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Calendar of Border Papers
… and adventures, which will scarce feed a wretch with bread and water to susteyne lief; yet are they daily call'd …
Calendar of Border Papers
… and many children, to be forced to take a penny a day in bread, and another in beer, and so on in the rest. For, my … do his own part, though he ties them to theirs, for his bread and beer is "verye nought and yll." And he has yet … if demandedthe meanest soldier has had 12 d. weekly in bread, at 24 oz. for a penny, and other victuals within the …
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… if they could serve the poorer sort of workmen with bread only, for they were to get no pay till Christmaswho … "poorer sorte of laborers and such," a small allowance of bread, the works cannot well go forward, as they have no …
Calendar of Border Papers
… "A computacion of one souldiers allowance for one daie." Bread, 12 oz., 1 d.; beer, 3 pints 1 d.; cheese, lb. 2 d.; butter, 1 qr. lb. 1 d5 d. Bread, 12 oz., 1 d.; beer, 3 pints 1 d.; beef, 1 lb., 3 d5 d. …
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… to M r Vernon. First.He says he delivers 5 s. daily in bread for 50 men, thus 10 d. more than his contract for 1 d. … not daily. And instead of 12 d. to each man for 7 days' bread, he only gives 8 d. for 7 days. Second.Instead of every … weekly each man. His allowances to the horsemen of double bread as he says, are short by 23 s. 4 d. weekly. And the …
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… Fenwicke's of Wallington upon Jock Robson of Creling hill, Jock Robson "the flesher," and Andrew Robson …
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… in the Old Palace in charge of M r Vernon, taken that day. Bread corn.Wheat, white rye and meal, 330 qrs. in all, which … and Whithaugh "denyes the recept," and Syme of Calf hill and Dick of Dryupp, alleged not to be within Liddesdale. …
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… but for want of horse to go nearer, they stood on a hill and saw the Scots dividing their goods, but were not …
Calendar of Border Papers
… other victuals we have. We have long eaten nothing but rye bread, and it grieves poor men to see the Queen "cossoned" by … in going thither, one of them "did leese" in the street, but missing it before coming to the castle, returned … weeks on "shipbord, and taking wett maketh the woorser bread," which cannot be avoided, till the officers are …
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… in the Bishopric; on Sunday they came to Ferry on the hill, intending to dine there, but Thomas told this examinate … willed this examinate to buy a pye and a loafe of bread, alleadging that he would putt it in his cloke-bagge …