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Coigny   Listen
noun
Coigny, Coigne  n.  The practice of quartering one's self as landlord on a tenant; a quartering of one's self on anybody. (Ireland)






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"Coigny" Quotes from Famous Books



... seized his lands, farmed them out for the benefit of the crown, got possession of the strongholds of Castleisland and Inniskisty in Kerry, and hanged Sir Eustace Poer, Sir William Grant, and Sir John Cottrell, who commanded these places, on the charge of illegal exactions of coigne and livery.[355] The Viceroy also contrived to get the Earl of Kildare into his power; and it is probable that his harsh measures would have involved England in an open war with her colony and its English settlers, had not ...
— An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 • Mary Frances Cusack

... with dust; and even from the mouldings above the doors bracketed shelves thrust out, upon which rows of volumes perched, like penguins on a ledge of rock. In fact, books flocked there as martlets did to Macbeth's castle; there was "no jutty frieze or coigne of vantage" but a book had made it his "pendent bed,"—and it appeared "his procreant cradle" too; for the children, in calling the great folios "papa-books" and "mamma-books," seemed instinctively to have hit upon the only way of accounting for the rapid increase and multiplication of volumes ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 4, No. 24, Oct. 1859 • Various



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