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Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… country, and how the enemy having resolved to continue the war, it is necessary for us to continue to defend ourselves … possible for us any longer to support the burden of this war. And inasmuch as you have always shown yourself a good … ours too ; and having got their plunder retire to France. War in these countries does not suit them at all, and if we …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… host when he comes will call them to a new reckoning. If war continue in the Low Countries then is good hope that … out for lack of pay. The King of Spain is weary of the war, especially as his return from the Indies (besides his …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… the conclusion of peace with the Walloons, and that 'the war being committed to them to make' against such as shall … to the union of the provinces, and the appeasing of the civil war which threatens, and the other troubles that we … as is from past experience too obvious to need proof. Civil wars must be appeased by remedies applied to the …
Calendar of State Papers, Scotland
… it would be a great drawing of them on to enter into a civil war, which, the condition of the Scotch nature considered, … arms than it was aforetime, by reason of their exercise in civil wars and their being in the Low Countries. If these or …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… the repose of France in many respects, since through the civil wars he decayed his estate, hourly endangered his …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… means to conquer countries, being encumbered with their civil dissensions, yet there were ways for them to suffer … which should have been a present means to divert their civil wars, and have hitherto never applied their minds these … 14,000 horse and foot, all good soldiers and trained in war, with shot and ordnance. He sent a company to 'invade' …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… in the realm, in order covertly or overtly to make war against the King of Spain, we have here great and … bear one half the cost, overwhelmed as he is with the civil disasters, provided that the Queen will undertake the … on the other hand we are so unfortunate as to enter upon a civil war, which we shall avoid as far as we can without …
Calendar of State Papers, Scotland
… Secondly, he will not raise any bands of men of war nor in warlike manner assemble his friends or servants … Teviotdale and "ronne and forrey" in day light, that a war might arise between the realms. And albeit that the … which might be made, sooner than going to the extremity of civil war, which would only be perilous at this time, and …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… town; and it seems, if our enemy will believe us, that the war is coming along into Brabant.Antwerp, 1 September 1582. … may well be the cause of some disorder. For the rest, the war in Savoy has come to an end, thank God. The assembly of … of the States of the Empire to interfere in the war in the Low Counties; and especially the count of …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… he buys horses and other preparations for the use of the war, and received yesterday 25,000 crowns upon assignations … that they should contribute to the expenses of the Turkish war. They voted him 4,500,000 florins, the sum to be paid in … and the Bernese have also laid down their arms. The war between the Turks and the Persians is recrudescent, to …