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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44083	Ruin to ruin, after misery to misery being the distressed, and ruined, and perishing state of the loyal and faithful seamen of England, and wherein is laid down : I. their ruined state in several particulars, II. that it is like to be three or four years more before they are paid, except an extraordinary supply be raised, and appropriated for them, III. that as many ships, and thousands and ten thousands of men have five or six years pay due, if they are not timely paid, it is like to be eight or nine years between their beginning to earn their money and their being paid, IV. a proposal humbly offered how they may be paid off, all by May next, without borrowing one penny of money, V. several reasons for their being justly and honestly paid, VI. an humble proposal for the advantage of a million or two in a year to the nation in a few years, and lastly, an humble supplication for the taking off some part of the act of Parliament concerning the poor miserable seamens paying 6d the month out of their wages / all humbly represented by ... William Hodges.	Hodges, William, Sir, 1645?-1714.	1699 (1699)	Wing H2332; ESTC R5551	37,766	44

Men of Sence can think they can buy Cloaths to keep their Bodies from Perishing while they serve their King and Country and Bread to keep their Families from Starving I cannot imagine I do suppose if the Clergy were kept out of their Tythes but two or three Years they would cry out of Sacriledge and Oppression and no body knows what but when they hear of the Dreadful Ruins of these miserable Creatures their Fellow-Subjects who have lost so many Thousands of Lives to keep the Clergy of England from being Slaves to the Beast yet they can hold their Tongues and hardly represent it to the Magistracy as any Sin neither to tell them whether all the Oppressions that the Prophets of Old did Complain of against Israel did exceed the miserable Death Destruction and Ruin that hath fallen on or been thrown upon the Loyal and Faithful Seamen of England and it might be a Question whether ever those Rulers of Israel that were by the Prophet called Roaring Lyons and Evening Wolves and that did gnaw the Bones till the Marrow did ever tear so much from the poor miserable Israelites in any one Age as hath been torn from the Ruined Seamen of England in those hundred Thousand Q's and R's on the the one hand and it may be a Hundred Thunsand of Payments on the other hand sold for a Third Loss some a Half Loss others and two Thirds Loss to the Devil's Master-pieces of Extortion the Ticket Buyers And as if twelve Shillings in the Pound were not enough for the poor Ragged Begger'd Ruined Seamen to lose the Devil hath helped his Servants the Extortioners in some Sea-port Places far from London to take their Tickets of forty or fifty Pound and lend them six or seven Pound and take a Bill of Sale for the whole Money and if they redeem not their Tickets in a little time then the Extortioner will have it all O Lord it makes me sigh to think to what a dreadful Shameful heighth of Villany the Extortioners are come to on the other hand and if that Crying Sin of Extortion and Unmercifullness and perverting the Judgment of the Stranger the Fatherless and Widows those three Cursed Sins that the whole Church is bound to Curse the Authors of in the Book of Common-Prayer they being such Crying Sins I say if they continue Sins still and that the Custom of them in this Age hath not taken away the Conscience of them then what dreadful Judgments may these Nations expect without Repentance and I might defie all History to shew where any Nation Jews Turks or Heathens ever did exercise greater Extortion than hath been exercised on the Seamens Pay and if that any will say yes Jezebel took away N●bath's Vineyard from him for nothing and indeed that was true but she did not oppress him so long until he was forced to Sell it for a third part to buy Bread and Cloaths But secondly Jezebel was a Fool to the least Captain or Captain 's Clerk or Clerk at the Navy-Office for Power to take away all a Man hath by setting on Letter R. upon his Name and it is gone without shewing any Cause or Reason in the World But the quickest wholesale Work with running the Seamen out of their Pay was within a few Weeks after they came ashoar when they had beaten the French then they were made all Run 2 or 300 in a Ship which was wholesale Work I have seen one Captain's Book wherein there were about 300 made Run at that time and I heard one that was his Clerk say That he swore in Vexation and cried Damn it ay they will Run me at last but in the next Spring they took off many of those R's But instead of giving the poor Seamen Bounty-Money in the Spring as they used to have before they beat the French they were many of them abated three or four Pound a Man out of their Pay besides all other Miserie 's thrown on them after they beat the French from some of which I wish they ever get clear and therefore as they have suffered so much since they beat the French and prevented the French's having an opportunity to ruin the Nation and Clergy of England and bring in their Popish Idolatrous Mass and Cruel Bloody Persecution and therefore those Clergy-Men that are aquainted with those that are in Authority may do well to shew them whether there be such a Sin now in this Age as Oppression and Extortion and if there be not then whether there be not one part of the Law and the Prophets laid aside Although our Blessed Lord and Saviour saith Heaven and Earth shall pass away before one Tittle of the Law do pass away and if Oppression and Extortion be a Crying Sin then it is the Nation 's Duty to relieve them by Justice and Mercy and to punish the Extortioners and if ever these Nations would pretend to Reformation I do believe God will expect that there should be some way appointed for to enquire into all those who have bought or cheated the poor Hirelings Wages for half Loss or more and if there were a Committee to be appointed to hear the Case and Relieve all the Seamen or their Families that have Sold their Pay for 4 or at most above 5 Shillings the Pound loss and make the Buyers make Restitution it might discover Extortion enough it may be to make our Ears to tingle and if the Clergy will not speak a word for to help forward this I will in Love and Friendship speak a word in Humbleness to help forward their Reformation and for the first that I may keep up the Honour of the Ministry I will say we have as sober industrious Ministers in England many of them as in most Nations in the Christian World and it is the Sober and Pious Ministers helps yet to keep up the Honour of the Profession of the Protestant Religion in England But I would have it observed also that as it was in Israel God's only Church and People in the World that there were some that were as good Figgs very good and some Figgs stark naught and good for nothing except to make a Stink as the Prophet plainly saith that from the Priests of Israel Prophaneness was gone forth in all the Land And this I would say That if ever there be any true Reformation in England there must be a Reformation of the Ministers as well as of the People and without there be a Reformation the Laws of God and the Doctrine of the Church and th● wh●le Word of God from Genesis to the Revelations will shew us That we must expect Ruining Judgments For the Scripture suth Righteousness exalts a Nation but Sin is a Ruine to any People And Christ said to the Prophecying Jews That except they did Repent they should all likewise Perish How this comes into these Sheets about the Seamens Ruine but that God Almighty led me to Write of it and that God led me