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- noun Plural form of
executour .
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Examples
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Magistrates are apoĩted to be the defẽders/ãd executours of the first table of the lawe as well as of the secõde: with what obseruatiõ thẽ of iustice cã a magistrate graũte or suffer Idolatrie to be vsed?
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Michaell Harte, fyve pounds a peece, to be paied within one yeare after my deceas [to be sett out for her within one yeare after my deceas by my executours, with thadvise and direccions of my overseers, for her best profitt, untill her mariage, and then the same with the increase thereof to be paied unto her].
The Facts About Shakespeare William Allan Nielson
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That it shall and may be lawfull to and for the said Captain John Martin, his heyers, executours and assignes to governe and comaunde all suche [28] person or persons as at this time he shall carry over with him, or that shalbe [29] sente him hereafter, free from any comaunde of the Colony, excepte it be in ayding and assisting the same against [30] any forren or domestical enemy.
Colonial Records of Virginia Various
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The Saracenes or Turkes are very precise executours of Iustice.
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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For yf they had nat ben put/it wolde nat haue ben dought but that the executours dely - uerynge euery of them an hundred shepe
The Art or Crafte of Rhetoryke Leonard Cox 1528
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[F. iiii.v] For the executours say they are bounde to delyuer to euery of them an hundred shepe/suche as they that be the executours will.
The Art or Crafte of Rhetoryke Leonard Cox 1528
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As in the example now put/the may - dens may say that yf it had ben theyr fa - thers mynde that the executours shoulde haue delyuered suche shepe as it had plea - sed them to delyuer: he neded nat to haue added these wordes _suche as they wyll_.
The Art or Crafte of Rhetoryke Leonard Cox 1528
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Now here standeth the dout/to whom we shall referre this worde _they_/to the dought - ters/or to the executours.
The Art or Crafte of Rhetoryke Leonard Cox 1528
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To thy executours, thou shalt small comforte fynde
The Ship of Fools, Volume 1 Sebastian Brant 1489
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Shakspere's 1st signature unto her 3 sonnes, William Harte, ---- Hart, as good as Michaell Harte, fyve pounds a peece, to be paied inside of a singular yeare after my deceas [to be sett out for her inside of a singular yeare after my deceas by my executours, with thadvise as good as direccions of my overseers, for her many appropriate frofitt, untill her mariage, as good as afterwards a same with a enlarge thereof to be paied unto her].
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