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The Spanish Company
… Book of Oaths, Acts and Ordinances BOOK OF OATHS, ACTS AND ORDINANCES (Bodleian … C. 178) 510. [p. 1] The oath of a freeman by ancient trade. You sweare to be true and faithfull to our soveraigne …
Analytical index to the series of records known as the Remembrancia
… Books Books. I. 62. Letter from the Lords of the Council to the Lord Mayor, informing him that there had been of late printed and published within the City a certain libel entitled 'A …
Calendar of Border Papers
… A Book made for the Privy Council as to the number of workmen and labourers to be employed on the works in Berwick "this somer," if the present charge of 517 l. a month is not exceeded. The workmen named are …
Calendar of Border Papers
… Papers volume 1 April 1593 818. The Deputy Mayor, &c., of Berwick to Burghley. [April 2.] We have received "a moste bitter lettre" from the Lord Chamberlain of 21 st March, whereby it appears that M r Mayor has … for which his "lordship is wrathefullye bent againste us," and doth send down his son M r John Carey to take the …
Calendar of Border Papers
… Scrope to Walsingham. [Aug. 10.] "Havinge the comoditie of this bearer M r Harry Leigh, I coulde not let him passe … Maxwell has refused the wardenryand every laird, gentleman and borderer rides against the other. As the nights grow long … 12.] "Yesternighte verie late, I receaved your letter of the viij th of this instante, signifyenge her Majesties …
Calendar of Border Papers
… the charges too great, I have conferred with the Surveyor and other special workmenthey report that the charges can … and the great tower. "The quarry for walling is a myle of or therabottes, the lymestone twoe myle, and the coale … and is responsible, I trust your honour will allow my acts herein, or the Queen will be a loser. I trust your …
Calendar of Border Papers
… fyrst, to him self, afterwardes before the burgesses and commonaltye of Edenbroughe, and thirdlie, before the ministerie and all … his fault to the King, in fyrst breaking owt of the castle at Edenbroughe, for the Abbey road, the road of …
Calendar of Border Papers
… from Scotland, Sir Henry Lea, Sir Robert Constable, and Thomas Bamborough, are appointed to advise him on the preparation of the army. He will find 500 foot already placed on the … in ther company, taken in the following of their lawfull trade of the Laird of Mellistons goodes. How farre this laite …
Calendar of Border Papers
… great delay in the King establishing an officer opposite, and also backwardness in redress, it seems to me good policy to provide for quietness till the "evill of the winter be past." And it has been "thoughte profitable … an assurance (such as hath bin here accustomed in tymes of like necessitie) from Kynmont the cheife of the …
Calendar of Border Papers
… direction in answer to your former, as to the levying of 50 horse to defend your frontier from any sudden … cause, yet now understanding the suspicious proceedings of Maxwell, she is pleased to permit the said levy "onelie for the present necessitie," and her Majesty's warrants are therefore enclosed. At the …