A particuler discourse concerninge the greate necessitie and manifolde commodyties that are like to growe to this Realme of Englande by the Westerne discoueries lately attempted, written in the yere 1584 by Richarde Hackluyt of Oxforde known as Discourse of Western Planting

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A particuler discourse concerninge the greate necessitie and manifolde commodyties that are like to growe to this Realme of Englande by the Westerne discoueries lately attempted, written in the yere 1584 by Richarde Hackluyt of Oxforde known as Discourse of Western Planting

edited by David B. Quinn & Alison M. Quinn

(Works / issued by the Hakluyt Society, . Extra series ; no. 45)

Hakluyt Society, 1993

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-220) and index

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The Discourse in Western Plantingis the only extended original prose work in English of Richard Hakluyt the Younger (1552-1616), and until it appeared in print in Massachussetts in 1877, its existence was unknown to scholars. It is the most elaborate and important prospectus for English colonisation of North America to have been written in the sixteenth century. It was a confidential state paper presented to Elizabeth I, and the present text is oneof very few copies to have survived. The discourse is lucid and carefully constructed to appeal to the Queen's fervent nationalism and predjuices, bolstered by reference to oral evidence and printed works. The cumulative effect isimpressive.

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