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A collection of the State Papers of John Thurloe
… block up this city and river of Bantam with their ships of war, their barges, and other boats; and have used so much … Michaelmas last was twelve-months, this examinate came first acquainted with one Baron, by means of Charles … last, but this deponent never saw him since the first conference. This informant further saith, that Baron …
A collection of the State Papers of John Thurloe
… do remember. After this discourse he told us, that he was first made acquainted with it by a gentleman that lives in … Sir, I arrived here last night, and have had this day my first audience from the duke, and beene by him very …
A collection of the State Papers of John Thurloe
… the oath to such of the burgers, as were absent at the first ministring. If Peeter de Mincks doe not appeare to take … that we may have weaned affections from this poor empty world. Thes late providences hath much retarded our publicke … their good will which they had towards Poland during the war with Sweden, which continues yet, having sent a good …
A collection of the State Papers of John Thurloe
… which I will not revoke, though not for the reason I first gave it him; yet not knowing how he may be otherwise … thither. This evening there arrived here a Swedish man of war, which was going to anchor in the Sound, and had taken a … mee, they are the most soveraigne of the kind of the world; and if I beleeved them not such, your lordshipp may be …
A collection of the State Papers of John Thurloe
… accompanied with a gard of archers, to demand entrance at first very civilly into the monastery; but the couragious … open violence of the Danes, or by pretended private men of war, and should have been restored by vertue of the peace, … the king of Sweden did always boggle at that, but would first have him quitt the allyances he had with the Austrians, …
A collection of the State Papers of John Thurloe
… the next places in expectation to be beseidged; and the first of them has bin for some weeks streightned by marshall … his side to bear him out, and endeavours to convince the world sufficiently thereof, by scattering his manifesto's, by … Goree, where the said ship, together with the said man of war now are; and being farther certainly informed, that the …
A collection of the State Papers of John Thurloe
… the 30th past to their high mightinesses, touching the war lately kindled afresh between the kings of Sweden and … in case satisfaction be not given them by or before the first of March next, till which time, and no longer, (in case … letter of the 23d of November; by which I understand our first relation of the fight betweene the Swedes and the Dutch …
A collection of the State Papers of John Thurloe
… I would humbly offer and beg a resolve of two thinges; first, whether it may stand with his highnes good pleasure to … put not himself near the princess, as he had done at her first arrival. The promise given to the duchess is written … George Askew with 4 great frigats, and a Swedish man of war, and a merchant ship, followed after from Queenborough; …
A collection of the State Papers of John Thurloe
… were only false reports. But in your year 1068, in the first spring, the great Turk, comander of those seas, sent to … great quantities of materials for building more men of war; and they talk high there of building 30 sail of new … abuse by shipping, in bringing over and carrying back of a world of letters; and by private foot-posts, which hinders …
A collection of the State Papers of John Thurloe
… country by the Muscovites, that he is resolved to declare war against them; and to doe it the better, he harkens very … that he may be informed, that the Muscovites were the first breakers of the late treaty begunne betwixt them. From … preservative. The severall shakings we have seen in the world, may well teach us, how an uncerteine abiding-place we …