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19th March 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… quater, trey bears all away. MR. [EDWARD] ALFORD. In these dear years, people have sold their very armour to buy bread. … the poorer sort have sold their armour to buy corn. This a dear year and that it is therefore impossible that so many … great gain. Our lives, honours and fortunes cannot be so dear unto us, as to gain again the honour of the old English …
23rd April 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… free, by which means they make their cloth cheap and ours dear, and so hinder vent. Then they demand tare, so as the … so proportionally, which makes their cloth cheap and ours dear. They think now a fit opportunity offered to redress … to giving of money, for by that means the commodity grows dear. The imposition wrought as well upon kingdom as …
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… to marry within the tribe, and the like. And now, dear and dread Sovereign, we the knights, citizens and … of your people. [f. 203v] Accept in some acceptable sort, dear Sovereign, this present for the present and as a pledge …
2nd April 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… The true cause now that cloth vents not because so dear. Doubt not but that the subject being enriched, the King …
5th March 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… his Majesty of £1,000 per annum, and yet glasses were as dear as before. And that the customs had made a stay of …
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… nor to take in new men into their company. Their fine too dear. And doubts the taking from them dyed and dressed cloths …
Historical Collections of Private Passages of State
… to it: and, my Religion and Duty to God is so dear and precious to me, that there is nothing in this World, …