acquittance

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And, therefore, after this general acquittance of all believers, ver.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh

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

I owe my life to you, and you refuse The acquittance of the interest of the debt, To heap more obligations on me, till I bow beneath them.

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley

We had a right to set the slaves free; but the payment of the indemnity was no full acquittance of our obligations for the condition of a society which we had ourselves created.

From The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses by Froude, James Anthony

The enemy, recovering from their confusion, seized him in default of his master, and without further ado bore him away as a visible acquittance of themselves to the abbot.

From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by Roby, John