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Survey of London
… his dictum 'if you want a thing done do it as well as you can but at any rate if you can't do all you wish do as much as you can'. 23 At a time when civil servants and politicians were a …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… the letter by an advocate, and not by the partie himself, can be no satisfaction to the petitioner in point of …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… quoth Thomas Price there present, Aye master, I know you can do itt; whereupon William King without giving of any …
10th April 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… I must first know the opinion of the committee before I can report it. Sir Edward Giles. There is nothing in his … but that we will then have all that we desire. He says it can do no hurt to begin with the bill and would have us be as … allow not some reasonable benefit to the planters. Neither can one place of 20 be thought an excessive proportion. Where …
10th March 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… General after. SIR EDWARD COKE. No alien denizated can serve in this House. He that naturalized is by act of … though he has made diligent search after him, neither can he learn where he now lies. MR. [JOHN] PYM. That the town … And some of this House shall search records to see if they can learn whether Sir Thomas Gerrard be a convicted recusant, …
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… That it [f. 201] may be true that not above 50,000 cloths can be vented in a year at Hamburg; but if those cloths may … 46,000 cloths, which is the reason because Hamburg, Delft, can receive no more. Many Merchant Adventurers buy upon … no part of their privileges and so their trading there can be no prejudice to them more than now the liberty of …
11th March 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… son, his estate, spent more in treaty than all the war he can make this year will come to. A vanity in us to desire him … He concluded that for Ireland, as divers of the House can better report it, that by the King's great care and … to war and has spent more in a treaty than the war can cost any one year. No king makes war of his own purse, …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… by John Constable and his forbears 'ever since [Wenslowe] can remember'. To Christopher Constable's interrogatories: …
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Henry III
… seneschal of Gascony, because the king is sure that it can be surrendered by the bishop without opposition if the … wood into the forest of Savernak to collect as much as he can with his hands only without any iron tool or axe, and to … Carleon to his fealty and service, and all those whom he can allure and attract to the king's service, so that …
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Henry III
… the goods of the hospital have increased so that more can be fitly maintained and when it is necessary for more …