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Goe formality and tell his Formalityship I have other busines then to stupyfie my braine wth how many quarters of mault is bought, and in that how much I am cozened, nether care I how many scores of sheepe have beene Plundered from mee.
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Goe formality and tell his Formalityship I have other busines then to stupyfie my braine wth how many quarters of mault is bought, and in that how much I am cozened, nether care I how many scores of sheepe have beene Plundered from mee.
The Concealed Fansyes: A Play by Lady Jane Cavendish and Lady Elizabeth Brackley Jane Cheyne 1644
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"A payne ys made that no person or persons that shall brewe any weddyn ale to sell, shall not brewe aboue twelve stryke of mault at the most, and that the said persons so marryed shall not keep nor haue above eyght messe of persons at hys dinner within the burrowe, and before hys brydall daye he shall keep no unlawfull games in hys house nor out of hys house on payne of 20_s_."
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 284, November 24, 1827 Various
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A goodly estate was left at the death of Captain Miles, including a well-equipped house, cattle, mault mill, swords (as one would expect), sixteen pewter pieces and several books of classic literature, -- Homer, Caesar's Commentaries, histories of Queen
The Women Who Came in the Mayflower Annie Russell Marble
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He was brought to trial in 1661, for "stealing several things as pigges, capons, mault, bacon, butter, eggs, etc., and breaking open a seller door several times."
Customs and Fashions in Old New England Alice Morse Earle 1881
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Wee made of the same in the countrey some mault, whereof was brued as good ale as was to bee desired.
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Many words pronounced with a broad were anciently written with au; as sault, mault; and we still say, fault, vault.
A Grammar of the English Tongue Samuel Johnson 1746
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Bishop Kennett tells us that "dredge mault is mault made up of oats, mixed with barley, of which they make an excellent, freshe, quiete sort of drinke, in Staffordshire."
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668
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Bishop Kennett tells us that "dredge mault is mault made up of oats, mixed with barley, of which they make an excellent, freshe, quiete sort of drinke, in Staffordshire."
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1666 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668
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Bishop Kennett tells us that "dredge mault is mault made up of oats, mixed with barley, of which they make an excellent, freshe, quiete sort of drinke, in Staffordshire."
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 41: January/February 1665-66 Samuel Pepys 1668
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