Year-item: Add together the number of dozens, > the overplus, and the number of 4s in the overplus. Month-item: If it begins > or ends with a vowel, subtract the number, denoting its place in the year, > from 10. This, plus its number of days, gives the item for the following > month.
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Sonnet 135 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet. The English sonnet has three quatrains, followed by a final rhyming couplet. Nominally, it follows the rhyme scheme of the form ABAB CDCD EFEF GG, although (unusually) rhymes a, e, and g feature the same sound. It is composed in iambic pentameter, a type of poetic metre based on five pairs of metrically weak/strong syllabic positions. The 2nd line exemplifies a regular iambic pentameter: × / × / × / × / × / And "Will" to boot, and "Will" in overplus; / × × / × / × / × / More than enough am I that vex thee still, (135.2-3) :/ = ictus, a metrically strong syllabic position.
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Governor Tucker's personal boat was reportedly stolen by five islanders, one named Saunders, who left a note saying they were on their way to England, or Davy Jones' Locker, either place being preferable to Bermuda under Tucker's rule. On reaching England, they complained about the harshness of Tucker's rule, though their complaints fell on deaf ears. Governor Tucker also, reportedly, used his oversight of the surveying of Bermuda to enrich himself and future generations of Bermudian Tuckers with prime real estate when he appropriated the overplus (surplus) land left after Richard Norwood's 1616 survey of the colony. Much of this land, forming an estate known as The Grove, would still be in the hands of his relatives during the American War of Independence.
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The theft had been the result of a conspiracy involving powerful Bermudians, who were motivated as much by Bermuda's desperate plight, denied her primary trading partner and source of food, as by any favourable sentiments they may have had in regard to either the American colonists or their cause. The chief conspirator was Henry Tucker of The Grove (the overplus estate appropriated in 1616 by Governor Daniel Tucker), a Member of the House of Assembly, former Member of the Council, and Militia officer (soon to be promoted to Colonel), who had plotted with Benjamin Franklin while attending the rebel Continental Congress as a delegate for Bermuda. Two of his sons served in the rebel Army and were to achieve high office in the post-War US Government. A third son, also named Henry Tucker, was at the time the President of the Council (and later acting Governor on multiple occasions), and married to the daughter of Governor George James Bruere.
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Image of Lord Hoo and Hastings set in the Dacre tomb at Herstmonceux The Lordship of Hoo and Hastings became extinct at the death of Lord Hoo, which occurred on 13 February 1454/5. He dated his will 12 February 33 Henry VI, making provision of £20 per annum for a chantry of two monks singing perpetually for himself and his ancestors at the altar of St Benignus (a Burgundian saint) at Battle Abbey. The reversion of his manors of Wartling, Bucksteep (in Warbleton) and Broksmele (Burwash) was held by his stepmother Lady Lewkenor for life, but his feoffees were to make up a parcel of lands worth £20 a year for his brother Thomas Hoo (1416–1486), and the overplus, after the deduction of his funeral and testamentary charges, was to revert to his widow Dame Eleanor for life. Lord Hoo looked to her father Lord Welles to make an estate of lands and manors worth £100 per annum for Dame Eleanor: or, if he refused, brother Thomas was to sue Lord Welles by Statute Staple for £1000.
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Daniell and Nicholson accused Markham of not only harboring pirates but profiting from their activities, which he vehemently denied: "Governor Nicholson alleges that I got great matters by Day's commission, but I solemnly declare that I had not the value of a farthing for it, and gave it only in view of the common danger." Day's crew attempted to recruit more volunteers for their voyage, some of which gave depositions for Governor Nicholson. One such testimonial preserved part of Day's pirate Articles: "part of the Articles (according to the best of his remembrance) were that if it so hap'ned that if they got a better ship & quitted the Brigantine that then they should allow such a proportion of their gettings in satisfaction of the sd Brigantine, that he that stole to the value of a piece of 8 from another should be put upon a maroon'd Island, that he that was wounded in any engagement should have such an overplus share of slaves if they took any, with several more such like articles." After provisioning in Pennsylvania and obtaining his commission, Day took his brigantine to the Caribbean, sailing to Curacao and then across the Atlantic to Holland.
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