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[Sidenote: The earle of Angus Umfreuill cōmonlie called erle of Kime.] hauing with him his nephue yoong Gilbert Umfreuill earle of Angus
Chronicles (3 of 6): Historie of England (1 of 9) Henrie IV Raphael Holinshed
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Launson and his power; and alle oure lordes and capitayns of the same sege disparpled, that is to say the erle of Suffolk and his brother, the lord Talbot, and the lord Scales with many mo, the whiche sone after were taken everych on at myschief.
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M. frankes, a capytayne almayne, "who had a grete company with hym, called the erle Courant, '' wolde haue delyuered pope Vrban into y handes of pope Clement; wher - vpon syr Bernarde de la sale was sent to Auygnyon to pope Clement for y sayd some of money; but the pope nor the Cardynalles there coulde not make the money, for y popes courte was so poore, that they had no money; and so syr Bernarde de la sale retourned euyll content to the syege of Pruce f and so then they dyssymuled the matter, and the Prucyens in lykewy. se, and also this erle Courant;" * and so pope Vrban yssued out of Pruce "" and out of peryll, and wente to Rome and abode there.
Sir John Froissart's chronicles of England, France, Spain, Portugal, Scotland, Brittany, Flanders, and the adjoining countries; Berners, John Bourchier, Lord, 1466 or 7-1533, tr 1812
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To quote from Hall's "Chronicle" -- "King Richard set on so sharply at the first brount that he ouerthrew th'erle's standard and slew Sir William Brandon, his standard-bearer, and matched hand to hand with John Cheynye, a man of great strength, who would have resisted him, and the said John was by him manfully ouerthrowen."
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Salisbury A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the See of Sarum Gleeson White 1874
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Partly it was foisted on us by big erle and detroit, but it was an easy enough job to sell the automobile to a restive, geographically scattered population with the run of the better part of a continent.
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Ireland, which he yet holdeth, from whence within one yere he was sent for, and sent Generall of the English forces which her maiestie then lent to the Low countries, which he held til the erle of Leicesters going ouer.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Onely for your instruction against them who had almost seduced you from the true opinion you hold of such men, you shall vnderstand that Generall Norris from his booke was trained vp in the wars of the Admiral of France, and in very yong yeeres had charge of men vnder the erle of Essex in Ireland: which with what commendations he then discharged, I leaue to the report of them who obserued those seruices.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Whereof when the erle was aduertised, he hasted thither to reuenge the slaughter of his seruant, and slue both that citizen which had killed his man, and eightéene others.
Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (8 of 8) The Eight Booke of the Historie of England Raphael Holinshed
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Finallie vpon remorse of conscience (as hath béene thought) for murthering of his coosine (or as some say his brother) erle Bearne, he went on pilgrimage to Hierusalem, and died by the way of cold which he
Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (8 of 8) The Eight Booke of the Historie of England Raphael Holinshed
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At the same time that the two sonnes of erle Goodwine Harold and
Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (8 of 8) The Eight Booke of the Historie of England Raphael Holinshed
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