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Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… Robert Cecil. 1600, Sept. 16. I fear I have wearied you and others with reports of the riotous courses of the Papists … to conformity, about the 20th of August, between nine and eleven of the night, about twenty persons, all in armour with muskets and other weapons, marched through the town to the Vicar's …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… used his best endeavours to furnish the Marshal of Byron and his train with horses from hence to Canterbury, to which end he wrote to the Mayor of Canterbury and the Mayor of Sandwich ( see enclosures below). And for that those towns were not able to purvey so many …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… Kerton, with the 165 soldiers, were once again shipped, and departed from Ilfracombe for Cork the last day of August, … after they had been at some blows with the Aldmirante and part of his army (wherein it is certainly reported he was very sore hurt), quitted that place, and retired, to the number of 600, into the castle of …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… he thought those of that religion to be of a better life and conversation than those of the religion generally … by all the said time, he hath found them to be the worst and most dangerous people in the world, they are so maliciously and bloodily bent against their contrary party. Perceiving by …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… you doubtful of the constancy of our sovereign's health, and the quiet of his estate. You shall therefore understand … lasteth, hath kept her Majesty at Basing with her company, and passeth his own time at my Lord of Pembroke's at Wilton, … within 7 miles of Oxford, where her Majesty will meet him, and there receive the Spanish ambassador, who cometh with a …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… Papers September 1604 September 1604 Paolo Lentolo, doctor and citizen of Berna, to Sir R. Cecil ( sic). 1604, Sept. 1. From Cecil's many affairs, and his own long absence from England, the former will have … by sending a relation of his on Fasting, reprinted and dedicated to her Majesty the Queen. If he is too bold …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… amongst which were divers English, especially Tindale and Riddsdale men sent in by the Earl of Dunbar to answer … justice; which I did, carrying in with me the said Tindale and Riddesdale men and some others accused to have committed felonies in …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… place affords nothing to discourse of but heat in summer and storms in winter, which is now with us begun. My Lord of … often at the Court to enjoy the presence of your lordship and the rest of my friends, though otherwise I am enough … of their estates) to set up lotteries in divers parts, and so were like to have proceeded; I have thought better to …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… this morning received but that he took them very kindly and asked no questions but of two things: the one that he … other was whether there were no news of the Low Countries, and I answering that I heard Espinoly [Spinola] was removed … that he had not been fought with by the Count Maurice, and to my seeming uttered but a contemptible opinion of the …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… [1607. Before Sept. 16.] I have received your letter and the two melons. His Majesty gives you thanks for them. He was very glad to have these melons and thinks them exceeding good. I would not for anything but … much troubled with the sickness of the sweet Lady Mary, 1 and has commanded me to write to Lord Carew that Dr. Martten …