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‘such needie people’: Ibid.

31 ‘remote heathen and’: Dictionary of National Biography entry, Rory Rapple.

31 ‘We are as near’: R. Hakluyt, The principall navigations, voiages and discoveries of the English nation, quoted in Dictionary of National Biography entry, Rory Rapple.

32 A Welsh member: See Bindoff, ‘The Stuarts and their Style’, p. 196.

33 ‘England was never’: Letter quoted by Quinn, ‘Sir Thomas Smith (1513–1577) and the Beginnings of English Colonial Theory’, p. 552.

34 ‘excessive expence; both’: Ibid.

34 ‘I cannot see’: Ibid.

34 ‘cursed, hated, and’: Sidney, A Viceroy’s Vindication?, p. 81.

35 ‘planting of colonies’: Ellis, Life of William Penn, p. 35.

35 Colonial settlement promised: Canny, ‘To Establish a Common Wealthe: Captain John Smith as New World Colonist’, p. 221.

36 ‘all you expect’: Smith, Captain John Smith, p. 261.

37 ‘for the transplanting’: William Clarke, The Clarke Papers, quoted in Latimer, Buccaneers of the Caribbean, p. 101.

37 ‘The seat of Empire’: Edmund Waller, ‘A Panegyric to my Lord Protector’, quoted in Armitage, ‘The Cromwellian Protectorate and the Languages of Empire’, p. 532.

37 the title of emperor: ‘Oliverus Maximus, Insularum Britannicarum Imperator Augustus’, according to the rumour. The diary of Ralph Josselin 1616–1684 and Calendar of Clarendon State Papers, vol. II: 1649–1654, both quoted in Armitage, ‘The Cromwellian Protectorate and the Languages of Empire’, p. 532


Chapter Two

40 ‘for to the northward’: W. Guthrie, A New Geographical, Historical, and Commercial Grammar and Present State of the Several Kingdoms of the World, quoted in Marshall, ‘Empire and Opportunity in Britain, 1763–75: The Prothero Lecture 6 July 1994’, p. 112.

42 ‘If Russia declares’: Quoted in Kaplan, Russian Overseas Commerce with Great Britain during the Reign of Catherine II, p. 130.

42 ‘as he would’: Nathaniel William Wraxall, Historical Memoires of my own Time, quoted in Jasanoff, Liberty’s Exiles, p. 55.

42 ‘There is not a ray’: William Cobbett, Parliamentary History of England, vol. XXII, quoted in Simms, Three Victories and a Defeat, p. 663.

42 ‘Everything human … has’: Newcastle Chronicle, 19 August 1786, quoted in Simms, Three Victories and a Defeat, p. 665.

43 ‘Tho’ we have not’: John Andrews, An Essay on Republican Principles, and on the Inconveniences of a Commonwealth in a Large Country and Nation, quoted in Gould, The Persistence of Empire, p. 209.

44 ‘together with all’: Quoted in Keneally, Australians, p. 31.

44 ‘in the name’: Cook, The Journals of Captain James Cook on his Voyages of Discovery, vol. I: The Voyage of the Endeavour, 1768–1771, pp. 387–8.

47 ‘To check the petulance’: Quoted in Beaglehole, The Life of Captain James Cook, p. 150.

47 ‘obligd to Plow’: Quoted in Fara, Sex, Botany and Empire, p. 104.

48 ‘redound greatly to’: Secret Instructions to Captain Cook, 30 June 1768, printed in Beaglehole, The Life of Captain James Cook, p. 148.

48 ‘the countrey … resembled’: Joseph Banks, Endeavour Journal 2 (Sydney, 1962), quoted in Fara, Sex, Botany and Empire, p. 90.

50 ‘the door of the seas’: Quoted in Fry, The Scottish Empire, p. 27.

52 ‘for all the East’: Quoted in MacKenzie, ‘Essay and Reflection: On Scotland and the Empire’, p. 715.

52 ‘cornchest … where we’: Quoted in ibid., p. 721.

52 ‘as long as he’: Quoted in ibid., p. 718.

53 ‘We want more Scots’: Quoted in ibid., p. 725.


Chapter Three

54 ‘is stronger, fighting’: Quoted in Simms, Three Victories and a Defeat, p. 515.

58 ‘What is England’: Quoted in James, Raj, pp. 47–8.

59 ‘greater resemblance to’: Anderson, A Narrative of the British Embassy to China in the Years 1792, 1793 and 1794, p. 102.

61 ‘and even were’: Hanes and Sanello, The Opium Wars, p. 19.

61 ‘tyranny of a’: Quoted in Barrow, Some Account of Public Life and a Selection from the Unpublished Writings of the Earl of Macartney, vol. II, p. 441.

61 ate the fleas: Anderson, A Narrative of the British Embassy to China in the Years 1792, 1793 and 1794, p. 123.

61 ‘there is not’: Barrow, Travels in China, p. 333.

61 ‘the lordly

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