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Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… embrace Popery. The Duke will not engage in any foreign war unless the King allows him, which it is not thought he … urgently required for the King's service on account of the war, they require him to deliver the said sum, for which they … her subjects, and that through the licentiousness of the civil war her merchants travelling the seas were daily …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… Remind him how they furnished 40,000,000 for the last war with the French, and also how the Emperor Charles at his …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… the commissioners desperate of peace and 'doubtless' of war, which at his departure from them [he] bade them look for … on this side, subject to the perils and incommodities of war). In fine, we fell to speak of persons to supply your … there remains no hope of peace than such as the issue of a war will bring forth ; which there is no doubt will be bloody …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… ignorance or by constraint, joined the Spaniards in making war upon Holland and Zealand, it had been easy for him to … of them and the inexperience of the others, especially in civil warfare, as well as to the jealousies that exist, there … have a Governor of prudence and experience, especially in civil wars, on which all hope of our safety depends, in the …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… to incline till he were thoroughly provided for a war. Some good patriots have been of advice that the Estates … those of Scotland and Ireland to have two good ships of war in readiness to transport the money safely in company … here, inclining every day more and more to a desperate war. Forces both of horse and foot are marching from Italy …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… restoration of their ships and goods, lost in the recent war with Sweden, or compensate them at a fair valuation. Your … who complain of losing their property in the Swedish war were of such a nature that we could satisfy your, and … lose their living if they go about to defend themselves by war, and therefore think that peace should be granted to the …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… till the King of Spain has made his preparations for war toute outrance with the States, Don John the while … things are in suspense on this side. Nothing but war can be expected. He who prepares stoutly for it, who is … the reason that, as I judge, it is a great mistake to make war on Don John ; because when he sees the Archduke installed …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… As for present events in the camp, we continue to make war on the poor. It is hateful to have so many poor people … by our men, coming to ask alms in the camp. Pestilence, war, famine, the three scourges of the wrath of God, abound … we might have drawn good sums for the support of the war ; while now they serve only to fill the purse of a few …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… what else can be looked for but that from an outward war against the Spaniards they must fall into an inward … things in the Low Countries, and so save his honour. The civil division in Flanders will be the cause of their own … of M. de Jame is all broken up, and he ready to go back. Civil war is beginning to stir in France ; M. de Guise is at …