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Flemish hulkes, with 700. mariners, 3200. souldiers, and 400. great pieces.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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At the same time two Netherland hulkes comming out of
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Beasts shall hunger, starve, and dye of the botch; many shippes, gallies, and hulkes shall be lost; and the bloodie flixes shall kill many men; all things deare, save corne.
A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide John Ashton
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Vessels: -- Galliasses and gallions, 72; ships and hulkes, 47; pinnases and carviles, 11: -- 130.
Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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After dinner by water to the office, and there we met and sold the Weymouth, Successe, and Fellowship hulkes, where pleasant to see how backward men are at first to bid; and yet when the candle is going out, how they bawl and dispute afterwards who bid the most first.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1662 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668
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After dinner by water to the office, and there we met and sold the Weymouth, Successe, and Fellowship hulkes, where pleasant to see how backward men are at first to bid; and yet when the candle is going out, how they bawl and dispute afterwards who bid the most first.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 18: September/October 1662 Samuel Pepys 1668
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After dinner by water to the office, and there we met and sold the Weymouth, Successe, and Fellowship hulkes, where pleasant to see how backward men are at first to bid; and yet when the candle is going out, how they bawl and dispute afterwards who bid the most first.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668
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After dinner by water to the office, and there we met and sold the Weymouth, Successe, and Fellowship hulkes, where pleasant to see how backward men are at first to bid; and yet when the candle is going out, how they bawl and dispute afterwards who bid the most first.
The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sep/Oct 1662 Pepys, Samuel 1662
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Light boates saile swift, though greater hulkes draw deepe.
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Netherland hulkes comming out of Portugall to Tercera being halfe the Seas ouer, met with 4 of the Queenes ships, their Generall being sir Iohn
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 07 England's Naval Exploits Against Spain Richard Hakluyt 1584
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