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Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… Earl, with the Duke, is gone this day to the Lord Fleming's house, to baptize a bairn. And there meets them divers … some better ground and greater assurance. The Master of Gray is in this town about his particular of Dunfermline, … his return, so that neither Huntly nor the Master of Gray shall keep it. Our state continues here quiet enough, as …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… Compiegne. About 400 Italian horses have come for the King's service conducted by some private gentlemen of Florence. … The greater part of Italy desires a good issue to the King's affairs.Dieppe, 21 December, 1590. [P.S.] Since writing news has come that the King went from …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… from Sir Walter Raleigh and Sir George Carew and by my man's report. Mr. Seymor and my cousin Champernowne would have … as yet set down; praying him to leave it to her Majesty's determination; so therein they have done nothing, but Mr. … his pleasure touching Thomas d'Arques who abideth still close prisoner and has not a gros to relieve himself. …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… must of necessity pass and repass always by the priest's prison. All the safest prisons are so neighboured by the … with this punishment, it shall be a warning unto me by God's grace while I live.From the Prison at the Marshalsea, 5 … hither your warrant for the discharge of Mrs. Shelley from close confinement (by whose means I grew presently in great …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… now to give counsel. I confess I did take her Majesty's favour herein as the most absolute and extraordinary grace … I did presently and not before my Lord of Sussex's death, acknowledge unto some of my friends her Majesty's … to accept of, the rather for that Mr. Dyar was then close prisoner, with whom I could have no conference, nor …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… others, as it doth you, for Mr. D[ean] of Windsor's acceptation of Worcester. But, as it appeareth by the … Stamford, over 80 years old. 1541, 6 May. W. Cecil came to Gray's Inn. 8 Aug.Married Maria Cheke of Cambridge. 1542. 5 … his master, the keeper, that Dexter and Keynes may be kept close prisoners as heretofore. Undated. 1 p. ( P. 103.) Sir …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… me for the mill, because of the Earl of Huntingdon's death; but it shall be executed before New Year's Day. Finish my suit for Hammer Wood; I hope you received … feasted, lodged and entertained him at his house, using close and secret conference with him. That his trusty …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… he may serve his turn. The protesting of the Cardinal's bills of exchange doth very much trouble all the Italian … to deliver the tower which commandeth the haven (for Roley's company lieth in the town) unto the enemy. Roley bare him … 15. I have been now a week imprisoned, for the most part close, or at least at the discretion of the keepers; I would …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… you spake to me this morning, so as I cannot know my lord's [Burghley's] pleasure therein. If you shall command anything when you … last day how I was here at the discretion of my keepers, close and open as they would, with which I was well contented …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… and is now at Venice. My uncle is the King of Barbary's merchant resident in that kingdom, whither I went from Florence in the same King's service, and from thence to Cales, only as a merchant … it best to go into the country to my friends, and lie close this winter, for if it be known I am in the country, it …