Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
master_n	able_a	great_a	know_v	499	4	3.3321	3	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04372	A briefe discouery of the damages that happen to this realme by disordered and vnlawfull diet The benefites and commodities that otherwaies might ensue. With a perswasion of the people: for a better maintenance to the nauie. Brieflie compiled, by Edward Ieninges.	Jeninges, Edward.	1590 (1590)	STC 14486; ESTC S109137	18,878	31

notwithstanding I speake not this that it were necessarie for such trades to be left off or extinguished for thereby groweth great benefites to the Realme sundrie waies not onely for sufficient and seruiceable shipping but other necessarie commodities also But contrariewise concerning the trade of fishing it is all wayes commodious and no wayes discommodious it encreaseth wealth and prouision of sustenance but abateth none And the more for that fish is alwayes spent for the necessarie sustentation of mens bodies and not for superfluitie There is yet another thing to be considered off concerning the trade of marchandize that in all manner of trafickes where marchants must come within the Dominions of other Princes much daunger and perill may happen for that it is in the wils of those Princes within whose dominions they are to stay such shippes as there be and imploy them at their pleasures in their seruice And so England w t great perill may encrease mariners shipping to serue other Princes which may happen sometimes to be against our selues Also in diuers traficke many mariners trauell far iournies by meanes wherof it may be that the Realwe shal want them wheÌ„ it should be needfull that they were at home to be imployed for the defence of y e realm Therefore it may plainely appeare that the trade of marchandize only for breeding maintenance of mariners though it be necessary needfull to the realme yet y e same is not w tout great doubts perils Wheras contrariwise by the trade of fishing if such fish might be certainly spent w tin this realme as might be takeÌ„ proued a sufficient nuÌ„ber of mariners other seafaringmeÌ„ for y e supply of those y e then may want might be much more profitabler and saflier bredde and maintained at home all times in a readines to be imployed for the necessarie seruice and defence of the Realme how suddainely so euer the same should require Fishing is the greatest Nurse for to increase Marriners the deere prises of fish how it may become cheape THere is yet further to be considered that the trade of fishing is a wonderfull great Nurse for the breeding or bringing vp of Marrineas for whereas a Merchants shippe vsing the traficke with merchandize being furnished for the voyage with twentie men there is amongst them not past two or three boyes which in that trade is brought vp and instructed And if it be so the daunger of the voyage considered that these children can and commonly do endeuour to be brought vp and instructed herein yet the encrease of them will not be sufficient to furnish the Nauie especially in the time of wars But the Fisherman going to the sea or vpon other waters in great or small vessels for euerie one man there is of them commonly two boyes who being trained vp therein are so accustomed with the hardnesse and painefull toile which in that exercise they are vsed to that they are not onely able to sustaine al labour to a seafaring man belonging but in short time become a sufficient sailor master or Pilot as well for seruice in her maiesties shippes as in the merchants shippes They are also acquainted and know the rockes sandes and other daungers vpon the seacostes where they lye and how to auoid them by reason of their accustomed haunting the seas in the trade of fishing And by meanes of their trauell from one port to another for the sale or vtterance of the said fish and other things wherein at vnseasonable fishing times they are imployed These and diuers other arguments before rehearsed might be a sufficient occation to cause vs without penaltie or pennall law for the benefite of our countrie to restraine and bridle our selues from our accustomed and vnlawfull diet but many there be that will and may truely say the vtterers of fish sell the same at such excessiue prises diuers and sundrie times that it discourageth men to buy thereof And the more for that they can a great deale better cheape make their prouision with flesh as well for their familie as themselues Many arguments are to be made that will be sufficient to answere this matter And first we are to consider the times and seasons of the yeare that it serueth not alwaies alike for sufficient prouision of freshfish at which time little store being taken by reason of contagious and contrarie weather wherein the fisherman aduentureth both life and goods not onely himselfe but many other hath their liuings theron depending great reason is that the same be sold the dearer for besides his saide aduenture he hath bene at no lesse charge then though he had taken great quantities And for remedie hereof that meÌ„ might haue in such a scarsitie some other good sorts of fish not commonly vsed To satisfie their diet in times past there hath bene prouided for the markets these sorts of fish that is to say Puffens Tunney Porpus Seall Holibut finnes Holibut heads many other things wherof was made fine delicate dishes which now for lacke of vse is not onely left vnprouided but also vtterly forgotten how or in what sort it should be vsed dressed or serued and worst of all how it should be eaten and disgested for that the proportion and substance of them is by many forgotten and the vse and tast forgotten of all There were also the sounds heads of the Cods which in fishing time were salted and preserued to be a diet in such scarsitie for the poorer sort all these things being by Gods creation ordained for our sustenance ought rather to be thankefully receiued theÌ„ contemtiously cast off and refused Besides this that wind and wether being contrary for fishing is a great cause that fish is many times very scarse deere yet the chiefest thing that generally causeth the same is lacke of certaine vtterance as by these fewe arguments following doth plainly appeare wherein it may be said As vtterance encreaseth or abateth in any trade so the trade will encrease or abate The trade being abated the commoditie therein vsed will waxe scant and lesse prouision thereof made The lesse prouision that therof is made the dearer the commoditie is The cause of smal prouision is the vncertainty of sale or vtterance certaine sale or vtterance encourageth many prouiders to buy of the commoditie Which in the beginning though it be chargeable to y e buyer or spender it wil by certaintie of vtterance become cheaper For the dearenesse thereof will cause many prouiders of the same to encrease The encrease of theÌ„ wil make plentie of the commoditie The plentifulnes whereof doth make cheapnesse WheÌ„ there was spent in this realme more fish in one yeare then there is at this day in fiue yeare they might haue had for one shilling that which now we pay twaine God is the onely nurse or heardsman to feed cherish that kind of victuall without any helpe of man he blesseth multiplieth theÌ„ according to his good

pleasure wil. The contempt of whose blessings may be cause of the scarsitie that now is in taking of fish more then in then in times past hath bin and no doubt but the imbracing therof with thankfulnes for the same God may and will cause it againe to multiply The harmes that happeÌ„ to the realme by the vnlawful expence of flesh what numbers of people are thereby put froÌ„ their liuings the discommodity therof the remedy FVrther and greater matters then yet hath bene spoken off are to be considered that by the vsuall and vnlawfull eating of flesh the vttrance of fiâ—h being small vncertain hath caused a great number to forsake the accustomed haunting of y e seas for taking of fish whereby three things doth happen The Nauie decaied a multitude of persons are put out of worke and the prouision of sustenance for the people greatly abated from which other three euils do spring The strength of the realme decaieth much idlenes many Rogues and theeues are bred and famine and distres the rather happeneth amongst the people These are such euils as bring decay and daunger vnto the common welth and therefore it may be said that the vsual and vnlawfull eating of flesh bringeth decay and daunger vnto the common welth It may further be saide that by the small vtterance of fish the accustomed haunting of the seas for taking of fish is abated from fiue parts to one By the abating whereof we may make account that tenne thousand persons which heretofore haue might still liue by fishing on the seas are thereby put out of worke and liuing Also there were very many besides fishermeÌ„ that by means of fishing liued vpon the land As shipwrites cowpars smithes weauers sailemakers netmakers dressars vtterars and cariars of fish with such like which may be accounted to extende in number to other ten thousand these are hereby in like case put from their liuing and maintenance and so in number they are togither twenty thousand persons their wiues women-seruants children whose liuings did depend on them now by their want made destitute of maintenaÌ„ce are thirty thousand at the least these in the whole extend to fiftie thousand persons whose liuings depended on fishing and is now abated Besides the vallew of the fish that was yearely taken and spent more then there is now towards the sustentation of the people which by estimation was worth three hundred thousand pounds at the least for there may be verie probable reasons giuen that there hath bene the vallue of so much fish spent yearely in this realme more then now there is Hereby we may vnderstand that a great number of able meÌ„ for seruice in time of war as masters pilates marriners sailers are greatly decaied abated by means wherof y e streÌ„gth of y e realm must needs be much weakned made of lesse force to encouÌ„ter or resist y e enimy vpon y e seas which is hath bene great part of defeÌ„ce seruice to y e realm by abating y e taking of fish vttrance thereof y e trade maintenance of the people on y e sea costes must needs abate also amoÌ„gst al sorts of people especially artificers whereby porte townes hath and dally doth fal in decaie waxing depopulated so daily grow of lesse and lesse habilitie to resist the enemy when necessitie shall require Also it is to be vnderstood that by the vsuall and vnlawfull eating of flesh the same victuall groweth or becommeth the dearer The dearenes of the said flesh victuall causeth great gaines to be raised by the fatting of cattell The rasing of such gaines causeth men to conuert their grounds and farmes from tillage to pasture By that meanes a multitude of people are put out of worke and from their liuings Therby a great number of them are constrained to become idle Roges or to practise other superfluous vaine things that breede diuers other great vices These be things that bring great detriment and decay vnto the common-welth and therefore as afore hath bene saide the vsuall and vnlawfull eating of flesh bringeth great detriment and decay vnto the common-welth Hereby it may also be vnderstood that by the decaie of tillage twentie thousand persons which haue and might still liue thereby are put from their accustomed worke and liuings Their wiues women seruants and children whose maintenance did on them depende are in number thirtie thousande at the least these in the whole extend to fiftie thousande beside the increase of a great number of sundrie fortes of victuall which in a farme house is encreased towards the sustentation of the people For a farme containing sixscore Acres of ground being imployed to pasture onely for the breeding and feeding of cattell there doth come no further increase of victuall but Biefes and Muttons onely and yt may bee prooued that the yearely encrease thereof will not finde yearely aboue ten persons of those that make their common and onely foode of flesh But let this farme be imployed into tillage there will be a reasonable encrease of Biefe and Muttons then is there account to be made of al kind of graine as wel for bread as drink which is the chiefest victuall for maintenance of the people Further there is in the said farme raysed and increased Veale Porke Bacon Pigges Geese Ducks Hennes Chickens Capons Milke Butter Cheese Egges and Fruite Drawe all these togither in accompt or comparison and they will sustaine and finde yearely twentie persons at the least I meane not those onely that are kept in the farme but such as are sustayned with the victuals that be sold out of the farme at the markets whereby it appeareth that ten persons that are fed and nourished with those victuals that are increased of the farme in pasture doth eate vp ten of those persons that should haue bene fed with such victuall as might haue bene increased of the same farme if it were in tillage This is a wonderfull decay in a common-wealth and ought with christian charitie of all men to be lamented That for the satisfieng of our lust contrarie to a good and commendable lawe for a common-wealth ordained we seeke our owne hurt and the vtter decay of our poore christian brethren may not this be called the eating vp of Gods people like bread agaynst whome the Psalmist earnestly crieth Psal 14.35 Thus we are to consider that by the vnlawfull eating of flesh three speciall dammages fall vpon vs. The realme is weakened and made of lesse force to encounter and resist the enemie both on the sea and seacoastes An hundred thousand persons are put from their worke and maintenance And of the victualles which heeretofore hath bene and still might be increased there is the vallew of three hundred thousand poundes yearely abated by reason whereof three greater damages and dangers proceedes that is to say By abating the force of the realm on the sea and seacoastes it is in the greater danger of

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