Lexicographical Neighbors of Spulzies
Literary usage of Spulzies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lives of the Queens of Scotland and English Princesses Connected with the by Agnes Strickland, Elisabeth Strickland (1851)
"... burnings, and spulzies," made by his authorities on the Scottish borders since
the ratification of the late treaty. Sadler 1 Sadler's State Papers, ..."
2. An Historical Account of the Plantation in Ulster at the Commencement of the by George Hill (1877)
"The chiefs of the family, in their generations, figured prominently in the raids,
spulzies, abductions, &c., of the district in which they lived ; but at ..."
3. The Records of the Proceedings of the Justiciary Court, Edinburgh, 1661-1678 by Edinburgh (Scotland). Justiciary Court, William George Scott-Moncrieff, John W. Weston (1905)
"the Justices were Judges competent to all ejections, spulzies, perambulations, etc.
as they were by the laws of the Majesty and much later even till the ..."
4. Cases Decided in the Court of Session by Scotland Court of Session, Patrick Shaw, Scotland, Court of Session (1835)
"... the triennial prescription of spulzies does not touch it, because it is a
fixed point that that prescription does not affect a simple action for ..."
5. Memorials and Letters Illustrative of the Life and Times of John Graham of by Mark Napier (1862)
"agitators, who were the cause of all these " dreadful ravages and spulzies," came
by their cavalry. What says the Kirk's contemporary chronicler, ..."
6. The Celtic Magazine by Alexander Mackenzie, Alexander Macgregor, Alexander Macbain (1886)
"... spulzies of goods, and raising of fire committed by either of them against
the other, their friends, servants, tenants, and dependants, ..."
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