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Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… kings so great as that they can bring into the field a hundred thousand or two hundred thousand men apiece, viz. the king of Bengala, the …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… Flushing, and to the camp wheresoever it be. The hundredth penny of the soldiers is a thing no way concerning or … demi-culverin with 8 lbs. 4. This piece weigheth but two hundred; the demi-culverin 30 hundred. 5. This piece may be carried over any bog or up any …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… that the town of Amiens hath ransomed itself at three hundred thousand crowns, and in it were found eight hundred barrels of gunpowder and forty pieces of cannon. It … he cannot find any that for his service will disburse a penny, nor yet in Italy that will give accomplishment to the …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… while he was there, that there was between eighty and a hundred sail of ships remaining at Farroll, not in any … of them, new built, were of the burden of eight or nine hundred tons each, but they be not yet rigged, nor did he see … the Butler and a priest did run away together. That six hundred books were in the house in a flasket unfound. That …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… that are within will come to agreement. There are some one hundred brave men within the place. My lord his forces are … Queen through your Excellency for leave to export fifteen hundred dickers of ox skins; and although she then refused me …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… lord the Marshal of Brisac hath besieged was, after three hundred cannon shot, delivered by composition to my lord. … be betrothed to Csar Monsieur. The King gives the Duke one hundred and fifty thousand French crowns in recompense of the … There is some speech that there are arrived some seven hundred Spaniards to Bluet; the truth is not as yet known. …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… found means to procure Otwell Smith to furnish me with two hundred crowns, because the merchant unto whom your letter of …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… not. Here is arrived, in all the companies, but seventeen hundred. The Mayor was very importunate to have sent away the … as their desire is, proceed upon the voyage, three or four hundred soldiers being put into them to join with the States' … your Honours the muster roll of the three companies. The hundred horses under the charge of Sir Henry Danvers, knight, …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… I was constrained to put more victuals aboard them. Seven hundred are now ready to depart hence to Liverpool and … Bodington to the Privy Council. 1599, March 27. Five hundred Frenchmen are arrived here, come by their own report … well to let your Lordships know of it. There are five hundred more said to be coming.From the fort at Plymouth, 27 …