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Britain's Star Chamber limited the number of printers so as to stop "dyvers contentious and disorderlye persons professinge the arte or mystere of pryntings or selling of books."

Beijing's Crash Course in News Censorship L. Gordon Crovitz 2011

Apparently, the steward of the combined household, John Shelton, insisted that Elizabeth preside over the main meal "euery day at the bord of astate" (board of estate or high table) .141 Bryan understood that, in this case, the politics of ostentation might be harmful to the three-year-old Elizabeth, who would be unable to resist the "dyvers metes" and other rich foods laid out in the great hall.

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

The folk of that contree han a dyvers lawe: for summe of hem, worschipe the sonne, summe the mone, summe the fuyr, summe trees, summe serpentes, or the first thing that thei meeten at morwen: and summe worschipen symulacres, and summe Ydoles.

The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

And there ben many dyvers langages and many contreys, that ben obedyent to the Emperour; that is to seyn Turcople, Pyneynard,

The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

In 1534, not fourteen years after Skelton smelled a rat, a statute of Henry VIII stated that offenders went to jurors “and have suborned them to aquyte dyvers murderers.”

No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

In 1534, not fourteen years after Skelton smelled a rat, a statute of Henry VIII stated that offenders went to jurors “and have suborned them to aquyte dyvers murderers.”

No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

The folk of that contree han a dyvers lawe: for summe of hem, worschipe the sonne, summe the mone, summe the fuyr, summe trees, summe serpentes, or the first thing that thei meeten at morwen: and summe worschipen symulacres, and summe Ydoles.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

In 1534, not fourteen years after Skelton smelled a rat, a statute of Henry VIII stated that offenders went to jurors “and have suborned them to aquyte dyvers murderers.”

No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

And there ben many dyvers langages and many contreys, that ben obedyent to the Emperour; that is to seyn Turcople, Pyneynard,

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

In 1534, not fourteen years after Skelton smelled a rat, a statute of Henry VIII stated that offenders went to jurors “and have suborned them to aquyte dyvers murderers.”

No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003