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   • 1596 November 21, Bridget Coke, This Weeke begineth the xxj of November, beinge Sonday, 1596; republished as Sir Frederic Morton Eden; [2nd] Bar[one]t, “Extracts from Sir Edward Coke’s Houshold Accounts, in 1596”, in The State of the Poor: or, An History of the Labouring Classes in England, from the Conquest to the Present Period; , volume III, London: J. Davis, , 1797, page cxxxi:

     THE Bill of Mris. James, brewer, at Puddle-wharfe, of ſuche Beere as hath bene delyv’ed to th’uſe of the Right Worr^ll Edward Coke, Eſquyer, Attorney-gen’all unto the Queenes moſt Excellent Ma^tie, at London, beginninge the fifte of Julye.

   • 1661, Giles Collier, The Taking Away of Righteous & Merciful Persons Must Be Taken to Heart, Applied in a Sermon at the Funeralls of M^ris Anne-Mary Child. , Oxford: William Hall, title page:

     The taking Away of Righteous & Merciful Perſons muſt be taken to Heart, APPLIED IN A SERMON AT THE FUNERALLS OF M^ris ANNE-MARY CHILD. Wife of THOMAS CHILD Eſq. of North-wick in the Pariſh of Blockley. Worceſter-ſhire.

   • a. 1666, “Marriages, 1661-6”, in The Registers of St. Michael Le Belfrey, York, published 1901, page 11:

     Mr. Henry Jaques & Mris. Mary Dawson, the i of May

   • 1735, The Occasional Tinclarian, in a Letter to Sir John de Graham, Knight of the Thistle, page 17:

     Next Day, I did nothing but ſpent my Time in Plotties with my Neigbours, the Bow-Wives; particularly Mris. Campbel the School-Miſtreſs, and her Doctrix Mary Weir.

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