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A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… an isle, in the parish of Stromness, county of Orkney. It lies about ten leagues distant, west-north-west, … opposite bank of the Carron. Stenness STENNESS, county of Orkney.See Firth. Stenness STENNESS, an isle, in the parish …
Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541-1857
… area as 'sud[..]re yar' (southern islands) in relation to Orkney and Shetland. The diocese of Sodor and Man was placed …
Calendar of State Papers, Spain
… at first, but merely to land in some of the Orcades (Orkney Islands), where there was some commotion.London, 25 …
Calendar of State Papers, Spain
… Robert Bowes. The Scots commissioners were the Bishop of Orkney, Lord Maxwell and others. See (' alendar, Scotland, …
Calendar of State Papers, Spain
… shortly be lost. The English had effected a landing on the Orkney Islands, where they put 8 or 10 pieces of heavy …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… p. xx. Elwin and Courthope, Life of Pope, ix, 272, 4. Lady Orkney is mentioned as doing the honours both at Hampton …
A collection of the State Papers of John Thurloe
… Cheese Butter Lyme Coles Gueese Boares l. s. d. Earldom of Orkney 35733 6 8 C. B. F. P. C. B. F. P. C. B. F. P. C. B. F. …
A collection of the State Papers of John Thurloe
… or forty sayle of Dutch were seene by the inhabitants of Orkney, judged to bee the Dutch shippes from the Indies and …
A collection of the State Papers of John Thurloe
… because of the remotness of som garrisons, specially in Orkney and Zetland, but also that the companyes were all …
A collection of the State Papers of John Thurloe
… to send it to you, and I shall write to the governor of Orkney, to take the informations upon oath concerning this …