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Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… matters concerning the general action and her Majesty's particular service; wherein he prays that some full … Instructions of the said Council, with my Lord Willoughby's exceptions thereupon, were duly considered upon, and … returned hither with the opinion and advice of her Majesty's Council, joined to her Highness' pleasure; for the …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… Lordship hath required James Digges to inform her Majesty's honourable Privy Council. For his repair to Ostend, he prays her Majesty to see Sir John Conway's letter, now in his servant Colman's hands, averring that … attempt to conquer the realm for himself and some of his children, and that the pope hath already given him the …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… in Languedoc, Dauphin, Provence, and Avignon, showing God's care of those parts. Walsingham should show her Majesty how … Conway. The Council send letters by this bearer, Conway's servant, Wood, about the 500 men and the 2 Flusshing … 2 sent for Ostend. Sir Thomas Wilsforde, colonel, 3 l. 14 s. 8 d. daily; Captains Wayneman [lieutenant-colonel and …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… Borlas, the officer commanding at Flushing, but Vasseur's friends have so worked upon that garrison that it arrests … bear more affection to the Count Maurice, for his father's sake, than they do to us, but, surely, use them well and … imprisonment and to make destitute his wife and nine children. Has for ten years spent his means in the common …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… Borlas' consent, have arrested Vasseur, the Governor's man. The Contract requires the consent of the Governor or … but are mostly 100 or nearly 100 men. Mr. Treasurer's and Sir William Drurie's are the weakest, the one claiming to have licence from the …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… Signed. Add. Endd. P. . June 1. 444. Reception of the Pope's Nuncio in France. On the first of June the Pope's Nuncio, Michel De la Torre, Bishop of Ceneda, came in coach … the Court being present. He recommended to them the Pope's Church, which was sore afflicted, and urged the King to …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… 1559, 1-10 March 1559, 1-10 March 1. R. O. 367. Gresham's Purchases in Flanders. (i) "A note of such provisions as be … as remain unbought for the accomplishment of the Queen's warrant." Namely, 28,000 (48) 1 weight of cornpowder; … said I, "to get that thing which we desire most, that is, children? I think not." Then they laughing said, "The other …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… Easter. Signed: Cardinal of Lorraine, De Montmorency, S. Andre, De Morvillier, E. d'Orleans, De l'Aubespine. Copy. … They arrived on the third. The King received the Queen's letter with the same satisfaction he had previously done, … is charged to wait for an answer. Will conform to the King's wishes, as he had been desired to do by Cecil. Will not …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… night after the oration, was written on the Ambassador's lodging: "Res dare pro rebus, pro verbis verba solemus." … that the money they had paid was done by their master's commission for services done and to be done, and they had … this behalf. No answer has been made as yet to the Emperor's proposition. The States are not willing to give much money …
Calendar of State Papers, Scotland
… I am now appointed lieutenant of that journey, with but 66 s. 8 d. per diem for my diet, table, &c., ye knowing well how … it may please you to move for an increase at the Queen's pleasure. I trust ye remember order for Sir James Croft's going with me. Berwick. Signed: Wyllyam Grey. 1 p. …