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And are bound to fast fourtie daies: to dispossesse them selues of all that euer thei haue, and to make free their bonde men.

The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie 2004

The very same Idol deliuers oracles vnto them, and sometimes requireth the blood of fourtie virgins for his hire.

The Journal of Friar Odoric 2004

At the whiche time they willed vs to faste the fourtie daies that he fasted him selfe, being with vs vppon earth, and to renewe the remembraunce of his passion, and deathe, which he willingly susteined to deliuer vs fro the yoke and bondage of the deuell.

The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie 2004

The Cisingeri gentlemen, attending vpon his diet, fourtie, at fourtie aspers ech of them, and amounteth to sterling by the yeere, three thousand, fiue hundred and foure pounds.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

Moreouer of these creatures there are sometimes found some of an incredible bignesse, that is to say, of fourtie foot about.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

Fiue hundreth fourtie men are slaine: against ill haps,

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

Wee perceiue you haue bought and haue in a readinesse one hundred and fourtie tunnes of oyles, and that if neede bee you may haue more store.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

The fiue and fourtie thousand Ianizaries dispersed in sundry places of his dominions, at sixe aspers the day, amounteth by the yeere to fiue hundreth, fourescore and eleuen thousand, and three hundreth pounds.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

King, and immediately (alarme beeing giuen) it is reported that there were in both armies, fourtie thousand horsemen in a readinesse.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

Olauus sonne of Godredus Crouan beganne his reigne and reigned fourtie yeeres.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003