There is also a new Church of the Greekes called Santa Maria di Cassopo, and the townes name is called Cassopo.
This Emperour Prestre John holt fulle gret lond, and hathe many fulle noble cytees and gode townes in his royalme, and many grete dyvene yles ond large.
Vpon the waters side stand by the way diuer townes resembling much the names of the olde prophets: the first towne they call Ozeah, and another Zecchiah.
We found mariages great store both in townes and villages in many places where wee passed, of boyes of eight or ten yeeres, and girles of fiue or six yeeres old.
One of the first townes which we came vnto, is called Bellergan, where there is a great market kept of Diamants, Rubies, Saphires, and many other soft stones.
I, hee was porne at Monmouth Captaine Gower: What call you the Townes name where Alexander the pig was borne?
There are three great townes betweene the Mosco and Vologhda, that is to say, Yeraslaue, Rostaue, and Pereslaue.
But so soone as the Russians had felled the woods and had built townes and villages in their place, the saide pension ceased together with the trees which were cut downe.
Sidenote: An attempt to hinder our trade to Mosvouia by the Hans townesand Easterlings.
The 12 day therefore we set sayle and went further along the coast, and descried moretownes wherein were greater houses then in the other townes, and the people came out of the townes to looke vpon vs, but we could see no boates.
I required the Master to goe vnto one of the townes, and to take two of our marchants with him, and I my selfe went to the other, and tooke one with me, because these two townes stand three miles asunder.
Sidenote: The description of theirtownes and houses.
Thus attyred they range abroade in all Iapan, to set out themselues and their cunning to sale, each one beating his bason which he carieth alwayes about with him, to giue notice of their comming in al townes where they passe.
In it are fifteene other very great Cities: of other townes therein, and boroughes well walled and trenched about, I will say nothing.
In great townesmost men and women can write and reade.
This kingdome is so large, that vnder fiue moneths you are not able to trauaile from the Townes by the Sea side to the Court, and backe againe, no not vnder three moneths in poste at your vrgent businesse.
Howbeit these multitudes are not pel-mel and confusiuely dispersed ouer the land, but most conueniently and orderly distributed in their townes and famous cities: of which assemblies there are diuers kindes among the Chinians.
Al the foresayd prouinces therefore haue their greater cities named Fu, and their lesser cities called Cheu, vnto both of which the other townes may be added.
And be the cytees and be the townes ben amyralles, that han the governance of the peple.
And fro that cytee, men passen be many townes and castelles, in goynge toward Ynde, unto the cytee of Sadonye, that is a 10 journeyes fro Thauriso; and it is a fulle noble cytee and a gret.
In every ile, is gret plentee of cytees and of townes and of folk, with outen nombre.
It nedethe not to telle zou the names of the cytees, ne of the townes that ben in that Weye: for the weye is comoun, and it is knowen of many naciouns.
Fro thens go men be many townes and many cytees, thorghe the contree, unto a cytee, that men clepen Lanteryne: and it is an 8 iourneyes from the cytee aboveseyd.
And zee schulle undrestonde, that it is on of the oldest townes of the world: for it was founded, before Noes flode.
And all her woolle was draped for to sell In the Townes of Poperinge and of Bell: Which my Lord of Glocester with ire For her falshed set vpon a fire.
They liue there for the most part vpon fishes, because of their great want of corne, which is brought in from the port townes of other countreys: who cary home fishes from thence with great gaine.
And that in Cities, Boroughs, and market townes of the sayd kingdome and dominion they may traffique onely by the great [Footnote: Wholesale.
And if peraduenture any strife arise about the same bargaine, the triall and inquirie thereof shall be made according to the vses and customes of the fayres and townes where it chanced that the said bargaine was made and contracted.
The Townes go downe, the land decayes; Of cornefeldes playne layes, Gret men makithe now a dayes A shepecote in the Church.
For the chief destruccion of Townes and decaye of houses was before the begynnynge of the reign of King Henry the Seventh" (The defence of John Hales, quoted p.
Townes there commonly very great consisting of such like people and other artificers with many poor, and none of them all ordinarilye having any corn but from the market.
England townes and villages to the number of fifty thousand and upward, and for every town and village .
That is why Moore's numerous critics could repudiate his aspersions with some acrimony, and nevertheless admit that "when townes are in the hands of one or few men .
These are all the townes of account situate neere this riuer.
They say that the witchcraft of the Indians is such, that when they come by these townes they cast a mist vpon them, so that they cannot see them.
The towneswhich in Naguatex they had burned (whereof it repented them) were repaired againe, and the houses full of Maiz.
A dayes iourney from thence they met with another nation called Tobosos, who so soone as they beheld the countenance of our people fledde vnto the mountaines, leauing their townes and houses desolate.
From the head of the riuer of Plate, and from their chiefe townes there, they do trade and trafique by land into Peru by waggons, and horses or mules.
Their submission being once knowne, caused all those other townes which had not yeelded, to deliuer vp their keies vnto the Frenchmen, as Arques, Vernueill, and others.
For the space of fifteene daies this rumour incessantlie ran through both the realmes of England and France, and there was ringing for him through townes and villages, as it had beene for his funerals.
After this, king Philip tooke diuerse other townes and castels in that countrie, of the which some he raced, and some he fortified and stored with garisons of his souldiers.
Paule in garrison at Lisle and Doway, and for great sums of monie, which by agreement he receiued of the townes of Gaunt, Bruges, and Ypres, he restored vnto them their pledges.
They constreined the townes of Yermouth, Dunwich & Gipswich, to pay to them great summes of monie by waie of ransoming.
The inhabitants in euerie place submitted themselues, as those of Baieulx, Constances, Liseux, and other townes thereabouts.
Beyond this towne they say there are other small townes which are neere to a riuer which I haue seene and haue had report of by the relation of the Indians.
Are not the Hanse townes ashamed to maintaine and pretend a priuiledge, that is to say, a priuate lawe against a publike and soueraigne lawe?
That the Haunse Townes were not ignorant of this inhibition, appeareth by the letters of the Cities of Lubecke, and Hamborough, written afterwarde to the Queenes Maiestie, the 26.
Hanse Townes pretend that they knewe not the Queene of Englands pleasure?
What ho man abide, what already in Fraunce, Lo, a fayre iourney and shortly ended to, With all these townes what thing haue we to do?
By Gad man knowe thou that I haue had to do In all these townes and yet in many mo, To see the worlde in youth me thought was best, And after in age to geue my selfe to rest.
The Mexicans hearing what these townes men pretended, with greate yre made a foule correction among them, as dyd appeare by many of them, which came vnto Cortes with broken heads, desiring reuengement.
He burnt certaine townes where the Mexicans were wonte to succour themselues.
And after this doctrine their league of friendship was effectually established, and with other townes adioyning against Mutezuma.
The thyrde daye they came vnto Tlacopan, whyche was also as all the Townes of the lake, wythout people, there they were lodged in the Lordes house of the Towne.
The townesmen of that towne caried the Spanyardes on their shoulders, on suche beares as we carry dead men to Churche.
And I should feel quite comfortable if Townes was taking on the work, for he knows how things ought to be done.
As I'm here to see, amongst other things, that Townes doesn't swindle the governor, I had to make some sort of an arrangement with him.
Had to complain to Townes to-day about his half starving himself.
About half-past eight to-night Townescame round to the cottage to see me, and pulled out a rabbit from under his coat.
Townes has got a grin on him that would reach from here to London, and would keep on thanking me all day if I didn't tell him to shut his head and get on with his work.
Strictly speaking, I ought to make it pretty stiff, for Townes isn't Consols by a long way.
One of those Townes children walked back with me as I came from my work to-day.
That'd save a lot of money, and I know you'd find Townes satisfactory.
She's a pretty enough child, but nothing like what Townes thinks.
If I might suggest, I think you might do a lot worse than to let me go and make Townes the head man here, with, say, a small rise.
Had to give that fool Townes a bit of the rough side of my tongue.
Of course Townes is about half off his head, and that's a bad thing, for he never had too much sense at any time.
He likewise built or new repared the townes of Tocetor and Wigmore, with diuerse other, as one at Glademuth, about the last yéere of his reigne.
But now of Roister Doister somewhat to expresse, That ye may esteeme him after hys worthinesse, In these twentie townes and seke them throughout, Is not the like stocke, whereon to graffe a loute.
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