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Calendar of State Papers, Spain (Simancas)
… at four o'clock in the morning, having created him duke of Orkney three days before, and this news was confirmed by …
Calendar of State Papers, Spain (Simancas)
… should be shipped from Flanders in galleys, and go to the Orkney isles, to join the Catholics there, whose names are …
Calendar of State Papers, Spain (Simancas)
… it is confidently stated that the governor of one of the Orkney Isles was persuaded by some of the people on shore to … a number of Spaniards had been hanged at Mull, one of the Orkney Isles ( sic). This was untrue, so I hope the rest is …
Calendar of State Papers, Spain (Simancas)
… governor Murray, Lord Morton, Lord Lindsay, the bishop of Orkney, who married them ( i.e., Mary and Bothwell), and … Skirling ; and for Murray, himself, Morton, the bishop of Orkney, Pitcairn, Commendador of Dunfermling, and Lord …
Calendar of State Papers, Spain (Simancas)
… Queen's jewels and money. Bothwell had been in one of the Orkney islands but had shipped into five small pirate ships, …
Calendar of State Papers, Spain (Simancas)
… that their mission was to ask for the cession of the Orkney isles and Shetlands, which long ago belonged to the …
Calendar of State Papers, Spain (Simancas)
… say 20th or 21st August, according to our style), between Orkney and Shetland. The Armada was steering by the compass …
Calendar of State Papers, Spain (Simancas)
… my last, that your Majesty's Armada had left Shetland and Orkney with a great number of ships which had been captured …