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Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… all the officers of the garrison were either killed or seriously wounded, without a single exception. At the … it is impossible to move about the streets neither on foot or on horseback. A census was taken, and they were found to … is confined to the poor classes, with the exception of two or three councillors. As it is a matter of ordinary occurence …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… French are desirous of preventing an alliance with Spain or Savoy, and I think they will not find much difficulty. The … and have an income of four thousand ducats a year, or two thirds of that sum and expectation of inheriting the …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… that famous English pirate (Eston) was received at Nice or Villafranca, the Duke sent to inform the King and … I do not know whether about this present business or merely to enhance his importance. He called here yesterday … Bath, 2 ninety miles away; she will not be back for three or four weeks. The Savoyard Ambassador has made up his mind …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… the world under arms upon the mere pride of being first or last, that they must disarm like other princes and as they … times. I asked whether he thought we should have peace or war. He said peace, when the Spaniards make up their minds … this would suffice for the maintenance of 12,000 infantry, or little less. That he gave permission to take from these …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… suggested that they should obtain an armistice for eight or ten days for the purpose of negotiating. Subsequently … any official information of what Sillery brought back or of the instructions to Gueffier, so that it was impossible … because he wishes the glory to belong to the French alone or to be alone in these negotiations that he acts thus and …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… the Catholic king has it in his power to decide for peace or for war, he will elect to settle all the differences in … their ports to so large a fleet, and it will not be safe or possible for it to remain continually on the high seas. … nothing but the usual coldness and no imaginable hope or grounds to go upon. Chieri, the 15th May, 1617. [ …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… help the Grisons, join the Swiss and proceed to Burgundy or the Tyrol. It would also alarm Germany and Bavaria and so … back. The Earl of Carlisle is expected at Court in a day or two. They expect from him clear decisions and solid … Serenity of unpleasant matters, uncertain in their issue or only certain for harm. I have nothing further for certain …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… that they do not mean to go any further in offence or harm any princes, no matter what faith they profess. But … They then think of going either to Winchester, Salisbury or Oxford, many miles away, to hold parliament. The … not number more than from 3 to 4,000, the rest being sick or dead from their sufferings. The same person has orders to …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… favours conceded to Digby and his many suporters. But now or at any time the way is open for your Excellencies to do … I conclude it is a Spanish bugbear, raised I know not how or when. I am trying to ascertain who supplies him with the … I will not forget the cardinal's wishes about the ship, or lose sight of any other opportunities of facilitating the …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… should approach to make themselves masters of Dunkirk or of some other place contiguous to the sea, that it would … to permit it here, either in the interests of trade or for other more important respects. Out of regard for such … see them masters. Such are, indeed, the common opinions, or more correctly the pretexts, which based upon a certain …