Capt. John Smith, of Willoughby, Volume 1English Scholar's Library, 1884 - 984 pages |
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Page xix
... Smyth my eldest sonne whome I chardge and command to honoure and love my foresaide good Lord Willoughbie duringe his lyfe Item I geve to Alice Smyth my Wyfe tenne pounds of good and lawfull currant mony of England to be paide unto her. xix.
... Smyth my eldest sonne whome I chardge and command to honoure and love my foresaide good Lord Willoughbie duringe his lyfe Item I geve to Alice Smyth my Wyfe tenne pounds of good and lawfull currant mony of England to be paide unto her. xix.
Page xxx
... pound to hire men to go ; and procrastination caused more [ to ] run away then went . pp . 262-3 . And again : I thinke it more strange they should taxe me before they haue tried as much as I haue both by land and sea , as well in Asia ...
... pound to hire men to go ; and procrastination caused more [ to ] run away then went . pp . 262-3 . And again : I thinke it more strange they should taxe me before they haue tried as much as I haue both by land and sea , as well in Asia ...
Page xxxi
... pound , yet I thinke my selfe happie to see their prosperities . pp . 266-7 . Once more , in 1624 , he wrote : Hauing spent some fiue yeares [ 1604-1609 ] , and more than fiue hundred pounds in procuring the Letters Patents and setting ...
... pound , yet I thinke my selfe happie to see their prosperities . pp . 266-7 . Once more , in 1624 , he wrote : Hauing spent some fiue yeares [ 1604-1609 ] , and more than fiue hundred pounds in procuring the Letters Patents and setting ...
Page cxxvi
... pound , and the losse of eighteene yeeres of time , besides all the trauels , dangers , miseries and incumbrances for my ... pounds , which summe I cannot disbursse : nor shall the Stationers have the copy [ manuscript ] for nothing ...
... pound , and the losse of eighteene yeeres of time , besides all the trauels , dangers , miseries and incumbrances for my ... pounds , which summe I cannot disbursse : nor shall the Stationers have the copy [ manuscript ] for nothing ...
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... pound of bread I had for supper : what I left was reserued for me , and sent with me to my lodging : Each morning 3. women presented me three great platters of fine bread , more venison then ten men could deuour I had : my gowne ...
... pound of bread I had for supper : what I left was reserued for me , and sent with me to my lodging : Each morning 3. women presented me three great platters of fine bread , more venison then ten men could deuour I had : my gowne ...
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Page xxiii - I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me: there was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it: now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.
Page 394 - ... two rowes of men, and behind them as many women, with all their heads and shoulders painted red; many of their heads bedecked with the white downe of Birds; but every one with something: and a great chayne of white beads about their necks.
Page cx - King and his grim attendants ever saw: and thus enthralled in their barbarous power, I cannot say I felt the least occasion of want that was in the power of those my mortal foes to prevent, notwithstanding all their threats. After some six weeks...
Page 395 - Emry, pretending the fault was his that had led them to their ends: but he quickly tooke such order with such Lawyers, that he layd them by the heeles till he sent some of them prisoners for England.
Page 394 - At his entrance before the king, all the people gave a great shout. The queen of Appamatuck was appointed to bring him water to wash his hands, and another brought him a bunch of feathers, instead of a towel to dry them.
Page cx - ... after their best barbarous manner they could, a long consultation was held, but the conclusion was, two great stones were brought before Powhatan: then as many as could...
Page lix - Crown of Deares haire colloured red, in fashion of a Rose fastened about his knot of haire, and a great Plate of Copper on the other side of his head, with two long Feathers in fashion of a paire of Homes placed in the midst of his Crowne.
Page 438 - Though there be fish in the Sea, foules in the ayre, and Beasts in the woods, their bounds are so large, they so wilde, and we so weake and ignorant, we cannot much trouble them.
Page 197 - Riuer 40 or 50 miles, I saw nothing but great high cliffes of barren Rocks, ouergrowne with wood : but where the Saluages dwelt there the ground is exceeding fat & fertill.