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- verb Obsolete spelling of
allege .
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Examples
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Item, the said marchants doe alleage, that the customers and balifs of the town of Southampton do compel them to pay for euery last of herrings, pitch, and sope ashes brought thither by them 2.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Hans, of and for all iniuries, damages, grieuances, and drownings, or manslaughters done and committed, as they alleage, against them, deliuered and exhibited in written articles, vnto the aboue named
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Wherefore as our present businesse requireth, while we are in hand with the writings of Authors concerning this matter, although we meet with some things containing litle reproch, notwithstanding we will examine most of them, noting the errors as hitherto we haue done in the meane time also when they shall alleage any trueth, we will in no case dissemble it.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Wherefore as our present businesse requireth, while we are in hand with the writings of Authors concerning this matter, although we meet with some things containing litle reproch, notwithstanding we will examine most of them, noting the errors as hitherto we haue done in the meane time also when they shall alleage any trueth, we will in no case dissemble it.
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Item, the foresaid merchants by way of pitiful complaint do alleage, that, whereas the worthy progenitors of our
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Item, the said marchants doe farther alleage, that the customers of the petie custome, and of the subsidie in the port of London haue appointed among themselues certaine men to seale vp the goods of the saide marchants, so soon as they are arriued at the port of safetie, vntil the said goods be customed.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Then he would alleage you innumerable examples, confirming storie by stories, how much the wisest Senators and Princes, have bene directed by the credit of Historie, as Brutus, Alphonsus of Aragon, (and who not if need be.)
Defence of Poesie 1992
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What sufficient excuse for my fault may I henceforth alleage, that in the end will not display it to be both vnprofitable and voyde of reason?
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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And that which I do alleage, is proued, not without manifest reason, wherof I nowe doe fele experience, hauing let slip the raynes of the bridle to farre ouer my disordinate affections, beyng drawen from the right hande, and traiterously deceiued.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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The inhabitãnts somtime kil the Lyon & eat him: & we somtime as they came to our hands of their Wolues or woluish Dogges, which I haue not set downe for good meat, least that some woulde vnderstand my iudgement therin to be more simple than needeth, although I could alleage the difference in taste of those kindes from ours, which by some of our company haue beene experimented in both.
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