"I marvel not a little, right worshipful, that since the first discovery of America (which is now full four score and ten years), after so great conquests and plannings of the Spaniards and Portuguese there, that we of England could never have the grace to set fast footing in such fertile and temperate places as are left as yet unpossessed of them. But ... I conceive great hope that the time approacheth and now is that we of England may share and part stakes ... in part of America and other regions as yet undiscovered "Yea, if we would behold with the eye of pity how all our prisons are pestered and filled with able men to serve their country, which for small robberies are daily hanged up in great numbers, ... we would hasten ... the deducting [ conveying] of some colonies of our superfluous people into these temperate and fertile parts of America, which being within six weeks' sailing of England, are yet unpossessed by any Christians, and seem to offer themselves unto us, stretching nearer unto Her Majesty's dominions than to other part of Europe." -Richard Hakluyt, English writer, Divers Voyages Touching the Discovery of America and the Islands Adjacent, 1582 2. Using the excerpt, answer a, b, and c.
a) Briefly explain ONE reason not in this passage for why England was so far behind Spain and Portugal in colonization.
b) Briefly explain ONE place where the author believes England can find a supply of potential colonists for the Americas.
c) Briefly explain ONE development of the late 16th century that challenges or supports the point of view expressed by the writer.