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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	call_v	king_n	place_n	5,893	4	4.0838	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03702	The trauailes of an English man Containing his sundrie calalmities indured by the space of twentie and odd yeres in his absence from his natiue countrie; wherein is truly decyphered the sundrie shapes of wilde beasts, birds, fishes, foules, rootes, plants, &c. With the description of a man that appeared in the sea: and also of a huge giant brought from China to the King of Spaine. No lesse pleasant than approued. By I.H. Published with authoritie.; Rare travailes of Job Hortop	Hortop, Job.	1591 (1591)	STC 13828; ESTC S116216	16,448	32

cole hauing a stone in it and it is an excellent good fruite There also groweth a strange thing which they call Magei it serueth them to many vses below by the roote they make a hole whereat they do take out of it twise euery day a certaine kind of licour which they seeth in a great kettell till the third part be consumed and that it waxe thicke it is as sweet as anie honie they doe eate it Within twentie daies after that they haue taken all the licour from it it withereth and they cut it downe and vse it as we vse our hempe heere in England which done they conuert it to many vses of some part they make Mantles ropes and threed of the ends they make needles to sowe their saddels pannels and other furniture for their horses of the rest they make tyles to couer their houses and they put it to many other purposes And thus we came to Mexico which is 7 leagues about seated in a great fen inuironed with foure hils it hath but two waies of entrance and it is ful of creeks in the which in their Canowes they passe from place to place and to the Ilandes there within In the Indies ordinarily three times a yeare bee woonderfull earthquakes which put the people in great feare and daunger during the time of two yeres that I was in Mexico I saw them six times when it commeth it throweth downe trees houses and churches There is a Citie 25 leagues from Mexico called Tuscalia which is inhabited with a hundred thousand Indians they go in white shirts linnen breeches and long mantles and the women weare about them a garment much like vnto a flannen petticote The Kings pallace was the first place that we were brought vnto in Mexico where without we were willed to sit downe Much people men women children came wondering about vs many lamented our misery some of their clergie asked vs if we were Christians we said we praised God we were as good christians as they they asked how they might know that we said by our confessions Frō thence we were carried in a Canowe to a Tanners house which standeth a little from the citie the next morning two friars two priests came thither to vs and willed vs to blesse our selues and say our praiers in the Latin tong that they might vnderstand vs many of our company did so wherevpon they returned to the vize-king and told him that we were good Christians that they liked vs well then they brought vs much releefe with cloths our sick men were sent to their hospitals where many were cured and many died From the Tanners house we were led to a gentlemans place where vpon paine of death wee were charged to abide and not to come into the Citie thither we had all things necessarie brought vs on sundaies and holydaies much people came and brought vs great releefe The vize-king practised to hang vs and caused a paire of new gallows to be set vp to haue executed vs wherevnto the Noblemen of that country would not consent but praied him to stay vntill the ship of aduise brought newes from the king of Spaine what should be done with vs for they saide they could not finde any thing by vs whereby they might lawfully put vs to death The vize-king then commanded vs to be sent to an Iland therby he sent for the Bishop of Mexico who sent foure priests to the Iland to examine confes vs who said that the vize-king would burne vs when we were examined and confessed according to the lawes of their country They returned to the Bishop told him that we were very good Christians The Bishop certefied the vize-king of our examinations and confessions and said that we were good Christians therefore he would not meddle with vs. Then the vize-king sent for our maister R. Barret whom he kept prisoner in his pallace vntil the fleete was departed for Spaine The rest of vs hee sent to a Towne seuen leagues from Mexico called Tothscoco to carde wooll among the Indian slaues which drudgery we disdained and concluded to beat our maisters and so we did wherefore they sent to the vize-king desiring him for Gods sake and our Ladies to send for vs for they would not keep vs any longer they said that we were deuils no men The vizeking sent for vs imprisoned vs in a house in Mexico from thence he sent An. Goddard some other of our company with him into Spaine with Lushon the Generall that tooke vs the rest of vs staied in Mexico 2 yeeres after then were sent prisoners into Spaine with Don Iohn de valesco de varre admiral general of the spanish fleet who caried with him in his ship to be presented to the K. of Spaine the anatomie of a Giant which was sent from China to Mexico to the vize-king Don Martin Hennerico to be sent to the K. of Spaine for a great wonder It did appeere by the anatomie that he was of a monstrous size the skull of his head was neer as big as half a bushel his neck bones shoulder plates arme bones all other lineaments of his other partes were huge and monstrous to behold the shanke of his leg from the ankell to the knee was as long as any mans ankell vp to his wast and of bignesse accordingly At this time and in this shippe were also sent to bee presented to the king of Spaine two chests full of earth with ginger growing in them which were also sent from China to be sent to the king of Spaine The ginger runneth in the ground like to liccoras the blades growe out of it in length and proportion like vnto the blades of wild garlicke which they cut euerie fifteene daies they vse to water them twise a day as we doe our hearbes heere in England they put the blades in their porrage and vse them in their other meates whose excellent sauour and tast is very delightfull and procureth a good appetite When wee were shipped in the port of S. Iohn de Low the Generall called our maister Robert Barret vs with him into his cabbin and asked vs if wee would fight against Englishmen if we met them at sea we said that wee would not fight against our Crowne but if we met with any other we would doe what wee were able He said if we had saide otherwise hee would not haue beleeued vs and for that we should be the better vsed and haue allowance as other men had he gaue a charge to euery one of vs according vnto our knowledge Robert Barret was placed with the pilate I was put in the Gunner roome William Cawse with the bote-sunne Iohn Beare with the quarter-maisters Edward Rider and Geffrey Giles with the ordinarie marriner Richard the maisters boy attended on him and the pilate shortly after we departed from the port of S. Iohn de Lowe with all the fleete of Spaine for