Stories from the State Papers: The gunpowder plot. A perished kernel [Robert Carr, earl of Somerset] The massacre of Amboyna. The gathering of the storm. The Lancashire witches. The great fire of London. A national scare [1667Chatto & Windus, 1882 - Great Britain |
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... fleet which was to have made the Spaniard the master of our shores , a body of English merchants peti- tioned the Virgin Queen for permission to send ships to India . In their memorial they alluded to the prosperity which had attended ...
... fleet which was to have made the Spaniard the master of our shores , a body of English merchants peti- tioned the Virgin Queen for permission to send ships to India . In their memorial they alluded to the prosperity which had attended ...
Page 75
... fleets . ' Elizabeth , always willing to lend the weight of her authority to the furtherance of any scheme calculated to add to the power of England , provided it did not lead to severe encroach- ments upon the Royal Treasury , readily ...
... fleets . ' Elizabeth , always willing to lend the weight of her authority to the furtherance of any scheme calculated to add to the power of England , provided it did not lead to severe encroach- ments upon the Royal Treasury , readily ...
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... fleet , with John Davis , the North- West navigator , as second in command . In order that the ex- pedition should be stamped with the impress of the royal approval , Queen Elizabeth had herself issued a circular letter to ' the Kings ...
... fleet , with John Davis , the North- West navigator , as second in command . In order that the ex- pedition should be stamped with the impress of the royal approval , Queen Elizabeth had herself issued a circular letter to ' the Kings ...
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... fleet to sail for the redress of the Company's complaints , and despatched Sir Thomas Roe , ' he being a gentleman of pregnant understand- ing , well - spoken , learned , industrious , of a comely personage , and one of whom there are ...
... fleet to sail for the redress of the Company's complaints , and despatched Sir Thomas Roe , ' he being a gentleman of pregnant understand- ing , well - spoken , learned , industrious , of a comely personage , and one of whom there are ...
Page 83
... fleet in the roads of Surat , and it struck him that a fitting opportunity had arrived to avenge the humiliations the English had suffered at the hands of the Portuguese . Accordingly he bore down upon the Portuguese fleet , which ...
... fleet in the roads of Surat , and it struck him that a fitting opportunity had arrived to avenge the humiliations the English had suffered at the hands of the Portuguese . Accordingly he bore down upon the Portuguese fleet , which ...
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