Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	earl_n	lord_n	warwick_n	3,681	5	12.0313	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77931	A cordiall for the calenture and those other diseases which distempers the seamen. Or, A declaration discovering and advising how Englands sea honour may be regained, and maintained as in the happy raigne of Queene Elizabeth, of famous memory. With the saving of two hundred and fifteen thousand one hundred twenty two pounds a year, one year with the other.	Burrell, Andrewes.	1649 (1649)	Wing B5970; Thomason E537_10; ESTC R205361	7,219	15

were no greater wast then that on the Frigots there would not be so little left for honest men to relieve themselves and those that do depend upon them But slighting all their fair shewes and specious pretences they abuse Englands Common-wealth by their counterfeit practices and by many dangerous misinformations telling the Parliament all is well when in truth all is naught Your Orator hath inquired with much diligence but cannot here that any one of the Parliaments new Frigots by chasing the inconsiderable Pyrates hath incountred and taken any one of them which is very seazeable if those Officers which are in Authority did understand the misery of the Ship-weights Art as well as they know how by power to defend the fallacies which your Orator doth complain of There belongeth to Waterford and Wexford at this present foureteen Sayle of able men of Warre which have thriven so well of late in their wicked Designes that the Relator told Thirty three Prizes lying by the Walles in one Harbour as not valuable besides all those that were otherwise trifled away by this losse your Readers may perceive how unable the present Government is with the expence of Three hundred Fifty five Thousand one hundred twenty two pounds a year to clear Englands Seas of Irelands Pyrates * The first page of your Orators Rem●nstrance did tell the Parliament that the Guarding of the Seas did cost Three hundred and Fifty Thousand pounds in one year which Information was very offensive to the Chairman of the Navie But force that expostulation his Worship hath dec●ared that scandall to b pure truth and hath added five Thousand one Hundred twenty two pounds a year one with another unto my Report besides all the odd● shillings and pence c. In the 19. page of their Legend the Commissioners of the Navie in Aprill 1646. tell the Parliament That his Majesty had then but half a dozen men of Warre and that the most of them were of so small Force that they were not considerable Since which time by Mr. Greenes Declaration with a proportionable allowance for this present year 1648. There hath been one Million threescore and five Thousand three hundred sixty six pounds spent to guard the Seas that is to reduce half a dozen inconsiderable Pyrates but notwithstanding that vast and insupportable wast those Pyrates are not reduced neither are the Seas Guarded with strength equivolent to halfe the charge or necessary to the safety and honour of the Land The present Government cannot reduce half a dozen inconsiderable Pyrates They have suffered his Majesties inconsiderable half dozen to increase to more then a whole dozen they have suffered them to increase to more then a whole dozen of uncontroulable Pyrates some say to more then three dozen however this is most certain one of them about the midst of February last did in one day take three small Ships and one Pinnace which together were worth Nine Thousand pounds or more mony and which hath no Redemption when those Ships were lost one of them indeavouring to defend themselves lost their Master with one of his Mates and five of the common men In which conflict besides the losse of those seaven there were others wounded wherefore being much weakned and wounded the Ship to leeward and not able to save her selfe by runing they were forced to yeald in this place your Orator humbly moves this Query if the present Government with the expence of ten hundred threescore and five thousand three hundred sixty six pounds cannot reduce halfe a dozen inconsiderable Pyrates in three years space * That famous service which was performed by Queen Elizabeths Royall Navie in the year 1588. did not cost Englands Common-wealth threescore and tenn Thousand pounds How will Englands Common-wealth be wasted if the French the Danes the Dutch or all of them shall infest Englands Seas or at once invade this distracted Kingdom I say if the present Government with that insupportable sum of Treasure which hath been spent within these last three years cannot subdue and anihilate halfe a dozen inconsiderable Pyrates what strange confusion and extream beggery will those profuse wasters bring upon this already too much impoverished Kingdom if the neighboring Princes should invade this Island with powerfull Armadoes that is with Fleetes of warlike Ships By this discourse your Readers may perceive how vainly the Kingdoms Treasure how carelesly Englands Common-wealth is wasted it is shamefully wasted and which is most considerable in the times when Englands Treasure was wasted as not valuable even then the honour of Englands Seas was lost and shamefully lost And which adds to this complaint the Kingdoms sufferings as now are not only insupportable but endlesse for though the Common-wealth hath payed an unknown price of Treasure and blood for a more then necessary Reformation no Reformation is or can be expected unlesse this or some other Pillar which hereafter may be famous promote this or the like complaint to those Worthies which unfainedly desire the Kingdomes Peace For this is most certaine some in authority do not see and some in Authority will not see and when those that are in Authority will be blind what can be expected but confusion and conclusively desolation These great and growing mischeifs your Orator doth see and therein doth perceive the perverse condition of Flesh and Blood your Orator doth plainly see how desperatly the present powers do slight Petitions tending to the peace and safety of this famous Kingdom * The Petitioner complained first to the Lord high Admirall of England to the Lord Say to the Earl of Warwicke to the Earle of Essex to severall members of the honorable house of Commons to the House of Commons to Lieutennant Gen. Crumwell and to his Excelency Englands Victorious Generall For these Reasons your Orator thinks it duty in him to complaine to thee O Pillar and would have thy Readers know that he is so confident of his experience in the misery of the Shipwrights Art that he dares enter into any engagement to make the greatest halfe of those old sluggish rotten ships which the Officers of the Navie call Englands Royall Navy saile as swiftly as the lest of the Parliaments new Friggots Your Orator is likewise willing because he knoweth how to build a ship of the fourth ranck that shall saile about the nimblest of the Parliaments new Friggots These services your Orator can and is willing to vndertake upon the striktest Obligations that can be invented And if he faile to performe what he doth promise your Orator shall most willingly as deservedly vndergoe the highest Censure that may in justice be inflicted upon him These are the reall thoughts and earnest desires of your humble Orator who by his owne Proposalls expects no particular Emolument untill he hath performed the intended Services And then cast himself at the feete of those Worthies which shall effectually promote this humble Petition But passing these thoughts give your Orator