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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth
… stay to have a leak mended. They are strongly furnished for war. I will bear them company, daily feed them, and try … and Middle Marches, you think it convenient to employ 200 soldiers to strengthen the Marches. You are therefore to levy … as thought meet by the Lord Wardens. We have given warrant for their monthly pay, with imprest, to be continued during …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth
… you sent by the skipper that brought me the fresh salmon, for which I thank you. I have no friends that I can make … &c. [1 page.] March 5. 87. Presentments by the inquest for the sewers, sworn before the Commissioners of Sewers, of … The King of Spain should be made to believe that the armed soldiers are double or treble their numbers, and that there …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth
… 200 l. to the mayor of Newcastle, with help of friends, for the Lord Chamberlain to pay the soldiers levied for the Borders, and when at Newcastle on the 22nd for the …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth
… Thos. Dirke to Thos. Windebank at Court. Thanks for your courtesies to my nephew Norton, who finds many ready to say well for him, but none more ready to do him good than yourself, … 6. The Queen's name will not be engaged for credit to the soldiers on that side. 7. There will always be a magazine of …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth
… I hope you will find him such that there will be no cause for strife. P.S.My husband has never carried anything from … I send you three letters from Signor Masin del Bene, two for the Queen, and one for yourself. I think them all … and reap a large profit. I have had exclamations from the soldiers of the great prices and badness of the victuals, and …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth
… arrival of an English ship, Francisco Dearjola, provider for all the King's armadas made in Guigeaqua, called me … after they departed from before Cadiz, everyone shifted for themselves, and that if they had tarried at sea but three … and the powder has gone no man can tell whither. Such soldiers as have come home are sent 12 leagues into the …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth
… the soldier to entertain the practice, and appoint a time for the enemy to be received; 1,000 soldiers came, and when a 100 had entered the place, the … money, wages, and transportation of 3,000 men, appointed for France and the Low Countries, according to Privy Seal of …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth
… Volume 31 August 1590 August 1590 Aug. 1. 154. Suggestions for a letter to be written by to 32 [Thos. Barnes]. You have … on the casting of our pensionaries. They care not greatly for that here, for some officers of Col. Stanley, who had … were contemptuously bidden to go where they would. Soldiers are generally discontent at little employment. You …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth
… of the entertainment of Her Majesty's army in France for one month; total, 4,763 l. 4 s. [ page.] Dec. 10. 86. Note of the prices of soldiers' apparel to be sent into France at Her Majesty's … is a prisoner at Newhaven, and that they demand 2,000 l. for his ransom. [1 page.] Dec. 11. 88. Rates of the monthly …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth
… but I have signed a carte blanche, and will be answerable for the amount. I will pay it within a month, by some … Dec. 15. Pardon, in French, to Gregory Torque, of Jersey, for sheep stealing.[ Docquet.] Dec. 29. The Court. 171. … to Proerio, where they are to take ship. My Lord and some soldiers go, as it were, to hunt, and there tarry till the …