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redresse yo r ovvne kingdome of theire suspected adherents, I 

 meane not by banishment, or by fire, and sworde, but by dimynish- 

 ing theire habilities by purse, creditt and force. Then to foresee 

 by all dilligente meanes, that yo v suspected neighbors may not 

 haue opportunity to recover breath whereby to repayre theire 

 decayed losses ; w ch for yo 1 ' safetie is principally to be don, by 

 the farther weakning of theire navies, and by preserving and 

 increasing of yo v owne. 



And the deminishing of theire forces by sea is to be done 

 eyther by open hostilytie, or by some colorable meanes ; as by 

 geving of lycence vnder letters patents to discover and inhabyte 

 some straung place, w th speciall proviso for theire safetyes, 

 whome pollisy requyreth to haue most annoyed by w ch meanes 

 the doing of the contrarie shalbe imputed to thexecutors fawlt ; 

 yo r highnes letters patents being a manyfest shewe that it was 

 not yo r Ma ties pleasure so to haue it. After the publick notyse 

 of w ch fact, yo r Ma tio is either to avowe the same (if by the event 

 thereof it shall so seme good) or to disavowe both them and the 

 fact, as league^ breakers ; leaving them to pretend yt as done 

 w th out yo r pryvitie, either in the service of the prince of Orange 

 or otherwise. 



This cloake being had for the raigne, the way to worke the 

 feate is to sett forth vnder such like colour of discoverie, 

 certayne shippes of warre to the N. L. w ch \v th yo r good licence 

 I will vndertake w th out yo r Ma ties charge, in w ch place they 

 shall certainely once in the yeere meete in effect all the great 

 shipping of Fraunce Spayne, and Portyngall, where I would 

 haue take and bring awaye w th theire frayghtes and ladings, 

 the best of those shippes and to burne the woorst, and those 

 that they take to carrie into Holland or Zeland, or as pirattes 

 to shrowd them selves for a small time vppon yo v Ma tles coastes, 

 vnder the frendship of some certaine viceadmirall of this 

 Realme ; who may be afterwardes committed to prison, as in 

 displeasure for the same, against whose returnes, six monethes 

 provision of bread, and fower of drinck to be layd in some apt 

 place : together w th municion to serve for the number of five or 

 sixe thousand men, w ch men w th certaine other shippes of warr 

 being in a readynes, shall pretend to inhabit S te Lawrence Hand, 

 the late discouered contries in the North, or elswheare ; and not to 

 ioyne w tb the others ; but in some certaine remote place at sea. 



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