Surrendry

When they besiege a towne or fort, they offer much parle, and send many flattering messages to perswade a surrendry: promising all things that the inhabitants will require: but being once possessed of the place, they vse all maner of hostilitie, and crueltie. ❋ Unknown (2003)

When Pontiac reached the region of the Illinois posts, instead of persuading the Indians to peace and friendship with the English, he advised them not to surrender the country, and, in his addresses to them, he used the most persuasive arguments to dissuade them from permitting the surrendry at all, and gave vent to his natural feelings and sentiments in favor of the French and against the English. ❋ Schoolcraft, H R (1851)

This morning a conservative force of 250 volunteer militia embarked, at two P.M., in a steamer for Amherstburg (the Malden of the war of 1812), to demand the surrendry of the State arms recently taken from their place of deposit -- the city jail. ❋ Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1828)

English, he advised them not to surrender the country, and, in his addresses to them, he used the most persuasive arguments to dissuade them from permitting the surrendry at all, and gave vent to his natural feelings and sentiments in favor of the French and against the English. ❋ Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1828)

I love the dear Alverston girl with all the fervency of a hero; and would cope with a whole army of giants to reduce her to a surrendry. ❋ Unknown (1794)

This success drew on the surrendry of Exeter, and a peace, which Alfred much wanted to put the affairs of his kingdom in order. ❋ Edmund Burke (1763)