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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… He has made good an old saying we have in England, save a thief from the gallows, and he will be the first that shall …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Anne
… has entertained and encouraged James Wilson, his son, as a thief and so to be, and harboured him in his house when run …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Anne
… brought to prison. I was held by the arm as if I were a thief. It is a great indignity to an officer who has served …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Anne
… mail was brought to the Post Office this morning by the thief catchers, and that Mr. Tucker's letter to Mr. …
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
… and Anthony Hall. Each of these is characterised as a thief or a maintainer of thieves. Pp. 3. Endd. by Wriothesley …
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
… to one Rype's house, who had accused him of being a thief. Farror came to him in Sir Thos. More's name. Went at …
Acts & Proceedings of the General Assemblies of the Kirk of Scotland
… his great mercy avert. But Bonitoun is execute! A famous thief in the highest degree, for his vile thieft is punished! …
Historical Collections of Private Passages of State
… and by the Statute of 4 H. 4. c. 3. a notorious or common Thief shall not make his purgation: and 26 E. 3. 71. in a …
A History of the County of London
… in taking the priory into his hand in 1256 because a thief who had escaped from Newgate took refuge there, 48 may …
A History of the County of London
… abbot of having recourse to a necromancer to discover the thief of certain plate from his chapel and wine-cellar; 163 …