As thus a Man has tane to bere in his Armes a low of gules in a champ of siluer, ane othir of that ilke toune has tane the samyn efter that he has it wynteris and [gh]eris.
Seaven Miles to the Southward of Hampton is Meromack River, on the mouth of which on the Northside is seatted a Large Toune called Sallisbury, and 3 miles above it a Village called old Salisbury, where ther is a Saw Mill or two.
Fouer Leagues up this River is Haverell, a pretty Toune & a few miles higher is the Toune of Andouer both these Tounes subsist by Husbandry.
The Commodities this Toune affords are Corne, Cattle, Boards and Piper Staues.
The seyd prisonnere was take awey from hym, and delyvered the toune of Compyne in to the obbeissaunce of our Souvereyn Lord.
Item, there ys owyng to the seyd Fastolf for the saufgarde of the toune of Fount Melank[62.
Dun pays au ville a aultre; 49 Fro one lande or toune to anothir; Et plus aultres raysons And moo othir resons Que seroyent trop longues That shold be over longe De mettre en cest table.
For in the toune nas ther no prentys, 4385 That fairer coude caste a paire of dys Than Perkin coude, and ther-to he was free Of his dispense, in place of privetee.
Had thai fled and thar wayis gane, 'Thar fayis swith the toune had tane.
The mekill folk that wes without Haid enveronyt the toune about, 390 Swa that na part of it wes fre.
Bot for he wyst all utirly That in the toune wes mony men, 155 His battalis he arrayit then, And stude arayit in battale To kep thame, gif thai wald assale.
Syndry scaffaldis thai maid with-all, That war weill hyar than the wall, And ordanit als that by the se The toune suld weill assalyheit be.
Quhen the King had a quhill beyne thar He send for masonis fer and neir, That sleast wes of that misteir, And gert weill ten fute hye the wall About Berwikis toune our all.
All in a frusche thai tuk the flicht, And thai followit full egirly: In-to the toune all comonly Thai enterit bath intermelle.
Men sais that ma schippis than swa 465 Pressit that tyme the toune till ta; Bot for that thar wes brynt bot ane, And the gynour tharin wes tane.
Syne to Cragfergus ar thai gane, And in the toune has innys tane.
As who so filled a toune Of a fressh ryver, And wente forth with that water To woke with Temese; Right so, ye riche, Ye robeth and fedeth Hem that han as ye han, Hem ye make at ese.
So what for love of him, and what for awe, The noble folk wer to thetoune y-drawe.
On Fridaye," wrote the Duke of Norfolk, "beying market daye at Hull, suffered and dothe hange above the highest gate of the toune so trymmed in cheynes that I thinke his boones woll hang there this hundrethe yere.
And outher lat hir out of toune fare, Or hold hir stille, and leve thy nyce fare.
And ther-with-al, his meyne for to blende, A cause he fond intoune for to go, And to Criseydes hous they gonnen wende.
Sidenote: Neither the ditche, wall tillage, nor any kinde of edificacion, ought to be within a mile of a toune of warre.
Simon of Athens set fire in a night on a Temple, whiche was out of the toune, wherefore, the tounes menne goyng to succour it, lefte the toune in praie to the enemie.
The first nycht he lay within the toune with David Forress, now called the Generall,[363] ane man that long hes professed the trueth, and upoun whom many in that tyme depended.
In this meantyme, had the tratour provided thre score men, with jackis and spearis, to lye in wate within a myll and a half of the toune of Montrose, for his dispatche.
But from the tyme that the Frenche men had gottin the bone for the which the dog barked, the persuyt of the toune was slow.
Butt for no requeast wold he eyther tary in the touneor on that syd of Tay any longar.
AFTER this our dolorous departing from Edinburgh,[1] the furye and the raige of the Frenche increassed; for then durst neither man nor woman that professed Christ Jesus within that toune be seyn.
The sclander was universall in that toune and countrey.
Within the toune thei stood in great fear; and thairfoir it was concluded that thei wold assaile the uttermost upoun the feildis.
The fray was so great that the Touneof Edinburgh wes called to watch.
His place as agent for the Colledge and toune of Edinburgh was by Act of the Toune Counsell conferred upon Mr. Robert Lauder, portioner of Belhaven, some few days after.
On a afternoon I was their I made a tour doune throu the suburbs of the toune to the Convent of Nostre Dame des Ardilliers.
Heard him speak of that Bond of Assurance betuixt the toune of Edenburgh and the Laird of Halton, the like wheirof few in Scotland hes of the toune of Edenburgh.
It is they take a peice wood thats brunt only at one end, and goes thorow the toune waging[323] it from one syde to the other, it casting a litle light before him.
Inchekeith might weill now be called Inche Scott, since Scottistarvet bought it, who had great designes to have made a good fischer toune theirupon.
Came at night to Stamford 5 miles furder; within a mile of the toune we saw on each hand a brave stately house belonging to my Lord of Exeter, in one of them lived the Duc of Buckinghame.
Saw thetoune of Hutton belonging to sundry portioners.
Now my Lord Cochrane hath it, who sold to the toune for 4000 merks the right he had of the election of their Magistrates, which he sore repents now, for since the toune cares not for him.
The toune standeth on a main rokki hill, rising from est to west.
Within the precincts of the toune is but one paroche chirche, dedicated to St. Mary, standing in the middle of the toune, faire and large.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "toune" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
