| John Percival Postgate, Edward Vernon Arnold, Frederick William Hall - Classical literature - 1907 - 376 pages
...market-place of Devizes stands a cross which records that ' On Thursday, the 25th of January, 1753, Ruth Pierce, of Potterne, in this county, agreed, with three other women, to buy a sack of wheat in the market, each paying her due proportion towards the same. One of these women,... | |
| William Winter - Great Britain - 1911 - 446 pages
...name of God to conceal the devices of falsehood and fraud. On Thursday, the 85th January, 1758, Ruth Pierce, of Potterne, in this county, agreed, with three other women, to buy a sack of wheat in the market, each paying her due proportion toward the same. One of these women,... | |
| Edward Verrall Lucas - English essays - 1928 - 266 pages
...all to read and profit by. Peruse the terrifying record : On Thursday, the 25th January, 1753, Ruth Pierce, of Potterne, in this county, agreed, with three other women, to buy a sack of wheat in the market, each paying her due proportion towards the same. One of these women,... | |
| English language - 1926 - 346 pages
...name of God to conceal the devices of falsehood and fraud. " On Thursday the 25th January, 1753. Ruth Pierce, of Potterne, in this county, agreed, with three other women, to buy a sack of wheat in the market, each paying her due proportion towards the same. " One of these... | |
| Edward Hungerford Goddard - Natural history - 1875 - 922 pages
...25th of January, 1753, Ruth Pierce, of Potterne, in this county, agreed with three other women to buy a sack of wheat in the market, each paying her due...women, in collecting the several quotas of money, discovering a deficiency, demanded of Ruth Pierce the sum which was wanting to make good the amount.... | |
| Frank R. Heath - 1911 - 456 pages
...monument is inscribed the following interesting record : " On Thursday, the 25th of January, 1753, Ruth Pierce, of Potterne, in this county, agreed, with three other women, to buy a sack of wheat in the market, each paying her due proportion towards the same. One of these women,... | |
| 1849 - 750 pages
...of God to conceal the devices of falsehood and fraud. " On Thursday, the 25th of January, 1753, Ruth "Pierce, of Potterne, in this county, agreed with three other women to buy a sack of wheat in the market, each paying her due proportion towards the same ; one of these women,... | |
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