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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, 1601-3
… I have taken off the church. The fort is furnished with men, ordnance, and victuals, and my Lord Lieutenant has appointed 120 men for keeping it, but it needs a larger number, as it will … receiving eight groats a day for themselves, and certain men in wages at their appointment 15 d. a day sterling. Still …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, 1601-3
… the more for provision for the garrisons. The number of men taken in Dumfries was 177, and 379 carriage horses, which men, if they had done as I commanded, might have kept the … them. Many of them are most simple creatures, and not like men of war, and I had no remedy but either to take such with …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, 1601-3
… of counties. Having resolved to levy and furnish men to serve in the North, we, by advice of our uncle, the … bills, pikes, or bows. We wish you to have able and strong men chosen, and put under convenient captains, to be at … Complaints have been made that in former settings out of men from that county, commissioners have spared their own and …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, 1601-3
… continued, for the young laird and his father have many men serving under them. [2 pages.] Aug. 16. Carlisle. 16. … and has under him a great band of the Earl of Huntley's men, 4,000 in all. Considering the West Marches are so … The Englishmen in Borthie craig have burnt and ravaged Fife and Angus. The Almains give out that M.D' Essen, …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, 1601-3
… Willoughby is on his march towards Walsingham, with 1,100 men of Lincoln, and 400 from Lynn, Marshland, and Cambridge, …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, 1601-3
… aid is soon to be sent to Scotland, including a number of men-at-arms. We have, by advice of our Council, been making …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, 1601-3
… I will tell you the truth of his conspiracy. He, with men of divers estates, had conspired the death of the Duke of …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, 1601-3
… them Mr. John, engineer, and see their state, strength, men, and victuals. See to the supply of what things are lacking. See that the men in wages are at their duties, and well armed. See to the … Roxburgh, or Fernihurst, for surer defence, levying men, conveying reports, &c. Ships at Newcastle, or other near …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, 1601-3
… Milk, and these places; the want of horsemen and warlike men will embolden them to pass to the East parts, but my … army. Eight French ships have come to Dumbarton, with 500 men, 200 being horse; four galleons have gone from Leith to … to your letter of the 10th inst., my whole force of 11,000 men is ready for service, and the furniture of 5,000 …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, 1601-3
… the Earl of Rutland. We marvel at the continual call for men and money, with no reckoning how it is spent. We pray you … it is marvel you should lack. Perhaps the captains dismiss men lightly, and then new coat and conduct money have to be …