The earle of Suffolke thirtie lances, andfourescore and ten archers.
First an hundred Englishmen at Kilbeuf tooke three great lords of the Frenchmen, besides fourescoreother persons, and put three hundred to flight.
And in euery fourescore dayes came the Iudges of euery prouince within the Mexican Empire, to consult with the Iudges of Mexico, but all doubtfull causes were reserued to the King, onely to passe by his order and determination.
They were very perfite with theyr bowes, and good markemë, for he that missed his marke at fourescore pases distant was punished.
The Painters serued for notaries, to paint al the cases which were to be resolued, but no sute passed aboue fourescore dayes without finall ende and determination.
Seuen Spaniards were slaine in this conflict, and fourescore were wounded, and many horses: whereby a man may see of what force resolution is in necessitie.
Of the Indians of Nilco were taken prisoners, fourescore women and children, and much spoile.
Thou stick'st a dagger in me, I shall neuer see my gold againe, fourescore ducats at a sitting, fourescore ducats Tub.
Your daughter spent in Genowa, as I heard, one night fourescore ducats Shy.
Walnut trees, as I haue said before very many, some haue bene seene excellent timber of foure and fiue fadome, and aboue fourescore foote streight without bough.
Iago hath fourescore houses which are great and well contriued.
The vttermost place to the Southward of any discouery was Secotan, being by estimation fourescore miles distant from Roanoak.
From Cape de las Palmas to the said castle is fourescore and fifteene leagues.
Some of them were as bigge as a mans thigh aboue the knee, and weyed about fourescore and ten pound weight a peece.
Euen he whose name is Bartholomew Colon de Terra Rubra, The yeere of Grace a thousand and foure hundred and fourescore And eight, and on the thirteenth day of February more, In London published this worke.
Sidenote: Barley] Of barley, twentie nine millions, three hundred foure score and eleuen thousand, nine hundred fourescore and two hanegges.
The prouince of Tolanchia, there where as the king is resident, and is the biggest of them al, sixe millions fourescore and ten thousand.
Now when it was almost night, neere to the gates of saint Omers, he finallie ouercame them, where were slaine of the French part fifteene barons and fourescore knights, beside a great number of other people.
There were taken fourescore ships, with diuerse capteins and men of armes, namelie their chiefe admerall, named Iohn Buicke, a perfect good seaman, and one that had aforetime doone much hurt to the English nation.
Hee is verie often like a Knight; and generally, in all shapes that man goes vp and downe in, from fourescore to thirteen, this spirit walkes in Var.
O my good Lord, I haue bene your Tenant, And your Fathers Tenant, these fourescore yeares Glou.
The king of Bezeneger was a Gentile, and had, amongst all other of his captaines, two which were notable, and they were Moores: and these two captaines had either of them in charge threescore and ten or fourescore thousand men.
The fiue and fourtie thousand Ianizaries dispersed in sundry places of his dominions, at sixe aspers the day, amounteth by the yeere to fiue hundreth, fourescore and eleuen thousand, and three hundreth pounds.
The Oda Bassi, Pursers, three hundred, at fiue aspers, maketh three thousand two hundred, and fourescore pounds.
There I shipped my selfe to goe for Goa, a city in the Indies, in a shippe that hadfourescore horses in her.
Aspers the piece, amounteth to three thousand fourescoreand foure pound, foure shillings.
This letter is giuen in our princely palace within the citie of Mosco, in the yeere from the foundation of the world, seuen thousand fourescore and fifteene in the moneth of February.
And being vpon our way, at a certaine towne called Ardouil, we chanced to barter nine pieces of karsies with those merchants for fourescore and foure batemans of cynamom, selling the karsies at one hundred and fiftie shawghs the piece.
The first sort of them is called Dworaney Bulshey, or the company of head Pensioners, that haue some an hundred, some fourescore rubbles a yeare, and none vnder 70.
The king hath one wife and aboue three hundred concubines, by which they say he hath fourescoreorfourescore and ten children.
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