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Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… confused, all things passing through the hands of Arran and Colonel Steward. Men of action who oppose are committed to ward. Nothing now so odious as the name of the Hamiltous and of Archibald Douglas. Means to return as soon as he …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… return from his hunting, expressly to put away men, and hopes that the end of his troops will be away within … touching his Captains who were at Bruges, chiefly Stewart and Hamilton, both of whom are his kinsmen and very brave … of the Queen of England to release their brother from ward.Edinburgh, 26 September. 1 p. 352. William Selby to …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… by causing his navy to go for the coast of England, and to disbark with opportunity his soldiers in Ireland. This … a certainty there are already disbarked 15,000 in Ireland, and that the Duke of Parma hath commission to send by sea as … hath secretly had an ambassador with the King of Spain, and it is commonly reported that he is entered into the …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… not to have stopped, has caused the loss of munitions and of several days, which he regrets, yet he thought it was … to Essex, &c.La Capelle, 17 Sept. French. p. Addressed and endorsed. O. Downhale to the Earl of Essex. 1591, Sept. … Earl of Essex. 1591, Sept. 22. This afternoon Captain Luke Ward arrived here with the ordnance from Guernsey, whereof …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… of their town two culverins, four sakers, six minions, and six falcons. The lieutenant or other officers of ordnance … shall cause the same to be cast into the several sizes and weight of pieces above specified and none other, and give … what councillors he shall take, as if you were their ward? Shall you be obliged to tie or undo what they list make …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… army into Brittany to reinforce those who are at Blavet, and will do nothing else unless new occasions arise, but will … disbanding their forces, awaiting the end of the truce and the course affairs in this state will take. The King has … been in company of certain that killed some soldiers in a ward. But for these two you think they may be both demissed …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… understood my lord, your father, was retired to London and sick; and have sent up of purpose to know [how] he doth, whose life … Aldred. 2,130 l. 17 s. 8 d. William Raud. Newcastle. Dudley. 1,249 l. 6 s. 8 d. Fellton. Chester. Hudsonne. 509 l. …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… from Barbary, which brought four or five Barbary falcons and tassels. Sends him a present of a cast of the choicest … to the Queen, to congratulate him upon his happy return and also to thank him again for his favour. Offers services … my lady Cecill may get him of the Queen's Majesty. If the ward prove well, I would be glad to buy him, at the full …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… that I have nothing aforehand for so great a voyage and am scant able to bear the charge of a small family, I am … unto the stone that any extraordinary travail on foot, and especially on horseback, will so bring it down upon me, … that many times heretofore they have been violently taken and cut from me. Furthermore, under her Majesty's correction, …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… James Cummyngis, your auld acquaintance saluteth you, and not beinge abill to brouk this cuntrie for reasons bayth trew and necessarie, quhilk yow may easilie gess at and quharof heirafter he will give you ane accompt, nor yit …