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Survey of London
… Colby Court, Kensington House and Kensington Court CHAPTER III - Colby House, Kensington House and Kensington Court This chapter considers Colby House and Kensington House, a pair of major houses which formerly …
Grey's Debates of the House of Commons
… Address sent up to the Lords, to have it mangled there, and so create a difference betwixt usBut let us go on with … Address was accordingly sent up for the Lords concurrence, and was as follows: "We your Majesty's most loyal Subjects, … we engage to defend Sicily, it will be above our effect. Burgundy is, (most of it) in the French hands, and now …
Grey's Debates of the House of Commons
… not being of equal consequence to England as Flanders is, and therefore not so convenient to stand in the same … of the AddressAnd it goes farther than to both " Sicily and Flanders." 'Tis always the security of foreign powers … all round on his neighbours, Lorrain, Flanders, Burgundy, &c. If Germany be not left in a condition to fight …
Grey's Debates of the House of Commons
… to think of "keeping" his children, as of "getting" them; and would have this money appropriated, that hereafter we may … in many places. You have been told what he has got besides Burgundy and Lorrain. But he has conquered his laws, and … the Spanish Netherlands. This meddles not with Lorrain or Burgundy, but only with what presently concerns us; and there …
Grey's Debates of the House of Commons
… but, if he understands it right, the Message seems to be, and he hopes it is, "for Alliances, &c." that when we came … of the Spanish Netherlands." Spain is in danger, so is Burgundy, and Sicily, and, perhaps, the East Indies, and if … it good policy in them to give up the Netherlands and Burgundy to France, upon Terms? Leave them out of the Treaty, …
Grey's Debates of the House of Commons
… my opinion to have the Record of his Conviction sent for, and time allowed him to attend you here. I would not hastily … desired to make his Will, for he would go over to succour Burgundy 4. And he went over when all was lost. The great men … practice. A War, and an Alliance was made with the Duke of Burgundy, in all haste, and, when that was done, the …
Grey's Debates of the House of Commons
… the Conviction of Sir Solomon Swale for Popish Recusancy; and a Petition of Sir Solomon Swale being tendered, he was … light in this matter, that we may satisfy ourselves, and do our duty, too, to his Majesty? There seems to be a … this Treaty will be to that of Aix la Chapelle, that kept Burgundy to the Spaniards, and the vicinity of these Towns …
Grey's Debates of the House of Commons
… the King's Ministers, how the Treaty stands betwixt us and the Spaniards, and what alliances have been made since our last meeting. Mr … of seven or eight towns in Flanders, and his retaining Burgundy, and that the delivering up Tournay is only the …
Grey's Debates of the House of Commons
… condition. The strength of the French King, both by Sea and Land, is far beyond his Neighbours. He has, at this time, … the Spaniards, and so to leave the French in possession of Burgundy and Franche Compt, and the rest of their Conquests, … like the melancholy ones, some ages ago, after the Duke of Burgundy's death. The French King had thoughts to make …
Grey's Debates of the House of Commons
… of the Navy, some Miscarriages of Sir Anthony Deane, and Mr Pepys, relating to Piracy, &c. 1 Colonel Scott … of the Admiralty; the Number of Ships; the Strength and Condition of the Navy; Methods of Sea-fights, collected … he was in France to survey the Prince of Conde's land in Burgundy and Picardy, and had a thousand pounds for his …