 | Ancient learning - 1812 - 322 pages
...STRATAGEM. THE island of Sark, joining to Gurnsey, and of that government, was in Queen Mary's time surprised by the French, and could never have been...Netherlands, it was in this sort regained. He anchored in the roads with one ship of small burden, and pretending the death of bis merchant, besought the French,... | |
 | Sir Walter Raleigh - Guiana - 1820 - 622 pages
...was in Queen Mary's time surprized by the French, and could never have been recovered again by force, having cattle and corn enough upon the place to feed...that it might be held against the great Turk. Yet, by a stratagem of a gentleman of the Netherlands, it wag in this sort regained. He anchored in the road... | |
 | Sir Walter Raleigh - English literature - 1829 - 580 pages
...our own. The island of Sark, joining to Guernsey, and of that government, was in queen Mary's time surprised by the French, and could never have been...sort regained. He anchored in the road with one ship of small burden, and, pretending the death of his merchant, besought the French, being some thirty... | |
 | Jersey - 1832 - 146 pages
...Island of Sark, joining to Guernsey, and of that « government, was in Queen Mary's time * surprized by " the French, and could never have been recovered..." against the Great Turk; yet by the industry of a genu tleman of the Netherlands, it was in this sort regainc-d. " He anchored in the road with one ship,... | |
 | Philip Falle - 1837 - 548 pages
...VI. in the Compl. Hist. Vol. H.pag. 300. (t) Chrou. MSS. de JERSEY. Ch.xxxiv. niany Men as will seme to defend it, and being every way so inaccessible...was in this Sort regained. He anchored in the Road icith one Ship, and pretending the Death of his Merchant, besought the French that they might bury... | |
 | Miles Gerald Keon - 1846 - 608 pages
...history. " The Island of Serk, joining to Guernsey, and of that government, was in Queen Mary's time surprised by the French, and could never have been...against the great Turk, — yet by the industry of a gcntlman of the Netherlands, it was in this sort regained. He anchored in the road with one ship, and... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1855 - 592 pages
...surprised by the French,* could never have been recovered by the strong hand, having cattle and corn enough to feed so many men as will serve to defend it ; and...by the industry of a gentleman of the Netherlands, was it in this way regained. He anchored in the road with one ship, and pretending the death of his... | |
 | Naturalist - Channel Islands - 1855 - 406 pages
...never have been recovered again by strong hand, having cattle and corn enough upon the place to feed as many men as will serve to defend it, and being every...inaccessible, that it might be " held against the Grand Turk himself." In the Edinburgh Journal, No. 136, New Series, the subject is treated in a familiar... | |
 | George Edwin Waring (Jr.) - Brittany (France) - 1876 - 268 pages
...Walter Raleigh (sometime governor of Jersey), is copied from Falle's history : " The Island of Sark was surprised by the French and could never have been...Netherlands, it was in this sort regained. He anchored in the Boad with one Ship, and pretending the Death of his Merchant, besought the French that they might bury... | |
 | Edward Arber - English literature - 1877 - 668 pages
...own. The island of Sark — joining to Guernsey, and of that government — was in Queen MARY'S time surprised by the French ; and could never have been...sort regained. He anchored in the road with one ship of small burden ; and pretending the death of his merchant [supercargo], besought the French being... | |
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Mary's time surprised by the French, and could never have been recovered again by strong hand, having cattle and corn enough upon the place to feed so many men as will serve to defend it, and being every way so inaccessible, that it might be held against... 
