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Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… The Justice Clerk is advertised by his brother out of Orkney that he ha apprehended seven Englishmen out of the …
Calendar of State Papers, Scotland
… 3 or 6 days with 3 ships. The lords think he is bound for Orkney or Sweden. I hear he still keeps Spynie. These lords … 3 within 2 miles of Edinburgh. For the lordsthe bishop of Orkney, Lord Semple, Lethington, and M r James Magyll; for … Since writing, these lords hear that Bothwell is in Orkney with 5 ships and 300 men; where the country begins to …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… Earl of Bothwell accompanied with 200 men is arrived in Orkney and intends to assail the Castle. To defeat him and …
Calendar of State Papers, Scotland
… Clergye." John, archbishop of St. Andrews; Adam, bishop of Orkney; George, Commendator of Abirbrothok; Robert, …
Calendar of State Papers, Scotland
… weeks ago that they descended on the isle of Shetland in Orkney, where they left nothing in the world of money, cattle … and to entreat him to do justice to the said Lord of Orkney, or to permit him to arm himself and take from the … but what should be to the contentment of my Lord of Orkney; and from what I could hear the English were gaining …
Calendar of State Papers, Scotland
… in theise partes." The Spanish fleet was seen between Orkney and Shetland about the 10th of August. "There thei …
Calendar of State Papers, Scotland
… of Ros, Alexander bishop of Galloway, Adam bishop of Orkney; Maister William Baillie lord Provand, president, …
Calendar of State Papers, Scotland
… "a p. barne." Bishops, Protestants. (Bodwell.) Bishop of Orkney, pro. "Stwarthe," bishop of "Catones" pro.; brother to …
Calendar of State Papers, Scotland
… and servitors, of his causing, on the poor inhabitants of Orkney and Zetland, and fearing God's judgments and just … to render to the King the supremacy and dominion of Orkney and Zetland, as free as they were of old annexed to … forged from the laws of Norway, never before received in Orkney, and abrogating of the old laws and statutes of …
Calendar of State Papers, Scotland
… Lord Robert Stewart, base son of King James V., governs in Orkney by his four servants or deputies. His [ sic] is … in Lothian, and Aberdore in Fife. Sinclair, Earl of Orkney.The "armes" of the Earl of Orkney were possessed sometimes by the Sinclairs, afterwards …