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  • 'I leave this in a cuple of days, and I must, tho, with reluctance, aquent you, my dear Papa, that my long stay here, together with my illness, has runn me quite aground, which forct me to borow very near

    Pickle the Spy; Or, the Incognito of Prince Charles Andrew Lang 1878

  • Your R.H. has all advantages over the regular Troops in Scotland, you can always attack them and force them to Battle without ever being forct but when its judg'd advantageous -- this is certain you can move your Army across the Country in three or four days, which will take the regular Troops as many weeks.

    Pickle the Spy; Or, the Incognito of Prince Charles Andrew Lang 1878

  • Lord _Essex's_ Army hath beene completely surrounded by the royal Troops; himself forct to escape in a Boat to _Plymouth_, and all the Arms, Artillerie, Baggage, etc., of _Skippon's_ Men have fallen into the Hands of the King.

    Mary Powell & Deborah's Diary Anne Manning 1843

  • I should have beene fain to keep him in Advance of us; howbeit, we were forct to leave him in the Rear; and, about two Miles beyond _Amersham_, we turned off the high

    Mary Powell & Deborah's Diary Anne Manning 1843

  • I am thank full to you for your news and beleive it tired you hartily to write so much your refuge must be to do as I am forct to write by another hand

    Letter from Robert Carter to Colonel Mann Page, December 22, 1727 1727

  • Point 26th ultimo was forct into St Marys lay there [word omitted] daies brot home 3 Tubbs Buttr

    Robert Carter Diary, 1726 1726

  • Ypoco & 2 gr [ams] Tartar Em [etic] 2 Vomits spontan [eous] 2 more forct 5 Stooles had an Easie Night

    Robert Carter Diary, 1726 1726

  • I went to brick house Colemans Purs [el] ls was taken sick coming home wit such a faintness was forct in to mr

    Robert Carter Diary, 1723 1723

  • When I came home I was forct to sheath my sloop [...] before I could use her.

    Letter from Robert Carter to Thomas Hooper, July 3, 1723 1723

  • Able to do as well with, The next Year I fully resolve You shall have none but nice goods from me, I send my blessing to my dear boys pray God grant this finds them in health, they must be extraordinary good husbands Else I shall be forct either to remove them to a Cheaper School or to send for them to their own Country a Year or two Sooner than I am willing

    Letter from Robert Carter to William Dawkins, September 19, 1720 1720

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