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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… time is exceeding short, he desires Walsyngham's answer "upon sight whereof, with wings of Pegasus, I would soon fly … when the 800 men cutting between the enemy and the town, upon their backs, striking up their drums and displaying … Drake." Ten days later Sir Thomas Baskerville, "taking upon him General," set sail homewards. On their way they …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Mary
… time. "I would wish," says he, "that our navy were looked upon in such sort, as the world might at the least see we … 12 His penultimate letter thanks her Majesty "most humbly upon his knees" for receipt of his diets due a month back. 13 … they will enable him to still a great many doubtful talks upon the longer tarrying of her Majesty's delivery than was …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… business was simple. The members of the Board met, agreed upon their recommendations for each item of business, and … enforce themselves. The old Commercial Code rested largely upon oaths, which, it need hardly be said, were multiplied to … Courts would try cases without a jury; and it was upon the sympathy of juries that one and all of the Colonies …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… employment in their new home; but this meant a heavy drain upon the exhausted English Treasury (4, 5, 7). Enquiry in … the war lasted, the local governments had offered a bounty upon every white man brought into the different islands; and … order was no more than a pious hope, not worth the paper upon which it was written. Fortification of the Colonies. The …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… which threw the burden of Imperial Defence almost wholly upon the Mother Country, and the hardening of the old … force within a radius of from ten to fifteen miles from Kingston, destroying all works that could not be defended, … and the remainder at Cow Bay, seven leagues to windward of Kingston. Then landing their forces they laid waste the whole …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… The King of Spain, he said, regarded the Scotch descent upon Darien "as a rupture of the alliance between the two … had recommended the seizure of "Golden Island and the Port upon the Main" for the Crown of England, they now (May 26, … exempting Kidd and the notorious Every from pardon (p. 6). Upon the representations of the East India Company, letters …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, East Indies and Persia
… Stock; but as soon as trade with Persia had been resolved upon, the East India Company once again adopted the title of … amongst the heathen, imposing fine or imprisonment upon "those vices which custom has glued fast to man's … amount of 30,000 l. in one year. The Company had prevailed upon the King to issue a further proclamation for the better …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, East Indies, China and Persia
… or heard of, so that the people cried out it was a plague upon them for the innocent blood of the English, and between … were then in great fear of the fury of the people upon the approaching Shrove Tuesday, and the East India … pamphlet expressing in effigy the torture inflicted upon the English at Amboyna and Lantar; the third a play …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… division into Board of Trade and America and West Indies. Upon what principle that division was made it is impossible … as it does the reaction of the English Revolution of 1688 upon the Colonies, a subject which has never received the … handful of men pushed on through forest and swamp and snow upon the Indian fastnesses, and reduced the savages to such …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth
… and the exaggerated and fatal reliance which he placed upon the affections of the people led to his final overthrow. … 79 An account of the liberality of Wm. Gee, alderman of Kingston-upon-Hull, to the town, and alo a list of munition and arms …