Lexicographical Neighbors of Thraves
Literary usage of Thraves
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memorials of Beverley Minster: The Chapter Act Book of the Collegiate Church by Arthur Francis Leach (1898)
"CUI thraves are due from every plough actually ploughing. What the Rectors get
is no business of the Canons. (4) Where one tenant works land in two parishes ..."
2. A Collection of Fragments Illustrative of the History and Antiquities of Derby by Robert Simpson (1826)
"... default of such direction limitation or appointment should be made To the use
of the said John thraves and his assigns for his life without impeachment ..."
3. The Statutes at Large from the Magna Charta, to the End of the Eleventh by Great Britain (1762)
"... deux les ditz thraves ovec lour damages enz cell partie. ... all them and
every of them that detain »-he fame thraves fo of right due to the faid ..."
4. Analecta Eboracensia: Some Remaynes of the Ancient City of York by Thomas Widdrington, Caesar Caine (1897)
"And notwithstanding, the King had the thraves aforesaid to him and his successors
by the consent of the inhabitants of the Bishopric of York, on condition ..."
5. Willis and Inventories Illustrative of the History, Manners, Language by James Raine, William Greenwell, John Crawford Hogdson, Herbert Maxwell Wood (1835)
"... whete xiiij thraves xx1 —vj pair of coope wayne solles xv*—ix bordes of oke
ixs—ij ... thre score thraves v1—one stack pt otes ..."
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