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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74375	An act for preventing injuries and wrongs done to merchants at sea, in their persons, ships or goods; and prohibiting mariners from serving under forraign princes or states without license. Die Sabbathi, 13⁰ Aprilis, 1650. Ordered by the Parliament, that this Act be forthwith printed and published. Hen: Scobell, Cleric. Parliamenti.	England and Wales.	1650 (1650)	Thomason E1060_96; ESTC R208847	3,424	8

AN ACT For preventing Injuries and Wrongs done to MERCHANTS at Sea In their Persons Ships or Goods And prohibiting Mariners from serving under Forraign Princes or States without License Die Sabbathi 13º Aprilis 1650. ORdered by the Parliament That this Act be forthwith printed and published Hen Scobell Cleric Parliamenti London Printed by Edward Husband and Iohn Field Printers to the Parliament of England 1650. AN ACT For preventing Injuries and VVrongs done to Merchants at Sea In their Persons Ships or Goods And prohibiting Mariners from serving under Forraign Princes or States without License VVHereas since the late Act made the Five and twentieth of June One thousand six hundred forty nine entituled An Act touching Letters of Mart The Parliament having received Information That divers French Ships and others of Forraign Nations have taken upon them de facto to visit the said English Ships and to make search what goods they carried and under colour thereof have spoiled divers of their Ships and seized others and committed several wrongs and abuses to the great damage of the good People of this Commonwealth For remedy whereof and for the better enabling the Merchants to preserve their Ships and Goods against such Wrongs and Injuries for the future Be it Enacted and Ordained by this present Parliament and by the Authority of the same That the Councel of State for the time being established by Parliament shall have full and absolute power and are hereby authorized and enabled not onely to hear and examine all Petitions and Complaints of this nature and thereupon and upon consideration of the circumstances of the case and observations of such solemnities specified in the said former Act of the Five and twentieth of June to grant and give Warrant for special and particular Letters of Mart to the parties injured and damnified in this kinde in such sort and maner as they are enabled to grant in any other case by that said former Act But also to grant and give Warrant for and cause to be issued out under the Seal of the Court of Admiralty in the Name of the Keepers of the Liberty of England established by Parliament special and particular Commissions to all or any such Merchants Ships or other English Ships as the said Councel of State shall finde meet to enable them and give them free License and Authority not onely to deny and make defence against any such visitation or commands to be visited by any such French or other Forraign Ships for the time to come but also as they may finde opportunity to fight with surprize and take all and every such French Ships or Vessels and other Forraign Ships together with all the Ordnance Ammunition Tackle Furniture Goods Wares and Merchandizes found in or belonging to the same that shall so require or command them to be visited or attempt to spoil annoy molest disturb or hinder them in their trading or merchandizing voyages under colour of such undue visitation Provided always That if they shall happen so to surprize or take any such French Ships or Forraign Vessels as aforesaid That after the said Surprizal Fight ended they shall not kill or slay any of the persons therein taken nor commit any man-slaughter in cold blood but shal use them civilly only restraining and detaining them as Prisoners if they may without prejudice to their Ship or their voyages to be sent over into England to be proceeded against or disposed of as the Councel of State shall advise otherwise if they shall finde it hazardous or damageable so to do Then to set them on shore where they may have opportunity so always that they retain three at the least of the principal that shall be taken to be brought or sent into England and examined in the Admiralty Court upon all such questions as shall in that Court be thought fit for the discovering the truth of the matter how and in what sort the said Forraign Ships did first require or attempt to fight with the English or command them to suffer themselves to be visited or what other injuries or abuses they offered them with all other circumstances requisite in the case And provided further That the Takers shall be obliged to proceed in the Court of Admiralty of England against all Ships and Goods so taken and bring the same to Iudgement according to the course of that Court and if it shall be duly proved and made appear that they were taken by reason of their undue commitment of any of the particulars before recited mentioned and provided against in and by this Act That then and in that case the Iudges of the said Court shall give Iudgement that the same were lawfully taken and that the same were and are lawful Prizes to the Owners and Captain or Master and Marriners of the Ship or Ships takers whereof two thirds to be to the Owners in respect of their extraordinary charge to Arm and Man their Ships in an extraordinary maner for this occasion and the other third to be to the Master and Marriners to be shared amongst them according to custom of the Sea in such case Provided also That the Tenths of all such Prizes or the true and full value thereof without deduction shall be duly paid to the Collectors of Prize-Goods to be disposed of by the Councel of State as they shall see cause for the use of the Commonwealth And provided further That for every such Commission before the same issue forth under the Seal security shall be taken with Securities by Recognizance in the Admiralty Court in the sum of Two thousand pounds not to harm or prejudice the Merchants or good People of this Commonwealth or any of the Friends or Allies of this Nation in any other case then in the cases before recited mentioned and provided against in and by this Act and likewise to observe and follow all such other Clauses Instructions and things as the Councel of State shall at the time of giving Warrant for any such Commission think meet and order or appoint And whereas divers English Marriners and Seamen have of late time served in the Ships of Forraign Princes and in Forraign Vessels contrary to the Laws and Statutes of this Nation and therein done dis-service to and against the English Merchants Be it Enacted That all English Marriners and Seamen that are now serving abroad in the Service of any Forraign Prince or State shall within the space of four Moneths next ensuing withdraw themselves from such Forraign Service and repair home to serve the Common-wealth of England according to their duty under pain to be severely punished And to the end that no English Ship either Merchants or other may be hereafter lost taken or yielded up by the treachery or cowardize of any Marriner or other aboard the said Ship Be it also Enacted by the authority aforesaid That if any Captain Master or Commander of any English Ship shall from henceforth through falshood or any other ground or reason neglect to do his duty in defence of the Ship wherein he is Master or Commander or if any Marriner or other person whatsoever aboard any such Ship shall treacherously offer to cry for Quarter or to yield up the said Ship without the special order of the said Captain Master or Commander in Chief or shall dishearten any of the rest of the Marriners or refuse to stand to his Arms in time of fight or danger That in every such case the Offender or Offenders being duly tryed and proved to be guilty shall incur and suffer the pains of death or such other punishment as the nature or quality of the Offence shall deserve And if any English Marriners and Seamen shal from and after the passing of this Act depart out of England and enter into any Forraign Service without special License first obtained that every such Offence shall be punished with death Provided That the penalties in this Act contained prohibiting Marriners to be entertained in the Service of Forraign Princes shall not extend to Marriners serving in English Ships under English Commanders entertained in the Service of such Forraign States in the way of Merchandize as are in Amity with this Commonwealth And whereas divers guilty persons subject to the ancient Iurisdiction of the Admiralty there to be tryed and punished for their criminal Offences have lately committed foul misdemeanors upon the Sea and in Ships and otherwise giving out That the Criminal part of the Iurisdiction of the Admiralty Court was taken away by a late Act of Parliament made the Twentieth of September One thousand six hundred forty nine entituled An Act for punishment of Crimes committed upon or beyond the Seas and that therefore they hoped to avoid such punishment as was due unto them whereas the Parliament did not intend by the said Act nor any Clause therein to abridge or diminish much less to take away the Power or Iurisdiction of the Admiralty in Criminal causes Be it therefore Declared and Enacted by this present Parliament and by the Authority of the same That the Councel of State in whom the power of the Admiralty is placed and the Court of Admiralty and Iudges thereof and all and every of them shall may hear order determine all and all maner of Crimes Contempts Misdemeanors and Offences whatsoever done or committed or to be had done or committed within or against the Precincts and Iurisdiction of the Admiralty as fully freely and intirely as they or any of them might have done before the making of the said Act of the Twentieth of September and in as large and ample maner as if that Act had never been made and that Commissions of Oyer and Terminer shall issue out under the Great Seal directed to the Iudges of the Admiralty and other discreet persons for the tryal of Maritine Offenders as by the Laws and Customs was formerly used in the Admiralty Hen Scobell Cleric Parliamenti