For this onely péece the Merchantes of Geneua did offer fourtie thousand Ducates, for to sel the same again to the great Turke.
The Lorde of that towne presented to Cortes fourtie women slaues, and .
Fourtie hatchets of gold mixed with copper, valued in two thousand fiue hundred Duckets.
Mannians: whereupon a certaine versifier writeth to this effect: Fiue hundreth fourtie men are slaine: against ill haps, Yee Mannians arme your selues, for feare of afterclaps.
Olauus sonne of Godredus Crouan beganne his reigne and reigned fourtie yeeres.
Then look what force the heate of the Sunne hath vnder the Equinoctiall, the same force and greater it hath in all that Parallel, where the Pole is eleuated betweene fourtie and seuen, and fourtie and eight degrees.
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.
Moreouer of these creatures there are sometimes found some of an incredible bignesse, that is to say, of fourtie foot about.
To fourtie Phisitions vnder him, to ech fourtie aspers, is three thousand, eight hundred, three score and sixe pounds, sixteene shillings.
The very same Idol deliuers oracles vnto them, and sometimes requireth the blood of fourtie virgins for his hire.
Distant from Brulles fiue and thirtie miles there is anothet castle like vnto the abouesayd kept by an Aga with fourtie men or thereabout.
Of the Seigniory there be about three hundreth, and about fourtie of the priuie Counsell of Venice, who vsually are arayed in gownes of crimsen Satten, or crimsen Damaske, when they sit in Counsell.
Wee perceiue you haue bought and haue in a readinesse one hundred and fourtie tunnes of oyles, and that if neede bee you may haue more store.
And are bound to fastfourtie daies: to dispossesse them selues of all that euer thei haue, and to make free their bonde men.
Lucas de Barameda in Spaine) they will be there in thirtie or fourtie daies, & home againe in Cornewall in other eight weekes, which is a goodlie matter, beside the safetie and quietnesse in the passage.
Tumuli regum Scotiae, The burials of the kings of Scotland: for (as they saie) fourtie eight of them were there interred.
Embesilling of goods committed by the master to the seruant, aboue the value of fourtie shillings An.
There are likewise fourtie and six citizens, 289 burgesses, and foureteene barons, so that the whole assemblie of the laitie of the lower house, consisteth of foure hundred thirtie and nine persons, if the iust number be supplied.
There is a veine of earth along the sea coast for the space of fourtie or fiftie miles, whereof by the iudgement of some that have made triall heere in England, is made good Allum, of that kinde which is called Roche Allum.
The saide gulfe in latitude is fourtie eight degrees and an halfe, and in longitude ——.
M64) Wee continued our course so farre to the Southwest, that wee brought ourselues into the latitude of fourtie foure degrees and an half, hauing sayled fiftie or sixtie leagues to the Southwest of Cape Briton.
For example, the Israelitis, feghting against the tribe of Benjamin, wer twise discomfeitted, with the loss of fourtie thowsand men.
These ware judgeid men ynew to hasard battell, albeit the other war esteamed fourtie thousand.
Fourtie dayes they layed siege to this castle; hauing no hope to carrie it, but by the last necessity, which is hunger.
Hee reigned in great varietie of opinion with his Subiects (some applauding his vertues, others aggrauating his vices) twelue yeeres, eleuen moneths wanting eight dayes: and was at his death fourtie and three yeeres old.
Earl of Corke bought of captaine Horsey fourtie ploughlands in Ireland for fourtie pounds.
Yheit Wallas lost fyfteyn in to that steid; And fourtie men of Sothroun part war dede.
Fourtie thar past agayne to Sanct Jhonstoun, With this dede corss, to berysing maid it boune.
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