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Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… born of a mother of Portugal, and so descended out of the house of Lancaster, whereof I beseech your lordships to have … what time, but I have given them a day to answer me, one way or another. 2 They depend much upon their reyters and … overthrow themselves and those countriesto take some such way of counsel as shall be for our honour and safety. And for …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… We hope your honour has received our letter sent by way of Middelburg, and that you will favour our petition for … King knoweth it; besides, since, I know it of more than half a dozen; 'then' [ sic] none of them are belonging to … Mompensier the leading of the avantgarde, as of the elder house afore him. I know that is put into their heads by them …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… and about four hundred horse, to pass from Ostend by the way of Blanquenberge to the enemy's quarter on that side. But … inform your lordships, it was thought fit to leave that way. Coming again before the haven of Sluyse, I required … ship of fireworks, being at midnight well onward on the way where the exploit was to be done, was stayed by …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… horsemen and 3000 footmen, so as there was no passage that way without a manifest loss of the whole forces, which were … the Prince of Parma showeth to have, be not to help the house of Guise, under the colour of such a feigned peace or … 15, and the rye which was sold at 26 and 28 florins the half bushel is worth at present 6 or 7. There is no news save …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… glad that the ryters might be entreated to take some other way; and withal thought that the Duke of Lorraine would be … to speak to him, and withal desired him not to haunt his house and wished him hereafter to lead a more temperate … to halt here, to spoil it and show that it is against this house [of Lorraine, i.e. the Guises] that enmity chiefly …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… thinking it better to batter down the West port, to make a way whereby to enter our rampart, which in the end they did, … by hastening on so sudden a peace, which cannot succeed no way profitable for us ; being made when the enemy is in so …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… suspension, and if the deputies should send for me at the house of Signor Carlo Lanfranchi at Antwerp, as my Lord … and without any great peril and that there was no other way of succour but that. . . They declared also that behind … the truth. Our affairs have never, for a year and a half, been worse than now, and we are on the brink of a great …
Calendar of State Papers, Scotland
… in post from Fife, and came first to the Chancellor's house, and presently sent for me thither. After I had … thereto. I seeing his course bending so firmly this way, assured his honour that her majesty would always have an … judges of the realm, that such right as the King may any way pretend hath not or cannot in any sort be weakened, …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… was once determined to have made bonfires afore his house yesternight, but he did after bethink himself, and hath … set down for so great and troublesome a charge might any way prejudice her Majesty or hinder the service as he …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… and most accessible of the United Provinces and opening a way into the bowels of Holland. The enemy would easily reduce … for their continued resistance during four and a half years, but even so at the end of that time they were … ii. 1157. Printed in Bertic, Five Generations of a Loyal House, p. 211. Printed in Dasent, Acts of the Privy Council …