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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54459	A regulation for seamen wherein a method is humbly proposed : whereby their majesties fleet may at all times be speedily and effectually mann'd and the merchants be more readily and cheaper serv'd, without having their men at any time press'd or taken away ... / by John Perry, late captain of the Signet-Fireship, now a prisoner in the Marshalses ...	Perry, John, 1670-1732.	1695 (1695)	Wing P1649; ESTC R30771	33,832	62

leave granted to have them out of a Man of War or otherwise if he shall find any of his Men deserving or capable he may preser them It is necessary that some further encouragement snould be given to such good and able Seamen as have been Officers in Merchant-men and are willing to serve the King for those Seamen who for their Deserts have had a distinction and been preferred in a Merchant man will think it hard to be put back before the Mast upon the same level with others in a Man of War for this reason a distinction is proposed both in Pay and Post and such would be very useful in such Posts in time of Fight which together with the other Officers as is usually quartered at the Guns might make one to the Command of each Gun Prop. 11. That all Merchant-men may have their liberty to take their Land men where they please but if they cannot find any themselves they are to be supply'd at the Office to which end there may be certain Companies always kept maintained and recruited by the King for the breeding of Seamen to supply such Occasions and that such Companies may be raised by beat of Drum as the Marines to be bred up and instructed at the King's Tards and to be commanded by some superannuated Boatswain and an Assistant who shall daily receive Orders for their Employment from the Master of Attendance as he shall see occasion and be ordered by the Commissioners of the Tard if any and such men to be employed 6 or 7 hours in the day and to receive 18 d. per day That besides those Land men kept at the King's yards there be also certain Numbers kept at every other Port where there is a Register Office and to be paid and quartered according to the same rate as the King's Foot-Soldiers are and to be permitted by leave of the Register to work on board any Ships or Vessels that may have occasion for their Help and what they so earn to be moreover to their own Advantage That for the Encouragement of Marines as well as Land men on board the King's Ships and for the breeding of Seamen it may be so ordered that all the Captains of Men of War do conslitute and appoint two Masters each Watch one skill'd in the Theorick and the other in the Practick part of Sailing to take upon them the Command of and to teach and instruct the Marines as well as the other Land-men and that the Marines be discharged from their Companies and entred as Seamen on the Ships Books as soon as they shall be recommended by the subaltern Officers to the Captain as deserving it Arg. 11. Of how great use and absolute necessity such a Provision and Nursery of Seamen would be is obvious to every Man and that they might be easily raised is no question for by listing themselves here they are sure to be put into the way of a good Livelyhood and if industrious of good Preserment and are as free from any further Obligation after they are entred on Ship-board as any Seaman in England for the sake of which great numbers would come in and in a little time choice and exception might be made of liking them that by their employ at the King's yards and their Duty on ship-board they would in a little time be made fit for service and discharging always those that have been longest upon the Books the King's Fleet and Merchants would always be mann'd by willing and ready Men 't is humbly proposed that there may be maintained at the King's yards and other places at least 1000 men in pay out of which there may be drawn 100 every Week more or less as the Service requires so that there may be drawn 5000 men per Annum if required and these men being generally employed in Seamens business will make them ready and fit for Service against they are drawn on board By this means the King may have 5000 men every year raised as a Recruit for Seamen which will be maintained and ready upon all occasions with no great charge to the King those in the King's yards earning good part of their Pay That the Marines as well as Land-men on board the King's Ships be carefully instructed in all parts of Sailing is undoubtedly necessary but the discharging the Marines may be left discretionally Prop. 12. That no Merchant-man presume to take in any Land-men except they be first entered in the Register-Office where a Book for Landmen may be kept on purpose under the same Penalty as for an unticketed Seaman that if any able Seaman shall under pretence of being a Landman enter himself as such in the Register and by Connivance receive larger Wages from the Commander that then upon due proof made of his being such an able Seaman he shall upon the return of his Voyage forfeit two third parts of his Pay due to him one part to the Discoverer or Discoverers of such able Seaman and the other part to the Chest and farther be obliged to serve the King 6 Months for half Pay and the other half to go to the Chest And to the end that such Offenders may be discovered a List of all the Ships Company as qualified may be signed and sealed by the Register and publickly be affixed to some part of the said Merchant-ship which if blotted torn or otherwise made illegible the Master shall be obliged under the Penalty of 20l. to set up another Copy within four Days after Notice given Arg. 12. This List will be a sufficient Check both upon the Master and the Seaman that no Fraud can be but may easily be discovered Prop. 13. That all the Register-Offices do every Week or as often as it shall be thought meet give into the general Register Office at London a List of what Numbers of Men and what Quality they are of that are weekly employed by them and also what Numbers and Quality they are of that stand unemployed on their Books Arg. 13. Of how great use this will be to answer all Emergeneies and to regulate all Naval Affairs need not here be mentioned it being very obvious to all judicious Persons Prop. 14. That the Entry Absent and Transfer-Tickets for the said Register Office and Absent-Tickets for the Fleet be printed by a Printer appointed on purpose that the General Register under his Hand do appoint what Numbers at any time shall be printed and no more Arg. 14. These Tickers will in a little time be universally known to the great Ease and Security of Seamen and Subject in general and that they may be the better kept from counterseiting they may be printed by Copper-Plates to be kept at the Office Prop. 15. That no Seaman be obliged to enter himself in the said Register and be forced to go to Sea or suffer any Penalty for not doing so but such as have served as Seaman within a Year last past that no Seaman quit the said Service but