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A95991	A true narrative of som [sic] remarkable-proceedings concerning the ships Samson, Salvador, and George, and several other prize-ships depending in the High Court of Admiralty; humbly presented to the Parliament of the Common-wealth of England, and the Councell of State, and the Councell of Officers of his excellency the Lord Generall. / By Tho. Violet of London, gold-smith.	Violet, Thomas, fl. 1634-1662.	1653 (1653)	Wing V593; Thomason E1070_4; ESTC R208665	74,616	123

London by order of the Honorable Hous of Co. the 6. of Januarie 1643. was committed prisoner to the Tower where your Petitioner remained almost four years the said Rilye beeing discharg'd out of the Tower within a year from the time of his commitment his Estate never sequestred or taken away your Petitioner having acted nothing in that business without the approbation of the said Theophilus Rilye And your Petitioner had a Pass to go to Oxford by the Lord General Essex and an Order from the then-Hous of Commons and the Committee of both England and Scotland were by your Petitioner's appointment made acquainted that your Petitioner was within few daies to bring up a Letter from the late King to the Citie for peace which your Petitioner desired Sir David Watkins to acquaint the Parlament with before ever your Petitioner went to Oxford My humble suit is therefore that Sr David Watkins and Mr Rilye may bee examined of the truth of this Your Petitioner acted nothing in this business but by Order and what the Parlament or som prime Members knew of and did consent to the doing of it That during the time of your Petitioner's restraint your Petitioners Estate was by the Committees of Essex Salop Middlesex and London sequestred and taken away Your Petitioner's Estate in Essex beeing by Order of Parment granted unto certain persons through whose informations your Petitioner was sequestred who since the grant and obtaining thereof have never made good their allegations or informations or anie part thereof although by several Orders of the honorable Committee of Essex and Salop in pursuance of an Order of the honorable the Barons of the Exchecquer they have been required to make good their charge against your Petitioner as by the said Orders may appear neither hath your Petitioner during the time of his said imprisonment nor since though to the uttermost of his power endeavored daily and solicited at the Hous-doors been hitherto able to obtain a hearing of his caus whereby all your Petitioner's Estate hath for this nine years last past been out of your petitioner's hands to his utter ruine without the relief of this honorable Hous Your Petitioner humbly praieth that the said sequestration may bee taken off and that all Lands Bonds Bills Leases Moneys Goods Debts Offices Extents Writings and Evidences of what nature soever in whose custodie the same or any part thereof is beeing and remaining maie bee restored to your Petitioner And that a just account may bee given Your Petitioner of the profits received ever since the sequestration by such person or persons who have received the same Your Petitioner humbly praieth this the rather for that hee ever since his enlargement out of the Tower hath don many good and faithful services for the Common-wealth to the best of his skill and power as is known as well to the honorable Council of State as to several honorable Members of this honorable Hous And Your Petitioner shall praie c. THO. VIOLET A Copie of the late King's Letter to the Lord Major and Aldermen of the Citie of London Charls Rex TRustie and well-beloved wee greet you well when wee remember the many Acts of Grace and Favor Wee and our Roial Predecessors have conferred upon that our Citie of London and the many examples of dutie and loialtie for which that Citie hath been likewise famous Wee are willing to believ notwithstanding the great defection wee have found in that place that all men are not so degenerated from their affection to Us and to the peace of the Kingdom as to desire a continuance of the miserie they now feel and therefore beeing informed that there is a desire of som principal persons of that Citie to present a Petition to us which may tend to the better procuring a good understanding between Us and that our Citie whereby the peace of the whole Kingdom may bee procured Wee have thought fit to let you know that wee are ready to receiv any such Petition and the persons who shall bee appointed to present the same to us shall have a safe conduct and you shall assure all our good subjects of that our Citie whose hearts are touched with any sens of dutie to Us or love to the Religion and Laws established in the quiet and peaceable fruition whereof they and their Ancestors have enjoied so great happiness that wee have neither passed any Act nor made any profession or protestation for the maintenance and defence of the true Protestant Religion and the Liberties of the Subject which wee will not most strictly and religioussy observ and for the which wee will bee alwaies ready to give them any securitie can bee desired and of these Our gracious Letters Wee exspect a speedy answer from you and so Wee bid you farewel By his Majestie 's Command George Digbie Given at our Court at Oxford on the 19th year of Our Reign 26th Decemb. 1653. Upon the bringing up to London of the aforesaid Letter I Tho. Violet of London Gold-smith was examined before an honorable Committee of Parlament at Gold smith's Hall Januarie 3 1643 where I made the Committee acquainted that I had acted nothing but by order of Mr Theophilus Riley Scout-master of the Citie of London who was autorized by Ordinance of both Houses of Parlament and by Act of the Common-Council of the Citie of London to hold intelligence in any of the King's quarters and that the said Theophilus Riley by virtue of his place did procure my Pass from the Hous of Commons to go to Oxford the 25 December 1643 as will appear by the journal-Journal-books in the Hous of Commons and that my Lord General Essex did give mee a Pass to go to Oxford the 27 of Decemb. by Sr Arthur Haslerig's and Sr David Watkin's means both which Warrants were procured for Mee Tho. Violet by Theophilus Riley Scout-master and one of the Militia of the Citie of London and the parties aforesaid and that the said Theophilus Riley and I Tho. Violet and Sr David Watkins had made several Members of Parlament and Committee of both Nations acquainted with the Letter before ever wee sent it to Oxford to have the King Sign it and wee had their approbation for doing the same and I Tho. Violet did plead justification for my doing thereof before the said Committee having the Warrant and approbation of the Common-wealth's Scout-master Moreover I declared that there was not then at the time of my bringing up of the late King's Letter beeing the 2d of Januarie 1643 any Order or Ordinance to forbid mee or any other person to bring up a Letter of Peace from the late King besides I told the Committee that by God's Law where there is no Law there can bee no transgression and my bringing the late King's Letter up to London before a law made to shew mee my Rule to walk by I beeing the King's Servant I humbly conceived could bee no offence whereupon the honorable Committee

Merchants and skippers set downe in my Papers their waies they have to cozen the State of these duch prizes there were a great many fraudes there in my paper discovered which hee beleeved are daily used which by the present Rules of the Admiralty the Court could take no notice of for they went by a Rule and if the Parliament would have those frauds prevented for the future he thought it very necessary that I should present the same to the State and that an Act should be made to prevent it especially during this time of War and doctor Walker did not deny but that many duch prize-ships till the State enlarged the Rules of the Court of Admiralty have and might be cleered and after goe for Holland and that if it pleased the Parliament to give stricter Rules for the Court of Admiralty during this War and make it an Act of Parliament then no man could or should make or presse the law further for the Common-wealths advantage then he would and that I should see and hee did order master Bud to let me see what writings and proceedings hee had in this businesse of the prize-ships and silver But as I honor doctor Walker for his great paines and care I doe as much blame master Bud for his carriage for when I first entred on this businesse some friends of mine told me they had a jealous eye of master Bud and indeede I did severall times tell doctor Walker that I would complain of master Bud when I saw time for several daies in the Court some times Letters not translated somtimes Records not to be found and upon my complaints doctor Walker told master Bud of it in the Court of Admiralty before the Judges and said that he saw the businesse of the silver ships might come to a review by my prosecution and hee would not have master Buds miscarriage in the business of the silver lie at his dore and wished master Bud to mend for the future And although doctor Walker appointed master Bud to advise with mee about my Papers and to let mee see what Bills of lading and Papers I would concerning the prize-ships such as master Bud had in his custody concerning the silver prize-ships and all other prizes depending in the Admiraltie the sixteenth of December 1652. yet the said master David Bud never did let me come to have a view of any of the bills of lading or Papers in his custodie though hee appointed me many times to have a sight of them and because I would be neere him I tooke lodgings not far from his house in Bishopsgate-streete and continue them to this day May it please your honors if I had seene the Bills of lading and bookes of Entries and all other Papers according to doctor Walkers direction I had stopped many a ship that hath beene discharged but that would have hindred some Proctors of their fees for I am credibly informed it is ordinary for the Proctors to put downe in their Bills besides ordinary charges 40. l. 50. l. and 100. l. upon the cleering of a Prize-ship to the Merchants and owners of the ships I say if it be not prevented for the future it will bring great ruine on this Nation The State should finde out I humbly conceive by diligent enquiry the true reason wherefore so many Duch Prize-ships have been let slip out of their fingers after they have been brought into this Common-wealth with so much loss of blood and charge and blown away in a breath for the profit of particular men I humbly desire Captain Bishop's Letters from beyond Seas may be produced at the Councell of State or Parliament and there you will see what work hath been done by some in trust in the Admiralty May it please your Honors to avoid that I should not bee instrumentall to spoil this trade Master Bud the Proctor though he hath had order and himself promised me severall times yet he would never shew me any of the bills of lading or papers concerning any ships depending in the Admiralty the 16 Decemb. 1652. though I have been with him and sent my man to him severall times to have seen how many ships there were under arrest in the Admiralty the 16 December 1652 he hath promised me twenty times but never performed When I went to see your Prize-ships between London Wollage there went with me to see in what condition they were in Mr. Paul Smith Cap. Brock Mr. Long and his two sonns all three Ship-Carpenters and wee looking both on the inside and outside of the Duch prize-ships we found many of them rent and torn which by the Law if they fought in the channel of England against the States ships they are prize and for this I refer my self to Master Reylye's Records in the Tower and thereupon I made my appeal in Court in the behalf of the Common-wealth and have a great many presidents out of the Records in the Tower upon the like case it hath been done by others to which Records I humbly refer my self And I have caused the copies to bee attested under Mr. Rylies hand he can satisfie you what pains and charges I have been at in that businesse yet severall of these ships have been discharged and they are dayly laboring to discharge the Morning-star a ship laden with about fourty thousand pounds in silver which fought in your channel And finding your Court of Admiralty would discharge many of these prize-ships I appealed in the behalf of the Common-wealth and craved respit of Judgement till my witnesses were examined The like I did for the silver ships Sampson Salvador and George and all the thirteen ships which I was aboard on by order and intreaty of the Commissioners for Duch Prizes the 14 December 1652. The Duch Prize Commissioners had under their charge a great many other ships besides these about fourty at the least I humbly desire the whole businesse may come under a strict examination before a Committee of the Councell of State or Parl. I humbly desire also the Cōmissioners may be ordered to give me a particular accompt what ships were in their custodie the 16 December the Masters names and where they now remain and what number of these ships are discharged out of this Nation unto whom and the time when And when I see a perfect accompt from them I shall humbly acquaint your honors how your businesse now stands It is very much for the safety of this Nation for the State to keep a strict accompt of this businesse 〈◊〉 the Admiralty as your honors will finde upon a strict examination for if the State had kept a strict eye on all the ships that have passed out of their hands since August last and examined the bottom of this businesse they would have had millions of treasure in their custody that is now in Holland and the people of the united Provinces would have been necessitated to seek for peace because they could not otherwaies maintain

trade and without it they cannot subsist there must be some strange connivence with some of your officers in the Admiraltie or else this mischief had been prevented if all men intrusted had been honest I pray see my book fol. 99. These things I humbly submit to your honors THO. VIOLET To the right Honorable the Lord Bradshaw these humbly present May it please your Honor I Have left with Colonel Harbert Morley this day my Petition to the Councell of State against Otho George I humbly desire your honor to take notice if the Counsell doe not take some present order in it to consider what encouragement my self or any man that serves the Common-wealth in the discovery of the Ships silver and Merchandize now brought in as Duch prize shall have when they shall be assaulted in the streets with Stilettoes and Poniards from Captain Otho George for being instrumentall to doe the State service I have been advised by severall friends for this eight dayes not to come to the Exchange or Admiralty to avoid that which Otho George within these few dayes offered to doe to another man the Surgeon of Otho George ship which hath not been nor can be the hundred part so instrumentall to intitle the State to the silver and goods in the Prize-ships as I have been The Surgeon of Otho George's ship hath discovered the silver in the ships to be Duch-mens and Otho George's bills of lading counterfet I pray let the examinations taken about this business be sent for to the Councell and that will inform you at large I humbly desire your honors just assistance for a speedy Order about this my Petition it being of very great concernment to the Common-wealth to take a speedy order in it to punish Otho George and restrain his insolence Your Honors humble servant THO. VIOLET 25 March 1653. I have heard about June last the Surgeon is dead that accused Otho George there is no question but som had order to give him an Italian figg but before he died he was examined before the Lord Mayor and in the Admiralty his confession against Otho George is upon Record about the silver in all the Prize-ships that came together from St. Lucars in Spain To the right Honorable the Councell of State THO. VIOLET Sheweth THAT your Petitioner having by order of this Councel assisted in the Admiralty against the ships George Sampson and the Salvador and severall other ships And that the Court of Admiralty hath judged the onus probandi to be put upon the pretenders for the said ships and lading And that since your Petitioner hath been engaged in this service your Petitioner hath made several discoveries of great concernment which are so large they cannot be contained in a Petition and the Councels time so precious as your Petitioner humbly conceives that the whol Councell cannot spend with conveniency so much time as will be requisite to take an exact account of so weighty a busines Your Petitioner humbly desires your honors to appoint a Committee to take a particular account of your Petitioner what he hath done since the 16. Dec. 1652. in this busines and that the Committee may be impowred to enquire concerning all the aforesaid prize-ships and what obstructions hath beene or are depending in the Court of Admiralty and to consider of some effectual waies for removing them And whereas there is no particular and true account what gold silver or Merchandize is remayning on shipboard the Samson Salvador and George and several other ships so that by this means there can bee no account kept by the State of what treasure is a ship board whereby the State hath received much dammage and will daily receive more that the security of ●0000 l given into the Admiralty for the silver and goods a shipboard is of no consideration to the treasure aboard the aforesaid ships as long as the silver remaines aboard the State shall never find what silver and gold shall be clandestinely stolne and imbezeled away and if it be proved the State shall only have parchment for the damage in stead of monies the persons bound being duch factors so that if the State will be secure for the future there is no other course but to land all the Silver and keep it in som safe place And whereas there are some of the commodities a shipboard as Tobaccoes and other Merchandize that are perishable that your honors would appoint a Committee to examine that businesse and to take order that no Bales or Fardels upon any pretence may be discharged till they be carefully viewed in the Custom-house and a true and exact Inventory taken both by Commissioners and Farmers these Merchandize being generally false packed in the Indies That whereas your Petitioner hath beene the first and principall Instrument to discover all the fraudes of Otho George in his Bills of lading and several other abuses and practises concerning divers prize-ships in the Court of Admiraltie whereby your Petitioner hath contracted a deadly hatred against him by the said Otho George your Petitioner hath beene enforced for the safety and preservation of his body to sweare the Peace against Otho George the twenty fourth day of March 1652. before master Recorder of London and is an humble suitor to your Honours that such farther directions may bee given in that behalfe that your Petitioner may be secured from being murthered for making this discovery against the aforesaid ships your Petitioner having for severall dayes absented himselfe both from the Exchange and Court of Admiraltie to avoid the mischief And if the State will not take some speciall order against Otho George for his assaulting and offering to stab any such Persons that have or shall bee instrumentall in doing the State service in this particular abovesaid Your Petitioner leaves it to your consideration whether it bee possible to have your businesse done And your Petitioner shall pray c. This Petition is referred to the Comittee for Forraign affaires 26. March 1653. Mr. Isaac Doreslaws SIR you shall finde by these Papers here ●…sed the true reason wherefore I doe not come to the Exchange or the Court of Admiralty as yet till I am secured against the force of Otho George upon my person you know what I told you at the Still yard about him I told the same things to my Lord Bradshaw 16 dayes agoe of Otho George Though I am not amongst you I have a carefull eye of the business and by my intelligence see when I am absent My good friend that is an Art will cost you many years studie before you can attain to it and is not to be done but by many hands and at great expence I pray let me intreat you that you would be very carefull that when this business concerning the Prize-ships comes under an examination that nothing may rest at your dore that is not like your self you have many temptations and I had rather lose my right hand then you

made their report to the Hous of Commons and thereupon the honorable Hous made this Order viz. Die Sabbathi 6 to Januar. 1643. SIr Henrie Vane Mr Solicitor and Sr Arthur Haslerig report the design of Mr Theophilus Riley Scout-master of the Citie Col. Reade Sr Basil Brook Mr Violet and others concerning Letters a Petition and Propositions touching Accommodation c. and the particular examinations of the said parties and a Letter from his Majestie to the Lord Major Court of Aldermen c. and two Letters from the Lord Digbie to Sir Basil Brook of the 29 of December and the 2 of Januarie were all read Resolved c. Theophilus Riley Sr Basil Brook and Thomas Violet shall bee committed close Prisoners to the Tower Hen. Elsing Cler Parl. D. Com. I shall humbly desire the Committee of Essex to observ this here was no conspiracie charged on any of us by the Order of the Hous of Commons but if they will read the original they will finde it as it is Printed here in the Journals of Parlament onely a Committment to the Tower of London every man that is committed to a prison must not therefore bee guiltie of a conspiracie before hee bee tried either by Marshal Law or the Common Law of the Land And truly I humbly take it my punishment beeing so long in prison was beyond my offence for bringing a letter of peace when I had not broken anie law at that time in beeing without having my Estate under Sequestration or giving Mr Elconhead my Estate for his charging mee unjustly with a conspiracie against the Parlament before the Committee of Essex when hee nor anie other either hath or can prove it it shall bee found upon examination I have don the Common-wealth better service then manie scores such as Mr Elconhead either hath or could ever do and I humbly hope when this present Parlament doth take this business into examination they will leav mee to my remedie at law against Edward Elconhead for his unjust and malitious charge to defraud mee of my Estate to enrich himself by such indirect practice and make him account with mee for all monies and rents hee hath received of mine with dammages for my forbearance since my Sequestration notwithstanding anie pretence or Order from the late Parlament or Committee of Essex THO. VIOLET These papers I left with the Lord Bradshaw Sr James Harrington Mr Tho. Chalenor Mr Alderman Allen with the Committee of Essex at Chemsford Mr Augustin Garland and several other Members of Parlament Upon the dissolving of the last Parlament I made my request to the faithful Lovers of their Countrie Col. Wetton and Lievt. Col. Joice to present my former services about the staying the Silver and other prizes to the Right Honorable the Council of Officers which accordingly they did and brought mee acquainted with several of those noble Gentlemen for which great civilities I give them humble thanks by whose means I sent this ensuing Letter to the Right Honorable General Monk and presented the ensuing Papers to the present Council of State For the Right honorable General Monk Admiral of the Common-wealth of England May it pleas your Honor I Have desired Lievtenant Colonel Joyce to bee pleased to send your Honor this Letter the occasion of my writing to your Honor now is humbly to give you notice of a Book I presented to the late Parlament concerning many abuses about several Prize-Ships brought into this Nation and discharged som out of the Court of Admiraltie and som other waies before they were duely examined as appear's in my Book I herewith send unto your Honor. By reason of your great employment as Admiral I humbly thought it my dutie to present you with my Book In folio 99 you shall finde a particular Invoice Sr the damage hath been to this Common-Wealth to the value of manie hundred thousand pounds which this Nation hath been couzened of for want of a strict Examination of Prize-Ships I was formerly employ'd the 13th of Decemb. 1652. by the then Council of State to assist in the Court of Admiraltie against the Ships Sampson Salvador and George having laden in them manie hundred thousand pounds which silver had been all let gon had it not been for my Protest and Solicitation in the Court of Admiraltie as appear's in my Book fol. 75. 76. 77. 78. 79. 80. 81. 82. 83. 84. I have presumed to send you the Book with a Copie of my Petition to his Excellencie the Lord General My humble suit to your Honor is that if you conceiv my Petition is for the service of the Common-wealth to have these great abuses I have humbly presented unto the Parlament found out and prevented for the future that your honor would do mee that just favor to send in writing to Lievtenant Colonel Joyce what you conceiv is to bee don concerning my humble Petition to his Excellencie The Silver aboard all these aforesaid Ships is Ordered to bee landed by his Excellencie and to bee brought into the Tower I humbly desire to bee appointed Remembrancer for all prize-Ships which if I had been in August last employ'd the State had had a Million of monie now which hath by the undue and careless practice of som men been let slip out of England for want of a vigilant prosecution and is how in Holland I humbly leav the consideration of the premises to your honor and remain London Apr 27. 1653. Your most humble Servant THO. VIOLET Lievtenant Col. Joice lieth at the leg neer the Fountain Tavern in the Strand I humbly desire your honor to signifie your pleasure to him This letter I sent by Mr Quatmore The humble desire and Petition of Thomas Violet presented to the Right honorable Major-General Desborrow Col. Benet Col Jones all of the Council of State May 4. 1653. Sheweth 1 THat for want of order and a due regulation and porsecution of the matters of the State 's Prizes and Prizes of private men of War depending in the Court of Admiraltie divers great losses and inconveniencies have ensued which if not prevented for the future will bring unexpressable mischief on this Nation and will not onely discourage all private Men of War for continuing those Ships they have abroad or sending forth of others but deprive the Common-wealth of much if not most of that benefit it might and ought to make by Prizes which are and have been brought in by the Parlament's Ships which Prizes ought to bee employ'd towards the support of this War by which means this State hath been much disenabled and our enemies enabled as by sad experience since these Wars began the State hath found and by your Petitioner it hath been humbly presented to your Honors to take such order that there may bee a timely redress before it bee too late 2. That for want of stricter instructions to all Commanders at Sea for this Common-wealth manie Ships have passed unquestion'd or not fully examined and manie more

Mint in the Tower of London Sir There are som men when they behold a hous ready finished they do not at the first apprehend the several pins and beams and materials that make 's and frame 's the building there is many a nail driven which the Spectator never see 's the builder that paie's for it hee onely keep 's that particular account as I have don for this Book Humbly present you I must confess this is but a thatched Cottage but it hath cost mee many years pains and trouble and great expence to present it to you in that ruff and unpollished shape it is in I have for many years night and daie had several helps and hands both in England and beyond-Seas from choice intelligencers and out of several manuscripts in the custodie of Sr John Cook when hee was Secretarie to the late King and since the Parlament I have got what I could by industrie from Merchants and others both at home and abroad at my great expence to make mee serviceable to my Countrie in studying the individual prosperitie of every man that is a true lover of this Common-wealth Sir Hee that travail's far in a Winter's daie had need to bee up before Sun-rising And such honorable Members as your self shall and have no doubt found the affairs of the Common-wealth left strangely intangled the 20. of April 1653. The great God of Heaven direct you to set all strait in the Common-wealth and that you may amend what you found amiss to the comfort of this Nation and to you and your posterities everlasting honor whereby this Common-wealth may bless God for you and other worthie Members of Parlament and Armie SIR There is a Rule in the State of Venice when their Embssadors com home the Senate there requireth them to give an account of the negotiations in Forreign parts and to declare the conditions manners fashions and powerfull parties and factions in those Kingdoms or Common-wealths from whence they return An Embassador of Venice returning from England in the late King Charles's time was according to custom to give his usual account in the Senate hee after a long Oration of the power of the Spanish Italian French Dutch and Scotch-interest in the Court of England their several influences on all the actions of the late King and his Counsel was required to give an account of the power and interests the English Natives had themselvs in their own Counsels to which the Embassador replied That the Natives themselvs had little or no power in the Court of England for though the King 's Privie Council had all English bodies yet they had Spanish French Dutch and Scotch hearts and many of them Forreign Prince's Pensioners and the true lovers of their Countrie the Natives of England had little power in their own Counsels the late King having a resolution to cast off all Parlaments and to rule by his own Prerogative The sad effects of those Counsels and thir miscarriages brought the late great miseries and Wars on this Nation May it pleas you Sir I would to God som men could not justly say the like during som time of the late Parlament many of their Counsellors and Members in the begining of the late Parlament speaking all perfit Scotch and Presbyterie and afterwards som of their late Counsellors perfect Spanish Dutch and French SIR I say I have found this a sad truth ten thousand pounds deep and better to my particular estate SIR let mee most humbly entreat you to bee instrumental with all the worthie Members of this present Parlament to remember they are English and to act upon true English principles esteeming the good of the Nation above all private respects and their faith and word once past is ever to bee kept either with particular men or States There was many Noble Gentlemen of the last Parlament labored it and studied to bring it about but they were over-powred by several parties and divisions even amongst themselvs if there bee any that hinder this good work in your Counsels I pray God to discover him and to amend and convert him or bring him to Justice That which I most humbly desire is for every man perfectly and freely with due reverence I humbly say it to the Supreme Autoritie to speak his Countrie 's language perfect English in all their words and actions to bee publick spirited men that is to studie the just peace wealth prosperitie and happiness of every individual member of this Nation and that they studie the restoring of Trade the erecting of Manufactures the setting all the poor on work to the relieving the aged and impotent even such as have been struck by God's hand or for their Countrie 's defence My most earnest suit to you is above all earthly things diligently to prepare Ships men and materials for to defend your Dominion of the Seas of this Common-wealth for without this you nor any one member in this Nation can call any thing their own longer then it shall bee lent them by the courtesies of our neighbor-Nation And what favor upon their prevailing can bee exspected by us from them their former courtesies in the East-Indies and their late actions apparently declare to every true English heart Upon honorable and just conditions for the good of both Nations God in his good time I hope and pray for that hee will finde a way to save his servant Isaac that is both English and Dutch and catch the Ram in the Bush I mean the Jesuits that lately kindled this fire and to this daie blow the coles between both Nations Noble SIR I have in this Narrative shewed you a Watch in pieces and som of the Wheels and Springs that make's the motion or els a Carpenter's Rule the inches and Mathematical lines Yet noble Sir I humbly tell you the shewing a man a Rule and a Watch doth not enable him without long studie tools and materials to make a Watch or a Rule I humbly saie I had rather bee a Carpenter by daily practice to know how to build a hous then a Mathematitian by Theorick which can talk of an hundred things in framing an hous but give him a Mallet Saw and Square hee know's not how to handle one of them So it is not the Theorick but the Practick part that can do this service which I have don for the Common-wealth Sir I humbly saie there must bee Men read as well as books and many years studie to do this service SIR I deliver not this paper to erect Offices and Imployments upon the recommendations of friends for any in Power to make such use of these my humble Proposals as som of the late Parlament have don viz. To put into great places of trust and skill ignorant and unskilful men or Rooks as many of your Treasurers and other Officers have been that by indirect waies have cram'd their purses and bought incredible vast possessions Their monies and lands they now have belong's truly to the