I'll send it to Duke Ivo in quittance for his gallows!

"Pay me three hundred pounds, Sir Richard," said he, "and I will give thee quittance of thy debt.

"Bear in mind, Sir Prior," said he, "that thou hast promised me quittance for three hundred pounds.

His kindred still have quittance of all service for their inheritance on this account, and their heirs are entitled so to hold their inheritance forever.

Good Master Barnes, this entertain of yours, So full of courtesy and rich delight, Makes me misdoubt my poor ability In quittance of this friendly courtesy.

You have most learnedly proverb'd it, commending the virtue of patience or forbearance, but yet, you know, forbearance is no quittance.

In quittance of his ransom, and to come forth from prison, Vortigern granted Sussex, Essex, and Middlesex to Hengist as his fief, besides that earldom of Kent which he had held before.

Whatever loyalty you may owe to them has been discharged, and I will give you a quittance.

The portrait has the look of being designed as a quittance in full of old scores.

Hauing paid the custome, it behoueth to haue a quittance or cocket sealed and firmed with the customers hand, in confirmation of the dispatch and clearing, and before departure thence, to cause the sayd customer to cause search to be made, to the end that at the voiages returne there be no cauilation made, as it oftentimes happeneth.

receipt; acquittance, quittance; discharge, release.

excuse, exoneration, quittance, release, indemnity; bill of indemnity, act of indemnity, covenant of indemnity, deed of indemnity; exculpation &c (acquittal) 970. longanimity^, placability; amantium irae [Lat.]; locus paenitentiae [Lat.]; forbearance.

So I took the money and gave him a quittance for it, signing it with my false name, James Hopkins, but, reflecting on this when I left him, I wished I had not.

For no tenant, thinks I, will be fool enough to withold payment when he may get his quittance to-morrow for half its value.

Nay more, that the court might know what daring rogues they had to deal with, he pulled out from his pocket the quittance given him by Shalamof the Jew of Petersburg, for this same jewel, and showed it to the judge.

Whether 'twas a forged quittance or one for some other stone we knew not, but Elzevir spoke again, saying that the stone was ours and we had found it in England.

"And a gude quittance it was, I thought, with a bonny bairn and twenty guineas on my side, and nothing on the other but maybe a father's anger and salt tears, besides the wrath of God against those who forsake their children.

And you, sir?" "He writes himself armigero in any bill, warrant, quittance, or obligation," here put in Davy the serving man.

Thus there would be quittance between them.

In that hour he avenged his father's death, and with the same blow gave quittance for the wrongs of his mother.

For he who desires nothing of this joy and quittance, even if it were told him, would but listen to a tongue he could not understand, since his heart is not turned to Love, and none can know the wealth of such riches, except Love whisper it in his ear.

I am so deep in his counsel that he has my quittance, for I have full assurance that he never dreamed of such a deed.

your court its judgment did decree, Quittance or death, your queen compar'd with me: Behold the mistress of the knight is come, Now judge between us? and pronounce the doom.'

The king ordered its registration, "for the good of his kingdom and for quittance of the promise he had given the pope.

Son refus me servira de quittance.