acquittance

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About eleven years afterwards, the same merchant gave an acquittance to Henry VIII. of England, for the sum of 152,180 l.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson by Stevenson, William

He sent a sigh and a love-token, commending himself to her best thoughts, until he should gain his acquittance so far as to visit Lathom.

From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by Roby, John

Consequently, whatever is received from that trade must be placed to the credit and acquittance of the Philipinas, against the amount charged to them.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 30 of 55 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XXX, 1640 by Abreu, Antonio Alvarez de

From the three debts384 acquittance earn, And with thy wrath the wicked burn, O'er all of us thy rule extend, And cheer with boons each faithful friend.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)

"Now must your conscience my acquittance seal."—Act iv.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 by Various