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Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… Burghley. Those of Ghent have cut a ditch near to Alost, and thereby both greatly annoyed the town and also hindered … like whereof hath not been done since these troubles. Some say that, on the news, Groningen is fallen into civil … me, if witness beyond exception, yea mille testes, I say, if an entire and good conscience acquitted me not, and …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… until February, then to be kept in Possonia (Possovio) and to continue after Easter, despatching many things left … actual votes were given in Latin. Dezza [de Deza] did not say a word, six other cardinals gave the placet, others, not … for the Duke of Alenon, and those of Holland and Zeeland say that they will never have him for their lord, whence it …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… 16/26. 787. News from Venice. Letters from Constantinople say that a present sent from the Porte to the Tartars was stolen on the way by the Cossacks, and on demand to the King of Poland for its restoration, he … the Marquis del Guasto twice defeated. Letters from Madrid say that the King had gone to divert himself in the forest of …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… to the French King. After presenting her Majesty's letter and assuring the King of her affection, he proceeds: The … his Majesty's estate, both from her sincere love to him and because she conceives that from its hurt and ruin would … and of a loyal subject to his prince. But she wishes to say that she is very sure their method of proceeding, and the …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… which come into the ports of Italy. Also that the new and additional imposition laid by her upon Italian alum may … [o.s.], of the order of the Golden Fleece to the Emperor and Dukes Charles and Ernest of Austria, and on the following … were entered into. We think it to be far from the truth to say that the English are being excluded from their liberty of …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… since the capture of Tobago from the Dutch by the French, and the subsequent abandonment of the Island by both nations, … certain negroes have been left behind there by the Dutch, and that no one is in possession of Tobago except some … services, to grant you the said negroes for your own use and property, provided that no one else can show legal title …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Alexander; of the conquest of Canada by the Kirkes in 1627 and 1628, of its restoration at the peace, and of Sedgwicke's capture of Acadia in 1654. 2 pp. Undated. … in the lake, as far as we could count, but the Indians say there are many more. Some are eight or ten miles long. …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… 2,081. Governor Sir William Stapleton to Lords of Trade and Plantations. The Spaniards have captured the Africa sloop, belonging to the African Company, and another boat which I sent to St. Thomas, both while sailing between Tortola and St. John within this Government. They have sent the …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… to the Plantations. 1,270. IV. List of the Virginia and Maryland Fleet, 1691. 2 pp. 1,270. V. List of Bideford … the outports bound to the Plantations, with their tonnage and number of their crews. 5 pp. [ Colonial Papers, Vol. … for aught we know, be already on their voyages, that is to say all the ships from Land's End to Carlisle and from the …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… London. 1,325. Commissioners of Customs to Lords of Trade and Plantations. As to trade this year, the Virginia and … to sail. The merchants to Barbados and the Leeward Islands say that they will have no ships ready till January next, … As regards next year's trade, the Newfoundland merchants say they cannot yet tell what number of ships will be sent …