Amongst other, Hugh bishop of Lincolne returning into England, was compelled to paie a thousand marks to the popes vse for recouerie of his bishoprike, & an hundred marks also to the legat of good and lawfull monie.
The lord Guishard de Engolesme, that had béene his tutor, was created earle of Huntington, to whome he gaue likewise a thousand marks annuitie, till he were prouided of lands of like value.
Thou hast saved me a thousand marks in links and torches, walking with thee in the night betwixt tavern and tavern; but the sack that thou hast drunk me would have bought me lights as good cheap at the dearest chandler's in Europe.
When I desir'd him to come home to dinner, He ask'd me for a thousand marksin gold.
But here's a villain that would face me down He met me on the mart, and that I beat him, And charg'd him with a thousand marks in gold, And that I did deny my wife and house.
Robert, Earl of Leicester, being prisoner in France, proffered for his ransom a thousand marks easterlings, notwithstanding the easterling pence were long before.
I last year gave a harness and a purse of a thousand marks as a prize, which Cecil had nearly won from Surrey.
Now would I give a thousand marks to know who 'twas that set that stone a-rolling.
Go to the keeper of our private purse, who will give a thousand marks to clear your journey of all cost; and God befriend you for the time to come!
They gain'd, I ween, in largess a thousand marks or more, When Kriemhild fair with Etzel the crown imperial wore.
She had yet for pious uses a thousand marks of gold.
It is said that Hubert, his justiciary, sent him over to France, in the space of two years, no less a sum than one million one hundred thousand marks, besides bearing all the charges of the government in England.
England, possessed so many rich territories in France, was only one hundred and fifty thousand marks, and yet was levied with great difficulty.
Thus was Count Ramon Berenguer made prisoner, and my Cid won from him that day the good sword Colada, which was worth more than a thousand marks of silver.
And to the other knights who had not served him so long, to some a thousand marks of silver, to others two, and some there were to whom lie bequeathed three, according who they were.
And King Fariz and the Moors of Techa, and of Ternel, and of Calatayud, were right glad of this, and the covenant was put in writing, and they sent him the three thousand marks.
Had any wished to buy it at its cost, 'twere well worth a thousand marks.
Kriemhild's gold was handed forth, a thousand marks or more.
Of her gold for offerings (7) she had still a thousand marks.
But here’s a villain that would face me down He met me on the mart, and that I beat him, And charged him with a thousand marks in gold, And that I did deny my wife and house.
Several times some of his comrades were on the point of saying, "Stop; save at least a couple of thousand marks.
It had taken a long time to squeeze a thousand marks out of his old father to pay some of his most pressing debts.
And if a man has the misfortune to lose a thousand marks surely he isn't more liable to punishment than if he had only staked twenty?
St. Hugh said he was no judge of such gauds, and therefore sent the king a thousand marks, declaring, if he would devour the revenue devoted to the poor, he must have his wilful way.
Willing to evade the direct charge of selling the see, King Richard intimated that a present of a fur mantle worth a thousand marks might be a composition.
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