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England's glory reviv'd, demonstrated in several propositions shewing an easie and speedy method for fully manning the Royal Navy with saylers, without charge or obstruction to trade : as likewise reasons proving from whence all our losses have happen'd, with proper remedies for the better securing of trade for the future : by making due provision for all saylers that shall be wounded (or the widows and children of such of them as shall be slain) in the publick service, and the building of hospitals ... : as likewise propositions for an act of tonnage / by Robert Crosfeild.
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Crosfeild, Robert.
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1693
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Wing C7243; ESTC R8868
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for should he have fallen our Candlestick would have been removed and our Church and Nation have become a Prey to our Enemies but God of his wonderful Providence hath protected him and reserved him for greater Actions and no doubt will make him the Blessed Instrument of restoring Peace to Europe It must be acknowledg'd things lie heavy but no ways to be compar'd to that Deplorable Condition unto which France is reduc'd yet we have the least reason to complain of any Nation in Europe that is engag'd in this War for we have sat down in the midst of Peace while our Neighbouring Nations and Country-men have been shedding their Blood abroad and they have had their Countries expos'd to the Ravage of the Enemy and Violence of Armies and have willingly undergone all this that they may obtain a durable and lasting Peace Therefore let us not repine but chearfully assist his Majesty in prosecuting so Just and Honourable a War and doubt not but the same Hand of Providence which so wonderfully deliver'd us will still protect us and Bless our Arms that we may bring it to a happy Period and every Man sit down in Peace under his own Vine At the first blooming of the Gospel in the very Apostles times we may see that there were Disputes in the Church and Men had different Conceptions of things but yet we find they were still guided by a Spirit of Meekness and Charity to each other according to the dictates of that holy Religion they profest but this Age in which we live is much deviated and fallen from that Love and Union which was so Conspicuous in the Primitive Christians and which the Word of God so positively Commands and Directs But the Excess and Vitiousness of Mens Lives are now such that more are destroy'd by it than devour'd by the Sword And so long as we continue these uncharitable and unchristian Feuds and practice these Immoralities we can have little reason to expect the Divine Goodness should shower down Blessings upon us but rather have a fearful Expectation of Iudgment for our Impieties Sin being always the forerunner thereof Therefore let us seriously consider these things and repent before it be too late then may we with Comfort look up For God doth not willingly afflict the Children of Men or any People or Nation but for the Sins of the Inhabitants thereof For like as a Father pitieth his Children so is the Lord merciful unto them that fear him For he knoweth the Frame of Man that he is but Dust But the generality of People among us seem much unconcern'd as to publick Affairs otherwise than in hearing and telling of News But let every individual person be well assured that a great Duty and Obligation lies upon him in reference to the obtaining National Mercies and Blessings and it cannot be conceived that a bare Observation of a Monthly Fast during the time of Action can obtain them for we can never expect them unless we daily and fervently beg them of God Therefore let us with all Humility wrastle and contend with him for a Blessing upon this Land but first let us do all Acts of Mercy and Compassion then may we with the greater Assurance approach the Throne of Grace King be engaged in a War the Government must be first serv'd and the private give way to the Publick Interest But yet notwithstanding there 's an absolute necessity of preserving our Coasting Trade for the supplying London and other Parts with Coles Corn c. There 's no Arguments I can offer will bear any thing like unto matter of Fact and if your Lordships will be pleas'd to look back to the preceding years you will find That after their Majesties Fleet hath been fully Mann'd and at Sea there hath bin notwithstanding no want of Sailers to carry on the Coasting Trade as it hath evidently appear'd and when it hath met with Obstructions it hath been occasion'd by having so many Privateers on the Coast and the want of necessary Convoys So that its apparent that there is a sufficient Body of Sailers whereby to answer the Ends of the Government and the Necessities of Trade as will be farther demonstrated in this ensuing Discourse with the Cause why the Publick is not more timely serv'd and the Reasons of it seem to be plain For there are a very great number of Sailers that abscond and hide till such time the Fleet is out and if they can afterwards use the Coasting Trade or make some Voyage for five or six Months time they will get more Mony than the Kings Pay will amount to in the whole year and have their Pay so soon as their Voyage is over whereas the Publick is always in Arrears and it s but Natural for every Man to pursue his own Interest And withall these Men are not unsensible that if they lose their Limbs or are Maim'd that the Fate of them generally is that they become Vagabonds notwithstanding they receive the Kings Pay during Life it not being a sufficient Maintenance The Sailers thus using all the Industry they can to avoid the publick Service and the ways taken to bring them in being so Dilatory Indeed the want of due Convoys is the Grand Occasion of the Exorbitant Wages now given in the Coasting Trade As to the Outward-bound Shipping who carry off the Product of the Country it must must be acknowledg'd on all Hands that they ought to have the Preference above all others so far as is Consistent with Government For it s the Foreign Trade that makes this Nation Potent and Happy and not that within our selves It 's from thence all our Riches flow 't is that which brings the Bullion and Coin into the Kingdom Besides our Plantations abroad cannot subsist without frequent Supplies from us and of what great Consequence they are I need not say And 't is our Outward Trade which is a Support to a great part of the Body of the People of this Kingdom and if that be long obstructed they must Languish Therefore if any hardship must lie upon Shipping it may with submission I think be rather thrown upon the Coasting Trade as being the least Evil and the soonest Remitted For suppose Coals are now at Thrity Shillings a Chaldron and by reason that the Government Press so many of the Colliers Men that few Ships pass between Newcastle and London for which reason they run up to Fifty Shillings a Chaldron it would not be long before this might be Remitted if there be but due Convoys and some Frigats constantly to Cruise on the Northern Coast for the People that live upon the Coast will be drawn into the Service by reason of the great Wages given And there is Shipping frequently coming in which would supply the Colliers In September the great Ships are usually laid up and those Men may be dismist and then there could be no want However it was never yet known that we suffer'd in our Coasting