The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
Clark, one of the factors, survived four water sessions
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
By eight o’clock it was all over; next day saw the Dutch ships trailing the English colours from their sterns as they escorted their prizes to the fort of Neira.
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
To the amazement of their Japanese hosts, Dutch and English buried the hatchet and immediately took it up again against the Portuguese.
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
Her Majesty knew her swashbuckling subjects well enough not to suppose that they would ever willingly forgo a laden carrack.
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
to a benign commander like Lancaster it was the loss of 182 men, two-fifths of his entire following, that rankled.
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
droit de seigneur. ‘If the husband be unwilling to part with her’, noted an English visitor, ‘then he [the Sultan] presently commands her husband’s pricke to be cut off.’