Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	henry_n	king_n	spain_n	3,841	5	8.4366	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04581	Nova Britannia offering most excellent fruites by planting in Virginia : exciting all such as be well affected to further the same.	Johnson, Robert, fl. 1586-1626.	1609 (1609)	STC 14699.5; ESTC S889	22,243	35

maine land and infinite Ilands of the West Indies intending to discouer with what conuenience to Plant and settle English Colonies in places not already possessed and inhabited by subiects of other Christian Princes wherein after many tedious and perilous aduentures howsoeuer strange seas and miserable famine had deuoured and distressed shipps and men of inestimable value yet were not the remnant escaping swallowed vp of despaire nor their hart and spirits daunted with feare but daily armed afresh with inuincible courage and greater resolution scorning to sit downe by their losses made newe attempts not induring to looke on whilst so huge and spacious countries the fourth part of the world and the greatest and wealthiest part of all the rest should remaine a wildernes subiect for the most part but to wilde beasts and fowles of the ayre and to sauage people which haue no Christian nor ciuill vse of any thing and that the subiects onely of one Prince Christian which but within the memorie of man began first to creepe vpon the face of those Territories now by meanes of their remnants settled here there do therfore imagine the world to be theirs shouldring out al other nations accounting themselues Kings and Commanders not onely in townes and places where they haue planted but ouer all other partes of America which containe sundrie vast and barbarous Regions many of which to this day they neuer knew nor did euer setle soote therein which notwithstanding if it were yeelded them as due yet their strength and meanes farre inferiour to their aspires will neuer stretch to compasse or replenish the hundreth part thereof and this we proued true not many yeares agoe our Prince and theirs being then at open hostilitie their best and chiefest residences were scattered with so poore and slender troups that with handfuls of men at sundry times we ran thorow all surprizing and sacking their strongest forts and townes in those parts and might long since with ease following and seconding our forces haue set them to their stint But seeing we so passed by their dwellings that in seatinḡ our selues wee sought not to vnsetle them but by Gods mercy after many stormes were brought to the Coast of another countrie farre distant and remote from their habitations why should any frowne or enuie at it or if they doe why should wee neglecting so faire an opportunitie faint or feare to enlarge our selues where is our force and auncient vigour Doth our late reputation sleepe in the dust No no let not the world deceiue it selfe we still remaine the same and vpon iust occasion giuen we shall quickly shew it too hauing now by Gods blessing more meanes then euer heeretofore beeing strongly senced where wee wonted to lie open Our plant we trust is firmely root●d our armes and limmes are strong our branches faire and much desire to spread themselues abroad But before I come to discribe this earthly Paradice or to proue the points of my proposition mentioned before you shall knowe that the first discouery and actuall possession taken thereof was in the raigne and by the subiects of Henry the seuenth of England at which time did Spaine also discouer and by that right of discouery doeth retaine and holde their Noua Hispania and all other their limmits vpon that Coast But that we now intend to ground vpon is a more late Discouerie and actuall possession taken in the name and right of Queene Elizabeth in Anno 1584. the 13 of Iuly as it is truely set downe in the Booke of English Uoyages by sundry English Captaines and Gentlemen in that Uoyage whose names are recorded in that Discourse and many of which are yet liuing whereof when her Maiestie had true information shée named the Countrey Virginia and did assigne to Walter Raleigh then a Gentleman of worth power and Authoritie to Plant forces and Colonies there at his pleasure who transported thither in Anno 1587. by the conduct of Iohn White chiefe Leader aboue an hundred men Women and Children at one time and left them there to Inhabite to this day Notwithstanding it is true indéede as some may obiect It is now aboue twentie yéeres agoe since these things were done and yet euer since in al this time we neuer sawe or heard of any good that hath come from thence nor of any hope that might encourage vs anew to engage our selues therein But let vs rightly weigh the reasons of it and then iudge Those hundred and vpwards conducted thither by Iohn White and whose particular Names you may sée Recorded in the same Booke of Uoyages were left there with intent and promise to be supplied from England with more companies and all necessaries the next yéere following in the meane time they were to Plant and fortifie themselues in be●t maner they could and to make a Discouerie of such Minerals and other Merchandize as the Countrey should yéeld by nature But as all good Actions haue their Crosses and their Bane attending on them so had this for that those which had the Managing of a new Supply being the next yéere sufficiently furnished to Sea for that ende yet most vnnaturally being Tainted with that common corruption of time turned their head another way and with greedie minds betooke themselues wholly to hunt after Pillage vpon the Spanish Coast where spending their men their time and prouisions they were not able béeing come and ariued at the port to make vp into the land to visit and relieue their friends but were forced to retire for England againe whereby the edge of those Aduenturers that set them foorth was so abated that this most honourable enterprise so happily begunne was by this occasion most vnhappily ended neither had our poore countri-men left there any meanes from thence to visite vs nor in all this time to giue vs any light of their owne estate whereas then if those beginnings had béene followed as they ought and as by Gods helpe wée now entend that country had long since become a most royall addition to the Crowne of England and a very nursery and fountaine of much wealth and strength to this Kingdome When Christopher Columbus the first bewrayer of this new world was to make his proffer where he liked best hee chose Henry the seuenth of England as in those dayes the most worthy and best furnished for Nauigations of all the Kings in Christendome offering to inuest his Maiestie with the most pretious and richest ●aines of the whole earth neuer knowne before as he did also the like to the Kings of Portugale and Spaine who as the story saith for his poore apparell and simple lookes and for the noueltie of his proposition was of most men accounted a vaine foole and vtterly reiected saue that the Spanish better conceiuing then some others beganne to entertaine and make vse of his skill which within these hundred yeares hath brought foorth those apparant fruits to the world as cannot be hidde Their Territories enlarged their Nauigations