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A43232 Reasons for setling [sic] admiralty-jurisdiction, and giving encouragement to merchants, owners, commanders, masters of ships, material-men and mariners humbly offered to the consideration of His Majesty, and the two Houses of Parliament. Hedges, Charles, Sir, 1649 or 50-1714. 1690 (1690) Wing H1350; ESTC R12142 14,738 23

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REASONS For Setling Admiralty-Jurisdiction AND Giving Encouragement to Merchants Owners Commanders Masters of Ships Material-Men and Mariners Humbly offered to the Consideration of His MAJESTY and the Two Houses of PARLIAMENT Printed in the Year 1690. REASONS For Settling the Admiralty-Jurisdiction c. THere is nothing can conduce more to the Peopling and enriching a Kingdom or Common-wealth than a free and open Trade and as that by Sea is the principal source of such Happiness it may very well deserve the Governments most particular Care and Application to advance it And since this is no other way to be done but by enabling the King to set forth Fleets for the Merchants Security abroad and establishing good Laws for defending them in their Rights and Properties at Home it is most humbly proposed Whether this may not be effected with the greatest Ease and Advantage by re-setling the Admiralty Jurisdiction and restoring the ancient Power of enrolling Mariners Usage and Experience were always accounted very good Directors and therefore the better to accomplish this Design it may not be improper in the first place to give a short Account of the Methods observed by our Ancestors in whose times our Sea-dominion was at the greatest height and Trade in as flourishing condition as those Ages would admit and in the next place to consider of the best means to improve these Methods and adapt them to the present Times The Sea-coasts of England were anciently divided into several Vice-Admiralties viz. 1. Northumberland Durham and York 2. Lincoln 3. Norfolk 4. Suffolk 5. Essex 6. Kent 7. Sussex 8. Southampton 9. Dorset 10. Devon 11. South-Cornwall 12. North-Cornwal 13. Somerset 14. Glocester 15. South-Wales 16. North-Wales 17. Chester 18. Lancaster 19. Westmorland and Cumberland Each of these places the Port of London being immediately under the Admiralty Court as to this matter had a particular Vice-Admiral who had Power to hold a Sessions once in the Year or oftner if occasion required and to call before him or his Officer all Sea-faring Men and Mariners living within his District or Division and then and there to enrol all their Names and Places of abode taking Account likewise of all Ships within their Jurisdiction This was the Method used several hundreds of years since as appears by certain Maritime Laws and Ordinances Registred in the ancient Authentick Black Book of the Admiralty four Articles of which are as followeth 1. Litera A. n. 1 2 3. Puisque l'homme est fait Admiral premierement luy fault Ordonner substituer dessoubs luy pour estre ses Lieutenants Deputez autres Officiers des plus loyaulx sages discrets en la Loy Marine anciens coustumes de la Mer qu'il pourra en aucune part trouver par ainsy que par l'aide de Dieu leur bonne droitture Governaill l'office pourra estre gouverne a l'honneur prouffit du Royalme 2. Item Apres doit l'Admiral en toute la haste qu'il bonnement pourra escripre a tous ses Lieutenants Deputez autres Officiers quelconques par tous les costez de la Mer parmy toute la Royalme pour savoir combien de Nefs barges balengers autres vesseaulx de guerre le Roy pourra avoir en son Royalme quant lui plest ou mestier lui fera de quel portage ils sont aussi les noms des Seigneurs possesseurs d'icelles 3. Item Pour savoir aussi par bonne loyalles enquestes pris par devant les dits Lieutenants Deputez cu autres Officiers de l'Admiral combien des Mariniers deffensibles sont ou Royalme la cause est pourceque s'il soit de ce demande de l'Admiral par le Roy ou son Conscil qu'ily doncques bonnement justement a eulx monstrer le nombre tant de nefs barges balingers d'autres vesseaulx de guerre aussi les noms des Seigneurs possesseurs d'icelles comme le nombre de tous Mariners defensibles parmy le Royalme ainsy saura le Roy son Conscil de certain tousjours sa force par la Mer. Et pource qu'il a ete plusieurs fois debatu en Angleterre pour les Arrers des Nefs quant le Roy a mande Sergeants d'armes ou autres Ministres pour arrester nefs al ceps du Roy Liter C● n. 16 If ancient usage and custom be Law in Engl. There is little doubt of Their Majesties Authority for pressing Ships and Mariners but for the Satisfaction of the curious they may consult the Records quoted by Mr. Pryun in his Animadvers Fol. 127. and also consider the Statutes 2 R. 2.4 18 H. 6.19 2 3. P. M. 16. 5 El. 5.43 El. 3. les Seigneurs des nefs sont venus devant l'Admiral alleguent que leur nefs n'estoyent mye arrestees ordonne estoit au temps du Roy Richard le premier a Grymnesby par advis de plusieurs Seigneurs du Royalme que quant-nefs serent arrestees pour service du Roy que le Roy escripta par ses Lettres Patentes a l'Admiral d'arrester les Nefs c. If the Sea-faring Men were not obedient to the Vice-Admiral's summons and orders made according to the Maritime Laws they had a coercive power sufficient to oblige them to be enrolled and to go into the King's service whenever occasion required This method of raising Sea Men was continued in good order down to the end of the prosperous Reign of Queen Elizabeth from which time it began to be neglected and so dwindled by degrees till at last the use and practice of it quite vanished insomuch that at this day the very remembrance of it is almost lost and 't is not at all strange that it should be so if we consider the temper of King James the first the circumstances of King Charles the first the late troubles the remisness of the Reign of King Charles the second and the designs of the late King During the two last Reigns who would not think but the design was to transfer the Soveraignty of the Seas and trade of the World to France since such Industry was used by the Kings themselves not only to instruct the French King in the building Ships of War and setting out Fleets but also in the giving him assistance in the compiling of his Sea-laws set forth in the Ordinances of that King in the year 1681 The French had from hence also the first footsteps of their exquisite method of enrolling Mariners And if it shall be thought fit for the Kingdoms service or in any measure conducing to our Happiness why shall we not follow likewise the more glorious Example of our present King in endeavouring to retrieve it We have certainly the greatest motives that ever English Men had to excite every one in his respective station to give his Majesty those hearty assistances as may under the blessing of God regain the betray'd honour of the Nation and