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    nation, or citie, is repugnant to nature, contumelie to God, a thing most contrarious to his reueled will and approued ordinance, and finallie it is the subuersion...
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    of a wanton time, The seeming sufferances that you had borne, And the contrarious winds that held the King So long in his unlucky Irish wars That all in...
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    authorities during his period of residence (prematurely cut short) was both contrarious and phenomenal. He was one of the nicest of men, in certain moods content...
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    news, and worried about the "longer protracting of time" and the "contrariousness of winds". While waiting for his bride at Seton Palace, James VI may...
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    news, and worried about the "longer protracting of time" and the "contrariousness of winds". Marischal took a lead role in discussions at Flekkerøy and...
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    whether that we have done anything prejudicial to our commonwealth or yet contrarious unto that debtful obedience which true subjects owe to their superiors...
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  • 11 October 1589 British Library MS Cotton Caligula D. I. f. 273 Scottish newsletter referring to "storme and contrarious wyndis" forwarded by Asheby...
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    James VI had already made his decision. On account of the "sundrie contrarious windis" that delayed the Danish fleet, on 11 October James VI asked East...
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