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Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… and if he bore arms, though he having nothing but a blunt knife. After giving him something to eat, they detained him …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… were much used for ornamental work, such as the HAFT of a KNIFE, RINGs, SEALs, BEADs, SNUFF BOXes, etc., and hence entries like 'a pocket-knife w'th an agate handle' [Diaries (Stapley)], and even examples of 'agate knife' for short. OED earliest date of use: 1570 Found …
A History of the County of Essex
… to have owed works. Rents in kind then included hens, a knife worth 2 d., and ½ lb. of wax. 64 In 1579 a meadow on …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… was also discovered. The body of a man, with a small knife of Saxon type between his ribs, was found buried in the …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… units of LB, OZ, POUND Sources: Inventories (late). Almain knife [knives almain; almaine knives] A form of KNIFE, presumably for Germany, found only in the Books of …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… shall be cut off by the English. Indian John drew out his knife, ripped open Needham's body, and drew out his heart, … be white they made very much of him and gave him back his knife, guns, and hatchett they had taken from him. He gave the knife and hatchett to the King, but they knew not the use of …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… They immediately searched the vessel and found a beef [knife?] with which the body appeared to have been wounded. …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… his men, and left them with nothing but a piece of a great knife, a penknife, a piece of tobacco tongs and a flint and …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… going to eat one of the apples, cutting it with a knife, discovered some pinns in it, and afterwards this …