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This Episcopalian bias was quite enough to account for Bradford's disparaging description of him as a "kind of petie-fogie of Furnifells Inn," and explains why the early historians never made any fuller or more favorable record than absolutely necessary of these neighbors of theirs, although the churchman Samuel Maverick admits that Morton was a "gentleman of good qualitee."
The Old Coast Road From Boston to Plymouth Agnes Rothery
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Beglerbegs the gouernours of Prouinces and Saniacks, and their petie Captaines mainteined of these Prouinces.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Item, the said marchants doe farther alleage, that the customers of the petie custome, and of the subsidie in the port of London haue appointed among themselues certaine men to seale vp the goods of the saide marchants, so soon as they are arriued at the port of safetie, vntil the said goods be customed.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Sommer progresses, and yerely chiefe pastimes were, the sailing round about this whole Isle of Albion, garded with his grand name of 4000. saile at the least, parted into 4. equall parts of petie
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Whose Sangiacks and petie Captaines be three hundred sixtie eight, euery of which retaining continually in pay from fiue hundreth to two hundreth Souldiers, may be one with another at the least, three hundreth thousand persons.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Which fond substituting of such petie officers to ouersée and ouerrule the people, was to them an occasion of hartgrudge, and to him a meanes of finall mischéefe: both which it is likelie he might haue auoided, had he béene prouident in his
Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (4 of 8) The Fovrth Booke Of The Historie Of England Raphael Holinshed
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Je crois bien qu'on veult accoutumer par les petie ce peuple à l'endurer, afin que quand ivendra à donner les grands coups, il ne les trouve si estrange.
The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) James Anthony Froude 1856
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Item, the said marchants doe farther alleage, that the customers of the petie custome, and of the subsidie in the port of London haue appointed among themselues certaine men to seale vp the goods of the saide marchants, so soon as they are arriued at the port of safetie, vntil the said goods be customed.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 05 Central and Southern Europe Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Tho: Stanton informes me of another cause of warr vpon the Nayantaquits, viz: Wequash* affirm es that one of the petie Sachims of Nayantaquit was aboord Mr. Oldams pinnace, & that some goods & gold are at Nayantaquit.
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Tho: Stanton informes me of another cause of warr vpon the Nayantaquits, viz: Wequash* aflirmes that one of the petie Sachims of Nayantaquit was aboord Mr. Oldams pinnace, & that some goods & gold are at Nayantaquit.
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