Citations:chiauses

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English citations of chiauses

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• 1658 July 24, Thomas Bendish, “[letter to Oliver Cromwell]”, in Thomas Birch, editor, A collection of the state papers of John Thurloe […] , volume 7, London: printed for the executor of the late Mr. Fletcher Gyles [et al.], published 1742, →OCLC, page 286:

  […] guarded by ſeveral chiauſes, […]

• 1754 December, Gazetteer, quoted in The wonders of the little world, or, a general history of man, book 4, London: C. Taylor [u.a.], published 1788, →OCLC, page 444:

  […] one of the chiauses, or messengersin the Palace, took courage, and snatching up a carbine, fired it at him and-killed him.

• 1826, Roger North, The lives of the Right Hon. Francis North, […] , the Hon. Sir Dudley North, […] and the Hon. and Rev. Dr. John North, […] , new edition, volume 3, London: H. Colburn, →OCLC, page 6:

  So two merchants of the chief house were seized by the chiauses.

• 1901, Thomas Henry Dyer, edited by Arthur Hassall, A history of modern Europe from the fall of Constantinople, 3rd edition, volume 1, London: G. Bell and Sons, →OCLC, page 14:

  Tuesday, when, after morning prayer, the members, attended by their retinues of scribes, chiauses, &c., took their seats with great ceremony.