 Whereupon, the captain weighing their unconscionable request, wrote to them a letter, that they dealt too rigorously with him, to go about to cut his throat in the price of his commodities, which were so reasonably rated, as they could not by a great...  Voyages of the Elizabethan Seamen - Page 41by Henry Frowde, M.A., Edited by Edward John Payne with Notes by C. Raymond Beazley - 1907Full view - About this book
 | John Aikin - 1807 - 696 pages
...that they dealt too rigorously with him to go about to cut his throat in the price of his commodities; but seeing they had sent him this to his supper, he...would in the morning bring them as good a breakfast." In pursuance of this threat he landed on the 21st of May, at the head of 100 men, and encountering... | |
 | John Aikin - 1807 - 706 pages
...rigorously with him to go about to cut his throat in the price of his commodities; but seeing they had tent him this to his supper, he would in the morning bring them as good a breakfast." In pursuance of this threat he landed on the 2 1st of May, at the head of 100 men, and encountering... | |
 | 1825 - 844 pages
...go about to cut his throat in the price of his commodities ; but seeing they had sent him this for his supper, he would in the morning bring them as good a breakfast." In pursuance of this threat he landed on the 21st of May, at the head of 100 men, and encountering... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1834 - 378 pages
...to them a letter, saying, that they dealt too rigorously with him, to go about to cut his throat in the price of his commodities, which were so reasonably...would in the morning bring them as good a breakfast." * Having given this hint that he intended to settle the price of his commodities in his own way, Hawkins... | |
 | Conway Robinson, Virginia Historical Society - 1848 - 590 pages
...any other man's hands. But seeing they had sent him this to his supper, he would in the morning give them as good a breakfast. And therefore in the morning, being the 21st of May, he shot off a whole culverin to summon the town, and preparing one hundred men in armour,... | |
 | James Hogg, Florence Marryat - 1864 - 696 pages
...to them a letter, saying that they dealt too rigorously with him, to go about to cut his throat in the price of his commodities, which were so reasonably...would in the morning bring them as good a breakfast.' That breakfast, of arrows and javelins, had such a wholesome effect on the Spaniards that 'we made... | |
 | 1864 - 644 pages
...to them a letter, saying that they dealt too rigorously with him, to go about to cut his throat in the price of his commodities, which were so reasonably...seeing they had sent him this to his supper, he would ia the morning bring them as good a breakfast.' That breakfast, of arrows and javelins, had such a... | |
 | Henry Richard Fox Bourne - 1868 - 666 pages
...to them a letter, saying that they dealt too rigorously with him, to go about to cut his throat in the price of his commodities, which were so reasonably...would in the morning bring them as good a breakfast." The breakfast consisted of a volley of ordnance, followed by the landing of a hundred Englishmen, who,... | |
 | Edward Arber - 1877 - 668 pages
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 | Sir Clements Robert Markham - 1878 - 812 pages
...great deale have the like at any other mans hands. But seeing they had sent him this to his supper, hee would in the morning bring them as good a breakfast....therefore in the morning being the 21. of May, he shot of a whole culuer into summon the towne, and preparing one hundred men in armour went a shore, hauing... | |
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