Petie

This Episcopalian bias was quite enough to account for Bradford's disparaging description of him as a "kind of petie-fogie of Furnifells Inn," and explains why the early historians never made any fuller or more favorable record than absolutely necessary of these neighbors of theirs, although the churchman Samuel Maverick admits that Morton was a "gentleman of good qualitee." ❋ Agnes Rothery (N/A)

Beglerbegs the gouernours of Prouinces and Saniacks, and their petie Captaines mainteined of these Prouinces. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Whose Sangiacks and petie Captaines be three hundred sixtie eight, euery of which retaining continually in pay from fiue hundreth to two hundreth Souldiers, may be one with another at the least, three hundreth thousand persons. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Item, the said marchants doe farther alleage, that the customers of the petie custome, and of the subsidie in the port of London haue appointed among themselues certaine men to seale vp the goods of the saide marchants, so soon as they are arriued at the port of safetie, vntil the said goods be customed. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Sommer progresses, and yerely chiefe pastimes were, the sailing round about this whole Isle of Albion, garded with his grand name of 4000. saile at the least, parted into 4. equall parts of petie ❋ Unknown (2003)

Which fond substituting of such petie officers to ouersée and ouerrule the people, was to them an occasion of hartgrudge, and to him a meanes of finall mischéefe: both which it is likelie he might haue auoided, had he béene prouident in his ❋ Raphael Holinshed (N/A)

Je crois bien qu'on veult accoutumer par les petie ce peuple à l'endurer, afin que quand ivendra à donner les grands coups, il ne les trouve si estrange. ❋ James Anthony Froude (1856)

Tho: Stanton informes me of another cause of warr vpon the Nayantaquits, viz: Wequash* affirm es that one of the petie Sachims of Nayantaquit was aboord Mr. Oldams pinnace, & that some goods & gold are at Nayantaquit. ❋ Unknown (1792)

Tho: Stanton informes me of another cause of warr vpon the Nayantaquits, viz: Wequash* aflirmes that one of the petie Sachims of Nayantaquit was aboord Mr. Oldams pinnace, & that some goods & gold are at Nayantaquit. ❋ Unknown (1792)

Heluetiif ad errores per Oecolampaiium et Zwinglium vndique diflemiuatos, delen - dos doftorum virorum cUfputationem petie - runt (j). ❋ Benedictine Abbey : Augsburg, Germany (1791)

It chanced, whereas diuerse rulers or (as we may call them) petie kings reigned the same seson in that Iland (which was diuided into seuerall estates or kingdomes) that continuall strife and dissention remained amongst them, so that oftentimes they made sore war after the manner of their countrie one against an other, (for ❋ Raphael Holinshed (N/A)

Recordes may appeare) his Sommer progresses, and yerely chiefe pastimes were, the sailing round about this whole Isle of Albion, garded with his grand name of 4000. saile at the least, parted into 4. equall parts of petie Nauies, eche one being of 1000. ships, for so it is anciently recorded. ❋ Richard Hakluyt (1584)

Tberfor do of me thy wylle, with grace, petie, and mercy, humbly and intirely I beseche the} and into thy moost merciful hands my soule I commytte. ❋ Unknown (1812)