sowles

He stands at the water's edge fishing for "sowles".

The Medieval Imagination: Illuminated Manuscripts From Cambridge, Australia and New Zealand 2008

I sawe (saithe he) the sowles of them which wer filled for the name of Iesu and the word of God.

A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful by Peter Martyr; Wherunto is Added A Sermon made of the Confessing of Christ and His Gospel and of the Denying of the same, by Henry Bullinger Peter Martyr

& revyue _th_e lawde of the_m_ th_a_t were famovs i_n_ [1] owr_e_ langage, these faders dere, whos sowles i_n_ blis, god et_er_nall avaunce,

Caxton's Book of Curtesye Frederick James Furnivall 1867

& revyue _th_e lawde of the_m_ _tha_t were famovs i_n_ owr_e_ langage, thise faders dere 432 who_s_ [1] sowles i_n_ blis, god et_er_nall [e] avaunce,

Caxton's Book of Curtesye Frederick James Furnivall 1867

Now, good god, graunt vs grace/our {e} sowles neu {er} to Infecte! þañ may we regne in þi regiou {n}/et {er} nally w {i} t {h} thyne electe.

Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

Now, good god, graunt vs grace/our {e} sowles neu {er} to Infecte! þañ may we regne in þi regiou {n}/et {er} nally w {i} t {h} thyne electe.

Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

By which device thay have not only made this faste distaste - full to all* sortes of men in infected places, who have little haite vnto it, robbed the poore of raooche charitable releefe, & depryved the people of the epirituall foode & phisicke of there sowles, when thay neede & desyre it moste, to there intoUerable griefe & discontente, but quite suppressed all setled weddensday lectures in London & other infected townes, as longe as the infection shall con - tinewe in any one parisbe, thowghe it shoolde laste these

Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society 1792

[Vsm. on there doores; the people crye for the breade of there sowles, & there mynisters are prohibited to geve it them: this not only wowndes but breakes there hartes, & makea them quite amazed.

Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society 1792