The First English Conquest of Canada: With Some Account of the Earliest Settlements in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland

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Bemrose & sons, 1871 - 227 من الصفحات
 

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الصفحة 123 - ... Reiterating the same speech, well beseeming a soldier, resolute in Jesus Christ, as I can testify he was. The same Monday night, about twelve of the clock, or not long after, the frigate being ahead of us in the Golden Hind, suddenly her lights were out, whereof as it were in a moment we lost the sight, and withal our watch cried the General was cast away, which was too true.
الصفحة 103 - Venetian, which made himselfe very expert and cunning in knowledge of the circuit of the world and islands of the same, as by a sea card...
الصفحة 48 - France, with the acknowledgment of a crown of gold, weighing eight marks, on each succession to the throne of France ; the nomination of all commanders and officers of forts ; and the appointment of the officers of justice, whenever it became necessary to establish courts of law.
الصفحة 110 - By this meane the company decreased, and the officers knew not what was become of them; And it fortuned that one of the company driven with hunger to seeke abroade for reliefe found out in the fieldes the savour of...
الصفحة 104 - King to man, and victuall a ship at Bristow to search for an island, which he knew to be replenished with rich commodities : in the ship divers merchants of London adventured small stocks, and in the company of this ship, sailed also out of Bristow, three or foure small shippes fraught with sleight and grosse wares, as coarse cloth, caps, laces, points, and such other.
الصفحة 110 - ... of broiled flesh, and fell out with one for that he would suffer him and his fellows to starve, enjoying plenty as he thought ; and this matter growing to cruel speeches, he that had the broiled meat burst out with these words : ' If thou wouldst need know, the broiled meat that I had was a piece of such a man's buttock.
الصفحة 135 - VII. not discern from Englishmen, till I was learned what they were. But as for speech, I heard none of them utter one word.
الصفحة 228 - Price 5s. Cloth. A Manual of Wood Carving, containing upwards of 130 Original and Selected Designs for the Guidance of Amateurs, and imparting all necessary information to Beginners in this Useful Art. By W. BEMROSE, Jun. ; with Introduction, by LLEWELLYNS JEWITT, FSA, &c., &c., &c.
الصفحة 52 - Majesty used to call him his philosophical poet, la 1613, he was appointed one of the gentlemen ushers of the presence, to Prince Charles, and master of the requests, and received the honor of knighthood. In 1621, he obtained the grant of Nova Scotia. In 1626, the King appointed him Secretary of State for Scotland, created him a peer of that kingdom...

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