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Don Antonio, prior of Crato, a natural son of the royal family of Portugal, trusting to the aversion of his countrymen against the Castilians, had advanced a claim to the crown; and flying first to France, thence to England, had been encouraged both by Henry and Elizabeth in his pretensions. * Birch's Memoirs of Queen Elizabeth, vol. i. p. 61.
But the Irish counsellors persuaded him that the season was too early for the enterprise, and that as the morasses, in which the northern Irish usually sheltered themselves, would not as yet be passable to the English forces, it would be better to employ the present time in an expedition into Munster. * Birch's Memoirs, vol. ii p. 421, 451. Birch's Memoirs, vol. ii. p. 431. Bacon, vol. iv. 512.
Birch's. I took him to the 'George, and gave him a dinner. His appetite is fine. He states that he is reading 'Cornelius Nepos, with which he is much interested. His masters report," &c. And though Dr.
At the Bowling Green, between the Great and Little Pedee, more than five hundred men laid down their arms, submitting to conditions which were rather strict than severe. Marion and Gainey met at Birch's mill on the 8th June, when a treaty was drawn up having for its basis the articles of the preceding arrangement with Horry.
Lander had taken twice of a specific for what she called her nerve-fag before her husband came with Clementina, and had rehearsed aloud many of the things she meant to say to the girl. In spite of her preparation, they were all driven out of her head when Clementina actually appeared, and gave her a bow like a young birch's obeisance in the wind.
"None," said Captain Walsingham; "that was a mere fable of poor Birch's imagination. I recollect the lady showed me a Spanish motto upon her ring; that is all I can remember about rings. She had no diamonds, and very few clothes.
We made good use of our five minutes' start, for by the time a distant bugle note announced that the hounds were let loose on our track we had covered a good piece of ground, and put several wide fields and ditches and ugly hedges between us and our pursuers. Now it was that Birch's experiences served us in good stead.
Others, with more likelihood, accounted for her dejection by a discovery which she had made, of the correspondence maintained in her court with her successor, the king of Scots, and by the neglect to which, on account of her old age and infirmities, she imagined herself to be exposed. * See the proofs of this remarkable fact collected in Birch's Negotiations, p. 206.
Theodore, however, continued some privileges to the English, on account of their being the discoverers of the communication between Europe and his country. The trade to Turkey commenced about the year 1583; and that commerce was immediately confined to a company by Queen Elizabeth. * Camden, p. 493. Birch's Memoirs, vol. i. p. 36
A day or two afterwards the two directors went back to Philadelphia, where they reported to Stoughton and Riggs that the screws were on tight. Save only the pumps and generators, not a wheel turned in the Consolidated. Birch's conclusion was that millions more were needed.
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