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And they say further, that the sayd drumme is sounded by the angels in signe of that great victory graunted of God to their prophet.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Cowes taile of Cathay, and a drumme of Tart醨ia, which he well accepted.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Our whole noise of trumpets were sounding on the poope with drumme and flute, and a
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Spaniarde taking him to his Rapier which they brought in the boate, with other weapons, and a drumme wherewith to triumph ouer them.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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They haue drummes besides of a huge bignes, which they cary with them vpon a boord layde on foure horses, that are sparred together with chaines, euery drumme haning eight strikers, or drummers, besides trumpets and shawmes, which they sound after a wilde maner, much different from ours.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And they say that as yet there is heard vpon the mountaines a litle drumme, which while the Carouan passeth, neuer ceaseth sounding.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And first the Priest doth beginne to play vpon a thing like to a great sieue, with a skinne on the one ende like a drumme: and the sticke that he playeth with is about a spannne long, and one ende is round like a ball, couered with the skinne of an Harte.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And the "Drumber" was paid, and well paid too for his "Cervices," fourteen shillings a year of the town's money, and he was furnished a "new strong drumme;" and the town supplied to him also the flax for the drum-cords which he wore out in the service of God.
Sabbath in Puritan New England Alice Morse Earle 1881
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Norwalk the "drumb," the "drumne," the "drumme," and at last the drum was beaten until 1704, when the Church got a bell.
Sabbath in Puritan New England Alice Morse Earle 1881
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September 14, 1642, and ordered that the works and trenches made by the scholars should be demolished; yet next day he "sent a drumme up and downe the towne for volunteers to serve the King and Parliament."
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