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Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… sending away your letters win your favour. These nine or ten days the wind has blown stormy out of the west and so … day for 4 l. sterling, who else would have stayed a day or two longer. I did it that you might with the first … reports. From the Camp before the Sluce May 13, stylo veteri, 1604. Holograph. 1 pp. ( 105. 48.) Sir William Browne …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… may afford. Although to crave any particular respect or interest in the benefit of the same is far from his hope … do make this judgment of the enemy, either to want wit or spirit, esteeming the ground so advantageous for them, … of it in a short time.Camp before Sluce, May 18, 1604 veteri. PS.About 5 of the clock this evening the enemy …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… the danger, and strict command there given that no English or Dutch men should be lodged but in a Spanish house. I know … except the fort were delivered to him. In the end, by love or weakness of wife or guard, it was delivered. But the same … Matthias will much stagger that design.Hague, 4 May, 1608, veteri. Holograph. Seal. 1 p. ( 125 120.) Sir Robert Johnson …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… the near neighbourhood of the Spaniards in Brittany, two or three companies of English soldiers should lie there in … has enquired the market price of corn and finds it 14 s. or 15 s. a bushel, which will rise to 29 s. if this be not … that came from you touching it was dated 16 Oct. Stilo veteri. Often the mariners play the jackes before delivering …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… any other metal, as namely, whether lead do contain silver or no. Sir Tirlogh O'Brien assures me of a mine of lead to be … And so I would beg you either to employ me in this matter, or to obtain from the Queen a pension for my old age, or that … governor of the fort of Longen.November 13, 1602, stylo veteri. p. ( 96. 39.) William Stallenge. 1602, Nov. 13. Two …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… States. The King has commanded that all the Hollanders, or whosoever served them, shall be set at liberty, which is … intelligences. The Irish regiment 1,500, whereof 4 or 500 sick in hospitals. He [Travers] desires to go into … hither on Wednesday last, the 4th of this present, stylo veteri, and his sudden return this day. It is said he brings …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… First, for that many of the out ports being 7 or 8 score miles from London, if a poor man that wants two or three pieces for his ship should be enforced to come to … with the crest fairly drawn.Madrid, 30 Nov. 1608. stilo veteri Holograph. Partly in cipher. No address. Endorsed: "to …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… except those who were sick, and those who deserted or were discharged, left yesterday for Dublin.Chester, Oct. … me at this cause were not at home when this petition came, or they would have joined in this request.Ludlow, 22 Oct., … should not import much.Hague, 24 Oct., 1602, stilo veteri. Holograph. 1 pp. ( 96. 8.) Hu. Glaseour, Mayor of …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… has given him and all his gentlemen vests of cloth of gold or silk; and has yearly allowed him 1500 ducats for diet, … Jesuits, have lately departed secretly for England or Ireland. They passed through Aveyro and along the coast … cost them no less than their lives.Haghe, 6 Oct., 1607, veteri. Holograph. 1 p. ( 122. 113.) Sir John Parker to the …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… to the Earl of Essex. [1591,] Sept. 7/17. Trusts one or other of his dispatches from Chauny as he was leaving has … with the humours of Court, which I find to be cross, or fortunes of the world which are most uncertain. Wherefore … fort les forces du Roy.A Cai'fontaine, 19 September, 1591, Veteri stilo. Copy. p. M. de la Chatte, Governor of Dieppe, …