Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	high_a	lord_n	privy_a	2,935	5	10.5102	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08309	Nordens preparatiue to his Speculum Britanniæ. Intended a reconciliation of sundrie propositions by diuers person tendred, concerning the same.	Norden, John, 1548-1625?	1596 (1596)	STC 18638; ESTC S113317	10,881	36

NORDENS Preparatiue to his Speculum Britanniae INTENDED A reconciliation of sundrie propositions by diuers persons tendred concerning the same Psal. 113.16 Coelum coeli Domino terram autem dedit filiis hominum Gen. 10.5 A filijs Noe Diuisae sunt insulae gentium in regionibus suis vnusquisque secundum linguam suam familias suas LONDON Printed 1596. To the Right Honourable Sir William Cecill Knight Baron of Burghleigh Lord high Treasurer of England of her Maiesties most Honourable priuie Counsell and of the most Noble order of the Garter Knight ALthough Right Honourable I haue beene forced to struggle with want the vnpleasant companion of Industrious desires and haue long sustained foyle inforced neglect of my purposed busines and sorrow of my working spirit It may yet now at the length please the high guide of Noble affections to moue your Honour to effect what you haue begun And as your hand hath happily led the way your good worde may as easilye accomplish the worke of my newe reioycing And the rather for that mine Indeuours in this generall businesse sprang from your Honourable good liking In regard wherof I am not in dispaire but that my wythering hope shall be refreshed againe with the dew of your powerfull helping hand I haue vnder your patience and protection vpon some reasonable ground exhibited this simple preparatiue vnto the worlds view And as I shall finde the same to answere your good opinion especially So perforce will my heart and hand falter and fayle me or fulfill what is hid in vnseene desires Miseria mentem macerat At your Honours direction Iohn Norden Auctoris in Patriae antiquitatis imperitiam sententia NVlla omnino ignoratio tam videtur grauis quam antiquitatis patriae imperitia quarum luminis splendore depriuati homines non de Deo omnium conditore de mundo eius excellenti opificio de seipsis de patria neque de sedibus quas incolunt rectè senserint Omnia autem illis in tenebris quasi latent Ita vt vel eos qui in caeteris liberalibus artibus consenuerunt pueros sensus vitaeque communis ignaros videri cogit in patria ipsos peregrinos reip gubernaculis consiliorumque consociatione ablegandos TO ALL COVRTEOVS GENTLEMEN Inspectators and practitioners in Geographie in Christo salutem I The most vnworthye being imployed after the most painful prais-worthie labours of M. Christopher Saxton in the rediscription of England And hauing thereof exhibited some simple beginnings vnto your generall view haue like Apelles though farre short of his perfection yeelded attention to the sundrie censures of men touching the same To the ende that hearing the opinions of many both touching the matter and the imperfections thereof and the method and their conceites therof I might the better shape the residue of the worke so neere as I may as reason Art and time will direct permit me And besides that which may yet rest in the mindes of some men vndiscouered I cannot but take knowledge of sundry particularities propounded by sundrie persons as fit to be considered and obserued in the worke among many Multae enim inter multos sententiae these that follow seeme most materiall 1 It seemeth fit to some that in the deliniation of euerie Shire I should obserue the variation of the Compas some other therein are of a contrarie opinion 2 Others will haue the degrees of Longitude and Latitude in euerie particular description Some thinke it friuolous 3 Some holde that euery Shire bee it great or little should be reduced into one and the selfe same scale others the contrary 4 Many woulde haue the Scale of miles to aunswere a mile of some certaine content 5 Some thinke it a necessarie thing to distinguish as well the limites of euery parish as of euery hundred 6 Some besides the more speciall things will haue all houses of name of any account as also such as are decaied being of antiquity to bee obserued others wil haue onely speciall howses The like difference of opinions I finde in the obseruation omission of sundry other things 7 Some very curiously prie into the worke augmenting in conceite their owne credits by carping at euerie fault holding the smallest errour yea the misterming of a place verie criminous And I confesse it were a faulte to iustifie a fault and I shold increase the great fault of negligence by a greater fault of rash boldnes I am moued notwithstanding Gentlemen vnder your fauours to endeuour what I can to discharge me of all suspition of voluntary pretence of committing the least fault or omitting the least thing likeliest to please all although that cannot be aut arte aut ingenio therefore I desire to shape that course which reason Arte and time seemeth best to allowe And for that mine owne soyle is of it selfe so barraine as it cannot I know yeeld so fruitfull argumentes as may satisfie all men I would gladly subscribe vnto the learned that will vouchsafe reason to reforme what I haue begunne hoping to offend none in yeelding my conceite touching the former obiections 1 And first as touching the variation of the Compasse It cannot be denied in deede but the needle touched with the loadstone seemeth to be here with vs in many other places sensibly attracted by an vnknowen vertue certaine degrees east of the north Pole and west of the Sunnes steede at noone tide which importeth much the mariner to consider to frame his courses answerable to the nedles variation if his cardes haue the same which howe diuers it is in diuers places the experience of obseruing trauaylers hath found And as it may seeme to me in reason being no nauigator the nedle hath least variation as long as it possesseth the equinoctiall line especially as the skilfull haue obserued about that meridian that passeth neere S. Michels Islande in the Asores and so long as the nedle is vnder or neere that line the extentions of the nedles pointes are almost parrallell with the Axeltree of the Poles as appeareth in the figure following at A. A. and as the nedle bendeth in the marriners courses Northerly or Southerly from the Equator it then declineth more or lesse vnder one of the Poles as appeareth by B. B. B. which declination may cause to seeme a variation ex deceptione visus espetially passing easterly or westerly which duely vppon any parralell can not bee And therefore the variation seemeth alway more and more as the nedle commeth neere to eyther of the Poles which is from the earth by the obseruation of the learned neere 69498316. sixtie nine millions foure hundred ninetie eight thousande three hundred and sixteene of our common miles which immensurable distance may make a variation yea though the nedle bee meerely opposite vnto the Pole and it seemeth somewhat probable because the variation is in some places Northeast and in some Northwest which argueth that sometime then it hath a