Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	edward_n	king_n	succeed_v	2,762	5	9.6470	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47406	Some seasonable and modest thoughts, partly occasioned by, and partly concerning the Scots East-India Company humbly offered to R.H. Esq., a member of the present Parliament / by an unfeigned and hearty lover of England.	C. K., Unfeigned and hearty lover of England.	1696 (1696)	Wing K5; ESTC R14903	27,535	36

that are Charming in order to give a beginning unto it and six it a Settlement where it has had little Footing and scarcely been entertained And the more enticing must the means be to allure a People to it and to make them espouse it with Ardour where not only the Genius and Inclinations of a Nation have generally stood biassed another way but where thro' being habituated to greater Frugality than their Neighbours they have for the most part sat down contented with their own home Productions as being sufficient both to accommodate all the needful cravings of Nature and to yield Supplies for the common conveniencies of Life or they have only extended their Trade to an intercourse with those adjoining Nations that could both take off those few Superfluities which their Country yieldeth and might furnish them with all those Supplies which modern Vanity Pride and Luxury have rendered as it were necessary And if Penal Laws have been found necessary to withdraw the Native Irish from their antient rude Custom of making their Horses plow and draw by the Tails you will not wonder if Beneficial Laws be thought needful to turn the Applications of the Scots into another Channel than that in which most of them have hitherto exercised their Parts and imployed their Industry and by how much any Kingdom or State findeth that others have been long embarked in Traffick before them by so much must the Encouragement be the greater and the prospects of Success and Advantage made the more visible and morally certain to obtain their People to start so late and so far behind those interested in Trade previously to them that they do in a manner see the Prize of the Course in which they are ingaging in the Possession and Enjoyment of others before they can set out and begin Nor is there any thing more universally practised by all Nations and particularly by England than to grant large Privileges to the Authors and Inventors of any thing Natural or Artificial that may be profitable to Makind and beneficial to the Community and various as well as many Instances fall under every Man's Observation and View how that the Projectors and Authors of the least thing that hath seemed to have a tendency to publick and National usefulness have had all the Profits that were likely for several Years to accrue from it vested in them in the way of a Monopoly as the Recompence and Reward either of their Skill or of their Industry nor can any be ignorant who are conversant either in our History or in our Statute-Book what Concessions Privileges and Immunities have been heretofore granted to the Walloons and others to tempt them hither and by them to get possession of and to establish those various Manufactures which have been of so much Reputation as well as of Advantage to the Kingdom Yea while the Ingeny Vigour and Industry of the Natives of England spent themselves heretofore in other Ways Exercises and Applications than those of Traffick what large Favours and Immunities were then granted unto and bestowed upon Foreigners to procure them to settle a Staple of Commerce here and to cultivate Trade For how much soever the English have within this last Age addicted themselves to Trade and Navigation yet before the middle of Queen Elizabeth's Reign their Application was not much greater thereunto than that of their Neighbours and so unprovided was this Kingdom at that Time both of Ships and Mariners and that no less for Traffick than for War that the Government was forced to hire the one as well as the other from the Hanse-Towns 'T is true that long before upon the Burgundians having procured of John Duke of Brabant the Incorporation of a Company of Merchant Adventurers Anno 1248. our Politick as well as Warlike Prince Edward the 3 d found means to allure it hither and to get it transplanted into England where being established by him with many and great Privileges it was likewise afterwards confirmed by most of the Kings of England that succeeded him But besides its being fallen in Queen Elizabeth's Time under some decline had it been in its great Vigour it could not have been able to support extend and enlarge Trade to the Measure and Degree which the Ballance of Europe at that time and the growth of Navigation and Traffick in other Nations made necessary to be attempted here which as it occasioned Commerce to be cast as it were into a new Mould and to put on a different Face from that in which it formerly appeared so it procured those Encouragements unto Trade and gained it such Privileges as might serve to promote its Propagation and Increase to a Proportion that should not only equal that of other Nations but exceed it Nor is it improbable but that the Prospect which all People then had of England and Scotland's being likely soon after to be united under one Soveraign might give great Encouragement to this Kingdom to apply it to Navigation and Commerce more than it had been accustomed to do and that not only upon the hopes of being delivered from those Wars for the future which had for many Ages been too frequent between these British Nations and consequently great Obstructions to Trade but ' en that these Kingdoms becoming to be so far incorporated as to be under one Monarch England should have thence forward little cause of Apprehension of War with any of its Foreign Neighbours and especially with France and that partly by reason or the Addition of Strength which this Conjunction of the two Nations would give against any Enemy and partly because the Alliance and Friendship between Scotland and France which had often rendered the French the bolder to make War against England would by this Vnion be unavoidably dissolved Nor is it needful that I should expatiate in representing how that when this Nation began to apply it self industriously and extensively to Trade all the Methods imaginable of Kindness unto and Care over Merchants and Navigation were made use of by the Government to encourage them and cultivate it For as there was a Naval Strength always in readiness and upon every Emergency and needful Occasion imployed to protect it so the Impositions upon it were extreamly Moderate in comparison of what as appears by the Book of Rates and the several Acts of Parliament which charge Navigation and Trade with so many Duties and Imposts they are grown up into since For all the Taxes then exacted of Merchants were rather little Recognitions of their Dependence upon the Crown and small acknowledgments of the Countenance and Defence which they received from the Government than any Burdens and grievous Incumbrances by which they might be discouraged and Traffick loaded so that the whole Carriage of those then in Authority towards Commerce and those embarked in it spake an indulgent Care towards it and them and such a tender regard of both as became the Infancy of Trade and the Difficulties which Beginners