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Pagina 76 - This band of adventurers had; in 1606, been granted a charter by James I, ' to reduce a colony of sundry of our people into that part of America commonly called Virginia/ with power to occupy islands within
Pagina 123 - to the landing place nearest Brightlinsea; from thence to the Shoe Beacon; thence to the point of Shellness, I. of Sheppey; thence across the waters to Faversham; thence round the N. and S. Forelands and Beachy Head, till it reaches the said Red Cliff; including all the waters, creeks, and havens comprehended between them.
Pagina 301 - That Sir Henry Mainwaring be forthwith sent for as a Delinquent, by the Sergeant at Arms attending on this House. That this House holds it not fit, that Sir Henry Mainwaring should any longer continue
Pagina 203 - there was called a council of war, and a new way propounded for attempting the enemy, which was to go side by side by the enemy with the men-of-war, and to send in a mine ship to the
Pagina 143 - within the scope of this book to give an account of the subsequent operations there of the English fleet. 1 Suffice it to say that Cadiz was ' considered too strong to assault,
Pagina 233 - of September, stated that if the King kept ' a fleet at sea, and his navy in that reputation it now is—for I assure your honour that is very great—and although my Lord of Lindsey do no more than sail up and down, yet the very setting of our best fleet out to sea is the greatest service that I believe hath been done the King these many years.
Pagina 251 - of February 1637 Northumberland again wrote to Strafford : ' The slackness in punishing the offenders hath made them so insolent that they now justify those facts, which hitherto they have tacitly committed. This hath brought me to a resolution not to trouble myself any more with endeavouring a reformation, unless I be commanded to it.
Pagina 31 - Captain Mainwaring, the sea captain, was pardoned under the Great Seal of England.' At the same time a general pardon was granted to all those who had served under him, on condition that they returned to England and gave up the ' trade.
Pagina 203 - But God, who disposeth of all things, had otherwise determined of the event. 1 SP Dom., Charles I, cxx. 72.
Pagina 212 - as a Brazilian convict settlement, and is chiefly an ' undulating plateau from 100 to 300 feet above the sea level, sloping steeply towards sandy beaches or bays, or ending in bold bluffs or cliffs, but rising occasionally into what the inhabitants jocularly term " mountains," of which there are four or five, from 500 to 700 feet high.