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Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… sent the day before to summon it with eight hundred horse; the burghers denied him the possession; his Excellency … three cannon in it, three companies of foot and one of horse : given order for the mending of the fortifications, … marched another time with thirty-three companies of horse through the enemy's country to Wachtendonke, to view …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… with them to each several place, a sufficient guard of horse and foot.Bath, 21 August 1601. Holograph. 1 p. ( 87. … noblemen according to their orders were proposed. Many flying speeches go about and the bells ring evening, night …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… Lavardin is on those frontiers, with 4,000 foot and some horse, and it was said that the King was drawing towards …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… and there were but three nags, as they did write. A good horse-load is but 500 l. in silver, so it could be but 1,500 …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… sent thither presently Grave Ernest with a troop of horse, ten Dutch foot companies and five English, whereof … in again; where Sir Edward Cecil, with his whole troop of horse, charging them close to the counterscarp, had his horse shot under him, and nine more of his troop hurt and …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… from the land side with 50,000 infantry and 20,000 horse, while the Spanish fleet at Bugia is to prevent any … wholly retired discontented for pay, the rest of their horse on the like terms. There is great disorder amongst …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… another corps of an army consisting of 3000 foot and 1500 horse to make head to the "Mutinez" who with other forces … Archduke's army, which in foot doth overmatch them and in horse is much the stronger. Notwithstanding I presume the … to leave munition, cannon and slaves and to march with flying colours, with their bullet in their mouth and baggage. …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… best be resolved and that I am even now ready to take horse, yet was it his commandment that I should send thus … and by loosing him in a strange place he may rake out flying full of spirit. He is not to [be] matched within England for high flying and wild striving, and for frank stooping and making …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… out of Holland and those quarters 10 more companies of horse and 14 of foot, and there is a fast appointed to be … to relieve them and that to that end he send for those horse and foot which I mentioned to you in my letters of the … his Excellency will be able to march 12,000 foot and 3000 horse; if he will or dare adventure so great a service I pray …