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A57589 Sir Walter Raleigh's Sceptick, or speculations and Observations of the magnificency and opulency of cities, his Seat of government, and letters to the Kings Majestie, and others of qualitie : also, his demeanor before his execution.; Sceptick Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618.; James I, King of England, 1566-1625. 1651 (1651) Wing R186A; ESTC R9285 29,117 153

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the first sort of Men to wit of those that live by their own labour they have never been displeased where they have been suffered to enjoy the fruit of their own travels Meum Tuum Mine and Thine is all wherein they seek the certaintie and protection True it is that they are the Fruit-Trees of the Land which God in Deuteronomie commanded to be spared they gather honey and hardly enjoy the wax and break the ground with great labour giving the best of their grain to the easefull and idle For the second sort which are the Merchants as the first feed the Kingdom so do these enrich it yea their trades especially those which are forcible are not the least part of our Martial Policie as hereafter proved and to do them right they have in all ages and times assisted the Kings of this Land not onely with great sums of money but with great Fleets of Ships in all their enterprises beyond the seas The second have seldom or never offended their Princes to enjoy their trades at home upon tolerable conditions hath ever contented them for the injuries received from other Nations give them but the Commission of Reprisal they will either Right themselves or sit down with their own loss without complaint 3. The third sort which are the Gentrie of England these being neither seated in the lowest grounds thereby subject to the biting of every beast nor in the highest Mountains and thereby in danger to be torn with tempest but the Valleys between both have their parts in the inferiour Justice and being spred over all are the Garrisons of good order throughout the Realm Sir WALTER RALEIGH'S LETTERS Sir Walter Raleigh's Letter to Mr Secretary Winwood before his Iourney to Guiana Honourable SIR I Was lately perswaded by two Gentlemen my ancient Friends to acquaint your Honour with some offers of mine made heretofore for a Journey to Guiana who were of opinion That it would be better understood now than when it was first propounded which advice having surmounted my dispair I have presumed to send unto your Honour the Copies of those Letters which I then wrote both to his Majestie and to the Treasurer Cecill wherein as well the reasons that first moved me are remembered as the objections by him made are briefly answered What I know of the riches of that place not by hear-say but what mine eyes hath seen I have said it often but it was then to no end Because those that had the greatest trust were resolved not to believe it not because they doubted the Truth but because they doubted my Disposition towards themselves where if God had blessed me in the enterprise I had recovered his Majesties favour and good opinion Other cause than this or other suspition they never had any Our late worthy Prince of Wales was extream curious in searching out the Nature of my offences The Queens Majestie hath informed her self from the beginning The King of Denmark at both times of his being here was throughly satisfied of my innocency they would otherwise never have moved his Majestie on my behalf The Wife the Brother and the Son of a King do not use to sue for men suspect but Sir since they all have done it out of their charitie and but with references to me alone Your Honour whose respect hath onely relation to his Majesties service strengthened by the example of those Princes may with the more hardness do the like being Princes to whom his Majesties good estate is no less dear and all men that shall oppugne it no less hatefull than to the King himself It is true Sir That his Majestie hath sometimes answered That his Councel knew me better than he did meaning some two or three of them And it was indeed my infelicitie for had his Majestie known me I had never been here where I now am or had I known his Majestie they had never been so long there where they now are His Majestie not knowing of me hath been my ruin and his Majesties misknowing of them hath been the ruin of a goodly part of his estate but they are all of them now some living and some dying come to his Majesties knowledge But Sir how little soever his Majestie knew me and how much soever he believed them yet have I been bound to his Majestie both for my Life and all that remains of which but for his Majestie nor Life nor ought else had remained In this respect Sir I am bound to yield up the same life and all I have for his Majesties service to die for the King and not by the King is all the ambition I have in the world Walter Raleigh Sir Walter Raleighs's Letter to his Wife from Guiana Sweet Heart I Can yet write unto you but with a weak hand for I have suffered the most violent Calenture for fifteen days that ever man did and lived but God that gave me a strong heart in all my adversities hath also now strengthened it in the hell-fire of heat We have had two most grievous sicknesses in our Ship of which fourtie two have died and there are yet many sick but having recovered the land of Guiana this 12 of November I hope we shall recover them We are yet two hundred men and the rest of our Fleet are reasonable strong strong enough I hope to perform what we have undertaken if the diligent care at London to make our strength known to the Spanish King by his Ambassadour have not taught the Spanish King to fortifie all the enterances against us howsoever we must make the Adventure and if we perish it shall be no honour for England nor gain for his Majestie to loose among many other an hundred as valiant Gentlemen as England hath in it Of Captain Baylies base coming from us at the Canaries see a Letter of Kemishes to Mr Skory of the unnatural weather storms and rains and winds He hath in the same letter given a touch of the way that hath ever been sailed in fourteen days now hardly performed in fourtie days God I trust will give us comfort in that which is to come In passage to the Canaries I stayed at Gomerah where I took water in peace because the Countrey durst not denie it me I received there of an English race a Present of Oranges Lemons Quinces and Pome-granates without which I could not have lived those I preserved in fresh sands and I have of them yet to my great refreshing Your son had never so good health having no distemper in all the heat under the Line All my servants have escaped but Crab and my Cook yet all have had the sickness Crofts and March and the rest are all well Remember my service to my Lord Carew and Mr Secretarie Winwood I write not to them for I can write of nought but miseries yet of men of sort we have lost our Serjeant Major Captain Pigott and his Lieuetenant Captain Edward Hastings who