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You go ahead and do your resolootion, you little traytor!
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The Executioner strikes off their heads with an ax or sword made on purpose and if it be for treason take the head and hold it up saying this is the head of a traytor; and such Great persons, Especially those that Can pay well for it, have their heads sewed on againe and so buried.
Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary 1888
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That town which thousands of enemys without hath not been able to take, hath been delivered up by one traytor within; and that man, which all the temptations of Sathan without could not hurt, hath been foild by one lust within.
Anne Bradstreet and Her Time Campbell, Helen, 1839-1918 1890
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They take out their heart and say this is the heart of a traytor, and so his body is Cutt in quarters. and hung up on the top of the Great gates of the Citty which are the places of their prison, some gate houses for debters, others for fellons and traytors.
Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary 1888
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In Case its a woman which is a traytor then she is Condemned to be burnt.
Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary 1888
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That town which thousands of enemys without hath not been able to take, hath been delivered up by one traytor within; and that man, which all the temptations of Sathan without could not hurt, hath been foild by one lust within.
Anne Bradstreet and Her Time Helen Campbell 1878
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John Lambert, commonly called Collonell Lambert, and keepe him close prisoner, as a condemned traytor, untill further order from us, for which this shall be your warrant.
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Moore, a relapsed recusant, a fugitive and a practising traytor; and showed better matter for the Queen against the discharge by plea, which is ever with a _salvo jure_.
Bacon John Morley 1852
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-- "Ifags! the gentleman has caught a traytor," says Mrs Tow-wouse; at which they all fell a laughing.
Joseph Andrews Vol 1 Henry Fielding 1730
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Not the king of England's; for he must have leave to be admitted to the privileges of it: nor the king of France's; for how then has his father a liberty to bring him away, and breed him as he pleases? and who ever was judged as a traytor or deserter, if he left, or warred against a country, for being barely born in it of parents that were aliens there?
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