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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50378	Naval speculations and maritime politicks being a modest and brief discourse of the Royal Navy of England, of its oeconomy and government : and a projection for an everlasting seminary of seamen by a royal maritime hospital : with a project for a royal fishery : also necessary measures in the present war with France &c. / by Henry Maydman.	Maydman, Henry.	1691 (1691)	Wing M1420; ESTC R30058	112,498	385

can make appear they owned should be accounted unto them at their said Arrival if they will settle here in England and use the said Trade which Concerns of theirs should remain in the publick Stock for some time as a Pledge for them that they do not Desert when they have it I mean till they can give some assurance of their Fidelity by getting their Families over or by going another Voyage or some way finding Sureties for their true meaning otherwise to remain as Prisoners of War Now I mean there should be three or five Honest good Merchants of the East-land Company who should be Commissioned by the King to manage and to Husband this Affair of Fishery for the King And although the said Captains be Commissioned by the Admiralty yet they might be referred to certain Instructions which they should receive from the King's Commissioners for Fishery and such Commanders Officers and Seamen should generally be chosen who have used the Trades and are the more likely to advance the said Affair by their Knowledge Diligence and Application and the difference in their Managements would in a small time be compared and in few Years advance it to be a considerable Affair and as I said the poor French who have been bred up to it be glad to shelter themselves under our Protection and every Man so gained from our Enemy may be accounted in point of balancing of Maritime Strength at four Men and so proportionably Thirdly As to repelling their Strength at Sea by Grand Armadoes and thinking them such an Enemy as will meet us in a set and resolute point of Battle as we have been used heretofore by others I conceive may prove a Mistake My Reasons therefore are these First That they have now in their Equipment of this Fleet skimmed and sifted their whole Dominion for Mariners nay Boat-men Ferry-men and all that have used the Waters that there is scarce a Man of that Nature if I may go so near that is left out of the King's Service for they have used incredible Art and Stratagem to bring them out and they have lost a considerable Number by Sickness since their Expedition out of Ireland amongst which Irish they brought much Sickness they have laid by their Merchandize saving a little in the Levant and have also drained the West-Indies All this if my Information be not false to the truth whereof I must refer you I say If it be tollerably true and will Fight us it bespakes them rather of that Temper that a Marquiss of theirs about Ten Years since was pleased to give our Nation a Character in Ridicule in a small Tract called The Politicks of France presented unto the French King but soon came into English wherein he says We are a heavy dull People fit for sudden stroak or present dint of War but of no Pollicy to carry it on for any time and his Master need not be at any great Expence to make us ruine our selves by our own Expences let him only cause us to Equip and keep great Fleets at Sea and in the mean time they would prey upon our Merchandize by the Knights of Malta brought with Privileges into some of the Islands in West-France we having no Allies and so goes on Now I say if he fights us with any considerable Body of a Fleet I mean positively and plainly to repel Strength with Strength then I will revert his own Character of us upon himself and People That they are Impolitick and of no Invention to carry on a War of Time fit only for a sudden Stroak or Sa Sa their Circumstances being such That if they fight but Sixty Sail of us with much more strength and get the better on 't if we behave our selves as we have formerly done I mean with good Courage and Conduct yet it would be so dear a Prize to him that it were far more prudent for him to let it alone for he has no Stores of Masts Yards Cordage Pitch Tarr c. nor no more Men nor any Allies for either So I say That if he be so hardy I declare him without Policy for then he has done his Maritime Work at once without hopes of recovering this Age whereas if he does as he did the last Year collect his Maritime Strength together and Sail a few Leagues to Sea to Animate his People or make some hasty Expedition into Ireland or Scotland or Depredation on our Coast to fill us and all the World with Noise and Rumour of his great Armies and Fleet and put us to vast Expences to meet him and in the mean time to neglect our Merchandize and starve our Factories abroad and stifle up and destroy with Fatigue and Sickness more Men than any Enemy's Engaging would do us which is no small dispiriting of Men who meet no chearful Rencounters either of Prizes Refreshments of Foreign Countrys and Vicissitudes of Affairs but only sharp Commands Wants and Fatigues Sickness if not Death and the painfulest of Deaths viz. to see the Picture of Death so long before his Face viz. his Messmates and Comfratres going day by day before him caused only by Want and Fatigue c. And when the French hath done his great Expedition some such thing as I said before and been a few Leagues at Sea nay perhaps made the Lizard or come up the Chanel if the Wind be so that he may be sure we cannot find him but e're we come where he was he is gone into Port and then the Couriers flies with the News That he hath been out but could not find the English nor Dutch to fight so they are come in only to refresh their Men and to take fresh Water and was resolved within Fourteen Days to seek for them and if possible to find them which Fortnight being past and a Month after that perhaps we may hear That the Men he had collected from all the Sea-ports of the Nation are a Month before that time returned cunningly and no noise made every one to his Station of preparing for a Voyage in a Privateer and ready to put to Sea and in the mean time the Seamen which the French King keeps in constant Pay have by Michaelmas laid up his Ships safely and put up the Stores safe not knowing when he shall have any more and clean up a few Fourth Rates and Frigats to cruise about in the Winter and his Bulk of Men who are all dispersed Home perhaps have not cost him above Four Pounds a Man and now even before our Grand Fleet is returned Home and especially after the Seas swarm with Privateers and small Frigats and to be sure all head Lands and Latitudes where Ships usually fall in with are well plyed by them so our Merchant-Men fall into their Mouths inevitably and thereby enrich them for all the Winter and about April he sends to all the Ports that a Ship stirs not out of Port but is Mustered by the King's Officer where every Man's