What is "paynims"

Usage examples of "paynims".

As for the Paynims, they were to-fore the Incarnation of Christ, which were named, the first Hector of Troy, of whom the history is comen both in ballad and in prose, the second Alexander the Great, and the third Julius Caesar, Emperor of Rome, of whom the histories be well known and had.

The confederate armies had not marched many days through this gay tract, before they heard a crash of drums and trumpets behind the hills, which spoke the conflict between the paynims, led by Rodomont, and the Christian forces.

Then the king was a tyrant, and was come of the line of paynims, and took them and put them in prison in a deep hole.

Then the king was a tyrant, and was come of the line of Paynims, and took them and put them in prison in a deep hole.

Ever since Edessa fell to the paynims of Mosul, last year at Christmas, all Christendom has been uneasy about the kingdom of Jerusalem.