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A History of the County of Shropshire
… with elaborately glazed windows, and one became known as Swiss Cottage. An elaborate display of pierced barge boards …
Calendar of State Papers, Scotland
… for the most part in post. I returned from Rome by the Swiss [les Suisses] where I have been twice, both to treat of … of Spain, of the Dukes of Savoy and Ferrara and of the Swiss Catholics. The Duke of Bavaria and the Archbishop of … has eleven thousand ritters, 8000 lance knights. 8000 Swiss, ten regiments of French, and as many as he will, a …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… for a levy of 8000 horse reiters and 14000 footmen, partly Swiss and partly German, with sufficiency of arms, ammunition … up the afflicted and oppressed into real security. The Swiss ambassadors are believed to have set out, although so …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, Addenda
… a day and night before the ports. It is said 2,000 Swiss are coming; the country grumbles much at being so …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth
… in Italy to seize Geneva, but the King of France and the Swiss oppose it. Mr. Winwood, my deadly enemy, is likely to …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary, 1695
… he has not received a penny pay these six months past. The Swiss protestant cantons are resolved to permit the French … here being marched into the villages. About six hundred Swiss have deserted the French army and are gone to …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary, 1695
… and taken sixty horses laden with provisions. The Swiss cantons have at last granted the French king a levy of … strong impressions the raising of the poll tax from the Swiss soldiers would make upon the Cantons, so that they are … d'Aumont has started. Part of the regiments of French and Swiss guards are also ordered to the coast of Bretagne and …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… give 1,000 harquebusiers, who must obey the General of the Swiss, and the captains and officers whom they will nominate; …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… treaty between Henry III. of France and the protestant Swiss Cantons, in relation to the protection of the town of … Renewal of the league between Henry III. of France and the Swiss. Commission and treaty. English translation. 15 pp. [ …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… The Duke of Savoy still intends to besiege Geneva, but the Swiss towns in league with her, and especially Berne, have … sent from the Duke of Savoy and the town of Geneva to the Swiss Diet at Baden are returned without any conclusion made, … 6,000 reiters. Marquis of Brandenburg6,000 reiters. Swiss. Berne. . . . 20,000 ( sic) footmen. Soleure, Zurich …