Example sentences of "[noun pl] in the sixteenth " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only years later that I came to learn that the easily remembered collects were those that had been translated by Archbishop Cranmer from the Sacramentaries of Popes Leo , Gregory and Gelasius , while the difficult ones to remember were in almost every case the work of reformers in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries . |
| 2 | Dalmatian sailors served in many fleets — with the Spanish Armada , with the Dutch , the English and the French during the period of their colonial rivalries in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries , with the Venetians during the heyday of the maritime republic , and even with the Americans during the War of Independence . |
| 3 | Navarrenx was refortified on Italian lines in the sixteenth century , so that its defences might be proof against the new artillery , and the ramparts and towers designed then are still largely and imposingly intact . |
| 4 | Among the grievances of some of the rural rebels in the sixteenth century were complaints about the enclosure of lands by lords — this occurred in the north-west sector of the Pilgrimage of Grace , and the casting down of hedges marked the start of the Norfolk rising of 1549 . |
| 5 | But the question remains : why were those two Frenchwomen in the sixteenth century found so threatening ? |
| 6 | Ever since Machiavelli wrote The Prince and The Discourses in the sixteenth century he has been associated with the ugly side of political activity . |
| 7 | Large numbers of inventories of household goods and chattels were exhibited in many probate courts in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries and are preserved in local record offices throughout England and Wales . |
| 8 | The Crown 's servants in the sixteenth century were in many ways less effective as administrative instruments than had been their predecessors in the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries . |
| 9 | Dr Margaret Spufford has examined the varying fortunes of three different Cambridgeshire parishes — Chippenham , Orwell and Willingham — in Contrasting Communities : English Villagers in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries ( 1974 ) . |
| 10 | The questions about their nature and extent which had exercised lawyers in the sixteenth century were not completely answered in the seventeenth and eighteenth . |
| 11 | Military leaders in the sixteenth century who could not find wars to fight elsewhere might turn on their own sovereigns and fight at home ; there had been some decades of civil war in England after the English had been driven out of France in the middle of the fifteenth century . |
| 12 | The lands of the lord of the manor at Hinton were reallocated to the peasants in the sixteenth century , and the manor house , now remaining as a moated site , was abandoned . |
| 13 | It does not follow from this that all offices were held by life tenures in the sixteenth century . |
| 14 | This item is a rarity , extant on three strips of parchment which miraculously escaped the destruction of monastic records in the sixteenth century . |
| 15 | Rich , published in Economic History Review 2nd series ii ( 1950 ) ; ‘ English Country Towns in the 1520s ’ by J.C.K. Cornwall , which appeared in the same publication , 2nd series xv ( 1962 ) ; ‘ English Provincial Towns in the Sixteenth Century ’ by W.G. Hoskins , which appeared as a chapter in his book Provincial England ( 1963 ) ; and ‘ The Village Population in the Tudor Lay Subsidy Rolls ‘ by S.A. Payton , in English Historical Review xxx ( 1915 ) . |
| 16 | During the period of the Tudor monarchs in the sixteenth century , Parliament acquired enhanced status . |
| 17 | Dr Robert Runcie visited the Vatican archives and looked at original documents relating to the split between the the Anglican and Roman Catholic churches in the sixteenth century . |
| 18 | This was where the nuns from Santa Clara Convent in Funchal fled to during pirate raids in the sixteenth century . |