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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25604	An answer to the merchants letter directed to Ralph Mean-well, now on board the Van-Herring with a pursuit of the former Legorn letter, 19 January, 1679.	Mean-well, Ralph.	1680 (1680)	Wing A3425; ESTC R20700	1,612	2

AN ANSWER To the Merchants LETTER DIRECTED TO Ralph Mean-well Now on Board the VAN-HERRING With a Pursuit of the former Legorn Letter 19 JANVARY 1679. WORTHY SIR I RECEIVED yours and in pursuance of your Directions my self with some others have made it our Business to procure Subscriptions to a Petition humbly desiring our Captain that his Council may sit on the day prefix'd in which undertaking we have not been a little discourag'd for which you 'd hardly believe not one in fifteen throughout the whole Ship would subscribe nay on the contrary some there were on Board us who instead of setting one hand to it fail'd not to use both and tore it but we have call'd them to accompt for it though we fear to little purpose but this usage has not wholly disheartned us for by fair words to some and threatning speeches to others when we saw a Sailor in quandary whether he should set Pen to Paper or no we told him there was no greater Test to prove him either an Algerine or a Christian by which and with other means we have mustered a considerable number of hands but because I will not flatter your expectation with shadows instead of real substances to deal truly with you they are most of them but the Riff-raff of our Ship but such as they were some half a score of our principal Fore-mast-men humbly presented it to our Captain but Bless me had you but seen how disdainfully he received both them and their Cables length of Scrawles for indeed most of them were no other for first you had a Name or two written in a tolerable hand but then three or four Marks instead of Names pursued them which our Captain took for Hebrew Characters ●ill inquiring into the Quality of the Mark-makers he was informed the● were formerly educated in the Art of Button-makers Taggers of Points and Laces and such like Manufactures whom the frowning World forc'd to Sea and now are become Sailors but in short the Captain no way allow'd of our proceedings which we dare not own to our Ships Company but on the contrary have given out that he vouchsafed us a gracious Answer which we suppose has wrought such Effects that within few days we doubt not but some others of our Company will appear in the like Cause YOU may remember you mentioned two pernicious Passengers lying on Board us in our great Cabbin Al●s Sir We have nearer Two Score and some of them of dangerous consequence in particular one who has so often chang'd his Religion when there has been alteration of Commanders that he scarce knows what Government he would have aboard us besides many others who are daily buzzing in our Captains Ears that were we not assured of his great Conduct some of them e're this time had betray'd us into our Enemies hands As to the Sultaness there is great hopes she will in a Pinnace of the Captains leave our Ship and return to Algiers the place of her Nativity but for the Renegado we are like to be pestered longer with him for we have had Advice from aboard the Pinnace he stear'd that he bred such Dissentions between the Sailors and their Captain that 't is thought if ever they catch him aboard their Pinnace again they 'll Keel-hale him I thought convenient to acquaint you That our Council of War have Tried Five Mussullmen and have found them guilty of High Misdemeanors in that they have by Order ot their Mufti read the Alcoran publickly and have endeavoured to Algerize some Christians for which Facts according to Law they have received Sentence of being Tied 〈◊〉 to the Yards Arm. Further I must acquaint you That one of the Chief of our Council of War has been charg'd with a little under-hand Dealings by brow-beating our Material Evidence and privately setting on Shore some Mahometans charg'd as Actors or Abettors in the Conspiracy chiefly the discharging our Chirurgeons Mate when so clear Evidence appear'd against him how he will clear himself of these and other Crimes he is charged with my next shall inform you Thus have I given you an Impartial Account of our present unhappy Condition which cannot but amaze you and the rest of our Worthy Owners to whom I desire you would be pleased to impart this and what other Transactions offers you shall have by my next Yet doubting not but our BRAVE CAPTAIN will by his Mature Courage and Conduct use his utmost Endeavour for the due Prosecution of our Enemies which will much exhilerate the hearts of our Ships Company and especially the Heart of Your Faithful Servant RALPH MEAN-WELL