incumbrance

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But you'll say, this must be a very great Incumbrance, and take up a deal of Equipage.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume I Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von

"Or what Incumbrance on her Commerce laid, "But for th' Increase of our Revenues made?

From Are these Things So? (1740) The Great Man's Answer to Are These things So: (1740) by Anonymous