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Ye haue herde here before howe kynge John, otherwyse called mayster denyce of portyngale, bastarde broder to kyng Don Ferant, was in possessyon of the royalme of Portyngale, by the helpe all onely of iiii.
Sir John Froissart's chronicles of England, France, Spain, Portugal, Scotland, Brittany, Flanders, and the adjoining countries; Berners, John Bourchier, Lord, 1466 or 7-1533, tr 1812
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[Gardiner brings in Croft and Elizabeth says she has nothing to say to him] And as concerning my going vnto Donnington Castel, I do remember that mayster Hoby and mine officers, and you, Syr James Acrofte had such talke: but is that to the purpose, my Lordes, but that I may go to my owne houses at al times. 99
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This on is mayster of his houshold, another is his chamberleyn, another servethe him of a dissche, another of the cuppe, another is styward, another is mareschalle, another is prynce of his armes: and thus is he fulle nobely and ryally served.
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This on is mayster of his houshold, another is his chamberleyn, another servethe him of a dissche, another of the cuppe, another is styward, another is mareschalle, another is prynce of his armes: and thus is he fulle nobely and ryally served.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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¶ In syne {that} he was mayster & lorde of {that} banket
The Assemble of Goddes Anonymous
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¶ The seuenth is to contynuye suche obedyence for the ende of thy lyf/euer folowynge thy mayster Ihesu cryste/that was moost obedyent for thy synne vnto deth Amen.
A Ryght Profytable Treatyse Compendiously Drawen Out Of Many and Dyvers Wrytynges Of Holy Men Thomas Betson
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Mayster Gentil of Carisendi being come from Modena, tooke a woman out of hir graue that was buried for dead, who after she was come agayne, brought forth a sonne, which mayster Gentil rendred afterwardes with the mother to mayster Nicholas Chasennemie her husband.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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Long after, a piece thereof happened to come to my handes; which notwithstanding it was al to rent and defaced, I shewed to mayster Richarde Pace, then chiefe Secretarie to the kinges most Royall maiestie, whereof he exceedingly reioysed.
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Saladine in the habite of a Marchaunt, was honourably receyued into the house of mayster Thorello, who went ouer the Sea, in company of the
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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Then he began to frame a long Oracion, against the incontinencie of women, moued rather through the good will hee bare to his mayster, then to the truth of the matter, which vndiscretely he spake against the order of women kynd.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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