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land_n	die_v	great_a	king_n	2,822	5	3.5227	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32727	A treatise touching the East-Indian trade, or, A discourse (turned out of French into English) concerning the establishment of a French company for the commerce of the East-Indies to which are annexed the articles and conditions, whereupon the said company for the commerce of the East-Indies is established.; Discours d'un fidèle sujet du Roy touchant l'establissement d'une Compagnie françoise pour le commerce des Indes Orientales. English	Charpentier, M. (François), 1620-1702.	1664 (1664)	Wing C3714; ESTC R13405	34,705	70

Pourcelain woods for Dying Ivory Frankinsence Bezoar c. So that having an absolute Necessity upon us to make use of all these things why we should not rather furnish Our Selves then take them from Others and apply that Profit hereafter to our own Country-men which we have hitherto allowed to Strangers I cannot understand Why should the Portuguez the Hollanders the English the Danes Trade dayly to the East-Indies possessing there their Magazins and their Forts and the French neither the One nor the Other What does it signifie to us that we have so many good Ports and Vessels so many Experienced Sea-men so many brave Souldiers To what end is it in fine that we Pride our selves to be Subjects of the Prime Monarch of the Universe If being so we dare not so much as shew our Heads in those Places where our Neighbours have Established themselves with Power Were it not in a manner better for us to be without these Advantages then not to use them and to rest where we are for want of Ability to go further then for want of Resolution Would it not be a Shame to us to make a difficulty of Attempting That in a State of Security which other People have carryed on through all doubts and Hazzards And to stick at the bare Crossing of those Seas which Others ventured upon even before they were known Is it that we lack either Industry to make use of their Inventions or Courage to follow their Example Would we have any thing more easie then to reap the fruits of Others Mens Travailes or any stronger Assurance of a good Event then the Wealth and Glory which they enjoy that have tryed the Experiment True it is that there is a certain Glory which is so Inseparable from the Inventors of things that it is entirely theirs without any possibility of Communication The Portuguez will be for ever Famous for their Discoveries in the East and even their Kings themselves think it no dishonour to be thought the first Projectors of That Enterprize They say that in the Year 1420. Henry Duke de Viseo Son of King John the First being eminently skill'd in the Mathematiques took up a strong perswasion that there must be of necessity more Islands in That Ocean then were yet known and so sent out Certain Vessels upon the Search which discovered the Isle of Madera After which Others sayling along the Coast of Affrica made New Discoveries Thus Designe that had been so luckily set afoot was however Interrupted by the Wars during the Reigns of Edward the Successor of John the First and of Alphonsus but John the Second who succeeded Alphonsus in persuance of his Predecessors Beginnings sent out One Bartholomew Diaz in 1487. to skirt the whole Coast of Affrica and He it was that First doubled the Cape of Good-Hope to which at first he gave the Name of Cabo Tormentoso because of the Storms which are frequent thereabouts And this Name perchance would have continued if the King himself had not thought fit to Change it for One of a better Omen the Cape of Good-Hope which was grounded upon the Hope he had that this new Progresse would open a way to the Conquest of the Oriental Indies an Acquisition which he thirsted for with exceeding Passion Yet before he would venture his Shipping into so vast a Sea diverse Persons were sent by Land to the Indies to enform themselves from the best Pilots of the Country in order to the Voyage But King John Dying upon the Preparative left the Consummation of this great Work to his Successour Emanuel who having sufficiently Instructed himself as to the carrying of it forward dispatched away Four Vessels from Lisbon in July 1497. under the Command of Vasco de Gama who in May following Arrived before Calicut having doubled the Cape of Good-Hope notwithstanding the Storms he met with and the violent Importunities of his People pressing him to return After Two Years Absence he brought the Newes himself of his Prosperous Voyage and laid the Foundation of greater Hopes to Come In the Year following the King sent thither again 14. Ships under the Charge of Pedro Alvarez and after that diverses other Fleets to secure and Fortifie themselves in a Place where they found so vast a Treasure and thus it came to passe that when the King of Castile seized upon all the New Lands upon the West the Portuguez did the same in the East and This was it that gave Occasion to the Famous Partition made by Pope Alexander the Sixth who drawing an Imaginary Line from one Pole to the Other to pass at a Hundred Leagues from the Asores Adjudged to the King of Castile all that which was on the West-side of the Line not meddling with any of those Establishments which the King of Portugal had upon the East which since the Voyage of Vasco de Gama have been Infinitely encreased Thus did the Constant Resolution of these Princes surmount all Difficulties bringing both Glory to themselves and Happinesse to their Subjects Thus did these new Argonauts address themselves to the Conquest of the Reall Golden Fleece for in sine the Portuguez are Indebted to this Navigation for almost all they are worth This it is that has made them Famous in the World and raised them into an Eminent Reputation although One not onely of the Smallest but of the least Fruitfull Kingdomes of Europe It is this Traffique which they have now been sole Masters of a Hundred Years entire that has put them in Condition to carry so high the Undertakings which we have seen in our dayes and they would finde it a very hard Matter to Cope even with the Enemy at their Gates if it were not that the inexhaustible Source of their Indian Treasure and Trade from time to time supplyes them for the Expence of so long and so dangerous a Warr. What has it been but this very Navigation and Traffique that has enabled the Hollanders to bear up against the Power of Spain with Forces so unequall Nay and to become terrible to them and to bring them down at last to an Advantageous Peace Since that time it is that this People who had not onely the Spanyards Abroad but the very Sea and Earth at Home to struggle with have in a despite of all Opposition made themselves so Considerable that they begin now to dispute Power and Plenty with the greatest part of their Neighbours This Observation is no more then Truth their East-India Company being known to be the Principall support of their State and the most sensible cause of their Greatnesse In the mean while who would have Imagined that the Union of a few Particular Merchants that but in 1595. bethought themselves of the very Project and did not Form this Grand Company till Six or Seaven Years after should ever have raised them to that point of Opulence where they now stand It is known that Communibus annis there has been yearly 30 or 35. per