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Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… have forgotten, and I will be to you as serviceable as any man alive. I have delivered to this Lord President my heart, … or the government of her disposed to some very trusty man. Mr. Honyman and I refuse nothing in this service which … sheriff next year, my desire is that an indifferent man may be appointed. My uncle the bearer of this shall …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… 1602, Nov. 16. Two letters : 1. I understand that no man is yet so fast settled in that new charge, but that if … so far. This bringer, Mr. Cutlard, is a very sufficient man, and makes offer for sundry commodities, but especially … will now come hither, I must have money dispatched to my man in London to be remitted here. For I shall not find so …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… advances most God's glory I think no wise or religious man will doubt. Innovations are dangerous, especially when … It is objected against him that Watson, the priest, a man he never saw, who accused him 5 years ago, now charges … him word that he [Udall] "was able to charge some great man in Easter term with high matters"; but he believes his …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… of that by goods brought in by extraordinary means, so no man will deal for this place but at a far lower rate than the … together. I have no other matter till I hear from Coke my man that waits upon you: but may not forget her best … was I preserved, that myself for ever must be an undone man. I complain not, but upon my salvation I cannot move my …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… me aside, used these words: "I did wonder to see one man to-day in the field." I asked who that was. He said … your overtoiling in time, I will censure you for a wiser man to the world than to yourself, or to us your friends, who … whereof I have heard nothing as yet from Cooke my man, and therefore till then I will not trouble you further …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… General, to the Earl of Salisbury. 1605, Nov. 2. This poor man, John Bodeman, who by suspicion of coining was brought up … maintains, and has been in prison 34 weeks. Therefore, no man all that time coming to accuse him, I think it just that … carried into these parts, and that I was never so happy a man as I am made by the testimonies they yield of his …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… men; it being an evil custom of late to make the tithing man by the house, never respecting the honesty of the man, be he never so disorderly or unable. If it happen upon a widow's house by turn, she must be a tithing man, and whom she can get best cheap must execute the office, …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… are to deal with him as if he were the meanest and basest man in his country. He never meant to defraud his Majesty in … my own innocency, being as free from quarrelling as any man without occasion offered. But if you will but talk with … my poor estate is sore wasted in this action and no man would offer to adventure with me but your lordship, I am …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… ill affection towards us, were enough almost to make a man slow to give them any contentment, were it not in these … yet they are ill satisfied by his flight, and a great man said that by the same the King of Sp[ain] had lost the … into England, and one Father Conniers from Brussels, a man reputed to be of good learning, to win credit amongst the …