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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth
… in Manchester for causes ecclesiastical, on 30 Nov. and 1 and 2 Dec. 1580, viz., the Earl of Derby, the Bishop of … beg for letters of marque; have lost 8,000 l. by piracy and 3,000 l. by shipwreck, since 1575. [1 page.] 90. … to your question whether goods taken upon the seas by pirates, and brought to Guernsey, and there seized by Her …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth
… 35. Grant to Thos. Neall of the office of bailiff and keeper of the court leet and frankpledge, in the manor of Aldsworth, NorthlachFox, Bisley, and Stanley St. Leonards, co. Gloucester; fee, 3 l. 13 s. 4 …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth
… If Strong, the Irishman, had been lately taken in England (and he narrowly escaped, being thought a Spaniard by his … His example has made Welsh, a priest, more wary, and within these few days he has sought means to pass; but … the officers of Newcastle to set forth a ship to apprehend pirates haunting those quarters. I wish it may take effect, …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth
… of Guernsey, on payment of a fine, of certain lands and rents specified in that island, belonging to him in right … years ago, the ministers of the isle took my rent grain and tithes, pretending they belonged to the said lands, and … by their patents. For embarking the inhabitants against pirates. For levying mariners and pilots to pilot vessels. …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth
… 1has no other way but by prayer to offer for recompense, and that is that God will long, safely, healthfully, and most happily preserve you here among us, and as He hath … goods of certain merchant strangers, taken from them by pirates, and landed in these north parts, whereupon order was …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth
… agreed on between them, promised to convey to petitioner, and to John Bersey and Rich. Bersey, the younger, sons of Rich. Bersey, for the … against all equity and justice, and not on the seas by pirates, and has spent 150 l. within these five months in …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth
… disagreement as you speak of between the King of Scots and the Queen. They agree but too well, the King being most … because both the Protestant factions, the Chancellor's, and the Master of Glamis's, seek to fortify themselves by … reparation for remedy. There is a proclamation making it piracy to break bulk till a prize is brought home and found …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… between M. de la Fert in the name of the Duke of Anjou and myself. I sent it to his Excellency, after having had his … discharged. It refers everything to the Prince of Epinoy and me, and although the prince does not approve the … must be taken for punishing and avoiding the insolence of pirates, as also to move him for the particular suits of …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary, 1695
… has sent sixteen of his menofwar to pass the Dardanelles, and oppose the Turks in their attempts for the recovery of … in the conduct of the King, adding that the Emperor and Spain pretended to have other sort of conditions than as … as passengers, to join with them in the wicked trade of piracy; so, with the additional strength of the two Danish …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… of Christ Church before Richard Elliot, for a negro woman and her three female children. Judgment reversed. Major … that has been delivered to them since H.E.'s arrival, and what quantity they have in their custody, and continue so … for trial of offences against the Acts of Trade and Piracy, were ever designed to extend so far as that nothing …
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