acquittance
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Consequently, whatever is received from that trade must be placed to the credit and acquittance of the Philipinas, against the amount charged to them.
And here--for I cannot transact business with thee without a receipt--on this wax tablet I have written the acquittance.
From Felicitas A Tale of the German Migrations: A.D. 476 by Dahn, Felix
"Now must your conscience my acquittance seal."—Act iv.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 by Various
The conversation soon turned on a topic, on which the emigrants every where were peculiarly anxious to be set right with English feeling, namely, their acquittance from the charge of having fled unnecessarily.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 by Various
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