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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50378	Naval speculations and maritime politicks being a modest and brief discourse of the Royal Navy of England, of its oeconomy and government : and a projection for an everlasting seminary of seamen by a royal maritime hospital : with a project for a royal fishery : also necessary measures in the present war with France &c. / by Henry Maydman.	Maydman, Henry.	1691 (1691)	Wing M1420; ESTC R30058	112,498	385

us with his Almighty Finger to Rule and Govern in it which our former Princes have done without sparing Blood or Treasure to accomplish it But now the French King maketh very large Efforts to the bereaving us of that Right and Pirating Roving and Ravaging in it he having been increased in Shipping Navigation and Wealth by our late Impolitick Proceedings First by permitting the uneven balance of Trade with us And Secondly By directing or suffering the changing the ancient and Expeditious Methods of the Discipline and Government of the Navy Royal putting it into the hands of designing Projectors to enrich themselves only confounding the Affair exhausting much Treasure to multiply great Ships of little use to our purpose and neglecting of lesser Ships which we now want discouraging and disanimating Warranted bnd Standing Officers Mariners and Seamen by blind-folding Pretences of strict observance of Duty needless and from preserving the Mariner from being rooked of his Pay by having liberty to dispose of it as he pleases for which purpose he hath not been allowed an open Market for the same on Shoar to bring it into Money into his Pocket nor yet on Board allowed a Market where more than one Seller for Cloathing and other of their Wants which Methods I say have greatly disanimated all the Maritime People under a Commission Officer And I fear by the Novels introduced have brought Distraction and Confusion on it to the great impeding thereof Wherefore it is high time if it be not too late to awaken out of this Lethargy to recover our Dominion Honour and Prowess before it be past recovery now in this instant War with France to effect which the Nation must not spare Blood nor Treasure although it prove a Work of time and great Maritime Expences must be continued until it be gained without which no lasting Peace or Happiness can be expected for us to enjoy for the Sword being drawn by so many hands to carve themselves a share out of this said Maritime Dominion we are not able to judge how Sides may be taken or with whom we may happen to deal with before the Seas may enjoy a setled Peace Wherefore I emplore the King and Estates in Parliament to put the Navy into a posture of great and constant defence to dispoyl this Common Enemy of all his Commands or Collonies in the West-Indies and his Navigation of Fishing on the Banks of New-found-land but first to put the Navy into its former Methods of Expedition near unto what was practised when England did such Braveries at Sea as before spoken of and by expugning all the Novel and hurtful invented Intricacies and retain only the Laudable which is the principal and proper Work of the Lord High Admiral or Lords Commissioners for executing the said Office by appointing and choosing Experienced Wise Just Valiant and Religious Commissioners of the Navy Flag Officers Captains Commissioned and Warranted Officers all well approved in their Principles for the maintaining of the Monarchical Government of this Nation both in Church and State as by the Laws thereof established and to lay by all Vncapable and Irreligious Persons unjust Cowards Private-Interest-makers Trickers Dissemblers Designers Party-makers Debanched and Disloyal Persons to the said Government and by inviting and incouraging all good Men qualified as aforesaid and setling of Just Safe Expeditious and well experienced Methods in the Government thereof affixing and establishing Rewards and Preferments independant upon private Interest Bribes or immediate Superiors Commanding and also giving them ample and full Instructions for the performance of their respective Duties in doing which they shall be safe from violence or wrong done them by their Superiors not suffering Methods and Instructions to be either leapt over or broken like Cobwebs and they left to Despotical and Tyrannical Power I say the King Commissions the Lords of the Admiralty under him and by his Dictates unto them from time to time to Govern Fight and Manage the said Navy and to perform which they Constitute Commissioners of the Navy to negotiate under them and by their Dictates and Approbation to prepare and provide Ships Men Stores and all Necessaries Provisions Moneys c. and to Dispose Account and Order the same as Deputies of the Lord High Admiral having each his distinct Class or Order to act in yet a certain number thereof confirms all Actions viz. three of them whereof one is needful to be the Comptroller him unto whose particular Office the said Matters do more immediately relate whose Clerks in each Office are under their respective Inspections and Directions for Dispatches to keep them to their Duties duly observing their Errors in Methods and Protraction in Dispatches yet not wholly confined to their respective Offices but to mark all Errors in all others nay of all Degrees and Orders of the Navy under the Lord High Admiral but if they are designed to live at ease and let Business slide and do Justice as the unjust Judge did because he was wearied by the Complainant that he could not rest and no otherwise If he let Officers do their Dispatches at their Leisures Secretaries Clerks c. do most of the business I say if their Actions are with too much Grandeur and Deliberation and promulgate their Pleasures at too great distances and through too many Doors And if they move in the Affairs as some Country Justices doe to do Justice to their Country for at their procuring the Commission it was but to give them Authority to punish those that offended themselves or Friends in their Domestick Rights or slighted their Grandeur but to serve their Countrey or take pains to distribute Justice to relieve the oppressed and restore Men to lost Rights maintain Peace and Amity in Neighbourhoods punish Malefactors and Offenders and for doing this and many more good Offices spends his Time and Moneys at Assizes and Sessions he never intended any more than to live well himself and let the World Sink or Swim I say if such like proceedings be in the Navy then I conclude it has gotten a filthy Disease the Lethargy and to a waken it out of its Drowsinefs there ought to be some sharp Applications Wherefore I project that there should be another Officer created in the Navy viz. a Superseding Officer such as the French call an Intendant but I affect not the French Name nor Manners but the Latines or Romans a Censor one that should Censure all Officers in the Navy under the Lord High Admiral and be Commissioned by him to go and fit at all Boards Inspect all Officers and Books and observe their Methods and Practices in dispatches and censure dictate direct and correct the Errors quicken the Dispatches hear all Grievances and Complaints suspend all Contumelious Negligent Dishonest Disloyal and offending Officers refering them to the Admiralty for their Appeal whither he should transmit their Faults in a fair written Accusation taken before him at the place by his Clerk for that Purpose