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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth
… Dec. [10 ?] 97. The Queen to the Governors of Guernsey and Jersey. Hearing from Sir John Norris, general of our … great preparation made by the enemy to invade Brittany, and that the French King, for whose defence we have been at … would be in danger of overthrow, we wish to revoke them, and yet not so as to seem to abandon the country. We are …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth
… the 400 l. granted for completing the Queen's works here, and give an account of it. I thank you as much for it as if … Queen for my coming over, which I greatly need for health and my living; but as she will not grant leave, I must … General Norris wrote me of his extreme want of powder and lead; I lent him, knowing the importance of it, 800 lbs. …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth
… were there. They range along the coast of Brittany, and no doubt will come here to spoil. I wish Sir Hen. Palmer were here, with his ship and two pinnaces, to take those vessels, which could land 400 … they discovered a great fleet of ships off Conquet, and thought it Sir Fras. Drake's, but a galley getting to the …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth
… 52. Sir Thomas Leighton to Lord Burghley. The merchants and mariners of St. Malo being arrested, I have long had no news, but I sent you and abstract of sundry letters received, from a St. Malo bark … are preparing in the river of Seville are bound for India, and will be shortly at Cadiz. The King of Spain is drawing …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth
… pray order the 500 l. granted for the same to be paid, and give allowance for four barrels of corn powder, 50 Ibs. of match, and 50 lbs. of lead, to be delivered to John Goring and Rich. Cuny, captains of the 300 soldiers employed in …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth
… waste without people, partly by the spoil of the enemy, and partly by fire. Tenements wherein the tenants were able to serve, some on horseback and some on foot, are now divided into several tenures, … landlords have taken the demesnes into their own hands, and left the rest of the tenants to live as cottagers, …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth
… with the Earl of Northumberland at the taking of Berghem and siege of Ostend, which is not likely to be taken, but the … are killed, Capts. Holcroft, Foster, Dutton, Madison, and Wilford; Sir Fras. and Sir Horatio [Vere] hurt, and honest Clinton killed. We …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary, 1695
… Addenda 1692 Addenda 1692 [16912.] Accounts of artillery and stores of war at Namur, Brussels, etc., dated May, September and October, 1691, and February, 1692. [ Ibid., No. 50.] 1692. Jan. 2. Dublin …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… Antwerp. Antwerp. Dec. 28.M. de la Noue being departed and no general commander left, each colonel rules his regiment and takes charge of the place they lie in. The Malcontents are in the field with 6,000 footmen and eleven cornets of horse, but what place they will begin …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… until February, then to be kept in Possonia (Possovio) and to continue after Easter, despatching many things left … found the original bull granted by the Emperors Arcadius and Honorius unto the church of Rome, so as the Romish … hereafter Cerberus must have his sop for a time to cease barking. The fifth Bassa of the bench, named Ferat has gone, …