SWALTER RALEGI

L.P. Boitard Sculp

THE

WORKS

OF

Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt.

Political, Commercial, and Philofophical;

Together with his

LETTERS and POEMS.

The Whole never before collected together,
and fome never yet printed.

To which is prefix'd,

A new Account of his LIFE

BY

THO. BIRCH, M. A. F. R. S.

VOLUME the FIRST.

LONDON:

Printed for R. DODSLEY, at Tully's Head in Pall-mall.
MDCCLI.

OF THE

FIRST VOLUME.

HE Life of Sir Walter Ralegh

THE

Additions to the Life of Sir Walter Ralegh lxxxviii

Speech and Behaviour of Sir Walter Ralegh on the Scaf-

fold

XC

Orders to be observed by the Commanders of the Fleet and

Land Companies, under the Charge and Conduct of Sir

Walter Ralegh, Knight, bound for the South Parts

of America, or elsewhere. Given at Plymouth in

Devon, the Third Day of May, 1617.
xcvii

The dutiful Advice of a loving Son to his aged Father cv

A brief Relation of Sir Walter Ralegh's Troubles: With

the taking away the Lands and Caftle of Sherburn in

Dorfet from him and his Heirs, being his indubitable

Inheritance

Maxims of State

cxiv

I

The Cabinet Council; containing the chief Arts of Empire

and Mysteries of State

The Prerogative of Parliaments

39

171

A Difcourfe touching a Match propounded by the Savoyan,

between the Lady Elizabeth and the Prince of Pied-

mont

249

A Difcourfe touching a Marriage between Prince Henry

of England, and a Daughter of Savoy

265

A

OF THE

SECOND VOLUME.

·Difcourfe touching a War with Spain, and of th
protecting of the Netherlands

7

A Difcourfe of the original and fundamental Caufe of na-

tural, arbitrary, neceffary, and unnatural War 21

A Difcourfe of the Invention of Ships, Anchors, Compass,

&c.

Obfervations concerning the Royal Navy and Sea Ser-
vice. To Prince Henry

Obfervations touching Trade and Commerce with the Hol

lander, and other Nations. Prefented to King James.

Wherein is prov'd, that our Sea and Land Commodities

ferve to enrich and strengthen other Countries against our

own

A Voyage for the Discovery of Guiana

An Apology for the Voyage to Guiana

A Letter to Lord Carew touching Guiana

91

-109

137

247

275

An Introduction to a Breviary of the Hiftory of England,
with the Reign of William the First, entituled the Con-

queror

The Seat of Government

283

317

Obfervations on the Caufes of the Magnificence and Opu-