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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45103	To the two most honourable Houses, the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled, an humble representation of the sad and distressed case of many thousands of their most gratious Majesties loyal seamen, or their widows, aged parents, or other friends or relations and an humble supplication in behalf of all the said distressed and all other the seamen of England and Scotland.	Hodges, William, Sir, 1645?-1714.	1693 (1693)	Wing H3642; ESTC R31132	6,384	5

this Spring at the Nore or Portsmouth because of sending out the Fleet Early and if so there having been Two or Three Thousand dead in the West-India Fleet this Year and many Thousands dead or discharged by Sickness or Lameness or otherwise or turned over in the Grand Fleet so that Their Majesties will have a continual use of Credit And your Honours now you are informed of the State of the Case may order Relief as your Honours in great Wisdom shall think fit And I would in behalf of Their Majesties Seamen humbly intreat your Honours That First It might be so ordered That the Ships that have been unpaid above Four Years may be paid first and so every Ship that hath Pay longest due might be paid next Secondly And that a new List might be put up of all the Ships unpaid in the Order aforesaid for the Relief of the said Distressed Thirdly That there might be Publick Notice given in the Gazete how many Ships are put up and when to begin the same and so every Moneth to give notice how far they have gone Fourthly And by this means all the Seamens Widows in England and Scotland might give a near guess when to expect their Money Fifthly And I would in behalf of the said Widows intreat your Honours that those Ships that have Money due at Two or Three Payments that is that have been paid Three times on Board before they are cleared on the Shoar may be put up to be paid all the Pay due in each Ship for the said Three Divisions to be paid all at once and in so doing you would save the Miserable Distressed from waiting Year after Year two or three times for One Sum of Money Sixthly If this Method were taken it would be the way to put New Life into the Seamen and if that it were once known that so soon as Their Majesties and the Two Honourable Houses were informed of their Misery that they had Relief Order'd and Publick Notice given in the Gazette that they were all order'd to be paid in reasonable time it would be the way to incourage the Wives and Parents and Masters of the Seamen in every Sea-Port-Town in England to let their Husbands or Children or Servants go freely into Their Majesties Service as finding that it was only a Misfortune not inform'd of that caused so many Widows or Aged Parents to be unpaid but that now come Life come Death or come turning over from Ship to Ship still Their Majesties Pay is the most safe and certain Pay in England and none to be esteemed of like Excellence for certainty Seventhly And I would humbly inform the Honourable Houses That if there were a Committee Appointed to hear the Grievances of the Seamen or their Families that might order Publick Notice at the Pay-Office and Navy-Office and also in the Gazette That if any Seamen have been either Cheated of their Tickets by any Clerks of their Ships or have had their Pay Received wrongfully or their Tickets Detained wrongfully or been Trick't out of them for a small Value that in those Cases they should be heard freely and have Justice done them it would perhaps be a great Relief to many and also be incouragement to all the Seamens Families in England for to serve Their Majesties as finding that they cannot be wronged without it be their own fault and if they will manifest their wrong they shall have what Releif can be expected and in doing this your Honours will also save a great deal of Trouble to Their Majesties Honourable Commissioners of the Navy that they might not be interrupted with such a multitude of Petitions now they are concerned in so much business of a great Nature in other Affairs of the Navy Eighthly I would in behalf of the said Seamen humbly beg That if it could be prevented they might not be indeed simply Cowardly or otherwise Delivered up to the French as the Jersey Diamond or some other Ships have been and also that there might be care taken not to allow any Officer to hide or steal Powder enough to blow them up as the Exeter was and if not also the Breda and that there might not be so many Ships knockt on the head in good Weather as the Windsor-Castle was and several more and some drown'd whereby in all these Cases the Seamen suffer loss of Clothes if not of Life and Liberty and perhaps Their Majesties have lost 30 or 40 Ships to the Value of a Million of Money and in so little time as no Age can parallel and except the Anne and the Portsmouth and perhaps Ten or Twelve more most of the rest were made away so strangely without fair Valiant Fighting as Brave Old English Men used to do that some of them have looked like Ships Murdered I do not know how And if your Honours would but inquire into it perhaps I may give you most of the Ships Names so lost but perhaps it will be hard to find the reason how some were lost But if you should ask me if it were from Heaven or of Men it may be I might with submission say If it were from Men then if they are found faulty they should be punished and if from Heaven then Humiliation Supplication and Reformation were the way to prevent it for time to come and so it would be well if the Reverend the Bishops would send a Sound Pious Minister of the Church of England into every Man of War to be a Man of Sobriety and good Conversation and also a Man of Courage to Reprove every Vice he hath opportunity conveniently to do and to Rebuke and Exhort and that he might read the Prayers of the Church twice every Day and also Read Two Homilies every Sunday out of that most Excellent Book of Homilies worth its weight in Gold and worthy to be kept in every English Mans House which was set forth in King Edward the Sixths dayes and in Queen Elizabeths and Three Kings Reigns since and Established by the Church of England in the Thirty Nine Articles and therein the Seamen might hear that Swearing and Cursing and other Enormities are things that the Church abhors and that Sobriety Vertue Repentance and Holyness are not Novelty nor Phanatical but the real Fundamental Doctrine of the Church of England and such as all that own the Church ought to stand by unless they pretend one thing and do another And indeed it is most dreadful to think that any called Christians should Night and Day be Calling on God to Damn them and the Devil to Damn them as if they thought they could not have it time enough without ingaging God to send it and the Devil to Execute it and I suppose all the Histories of the Heathens and Indians cannot parallel such abominable a Practice But to endeavour to Reform this must be left to your Honours Great Wisdom and Judgment and I would intreat your Honours Pardon for my mentioning this But however as the Church