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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II, 1683
… the whole court at Windsor with showing them the finest fireworks that ever had been made and indeed by everybody's … lately been so ill used by her. (About Lord Dartmouth's fireworks as in the last letter.) I wish often for Lady …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… being broken so that it will not deliver water, and our fireworks being very much damnified with water. Finding our …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… demanded for the fireships is only for the paying of the fireworks; the decks, sides, and powder troughs having been …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… and soon after observed two remarkable ascents, as fireworks or fireballs, which went up out of the said ship a …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… was very industrious in receiving materials, preparing fireworks, receiving and distributing Navy and Tower stores and fireworks amongst the fireships and fitting fireships, and …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… and forecastle, they were constrained for securing the fireworks to lay a deck on her, which being but 3 or 4 feet …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II, 1683
… asked Glesan what they would do with the great number of fireworks they had prepared, who answered they would be …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… are disabled by bad weather. One wants her rudder, and her fireworks are wet, besides some other small damage and the loss of a boat; the second wants a boat, and her fireworks are spoiled. They say his Royal Highness is well, …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… they performed very well, and his Majesty is now seeing fireworks prepared on purpose for him. To-morrow the Court … the Downs, the wind due west, a fine gale. Describing the fireworks and the exercise of the garrison on Friday. [ Ibid. …