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Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… easily counterfeited, and proferring to make her Majesty's moneys for 100 l. every thousandweight, as I understand … much expense of time and money found out how her Majesty's coins may be made for the same charge they now are and yet … he was apprehended. Asked whether he had been a football player, or accustomed to ride at the Wynton at weddings, he …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… Inclines his understanding willingly to other men's information, loves the common good and therein takes pains … this Prince would not accept the election for ambition's sake but only for the common good, we may promise ourselves … their hands upon their pardons; condemns Bingley for a player under board, and like a partridge retrieved from hedge …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… June 21. This day arrived Captain Crofte in Her Majesty's pinnace Moon, six days from the coast of Galicia. He reports that at his coming thither he found the King's fleet in Ferrol, numbering about a hundred ships and … some port in France, but are in great dread of the Queen's fleet making ready here, thinking it will go for Ferrol, …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… at ease. We are made strangers to all my Lord Cavendish's proceedings, and do neither know anything of the old Lady's will as yet, nor the time when her funerals are intended, … in the world, as I understand by the letter and Pierce's protestations; for that they are my kinsmen I wish their …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… :1596.E. of Essex to my Lo. By Captn. Poore. Cecil's endorsement :readde. Holograph. Seal. 1 p. ( 173. 66.) (3.) … one of his legs, and a very wasteful spendur and careless player away of his money, chiefly at dice. Signed : Wyll. … a frank spender of his money and a bold but not a cunning player of dice. Upon a letter from Lord Hume in the King of …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… I beseech you read this enclosed answer to Mr. Tichborne's petition, and whether it be fit, before the examination of … Henry Lello to Sir Robert Cecil. 1601, May 1. Asks Cecil's favour for his brother Hugh Lello, who was a follower of … the complaint of the inhabitants of Bristol against Arthur Player for destroying and wasting timber fit for ship …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… it may the stronger be: Full many ane time in Vulkane's burning stow [ stove] The Smith does water cast with … good fellows concur in soliciting me for a councillor's place they shall be sure to have more credit with me than … as ye have perfectly used the first part of a physician's office in rightly describing the nature of the humour that …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… me.Ludlow, 1 Oct. 1604. Holograph. Endorsed by Cranborne's secretary: "L. Zouch to my Lord." p. ( 107. 48.) The Duke … rest of the Lords, who are witnesses of the Lord Treasurer's consent and his Majesty's grant, to desire dispatch of the suit, but is stayed by …
London and Middlesex Chantry Certificate,1548
… by us Sir Roger Cholmeley, knight, Chief Baron of the king's majesty's Exchequer; Nicholas Hare, Wymonde Carewe and John … 6 13s 4d to Thomas Lewes, priest aged 42, a good singer, a player on the organs and prettily learned, having no other … with the gild. Also named there are John Cotton, organ player and conduct; William Mathew, conduct; John Cotton …
Old and New London
… of the Original CrossLines on its DownfallSir Thomas Wyatt's Encounter with Queen Mary's TroopsA Cunning RoyalistThe Statue of Charles I.Andrew … of "Haunted London" that, in 166667, an Italian puppet-player set up his booth at Charing Cross, and probably …