Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	earl_n	sir_n	walter_n	12,940	5	11.4258	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92886	Atlas maritimus. or A book of charts Describeing the sea coasts capes headlands sands shoals rocks and dangers the bayes roads harbors rivers and ports, in most of the knowne parts of the world. With the true courses and distances, from one place to another. Gathered from the latest and best discoveryes, that have bin made by divers able and experienced navigators of our English nation. Accomodated with an hydrographicall description of the whole world. By John Seller. Hidrographer to ye Kings most excellent Majestie.	Seller, John, fl. 1658-1698.	1672 (1672)	Wing S2463C; ESTC R232795	34,424	61

for the use of Dyers St. Lucar the Port Town of Sevil at the Mouth of the River Betis or Guadalquiver where the West-India Ships many times ride Cadiz or Gades situate on a large Bay and serving as a Road for the Indian Fleet by reason whereof and the great resort of Forreign Merchants it is much enriched 'T is the chief Port and Magazine of Spain taken notwithstanding in one day by the English under the command of the Lord Effingham the Earl of Essex and Sir Walter Raleigh the Town Ships and all becoming a prey to the English Near to this place is that so celebrated Streight called Fretum Herculeum or Gaditanum now the Streights of Gibralter Gibralter from a place so called on the brink hereof being in length fifteen miles and in breadth seven where it is narrowest being the Inlet or Passage from the Atlantick-Ocean into the Mediterranean Sea The Mediterranean Sea within which the places most observable are Malaga a strong place and an Armory for the King of Spain exceeding great in Traffick and of much resort especially for Wines Rasins Almonds c. Almeria Carthagena situate in a demy Island in the very jaws of the Mediterranean having a good and capacious Haven Alicant a noted Port and much used whence our true Alicant Wines made of the Juyce of Mulberries Valencia a fair pleasant and well-traded City Tarragona Barcellona The Goods and Merchandize on this side of Spain being generally Corn Wine Oyl all sorts of Fruit Salt Corral several sorts of Drugs and Stones c. Over against Valencia lie several Islands the biggest whereof are Majorca Majorca the chief Town whereof is so named of the Island yeelding sufficient quantity of Corn Oyl Wine and Fruits Minorca having three fair Harbours Minorca Maon Ternessus and Minorcas a fruitful Island breeding great Heards of Cattel and Mules of the largest size in Spain Yvica Yvica the Inhabitants whereof make great store of Salt wherewith they furnish in part not onely Spain but Italy also Next France on the Coast of France are Narbon Arles Marcelles and Tholoun The Commodities sent from the Coasts of France on the Meditterranean are Corn Wine Oyl Salt Woad Alkermes or Grain d'Escarlate Saffron Rasins Figs Olives Almonds Prunes Capers c. Villa Frank and Savona belonging to the State of Genoa Genoa the principal Empory Genoa next Venice of all Italy having a safe and commodious Haven The Countrey Commodities are besides their Fruits which here are excellent Oyl Paper Wines and such abundance of Silk that it is the opinion there are 18000 persons in that only City imployed in ordering and working thereof Livorno or Legorn Italy seated on the influx of the River Arno so well fortified that it is thought to be one of the strongest Cities in Christendom To the South-West whereof in the Ligurian Sea Corsica Sardinia lye the Islands Corsica and Sardinia the first subject to the State of Genoa the latter to the Kingdom of Spain abounding in pleasant Wines Oyl Olive Mastick Sulphur Allom Wax and Honey Elba an Island between Corsica and the Main producing Load-stones of a gray colour but none of the best Civita Vechia the onely useful Haven that belongeth to Rome Tarracina or the Bay of Mola and Port Ostia at the Mouth of Tyber scarce making up one good Haven Naples the Metropolis of the Kingdom Naples a beautiful City seated on the Sea-shoar and fortified with four strong Castles This and indeed all the Parts of Italy generally abounding with all sorts of Silk Cloth of Gold and Silver made by the People without fraud because of a strict prohibition for the Adulteration of the Threads Tapestry Skins bravely gilded Earthen Vessels most curiously wrought with Images and Coats of Arms Oyl Olive of the best sort Saffron Alchermes Allom Sulphur Vitriol Alabaster Rice Marble Wines and Fruits of all sorts Regium or Rezo on the Sea-shore opposite to Messina in Sicilia which is supposed to have been broken off from the Coast of Italy a place heretofore very well traded but since fired by the Turks left almost desolate Sicilia an Island separated from the Main Land of Italy Sicilia by the Strait or Fare of Messina where the Passage is so narrow that it exceeds not in breadth a mile and a half and found by diligent sounding not above eight fathom deep full of dangerous Rocks and Whirlepools as namely Caribdis a Gulf on Sicilia side violently attracting all Vessels coming nigh to it and devours them opposite whereunto stands that dangerous Rock Scylla at the foot of which many little Rocks shoot out these two being the occasion of many fabulous Stories In the other parts where the Sea opens it is 300 miles over supposed to have been once a Peninsula afterwards separated from Italy by the fury of the Waves or violence of some Earth-quakes which are there frequent The Island is so plentifully stored with Corn that it heretofore obtained the name of the Granary or storehouse of Rome and doth still furnish not only many parts of Italy but Spain Barbary Malta and the adjacent Isles the other Commodities are much like those of Italy in great plenty In this Countrey is the Hill Hybla so famous for Bees and Honey the Mountains Aetna now Montgibel which continually sends forth smoak and flames of fire to the aftonishment of beholders The chief places are Syracuse or Saragusa once the Metropolis of the Island very strong both by Sea and Land with a beautiful and commodious Port of greatest Trade next to Carthage in antient times now both destroyed Noto Augusta Gergento Palermo Trapani and Messina a Port and City of great strength and beauty peopled by the wealthiest sort of Merchants and Gentlemen having a strong and high Cittadel well garrisoned and a Lanthorn with lights kept burning for direction of Mariners Sixty miles to the southward of Sicilia towards the African Shores lyeth Malta Malta an Island famous for the shipwrack of Paul defended by the Knights of Jerusalem removed hither it is wholly situate on a Rock having not above three foot depth of Earth and consequently of no great fertility the want of which is supplyed by the plenty of Sicilia To return therefore to the Coast of Italy by the Capes Spartiventi Colonne and St. Maries near unto which is Gallipoli noted for the excellent Oyl coming from thence Not far from whence is Cape Otranto The Gulf of Venice the entrance into the Adriatick Sea or Gulf of Venice and the first Town of note therein is Brindisi or Brundusium once glorying in the most capacious Haven of the World Whence Pompey and Caesar took shiping with their Fleets the one to fly the other to pursue at this time a mean Town the Haven being so choked up that a Galley can hardly enter Next Bara Ort●na Ancona having a fair Haven not so capacious as exceeding pleasant and beautiful Pesara Ravenna