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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary
… of our frigates have taken five fisher boats; they say bread is sevenpence a pound, and that they are all starving. … but also of the state of our provisions. I shall order bread to be baked at Carthagena against my return. I have …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary
… shall do, they having lain at Starcross a great while. The bread is still at Topsham and it is a pity it is not put to …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary
… from Marseilles dead for hunger; towards Lyons they eat bread made from roots of fern, which costs 2 d. a lb., and at Paris bread is sold at 6 d. a lb., and there is such misery that … water to swim aboard of our galleys, to buy some of our bread. The first minister of state hath been near to have …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary
… discussed with me yesterday evening, how ammunition and bread are to be provided, for there is no money. The … of the Admiralty. Mr. Pereyra, "CommissaryGeneral of the bread for their Majesty's Forces in Ireland," having occasion … from the country people for the conveyance of biscuit, bread, cheese, and butter, thereby averting the clamour of …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary
… amount to. We have already paid 4,000 l. on account of the bread to Mackado's correspondent, and shall take care the …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary
… the accounts of every regiment, to have been delivered in bread and other provisions to them, by his Majesty's …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary
… General Ginckle submits for the King's definite orders. Is bread to be provided for the militia of the country when they … and in a perishing condition for want of clothes and bread, and ammunition was very scarce with them. The … and gardens and unless in harvest, not one in ten gets his bread by his work. The situation of their country, consisting …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary
… the army which shall be fit to be paid to Mr. Feilding for bread. She would have the money which was agreed to be paid …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary
… and upon exact inquiry we find there is a want of bread. As to the soldiers designed by her Majesty to be put … Sir John Trenchard as to the cost and means of supplying. bread, fuel and straw for an encampment of six regiments. [ … ten weeks, and other provisions, except some part of the bread, for three months in eight days, weather permitting. [ …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary
… from the side of Sligo; we lack carriages to carry the bread, an absence that will be more felt when the Danes … and that the provisions by badness of the weather, the bread especially, are very much damaged. We have likewise …