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Wherefore setting vpon it a fresshe, where the booke is deuided acording to thaunciente diuision of the earth into thre partes, Affrique, Asie, and Europe: hauing brought to an ende the two firste partes, I found no persons in mine opinion so fitte as your honour, to present theim vnto.
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Likewise al the land of that region is possessed in common, so that there is not mine and thine, or any propriety of possession in the diuision of lands: howbeit euery man hath is owne house peculiar vnto himselfe.
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[K. Philip and Queene Mary hereby do disannul Pope Alexanders diuision. 177].
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Now seing that we haue sufficiẽtly spoken of priuate men and subiectes/in and through all the partes and membres of our distictions and diuisiõs/it remaynithe that we shuld entreate of Princes: for so at the begynning we ordered our diuision.
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The messengers declared these things to the king, and brought word backe againe at their returne, that the king had heard their message with fauourable mind, and promised by the power of God, to declare to the world that he coueted vnitie, and not any diuision in the church of England.
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (3 of 12) Henrie I. Raphael Holinshed
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It chaunced that warres happened betwene the king of England, and one of his sonnes, whiche bredde muche diuision in that lande, some holding of one parte, and some of an other.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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Saxon line: till shortlie after, by the insolent dealings of the gouernours, a diuision was made betwixt the king and his people, through iust punishment decreed by the prouidence of the Almightie, determining for their sinnes and contempt of his lawes, to deliuer them into the hands of a stranger; and therevpon when spite and enuie had brought the title in doubt, to whom the right in succession apperteined, the
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6) England (1 of 12) William the Conqueror Raphael Holinshed
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Menenius Agrippa, at what time as the Romai - were at diuision against the Senate, he vsed the Fable of E - sope, wherewith thei were perswaded to a concorde, and vni -
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For whereas the new moone shone foorth verie faire with his hornes towardes the east, streightwais the vpper horne was diuided into two, out of the the mids of which diuision a burning brand sprang vp, casting from it a farre off coles and sparks, as it had beene of fire.
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (5 of 12) Henrie the Second Raphael Holinshed
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Secondlie, he appeased sundrie matters then in controuersie betwixt the Nobles and great Péers, causing the same to be brought to an end, and the parties made freends: the diuision betwixt the archbishops of Yorke and Canturburie (which had long depended in triall, and could not as yet haue end) excepted.
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (3 of 12) Henrie I. Raphael Holinshed
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