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Перевод: purveyance

[существительное]
поставка ; снабжение; провиант ; запасы ; реквизиция для нужд королевского двора

Тезаурус:

1. Finally, there was purveyance.
2. As in the matter of purveyance (which, in a sense, the requisitioning of ships was protests and opposition were frequently met, for this kind of procedure disrupted trade and fishing, the two occupations which created a permanent need for ships.
3. In the latter part of Elizabeth's reign Burghley began a reform of the system of purveyance, partly perhaps as a response to criticism, partly in an effort to direct the profits of purveyance away from the officials and towards the Crown.
4. But however bitter the resentment against purveyance, it was too valuable for the Crown to surrender.
5. The grievances of the commons have a familiar air: in 1344, for instance, they offered a grant of two tenths and fifteenths, and presented a series of petitions in which they complained about purveyance and other administrative abuses.
6. Alford made his name as a vigorous and informed opponent of impositions, monopolies, proclamations, and purveyance, and was an inveterate foe of Chancery.
7. The concessions Edward made on matters such as purveyance and unparliamentary taxation went a long way towards meeting the grievances of the commons, and the king was able to mobilize the resources he required for war.
8. Complaints about the grievous burden of purveyance reappeared the following year, and the Meaux Chronicler complained about the outrageous burden of taxation imposed for the campaign of 1335.
9. As John of Reading observed in 1362, the passage of a statute in that year dealing with the problem of purveyance put an end to discontent amongst the common people.
10. For instance, the use of purveyance began to attract criticism in the last fifteen years of the reign.
11. It is, however, indicative of the political harmony and stability Edward had already achieved that the nobility did not seek to exploit the grievances of the community over taxation, purveyance and military service in order to impose measures of restraint upon the king.
12. For those who found this social order irksome - the rebellious, the ambitious or simply the single-minded -; the village could become a narrow and restrictive prison, dispiriting and mean-spirited, shackling the individualist by the vicious purveyance of gossip and innuendo.