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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81551	A dispute betwixt an atheist and a Christian the atheist being a Flemming, the Christian an Englishman. Published according to order.	G. G.	1646 (1646)	Wing D1678; Thomason E1187_3; ESTC R15204	24,048	59

you see that they and the Normans are all one William of Normandy being but the fifth Prince born out of Denmark they being all one there can be but one mixture when as France Spain and Italy since the Saxons first comming into England have been at the least seven or eight times over-run as out of Germany Swethia Norway Denmark Mauritania Tingitania and the Saracens as also they have intermixt themselves one with the other by invading one the other displanting and planting as their fortune admitted the cause with the perticular moneths yeers and Generals under whose conducts these people so victoriously marched are omitted as not proper for this Discourse But those Countrey histories may satisfie you in the perticulars I have mentioned And for noble undertakings no people of any particular Countrey of the Universe hath ever atteined to those glorious Enterprizes both by Sea and Land as have done our Princes and people To omit the Conquests of King Arthur which with the 4000 ships of War of Edgars the Saxon Monarch with the Licenses given by them for Danes Netherlanders and French to fish on the British and German Seas sufficiently prove the British authority over them which Galfridus Monumetensis Printed at Heidelberge Anno 1587 which was over a great part of France Island Ireland Gothland Orkney Norway Denmarke and Master Lamhard adds Swethland Semoland Windland Curland Roe Femeland Witland Flanders Cherilland Capland and particular acts of our Kings and men at Armes before King William the first and since in our neigh bouring Countries as in Spain France Portugall the Netherlands Russia Barbary c. And magnanimous proceedings in the second holy Wars of our Kings Princes and Noblemen King Richard in his passage onely taking Merssena and the Island of Sicily mangre the power and resistance of the French Army in it and strength of Sicilians with Calabria Cyprus and after Jerusalem which places he bestowed on such Friends as he minded to perpetuallize his servants Many of his Successors of England succeeding him in his Princly undertakings in that Warre who were the first Generals that circumnavigated the Globe was not Drake and Candish and although Columbus is said to have discovered America first yet certainly Master Thorne and Elliot of Bristoll found Newfoundland which is part of America before Columbus the Ilands Lacaios What Nations have adventured themselves so farre to the Northwest as they in such Alps of Ice such high-grown Seas such threatning and rolling high mountainous waves as you may see in the Journall of Sir Thomas Button Baffin Hudson Davies and twenty others of our Countrymen which for brevity I for beare to name See the perticular acts of Captain Smith is enough to perswade you that there 's more courage in one English heart then in many thousands of other people a man that in single Combat beheaded three Turks and after in Virgmia in America he ventured single with his Pistoll in one hand to take the King by beard with the other although a thousand tall Indians were about him and forced him for feare of death if he had denyed to furnish the English Coloney with Corne and other provision that they wanted Private Captains of this Kingdome have ransackt and spoyled Portorico Spaniola Cuba and Jamaco with their Cities and Villages as also all the Towns and Cities of the Coast of America as Nombre de Dios Portabelo Campech Sanct. John de Aukia Santa Maria Coro Agupalro Puerto de Cavallos Truxillo Cartagena San Josif in Trinidado Sant Thomas Santos Sant Vincent Bayae Farnambuck the Town and Island of Margareta and Coche in the South Sea Sant Jago Africa Lima Guatulco Chinchapaita Puva Aquatulco Puerto de Natividad All the Islands of the Coasts of Africa as Saint Thomas Isles de Cape Verdi Isles of the Canaries Azores with most of their Cities and Forts This is to be the more valued in regard of pivate mens undertaking and performing the same as you may see in the Voyages of George the Noble Earle of Cumberland Sir Walter Raleigh Sir Francis Drake Sir John Hawkins Sir Martin Frobisher Sir Robert Dudley Sir Anthony Sherley Sir Amias Preston Master Thomas Candish Sir James Lancaster William King Christopher Newport Andrew Barber and the wonderfull adventure of Captaine John Oxnam And although that the Dutch have when they have bin five to one come as Joab did to Amasia in pretended friendship and so smote us there is a farre greater value set by the East India Natives on the English for their valour and magnanimity then on those Grasse-eating Butter-boxes The English when they have beene aware of them in the City of Bantam severall times when have beene seven or eight for one on their beginning quarrels in their drinke made them retyre with the losse of their honour and some of their lives and members in spite of their beards to the great admiration of the Javeans and the Mogor the greatest Monarch of India by his using this saying hath made it a Proverbe That one Englishman will be at three Hollanders or Portugalls and one Portugall will be at three of his Countreymen What people have done such service in Sea-fights as have the English in the Interim of the taking of Ormus when the English did as gallantly as ever men did There was one Philips with a Pinace of sixteen Tun with thirteen men and boyes and two Falkings in her took a Portugall Ship with seventy five Fortugalls ninety Negro men women and Children forty Chall men and goods in her to the value of twenty thousand pounds which is testified by the takers of Ormus and to be seen in that Journall The valrant Acts of Iohn Cook William Ling David Jones Robert Luckey foure youths that rescued themselves from captivity by killing thirteen Turks and bringing the Ship away for Spain and there sold her The Acts of John Fox Captaine Nicholai Master Mallam John Rawlins c. and a late fight of Captaine Ransborow that fost but one man and killed two hundred Knights of Malta and Negro slaves These are but touches on the little strings The Acts of the Sea Worthies in the days of Queene Elizabeth onely being but strook upon would drown all the undertakings before or since in that kind and that you may know how much the gallantry of a Prince infuseth bravery into a subject see how Sir Anthony and Sir Robert Sherley in her days obtained the favour of the Persian King so much that they were employed as Embassadours to all the great Princes of the World from him and from divers others The title and power of Sir Robert conferred on him by the Pope and Emperour excelling all they ever before granted as in his Patent you may see at large In her dayes Sir Jerome Horsey was sent twice into England from the the Russia Emperour and to many other Princes from him As also Sir Edward Scorey and Iohn Caudre from the Tartar and two others from the German Emperour