| Charles baron Whitworth - 1758 - 82 pages
...of the Garter. The DUORNINS are Country Gentlemen, moft whereof hold their Lands by Knights Service, to appear in War on Horfe-back ; formerly it was fufficient to fend a Man well armed and mounted, but the prefent Czar makes them or their Sons ferve in Perfon, if they cannot buy Intereft enough with... | |
| Robert Dodsley - English essays - 1761 - 378 pages
...'••:,'." The The DUORNINS are Country Gentlemen, moft whereof hold their Lands by Knights Service, to appear in War on Horfe-back ; formerly it was fufficient to fend a Man well armed and mounted, but the prefent Czar makes them or their Sons ferve in Perfon, if they cannot buy Intereft enough with... | |
| Robert Dodsley - 1761 - 380 pages
...Gentlemen, moft whereof hold their Lands by Knights Ser- . •JTT TT r i. i Gentry. vice, to appear m War on Horfe-back ; formerly it was fufficient to fend a Man well armed and mounted, but the prefent Czar makes them or their Sons ferve in Perfon, if they cannot buy Intereft enough with... | |
| English literature - 1765 - 374 pages
...the Garter. The The DUORNINS are Country Gentlemen, mod whereof hold their Lands by Knights Service, to appear in War on Horfe-back ; formerly it was fufficient to fend a Man well armed and mounted, but the prefent Czar makes them or their Sons ferve in Perfon, if they cannot buy Intereft enough with... | |
| Robert Dodsley - English essays - 1771 - 386 pages
...Gentlemen, moft whereof hold their Lands by Knights Service, to appear in War on Horfe-back; Gmtr3. formerly it was fufficient to fend a Man well armed and mounted, but the prefent Czar makes them or fheir Sons ferve.in Perfon, if they cannot buy Iniereft enough with... | |
| Robert Dodsley - 1771 - 390 pages
...Gentlemen, moft ^hereof hold their Lands by Knights Service, to appear in War on Horfe-backj -Ga"yformerly it was fufficient to fend a Man well armed and mounted, but the prefeiit Czar makes them or their Sons ferve in Perfon, if -they cannot buy Intereft enough with... | |
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