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Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… man would advise to try to obtain our desire rather by civil war with all its misfortunes than by reconciliation and … wings, seem inclined to embark their fortunes in this civil war against the Gauntois, as men that think to redress …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… I thought it dangerous to face the uncertain event of this war. Hence I never had any dealings with the States, and I … do not object even to the restoration of Popery so that civil war be avoided. They contend that the less of two evils … provinces, as well as about the wretched consequences of civil war, fire and sword, brothers armed for mutual …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… into Louvain, Diest, and Leeuw, whence they carry on the war unremittingly. They have even plundered the barque of … common ruin. Here I reminded them of the calamities of a civil war, which is wont to pluck up by the roots the most … better pretext to invade it and transfer the miseries of a civil war for religion, wherewith France has been so many …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… time will bring forth strange alterations, chooses the war with the Protestant as the least evil, and therefore … the malcontents, who have withdrawn to Mons, to make war in Flanders ; a subtle way to trouble the State and … by some antidote. This would be by repairing their civil war, and would be feasible if means were given to a …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… stand on these terms : the said parliament wants to make war on the king, and have asked advice of the Prince of …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… so that the choice between such a peace as is offered and war remains very difficult, weighty difficulties presenting … personages, counts, lords, and others, all notable men of war have by my means bound themselves and combined in all … province and succour their confederates in Hainault, where war has broken out by those of Cambray, Bouchain, and two or …
Calendar of State Papers, Scotland
… of her treasure, only to procure a peace and end of the civil wars directly made against the King and his authority, … any general quietness in Scotland, but a continuance of civil wars, maintained by the greatest of the nobility taking … her majesty, without whom there had been no end of those civil troubles, in which the Earl of Huntly and the …
Calendar of State Papers, Scotland
… arm would not alone serve to carry the burden of this war. So that his Catholic majesty was begged by him very … hearts, our forces, and our lives being employed for the war in Ireland, it will be less to watch and work for the … So much that instead of drawing divers nations to this war by the devise of our said companions, with the assistance …