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Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edward I
… countess of Cornwall, his wife, who desires to live in chastity, and freely and with his consent to devote herself …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… the Wellingborough sessions in May 1638 for attempting her chastity. The case came to a conclusion in June-July 1639. … to Mr Hanslapp that William Stanton did attempt her chastity; and thereupon Mr Hanslapp willed her to complain to …
The Environs of London
… ridicule to the wits of that day: it was a persuasive to chastity, under which title the Doctor soon afterwards …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I
… being charged among other things for attempting the chastity of women, and several women having offered to depose … there is a common fame that Dr. Dennison has attempted the chastity of certain women named. The court pronounced him … day. Lastly, touching the attemptations of several women's chastity, though the court held not the women's depositions, …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… all the desires of sensual flesh, and do accept the chastity and abstinence of all pleasures. As a great delight …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… Vitis agnus castus, which was regarded as a symbol of chastity, largely because of confusion between the Greek term …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… success, and w[ h]ere it was disappointed. Where their chastity resisted, he attempted to ravish them, found means …
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
… Item, of priests' wives or that they who have avowed chastity may marry, masses and auricular confession …
Memorials of the Guild of Merchant Taylors
… his forward inclination to all noble exercise: next, Chastity, by her a Unicorn; showing it is guide to all other …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… Gwen. Gwyryddon, chaste persons; plural of Gwyrydd, chastity. Gyll, i. e., Cyll, the plural of Collen, a …