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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86124	The ansvver of Edward Hayward, clerk of the survey at Chatham, (meerly for his own vindication) to a most abusive and scandalous pamphlet, lately published and dispersed by George Kendall, M.A. (as he stiles himself) and clerk of the survey at Deptford, and Woolwich.	Hayward, Edward, 17th cent.	1656 (1656)	Wing H1228; Thomason E889_7; ESTC R206502	5,168	15

many men yet doubt him to be yea I question not the Justice of the State so far as to Vindicate me from his close insinuations till matter of fact be produced and proof made thereof in due form and not suffer him by a blank to traduce my good Name which stands upon a better Foundation than to be over-turned or weakned by his undermining designs not that I am so fond of the Service as that I cannot freely submit to the States Pleasure in my Dismission from it although Mr. Kendall himself should be my Successor which I easily perceive and so may all indifferent Readers is the design of his Book but that which I abhor is the Bait laid to catch it viz. to cry up his own extraordinary Parts and Abilities to vilifie mine by his Mathematical Demonstrations and learned Paralels and then to render me false and unworthy in my Trust as if because by his Paralel so much Cordage was or might have been saved of what was allowed in my Book therefore the Boatswains and I had shared it between us Is this a Conclusion fit for a Master of Arts to deduce from such Premises The truth is I have of late met with so many Discouragements after all my Faithful Service to the State which makes me so far from aspiring the Service that I shall not much regard how soon I were discharged thereof after a fair Vindication of those unjust Aspersions cast upon me by Mr. Kendall who as if he kend all things knowable in the Mystery of the Survey businesse undertakes Dictator like to impose upon all men his upstart Experiences in the Navy as if no man knew any thing thereof but himself not at all considering the great Damage the State hath already sustained by his ignorance in that very thing wherein at present he would be reputed so knowing nor yet that the Duty of his or my Place is so much if at all to say what Cordage either for size or length is fit for this or that Ship as to warrant the Store-keeper to issue to the Boatswains that and no more both for size and length without the concurrent Advice of the Master Attendant whose Directions are and ought to be our Voucher for what we do to all Ships respectively as ours is to the Store-keeper for the delivery thereof nor was it my design in my late Book so to determine the sizes and lengths of Cordage to ships of each Rank as to exclude the Master Attendants Judgment in varying the same as the manner of built of each ship of the same Ranks might necessarily require nor yet to act without him and his Directions according to the ancient Form of the Office though he should concur with me in the size and length quantity and quality of each ships Cordage That which I drove at was to let his Highnesse the Lord Protector and the Honorable Commissioners of the Admiralty see the neerest Estimate that I could make of the quantity of Cordage spent upon each ship of each Rank by setting down the size and length of each Rope and if therein I did either anticipate Mr. Kendals design for the same thing or that my allowance hath been more than Mr. Kendalls Thrift thinks fit the State is not so tied up to my Opinion that what I said out of good Affection to their Service should either be like the Laws of the Medes and Persians unalterable or otherwise construed any prejudice only Mr. Kendall well hoping by this Pamphlet and the imaginary discoveries thereof to have leap't into my Place as the Reward of his great and good Service which the better to compass he would make the State beleeve that whatsoever is or may be saved by his Paralel is pursed by me in the States wrong Yea I alwaies was and still am so far from being positive in my Opinion in that or any other particular that I shall not in the least grudg Mr. Kendall the Honor of instructing me better if the State may any way reap the profit thereof though I must cleerly affirm That when both he and I have done our utmost endeavors for Regulation herein it will be the wisdom and it must be the safety both of him and me to act by the old Rule of the Master Attendants Directions who if he sees cause to vary from our Judgments may give more or lesse both for length and size than either my Book or his Paralel do allow and if he pleaseth to cavel with them as he hath done with me I beleeve they are able to give an accompt of their Actions to the State without fear of his Discoveries yea they will tell him That whatsoever he or I may fancy as to the precise length and size of each particular Rope of this or that ship not only may but must be varied in both in the Rigging of ships of the same Ranks which however he laughs at as an excuse of theirs in Rhyme at the end of his Book yet I doubt not but if he had once obtained what he so greedily hunts after my Place or a good reward in Moneys in lieu thereof he would as readily acquiess in that Opinion as rational as they that now propose and practise it for indeed it is not possible to Rig all Ships by one precise Rule I mean not all Ships of the same Rank not only with reference to the various manner of their built hinted before but also with reference to the putting ships of lesser bulk into higher Ranks as hath been usual heretofore so that when al is said or done that can be said or done by us both it must be left to the Judgment and Discretion of the Master Attendant upon the place to make his demand longer or shorter bigger or lesser as the particular ship to be rigg'd with respect had to her Built Masts Yards c. may require all which is also confess'd by himself in the 11. page of his Pamphlet to which I refer my Reader For his carping at my Book with reference to Masts Yards Anchors Cables c. the same Answer may serve that was given to the former viz. That the Masters Attendant and Master Shipwrights are respectively to determine the number size length breadth and other circumstances before either he at Deptford or I at Chatham may or ought to warrant the Store-keeper their delivery and what was said as to them in my Book was more to give the Honorable the Commissioners of the Admiralty some light or guess at the particulars there mentioned than any waies to satisfie mine own curiosity or otherwise to limit those Instruments to whose Judgments I must and will subscribe to my Opinion and if Mr. Kendall can prevail with them to submit to his though different from mine provided the State may be the Gainer I am satisfied only I cannot beleeve either the one or the other till if then Mr. Kendall hath taken his Degrees in the Navy as equally as at the University and in the interim I hope his Charity will invite him to spare my Book from the common Justice of the Hang-man a greater and more malitious revenge being rare to be found till a better than it be presented by him and allowed of by the State wherein I doubt not those in Authority for the mannagement of the Navy will do the State right without any regard had to him or me further than as both of us shall design the Service without ambitious or envious ends of our own Edw. Hayward Chatham Sept. 1656.