tractation

Hitherto of the diet of my countrymen, and somewhat more at large peradventure than many men will like of, wherefore I think good now to finish this tractation, and so will I when I have added a few other things incident unto that which goeth before, whereby the whole process of the same shall fully be delivered, and my promise to my friend [5] in this behalf performed.

Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart

Hitherto of the diet of my countrymen, and somewhat more at large peradventure than many men will like of, wherefore I think good now to finish this tractation, and so will I when I have added a few other things incident unto that which goeth before, whereby the whole process of the same shall fully be delivered, and my promise to my friend5 in this behalf performed.

Of the Food and Diet of the English. Chapter VI. [1577, Book III., Chapter 1; 1587, Book II., Chapter 6 1909

Whereupon his said re - tractation (which he had lately delivered to the Governor, to be presented to the Court) was read, wherein he pro - fesseth how that the Lord had brought him to see his sin in condemning the Court, and passing the bounds of modesty and submission, which is required in private persons, &c., and in what trouble of spirit he had been in for it, &c.

Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society 1792

The fatisfadion, which it gave me to find my - Part I. felt tlius confuted, was ftill increafed, by the re - tractation of this confutation in my adverfary's ap - pendix, No. III.

Tracts in controversy with Dr. Priestley upon the historical question of the belief of the first ages in Our Lord's divinity : originally published in the years, 1783, 1784, and 1786 .. 1789