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Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… made a survey of the defects in the rivers of Witham, Eu, and the waters leading to Boston Haven. They find that … ingrows, sand beds, &c., both upon the side of Wildemore and the Eight Hundred Fen, as that the waters cannot have … near, 20 tuns more of beer and 50 or 60 quarters of malt in like sort for their provision, I entering into …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… Robert Cecil. 1599, Aug. 21. I have received your letter, and accordingly have sent the master of the French bark by … presenting. This Frenchman has been here almost one month, and since his arrival here has not been any French bark but … at Sligo. Provisions named are :biscuit, butter, cheese, meal, oatmeal, lings and dry fish. Gives the number of days …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… Griffin Markham entered her husband's house with his wife and family, and took up residence there. He behaved most offensively, … has the possession of the mills there, as well as of a malt mill, demised to Thomas Mathew, paying a yearly rent of …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… Majesty was informed of reckonings between his officers and him (Gray), he thought meetest to clear the same before … for it is now 20 years since he meddled in anything, and then he had sufficient discharges. He thinks his … he was indebted to his (the King's) merchant Robert Jonsie and to his "tailyour" Alexander Millar: therefore he has sent …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… a letter from your lordship, my Lord of Worcester, and my Lord of Northampton, signifying his Majesty's resolution touching the Great Park, and will give knowledge accordingly to the undertenants. From … the Earl of Salisbury. 1605, August 16. I have taken order and written to the Vice-Chancellor for accomplishment of his …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… had been my duty to have wrote the whole journey unto you, and so I would have done had not this our ever renowned … This is all I will say to you, that such a bay, a river and a land did never the eye of man behold; and at the head … his Majesty was much offended that upon such a time for a meal there had not been a table for the receipt of noblemen …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… knows of. Seeing now the length of time that has elapsed, and fearing lest Her Majesty should be ill satisfied concerning the various rumours spread about him and his actions, thinks it will not be out of place to inform … (biscuit, beer, beef, saltfish, butter, cheese, wheat, and malt) sent for the use of the troops in Ireland. Endorsed …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… of certain persons, with the noms de plume given to them, and the cipher marks by which they were to be known. The … made by Simier : 1. That the treaty shall be reviewed and ratified by Commissioners. 2. The form of solemnization … of this world in whom his Highness has most confidence, and to whose advice and prudence he will always submit the …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… Bois de Vincennes, besought him to be good to her husband, and not suffer him to be called away to benefit Montmorency. … be contented that for her son's sake he loved her husband and all hers, that he had enough to bestow both upon her son, … to come by it. This I had I was fain to pull out in piece meal, and copy it with divers hands and so tack it up again. …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… suit for your Lordship. It is a concealment of lands, and I would give 200 l. to obtain it; but if it were known … his journey, makes me bold to follow your directions, and [I] have herewith written unto the Lords of the Council … and eight score and eight quarters of sweet strawdried malt, to be paid at Christmas and Midsummer. But for that by …