Selected quad for the lemma: land_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	castle_n	city_n	country_n	14,211	5	9.6922	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20377	Profitable instructions describing what speciall obseruations are to be taken by trauellers in all nations, states and countries; pleasant and profitable. By the three much admired, Robert, late Earle of Essex. Sir Philip Sidney. And, Secretary Davison.	Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, 1566-1601.; Sidney, Philip, Sir, 1554-1586. aut; Davison, William, 1541?-1608. aut	1633 (1633)	STC 6789; ESTC S109627	10,885	122

PROFITABLE Instructions Describing what speciall Obseruations are to be taken by Trauellers in all Nations States and Countries Pleasant and Profitable By the three much admired ROBERT late Earle o● Essex Sir PHILIP SIDNEY And Secretary DAVISON LONDON Printed for Beniamin Fisher at the Signe of the Talbot without Aldersgate 1633. To the Reader IT hath bin lately maintained in an Academicall Dispute That the best travailing is in maps and good Authours because thereby a man may take a view of the state and manners of the whole world and neuer mix with the corruptions of it A pleasing opinion for solitary prisoners who may thus travell ouer the world though confined to a dungeon And indeed it is a good way to keepe a man innocent but withall as Ignorant Our sedentary Traueller may passe for a wise man as long as hee converseth either with dead men by reading or by writing with men absent But let him once enter on the stage of publike imployment and hee will soone find if he can bee but sensible of contempt that he is vnfit for Action For ability to treat with men of seueral humours factions and Countries duly to comply with thē or stand off as occasion shall require is not gotten onely byreading of books but rather by studying of men Yet this euer holdstrue The best scholler is fittest for a Traueller as being able to make the most vseful obseruation Experience added to learning makes a perfect Man It must therfore be confessed That to fit men for Negotiation the visiting of forraine Countries is most necessary This kingdom iustly glories in many noble Instruments whose Abilities haue been perfitted by that meanes But withall it cannot bee denied that many men while they ayme at this fitnesse make themselus vnfit for any thing Some goe ouer full of good qualitie and better hopes who hauing as it were emptied themselues in other places return laden with nothing but the vices if not the diseases of the Countries which they haue seene And which is most to bee pittied they are commonly the best wits and purest receptacles of sound knowledge that are thus corrupted Whether it be that they are more eagerly assaulted with vice then others or whether they doe more easily admit any obuiousimpression howeuer it be fit it is That all young Trauellers should receine an Antidot against the infectious Ayre of other Countries For this purpose diuers learned men haue prescribed rules and precepts which haue done much good howeuer in many things defectiue For as hee that read a Lecture to Hannibal of the Art of war shewed that himself was no souldier and therefore vnfit to teach a great Commander so He that neuer trauelled but in his Books can hardly shew his learning without manifestation of his want of experience It hath therefore been much desired that some men who had themselues bin Trauellers had made lest vse of their trauels would giue some vnfailing directions to others Such are here presented to thee in such a volume as they may be an helpful though vnchargeable cōpanion of thy trauell Pitty it is that such monuments of wisedome shold haue perished for the Authours sakes men famous in their times for learning experiēce nobility greatnesse of place but the losse would haue beene thine which maist now reap the benefit Thy fauorable acceptance may occasion others to publish larger peeces of this kind to the increase of their own honor because for the good of the noble youth of this florishing kingdome B. F. MOST NOTABLE AND EXCELLENT INSTRVCTIONS FOR Trauellers FOr your better information in the state of any Prince or Country it shall bee necessary for you to obserue 1 The Countrey 2 The People 3 The policy and gouernment In the Country you are to consider I. The scituation nature therof As whether it be 1 Island or continent neere or far frō thesea 2 Plaine or hilly full or scarce of Riuers II Quantity 1 length 2 bredth 3 circuit where also the 1 Forme 2 climat III. How it confineth with other Countries and 1 What these Countrie are 2 What their strength and riches are 3 Wherein they consist 4 Whether friends or enemies IIII. The fertility thereof and what commodities it doth either 1 Yeeld and bring forth and what part thereof hath bin or is 1. Consumed at home 2. Vented abroad 2 Want and how and from whence it is supplyed 1. Nature V. Of what strength it is and how defended against the attempts of bordering neighbors either by 1 Sea where may be obserued what I Ports hauens it hath of what 2 Other defence vpon the Coast. 1 Accesse 2 Capacity 3 Traffik 4 Shipping 2 Land what 1 Mountaines 2 Riuers 3 Marishes 4 Woods 2 Art As what Cities Townes Castles c. it hath either within the Land or vpon the Frontiers And how they are 1 Fortified 2 Peopled VI. What Vniuersities or places of learning it hath and of what 1 Foundation 2 Reuenue 3 Profession VII What Countries and Prouinces are subiect thereunto And what 1 The same containe in 1 quantity 2 quality 2 People are for 1 Number 2 Affection 3 The form of gouernment and by whom administred Secondly is to be considered the People I. Theire number As whether they be 1 Many 2 Few II. Quality As Their trade and kind of life whereunto they giue themselues and whereby they liue As whether by 1 Exercise of 1 Mechanicall arts and merchandizes 2 Husbandry 3 Armes 2 Their rents and reuenues III. Kinds and degrees 1 Natiues 1 Noble 2 Not noble 2 Strangers 1 Denizens 2 no denizēs 1 Noble Generally as their 1 Number 2 Qualitie and degree of Nobility 3 Residance and place of aboade 4 Religion 5 Gifts of bodie and mind where also their 1 Vertues 2 Vices 3 Studies 4 Exercises 6 Profession of life 1 Ciuill 2 Materiall 7 Meanes wherein are 1 Their reuenues and commings in 2 Their issuings and goings out 8 Offices and Authority they beare in the State 9 Credit and fauour or di●fauour with the 1 Prince 2 People And vpon what cause 10 Factions and partialities if any be with the grounds causes and proceedings thereof 2 Particularly As their 1 Original Antiquity Arms. 2 Names titles of dignities 3 Alliances Off-springs Genealogies Thirdly the Policy and Gouernment In the Policy and gouernment falleth to be considered 1. The Lawes whereby it is gouerned 2 Persons that gouerne In the Lawes you haue to note I. Their kindes As 1 Ciuill 2 Canon or municipal II. Their conformity with the nature of the people The persons that gouerne are the magistrates 1 Soueraigne 2 Subalternall The Soueraigne is either 1 One as a monarch 2 More as 1 Optimates or magmagnates 2 Popular In the former may be comprehended I. The meanes whereby hee attaineth the same whether by soueraignty As 1 Succession 2 Election 3 Vsurpation II. How he doth carry him selfe in administration therof where may be obserued 1