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Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… is now watering and taking in victuals under the island of Flores. With the rest I keep the sea like a …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… should attempt anything of them, and we are lodged in an island lest they should offend us. Without our island we have half-a-dozen forts upon passages, where if any … wife and children. The Spaniards mean to be lords of this island, for though they failed thereof, contrary to their …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… which nothing could be done more profitable for this poor island of Zealand. The state of Ostend standeth at one stay. …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… and what you will. And for the ponds there in the great island by your lodge will be then best ended, and against her …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… of the fortification of the fort of Plymouth and the island of St. Nicholas. The 25th of August, having provided … materials and workmen, begun to work on the houses in the island for the lodging of soldiers, as also the wall of the parapet round about the island. But, indeed, the weather has been so unseasonable and …