This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1847 edition. Excerpt: ... NOTES. (1.) Dieppe. The English camp was at Arques near Dieppe. "My lord had over with him two hundred horse, and foure thousand foote, besides voluntaryes, which were many. After that my lord had stayed at Arques beside Deep some three weeks or more, and had commodiously lodged his army, that is, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1847 edition. Excerpt: ... NOTES. (1.) Dieppe. The English camp was at Arques near Dieppe. "My lord had over with him two hundred horse, and foure thousand foote, besides voluntaryes, which were many. After that my lord had stayed at Arques beside Deep some three weeks or more, and had commodiously lodged his army, that is, still at Arques, he made a journey to Noyon, and passed still through the enemies country, without any let or interruption, and took only his two hundred horse for his guard." (Memoirs of Robert Cary, Earl of Monmouth.) This is the march which our Journal more minutely describes. (2.) Robert Oevereux, second earl of Essex, K.O. the successor of his step-father the earl of Leycester as the favourite of his royal mistress, was only eleven years of age at his father's death in 1576. At the period before us he was twenty-six. He had previously taken every opportunity of distinguishing himself in a military capacity. In his early manhood he joined the earl of Leycester's army in the Netherlands, and was made a knight banneret after the battle of Zutphen, in which his cousin sir Philip Sydney received his mortal wound. At Tilbury Camp in 1588, the queen made him general of the horse. In the next year he went the Portugal voyage, without having previously obtained the permission of his royal mistress. He now engaged in the wars of France. His later actions in Spain and in Ireland are well known. (3.) Sir Roger Williams came from the king with letters. This was thus announced in a letter of sir Henry Unton, the English ambassador, to lord Burghley, written at Dieppe on the 15th August. "Sir Roger Williams came hether with an earnest message from the king, signifyinge his greate desier to speake with my lord generall before his (the king's) goinge...
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