seruant

• “Her French tutor, Giles Duwes, with her since her time in the Welsh Marches, left her household in 1533 and wrote her a guilty little letter that he sheepishly noted was "written by your vnworthy seruant the nyght that he toke leue of your grace.”

  From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558

• “When Thomas Wriothlessly offered exceptional hospitality to one of Mary's servants, he received the rare compliment of a hand-written letter from Mary thanking him for the "intertaynyng [of] my seruant.”

  From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558

• ““Carte de la nouuelle france, augmentée depuis la derniere seruant a la nauigation faicte en son vray Meridien, par le Sr de Champlain…” printed 1632; Library and Archives Canada, NMC 51970”

  Simon & Schuster: Champlain's Dream

• “Et à simili probant Christianos malos, quod non seruant legem Euangelij”

  The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville

• “Imperator, multi Barones ingressum seruant intentè, et ne limen tangatur, quod hoc haberent pro augurio, et benè verberaretur, quia”

  The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville

• “Simile et in Italia Marsorum gentis durat, quos à Circes filio ortos seruant, et ideo inesse ijs vim naturalem eam.”

  The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville

• “But in regard of the foresayd seruant, wee were out of the Russians daunger, the greatest part of whome were either slaine, or caried into captiuitie by the Tartars.”

  The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini

• “And out of that which was giuen vnto our seruant, they stole the better halfe.”

  The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini

• “And when they come together to drinke and make merie, they sprinckle parte of their drinke vpon the image which is aboue the masters head: afterward vpon other images in order: then goeth a seruant out of the house with a cuppe full of drinke sprinckling it thrise towards the South, and bowing his knee at euery time: and this is done for the honour of the fire.”

  The iournal of frier William de Rubruquis a French man of the order of the minorite friers, vnto the East parts of the worlde. An. Dom. 1253.

• “Omnes sacerdotes eorum rasum habent totum caput et barbam; sunt vestiti de croceo, et seruant castitatem, ex quo radunt caput: et viuunt pariter centum vel ducenti in vna congregatione.”

  The iournal of frier William de Rubruquis a French man of the order of the minorite friers, vnto the East parts of the worlde. An. Dom. 1253.

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