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Calendar of Early Mayor's Court Rolls
… in 1285, when the City was in his hands, of abolishing the wager of law in cases of trespass where there was bloodshed … claimed to clear themselves in a simple trespass by wager of law, but their claim was not allowed as being … I and Edw. II, Rolls Series, 1, pp. 127-8. Nevertheless wager of law still continued to be allowed in the City courts …
The Environs of London
… dogs we had in England. The English gentleman laid the wager with him; the other has brought the panther; and …
Old and New London
… years before this last pudding he had baked one, for a wager, ten feet deep in the Thames, near Rotherhithe, by …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… secondly, to Miss Parker, half-sister to Sir Charles Wager, who survived him, and died in 1730, t. 54. Masters's …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… of the King of England at the command of the Queen Do wager of Hungary, Regent, &c. And also with regard to a …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… Parliament house. 0 3 0 My Lord lost to Mr Russell upon a wager about going of their watches. 0 2 0 To Leift-Generall …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… said, That he heard a gentleman say that he would lay a wager that before Whitsunday twenty thousand men should go …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… is no doubt, if mine prove as well, but you will win the wager; whereof I would wish you to rest most firmly assured, …