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Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… an advocate for this theory, and he pressed its adoption upon the English Privy Council with unflinching and … and his brother the Admiral. Nor did he depend entirely upon his own observation, he had his agents and his spies … satisfied with results; and these results are often based upon insufficient premises. The estimate of a character is …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… his way from Stirling to meet Sir Henry Gates and Drury, upon Her Majesty's affairs, more especially for the surrender … own account and considered that they might lawfully ride upon and spoil the rebels and their abettors. In the … the estates of their adversaries 49 which they had seized upon, rendered all these negociations futile. That portion of …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… that hardly anything would break off the match, as upon its success depended the enterprise of Flanders, about … of Navarre, and M. de Montmorency were suddenly arrested, upon suspicion of an intention of putting themselves at the … with his crews half starved, made a sudden descent upon the town of Brille-in-Voorn, which he captured without …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… of their cause; and yet there was no corresponding return upon their part. On the contrary, it seemed as if this … the Prince of Cond." 2 When they came to discuss the terms upon which the peace was to be based they found that these … of his obnoxious coadjutor, remained in attendance upon the French Court, which he followed in its long …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, East Indies, China and Japan
… and remedy complaints a fresh treaty was thought upon as the only means of bringing about a final settlement. … March 1621), but nothing was done for three months, when upon a petition of our East India Company, complaining of the … keeping soldiers there, and setting out vessels to and fro upon that coast, which they urged "grew so high" that they …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… Newcastle for the order to march northwards. A naval force upon an equally extended scale was fitted out at the same … parsimony as to warrant the outlay of more than 65,000 l. upon the expedition before a single English soldier had crossed the Border. 2 Upon what grounds did Elizabeth interfere? 3. Such an …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… in Virginia, was likely to have a discouraging effect upon pirates. In the previous year H.M.S. Essex prize had … but not before they had discussed, and in part agreed upon, some recommendations, drawn up by Mr. Penn, "that would … of the General Post, and he has some significant comments upon the working of the recent Woollen Act. A protective duty …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… 24 the Council of Trade signed an elaborate representation upon the general state of the defence of the Colonies (51, … in the chief of them (32). They made a further report upon the state of defence in the Plantations in April (348), … and here that he died and was buried (1191) in Kingston Parish Church. His tombstone, with its curiously …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… governed England under the name of Edward the Sixth acted upon no settled policy, and were guided by no fixed … the opinion of the nation be canvassed at the present day upon the question, it would probably decide that the reign of Queen Elizabeth is, upon the whole, the most glorious era of our history. A reign …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… itself to the nation. Elizabeth's claim was based upon the will of Henry the Eighth, supported and confirmed by … of their mistress. 2 5. Elizabeth had yet another claim upon the attachment of a large body of the people. She was … account of the state of parties in England immediately upon the death of Mary. Feria's mission into England. 7. …