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england_n	france_n	latitude_n	zone_n	15	3	11.9530	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81194	A compendium of the laws and government ecclesiastical, civil and military, of England, Scotland & Ireland and dominions, plantations and territories thereunto belonging, with the maritime power thereof, and jurisdiction of courts therein. Methodically digested under their proper heads. By H.C. sometime of the Inner Temple.	Curson, H. (Henry)	1699 (1699)	Wing C7686A; ESTC R231895	237,927	672

are in the Possession of the English at this day and intending to begin from the North and proceed South towards the Equinoctial Line The farthest as being North is Newfoundland CAlled also by some Estotiland Scituate between 46 and 53 Degrees North Latitude Hath South Terra Corterialis North the Streights called Fretum Davisij from John Davis an Englishman who endeavoured by the North of America to find a more quick passage to Cathai and China Sebastian Cabot first attempting it Anno 1527. Who is said to be the first discoverer of this Country not then known to be an Island and Sir Martin Frobisher seconded him in 1576 who made three Voyages and called a great Promontory there Queen Elizabeth's Foreland and the Sea runing by it Frobisher's Streights on the other side of these Streights lieth Groenland and not far distant Friesland This Island is Esteemed as big as England The North part being more Inhabited than the South tho' that be fitter for Habitation within 50 Leagues of the Shore is a Bank or Ridge of Ground many Hundred Leagues long in breadth where broadest only 24 About it are certain Islands which Calvert called Baccaloes for the great number of Codfish of which one Man may catch One hundred in an hour the Sea Coasts abounding likewise with Salmons Herring Thornbacks Oysters Muscles with Pearls and the Island with Bears and Foxes After the first discovery the business of Trading thither was laid aside for many years in the mean time the Normans Portugals and Britains of France resorted to it and changed the Names which had been given by the English to the Bays and Promontories but the English not willing to Relinquish their Pretensions in 1583. Sir Humphrey Gilbert took Possession thereof in the Name and by the Commission of Queen Elizabeth forbidding all other Nations to use Fishing and intended to have setled an English Colony there but being Wreckt in his Return the setling of the Colony was discontinued till 1608 when John Guy a Merchant of Bristol in 23 days Sailed from thence to Conception Bay in Newfoundland By Jus Gentium or the Law of Nations whatever wast Country is discovered at the charge of any Prince It is the right of that Prince who was at the charge of the discovery now this Country being among others in that part of America which hath been discovered at the charge of the Kings of England King James the first by Letters Patents Anno Dom. 1623. Granted unto Sir George Calvert afterwards Lord Baltimore part of Newfoundland which was Erected into the Province of Avalon where he setled a Plantation and erected a stately House and Fort at Ferriland where he dwelt sometime which since his Death is descended to the present Lord Baltimore New England WAs first discovered by Sebastian Cabot in 1497 and in 1584 Mr. Philip Amadas and Mr. Arthur Barlow were the first who took Possession of it for Queen Elizabeth The next year Sir Richard Greenvil conveyed an English Colony thither under the Government of Mr. Ralph Lane who continued there till the next year and then returned with Sir Francis Drake into England who is by some accounted the first discoverer thereof It hath New France North and Virginia South North East Norumbegia and South West Novum Belgium on other parts it hath Woods and the Sea-coast Situate between 40 and 41 Degree of North Latitude In the midst of the Temperate Zone yet is the Clime more uncertain as to Heat and Cold than those European Kingdoms which are in the same Latitude The Air is Clear Healthful and agreeable to the English well watered with Rivers having variety of Beasts Tame and Wild with several sorts of Trees and excellent Fruits The Commodities it Yieldeth are Rich Furs Flax Linnen Amber Iron Pitch Tar Cables Masts and Timber to Build Ships with several sorts of Grain wherewith they drive a considerable Trade to Barbadoes and other English Plantations in America supplying them with Flower Bisket Salt Flesh and Fish and in return bring Sugars and other Goods To England they Trade for Stuffs Silks Cloath Iron Brass and other Utensils for their Houses The Weights and Measures are the same with England Though the Planting of this Country by the English was designed by divers yet it lay much neglected till a small Company of Planters under the Command of George Popham and Captain Gilbert were sent over at the charge of Sir John Popham in 1606. to begin a Colony in the Northerly part of this Country but that design in Two years expiring with its Founder soon after some Honourable persons of the West of England commonly called the Council of Plymouth being well informed of several Navigable Rivers and Commodious Havens with other places fit for Traffick and Planting obtained of King James the first a Patent under the Great Seal of all that part of North America called New-England from Forty to Forty eight Degrees of North Latitude In 1612 It was Canton'd and Divided by Grants into many lesser parcels according as Adventurers presented But afterwards for want of good Conduct they were by degrees in a manner destitute of Laws and Government In 1610 One Mr. Robinson a Presbyterian or Independent Preacher and several English then at Leyden in Holland Intreated King James to grant them Liberty under his Royal Authority to place themselves in some part of New-England and obtaining a Patent or Grant they Sailed from Plymouth in England to the Southern parts of New-England there laying a Foundation for a new Colony naming their Town New Plymouth after which things were very prosperously and succesfully carried on in New-England till An. 1636. The Indians committed many Outrages upon the English and Dutch whereupon all the Colonies unamimously falling upon them suppressed them in 1637. The English possess many potent Colonies being since very numerous and powerful and are Governed by Laws of their own making having several Courts of Judicature where they meet once a Month so they be not Repugnant to the Laws of England Every Town sends two Burgesses to their Great and Solemn General Court The Government both Ecclesiastical and Civil is in the Hands of the Independents or Presbyterians The Military part of their Government is by one Major General and three Serjeant Majors to whom belong the 4 Counties of Suffolk Middlesex Essex and Norfolk They have several Towns whereof Boston is the Metropolis likewise Dorchester Cambridge Beautified with two Colleges and many well Built Houses Reading Salem Berwick Fraintree Bristol and many others having most of them Names of some Town in Old England New York FOrmerly named New Netherland being part of that New England which the Dutch once possess'd It was first Discovered by Mr. Hudson and sold presently by him to the Dutch without Authority from his Sovereign the King of England in 1608. The Hollanders in 1614 began to plant it there and called it New Netherlands but Sir Samuel Argall Governour of Virginia routed them after

the Government of the Office as likewise all Patents and Grants and the Names of all Officers Clerks Artificers Attendants Gunners Labourers and others who enjoy the said Grants or any other Fees from the King for the same To draw all Estimates for Provisions and Supplies to be made and all Letters Instructions Commissions Deputations and Contracts for His Majesty's Service To make all Bills of Imprest and Debentures for the payment and satisfaction of the respective Artificers and Creditors of the Office for Work done or Provisions received and Quarter-Books for the Salaries Allowances and Wages of all Officers Clerks and other Ministers belonging to the said Office and also to keep Journals and Liegers of the Receipts and Returns of His Majesty's Stores that nothing be Bought Borrowed Given Received Lent or Employed without due Record thereof to serve as a Cheque between the Two Accomptants of the Office the one for Money the other for Stores The Storekeeper is to take into his Custody all His Majesty's Ordnance Munitions and Stores thereunto belonging and to Indent and put in Legal Security for the safe keeping thereof and to make Just and True Accompt from time to time to Receive no Provisions whatsoever that are manifestly inserviceable or before they have been Reviewed by the Surveyor nor to Issue any proportion of Ordnance c. but what is agreed upon and signed by the Officers according to the appointment of the Master of the Ordnance grounded upon the Order of the King or six of the Privy Council or the Lord Admiral for Matters concerning the Navy Nor to Receive back any Stores issued till they have been Reviewed by the Surveyor and Registred by the Clerk of the Ordnance in the Book of Remains To look that all His Majesties Store-Houses be well Repaired and well Accommodated and the Stores kept in such order and lustre as is fit for the Service and Honour of the King The Clerk of the Deliveries is to Draw all Proportions for Delivery of any Stores and Provisions and to be present at the Delivery and by Indenture to Charge the particular Receiver of the King's Munitions whether Captain Gunner or other and to Register as well the Copies of all Warrants for Deliveries as the Proportions delivered whereby to discharge the Store-keeper The Treasurer and Paymaster of the Office was formerly an Appendix to that of Lieutenant of the Ordnance But the late King Charles Erected it into a particular and distinct Office and granted the same as all the other before-mentioned are by Letters Patent And there are other Subordinate Officers which likewise hold by Patent as The Master Gunner of England who is to teach all such as desire to Learn the Art of Gunnery and to oblige every Scholar by Oath not to serve any Foreign Prince or State without leave nor to Teach any other the said Art but such as have taken the said Oath and to certifie the Master of the Ordnance the Sufficiency of any person Recommended to be one of the King's Gunners and his Ability to discharge the said Duty The Keeper of the Small Guns who hath the charge and custody of the King 's Small Guns as Musquets Harquebusses Carabines Pistols c. with their Furniture There are many other Inferiour Officers and Ministers Attendants and Artificers as Clerks Proof-Masters Messengers Master Smith Master Carpenter Master Wheelwright Master Gunnsmith Furbusher c. which for Brevity are here omitted as likewise the King 's principal Engineer The Master of the Ordnance hath a Superintendency and Jurisdiction over all the King's Engineers Employed in the several Fortifications of the Kingdom most of whom have their Salaries and Allowances payable in the said Office to which they are accountable and from whence they receiev their particular Orders and Instructions according to the Directions and Commands given by the King and signified by The Master of the Ordnance Nota The several sorts of Cannon seem to be denominated from the Rapacious kind of Creatures whose Names they bear as Faulcons Faulconets Sakers Culverins from the Latin Coluber Basilisks Griffons Dragons c. The Office of the Warden of the Mint WHere is minted all the Bullion that is Minted in England although the King may set up a Mint in any other Place of the Kingdom In this are divers Persons of Quality and Worth whereof the principal is The Warden of the Mint who is to Receive the Silver and Gold brought in by Merchants or Goldsmiths or others to pay them for it and to Oversee all the rest his Fee is 100 l. per Annum And next is The Master Worker who Receives the Bullion from the Warden causes it to be Melted delivers it to the Moneyers and receives it from them again when Minted and hath an Allowance by the Pound weight but no set Fee And next is The Comptroller who sees all the Money be made according to the Just Assize to oversee the Officers and Comptrol them if the Money be not as it ought to be his Fee is 100 Marks and these three last above hold by Patent of the King The next is The Assay-Master who weighs the Bullion and sees it be according to the Standard his Fee is 200 Marks The Auditor to take the Accounts and make them up The Surveyor of the Melting who is to see the Bullion cast out and not to be alter'd after it is delivered to the Melter which is after the Assay-Master hath made Tryal thereof There are moreover A Clerk of the Irons A Graver A Weigher A Teller Melters Blanchers Moneyers and other Officers belonging to the Mint The Office of Records in the Tower IS of Venerable Antiquity and the Keeper and Deputy dignified with Special Trust The Keeper hath a Salary of 500 l. per Annum and is properly in the Gift of the Master of the Rolls and afterwards His Majesty hath usually by Letters Patents Confirmed it As the Chappel of the Rolls and Petty-Bag Office fill the Records are sent hither by a Writ formed for that purpose and these Records amongst other things contain the Foundations of Abbeys and Religious Houses as The Chappel of the Rolls contain those of their Dissolution and the Donation of the Lands of which many Families are now possessed The Leagues and Treaties with Foreign Princes The Atchievements of this Nation in France and Foreign parts The Original of All Laws that have been Enacted or Recorded until Richard the Third The Homage and Dependency of Scotland upon England The Establishment of Ireland in Laws and Dominions The Dominion of the Brittish Seas totally excluding French and Dutch to Fish therein without License from England proved by Records before the Conquest The Interest of the Isles of Man and of Jersey Guernsey Sarke and Alderney the Four last being the Remaining part of the Norman Possessions The Title of our Kings to the Realm of France and how obtained And all that our Kings and Princes have till that time Done

or Confirmed at home or abroad Tenures of all the Lands in England Extents of Mannors and Lands Inquisitions Post mortem being of great Advantage upon Trials of Interest or Descent Liberties and Priviledges granted to Cities Towns Corporate or private Men as Court Leets Waifs Estrays Markets Fairs Free Warrens Felons Goods c. Or what else could come to the Crown or pass out of it Writs Pleadings and Proceedings as well in Chancery as at Common Law and in the Exchequer Inspeximus Inrolments c. Deeds and Contracts between party and party and The Just Establishment of all the Offices in the Nation The Metes and Bounds of all Forests with the Rights of the Inhabitants therein and many other And therefore in the Petitions of the Commons in Parliament 46 E. 3. said to be perpetual Evidence of every man's Right and the Records of the Nation These Records are reposited in the place called Wakefield Tower being many Cart Loads Thus distinguished Rotuli Patentium Chartarum Parliamentorum Clausarum Finium Scotiae Vasconiae Franciae Hiberniae Walliae Normanniae Almaniae Oblatae Liberatae Extractae Perambulationes Forestae Scut ' Rotul ' Marshal ' Romae de Treugis Chart ' Patent ' fact ' in Partibus Transmarinis Patent ' de Domibus Judaeorum Protection ' de Perdonation ' c. Stapulae cum multis aliis Depicted lately upon every Press belonging to each King's Reign and very easie to be brought forth for use This Office is to be open from 7 till 11 in the Morning and from 1 till 5 in the Afternoon on all Working-days only in December January and February they open an Hour later in the Morning and shut up an Hour earlier at Night All Records since Richard the Third are yet in the Chappel of the Rolls The Money allowed by the King for the Maintenance of all these Officers and keeping thls Vast Structure in Repair amounts to a vast Sum. Saint Katherines NEar the Tower is St. Katherines which hath a Royal Jurisdiction for the Ecclesiastical Causes and Probate of Wills and belongeth to the Queen from whom if any will Appeal it must be to the King in his Chancery who thereupon Issueth out a Commission under the Great Seal as in Appeals from the Arches or Prerogative The Bridge SUrpasseth all others in Europe It hath 19 Arches 20 Foot between each Arch is 800 Foot in Length 60 High and 30 Broad and hath a Draw-Bridge almost in the Middle Built 1209 in the Reign of King John The Charge of keeping it in Repair is so Great that our Auncestors thought fit to have a Large House a vast Revenue in Lands and Houses and divers Officers to be apart for the constant Care and Repair thereof The Principal whereof are the Two Bridgmasters chosen yearly out of the Body of the Liveries upon Midsummer-day after the Sheriffs and Chamberlain The Bridge over the River Lee at Stratford was built an Hundred years before and being the first Arched Stone-Bridge seen in England gave it the Name of Stratford-Bow Not far below this Famous Bridge is the place for Receipt and Management of all Impositions laid on Merchandizes Imported and Exported into and from this City which is called The Custom-House WHerein are Employed a great Number of Officers whereof the First and Chief are Six Commissioners who have Charge of all His Majesties Customs in all Ports of England Salary to each is 2000 l. a year And these have many Deputies Customers Collectors Comptrollers Surveyors Searchers Waiters c. in the Port of London and in all the Out-Ports Collector of Subsidies or Customs Outwards Fee Two hundred seventy six pounds Collector of Customs Inwards Fee Four hundred sixty six pounds Thirteen shillings Four pence Customer Inwards Fee Sixty two pounds Six shillings Eight pence Customers of Cloth and Petty Customs Fee Two hundred seventy seven pounds Customers of the Great Customs Two Fee Fifty pounds a piece Comptroller of Customs Inwards and Outwards Fee Two hundred fifty five pounds Comptroller of Cloth and Petty Customs Fee One hundred pounds Surveyors of Customs Inwards and Outwards Fee Three hundred pounds Surveyor General Fee Five hundred pounds Comptroller of the Great Custom Fee Thirty pounds Register of the Seizures Fee One hundred and six pounds Chief Searcher Fee One hundred Twenty pounds Five Under-Searchers Eighteen King's Waiters Fee to each Fifty two pounds Surveyor of the Out-Ports Fee Two hundred and Fifty pounds The Perquisites to each of these Officers are very considerable and to some more than their Salaries In all the Out-Ports the King hath the like Officers who all Receive Salaries likewise out of His Majesty's Revenue The General Post-Office THe King by Letters Patent doth Constitute his Post-Master General who keeps one General Office in the City of London from whence Letters and Packets are dispatched Monday to France Italy Spain Flanders Germany Sweden Denmark c. and to Kent Tuesday to the United Netherlands Germany c. and to all Parts of England Scotland and Ireland Wednesday to Kent only and the Downs Thursday to France Spain Italy and all Parts of England and Scotland Fryday to the Spanish and united Netherlands Germany Sweden Denmark and to Kent Saturday to all Parts of England Scotland and Ireland And the Answers of these Letters are Received in the said Office in due Course and dispersed from thence according to the Directions This Office is managed by a Deputy and other Officers to the number of Seventy seven Persons who give their actual Attendance Upon this Grand Office Depends 182 Deputy Post-Masters in England and Scotland Most of which keep Regular Offices in their Stages and Sub-Post-Masters ink their Branches And also in Ireland another General Post-office for that Kingdom which is kept in Dublin consisting of 18 like Officers and 45 Deputy Post-masters The Post-master General keeps for Transport of Letters to France Two Packet-boats to Flanders Two to Holland Two to Ireland Three at Deal Two for the Downs which he Maintains at his proper Charge And the Market Towns of England are so well Appropriated to the Respective Postages that they have an easy and certain conveyance of Letters in due Course of the Mails every Post The number of the Letters Missive in England tho' formerly inconsiderable yet are now so great that the Office hath been Farmed at 30000 l. a year The Charge of Letters here is Less and the Expedition Greater than in any Foreign Country A Letter of a Sheet of Paper costs 2 d. for 80 Miles Two Sheets 4 d. and an ounce 8 d. and in 24 Hours the Post goes 120 Mile and in Five days an Answer may be had from a place 300 Miles distant And for Riding Post you pay only 3 d. a Mile and 4 d. to the Post Boy at every Stage For Study of Law IN London are the Colledges or Houses of the Municipal or Common Law Professors and Students Which are Fourteen still called Inns the