jacobuses

Captain Bowden, who was an illiterate privateer, probably fighting as much for his own personal ends as for love of the cause, wanted to carry his prisoners to Dartmouth, they having promised him fifty jacobuses if he would do so.

Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54) 1888

Lucrèce; but if your milliner or your shoemaker is pressing, there are a few jacobuses in the right-hand drawer of yonder escritoire, and you may as well take them as leave them for my valet to steal.

London Pride Or When the World Was Younger 1875

Fareham had been losing steadily from the moment he took up Lady Lucretia's cards; and his pile of jacobuses had been gradually passed over to De

London Pride Or When the World Was Younger 1875

She dressed in male attire, was an adroit fencer, a bold rider, and a staunch royalist; she once took two hundred gold jacobuses from the Parliamentary General Fairfax on Hounslow

Complete Essays Charles Dudley Warner 1864

She dressed in male attire, was an adroit fencer, a bold rider, and a staunch royalist; she once took two hundred gold jacobuses from the Parliamentary General Fairfax on Hounslow

For Whom Shakespeare Wrote Charles Dudley Warner 1864

She dressed in male attire, was an adroit fencer, a bold rider, and a staunch royalist; she once took two hundred gold jacobuses from the Parliamentary General Fairfax on Hounslow

The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864

Filing and clipping he employed in reducing all kinds of coin, whether gold or silver; but aquafortis he used merely in reducing gold coin, whether guineas, jacobuses, or

The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro' George Henry Borrow 1842

Filing and clipping he employed in reducing all sorts of coin, whether gold or silver; but aquafortis he used merely in reducing gold coin, whether guineas, jacobuses, or

The Romany Rye George Henry Borrow 1842

Filing and clipping he employed in reducing all kinds of coin, whether gold or silver; but aquafortis he used merely in reducing gold coin, whether guineas, jacobuses, or

The Romany Rye a sequel to "Lavengro" George Henry Borrow 1842

But, on the contrary, she went to the buffet and brought out the bag of gold jacobuses, which she laid on the table.

The Privateer's-Man One hundred Years Ago Frederick Marryat 1820