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Calendar of Treasury Papers
… Lords of the Treasury, which shall be written or endorsed upon any reports, letters, or memorials, upon reading thereof before their Lord'ps. Their Lordships … Fridays, and not to meet on Saturdays or Mondays unless upon extraordinary occasions. (See Minute Book, Vol. XXII., …
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
… going to the King. Their colloquy was a long one, turning upon disputes which, as Selve wrote to his own King, "you can … the Emperor, with offers of men and money, "to make war upon him." This Bertano would have denied, but Paget told him … which they had prospered hitherto; but the tide was just upon the turn. The Landgrave had sent the Emperor a defiance, …
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
… on either side early in June, just before the date agreed upon for the invasion. It was clearly a war which for the … have desired to capture Montreuil, he was far more set upon the winning of Boulogne, which, as he afterwards frankly … addressed to Newcastle, York, Scarborough, Whitby and Hull, all showed the utter inability of those towns to set …
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
… also had to remonstrate against an embargo laid at Dover upon 18 or 20 ships laden by the Emperor's subjects for … till the Emperor had made answer to the demands pressed upon him by Hertford and Bishop Gardiner. Ten or twelve ships … King's Council, a select number should be deputed to wait upon them, and the King instructed Hertford, Bishop Gardiner …
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
… however, staid the herald and a man of the Patriarch's upon the Borders till he should hear from the King; 2 who, … the lords the delivery of the Scotch prisoners released upon parole; but he came back with a "slender answer." 37 … available resources of the Kingdom were immediately drawn upon. The plan of joint invasions from opposite sides had …
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
… to shut the gate on a returning penitent,least of all upon a potentate whose revolt would imperil the souls of all … and it only required that he should impose his own view upon his subjects to extinguish the jurisdiction of the Holy … at Hatfield he sent Cromwell, Fitzwilliam, and Sir W. Kingston to urge her to renounce her title, but she said she …
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
… all at once to get mattocks and shovels to set men to work upon them. For the implements first had to be made at places … to the condition of his men, "having not a rag to hang upon their backs," as he wrote himself. 33 Sir Thomas Clere, … the King's pleasure to have some "good" raid made upon the West Marches to keep the Scots out of England in …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… the government on much the same terms as had been agreed upon with his brother. And again, as before, the independence … the danger of this provoking the King of Spain to make war upon her, his ability to harm her was very doubtful, unless … replied, no towns at all, but only the dykes to lie upon. After dinner Treslong showed his guests the …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… over two-and-a-half years On the other hand, an attempt upon Courtray, by Rochepot and Rowland Yorke, failed, though … an officer in the force. Apparently a sortie was made upon the Spanish army as it passed in front of Berghes, led … had for its aim the loosening of the grip of the States upon one or other of those places. The capture of Nynove, …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… notices of letters and other papers which shed side lights upon the situation. The treaty between Elizabeth and the … 1 but when it was supposed that she had finally fixed upon him, the Queen suddenly veered round, and on Sept. 5 … in view of the usual effect of high office abroad upon the purses of Elizabeth's ministers. The supposed reason …