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Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… October 1575, 1-15 October 1575, 1-15 Oct. 1. 382. The Regent of Scotland to Killegrew. Since his last letter there arrived a Scotch ship at Dieppe and in her some Scottish archers, one of whom Duncan Balfour, … the field the King can send no force against Monsieur. The Swiss the King had are all departed (except it be his guard), …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… 1575, 15-31 October 1575, 15-31 Oct. 17. 409. Affairs in the Low Countries. A consideration of the difficulties that are likely to ensue upon the Queen's not aiding and maintaining the Prince and Estates in Holland. First, the … Sieurs de Meru, and de Thore have raised a great army of Swiss, Lansquenets, Walloons, and reiters who must be paid. …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… 2. 938. Advices from Flanders. From Dunkirk, 2 Oct. 1576.The castle of Ghent is still besieged, though they have not … certain that the Estates will accord with those of Holland and Zealand. It has been forbidden under pain of death to … liberty of conscience allowed by the Edict. Some of the Swiss of his guard who stood by as spectators, assisted also …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… Know nothing worth writing except what is contained in the articles sent by this bearer to Mr. Walsingham, which I only had last evening, and must restore them in the morning, the same being so long … judged the time was too short, for that they of Zurich and Switzerland were first to be talked with, seeing they …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… 11-20 Oct. 11. 299. WALSINGHAM to DAVISON. We arrived at the Court on the 7th, where we found her Majesty eased of the … day following we were appointed to report our proceedings, and also to acquaint her with such requests as we had to make … it on behalf of the Duke of Alenon dissembled. The Swiss have been written to on their behalf not to oppose the …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… to WALSINGHAM. I have all this week been out of town about the company's affairs, and returned this evening ; so I am to crave your favourable … without a prince. 2. If as a popular republic after the Swiss fashion. 3. If as an aristocracy. 4. If it is lawful …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… 1582, 2631 Oct 26 421. Cobham to Walsingham Having on the 18th obtained access to the king, I informed him of the … of her merchants' trade, who traffic into the Levant and those territories of the Grand Signior's. To which the … Portugal, as from the Duchess of Braganza. It is said the Swiss are sending ambassadors to the King; and in their Diet …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… to Walsingham His Excellency's banquet to his Highness and the chief men of his Court was on the 1st inst. in the form … are said to be in all about 12,000, of which 4,500 are Swiss; who, as it is said here, have lately been paid by …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… October 1583, 2125 October 1583, 2125 Oct. 21. 180. Cobham and Stafford to the Queen. Having received your Majesty's letter of … The reason none can tell, but that one of them beat a Swiss of the Duke's guard at Turin, which the ambassador …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… three more letters from my friend at Cologne, alleging the lets which have stayed his repair hither, but promising … accept him, to make war against the Malcontents in Artois and Hainault (Henegow), stating that the King of France has … in Thuringia this month on the 28th. We hear nothing from Switzerland and do not know how or when the difference …