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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth
… English or others, for they work to kill you by treason, and receive none that bring you private tokens. Dispatch my … I sent two patterns of such stuff as you required, on 18 and 30 Sept., Which was all I sent, since I sent by my … stuff of such value, lest it should miscarry by soldiers, and he be blamed. I have told him that the value is mistaken …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth
… Warden of the West Marches, Sir John Selby, Wm. Bowes, and Christopher Dacre. We understand that at a day of truce … in the Middle Marches, according to the ancient treaties and laws of the Borders, Francis late Lord Russell was horribly murdered, to the great discontentment of us, and to the evil example of all others, if remedy may not be …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth
… a spy employed by the King of Spain, named Don Carolus. He and a great number of others go disguised as shepherds, and are rewarded from the King's purse. In his discourse with … the French King did not want to break with Her Majesty, and yet underhand would permit his uttermost forces. If I …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth
… repair hither for one fortnight only, so that the Marshal and Treasurer both be left there, to supply the place in his … Lord Ambassador with it, I went to know the Earl's will, and found him anxious for your answer concerning his suit to … him how willing I found you to move her to be gracious, and that if I had not been so suddenly dispatched, and you …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth
… between Sir Cuthbert Collingwood, Mr. Clavering, and me and my friends. I am more beholden to you than I can deserve … water is to the whole country, and how it touches only the benefit of Mr. Wrathe's mills, and some few others, and the …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth
… 30 December 1587 December 1587 Dec. 3. 46. Note of horse and foot to be provided out of cos. Derby, Stafford, … Lancaster, Chester, Salop, Notts, Leicester, Rutland, and Lincoln, for succour of an army to be sent to the North, … 1,000 l. though I borrowed it of a thousand men, for the benefit of my service here; but whatever I write of him or …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth
… put it down exactly as told me by one of his own calling, and a great companion of his,William Nicholson. Gifford lived in Paris, and was apparelled as our disguished priests are in England, whereat divers were offended, and every man spoke his pleasure, but especially Miles …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth
… never went a post or messenger, but he has been sent back, and our letters taken from him, and sent to the Privy Council at Paris, so that there are two … There never was such a stir here in France, for Englishmen and their goods; but both English, French, Flemish, Spanish, …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth
… Walsingham. I hear that Her Majesty intends to supply Ely and Durham with two bishops, and that the Bishop of Salisbury is to be Bishop of Durham and the Dean of Durham Bishop of Salisbury. If such matters …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth
… of the company by exchange of moneys in the Low Countries, and of payments made by them there for the garrison soldiers; … found him sitting by the fire, with Bellievre, but he rose and conducted me to the upper gallery. I desired, as I had … dislike which my Lord of Leicester had conceived of me, and would rather live there poorly than remain here, despised …