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gates are all plated with iron from top to bottom ; and all of them have very strong portcullises in front , which are always up and never let down , but are ready against they be needfull . All the gates have breastworks at their ...
gates are all plated with iron from top to bottom ; and all of them have very strong portcullises in front , which are always up and never let down , but are ready against they be needfull . All the gates have breastworks at their ...
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On the street side , it hath right against the principal gate a reception court , not very great . It hath built along the street a good wall of a good height , right against the gate , that when the gate is open they that are within ...
On the street side , it hath right against the principal gate a reception court , not very great . It hath built along the street a good wall of a good height , right against the gate , that when the gate is open they that are within ...
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In all the streets of the suburbs at the ends of them are gates with special porters , whose office is to lock them every night under pain of sore punishment if they neglect this , and every street hath a constable and a jail .
In all the streets of the suburbs at the ends of them are gates with special porters , whose office is to lock them every night under pain of sore punishment if they neglect this , and every street hath a constable and a jail .
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Contents
INTRODUCTION | xvii |
i The Report of Galeote Pereira | 3 |
ii The Treatise of Fr Gaspar da Cruz O P | 45 |
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| Title | Works, Volume 106 |
| Author | Hakluyt Society |
| Publisher | Kraus Reprint, 1967 |
| Original from | Pennsylvania State University |
| Digitized | 22 Aug 2009 |
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