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We should have liked to know the estimated value of a re-bellion, according to the Irish method, but we understand that there is no accounting for that.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 18, 1919 Various
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Luther, question respecting the motive of his re - bellion to the pope, 70, 77 - Excommuni - cated, and thus becomes popular, 79.
The life and administration of cardinal Wolsey John Galt, Thomas Wolsey 1812
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In ann. 156g, 11 Elizabeth, he was sent into the north parts, the Earls of Northumberland and Westmorland being then in re - bellion, and made lieutenant to Thomas Ratcliffe, Earl of Sussex
Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical 1812
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In the famous re - bellion which broke out in 1425, and has been so well described by Gothe, in his Goss of Berlichingen, they treated the princes, dukes, and other great persons, in a very fltrange manner.
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Robert, P the eldest son of Ascelin, succeeded his father as Lord of Yvery, but does not appear to have borne the title of Earl of that place, being possibly deprived thereof on account of his re - bellion; for in the very same year, viz. III9, notwithstanding the recent obligations of his family to that Prince, he took arms against King Henry L in conjunction with other malecontents in Normandy.
Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical 1812
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I56g, 11 Elizabeth, he was sent into the north parts, the Earls of Northumberland and, Westmorland being then in re - bellion, and made lieutenant to Thomas Ratclilfe, Earl of Sussex
Collins's Peerage of England; Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical 1812
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And again, "all church reformation, is not church destruction; Why therefore, must all resistance be called re - bellion *?"
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We answered: he broke all laws, & was in armes of re - bellion against that Colony, bis ancient frjends & protectonrs, though it js believed that be was the author of murdering John Sossiman, for revealing his plots to the Govemour
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We answered: he broke all laws, & was in armes of re - bellion against that Colony, his ancient frjends & protectours, though it ja believed that he was the author of murthering John Sossiman, for reveahng his plots to the Govemour
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The kings of Tunis and Tremecen, who had been feudatory dependents on his an - ceftors, and who were defirous to fhake off this dependency, endeavoured to incite n bellion among the diftant tribes that they might embarrafs Jacob.
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