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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35158	Justice perverted, and innocence & loyalty oppressed, or, A detection of the corruptions of some persons in places of great trust in the government which would have been laid open the last session of Parliament, according to the intentions of both Houses, had it not been prevented.	Crosfeild, Robert.	1695 (1695)	Wing C7245; ESTC R7496	24,562	31

such Proceedings have been open'd to me long since by Officers of several Ships one of which whose Conscience was more tender I remember told me He trembled when he sign'd the Ships Books and considered what the Consequence of a Discovery of this Practice might amount to and gave me several Instances telling me he must pass them or be ruined and that he was well inclin'd to lay down his Employment to be no longer under such Circumstances Others declaring there was a Trade in fashion and they would take share in it Your Lordships must find large Demonstrations of it by what has passed as well relating to the Mary as other Ships The Distemper so well known a Proposal for the effectual preventing of it for the future carries no other difficulty with it than the Burden of the Interest against it and might at any time have been redressed by just Men of no boasted Skill in Business And my Lords I think there are two at hand from the nature of the Crimes and their being carry'd on so long One of which I shall open to your Lordships because 't is pertinent in my weak Judgment to the other Matters I lately laid before your Honourable Board For the second I pray leave to withhold it for the foregoing Reason and because as I would not plow with any Man's Heifer but my own so am I not blameable to secure to my self if I can some part of my dear-bought Experience till it shall be my Duty to reform what I know to be amiss and can therein be supported Now my Lords it 's most manifest that these Practices are not wholly carried on by a Combination of the Officers on Board Ships as is alledged who cover these Crimes to avoid their own ruin many of them to my Knowledg detesting the Trade It being well known what is and has been the Practice of the Navy-Office that if any such Tickets and Powers happen not to be in the hands of any relating to that Office yet such may be found with their under-hand Agents who tho of little Substance of their own yet can buy up three or four thousand Pound value in Tickets that being the only way such Frauds can long pass and such true or false meet with no Obstruction But if any Complaint happens 't is no easy matter to have Right done which is as plain as the Forgery in Gawler's Bills * * Prov'd before the Lords of the Admiralty tho committed in the Navy-Office nevertheless gave occasion to the Commissioners of the Navy to promote the very Actor to be Clerk of the Cheque at Sheerness to avoid other Matters like to break upon him where he may carry on the Trade at pleasure And if this be the case which I presume does fully appear the most effectual Remedy against the Disease is to remove the Cause I mean such of the Commissioners of the Navy who have advocated and passed by knowingly and with design notorious Crimes already discovered and that done there will remain no difficulty to form what must put a period to these Cheats and all ground of such lamentable Complaints as your Lordships and the Government have been long troubled with All which arise from the barbarous Usage the innocent Subject have had and a want of Tendency to their Complaints and from false and designed Representations of Matters the Guilty being protected excused and carried through most scandalous and obvious Offences against the Law and afterwards encouraged which your Lordships find to be the Practice of the Commissioners of the Navy by what I have long since and now lately laid before you in particular that of the Testimony of the Town-Clerk of Portsmouth wherein your Lordships find a Commissioner after having used his utmost Skill to stifle so necessary a Discovery paying the very Charges of disappointing the Government and getting off a Fine of 200 l. the better to conceal his own and others Crimes Now my Lords I must pray leave to relate as well for the Information of such of your Members as were not of your Board as for reminding such as were at the opening of my Case and on the Proceeds of the Design against me by the Navy-board they no less earnestly justified the well and regular Management of Portsmouth Yard than furiously prosecuted me the better to cover the Miscarriages I insisted on In which it also lies prov'd before your Honourable Board I rejected an Offer of two hundred Pounds Bribe to pass them the Person who made me that Tender with other Accommodations being nevertheless protected and preferred by them tho it 's plain both he and his Brother have from nothing advanced themselves to great Estates by such undue Proceedings and I was not only advis'd if I desisted in that Matter I should be quieted in my Imploy but in the very heat of the Prosecution against me the Expedient to silence all that Affair was propos'd to me to bring Capt. Wilshaw to one of my Friends and set him to rights there Which being out of my power it was carried on with the more Heat and Resolution against me And at the opening of the Embezlements there which I had all along complained of then did meer Shame for I cannot take it any otherways occasion the Navy-board to own the Miscarriages of Portsmouth-Yard to be great and to recommend me by the Mouth of Mr. Sergison for Encouragement Which was very surprizing after a Design grounded on most palpable Perjury and so scandalous a Representation thereof yet worse than the Perjury it self from that Board And after all this to find several of the Commissioners of the Navy in the face of Justice bringing off Criminals by a sham-Sham-Book of Loans and thereby encouraging such shameful Actions and persecuting such as appear'd on the King's Part even to the Death and Ruin of some must surely aggravate these great Miscarriages when it so plainly appears the King is thus cheated by Authority I come now my Lords to the particular Crimes your Lordships have before you which the Commissioners of the Navy have stifled or forgiven contrary to Law it being a common Practice and of which there are not wanting yet more Instances And next to the Discovery made by the Rope-makers in which the poor Men think they have made a fair step to their own Ruin however if it be follow'd it may put a great stop to that Trade But my Lords so long as there are Commissioners intrusted who on such Occasions brand Discoverers for Informers Rogues and Villains tho they pursue Orders and Instructions and incourage their being treated as the worst of Men setting up false and scandalous Informations against them what end can be put to these Miscarriages Or till there is less Pride and Design at the Navy-Office more Honesty and a Readiness to hear and relieve or satisfy all Complaints without the accustomed Formality and Extorts of Money with Attendance Month after Month to no purpose it