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Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… the Duke of Holst[ein]. [1606, August 16.] Your Highness's letters of 4 June came to my hands 7 or 8 days since, by … his mind was both well prepared to receive the King's overture and most ready to embrace your brotherly … delivered you the end of this particular by his Majesty's commandment I have nothing more to add but this, which I …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… my distressed estate. That which pertaineth to her Majesty's service is of mine own ragged handwriting, for I would not … Majesty. None of them shall know the cause of the other's going. We will provide one that shall go and return unto … on his brow a p for his perjury, and on his other cheek an s for subornation. 2. Wells is to stand on the pillory at …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… he may serve his turn. The protesting of the Cardinal's bills of exchange doth very much trouble all the Italian … to deliver the tower which commandeth the haven (for Roley's company lieth in the town) unto the enemy. Roley bare him … town and beg your favour therein.Flushing, 1 Dec. 1596. P.S.I understand from Middelborough that upon sight of the rack …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… 1599, 1631 December 1599, 1631 Richard Vennard, of Lincoln's Inn, to Sir Robert Cecil. 1599, Dec. 16. Is imprisoned at … hear his cause, he cannot obtain hearing. Prays for Cecil's hand to the enclosed letters to Mr. Justice Gawdie to … Endorsed :Some verses upon my late Lord Treasurer's decease. 1 p. ( 75. 35.) Amb. Jermyn to Lord Lumley. 1599, …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… warrant for taking carts, as was twice done in your father's time.From my house in Bishopsgate Street, the 16th … Lord Burghley, yourself, and the executors of your father's testament, hath been shewed to his Grace and approved by … This addition, which I take to be agreeable to his Grace's determination at the time, I have thought it my duty to …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… the States granted unto the King at the Duke of Bouillon's being here. Now to let your honour understand how the State … consider his misery and danger to his life. If by Douglas's means he be discharged and employed in service, he will … 1. Beseeching his resolute answer touching George Freman's offer for ransoming Thomas Geffrey, whose ransom being 400 …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… will be to his own cost and the hindrance of the Queen's service. Gives eight reasons to prove this, showing that … be returned unto me, together with the copy of the Emperor's letter to her Majesty; also, whereas my father is willing … him, but is only stayed by the fear he hath of her Majesty's displeasure for so doing, and seeing I have been told by …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… you have done anything in the matter for trial of Fulshaw's slanderous allegation; wherein I shall be overreached much … able to endure the seas, and that the master of the Queen's ship will be pleased to carry me, I intend for the speedier … I have been framing a chart out of some such of Sir Walter's [Ralegh's] notes and writings which he hath left behind …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… widow, to pay the fines. Prays Cecil to remember the widow's charges already defrayed and to be defrayed to the Lady … of Lincolnshire, and himself, and describes Sherard's position and base dealings. Speaks of his own imprisonment … great wrongs, and public disgraces. Rather desires Cecil's favour without the office, than the office or other …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… word, even now after nine, from Mr. Darcy that her Majesty's pleasure is to have you come to her presently. What the … 2 of March, 1598. Signed. 1 p. ( 60. 14.) The Queen's Lands. 1598/9, March 2. Instructions from her Highness's Commissioners for sale of her Highness's lands to the …