acquittance

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To be lenient and merciful is his inclination, and we are happy to communicate to you this most favorable tender for an acquittance of his claim.

From Shakespeare's Insomnia, and the Causes Thereof by Head, Franklin H. (Franklin Harvey)

Gurth at length complied; and telling out eighty zecchins upon the table, the Jew delivered out to him an acquittance for the horse and suit of armour.

From Ivanhoe by Scott, Walter, Sir

I owe my life to you, and you refuse The acquittance of the interest of the debt, To heap more obligations on me, till I bow beneath them.

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley

Footnote 326: The Duke of Clarence was at Bourdeaux, February 5, 1413, and signed an acquittance there, April 14, 1413.

From Henry of Monmouth, Volume 2 Memoirs of Henry the Fifth by Tyler, James Endell

If he be innocent, it is his bounden right to receive full acquittance here in the presence of those before whom he has been arraigned.

From Beatrix of Clare by Underwood, Clarence F.