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‘Motiues Inducing a Proiect forthe Discouerie of the North pole Terrestriall, the Streights of Anian into the South Sea, and the Coasts thereof.’ [By Sir Dudley Digges?]

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All those Kingdomes are most complete, glorious, and doe best flourish wherevnto in abundance trade and traffique is performed. His Maties Kingdomes, being Ilandes whose traffique is to be mainteyned by Navigation of strong and fortified Shipps, with nomber of able Marriners, being otherwise secluded from all comerce with those of the mayne continent from exporting and importing of Marchandize, the furniture of Shipping consisting in many things wch England wants, as Masts, pitch, Tarr, Rosen, and cordage, wch now we enioy by ye favor of forraigne Pottentates.

The life of Navigation consisteth in ffishermen to begett shipps and Marriners : in Marchants to breed and mainteyne them : and in Chieftaines to enable and encourage them: Otherwise, in Iland Kingdomes, the Citties, Burrowes, Port Townes, and Havens decay, wth all the whole people, where trade and traffique to proffitt is neglected.

And, most notouriously, wee finde that trade and traffique with o neighbor countryes is in small request, the proffitt now seldome answering the Marchants adventure, whereby the poore English Marchants, artificers, and Laborers can scarce gayne meate to their bellyes and clothes to their backs, so cunningly and dis-dainefully doe or neighbor contryes reiect or home commodities, to th'end to sett their owne people awork and to impoverish ors.

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The Voyages of Captain Luke Foxe, of Hull, and Captain Thomas James, of Bristol, in Search of a North-West Passage, in 1631–32
With Narratives of the Earlier North-West Voyages of Frobisher, Davis and Others
, pp. 639 - 641
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2010
First published in: 1894

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