ardres had affirmed these …