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A95991	A true narrative of som [sic] remarkable-proceedings concerning the ships Samson, Salvador, and George, and several other prize-ships depending in the High Court of Admiralty; humbly presented to the Parliament of the Common-wealth of England, and the Councell of State, and the Councell of Officers of his excellency the Lord Generall. / By Tho. Violet of London, gold-smith.	Violet, Thomas, fl. 1634-1662.	1653 (1653)	Wing V593; Thomason E1070_4; ESTC R208665	74,616	123

no doubt will leave no stone unroled to prevent us in that particular if great care be not taken in this businesse All the Premisses considered I humbly desire your Honor that the Councel of State may know of these my most humble propositions and take such Order in it as the greatnesse of the cause requires for the safety and benefit of the Common-wealth all which I humbly submit to your Honors great wisdome and remaine My Lord your humble servant THO. VIOLET Decemb. 8. 1652. Monday the 13. of December 1652. At the Councel of State at White-hall ORDERED That Master Thomas Violet doe assist in the behalfe of the Common-wealth in the prosecution of this present Suit in the high Court of Admiralty against the ships Samson Salvador and George And that hee doe repaire to Doctor Walker Advocate for the Common-wealth and acquaint him from time to time what hee hath to offer on the behalfe of the Publique in Reference to the said Ships Ex. John Thurloe Cleark of the Councel A Breviat of severall Papers delivered to Doctor Walker severall of the Committee of Forraigne affaires since tht 13. of December 1652. to the 27. of January 1652. according to an Order of the Councel of State of the 13 of December last concerning severall prize-ships and the silver and merchandize therein with a Letter to Doctor Walker the 29. of January 1652. concerning all the Premisses Dr. WALKER My service presented SIR the Bullion Money and Merchandize at present under question in the ships Sampson Salvador and George depending in the Admiralty is of so great and considerable a value and of so high concernment in president and other relation to the Common-wealth and most of it so probable to prove lawfull prize if timely and duly prosecuted and the passengers in the said ships and other witnesses I have presented to Master Bud to be examined it behoves the State as I humbly conceive not to suffer these ships to passe as many ships of great value since the warre with the Netherlands have done to the unspeakable dammage of this Nation it being no new thing for the Hollanders in time of warre to saile under the colours and names and with the cockets of Hamborough or some other of the Hanse-townes for they did it all the while they had warres with Spayne nor for the ships of the Hance-townes Ostenders and Dunkirkers to bee transporters of Dutch goods through our Seas from and to all parts of Christendome especially Spayne Nay many times the better to countenance their ship or ships shall be built in Holland and formerly sold to some friend or correspondent in Hamborough Emden Lubeck Dunkirk Ostend or the like and for the better colour called the Lion or Dove c. of som of the aforesaid places when really and actually it belongs to Holland or Zealand and for instance whereof one of the ships now in question stiles it self by the name of the Hamborough of Hamborough and is certainly known and will be proved to belong to Rotterdam and so no question will many more of the ships under arest prove to belong to some towne of Holland and the united Provinces when strictly and duly examined Nor is it any new practise for publique Ministrs of other States to make use of their function and Masters Roabe to befriend the subject of their Allies in case of the like nature of clayming Treasure and Merchandize wherein the native trade as in this may be concerned or were it not but for the advantage of salvage in such cases conived at and many times by the instructions of their superiors allowed to publique ministers as perquisites of their imployments they many times gaining more by such avenies then by their constant salaries I have often heard sir Lewis Dives say that when he lived in Spayne with his father in law the earle of Bristoll and the Lord Cottington they did doe the same for the Dutch in Spayne as is now offered for the Dutch in England And I beleeve there are some forraigne Princes agents in England at this time that understand to make their particular profit in this conjuncture of time as well if not better then eyther the earle of Bristoll or the lord Cottington did in Spayne and upon this ground and for this end it is more then probable that some publique agents appeare in this present question in the Admiralty not that eyther their Master or his subjects in all likelyhood are otherwise concerned nor he or they warranted therein but only for their particular profit Sir this is not a common cause and I see you take it so by your care you keepe your word you bid me find proofe and you will hold the ships and silver let some of the Judges talke what they please you will discharge your trust Sir the state of Spayne is rarely known to have sent or transported any bars of silver or coyne on their owne or other ships whatsoever to the prejudice of their Mint that being most absolute contrary to their lawes which makes transporting money death without the Kings originall Licence had the Merchants one they would have shewed it before now True it is often stoln away by the Dutch which is done without the Kings warrant bills of store or publique allowance and so you will finde this is and thereby the more lyable to question and upon strict examination it will be cleerely proved prize if the Dutch should cozen us of this money now they are ranting in the Downes the Commonwealth would suffer extraordinarily Therefore all persons that claime this silver I humbly conceive ought to be prest to declare specially and particularly whether he or they pretend the money or bullion or any part of it to be the King of Spaynes peculiar Treasure or his subjects and if so he or they ought to shew some speciall and authentique Warrant or Order of his or their Masters or Officers for it Registred in the ports of Spayne and also to prove that by authentique witnesses by some of his Masters subjects at the place or Port of S. Lucar or Cadiz and attested here by like originall bills from the officers of the Customes in Spayne which bills of lading correspondent and their authentique duplicats with letters of consignement suteable the Pursers bookes of entries with all the particular and respective marks agreeing with the bills of lading bills of store and letters of consignement and all the markes of the bars and bags duly Registred either for the King of Spayne or his particular subjects If they cannot spell and speake all this perfectly justly and truly at the Port of saint Lucar or Cadiz they may faile of their ends for all their confident clayming and the like might every Merchant pretender doe or fail of his Nor can the Articles of the old League supposing it to be renued and confirmed by this Common-wealth excuse the ships Sampson Salvador and George under question from a search as

Mint in the Tower of London Sir There are som men when they behold a hous ready finished they do not at the first apprehend the several pins and beams and materials that make 's and frame 's the building there is many a nail driven which the Spectator never see 's the builder that paie's for it hee onely keep 's that particular account as I have don for this Book Humbly present you I must confess this is but a thatched Cottage but it hath cost mee many years pains and trouble and great expence to present it to you in that ruff and unpollished shape it is in I have for many years night and daie had several helps and hands both in England and beyond-Seas from choice intelligencers and out of several manuscripts in the custodie of Sr John Cook when hee was Secretarie to the late King and since the Parlament I have got what I could by industrie from Merchants and others both at home and abroad at my great expence to make mee serviceable to my Countrie in studying the individual prosperitie of every man that is a true lover of this Common-wealth Sir Hee that travail's far in a Winter's daie had need to bee up before Sun-rising And such honorable Members as your self shall and have no doubt found the affairs of the Common-wealth left strangely intangled the 20. of April 1653. The great God of Heaven direct you to set all strait in the Common-wealth and that you may amend what you found amiss to the comfort of this Nation and to you and your posterities everlasting honor whereby this Common-wealth may bless God for you and other worthie Members of Parlament and Armie SIR There is a Rule in the State of Venice when their Embssadors com home the Senate there requireth them to give an account of the negotiations in Forreign parts and to declare the conditions manners fashions and powerfull parties and factions in those Kingdoms or Common-wealths from whence they return An Embassador of Venice returning from England in the late King Charles's time was according to custom to give his usual account in the Senate hee after a long Oration of the power of the Spanish Italian French Dutch and Scotch-interest in the Court of England their several influences on all the actions of the late King and his Counsel was required to give an account of the power and interests the English Natives had themselvs in their own Counsels to which the Embassador replied That the Natives themselvs had little or no power in the Court of England for though the King 's Privie Council had all English bodies yet they had Spanish French Dutch and Scotch hearts and many of them Forreign Prince's Pensioners and the true lovers of their Countrie the Natives of England had little power in their own Counsels the late King having a resolution to cast off all Parlaments and to rule by his own Prerogative The sad effects of those Counsels and thir miscarriages brought the late great miseries and Wars on this Nation May it pleas you Sir I would to God som men could not justly say the like during som time of the late Parlament many of their Counsellors and Members in the begining of the late Parlament speaking all perfit Scotch and Presbyterie and afterwards som of their late Counsellors perfect Spanish Dutch and French SIR I say I have found this a sad truth ten thousand pounds deep and better to my particular estate SIR let mee most humbly entreat you to bee instrumental with all the worthie Members of this present Parlament to remember they are English and to act upon true English principles esteeming the good of the Nation above all private respects and their faith and word once past is ever to bee kept either with particular men or States There was many Noble Gentlemen of the last Parlament labored it and studied to bring it about but they were over-powred by several parties and divisions even amongst themselvs if there bee any that hinder this good work in your Counsels I pray God to discover him and to amend and convert him or bring him to Justice That which I most humbly desire is for every man perfectly and freely with due reverence I humbly say it to the Supreme Autoritie to speak his Countrie 's language perfect English in all their words and actions to bee publick spirited men that is to studie the just peace wealth prosperitie and happiness of every individual member of this Nation and that they studie the restoring of Trade the erecting of Manufactures the setting all the poor on work to the relieving the aged and impotent even such as have been struck by God's hand or for their Countrie 's defence My most earnest suit to you is above all earthly things diligently to prepare Ships men and materials for to defend your Dominion of the Seas of this Common-wealth for without this you nor any one member in this Nation can call any thing their own longer then it shall bee lent them by the courtesies of our neighbor-Nation And what favor upon their prevailing can bee exspected by us from them their former courtesies in the East-Indies and their late actions apparently declare to every true English heart Upon honorable and just conditions for the good of both Nations God in his good time I hope and pray for that hee will finde a way to save his servant Isaac that is both English and Dutch and catch the Ram in the Bush I mean the Jesuits that lately kindled this fire and to this daie blow the coles between both Nations Noble SIR I have in this Narrative shewed you a Watch in pieces and som of the Wheels and Springs that make's the motion or els a Carpenter's Rule the inches and Mathematical lines Yet noble Sir I humbly tell you the shewing a man a Rule and a Watch doth not enable him without long studie tools and materials to make a Watch or a Rule I humbly saie I had rather bee a Carpenter by daily practice to know how to build a hous then a Mathematitian by Theorick which can talk of an hundred things in framing an hous but give him a Mallet Saw and Square hee know's not how to handle one of them So it is not the Theorick but the Practick part that can do this service which I have don for the Common-wealth Sir I humbly saie there must bee Men read as well as books and many years studie to do this service SIR I deliver not this paper to erect Offices and Imployments upon the recommendations of friends for any in Power to make such use of these my humble Proposals as som of the late Parlament have don viz. To put into great places of trust and skill ignorant and unskilful men or Rooks as many of your Treasurers and other Officers have been that by indirect waies have cram'd their purses and bought incredible vast possessions Their monies and lands they now have belong's truly to the