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The true character of a northerne lady, as she is wife, mother, and sister; 10.
Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle
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[Sidenote: 30 yéeres after this he was baptised.] people a countrie, the which was afterwards named Normandie, of those northerne people which then began to inhabit the same, as in the histories of France you maie sée more at large.
Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (6 of 8) The Sixt Booke of the Historie of England Raphael Holinshed
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Furthermore, Iohn Colbie, a Carmelite frier of Norwich; William Thorpe a northerne man borne, and student in Oxenford, an excellent diuine,
Chronicles (3 of 6): Historie of England (1 of 9) Henrie IV Raphael Holinshed
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"In northerne kingdomes there are great armies of devils that have their services which they perform with the inhabitants of these countries, but they are most frequent in rocks and _mines_, where they break, cleave, and make them hollow; which also thrust in pitchers and buckets, and carefully fit wheels and screws, whereby they are drawn upwards; and they show themselves to the labourers, when they list, like phantoms and ghosts."
Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales Elias Owen
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Britains: for he came not amongst the northerne men, onlie discouering and subduing that part which lieth towards the French seas: so that sith other of the Roman emperors did most earnestlie trauell to
Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (3 of 8) Raphael Holinshed
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The Scots in time of the late parlement, taking occasion of the absence of the northerne lords, and also by reason of great mortalitie that afflicted the northerne people that yeare, inuaded the borders, tooke the castell of Warke, that was assigned to the safe keeping of sir
Chronicles (3 of 6): Historie of England (1 of 9) Henrie IV Raphael Holinshed
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The northerne, easterne, and westerne Indians fetch all their coyne from these southern mint - masters.
The Voyage of Verrazzano A Chapter in the Early History of Maritime Discovery in America Henry Cruse Murphy 1846
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Of Beuers, Otters and Martins, blacke Foxes, and Furres of price, may yeerely be had six or seuen thousand, and if the trade of the French were preuented, many more: 25000. this yeere were brought from those northerne parts into France, of which trade we may haue as good part as the French if we take good courses.
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Vnder this title thou shalt first finde the old northerne Nauigations of our Brittish Kings as of Arthur, of
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 Richard Hakluyt 1584
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(M94) From the said port of Castles to the port of Gutte, which is in the northerne part of the said Bay, that trendeth toward East northeast, and West southwest, there are 12. leagues and an halfe: and about two leagues from the port of Balances, that is to say, the third part athwart the saide Bay the depth being sounded it is about 38. fadomes: and from the said port of Balances to the white Sands towards
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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