| Joseph Smeaton Chase - California - 1913 - 394 pages
...people into her Majesty's hands, together with her Highness' picture and arms, in a piece of six pence of current English money, under the plate, whereunder was also written the name of our General." I suppose it may have long remained there, superstitiously revered by the natives as a token of the... | |
| Philip Frederick Alexander - Voyages around the world - 1916 - 262 pages
...people into her Majesty's hands, together with her Highness's picture and arms, in a piece of sixpence of current English money, under the plate, whereunder...Spaniards hitherto had never been in this part of the country, neither did ever discover the land by many degrees, to the southwards of this place. After... | |
| Mary Mapes Dodge - Children's literature - 1922 - 916 pages
...people into her Majesty's hands, together with her Highness' picture and arms, in a piece of sixpence of current English money, under the plate, whereunder was also written the name of our general." I wished I might camp for a night on this historic ground; but time forbade; and as the sun sank in... | |
| Charles Henry Carey - Local author - 1922 - 1036 pages
...II, p. 140. hands, together with hez- Highnesse Picture and Armes, in a piece of six pence of currant English Money, under the Plate, whereunder was also written the name of our Geuerall."8 Drake found the Spanish maps to come into practical use now and used them to cross the... | |
| Richard Hakluyt - America - 1927 - 328 pages
...people into her Majesties hands, together with her highnesse picture and armes, in a peece of sixe pence of current English money under the plate, whereunder was also written the name of our Generall. It seemeth that the Spaniards hitherto had never been in this part of the Countrey, neither... | |
| George Wycherley - Buccaneers - 1928 - 536 pages
...people into Her Majesty's hands — together with Her Highnesse's picture and Arms in a silver six-pence under the plate — whereunder was also written the name of our General." Having thus taken formal possession of California in the name of his Queen and country, Drake and his... | |
| Albert Bushnell Hart, John Gould Curtis - America - 1897 - 636 pages
...into her Maiesties hand, together with her hignesse picture and armes, in a peece of sixe pence in current English money under the plate, whereunder was also written the name of our Generall. . . . After we had set saile from hence, wee continued without sight of land till the 13.... | |
| Various - History - 1994 - 676 pages
...people into her Majesty's hands, together with her Highness' picture and arms, in a piece of six pence of current English money, under the plate, whereunder was also written the name of our General. . . . William Shakespeare (1564-1616) William Shakespeare, like so many Englishmen in the sixteenth... | |
| Peter C. Mancall - History - 2006 - 431 pages
...people into her Majesty's hands, together with her highness's picture and arms, in a piece of six pence of current English money under the plate, whereunder...Spaniards hitherto had never been in this part of the Country, neither did ever discover the land by many degrees, to the Southwards of this place. . . .... | |
| Charles W. Eliot - Travel - 2006 - 405 pages
...people into her Majesty's hands, together with her Highness' picture and arms, in a piece of six pence of current English money, under the plate, whereunder...Spaniards hitherto had never been in this part of the country, neither did ever discover the land by many degrees to the southwards of this place. After... | |
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