Sovereigntyship

For methinkes it doth my harte good, my soverayne Syr, to use your soveraynetieshippes gaye and newfashionid words.

Some one of your city sovereigns, perhaps the Lord Mayor himself, was so obliging as to send me one of the handbills giving notice of my intended elevation; but, unfortunately, it did not reach me until the day after their sovereigntyships had hung and burnt me, so that I felt neither the cord nor the flame.

Nothing but the complicated system of our absentee sovereigntyship, can account for such strange persistence in errors which have repeatedly brought the Company to the verge of bankruptcy, and inflicted on the mass of the people chronic poverty and periodical famine.