 | Francis Bacon - 1890 - 788 pages
...restitution of the spoils taken by the Scottish, or damages for the same. But the Scottish commissioners answered, that that was but as water spilt upon the ground, which 1 At Jedburgh, according to Buchanan, xlll. 17.; from whom most of these particulars appear to have... | |
 | Comparative linguistics - 1911 - 552 pages
...restitution of the spoils taken by the Scottish, or damages for the same. But the Scottish commissioners answered, that that was but as water spilt upon the...to bear the loss than their master to repair it." F V. ii. 202. Has, Urswick, Sir Rice ap Thomas, and Lord Brook our steward, Iteturn'd the Western gentlemen... | |
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The bishop also, according to another article of his instructions, demanded restitution of the spoils taken by the Scottish, or damages for the same. But the Scottish commismissioners answered, that that was but as water spilt upon the ground, which could... 
