Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	duke_n	earl_n	knight_n	14,065	5	7.8141	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70095	The present state of Carolina with advice to the setlers by R.F.	R. F.	1682 (1682)	Wing F52A; ESTC R31486	18,308	36

THE Present State OF CAROLINA WITH Advice to the Setlers By R. F. LONDON Printed by John Bringhurst at the Sign of the Book in Grace-Church-Street 1682. THE Present State OF CAROLINA c. CAROLINA is part of the Main in America and so much celebrated by Mounsier Laudonere that he entitles it Florida because of her florid and fragrant fields imbellish't with flowers that perfume the air whose sweet scituations by reason of most delicious and pleasant meadows and flourishing savana's adorns the Continent and whose benevolent brest sends daily supplies to the planter and hourly relief to the poor and necessitous native whose spacious arms ●s if circulating the Ocean proclaims her shores sanctuary to distressed Marriners and a generous protection to deplorable Seamen that solicit refreshment from her replenish't Harbours which extend themselves southward to the River St. Matheo in twenty nine degrees odd minutes so dilates to Luck Island near Roanoak on the promontories of Virginia in thirty six degrees north latitude now called Albemarle a large and spacious settlement consisting of some two or three thousand inhabitants upon a fertil Soil and a rapid River whose Bar by reason it s so streight and shallow a Vessel of considerable port and burden is deny'd admittance into the bowel of the Collony But the late and flourishing settlement lies yet more southerly in and about thirty two degrees odd minutes parallel with Jerusalem in Palestine and equals the height of Bermudos upon the na●igable Rivers of Cooper and Ashly formerly known by the names of Wando and Kiawah● And there is a Bar also tho undeservedly calumniated by prejudicate persons who would if possible unhinge the settlement when because to emulate and envy their Neighbours prosperity But to clear that Objection this Bar has several Channels and the deepest at low water is eighteen foot and the shallowest about eleaven and twelve foot which is depth enough for any navigating Vessel of three or four hundred tun since at high water the tide swells to six and eight foot perpendicular This is that famous CAROLINA which his Majesty the King of Great Brittain has united to his Emperial Crown by his Royal Grant established it a Province and has dignified it a Principality which by consent amongst the Lords i● transferr'd to the eldest Proprie●or But the Proprietors are eight in number and their Names and Titles as followeth Lord Chancellor Clarendon Lord Duke Albemarle Earl of Craven Lord Anthony Ashley Cooper Earl of Shaftsbury Lord John Berkly Sr George Carteret Sr William Berkly and Sr John Colleton Knight and Baronet These are the Lords Proprietors whose Laws and Government because to proceed in my description is suspended till farther Opportunity presents to usher them in So that now to describe the present strength of the southern settlement of the flourishing Carolina by modest computation we calculate their Artillery to fourteen or fifteen hundred resolute and gallant fighting men under excellent conduct and discipline as well arm'd as most men as well as any Colony provided with Amunition Their Women also are healthful and fruitful and their Children generally beautiful and strong Nor have we hitherto considered the Negro Slaves whose labour proclaims the Setlers plenty and whose service doubles their security if provided a Foreigner should attempt to invade them Moreover it enervates the feminine Native if at any time he conspires against the Inhabitant who can never be insensible of the natural antipathy the Native and the Negro has one against another which the rather confirms the Setlers security Moreover the Heavens shine upon this famous Country the soveraign Ray of health and has blest it with a serene Air and a lofty Skie that defends it from noxious Infection nor is there any known Distemper incident to the inhabitant whereby to terrify and affright him who for the most part lives by the law of plenty extended to the utmost limits of sanity This blessing one would think was encouragement enough when if barely to contemplate the consideration of health But Heaven that alwaies attends our mortal felicity directs to stars more propicious pointing out to us the beaten path of the Patriarchs and led on by a glorious view of the Apostles makes shine the blazing torch of the Gospel whereby to promote the unity and harmony of piety in Religion that Vertue may grow up into divine practice and the purity of every pious profession blossom and flourish to the utmost ends of the settlement in Carolina Now for as much as the motives of health and riches are inducements strong enough to summons people from the ends of the earth who so ridiculous to repute them vain and unprofitable Arguments to encourage the people of Europe since from divers Inland Towns and various Ports of England several Natives and Forreigners have directed their course by prosperous Stars to the florid and flourishing Fields in Carolina So in America to my own observation several Families have transported themselves from the ports of Barbados but what from the rest of the Caribes I know not yet am credibly inform'd and from very good hands that divers are gone and going from thence as also from New-Providence Bermudos New-York New-Jersey New-England Long-Island De-la-ware Maryland and Virginia but great numbers from Scotland and several from the borders of Ireland besides divers good Ships with some eminent Families that are lately gone off from the Kingdom of England of whom we have an accompt of their safe arrival in Carolina blest with a prosperous Passage But the hopeful progress of this flourishing Country invights some Northern Americans to emulate such sacred sanctuary as without sacrilidge is tolerated to people of tender Conscience Moreover it s a salubrous Air to the sick and diseased and a generous retrivement to necessitous and abject Families as also the assurance of such as study to be rich Engins strong enough one would think to induce mankind to hope the prosperity of this famous Settlement But the settlement of Albemarle otherwise called Roanoak presents first to our view and is the oldest and remotest northern County in the fair Province of Carolina scituated about thirty five degrees and odd minutes north latitude from whose replenished Meadows as also from the more southern inhabitants as good Beef and Pork is saved and sent off to Barbados and other the Caribe Islands as art and industry can husband Now Ashley County is yet more southward and lies scituated thirty two degrees forty five minutes where the Setlers and Inhabitants toil not in summer to accommodate themselves with winter's provision because hitherto they have considered it useless and altogether unnecessary for the Planter to employ his hands and strength where Nature so liberally stocks them with Herbage the winter because so softened with a moderate Air represents it much of the cast and temperament with our March in England and that 's as much as to consider it the relique only of a milde