bills

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This Aluaro Flores had alone for his owne part aboue 50000 Duckats in pearles which he shewed vnto vs, and sought to sell them or barter them with vs for spices or bils of exchange.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 07 England's Naval Exploits Against Spain by Hakluyt, Richard

How ever, your bils shall be satisfied to ye parties good contente; but I would not have thought they would have left either you or me at this time, &c.

From Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation' From the Original Manuscript. With a Report of the Proceedings Incident to the Return of the Manuscript to Massachusetts by Bradford, William

Iohnson left with me, had neither the parties name nor summe of money in two of them, and in other bils but his owne name.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03 by Hakluyt, Richard

Alas! alas! mistris, cried the maid, heer is my maister, and 100 men with him, with bils and staves.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 12 [Supplement] by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

They sawe also certaine great white foules with red bils and red legs, some what bigger then Herons, which they supposed to be Storkes.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. by Hakluyt, Richard