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Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… Low Countries, and therein especially the proceeding at Ostend. For Ireland, you may please to understand that the … her are sorry she has so necessary occasions. And now for Ostend, because you may neither apprehend too much nor too … 21 August 1601. Holograph. 1 p. ( 87. 127.) Siege of Ostend. 1601, Aug. 21. Plan of Ostend and district during the …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… two nights since from Plymouth) to warn the ships before Ostend and Dunkirk carefully to look out and to hinder them … and yet, methinks, we smally advantage ourselves thereby. Ostend standeth in reasonable good terms, and although they …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… to the number of 4000 men, yet being dispersed some into Ostend, where now are more than [6?]0 companies though not … much the stronger. Notwithstanding I presume the relief of Ostend will be pressed, the state whereof stands much astay … been ill advised; first to suffer Spinola to give over Ostend now "lyved" for three months at least, which ere this …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… down and withdraw the strength of their forces from before Ostend at the time that it was at the weakest, and if ever by … whereby Sluys was lost in the view of their army and Ostend gained the advantage to make up the new … were, upon the clearing of Flanders by the winning of Ostend, to pass the Rhine and enter into Friseland with …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… in advancing himself upon those advantages he hath at Ostend, is already at the foot of our first new works in the … you of the resolution taken beforehand for succouring Ostend. What the report of those which came out this day will … of; as now I must deliver to you the distressed state of Ostend, from whence came this morning 3 Captains and the …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… cautionary towns ?85,504 l. 4 s. 4 d. What numbers are in Ostend and in Berghen, or in what other places are any …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… into the Low Countries in June, 1589, for the support of Ostend vi c iii xx vi li II s Item, to diverse Captains, as … xviii s vi d Item, for the fortifications of the town of Ostend in June, July and August, 1588 iiii c li Item, for …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… Governor of Brill, to make provisions to be transported to Ostend to the value of 100 l., but is refused by the Customer …