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John Northbrooke, A treatise wherein dicing, dauncing, vaine playes, or enterluds, with other idle pastimes, &c., commonly used on the Sabboth day, are reproued by the authoritie of the word of God and auntient writers (1577), ed.

Notes to "Wrong Side of the River: London's disreputable South Bank in the sixteenth and seventeenth century." Jessica A. Browner Jessica A. Browner 1994

A MS. copy of a similar one (made in 1635, and then called "very auntient") may be seen in the Harleian

Notes and Queries, Number 39, July 27, 1850 Various

It was a custome (right Honorable, and my most singular good Lord) both amongst the auntient _Romans_, and also amongst the wise

The English Husbandman The First Part: Contayning the Knowledge of the true Nature of euery Soyle within this Kingdome: how to Plow it; and the manner of the Plough, and other Instruments Gervase Markham

Turler must acknowledge "an auntient complaint made by many that our countrymen usually bring three thinges with them out of Italye: a naughty conscience, an empty purse, and a weak stomache: and many times it chaunceth so indeede."

English Travellers of the Renaissance Clare Howard

He adds -- "if there be any one chamber consisting of two parts, and the one part exceeds the other in value, and he who hath the best part sells the same, yet the purchaser shall enter into the worst part; for it is a certain rule that the auntient in the chamber -- _viz. _, he who was therein first admitted, without respect to their antiquity in the house, hath his choice of either part."

A Book About Lawyers John Cordy Jeaffreson 1866

"rather as the ruins of some auntient fortification than that any people living might now inhabit it."

Pioneers of the Old South: a chronicle of English colonial beginnings Mary Johnston 1903

A Memorial! of the trulie vertuous and religious (*) Elihonor Sadler late of this Clofe of Sarum, lineally defcended from the auntient and worfliipfull family of the Saintbarbes of jifoington in Somerfotfoere, (-) -) and Cofen German to that thrice worthie Lady IValfongham, who was Mother to the noble Countefle of

A description of that admirable structure, the cathedral church of Salisbury. : With the chapels, monuments, grave-stones, and their inscriptions. To which is prefixed an account of Old Sarum. 1774