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Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… The government was in a precarious position. It rested upon the army and the army was dissatisfied, disliking the … them rue their folly (No. 214). England could now count upon having the assistance of other powers, which might be … discrediting of this famous assembly. They had entered upon it sure of swift and complete victory, but …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… situation was altered by the sudden descent of the Turks upon Candia, involving the republic in a serious war. They … not so generally known, passing over or touching lightly upon many things which are possibly of greater significance. … to make themselves secure. Hotham, the ex-governor of Hull, excused his disloyalty to parliament on the ground of …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… went out hunting and had many of his old servants to wait upon him (No. 70). The people of the island gave him the … of the arrears due to them Fairfax once more advanced upon the city, which he occupied, arresting 34 members of … desire for an accommodation with parliament (No. 202). But upon the execution of Charles I the Scots promptly recognised …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… grievances for which they required redress, came to touch upon what he held to be his prerogative. Parliament was … with his great lethagador about his neck and coming upon his elbow, at the side of the carosse comes a fellow by … was not his business to expel those who came to his house, upon which Council replied Very well; if it is not your …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… He describes at length the church observances consequent upon the change of ritual, the disputation between the … hope of any restoration of the plundered property depended upon the intervention of England, that his urgent … that the communication of the Ambassador was founded upon apprehension lest the pressure which the Papal Nuncios …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… favourite of a despotic sovereign could, like Wolsey, take upon himself the functions of several departments at once, … a certain Giovanni da Riviera, a native of Corfu, took upon himself the functions of consul, and had repeatedly … storm gathering round the Republic which afterwards burst upon her in the notorious league of Cambrai. Henry assures …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… I., had thrown everything into confusion by his claims upon Montferrat, upon which he had practically gone to war with Mantua and … only serve as a catspaw for the ambitious designs of Spain upon the whole of North Italy. Such a position was …
Calendar of Papal Registers Relating to Great Britain and Ireland
… Preface The text of the present volume has been prepared upon the system described in the Preface to the first volume … MSS., the entries in them were for the most part founded upon petitions or letters from different countries, and the …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… deprived her King of all his crowns, but waged open war upon him; and a more convincing proof of the intensity of … of all other works wherein Erasmus had written anything upon St. Jerome. 2 This information was addressed to Queen … to secure after the discovery of the Suffolk plot to march upon London and dethrone the Queen and her consort. In April, …
Calendar of Papal Registers Relating to Great Britain and Ireland
… Registers. 4 They may have been copied from or based upon the original Rubricelle before the latter were …