Queen Elizabeth and Her Times: A Series of Original Letters, Selected from the Inedited Private Correspondence of the Lord Treasurer Burghley, the Earl of Leicester, the Secretaries Walsingham and Smith, Sir Christopher Hatton, and Most of the Distinguished Persons of the Period, Volume 2Thomas Wright H. Colburn, 1838 - Great Britain |
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abowt advertised agayne agaynst ambassador assured beseech brought BURGHLEY TO SIR Captain castle cause charge commandement commytted contynue counsell court daie daye delyvered divers doth Duke Duke of Anjou EARL OF LEICESTER England English Essex favour FLETEWOOD TO LORD France French King frend fynd graunted hath heare Highnes hither hope howse humbly take Ireland justice justice of peace King of Navarre King of Spaine late letters London LORD BURGHLEY Lord Maior loving Low Countries lyke Majestie Majestie's matter maye meanes Monsieur mynd myne night pray present Prince Queen Quene Quene's realme receaved returne ROBERT BOWES sayd Scotland sent shal shewed shippes shold SIR CHRISTOPHER HATTON SIR FRANCIS WALSINGHAM Sir John SIR ROBERT CECIL sonne Spaniards Spayne Sterlynge sundry take my leave th'enemie thankes thereof things thought thynk touching towne trouble tyme unto your Lordship uppon warre wherin wherof wold wryte wyll yeres
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Page 457 - Majestie's commandment ; and no wise contrary the same, presuming that she being God's chief minister here, it shall be God's will to have her commandments obeyed, after that I have performed my duty as a counsellor, and shall in my hart wish her commandments to have such good successes, as I am sure she intendeth.
Page 49 - It is incredible how quickly he wrought himself through the notice into the favour, through the court into the chamber, yea closet, yea bosom of Pope Pius Quintus; so that some wise men thought his Holiness did forfeit a parcel of his infallibility in giving credit to such a glorioso, vaunting that with three thousand soldiers he would beat all the English out of Ireland.
Page 17 - a learned man and a good antiquary, but of a marvelous merry and pleasant conceit." He often appears in this latter character in his letters, which give us a most interesting picture of London as it was in the days of "good Queen Bess." Fletewood died at his house in Noble street, Aldersgate, on the 28th of February, 1594.
Page 310 - Tresaurer, so he has promissit to me. As for the first part touching the conspiracie, I cannot now write at length, bot diferris it til I send Roger ; yet this far I advertis you, that the King is wel willit in all thingis as ye left him, and verie glade of the discoveric of this mater.
Page 445 - Highness' contentment whom we would not willingly displease. " We humbly thank your Lordship for your manifold favours which we have always found never variable, but with all favour, love and constancy, for which we can never be sufficiently thankful, but with our prayers to God long to bless your good lordship with honour and wealth.
Page 188 - Lo! you may see how a nobleman's son can use himself, and how he putteth off his cap to poor men: our Lord bless him.' This passage the recorder wrote in a letter to his father, adding, 'Your lordship hath cause to thank God for so virtuous a child.
Page 113 - ... left or friended, or at their own free election, or forsaking likely success in other studies of more delight and no less preferment, or setting hand thereunto early without waste of years; upon such survey made, it may be my case may not seem ordinary, no more than my suit, and so more beseeming unto it. As I force myself to say this in excuse of my motion, lest it should appear unto your Lordship altogether...
Page 488 - ... though she will not be a mother, yet she showeth herself, by feeding me with her own princely hand, as a careful norice (nurse) ; and if I (ever) may be weaned to feed myself, I shall be more ready to serve her on the earth : if not, I hope to be, in heaven, a servitor for her and God's church.
Page 115 - ... from the Indies, wherof sixtene came from Nova Hispania, four from Havana, two from the Hundoras, and one out of the South Sea, which passed the Straites of Magdalanus in seeking of Frauncis Drake.* In the fleete is come 850,000 * Sir Francis Drake, the son of a sailor, born near Tavistock in 1545, was brought up by the navigator Hawkins, to whom he was related. He died on board his own ship, near the town of Nombre de Dios, on the 28th Jan., 1596. He was, at the date of this letter, on his celebrated...