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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B00963	An encouragement to colonies. By Sir William Alexander, knight..	Stirling, William Alexander, Earl of, 1567 or 8-1640.; Stansby, William, fl. 1597-1638, printer.	1625 (1625)	STC 341A; ESTC S125341	33,437	53

the protecting of whose liberties was the first cause of warre between them and the Persian Monarchs then besides all the adjacent Iles they planted Siracusa in Sicile most part of Italie which made it to bee called Graecia maior and Marseills in France O what a strange alteration that this part which did flourish thus whilest it was possessed by vigorous spirits who were capable of great enterprises did so many braue things should now the seate of base seruile people become the most abject and contemptible part of all the Territories belonging to the barbarous Ottomans whose insolent Ianissaries as the Pretorian Guards did with their Emperours and Mamalukes of Egypt with their Soldans presume at this time to dispose of the Regall power vpbrayding the miserable follie of Christians who dangerously embarqued in intestine warres though inuited by an encountring occasion neglect so great so glorious and so easie a conquest The Romanes comming to command a well peopled World had no vse of Colonies but onely thereby to reward such old deseruing Souldiers as age and merit pleading an immunitie from any further constrained trauell had brauely exceeded the ordinary course of time appointed for military seruice which custome was vsed in Germanie France Spaine and Brittaine and likewise that the Townes erected in this sort might serue for Citadels imposed vpon euery conquered Prouince whereof some doe flourish at this day and of others nothing doth remaine but the very name onely their ruines being so ruined that wee can hardly condiscend vpon what solitary part to bestowe the fame of their former being I am loth by disputable opinions to dig vp the Tombes of them that more extenuated then the dust are buried in obliuion will leaue these disregarded relicts of greatnesse to continue as they are the scorne of pride witnessing the power of time Neither will I after the common custome of the world ouerualuing things past disualue the present but considering seriously of that which is lately done in Ireland doe finde a Plantation there inferiour to none that hath beene heretofore The Babylonians hauing conquered the Israelites did transplant them as exposed to ruine in a remote Countrey sending others of their owne Nation that they might be vtterly extirpated to inhabite Samaria in their places And our King hath only diuided the most seditious families of the Irish by dispersing them in sundry parts within the Countrey not to extinguish but to dissipate their power who now neither haue nor giue cause of feare The Romanes did build some Townes which they did plant with their owne people by all rigour to curbe the Natiues next adjacent thereunto And our King hath incorporated some of his best Brittaines with the Irish planted in sundry places without power to oppresse but onely to ciuilize them by their example Thus Ireland which heretofore was scarcely discouered and only irritated by others prouing to the English as the Lowe-Countries did to Spaine a meanes whereby to waste their men and their money is now really conquered becomming a strength to the State and a glorie to his Majesties gouernment who hath in the setling thereof excelled all that was commended in any ancient Colonie As all first were encouraged to Plantations by the largenesse of the conquests that were proposed vnto them fearing onely want of people and not of land so in after ages when all knowne parts became peopled they were quickly entangled with the other extremitie grudging to be bounded within their prospect and jarring with their neighbours for small parcels of ground a strife for limits limiting the liues of many who entring first in controuersie vpon a point of profit though with the losse of ten times more valuing their honour by the opinion of others behooued to proceed as engaged for the safety of their reputation Then richesse being acquired by industrie and glorie by employments these two did beget auarice and ambition which lodging in some subtile heads vpon a politike consideration to vnite intestine diuisions did transferre their splene to forraine parts not seeking to rectifie the affections but to busie them abroad where least harme was feared and most benefit expected so that where they had first in a peaceable sort sought for Lands onely wherewith to furnish their necessity which conueniency or sufficiency did easily accommodate now ayming at greatnesse the desires of men growne infinite made them strangers to contentment and enemies to rest Some Nations seeking to exchange for better seates others to command their neighbours there was for many ages no speach but of wrongs and reuenges conquests and reuolts razings and ruining of States a continuall reuolution determining the periods of Time by the miseries of mankind and in regard of the populousnesse of these ages during the Monarchies of the Assirians Persians Graecians and Romanes the world could not haue subsisted if it had not beene purged of turbulent humours by letting out the bloud of many thousands so that warre was the vniuersall Chirurgeon of these distempered times And thereafter O what monstrous multitudes of people were slaine by huge deluges of barbarous armies that ouerflowed Italie France and Spaine and the Christians haue long beene subject to the like calamities wanting a commoditie how they might not wronging others in a Christian manner employ the people that were more chargeable then necessary at home which was the cause of much mischiefe among themselues till at that time when Spaine was striuing with France how to part Italie as Italie had formerly done with Carthage how to part Spaine Then it pleased God hauing pitie of the Christians who for purposes of small importance did prodigally prostitute the liues of them whom hee had purchased with so pretious a ransome as it were for diuerting that violent kind of vanitie to discouer a new world which it would seeme in all reason should haue transported them with designes of more moment whereby glory and profit with a guiltlesse labour was to bee attayned with lesse danger whereunto they are as it were inuited and prouoked with so many eminent aduantages palpably exposed to any cleare judgement that I thinke this obuious facilitie vilifying that which a further difficulty might the more endeare the easinesse of the prey hath blunted the appetite When Christopher Columbus had in vaine propounded this enterprise to diuers Christian Princes Isabella of Castile against the opinion of her husband though so much renowned for wit yet not reaching this mysterie did first furnish him for a Voyage as if it were fatall that that Nation should owe the greatest part of their greatnesse to the female Sexe And if the Spaniards would sincerely and gratefully haue bestowed the benefits whereby God did allure them to possesse this Land for the planting of it with Christians enclined to ciuilitie and religion it had at this day considering the excellency of the soyle for all the perfections that nature could affoord beene the most singularly accomplished place of the world but it hath