Clerkless

Whatever the cause of the failure, the clerkless store did not materialize.

[…] at which Postern may come in Tyranny, and rigorous cruelty; like that of the Turk, whose military Janizaries and Bashaws, rule all in their Clerklesse and cruel way; to abate the fear of which, as Armes have been practised but sparingly by true and Virtuous Princes, so hath Learning still been kept on and encouraged, as that which modificates, and attempers the rigidity of Martial inclinations.

And so, having held forth in this wise full half an hour, using very fine-sounding words, but showing himself most clerkless, inasmuch as that he demonstrated not any point he advanced, and by his lack of logic caused divers of us ofttimes to smile, he consented at last, when our patience was well-nigh exhausted, to hold his peace, and to suffer, as he had promised, that an answer should be made him.

Their solitary and clerkless preacher, a somewhat stunted figure in a plain black coat, with a cracked voice […] put his utmost zeal into a consolatory discourse on the wickedness of the wide world, more especially of the plain of Piedmont and city of Turin, and on the exclusive favor with God, enjoyed by between nineteen and twenty-four elect members of his congregation, in the streets of Admah and Zeboim.