Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

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england_n	common_a	law_n	realm_n	3,126	5	8.8443	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07400	Certaine briefe, and speciall instructions for gentlemen, merchants, students, souldiers, marriners, &c. employed in seruices abrode, or anie way occasioned to conuerse in the kingdomes, and gouernementes of forren princes; Methodus describendi regiones, urbes, et arces. English	Meyer, Albrecht, 1528-1603.; Jones, Philip, fl. 1589.; Ortelius, Abraham, 1527-1598.	1589 (1589)	STC 17784; ESTC S112501	13,361	32

citties and villages they run by of what bredth and depth where nauigable and where not and how farre 21 How manie bridges they runne thorough what and howe manie milles they driue what speciall vses they serue to in those places citties and townes by which they runne what varietie abundance or scarsitie of fish is in them and how far vp they do ebb and flow 22 The qualitie of the water whether sweete salt bitter brackish cleere wholsome running by any mines or mettals yea or no. 23 Bathes of whot water the number originall cause qualitie force and operation of them 24 Salines or places of making of salt the cause number kinds and manner of preparing them 25 Minerals mines quarries of mettal their kinds multitude place and increase 26 Pretious stones as pearles diamonds rubies saphires corals and turkyes whether these or any of these grow there yea or no. 27 Birds foules their names bignes qualities course increase and multitude 28 Fishes both of sea and fresh riuers with their kindes and abundance 29 Noisome and hurtfull beasts as serpents Adders vipers basiliskes wolues tygers beares and others of wild natures with the woods places of their breed and haunte 30 Poysons with the remedies and preseruatiues against them there knowne and vsed 31 Parks cunnigers berries warrens their largenesse fruitfulnesse game situation pleasantnesse and to whom they belong 32 Flocks and heards of sheepe kine oxen swine goats with their common grounds and medowes of pasture 33 All other commodities of the place that are knowne either agreeing or not agreeing with other countries and regions and whatsoeuer else that place hath strange new notable and commodious The seuenth Section Nauigation wherein it is to be obserued 1 THe widnesse and greatnes of the seas or riuers you passe 2 The depth whether nauigable yea or no and for what ships of burden 3 The state and quality of the water whether salt cleere thicke and troubled 4 The colour whether greene or Azure c. 5 The sand colour and quantitie thereof 6 The shallowes fords and places of least depth 7 The quicke sands and dangerous places of sande and grauell how many after what sort they lie how they may be auoyded 8 The hidden rockes of the sea that are knowne their place and danger 9 The narrow difficult passages like vnto those rocks called Scyronia betweene Attica and Megaris or the Symplegades in the Greekish sea 10 Streights narrow seas as Gibaltar and the straights of Magellan 11 Famous and high rocks vsed for notes and markes to the marriners 12 Places of toule and custome as the sounde of Denmarke 13 Promontories capes and heads of landes with their names and cause or originall of such names 14 Wracks on the sea drownings of men shippes goods with the value time cause and occasion of the wracks 15 Commodious creekes bayes harbors and docks 16 Ports and hauens their largenesse narrownesse and depth what townes and citties they serue to what winds are commodious to arriue at them whether it be an open hauen or barred and fortified and how strong by nature or art with garrisons castles artillerie c. 17 What store of shipping lie ordinarily in the hauen and frequent the same most vsually 18 The safest and most commodious rodes for riding and anchoring of ships 19 The landing places staires wharfes seruing to the sea and hauen 20 The common passages by botes whirries ferries and the bredth and depth of them 21 Swift streames whirlepooles gulphes and ouerfals of water 22 The rising and swelling of the water the ebbing and flowing of the tides the times quantitie and manner 23 The shipping of the place of what number bignesse force burden manner of making qualitie and swiftnesse for sailing 24 Whether the people and nation hath made or doo intende any long voyages or discoueries to what places and what number of shippes and men they carrie and what commodities are brought from such places 25 The nauie of the king or prince his ships their names number burden strength artillerie and imployment 26 The multitude or scarsitie of Pylots Shipwrightes Shipmasters Marriners and others skilfull in marine causes 27 What men of skill in the art of nauigation and composition of sea cardes and other instrumentes are there famous 28 What course and order they take for the making and breeding of skilfull and expert Pylots and marriners 29 What Officers persons of name belong to the princes Nauie as the Admirall Viceadmirall Treasurer Captaines c. and other men of principall charge with their knowledge diligence and stipendes 30 What number of ships euerie citie port towne and hauen is able to make and of what burden and force either for warre or marchandize The eight Section The politicall state wherein is to be marked 1 THe forme of gouernment whether it be a Monarchie that is the Soueraintie of one person alone as in England France Spaine Scotland c. or an Aristocratie that is the gouernement of the better sort as of old in Athens and Lacedemon and nowe in Venice and Genes or a Democrati● that is a popular Regiment as among the Cantons of Zwitzerland or whether their contraries be in vse as eyther a tyranny as that of the great Turke or an Oligarchie which is the authoritie of a few noble or rich men or an Octogarchie which is a tumultuous and disordered confusion swaying without reason law or whether the gouernment common wealth be mixt compounded of the first 3. and so made both Royal Aristocraticall popular as in old in Rome and Carthage and is now also somewhat represented in the state of Venice 2 Whether the kingdome be electiue as of old the dictatorship of Rome and in these daies the Empire the kingdoms of Polonia Bohemia Hungaria Thunes Denmark the dukedome of Venice the popedom the great Mastership of Malta or else successiue and hereditarie as in England France c. 3 What manner of lawe the place is gouerned by ciuill or common and whether the lawes are made and corrected according to the condition and circumstance of times as our statutes of parlament or such as may not be changed as the Salike lawe in France and the lawes of the Crowne in England 4 How the cities and townes are gouerned by what officers of what names state number continuance in office and manner of election 5 The multitude of the people wherein consisteth much of the strength of the Realme 6 The speech and language of the countrie with the maner of pronunciation and the rules thereof 7 Proper names of men and women differing from those that are common in other places 8 The fare and dyet of the region their manner and kinds of meate drinke ale beare with the order of making and dressing peculiar to that people 9 The habites and apparell of men women wiues maydens citizens countrimen Courtyers noblemen officers Magistrates Gentlemen Marchants Ministers c. 10 The wits