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The Perseus Renaissance Collection is a compilation of the history and literature of the British Isles during the English Renaissance period. The Renaissance was a period of time known for a renewed interest and intellectual rise in literature, philosophy, politics, science, religion, and art. It is credited as a time period where new ideas, perspectives, and theories evolved. While this...

with good and holsome statutes and ordinances, the chiefest fortifications that may be for all cities and countries. And bicause he would not onelie haue his said people to liue vnder one law, but also to be knowne and called by one name, he gaue commandement that they should be all called Scotishmen (as before is said) of his wife Scota. In continuance of time, this nation grew to a woonderfull multitude, so that the Spaniards doubting the woorst, 29 determined to foresée remedie in time, and herevpon
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