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Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… of discourses upon the first decade of Livie." ( 273. 3.) Saltpetre. Eliz. "Lazarus Erkerne, chief master of the …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… with the patentees for powder and with the merchants for saltpetre, but fearing that to-morrow I shall be as ill able … offer to enter into for the serving of his Majesty with saltpetre. The merchants which were before the Lords [of the … of their long experience, their utensils for making of saltpetre, and their mills for powder, which are matters of …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… to Sir Robert Cecil. [ c. 1602.] One of the patentees for saltpetre and gunpowder. The digging of houses and taking of carriages for making saltpetre are cumbersome to the subjects, and cause them to … like to grow very scarce. He has an invention for making saltpetre without digging up any house, and is content to …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… October 1604. Signed. 1 p. ( 189. 37.) Patentees for Saltpetre and Gunpowder. [1604. Oct.] "Requests of the patentees for the making saltpetre and gunpowder for the covenants to be made between … for delivery into store of all gunpowder made of any saltpetre made by his Majesty's commission, they desire …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… partly resolved on Saturday last touching the matter of saltpetre and the commission yet in force for that business, … the Commons of England, was not so much for the digging of saltpetre, as because it was then said that his Majesty's stores were almost empty and no part of saltpetre or powder received for supply thereof from the time …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… they promised out of the benefit of their grant for making saltpetre and gunpowder.This 12th of Sept., 1600. Holograph. …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I
… for the maintenance and increase of the mines of saltpetre, and the true making of gunpowder. [ Coll. Procs., …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I
… in the Commissions authorising certain persons to dig for saltpetre. [March ?] 16. Minute of two suits to the King, one …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I
… Cornbury Park. 46. Henry Earl of Danby to Buckingham. The saltpetre-men having grievously oppressed the people of those … Sessions; but the Earl, to prevent delay of supplies of saltpetre, and to withhold complaint which might distract the … these refusers may be conformed. April 23. 68. Account of Saltpetre brought into his Majesty's store by the …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I
… the Duke and the Earl of Totness, as Commissioners for Saltpetre and Gunpowder, was appointed to take the weight of all the saltpetre delivered into the King's storehouse, at the Bell, …