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Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
… Preface Scotland was now, more than ever, the great source of anxiety and vexation to Henry VIII. It has been shown in … following day that Angus should enter his brother George or else deliver Tantallon to the Governor's keeping, that the … at heart he must countermand an order to burn Sir George's property at Coldingham. 13 On the 1 January the King had …
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
… send material aid to her old ally. The English occupation of Coldingham and the country between it and Berwick 1 was … that the Northern seaports could not protect themselves or be protected against Scotch ships of war 2; and if it was … as it was said the English were secretly withdrawing their property from the towns there; but as the report seemed …
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
… Preface Preface The loss of the Mary Rose was a serious drawback to the English in a … dinner that he had good hope of raising her that afternoon or next day. 8 By the 9th, however, it was confessed that the … worth while. As to Carlaverock, the castle was the property of lord Maxwell, who, like the other Solway …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… at the day immediately following that whereon the news of the Peace of Ryswick was announced to the various … of this unhappy garrison had perished, whether of cold or scurvy or exposure or epidemic disease there is nothing to … thieves settled a difficulty that had arisen out of the division of their gains. Fourteen pirates on arriving at …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… for war. The year 1701 was, before all else, a year of preparation for war. One of the first documents here … to meet in August (494, p. 287). 5 On hearing of the division in the Council of New York, the Council of Trade … oblige him to do so, under pain of the confiscation of his property in order to make good whatever debts the …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… with what may seem to be arbitrary abruptness on the 14th of May, 1696. The latter date, however, marks something more … be found lacking in interest by the student of Colonial, or to use the newer and perhaps more accurate term, Imperial … the days of Cromwell to the days of the younger Pitt, the division of plunder was always a mischievous if not a fatal …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Preface PREFACE. APART from some pages of Addenda, which represent the accumulation of documents … is certainly not lacking in interest, whether historical or romantic. The year 1699 witnessed the capture of Kidd and … retired Governor of Providence Island, was taking home the property which, Bellomont suggests, he had accumulated by …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… part with Scottish affairs. In addition to accounts, lists of provisions, and other documents relating to the garrison … of Maitland, of Lethington, to "chop at the very root," 4 or in other words, to seize upon the person of the Queen and … their religion and the preservation of their lives and property was the sole cause of their being in the field. The …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… Preface CONTENTS OF THIS VOLUME. Page Preface xi Dates of Principal Events … despatches to the Queen and Cecil, 8 "not a castle, town, or tower left unburnt" in Tivydale until they came to … by an embargo which was laid by Alva on all English property in the Low Countries, and this in return led to …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… is mainly occupied with Low Country matters. The mass of correspondence is again enormous. William Davison, who … advisable to give them in the present series as fully or nearly so, as those not in his collection. They are … Pacification of Ghent, outrages upon Churchmen and Church property had practically ceased, there was no security that …