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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, Addenda
… could direct for yourself. Ashridge is worth the having, and the commodities of it great for wood. The situation and walls about it will save you money, and the translating … may consider what measures are to be taken for suppressing pirates, and about the ships preparing on the coast; but as …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, Addenda
… August 1569 Aug. 4. Oatlands. 84. Proclamation against pirates. Notwithstanding former orders against piracy, ships are equipped by disorderly persons, who haunt the Narrow Seas, and pretend leave to come into small rivers to be victualled, …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, Addenda
… yielded to become a suitor for the life of John Gower, and that he may compound for his lands. The causes are, first, that he is a young man, and has not been a malicious offender or privy to the … [3 pages.] June 6. Hampton Court. Proclamation against pirates. Many persons have been apprehended and executed upon …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, Addenda
… as you willed me in your letters sent by Master Jackson, and desired you to help me to a farm, or other temporal … for his service in the late rebellion, hopes some reward, and has prayed my letter in his favour. I will not say he has … for he has done but his duty, nor will speak of his just and honest dealings, but, as he is my man, leave the report …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, Addenda
… to pass into England; I found him to be an Englishman, and examined him. He denied having any letters, whereupon I had him searched, and found a number sewn up in his hose, besides beads, agnus … victuals for our friends, but also the stream clearer of pirates than it is at present, and Her Majesty will save …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, Addenda
… in a packet signed by you. The letters now sent to her and my Lords are those which it is customary to write at the … report may reach you. I had some provisions lying here, and therefore the B[ishop's] men have been content to let me … Lord Admiral, in which I certify the great disorders of pirates upon the coasts, which if not seen into, the …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, Addenda
… in the certificate from Scarborough are "The said Richard and Wm. Constable," which Richard has relation to Richard … of Robert Scarborough of Yarmouth, touching his piracy against Scotchmen and others; viz.: Who was the owner … by the Commissioners for piracy, of ships fitted as pirates, pirates' goods received, and victuals supplied to …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, Addenda
… 1577 Dec. 5. Certificate, by the Commissioners for piracy, of pirate vessels set out, pirates' goods received, and victuals furnished to them in Suffolk. With note that the …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, Addenda
… which have been seized as belonging to some Portuguese, and distributed amongst certain of Her Majesty's subjects, by … [3 pages.] Feb. 4. Certificate by the Commissioners for piracy of offences in receiving pirates' goods and supplying their ships in co. Devon; with …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, Addenda
… be hard to procure him licence here to go to that charge, and therefore he must come over as one of yours; when there, … and Henry Witherington, Commissioners for matters of piracy in Northumberland, to Council. According to Her Majesty's commission and articles for inquiring of pirates and the receipt of their goods, or the aiding them …