contrey

The contrey is the curfeder that cardinals commen in.

Antient funeral monuments, of Great-Britain, Ireland, and the islands adjacent 1767

Although "contrey" was more analogous to the modern "county," Elizabeth was convinced that the "controversie" surrounding the Woburn pasture was "not unknowne" in a general sense.

From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558 2008

The princess focused on the correlation between property and public image: she could not risk meekly surrendering the property after having acquired firm legal possession of it "from which to be now rejected were to my great dishonor, syns all the contrey knoweth it."

From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558 2008

And Ynde is devyded in 3 princypalle parties; that is, the more, that is a fulle hoot contree; and Ynde the lesse, that is a fulle atempree contrey, that strecchethe to the lond of Mede; and the 3 part toward the Septentrion, is fulle cold; so that for pure cold and contynuelle frost, the watre becomethe cristalle.

The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

And the kyng of that contrey hath als many wyfes as he wole; for he makethe serche alle the contree, to geten him the fairest maydens that may ben founde, and makethe hem to ben broughte before him; and he takethe on o nyght, and another another nyght, and so forthe contynuelle sewyng; so that he hath a 1000 wyfes or mo.

The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

And whan the queen and alle the othere noble ladyes sawen, that thei weren alle wydewes, and that alle the rialle blood was lost, thei armed hem, and as creatures out of wytt, thei slowen alle the men of the contrey, that weren laft.

The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

And aftre, I seye zou, before the chare, gon alle the mynstrelles of the contrey, with outen nombre, with dyverse instrumentes; and thei maken alle the melodye, that thei cone.

The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

And to sende awaye that kinde of people whom the goddes hated (he meaneth the Iewes) into some other contrey.

The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie 2004

And bezonde that partie, toward the southe, to passe by the see occean, is a gret lond and a gret contrey: but men may not duelle there, for the fervent brennynge of the sonne; so is it passvnge hoot in that contrey.

The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

For sum tyme, ther was a kyng in that contrey; and men maryed, as in other contreyes: and so befelle, that the kyng had werre, with hem of

The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004