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CustomFor an article on the meaning of this term in the field of law, see custom_(law).
Custom is a common practice among people, especially depending on country, culture, time and religion. The difference between custom and culture is subtle, yet customs generally emphasizes practices while cultures rather focus on ideas. Customs as a plura form are a government agency that supervises exporting and impoting goods and imposes taxes. In computing, customizing is to modify particularly interfaces of computer programs. their swords drawn, did fight against all the foresaid Turks, and for
promises, the said Master Blonket's boy was killed and the said James
taken and bound.html">bound into chains, to be hanged at their arrival in
passing through the Gulf of Venice, at an island called Cephalonia,
galley, and killed the king.html">king's son and his mother, and all the Turks
and would have killed the two Englishmen, because they were circumcised
saying that they were enforced to be Turks by the king's son, and
all the Turks, and that their two fellows were slain in that fight.
said captives, had their liberty, which were in number 150 or
confiscated to the use of the State of Venice. And from thence our two
more of our company which died in Zante, and afterwards the other eight.html">eight
was bound for England. And before we departed thence, there arrived
harbour there called Arrogostoria, whose merchants agreed with the
into the said ships of London, who took us eight also in as passengers,
our said purser Richard Burges, and his fellow, came home also, for the
duty bindeth us, to pray for the preservation of our most gracious
in seeking and procuring of our deliverance aforesaid, and also for her
estate of the house of the late deceased, the Right Honourable the Earl
my father now departed, travailed herein--for the which I rest
the heavens in joy, with the Almighty, unto which place He vouchsafed
death upon the cross, there to live perpetually world without end.
THE QUEEN'S LETTERS TO THE TURK, 1584, FOR THE RESTITUTION OF THE SHIP,
BARBARY, AND FOR CERTAIN OTHER PRISONERS IN ALGIERS.
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