Selected quad for the lemma: master_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
master_n	earl_n	lord_n	privy_a	2,789	4	11.0689	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08310	The surueyors dialogue Diuided into fiue bookes: very profitable for all men to peruse, that haue to do with the reuenues of land, or the manurance, vse, or occupation thereof, both lords and tenants: as also and especially for such as indeuor to be seene in the faculty of surueying of mannors, lands, tenements, &c. By I.N.	Norden, John, 1548-1625?	1607 (1607)	STC 18639; ESTC S113314	151,126	260

The Surueyors Dialogue Diuided into fiue Bookes Very profitable for all men to peruse that haue to do with the reuenues of Land or the manurance vse or occupation thereof both Lords and Tenants as also and especially for such as indeuor to be seene in the faculty of surueying of Mannors Lands Tenements c. By I. N. PROV 17.2 A discreet seruant shall haue rule ouer an vnthrifty sonne and he shall diuide the heritage among the brethren Voluntas pro facultate LONDON Printed for Hugh As●ley dwelling at S. Magnus corner 1607. ❧ To the right Honorable Robert Lord Cecill Baron of Esingdon Vicecount Crambourne Earle of Sarum principall Secretarie to the most high and magnificent Prince IAMES King of Great Brittaine France and Ireland Master of his Maiesties Wards Liueries of his Maiesties most Honorable priuy Councell and Knight of the most noble Order of the Gar●er AS the Earth right Honorable was giuen to man and man after diuine was enioyned the care of earthly things euery mā in seuerall place qualitie and state the greatest receiuing thence greatest dignities euen to be called Princes of the earth So is it not the least regard that men of whatsoeuer title or place should haue of the lawfull and iust meanes of the preseruation and increase of their earthly reuenues And that especially by iustly atchieuing and rightly vsing Dominion and Lordship which principally grow omitting publique office and authoritie by Honors Mannors Lands and Tenants for according to the largenesse of reuenues are the meanes to enable the Honorable to shelter the vertuous distressed and to cherish such as by desert may challenge regard And according to their will and power therein is the vulgar reputation of their Magnificence But my good Lord as mine indeuor in this rude Dialogue tendeth but as it were to the plow So I omit to wade into the impassable censure of Honor and Dignitie wishing it euer deserued reuerence And as touching Land-reuenues wherwith many are but especially the Honorable are or ought to be principally endowed I presume onely in this simple Treatise to discourse So farre according to my sle●der capacitie and weake experience as concerneth the ordinary necessary meanes of the maintenance increase of Land-reuenues And because the true and exact Surueying of Land is the principall I haue herein indeuoured more of Desire then of Power for the vse and benefite of all sorts of men hauing to deale with land both Lords and Tenants to shew the necessitie and simple method thereof Most humbly intreating your good Lordship the fruites of whose and of your honorable Fathers fauours I haue many wayes tasted to vouchsafe me your Honorable pardon for presuming and your like patience in accepting at my hands this little mite which were it as great as any wel-wishing hart can intend good it were together with my poore selfe in truest seruice vnfainedly your Lordships It may therfore please the same to accept it so shall others the more willingly embrace it or the lesse disgrace it humbly recommending it to your gracious fauour At my poore house at Hendon prime Ianuar. 1607. Your Lordships euer to be commanded Io. Norden To the beneuolent Readers especially to Landlords and Tenants AS God in his high and incompre●e●sible wisedome ●●th giuen unto man two beings a Spirituall and Corporal So hath hee enioyned him two prescript cares the one of diuine heuēly the other of humane and earthly things And although the first bee as farre more excellent then the second as the brightest Sunne exceedeth the blackest darkenesse yet hath hee not omitted to giue vnto all men an expresse commaundement to bee mindfull of the second Although it must bee confessed that no man taking an extraordinary care can adde a● of himselfe one iott of increase of any good thing neither can hee of his owne proper industry assure himselfe of any part of true prosperitie in this life yet must he not therefore dissolutely neglect his vttermost lawfull indeuour to aduance his own welfare which he neither can do without feare and trembling if hee call to mind the cause why the earth bringeth forth vnto vs of it owne accord nothing but the very tokens of our originall disobedience wherein ●s imprinted this Motto or Poesy of our shame With the sweat of thy face thou shalt eate thy bread al● the dayes of thy life And this without exception of persons Whereby it appeareth that none is exempted from labour and trauaile in one kind or other to maintaine his estate here Our Fathers of fame began it Adam digged the Earth and manured it Tubal wrought in Mettals Noah planted a Vineyard Abraham Lot Moses Dauid Elizeus Amos and many other godly and great men were Shepheards Gydeon was a Thresher of Corne. Iacob and his sonnes the Patriarkes were Herdesmen Ioseph a Purueyor of Corne in Egypt Paul made Tents Mathew was a Customer or Toll-gatherer Peter Andrew and others were Fishermen And Saul a keeper of Asses If these men began the way of labour in so many kinds who may say he is free in one kind or other And hee that in respect of his greatnes of birth or wealth will pretend a priuiledge of idlenes or vaine and vnprofitable exercises doth discouer his forgetfulnes or neglect of the dutie in earth which euery man euen the greatest oweth vnto the Common-wealth his owne family and posteritie And hee is censured euen by the mouth of God Worse then an Infidell that neglecteth these duties And none is excused or exempted out of this Law of prouision for his familie be hee neuer so high or meane not that such men as are honorable by byrth office or aduancement should till the earth or be Shepheards or Herdsmen But that they should according to their greatnes execute great place in the Common-wealth whereof after the care of Diuine things in respect of God that gaue them their greatnes they should haue care to performe some seruice in respect of the King vnder whome they enioy their greatnes To shew loue and diligent regard to ayd their inferiours in respect of whome they haue the imputation of their greatnesse To bee prouident in prouiding things necessarie for their Families that haue an interest to partake of their greatnes And lastly in respect of their posterities that are to becom the more great by their greatnesse And how can they do thus vnlesse they looke into and vse the meanes of the increase and preseruation of their greatnesse And for as much as the same consisteth for the most part in the reuenewes of land what greater care ought they to haue then to maintaine and lawfully to augment the same which decaying their Honor and honorable reputation diminisheth To preserue or augment Reuenues there must be meanes the meanes are wrought by Knowledge Knowledge had by Experience Experience by view and due obseruation of the particulars by which Reuenues doe or may arise Wherein are to bee considered the Quantities