the Governor by the said Mr. Rowley and notice sent to Paris An Order came to take me from the rest of my Company and put me into a Dungeon but the Governor being a Man of more Conscience than the rest because there was no Dungeon but what was so wet would soon have kill'd me He put me in a Tower the Walls twenty Foot thick Archt above and below and the Windows made up save only a little Light twelve Foot high where I lay a lone very disconsolately three or four Months when Mr. Skelton coming thither got me liberty to walk in the Castle which being known at Paris an Order came to send me to Angiers and then I had Ten-pence a Day paid me for all the time I was at Nantz which was the only Mony I received of the French all the while I was in France At Angiers I lay Close Prisoner in the Castle fifteen Months more under a most Cruel and Tyrannical Governor Monsteur Doteshon formerly one of Cardinal Mazarine's Guard who would receive the Sacrament every Week and yet as soon as he came out of the Chappel and sometimes even within it would beat or abuse the Prisoners or do some wicked thing or other on any the least occasion There were in Prison fourteen The Dutchess de la Force three Years in Prison Mr. de Crosnier five Years Mr. de la Brifardiere two Years Mr. de Malle three Years for Religion Mademoiselle Robert Mademoiselle Voison Me. Katharine le Roy. Me. Manon Soignart Me. du Plessis Me. Paulain Me. Bellefuille Me. Carnay Aged 100 Years Me de la Porte Aged 80 Years In Prison 12 years on suspicion of Poysoning but can have no Tryal or Hearing Persons some for Religion and the rest on other Pretences among whom were People of very good Quality whose Names are in the Margin they have some of them been in Prison ten or twelve Years some more some less and some of them Eighty and an Hundred years of Age who are never permitted to Write or receive any Letters from their Friends and particularly the Dutchess de la Force tho her Husband the Duke by his great Age and Hardship in the Bastile was forced to turn his Religion yet they will not suffer him to Write to his Dutchess nor her to Write to him This Governor by his own contrivance to Punish the Prisoners had a Door made to the outside of each Prison Window which upon every slight occasion he would cause to be Locked up that the Prisoners had no manner of Light sometimes for six or seven Months together so that the neerest comparison I can make of a Prison in France is to that of a man buried Alive for such a time being equally debarr'd of all earthly Comfort by any fort of Intercourse or otherwise While I was at Angiers there was a Protestant Marquess Condemned to the Gallies for breaking out of Prison he was Chained to a Turk that had hardly Rags to cover him in this Manner he was carried to the Galleys and then made to Strip and Row with the rest of the Slaves The Taxes upon the People are so Prodigious that a poâ—â— Shoemaker at Angiers one Mathurine Gainer that had a Wife and three Children and paid but Twenty Shillings a Year Rent was rated a Noble and tho he offered to part with all he bad for five Shillings yet they sent Soldiers to Quarter upon him till he paid which is their usual method of raising Taxes who taking away what he had the poor Man by Charity got enough to pay the Tax but yet for saying he would write to the King about it he was clap'd into a Dangeon in the same Castle where I was and there kept three Weeks and then upon the Supplication of his Wife he was permitted to work in the Passage to the Dungeon to keep his Children from Starving And according to the Ability of the Persons they send Soldiers to Rifle and Tyrannize over them till they pay their Taxes and when I came away they were going to lay a Tax upon Saboes or Wooden Shoes besides four Pence upon a Hat tho it cost but half a Crown and Taxes upon Christnings and Funerals ☞ There was likewise a Prisoner at Angiers one Mr. Goddard an English Gentleman who being in the Academy before the War was at the beginning of the War taken up as a Spy tho then but Fifteen Years of Age and kept so closely that they would neither let me see him when he was Sick nor he see me when I was Sick only when I was coming away with much ado I got to see him where he lay in the Common-Goal in a sad Condition and now I hear he is removed to the Bastile and no Exchange will be allowed for him tho there was a Prisoner sent hence by mutual Agreement for him two Tears since who was kept there and yet he not delivered and thus we see what little regard the French have to their Word in performing either Articles or Treaties At my coming away I went to visit the English Prisoners at Dinan in Brittany where they lay in a most miserable condition two lay Dead at the Door and had so lain four and twenty Hours the Place Stunk so I was not able to go in and with their hard Vsage Seven hundred have been Buried out of that Prison since this War which computed with those Dead at Rochfort and other Places we cannot reckon to have lost less than Two thousand good Seamen by the ill Treatment they have had in France And notwithstanding the General Exchange agreed on they continue their wonted Barbarity to our Seamen as much as ever And yet to the Honor of the English Sailers I never found notwithstanding all their ill Vsage by Hanger Beating and otherwise that any of them went into that Kings Service tho much Sollicited to it by the Duke of Berwick and Sir William Jennings and that Mr. Fitz James who is Stiled Grand Prior of England and Ireland went to Sea the two last years yet there was not Fifty English Seamen in their whole Fleet which may serve to confute a popular Mistake among us that the French have abundance of our Seamen in their Service Indeed there are three Privateers belonging to King James that were set out of Ireland when he was there that are Manned with English and Irish And as they at first gave out I was an English Lord so I found afterwards their Demands were accordingly for my Release for they first refused thirty Seamen in Exchange for me then they refused two Captains Pecarr and Busheen afterwards they demanded Captain St. Maria and four Scotch Captains that lay Condemned in Newgate and when that was consented to then they demanded Lieutenant General Hamilton for me and would not be content to take the Earl of Clancarty or any of the other Prisoners in the Tower and now after all this Value put upon me by my Enemies I
should be very glad to be thought Serviceable at Home as I desire to be and hope I may in this They took on Board me one John Denny a French Protestant who was Settled and Married in England him they Condemned to be Hang'd at Raines but afterwards gave him his Life to Serve them Ten Years Now since there is a general Exchange and that we Release all the English and Irish of their Party that we Take I think it my Duty in like manner to plead for his being Demanded and sent for back that he may return to his Family There was likewise taken and Condemned with him at Raines one Fountaine who was Chyrurigon of the Lively but he got his Pardon and is since come to England And here it may not be amiss to let these Honourable Houses know what care the French King took to keep an account of what Expence he was at upon the account of Ireland for that he had a Commissary on purpose to take and keep an Account of all the Charges he was at in all things relating thereto and it may be easily imagined why he did so One time it happened that the Governor of Angiers sent for me and in Discourse told me what it had cost the King his Master on the account of Ireland which amounted to a great many Millions of Livres which I put down for a Memorandum but lost the Paper and the Sum I have forgot but the Governor told me When King James got England again he would pay the French King all the Expences he had been at on his Account or give him Ireland for it And another time a French Gentleman being permitted by the Governor to Discourse me and I not fearing to speak as knowing I could not well be used worse than I was told him They were all Slaves to their King but could not see it like a Dog that never complains for want of a Hat because he never wore one He said If they were Slaves yet their Comfort was they should e'er long have us to be their Slaves Another time the Governor sent for me to tell me Plymouth was Surrendred to them and that it was done by the Deputy-Governor upon which I Smiled at the Conceit he being extraordinarily desirous to know the reason why I would not believe it I told him That Governors here were not so Arbitrary as they in France and that besides a True Englishman had as much an Antipathy to a Frenchman as a Mastiff Dog had to a Bull upon which he very angrily remanded me to Prison Salt is there Ninepence per Pound which all People must take at that rate and what quantity they are allotted and must not dispose of any to a Neighbour or Friend and poor People that are not able to Buy will watch an opportunity when any Salt Fish is laid a Freshening to get the Water to make Pottage but the Goblees which are Officers appointed to look after the Revenue of Salt will throw it down the Kennel to prevent the Poor having that small Advantge If any Person be found Stealing the Custom of Salt though never so small they must pay an Hundred Crowns for the first Offence or go to the Gallies but if they do it a Second time nothing can prevent their being sent to the Gallies and thus the French King breeds Slaves of his own without buying Turks Moors or Negroes for by the help of these and the Protestants that break Prison he finds almost sufficient for that use The manner of his Dragooning his Protestant Subjects is this When any one would not comply with the Priests in matters of Religion Dragoons were sent to Quarter upon them according to their Rank or Degree which Dragoons would not be content with Free Quarters but the Oppressed Host was forced for Quietness to give them a Pistole or two Crowns a Day in that manner wasting their Estates till all was gone then the Poor Men would endeavour to make their Escape out of such Misery But the Dragoons having a strict Eye over them would certainly keep them while any thing was left and then carry them to Prison The French King to decoy those poor People at first assured them by his Officers that if they would comply they should receive the Sacrament in both kinds which prevail'd with many to turn but then according to his wanted Broken Word denied them the Cup and allowed them only the Wafer and abundance are now in Prison that have so been for several Years past on that Account who fail not constantly to Pray for the Success of Their Majesties Arms. And if this be their usage to their own People What may those of our Nation expect if ever they should be so wretchedly Vnhappy which God prevent to fall under their Power which makes me admire that some People here should so lose there Senses as to Applaud or Entertain the least Thoughts of a French Government which I could never imagine till my Return to England and therefore must impute it to the most Stupid sort of Ignorance and Malice and that they have nothing to lose after they have parted with their Brains and that Love for their Country Religion and Posterity which is natural to every true Englishman I am My Lords and Gentlemen Your Honors most Faithful and Obedient Servant George St. LO ENGLAND's SAFETY c. OR A PROPOSAL MADE BY Capt. George St. Lo. FOR THE Raising Twenty Thousand SEAMEN QUALIFIED As here under-mentioned for the Service of Their Majesties and the Kingdom in Manning the Royal Navy on any Occasion without Impressing in a Month's time after setling the Office Hereby humbly proposed for that purpose THE Qualification of each Seaman is That he shall understand the Mechanick part of a Sailer which is to Reef and Furl and take his Trick at Helm and be a Man at all Calls properly called a Haulboling so that half a Ships Complement of such Men before the Mast will be sufficient to well Man any Ship for Masters-Mates Midship-Men Quarter-Masters Quarter-Gunners and other small Officers will go voluntarily with their respective Commanders and several others may be supposed for Preferment which will not be of this number And therefore the said Twenty Thousand able Seamen with the help of the Warrant-Officers Voluntiers Officers Servants small Officers and Water-mens Apprentices who are sent by their Hall together with the Sail-Makers Armores Carpenters-Crew and Chirurigions-Crew will be sufficient to Man Their Majesties whole Fleet. This Method of bringing in Seamen without Impressing will be of vast Advantage to the King and Kingdom 1. In saving the great Charge of Conduct-Mony and Bounty-Mony 2. In saving the Charge of hiring Smacks Keâ—ches and other Vessels for Impressing of Seamen which stand the King in 30 l. a Month each Vessel one with another or thereabouts and of these each first and second Rate Ship hath three or four and a third and fourth Rate Ship hath one or two
BRITANNIA TRIVMPHANS OR AN Effectual Method Wholly to destroy the Power of France BY Encouraging Navigation in all its Branches Whereby their Majesties Fleet may be sufficiently Mann'd in a Months Time on any Occasion without Impressing and by making a Competent Provision for such as shall be wounded in the Service of Their Majesties against the Common Enemy in whatsoever Stations they are placed All which may be effected without any very considerable Charge to the Kingdom Together with A Brief Enumeration of the several Advantages to be made by erecting a publick Fishery by which a constant Nursery of Able Seamen and a Security and Enlargement of our Trade abroad will be surely advanced To which are subjoined Some Proposals for the Support and Maintenance of the Children of all such as fall in the said Service and the certain and best Expedient of encreasing the Numbers of our Privateers Humbly represented to Their Majesties and Members of Parliament By Capt. St. Loe one of the Commissioners of the Prize Office LONDON Printed for John Whitlock near Stationers Hall 1694. To the KING and QVEENS most Excellent MAJESTIES HAVING as I humbly conceive found out a sure Method for the well Manning Your Majesties Fleet the Srength and Glory of Your Dominions and Terror of Your Enemies on any Occasion in a Months Time without the Trouble or Charge of Impressing As also a Method for the Breeding of Seamen and Encouraging Navigation whithout Charge to Your Majesties I humbly presume to lay the same at Your Majesties Royal Feet in hopes of Your Gracious Acceptance and Countenance of my Endeavours for the Service of Your Majesties the Ease of Your Subjects and the General Benefit of Trade That GOD may Bless Preserve and prosper Your Sacred Majesties for the Good of these Your Kingdoms as well as the Vniversal Benefit of Christendom Shall always be the Prayer of Your Majesties Most Obedient Dutiful and Devoted Subject and Servant George St. LO To the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in Parliament Assembled I Cannot but give this Honourable Assembly some short Account of the Tyrannous Insults and Barbarous Threats of Our Enemies the French in Particular against these Two Houses of Parliament at the beginning of the War IT being my Misfortune to be Disabled and Taken at Sea in the Year 1689. I was carried to Brest under very hard usage and nothing could I hear but of having my Self and Men sent to the Gallies and that they did not question but in a Twelve Months time to have all the Parliament of England there to Row their King in a Galley using the most Reproachful Names to this August Assembly that their Malice and Madness could think of and so far they proceeded in their Barbarity and Confidence of Victory that they took upwards of Seven Hundred English Prisoners part of them my Ship 's Company Hand-cuff'd them two and two together fastning Sixty Couple in a Rope in that manner driving them from Brest and other Places to Thoulon in Provence being several Hundred Miles Beating Whipping and so hardly using them that several of them died under their hands And when they came to Thoulon hearing of the Success of Their Majesties Arms in Ireland they changed their Resolution of putting them into the Galleys but travelled them back again to Rochfort under such miserable harsh and severe usage with Hunger Cold Travelling and Beating c. That many of them Died by the way who were then knock'd out of the Irons and left often in the Fields without Burial And when any of them broke Prison which their Misery forc'd them to desiring rather to dye than live so their Guard when they took them would Chain them to a wall without shelter from the Weather and there let them lie Languishing for several days together as particularly John Hutchin's Yeoman of my Powder-Room who lay Chained to a Wall Thirty Nine dayes with a Chain of Eight Foot long and many others And for my own part they took Me out of the Hospital at Brest before half Cur'd of my Wounds and would have carry'd me on Horse-back though the Chirurgion declar'd it would certainly Kill me at length the Chirurgions prevail'd to have me carried in a Litter with Lieutenant Walker one of my Lieutenants who was likewise Wounded They Carry'd us thus Eight Days in Company with three Deserters whose Noses were slit an Inch up their Cheeks burnt with a Flower-de-luce their Hair cut off and their Ears cut with their Legs tied under the Horses Belly and their Hands chained yet they were better mounted than those in Company with me to whom they would neither allow Stick nor Spur Their Names were Lieutenant William Clutterbuck one of my Lieutenants Mr. Rowley the Vice Admiral of Brandenburgh and one Mr. Carbonnell an English Merchant of French Parents who was first taken up under pretence of being a Spy and still detained in Prison and now pretend Debt upon him We were guarded with the Povost Marine and four Arches giving out by the way That I was an English Lord they had taken so that all the Country People came flocking to see me When we came to Nantz they clapt us up in the Castle where there were two Hugonots and a Priest one Monsieur La Noa that had been a Prisoner Two and Twenty Years Seven Years in a Dungeon where he never had any Light but while he Eat Sixteen Years before brought to Tryal and then because too old to go to the Gallies they Condemn'd him to perpetual Imprisonment and all for writing a Book Reflecting on the Archbishop of Paris and though they could not prove it upon him yet they used him so severely it being the Barbarous Principle of the Cruel French King rather to punish twenty Innocent Persons than let one they think Guilty Escape They would not allow us any Provision though we sent to the Governor unless we would give half a Crown a Day each then we desired the Allowance only of Bread and Water telling them we had no Mony but for all that they would not allow us any without paying for it and Six-pence a Day found us Four Bread which we were forced to give or starve thus we liv'd on Bread and Water Fifteen Days and then the other Three consented to pay for other Victuals but because I found such living did me good for my Wounds I continued it Five and Twenty Days with the help of two Pound of Cheese which I had unknown to my Guard but if we had had no Mony we must have starved for Want When I came to eat Meat my Wounds growing worse I was ordered to take Physick and being advised by the Protestants to take care I were not Poisoned therewith when my Physick was brought I called the rest of my Company and desired them to bear Witness That if I were Poisoned it were in Drinking King William's Health and thereupon I drank the same which being told
Merchant Ship cannot go to Sea without leave from such Intendant who appoints what Seamen they shall have and so many Land-men to be trained up in the French King's Pay as is thought necessary which Method he hath used for these Fourteen Years past in all probability in hopes of an Advantage over England These Officers Register not only Seamen but Watermen Fishermen and all other Persons belonging to the Sea or Trading in any River of France as the Loire Seyne c. who upon Proclamation are always to be ready to serve on Board the Fleet as they have been all this War and upon Failure by his Arbitrary Power Hangs them up at their own Door without Tryal or Mercy So that to the wonder of the World tho he has not above the Tenth part of Merchant Shipping as aforesaid which is the Nursery of Seamen he gets out his Fleet ready to Fight the English and Dutch who are so much Superior to him in Naval Strength that it is very much Admired at Abroad and look'd upon as ill Conduct in us Thus the French King when his Fleet is out at Sea is at much greater Charge than we in regard of the Encouragement he then gives to his Officers both in Pay and Provisions which brings his best Nobility to his Service who when they are sufficiently Qualified are Preferred to Command and never makes Masters of Merchant-men Captains of Men of War well knowing that there is as great an improbability in most of them to well understand the Nature and Command of a Man of War as 't is for a Gentleman of 500 l. a Year that perhaps knows well enough how to manage his own Estate to understand Martial Discipline to Command in a Castle in a time of Action or for a Captain in the Militia to be as fit to make a General-Officer as one that has been in several Campains Sieges and other Actions and will sooner prefer one of his Warrant-Officers that has been trained up in his Service than one of them tho that is also very rare for he will sooner Reward them with Money for any brave Action and give his Commands to his People of Quality ☞ I find this Particular hath given Offence to some Persons even to the crying down of the Book though that does not hinder the Sale of it and at the same time those that understand both the Command of a Man of War and Mastership of a Merchant-man very well know the certainty of what I say in this Point but that this is defended by some is to give colour to the putting ill Men into the Service under the Notion of being Masters of Ships by which Pretence a Brewer's Clerk and such like have been preferred to the great Disservice of their Majesties As for Instance when a Captain of a Ship has two Lieutenants one a Seaman the other none being weary of the latter he gets him preferr'd to be Captain of a Fire-ship meerly to be rid of him when he as carefully keeps the other to be an Ease and Assistance to him by which means the deserving Man is kept without Preferment while the other is put over his Head which is a great Discouragement to the whole Body of Lieutenants Warrant-Officers Masters-Mates and Mid-ship-men in Their Majesties Service which might at once be prevented by putting good Men in at first who upon any Vacancy are fit to be made Captains This is too great a Truth to be spoke by any one but an unbyass'd Sailer and if a Reflection can be upon none but those that have certainly done it ☞ And tho the French King by the Means aforesaid is at more Charge than we when his Fleet is out yet when they come in he is at much less for then he pays off and lays up his great Ships as we may now do by the following Method which saves him vast Charge in the Winter when his Men go out a Privateering and make a Harvest upon our Merchant-Men which he Encourages by giving them his Tenths of what they take Which I could wish was done in England And here I cannot forbear mentioning one generous Action of that King who as he Punishes well takes care likewise to Reward well For when I was taken in the Portsmouth by the Chevalier Demany Knight of Malta in the Marquess a Ship of 60 odd Guns all Brass but twelve tho' he could not bring my Ship in she was so much disabled he dying in forty eight Hours of his Wounds told the Second Captain upon his Death-bed That nothing troubled him but that he should die in debt to his Relations and Friends which being represented to Monsieur Saignelay who then was on Board the Fleet and by him to the French King the King thereupon did much regret the loss of such a Man saying He had rather have lost the Ship than the Captain and ordered the Payment of his debts out of his own Bounty which came to 22000 Livres which is near 1800 l. Sterling Thus it being the Method of the French King to furnish himself with Seamen on any occasion 1. By Registring them 2. By his Arbitrary Power Hanging them in case of Desertion thereby like Death sparing none to the Sea or Gallows In England it would be found both difficult chargeable and needless 1. It would be very difficult as well as chargeable to Register Seamen here because not one in ten is a House-keeper and therefore not with any certainty to be found 2. It would be needless in regard we have not occasion as the French have to take all our Seamen but a moderate Proportion only which may be done by Registring all sorts of Shipping and small Craft using the Sea or any River Port or Harbour in England Wales and Berwick upon Tweed as Merchant-Ships of all sorts Fishing-Boats Oyster-Cocks Row-Barges Western-Barges Lighters of all sorts Tricker-Boats Hiber-Boats Stow-Boats and the Trows at Bristoll Smacks Hoys Ketches Coasters c. by what Names soever Differenced and giving them a certain Number or Mark of Distinction as is done to the Hackney-Coaches That each of them according to their several Burthens Trade and Profit shall find one Man or more for Their Majesties Service or be obliged to pay Five Pounds into an Office to be Erected for that purpose for each Man so ordered for them to furnish for one Year which Office may be called The Office for Registring Shipping and small Craft And in case of failure after a Months Notice given by Proclamation to Forfeit to their Majesties the Ship or Vessel they shall refuse or neglect to furnish men for And that this may not seem an Hardship upon the Subject it shall be herein demonstrated that it is the Interest of all Persons concerned to comply herewith and that the Money or Forfeiture is not the thing desired for if they can provide Qualified Men under that Rate or for nothing it is the same thing to us for the Money so given
5 l. a Month while at Sea in lieu of one Seaman each Ship is to find for the King and hereby the Seamen in their Majesties Ships will have Encouragement because they will have Mony given them to go and lose none of the great Wages which now tempts them to lurk and go in Merchant-men It may be Objected that this Reducement of Wages will make Seamen leave their native Country and go into Foreign service To which it is Answered on the contrary that they will not do it because first no Nation Victuals so well as the English and our Sailers love to Eat well I that have Summer'd and winter'd them so often know something of their Tempers Secondly It is as good Wages if not better than any other Country gives and therefore it is not to be thought that English Seamen except some few Scoundrels I have observed good for nothing will leave their Native Country their Friends and their Families to go into Foreign Service for the same or less Wages which may sufficiently Be seen by their refusing the French Service tho they had large offers made them ☞ This done will be a vast Advantage to their Majesties Fleet and the Benefit of Trade 't will be an Ease on all sides and make Seamen plenty And to shew that there are English Seamen sufficient both for publick and private Service we may observe this last Summer that their Majesties Fleet was very well Maned besides great Fleets of Merchant Ships both Abroad and at Home And if Care in the first place be taken of the Grand Fleet which is the main Interest of the Kingdom the Seamen for Merchants Ships may be the least of Our Care for they will not fail of having Men enough If it be questioned whether Seamen will come into their Majesties Service for 5 l. Advance according to this Propsal It is answered That they certainly will for these follwing Reasons I. A Seaman for the sake of two Months Advance in an Eastindia-man in time of Peace which is but between 40 and 50 s. will enter himself to go to the East-Indies for 20 and 23 s. a Month tho that be a hard and sickly Voyage two years out from their Friends and some times three and after all must repay that two Months Advance again II. Since this War it may be seen what effect their Majesties bounty of six weeks Pay has had among the Seamen for this last Summer the Admirals Ship also Sir Ralph Delavalls Colonel Churchill's and several others were very well Mann'd all with Volunteers who came in for the sake of that Bounty as may be seen by the many Thousand pounds paid by their Majesties on that Account And then can it be doubted that if six weeks Bounty which is but 34 s. and 6 d. has so great an effect upon them that 5 l. which is above four Months Bounty can any way fail especially when Seamen are assured of being paid off at the laying up the great Ships for this being ready Mony and so considerable will be the greater encouragement to Seamen to leave with their Wives and Families in their absence And this Mony the Masters and Owners of Ships cannot grudge to pay in Regard of the Equivalent before Proposed of bringing down the Seamens Wages by which not only the Seamen will the readier come into the Kings Service when the temptation of great pay in Merchants Ships is taken off but also the Merchant will gain by thus paying the 5 l. in saving the great Rate he now pays for Wages Advertisement to the Reader ☞ THE following Proposals being humbly offer'd to the furtherance of Their Majesties Service as well in the speedy and easy Manning the Fleet as preventing the great Expence and Cost of Impressing Seamen It is not to be suppos'd that Their Majesties must lose Their Royal Power and Prerogative of Impressing Seamen and others in Cases of Exigencies and when these Methods fail which I have no reason as yet to doubt of But it will be still a further Encouragement for Seamen to come in Voluntiers for the sake of the Reward when they shall still be liable to a Press if they do not come in and the fear of that will make them the more willing to go upon Encouragement rather than be forc'd to go without it and that is also the Reason of the Merchants Owners and Masters of Ships being willing this should go forward in that it will free them of the Charge of Protections and prevent the hindrance of their Voyages by which they are now great losers ☞ If the matter of these ensuing Sheets be not digested into that Method and Order I could wish and that the Stile and Language be not Correct enough to appear in Print I must beg the Reader to consider first That it comes from a Sailer whose Busmess it is rather to speak Truth plain than Neat and Elegant Secondly That the haste I was in to get them Printed early enough for the Parliament to make them Useful for the ensuing Year may be partly the occasion of it and Thirdly That by my ill Usage and Hardships sustain'd in my Imprisonment in France my Memory is prejudic'd but sure I am there is a good Foundation for wiser Heads to work upon and when the Parliament have it under their Consideration it will be at their Election to Enact this for a Year or what time they please and under what Regulations shall be thought fit and according as it shall be found in that time it may either be made use of or not FINIS Books Printed for and Sold by William Miller at the Acorn in St. Paul 's Church-yard where Gentlemen or others may be furnished with the best Collections either in whole or in part taking all the State-Matters Church-Government Sermons Divinity or Humanity In FOLIO ASSemblies Annotations in two Vol. Ainswhorth's Annotations Book of Martyrs in three Vol. Ben. 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