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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I
… the present volume extend over only the first nine months of 1644. They are taken up chiefly with the history of three … Of the doings of the Parliaments either at Westminster or Oxford little will be found in this volume, the greater … the period of the Commonwealth. On this account alone the division of the latter into separate sections of Charles I. …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I
… these are amongst the most important in the whole history of England. They commence with the month of October 1644, and … to give way on neither of the main questions of Religion or the Militia, and his promise to the Queen to do all he … 9th of January, and two days later adopted it without a division. Unless the Lords were prepared to let the …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I
… calendared in the present volume carry on the history of the reign of Charles I. from the Parliament's victory at … which is magistratical and coercive, is from the will or free gift of the people, who may either keep the power in … to the condition of the country, the altered value of property, or the fate which befell individuals of more than …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… Preface Preface The nature of many of the documents contained in the present volume of … Newsbook, and increased its value from 200 l. to 400 l. or 500 l. a year, he has been no gainer as yet, and has … should be ascribed to those who counselled first the division of the fleet, and then the engagement when thus …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… comprised in the present volume embrace only a period of eight months, the numerous news-letters addressed to … of the city as Paul's, with such a violence that no art or pains can meddle with it; all our hopes are now, under … and readily responded to. 10 Of the destruction of private property and stock-intrade, 13,000 houses having perished, of …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… Preface PREFACE. AMONG THE DIFFERENT COUNTIES of England, which have been at times illustrated by the … mentioned, under the title of Magna Britannia ct Hibernia; or, A new Survey of Great Britain and Ireland. It was … the several subjects in it, especially as to descent and property, have been elucidated and ascertained on sure …
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
… checkmated by his own subjects. But this was the state of matters at the end of the year 1536. He had not been able … hope of avoiding an inglorious surrender without adopting or imitating the policy of Norfolk himself. He accordingly … in Lincolnshire; 113 his proceedings relating to their property and that of the monks of Barlings while the abbot …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… Preface Preface The text of this the sixth volume of the Calendar of Venetian State … having never been published either in the original Italian or in any other language. Those of Bernardo Navagero are … tell us that some fragments of these gifts are still the property of the nation. 48 Whilst the Signory were shipping …
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
… is the Editor's first, sad, duty to call to mind the death of his friend and teacher, Dr. James Gairdner, who did the … in the first edition, and for the first hundred pages or so this has been done; but it soon appeared that many … being executor, of embezzling the deceased Cardinal's property 54 No sooner had the news of Bainbridge's death …
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
… Preface Preface We left Anne of Cleves at Canterbury on Monday evening, the 29th December … privately with some select members of his Privy Council or, more probably, of his Privy Chamber. 3 The visit took her … a shilling in the pound on lands and sixpence on personal property for natives, and double those amounts for aliens, …