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  • Lea-bayly, with the great charge of carrying it to Lydny, and many other things worth my knowing; and I do perceive that I am very short in my business by not knowing many times the geographical part of my business.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 16: May/June 1662 Samuel Pepys 1668

  • Forrest of Deane, in Speede's Mapps, and there he showed me how it lies; and the Lea-bayly, with the great charge of carrying it to Lydny, and many other things worth my knowing; and I do perceive that I am very short in my business by not knowing many times the geographical part of my business.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1662 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668

  • Forrest of Deane, in Speede's Mapps, and there he showed me how it lies; and the Lea-bayly, with the great charge of carrying it to Lydny, and many other things worth my knowing; and I do perceive that I am very short in my business by not knowing many times the geographical part of my business.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668

  • These four days we spent in putting things in order, letting of the crop upon the ground, agreeing with Stankes to have a care of our business in our absence, and we think ourselves in nothing happy but in lighting upon him to be our bayly; in riding to

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1661 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668

  • These four days we spent in putting things in order, letting of the crop upon the ground, agreeing with Stankes to have a care of our business in our absence, and we think ourselves in nothing happy but in lighting upon him to be our bayly; in riding to

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668

  • That done, I turned to the Forrest of Deane, in Speede's Mapps, and there he showed me how it lies; and the Lea-bayly, with the great charge of carrying it to Lydny, and many other things worth my knowing; and I do perceive that I am very short in my business by not knowing many times the geographical part of my business.

    The Diary of Samuel Pepys, May/Jun 1662 Pepys, Samuel 1662

  • We wer agreed that James Traves (being his bayly) and Francis Nutthall, his servant for him, shold with me understand all circumstances, and so duely to procede.

    The Private Diary of Dr. John Dee And the Catalog of His Library of Manuscripts John Dee 1567

  • a care of our business in our absence, and we think ourselves in nothing happy but in lighting upon him to be our bayly; in riding to Offord and

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 11: June/July/August 1661 Samuel Pepys 1668

  • That done, I turned to the Forest of Deane, in Speede's Mapps, and there he shewed me how it lies; and the Lea-bayly with the great charge of carrying it to Lydney, and many other things worth knowing. "

    The Forest of Dean An Historical and Descriptive Account 1846

  • Icferoant ft bayly dc lour nafteTjquant ils ontfait afcun ch6 (cIcyaW», cnle droit lour

    Les termes de la ley, or, Certaine difficult and obscure words and termes of the common lawes and statutes of this realme now in vse expounded and explained John Rastell, William Rastell 1636

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