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Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… left Sluys to its fate. This mean attempt to cast a slur upon brave men goes far to explain why Robert Cecil … lout (p. 208). Whatever the truth about these designs upon Flushing there can be no doubt that the States, always led by the Hollanders, determined to insist upon the general recognition of their sovereign power, and to …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… now or indeed at all by the Council of Plantations (87), upon which the Lords of the Council, conceiving it to be a … to King Charles of cruel and inhuman sufferings inflicted upon the people of God called Quakers by the Magistrates of … doctrines, do like rogues and vagabonds come in upon us." Any one adjudged a wandering Quaker was to be …
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
… he afterwards proceeded to London, meant first to visit Hull to view the fortifications, had them sent on to York to … that it was not for the King's honor "to make war upon a dead body, or a widow, or a suckling his daughter." … if Henry were disposed to take the crown of Scotland upon himself, they would assist him to obtain it. So the …
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
… even for their menial servants. 14 Their own claim rested upon their being servants of the Crown engaged in the King's … explanation, for which it will be necessary to go back upon the story of the preceding year, and even to the end of … preparing for the issue. He was taking pains to fortify Hull, 42 and intended to go and visit the fortifications of …
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
… reported one would say that he had brought his punishment upon himself; but apparently he had only given vent to … very poor and had no lead at all but only tiles or slates upon the roof. Yet the friars who were least able to live … at Esher, with lands around it reaching from Cobham to Kingston, the property of his see, and been severely rebuked …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… on Martinique and Guadeloupe, possibly make a descent upon the Spanish towns on the mainland, and then deliver a … again mooted ( p. 2.) Jamaica.; Burning of Port Royal; The Kingston Act. Col. Handasyde assumed the government of … town, and to repeat the former endeavour to make Kingston on the mainland the Capital (228). But, it was urged …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… urges his correspondents to persuade her not to insist upon it. A few days later the Queen Mother and her daughter … States, a copy also reaching the English envoys) to urge upon him the desirability of coming to terms with the King of … agreed with her-that the States were presuming too much upon the straits in which Don John then found himself, and …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… among Anjou's followers in consequence of the bestowal upon Simier of an abbey formerly held by the dead man ; a … were not being carried out, and the charge was retorted upon themselves. Navarre met Montmorency twice as it would … by no means anxious to have too close a light thrown upon the circumstances (Nos. 352, 372). By the beginning of …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… the same time a stringent proclamation was issued calling upon all subjects to be on their best behaviour during the … him no decision should be binding. The articles agreed upon with Simier at the end of 1579 were revived, and some … taking with them the treaty of marriage as finally agreed upon (though with a reservation of certain points to be …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… with her wonted shrewd insight into character, pitched upon him as the member of her Council who would give least … to Don John (No. 261), embodying the terms already agreed upon by both parties, but with some material additions. The … a defiance (No. 371), the answer being only sent upon the receipt of an intimation that one was expected. …