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... shillings , or under ; and this corn not only serves England , but also served the English army in the civil wars of Ireland , at which time they also exported great quantity thereof into foreign parts , and by God's mercy England ...
... shillings , or under ; and this corn not only serves England , but also served the English army in the civil wars of Ireland , at which time they also exported great quantity thereof into foreign parts , and by God's mercy England ...
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... shillings , or under ; and this corn not only serves England , but also served the English army in the civil wars of Ireland , at which time they also exported great quantity thereof into foreign parts , and by God's mercy England ...
... shillings , or under ; and this corn not only serves England , but also served the English army in the civil wars of Ireland , at which time they also exported great quantity thereof into foreign parts , and by God's mercy England ...
Page 78
... shillings a man , and one that eats alone in his own chamber with one or two servants attending him , perhaps upon reckoning may spend some five or six shillings for supper and breakfast . But in the northern parts , when I passed ...
... shillings a man , and one that eats alone in his own chamber with one or two servants attending him , perhaps upon reckoning may spend some five or six shillings for supper and breakfast . But in the northern parts , when I passed ...
Page 79
... shillings the day ( or the way being short for some eight shillings , so as the passengers paid for the horses ' meat ) or some fifteen shillings a day for three horses , the coachman paying for his horses ' meat . Sixty or seventy ...
... shillings the day ( or the way being short for some eight shillings , so as the passengers paid for the horses ' meat ) or some fifteen shillings a day for three horses , the coachman paying for his horses ' meat . Sixty or seventy ...
Page 80
... shillings . Lastly , these carriers have long covered waggons , in which they carry passengers from city to city : but this kind of journeying is so tedious , by reason they must take waggon very early , and come very late to their inns ...
... shillings . Lastly , these carriers have long covered waggons , in which they carry passengers from city to city : but this kind of journeying is so tedious , by reason they must take waggon very early , and come very late to their inns ...
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