Lexicographical Neighbors of Brokes
Literary usage of Brokes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Remains of Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury by Thomas Cranmer, Henry Jenkyns (1833)
"1555, fell on a Thursday, and was the day on which Cranmer, as he says just below,
was brought before brokes at St. Mary's ..."
2. The Acts and Ordinances of the Eastland Company: Edited for the Royal by Eastland Company, Maud Sellers (1906)
"426. paye to the Companye all such brokes as shalbe Due to them for the saide
offence by vertue of theire orders, But if the factors soe ..."
3. A Calendar of the Court Minutes, Etc. of the East India Company, 1635-1639 by East India Company, Ethel Bruce Sainsbury, William Foster (1907)
"The Court replies that the brokes were imposed by the General Court, ...
His Lordship's brokes cannot be taken off, but he being both a receiver and payer, ..."
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