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- noun Obsolete form of
inheritance .
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The children that thei haue bothe by the one, and the other haue equalle porcion in the fathers enheritaunce.
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Therfor by faithe is the enheritaunce gyuẽ that it might come of grace/that the promise mighte be certaine and sure: for if the certayntie of saluaciõ did hãge on our merytes ãd worthines of our worckes/it should alwaies stumble/and be in daũgier of ouerthrowe.
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The children that thei haue bothe by the one, and the other haue equalle porcion in the fathers enheritaunce.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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This knight's name was Sir Robert Dimmocke, champion to the kyng by tenure of his enheritaunce, who answered the saied kyng of armes in effecte after this manner: -- Sir, the place that I come from is not materiall, nor the cause of my repaire hether is not concernyng any matter of any place or countrey, but only this; and therewithall commanded his heraulde to make an O yes: then saied the knyght to the kyng of armes, Now shal ye here the cause of my commyng and pretence.
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