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england_n	admiral_n	high_a	lord_n	4,491	5	4.1381	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B08688	The charge of the admirals of England		1693 (1693)	Wing C2058A; ESTC R224554	1,677	2

THE CHARGE OF THE Admirals of England Licensed according to Order AS England is Wall'd round with a Wall of Water Her Defence of that Wall by Her Floating Castles Her Naval Strength and Management is her greatest if not almost Her only Bulwarks and Rampants This is most certain as the British Empire holds a two-fold Regale Her Scepter and Her Trident Her Dominion at Land and Her Soveraignty at Sea so that Maritine Principality being the Frontiers and Out-lines of Her whole Power and Territories and consequently Her chiefest Strength as being Her only Inlet that Deputed Hand that under the Imperial Commission has the Charge of Her Admiralty has the highest Post of Honour and the most Important Trust that a Crown'd Head can lodge in a Subject For as no Attaque can be made upon England without first gaining Her Mastery of the Sea the Preservation of that fairest of Her Crown-Jewels is and ought to be Her ablest Care and Industry This is notoriously manifest from the never-dying Fame of our Great Elizabeth where one intire Naval Triumph o're Spain was of more Advantage to this Kingdom and carried more Trophies along with it than all the Battles and Successes of a Third Edward or a Fifth Henry in the very Bowels of France For to summ the whole Grandeur of that Greatest of Potentates and best of Queens Her Sword-work at Land tho' encompassed with Enemies was nothing to Her Thunder-work at Sea The Fortune of that single Stroke attended with so great a Blow upon Spain and Her prudent Caution of suppressing the Maritine Growth of France even against their great Fourth Henry himself in threatning to burn his Navy in their Harbour for so much as attempting to build a Capital Ship of War was of that high Import to the English Grandeur that had Her Politicks been pursued and Her Advantages from that onely Success been rightly improved by Her Masculine tho' Heavens knows more Effeminate Successors England had held the Scale of Europe to End of the World and the present Greatness of France the now Terror of Christendom had been wholly an impracticable Attempt and Ambition But as the aforesaid Esteminacy of the succeeding Reigns utterly neglected that fortunate Occasion and lost the happy Forelock which had we held we had awed the whole World and preserved the English Greatness as immortal as that Princesses never-dying Memory and has thereby so infinitely lessened our Original British Lustre Nevertheless 't is not so late even after all our Losses and former Mis-managements to endeavour some part at least of so necessary a Recovery This Glory at least we have to boast for our Encouragement That never more hardy Courage sate on the English Throne than now Nor a Prince whose Endeavours and Zeal can be more strenuous or more indefatigable for the Redemption of our too long falling Glory Cou'd all Hands follow but as this leads both Fear and Despair would be far from our Doors and a new Dawn of Hopes surronnd us But to return to our Admiral 's Cause As the Sea is a Divisum Imperium a separate Soveraignty from that of the Land and accordingly the Laws by which all Maritine Affairs are tried are different from the common Law of the Nation So the Lord High Admiral of England's Commission as so much different from any other Command constitutes him no less than a Viceroy a Title above any other Dignity or Preferment whatever If the Honour of the Command it self be so Eminent and Illustrious the Faithful and Zealous Execution of it must be truly more Honourable and Illustrious for indeed 't is only the Discharge of a Trust and the Exertion of Virtuous Actions and Gallant Atchievements are the true Foundation of Renown and Glory As the ever-memorable Drake has left a Name that will live as long Time it self shall last we may likewise add That our latter Honourable Admiral Russel has acquired as large a share of Fame as true English Courage rewarded with Success and Victory can well reach And 't is highly to be wish'd that our this present Years latter Expedition in our Joynt Commission of Admiralty cou'd have met with as fair a Chapplet of Lawrels But if either any unsmiling Providences above or unhappier Conduct below have deny'd us that Blessing 't is our Misfortune that so fair a Chian should ever be broken and that such Signal Happinesses should be other than the continued show'ring Favours of our kind Stars But whether our this Years Unhappiness at Sea was Misfortune or Mis-management is a Province above me 't is safficient that Sub Judice lis est The Cause is depending before the Great Council of the Land Our Patriots in Parliament Assembled whose Vigilance and Wisdom as they have the Inspection now before them so their Hands have the Ballance and Scales to do Justice accordingly London Printed for Tho. Batcheler at Charing-Cross 1693.