insults
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Even enclosure was not always a protection against visitors; for the Popes constantly granted indults to great persons, allowing them to enter, with a retinue, the houses of monks and nuns belonging to enclosed orders.
From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Power, Eileen
Foreign merchants were bound to have a hand in this traffic, and the Spanish government tried to recompense itself by imposing on the out-going cargoes tyrannical exactions called "indults."
From The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century by Haring, Clarence Henry
