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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth
… had they not been driven away on Sunday, by the device of fireworks, to slip their anchors and so go out to sea. The …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth
… fleet and preserving Her Majesty's ships from their fireworks. To intercept the Spanish fleet from the West …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth
… when they heard a great clap. They had 12 barrels of like fireworks to bang aboard ships in harbour, and fire another … this doubtful, as they are preparing so many barrels of fireworks. [2 pages.] Penrhyn, Feb. 3, 1596. Feb. 7. 41. …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth
… mariners, from the Queen's ships; my experience in making fireworks, &c. and I would offer, with these mariners and a …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth
… Lee enters the Thames fortified. Munitions, victuals, and fireworks should he provided, with pinnaces for discovery, …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, 1601-3
… in the Narrow Seas to join with us; 3, what provision of fireworks, &c. we are furnished with; and, lastly, what Her … of Ostend. 3. We demanded of Sir Thos. Vane materials for fireworks, but he had no directions to furnish us with any. … men-of-war for that service. I am glad the materials for fireworks will not be wanting here. Mons. Caron sent …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, 1601-3
… come. Three English barks at Cork are ready to sail with fireworks to burn the enemy's fleet in Kinsale harbour. It is …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth
… him 20 crowns to defray his charges, and three balls of fireworks, and willed him to go to Dieppe to burn such ships, … as appointed, at Abbeville, but came to England with his fireworks, which he threw away. Dennys did not will him to … the town, and the boy returned to Picardy. Dennys made the fireworks at St. Omer, of aqua vit, saltpetre, camphor, &c., …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth
… Tompson came over at the first, two years since."] with fireworks; procuring a passport from Count Mansfeldt for … and with their designs; his knowledge of Tompson's fireworks. [" He hath already confessed that he made them, … devilish attempts,to burn the navy and ships with poisoned fireworks; to seduce some of the chief of the nobility to …