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Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… subject to error. This a question between the 2 courts. Few grantees from the Court of Wards have had the benefit of … whereof many are fallen away of themselves and very few hold water. Give him leave to be of this opinion that … says it was proved at the committee that it was only a few children that having been at that minister's sermon did …
8th April 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… them. Because [it] concern[s] other business, desires a few to be committees before openly read to the House. … to show all in his trust of us. Desires a committee of a few, first to peruse it as it may concern him or others his … seen, but would have it viewed by a select committee of a few, because many things therein were not fit to be …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… do live away from his wife' and whether within the past few years he had been questioned at the assises for the …
Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840
… this building was destroyed in the riots of 1831 a few pieces of the furniture survive including one of a set of … It would appear that he worked for his father, although a few individual payments are recorded in his name, the … up to his death in 1729 but the later payments give few details of the work undertaken. However in 1711 in …
City of London Livery Companies Commission. Report
… law officers of the Crown would at the present time direct few, if any, proceedings in Chancery, if they were granted … adopted this course, we think it right to state that the few really highly-paid officials who are in the employment of … our honourable and learned colleague, Mr. Firth, and the few persons who are associated with him, have never been …
Historical Collections of Private Passages of State
… or Constitutions regulating their Trade, but being a few singular Persons who took this advantage to enrich … is well known, that before the said 22d of November a very few Men exercised the Craft of making of soft Soap; and that but a few also were set on work by them, whereas in the making of …
The English Fur Trade in the Later Middle Ages
… are of varying merit, but have been included since so few books deal directly with the subject. The most valuable …
Historical Collections of Private Passages of State
… rest; that Deadly Cup of Wine, that should intoxicate a few alledged Inconveniences, and Misdemeanors, to run them up … and more Respect is to be had to it, than the getting of a few poor Debts; and, why it should be Treason in one Case, … follow upon this, will be such, as it will come, within a few Years, to that which is express'd in the Statute of Henry …
A History of the County of Somerset
… south of the railway. About 1788 there were said to be a 'few' Anabaptists in the parish but with no place of worship. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… about a mile south-east of the church, were discovered a few years since the remains of what is believed to have been … the lower grounds are more favourable to agriculture. A few pits on the hills yield an inferior coal, much of which …