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Bot I say if any sych armys be borne ... thoos armys be of no more auctorite then thoos armys the wich be taken by a mannys awne auctorite.”

From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Lower, Mark Antony

No, I doo not beleue it if that you dyd vowe it in youre awne name.

From The Pilgrimage of Pure Devotion by Erasmus, Desiderius

This consonant, evin quher in the original it hes the awne sound, we turn into the chirt we spak of, cap.

From Of the Orthographie and Congruitie of the Britan Tongue A Treates, noe shorter than necessarie, for the Schooles by Wheatley, Henry Benjamin

For as ferre as we be blynd in Adam / we can not but seke & will oure awne profitt / pleasure & glorie.

From The prophete Ionas with an introduccion before teachinge to vnderstonde him and the right vse also of all the scripture/ and why it was written/ and what is therin to be sought/ and shewenge wherewith the scripture is locked vpp that he which readeth it/ can not vnderstonde it/ though he studie therin neuer so moch: and agayne with what keyes it is so opened/ that the reader can be stopped out with no sotilte or false doctrine of man/ from the true sense and vnderstondynge therof. by Tyndale, William

First, he erected one house or church in London to be a house of prayer, and he named the same after his awne name Whittyngtons College, and so it remayneth to this day.

From The History of Sir Richard Whittington by Wheatley, Henry Benjamin