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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II, 1678
… leaving behind him money for the ringers and 40 s. for the poor and orders at the King's Head to treat his friends with … were only four English ships besides himself, all the rest Dutch, the whole fleet about 20 sail. Last Saturday he came up with five Dutch men-of-war and a fireship between Lyme and Topsham, …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… seeing him. The news from Ireland is very ill relating to poor Lord Ranelagh, for not only his business goes as ill as …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… on Whitsunday, 1676, ordered to be admitted to the first poor knight's place of Windsor, as should fall void, after … Montgomery; for admitting the said Aldham into the first poor knight's place vacant after the admission of the said … of Windsor to admit Capt. Philip Garret into the first poor knight's place that shall be void but in such order of …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… whether we may not send to seize that vessel in the Dutch ports and what a fine noise it will make that they … in the point his Majesty has commanded as also towards the Dutch in reference to the Algerine supposed to set out for … Luxemburg, which will soon be known one way or other. The Dutch ambassadors came hither last night and took up the …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II, 1683
… on behalf of the clothworkers, dyers, and thousands of poor manufacturers of the once flourishing drapery of England … of his house boarded and then nail on the slates in the Dutch way, when only scantle stones will be useful, or follow … near Cree Church; Col. Scott, that was a spy for the Dutch; Col. Buffett, who lives about Taunton; Col. Mansell …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… I send you the last memorial of M. van Citters, the Dutch Ambassador, and Lord Sunderland's answer to it. The … be taken concerning the new portmen and freemen, for the poor town cannot supply sufficient and loyal men but they … received yours of the 9th and 10th and late last night the Dutch letters came, which the King has not yet read. …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… Ostenders arrived here yesterday say that no part of the Dutch fleet is out yet, nor did they in their passage see one … Monday evening, says it was reported that the French and Dutch had had a brush about Maestricht, where the French lost … Friesland and North Holland, wanting men. Last night the poor man declared his supper would do him no good, because I …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… to the coast of Flanders, where it is imagined here the Dutch fleet may be at present, if that sent out to-day brings … my duty to his Majesty. The masters related to me that the Dutch fleet were N.N.E. from the North Foreland about five … number of brave seamen among them. The rest are poor country fellows, not, I conceive, very proper for that …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… the last for persons having letters of marque against the Dutch. These are verbatim the same as those of 9 May, 1666, …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… to hear there is so little hope of money for satisfying poor people whose cries are great. The Monmouth was launched … about the taphouse. I saw a usefulness of a taphouse and poor men have been benefitted by it already, and I hinted in … he will serve in as cheap and good as any man. He is a poor man and a cripple. On the back, May 11. Navy Office. …