• haunted some houses, by appearing in diuers and horrible formes, and making greate dinne: they were called Lemures or Spectra. If they appeared in likenesse...
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    apology to Burghley: Right honorable and my verie good Lorde, being to my greate griffe [grief] certified, how your Honor by misinformacon shoulde be incensed...
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    (1566). The Golden Booke of Marcus Aurelius Emperour, Etc. B.L. Jhon Awdeley. Guevara, Antonio de (1586). The Golden Booke of Marcus Aurelius Emperour, etc...
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    and thirty years later the Star Chamber was chartered to curtail the "greate enormities and abuses" of "dyvers contentyous and disorderlye persons professinge...
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    to the Earl of Leicester: She had on her backe the greate murning gowne of blacke, with the greate wyde murning hood, not unlyke unto that whiche she...
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    accounte of belongyng to an inferior Companie and not one of the twelve greate Companies." He therefore petitioned to be admitted to the Worshipful Company...
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    McGranell of the Parrish of Drumreleigh & County of Leitrim aforesaid and a greate number of other wicked & Rebellious persons whose names shee knoweth not...
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    Republic in the Seventeenth Century: The Golden Age by Maarten Prak, Pub 2005 "Greate Pier fan Wûnseradiel" (in Western Frisian). Gemeente Wûnseradiel. Archived...
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    the Norman families who have gone Gaelic: ... Also, ther is more than 30 greate captaines of thEnglyshe [Anglo-Norman] noble folke, that folowyth the same...
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    floor plans and street and courtyard elevations but the "Patterne of the greate gate" in Foster Lane and patterns for the ceiling, wainscoting and the screen...
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  • McGranell of the Parrish of Drumreleigh & County of Leitrim aforesaid and a greate number of other wicked & Rebellious persons whose names shee knoweth not...
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