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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth
… 30 December 1587 December 1587 Dec. 3. 46. Note of horse and foot to be provided out of cos. Derby, Stafford, … Lancaster, Chester, Salop, Notts, Leicester, Rutland, and Lincoln, for succour of an army to be sent to the North, … Dec. 3. Whalley. 47. Edward Bradell to Lord Burghley and Sir Walter Mildmay. My brother Clopton and I received …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth
… Freke from divers sheriffs who collected it from recusants and the clergy, towards furnishing light horse for the Low Countries; total, 10,605 l. 17 s. 8 d.; and of his payments therefrom into the Exchequer, and to Sir Phil. Sydney, Sir Thos. Cecil, &c., 9,624 l. 12 s. …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth
… about * * * marvelling that, considering its importance and the hindrance that may come to what we so much desire, … so as * * * Consider that the time of the year goes apace, and therefore * * * * * I wonder your answers come so slowly; but the posts may miscarry through these wars and levying of soldiers. Your letters would come with more …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth
… Lord Scrope to Lord Burghley. Last Friday, Gerard Lowther and Mr. Fetherstone, sheriff of Northumberland, brought me … with them than his own preferment. The other two, William and Nicholas Sotheron, brethren, seem to be dangerous practisers, or men of bad and insufferable demeanor. The counterfeited ignorance of the …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth
… to Barnes. I take great consolation from yours of 22 April and 13 May, but am sorry that I cannot fully show the Queen the honour and love I bear her, so increased by her princely favour that I would spend my life and all I have in her service. I trust to make good by deed …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth
… what comfort I received from your letters of 30 September and 29 October, and will say no more till I come, because there be catchpoles … up letters. My affection towards the Queen is suspected, and my enemies take hold thereof to my disadvantage. I wrote …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… Burghley. Those of Ghent have cut a ditch near to Alost, and thereby both greatly annoyed the town and also hindered the passage of the Malcontents thither. They are now busily occupied in levying soldiers and restoring their camp, lately dispersed by the enemy. Here …
Old and New London
… Aldersgate Street and St Martin-le-Grand CHAPTER XXVII. ALDERSGATE STREET AND ST. MARTIN'S-LE-GRAND. Origin of the NameHistory of the … Post Office Removed to St. Martin's-le-GrandStatistics and Curiosities of the Post OfficeStampingCurious …
A History of the County of Stafford
… QUARNFORD was formerly a township in Alstonefield parish and later a civil parish 3,141 a. (1,271 ha.) in area. 74 It is mostly pasture, and occupies the north-east corner of Staffordshire, marching … at a farm in Sutton, in Prestbury (Ches.). 20 The alleged counterfeiting of bank notes at Flash in the early 19th …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… burns with an agreeable odour, often entombs insects etc., and when rubbed becomes notably electric. It was used in JEWELLERY such as BEADs and NECKLACEs, but also for many other luxury artefacts; one … offering knives hafted with amber, as well as amber SPOONS and amber necklaces [Inventories (1671)]. Amber was for …