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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary
… Order to Robert, Lord Lucas, chief governor of the Tower, not to allow any horses, except the mill horses employed in the Mint, to remain in the Tower, as the danger of fire, from the fodder required for …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary
… on the 2nd. This day the Earl of Torrington goes from the Tower to the mouth of the Medway, in order to take his trial … to Lord Lucas to discharge Robert Jones, a warder in the Tower, for permitting Lieut.-Col. Philip Rycaut to escape. [ … concerned with Colonel Parker about his escape out of the Tower. I saw him in France when I was there last. Captain …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary
… to cause certain metal and mortar-peices remaining at the Tower and at Woolwich found to be defective and unserviceable … a certain common, or waste piece of ground, whereon an old tower or castle formerly stood, anciently called Bruen's … to Lord Lucas. Mr. Dorrington, now a prisoner in the Tower for high treason, having by his petition represented to …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary
… Brodie, ditto. [ Ibid.] Dec. 13. The Victualling Office; Tower Hill. The Victuallers of the Navy to the Earl of …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary
… Yesterday 10,000 stands of new arms were brought into the Tower. The Spanish Ambassador has taken a house in the Old … 24 guns on each side, and about 12 more guns in the round tower. There is also an old fort near the entrance to the Bay …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary
… The Earl of Shrewsbury to Lord Lucas [Governor of the Tower]. Directing him to allow the children and relations of … to him, and that he be suffered to have the liberty of the Tower in the presence of a warder. [ H.O. Letter Book ( … grant to Lord Lucas of the office of chief governor of the Tower of London. [ S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 34, p. 188.] Feb. …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary
… I believe, the only good officer we have. Ignorance of the Tower authorities as to arms. The enemy endeavour to keep … you have made a contract with Pereyra. I have asked at the Tower for money to support the artillery, and I have borrowed … Complains also of the badness of the arms sent from the Tower. Has borrowed all he can for the subsistence of the …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary
… must be transmitted to the office of the Ordnance, in the Tower. [ H.O. Letter Book ( Secretary's) 3, p. 10.] Feb. 5. … you permit him to have the liberty of walking about the Tower, provided it be at reasonable hours and under the … for a soldier to be sent into Flanders, and is now in the Tower, under the command of Lieutenant Day; besides "this …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary
… Major MacCarty, and Capt. Murphy, now prisoners in the Tower of London for high treason, should be discharged from … MacCarty, and Capt. Cornelius Murphy, now prisoners in the Tower of London for high treason, should be discharged from … MacCarty and Capt. Cornelius Murphy, now prisoners in the Tower of London, for high treason, to the King's Bench, in …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary
… King has directed that Mr. Dorrington, a prisoner in the Tower, shall be exchanged, and you are to give orders that he … deplorable; a great part of the powder was kept in an old tower at the farther end of the works next the sea, where the … it at every tide, that it suddenly gave way, and the tower fell down, and in the fall two hundred and eighteen …