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Hudson's Bay; the successe and profitable returns whereof has destroyed, unto the shame of my Ennemys, all the evell impressions they would have given of my actions.
Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson Pierre Esprit Radisson 1673
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His Work, the Paraphrafies, which fliould be authorized in the Realm: Which he wrote above 25 yeres agoo, when his penne was wanton as the matter is fo hauled, as being abrode iii this realme, were able to minifter occaiion to evell men to fubverte, with religion, the policie and order of the Realm.
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Augiift. ad Crefconium Grammaticum faith alfo ex - 44 prefly, That if there be among good miniftres one letter then an other, the Sacrament is no better given by the better; and it is no worfe gyven by an evell man, Ther is for this purpofe a goodly faying of Eufebius Emiilenus, which was much per - fecuted by the Aryans.
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But Shakspeare's expressions are still more similar to those of an inedited Chronicler of the period: "And whan the kyng had hard ther wordis and the answere of the dolphynne, he was wondre sore agreved and right evell assayd towarde the Frensshmen, and toward the kyng and the Dolphynne, and thought to avenge hym upon them as sone as Good wold send hym grace and myght, and anon lette make tenys ballis for the Dolpynne in all the hast that they myght be made; _and they were grete gonne stones for the Dolpynne to play wythall_."
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The ordinary licence which everyone but a known merchant was obliged to obtain from a magistrate before he could leave England, in 1595 gave permission with the condition that the traveller "do not haunte or resorte unto the territories or dominions of any foreine prince or potentate not being with us in league or amitie, nor yet wittinglie kepe companie with any parson or parsons evell affected to our State." [
English Travellers of the Renaissance Clare Howard
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In this manner they were joined by Lord Chancellor Rich, the Earl of Shrewsbury, Chief Justice Montague and others, whose signatures appear to a proclamation issued on the 8th October setting forth "the verye trowth of the Duke of Somersettes evell government and false and detestable procedynges." (
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