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Staffordshire Historical Collections
… 1. According to the "Chronicon Abbatum de Burton," quoted in the "Monasticon," Wulfric Spott was afterwards Consul ac … Chronicle states he was of the royal stock, and was killed in battle against the Danes, a.d. 1010. Sir Francis Palgrave … if the hide is employed to signify a carucate of land, or terra ad unum aratrum, it will represent about 250 acres, but …
Calendar of Papal Registers Relating to Great Britain and Ireland
… dean of SS. Peter and Paul's, Bardewick ( Bardewicen.), in the diocese of Verden ( Verden.), doctor of canon law, an … turn the first canonry and major prebend to become void in the same church of SS. Peter and Paul, Bardewick, and, … themselves exemplify the letters Omnipotens deus cuius est terra' of Thomas archbishop of Canterbury, addressed to the …
Calendar of State Papers, Ireland
… Wakeley has petitioned asking us to grant to him a lease in reversion of certain lands and revenues in the counties of Meath and Louth, of which he has already a … and to come. We are pleased that he shall have a lease in reversion of the spiritualities and temporalities with the …
Calendar of State Papers, Ireland
… Mountjoy to be Chief Governor and Lord Deputy of Ireland, "in whose sufficiency and willingness to do us all faithful … arrival with all solemnities thereunto appertaining and in like cases accustomed"to hand over the Sword to him. From … or having a fort whether regular or only earthworks ( terra plen) or defensible places, and with neither men nor …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, Addenda
… 1578 April ? 82. Note by Henry Earl of Huntingdon, that in the calendar of names sent from Council, that of Richard … Constable, when no such man was certified, as the words in the certificate from Scarborough are "The said Richard and … since, deponent was in Vigo when Stuckley set forth for Terra Florida, and took certain French ships with linen …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth
… Spain. Marshal Brissac allows all trade with Spain, except in goods of England, Holland, and Zealand, and has sent a … King of Spain to the chief trading towns, to that effect. In Spain they are expecting their two Indian fleets from New Spain and Terra firma. St. Malo, 20 Feb./ 2 March;1602. …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… with some adventurers and bombardiers, who had employment in Malta, and that these and about 100 soldiers of the galleys should be disembarked by night in a certain part of Malta, whence they could easily enter … which dominates that side; but the rampart of earth ( terra-pleno) was so good, and the cavalero so high, that the …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… Bois. On the 6th of May, Doctor Bandeville and I embarked in an English ship belonging to a merchant of Bristol named Thomas de Merico, who in Spain gave proofs of being a good Christian, not omitting … that shore. Here at Blois we have found also a bolus or terra sigillata as you have done in England, which I went to …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… graciously acknowledges the matters expounded to him in the name of Prince Matthias, Archduke of Austria, by his … Belgian dominions, and being desirous of restoring peace in those parts, commissioned Count Otho Henry of … greater entertainment than any of the others. The Duke of Terra Nova has met the other Commissioners there. While …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… rules his regiment and takes charge of the place they lie in. The Malcontents are in the field with 6,000 footmen and eleven cornets of horse, … States. The Emperor has sent a message to the Duke of Nova Terra and the other commissioners at Cologne. Madame de Parma …