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For 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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