Bavary

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Bavary

  1. Obsolete form of Bavaria.
    • 1740, David Mallet, editor, The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, volume 1, Appendix: containing Several Pieces of Lord Bacon, Not printed in the laſt edition in four volumes in folio, page 40:
      WILLIAM Duke of Bavyre, a papiſt at Munich in Bavary, married the daughter of the Duke of Lorrain.