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Iacobs vovve, or The true historie of tithes choose

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[UK] R. Perrot Jacob’s Vow 50: They were not so forward and liberall to maintaine them [...] as we are to pill and poll from them.
at pill and poll, v.
[UK] R. Perrot Jacob’s Vow 52: Let us take heed how these black-coates get the day of us.
at black coat (n.) under black, adj.
[UK] R. Perrot Jacob’s Vow 65: Monopolists, that hellish brood of state-horsleatches, sucked out almost the very hearts of the subjects purses.
at horse leech (n.) under horse, n.
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