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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth
… by a patent or a yearly contract with English ships and those of the States, for keeping a light on the Lizard … ambassadors have been well received. Tell me their names and whether one will remain as an ordinary, and also who is … to take up ships, mariners, victuals, &c. to suppress pirates. [ Dom. Corresp., Eliz., Vol. CCXXXVII., ff. 3032.] …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth
… 1621 June 1621 June 27. 55. The Council to the Bailiff and Jurats of Guernsey. Having referred the difference between Samuel Alford and John Guille, to the Attorney-General, and received his … of the fleet employed by Sir Rob. Mansell against the pirates of Algiers. [ Admiralty volume, Dom. Eliz., Vol. …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth
… Carteret to Sir Edward Conway. I crave pardon of you and your lady, that having received her commission for … was shipped with great difficulty, but she has come safe and sound to me. I thought to have been in London shortly … be in the castles; how the people stand provided with arms and munitions, and what fortifications are necessary. The …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth
… the King's receivers to pay him arrears of pension, and that they have appealed, I beg to deliver in an account … s. 1 d. to Edw. Stakes, doorkeeper of his Highness' Wards and Liveries, for his quarter's wages. [ page.] Dec. ? 93. … from Guernsey or Jersey. The coast is full of pirates. Those of Granville have set out three men-of-war, …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth
… His second wife, Frances Gowpill, having misused his goods and abused his children, got a separation from him at the … but the dean, when appealed to, tried to reconcile them, and ordered that they should live together, on pain of … Norman relics, may be secured from foreign enemies or pirates, who now swarm in those seas, and if once masters of …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, Addenda
… Sec. Sir Wm. Cecil. I would give my experience of Guernsey and the adjacent isles, which, being fertile and of reasonable temperature, have long been preserved from … On receipt of the Queen's commission, we have examined the pirates; the principal, Capt. Heidon, Rich. Deigle, Corbet …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, Addenda
… Thos. Compton, bailiff, John Aster, dean of Guernsey, and three other Commissioners for piracies to the Queen. By … Rich. Hitchins, whose past life showed him wholly given to piracy, and the same day he was executed at low-water mark, … my brother, can communicate particulars concerning pirates and the proceedings of the last commission, whereby …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, Addenda
… 30 l. from Sir Wm. Dansell, receiver of the Court of Wards and Liveries, for the exhibition of John Arundel, for a year and a half ended at Michaelmas. [ Scrap.] Dec. 26. London. … pieces and some iron, which might defend them against pirates, but these poor fishermen could not defend themselves …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, Addenda
… in it. I send our return that my brother attendant there and the bearer may know your pleasure about finishing the work of the commission, which by help of the bailiff and jurats, will be quietly and speedily done, sundry … to the Captain and Commissioners of Guernsey for trial of pirates. On examinations and confessions of the pirates sent …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, Addenda
… to seek to prefer me to a place whereof I am both unworthy and unfit, which is to become of the Council in the North. If I had knowledge and all other gifts required, yet lack of living I trust … wherein I beseech your help. I hope to defend poverty and maintain a poor contented life. I doubt not but that I …