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Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… in La Rue for fear of a surprise, the enemy having made ladders and other provision for war. On the 16th, we lodged …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… seemed to busy themselves about those stratagems. Scaling ladders and other provision was carried along. The rendezvous …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… forward in, for surprising Berwick; engines and scaling ladders in making at Leith. The chief man about De Courcelles …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… to raise his courage, but exploited it not, for the ladders were too short for the escalade; the intent failed at …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I
… very good hand in Scotland that they are now providing 800 ladders at Edinburgh, which must be for surprising and … Covenanters is true, and it is very probable that those ladders are for some attempt upon that place. His Majesty …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I
… you have intelligence that the Covenanters are providing ladders at Edinburgh. Two days since I sent an honest … or Stirling is yet doubtful. That they are preparing ladders, fireworks, and boats is very certain, and they have …