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George Spurre (fl. 1678-1683) was an
English pirate and buccaneer. He is best
known for
sacking Campeche and for
joining a
large buccaneer force which...
- Southwark: "many fair inns, for
receipt of travellers, by
these signs: the
Spurre, Christopher, Bull, Queen's Head, Tabard, George, Hart, King's Head" &c...
- was an
English buccaneer and pirate. He is best
known for
joining George Spurre to raid
Spanish Campeche.
After England withdrew from the Franco-Dutch War...
- family. He wrote: "Unto the
backe part (of the flower) doth
hange a
taile or
spurre, such as hath the
Larkes heele,
called in
Latine Consolida regalis." J....
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Goates braine, and the
Liver of a
purple Doove. A ****es eye, and a
Capons spurre, the left
legge of a Quaile: a
Ganders tung, a
mounting Eagles tayle. Macbeth-...
- Part of
Henry the Fourth, with the Life and
Death of
Henry Sirnamed Hot-
spurre.
First recorded performance:
possibly on 6
March 1600 at the
house of George...
- have £81 6s 8d per ann. to be paid him
monthly by ye
treasurer besides spurre money and
money given by
strangers for
singing of
ballets and ye Mr of ye...
- Berners,
joked that the
French had
learned to ride fast at the "jurney of
Spurres." The same
evening the
Imperial Master of the Posts,
Baptiste de T****is...
- one of only two
English leaders on the expedition, the
other being George Spurre. Hall's brig and
several others joined the
expedition and
thoroughly sacked...
- Scotland; "we fynd upon the said este syde a
spurre lyke a
bulwarke standing befor the foot of the rocke,
which spurre enclosethe that syde
flanked out one bothe...
