There are the tracks of sledge runners on the narrowing road; that lonely farmhouse around the next bend, a dairy farm twelve hundred feet or more above the harbour level, sends its milk-cans down to the bay by the old-style bush koneke that is the only means of conveyance on some of these lofty roads.
The grand master […] communicated it to the principal chiefs on the borders ; among others , to Don Pedro Henriquez , adelantado of Andalusia , Don Juan de Silva , count of Cifuentes , Don Alonso de Aguilar , and the marquis of Cadiz .
‘You've not been caught in bed with a V.A.D.?’ Tietjens asked.
And alſo the Q. highneſſs Aulnageor of the ſaid County Palantine for the time being, vpon triall of the weight of euery ſuch Cotton, Frize, and Rugge, ſhall fixe and put, or cauſe to bee fixed and put to euery ſuch cotton, frize, and rug, the Queenes highneſſe ſeale of leade hauing the Portculleis crowned, ingraued on the other ſide thereof, and the true weight of euery ſuch cotton, Friſe or rugge, to bee ingraued on the other ſide of the ſaid ſeale, vpon paine of forfeiture of all and euerie ſuch clothes, cottons, friezes, and rugges, conueied, carried, ſent, ſold, and put to ſale, or to the intent to be ſold being vnſealed, contrary to the meaning of this preſent Act:[…]
