Those Roman knights were so called, if they could dispend per annum so much. ❋ Unknown (2007)
And that money goeth throughout all the country and throughout all his provinces, for there and beyond them they make no money neither of gold nor of silver; and therefore he may dispend enough, and outrageously. ❋ Unknown (2004)
This emperor may dispend as much as he will without estimation; for he not dispendeth ne maketh no money but of leather imprinted or of paper. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Moreouer, euerie man and woman that might dispend in lands the value of twentie shillings ❋ Raphael Holinshed (N/A)
His borrowings are like subsidies, each man a shilling or two, as he can well dispend; which they lend him, not with a hope to be repaid, but that he will come no more. ❋ John Earle (N/A)
Yeomen are those which by our law are called _Legales homines_, free men born English, and may dispend of their own free land in yearly revenue to the sum of forty shillings sterling, or six pounds as money goeth in our times. ❋ Thomas Malory Jean Froissart (N/A)
Also in England no man is commonly created baron except he may dispend of yearly revenues a thousand pounds, or so much as may fully maintain and bear out his countenance and port. ❋ Thomas Malory Jean Froissart (N/A)
Moreouer, he caused a certificat to be taken of euerie mans substance, and what he might dispend by the yeare; he also caused their names to be written which held knights fees, and were bound thereby to serue him in the wars. ❋ Raphael Holinshed (N/A)
And this also is a cause wherefore there be many in England able to dispend a knight's living, which never come unto that countenance, and by their own consents. ❋ Thomas Malory Jean Froissart (N/A)
We be all come from one father and one mother, Adam and Eve: whereby can they say or shew that they be greater lords than we be, saving by that they cause us to win and labour for that they dispend? ❋ Thomas Malory Jean Froissart (N/A)
And this also is a cause wherefore there be many in England able to dispend a knights living, which never come unto that countenance, and by their own consents. ❋ Unknown (1909)
This nevertheless is certain, that whoso may dispend forty pounds by the year of free land, either at the coronation of the king, or marriage of his daughter, or time of his dubbing, may be informed unto the taking of that degree, or otherwise pay the revenues of his land for one year, which is only forty pounds by an old proportion, and so for a time be acquitted of that title
. ❋ Unknown (1909)
Yeomen are those which by our law are called Legales homines, free men born English, and may dispend of their own free land in yearly revenue to the sum of forty shillings sterling, or six pounds as money goeth in our times. ❋ Unknown (1909)
Also in England no man is commonly created baron except he may dispend of yearly revenses a thousand pounds, or so much as may fully maintain and bear out his countenance and port. ❋ Unknown (1909)
Thirdly, I constitute and ordain thee governor and dispenser of all my treasures, that thou dispend them in charitable and meek works. ❋ 1230-1298 (1900)
He remembered always the poor people, and succoured them freely of that he might have, and sometimes he commanded to break the vessels of the church for to give to the poor people, and dispend it among the needy. ❋ 1230-1298 (1900)
Then the angel answered: He loved not those things that be of the world, but he loved well to dispend them unto them that had need. ❋ 1230-1298 (1900)
: Vainly is the man distroubled which assembleth treasure in this world, and knoweth not for whom it is, for when he shall die he shall bear nothing with him, and he wotteth not who shall dispend it, for naked we came upon the earth and all naked shall we re-enter into it. ❋ 1230-1298 (1900)
S. Lucy said: Sweet mother, hear my counsel: he is not beloved of God, that for his love giveth that which he may not use himself, but if thou wilt find God debonair to thee, give for him that which thou mayest dispend, for after thy death thou mayest in no wise use thy goods. ❋ 1230-1298 (1900)
