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Excerpt from An Apology for Socrates and Negotium Posterorum, Vol. 2 of 2: Negotium Posterorum, Part II; Additions From Port Eliot Mss.; Notes and Illustrations and General Index
Bout the time of the adiornment of the Par Page 129. Liament from London, the Turks were growen veric infestuous to the marchants. Divers ships 85 vessels they had taken, wth a multi tude of captives, drawn from them. In the west parts they had made the coasts soe dangerous through their spoiles, as few dar'd putt forth of their harbors; hardlie in them was the securitie thought enough. The boldness insolenc of these piratts was beyond all comparifon, noe former times having beene exampled wth the like. Their adventure formerlie on those seas was rare, almost vnheard of, wch made their comming then more strange. That being aggravated by their frequencie' 8: number, wh their dailie spoiles did witness, those much heightend by their bould ness, it made a great impression on the Countrie, possesst it wth much fear, that divers alarums it receavd, wch made divers motions in the people, who, as their manner is, fain'd or enlargd the cause after the apprehension of their fancies, wh passing to their neighbours, still affected them Wth more, vntill it had a generall in?uenc throughout/ all Page 130.
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