thought That when Thieves come so near the House it is very dangerous to have any of their Friends within doors And it may be sometimes they have too many the more the pity But I wondred at one thing which is of all the Intelligence that is carried to and again from Rye to France I knew but one Commander that was set to catch them that took any and that was Capt. Grantham and he took the Owler that carried over that Mournful News to England and Joyful News to France last Year of her most gracious Majesty's Death before it was publickly known in England and Capt. Grantham was presently turned on t of his Imployment and as he said The Lords of our Admiralty never sent him word what it was for And indeed if it were to please the people of Rye or those Sea-Port Towns they ought in Gratitude and Thankfulness to acknowledge their Lordships Kindness and endeavour to make them amends But it seems Capt. Grantham never was sent for neither ever went to enquire the Cause and he is not a beggarly Fellow to cry Peccavi for taking the Owler or examining her Men separately if that were his Crime and whether there were another Owler taken before all this War I know not or whether there were Men set to watch that would not or could not see them But for the people of Rye or any other Town or place if they do correspond with France and do help to betray us in my mind they are worse than Beasts to betray their Native Countrey for as the Scripture faith The Ox knoweth his Owner and the Ass his Master 's Cribb so none but worse than Beasts would betray such a brave Country as ours is into the hands of the worst of mankind that hath Really plagued the Christian World and destroyed more Hundreds of Thousands of Men and more Hundreds of Towns and Cities and more of the Protestant Religion in Twenty Five Years than the Turks have done this Hundred Years And this may be plainly known by those who are conversant in the History of this last hundred years and the Weekly Villany of the French for this Twenty Five Years And I cannot with my Eyes and Spectacles see how the biggest Traytor and Villain in England can secure to himself Two pence of what he hath if our Seamen were Ruined and the French prevail over us For if an Irish or a Popish or French Rogue or Jesuit comes he may disposses those that were their greatest Friends and the French King cannot be expected to be kinder to the English than he was to his own Loving Protestant Subjects who did help to keep him in the Throne when his Uncle would have put him by for being a Bastard and yet like an ungrateful Wretch he hath Ruined them in their Religion and Estates more effectually than all the bloody butchering Persecutors ever did and his Dragoons hath out-done all the Heathen Tyrants in the World for Rooting out Religion effectually And therefore I do look on his Friends in England to be void of Grace and Reason and Honesty and Policy and common Sense And so much for that But I had almost forgot the Remainder of our Seamens Groans for I think I may in the next place 28. Represent in part the dreadful misery in their being turn'd over so many Hundred times to the Loss of their Pay in their dreadful waiting till they meet with those fatal plagues of the Seamen the Ticket Extortioners who have swallowed up a great deal of their pay at half Loss to the shame of the very Name of Common Moral Heathen Honesty and which will certainly cry for Vengeance if those oppressed be not relieved for by this turning men over as I said so many Hundred Thousand times it causeth many Hundred Thousand of Extraordinary Troubles in their waiting and many poor and wretched Seamen have been removed into three or four Ships in six or eight months time and it often falls out that one of those payments due if it be but for thirty or forty shillings is paid part one year and part another so that if their poor Wives or Relations wait a year or two as they oft times do for the first payment then they are liable to wait another year for the second part of the said thirty or forty shillings due at the same time to the Seamen in the said Ship as the King's Books will make appear only it may be Twenty Shillings before April and Ten Shillings after or it may be Fifteen Shillings before Michaelmas and Sixteen Shillings after and it is so managed that the Ships having not any set days appointed to pay such a Ship as sometimes it falls out they expect a Ship will be paid next week and perhaps it is a month or next day and it is a Week or Fortnight and all these help to plague and torment the poor Ruined Seamens Families who in Five Hundred Thousand Turnings over may be forced to wait suppose but Ten Days for each payment is Five Millions of Trouble which would be saved if the Seamen were as formerly kept to their Ships a Year or two and then paid But now another dreadful misery is by this turning over It is common to protend to pay a Ship and it may be there is left Nine Months in hand and perhaps not fifty men in that Ship hath money due so long But they that have a year or two years or more pay due are turn'd into other Ships and when I think of the Seamens miseries this War if I were to represent them at large I might write a Volume as big as a Church Bible therefore what I have written or can write is like a painted Fire on a Wall they and their Families feel the Heat of the devouring Flames in their Lives and pay and it may be some will to paliate the business say That it is subject to all men to die Now to that I will answer it is true and I have suppos'd the dying of people in the Bills of Mortality wherein suppose there dieth Twenty Five Thousand in a year which is the most and there be a Million of people in all it is but one in Forty and many Count the City more sickly than the Countrey and if so it is but the whole Number of people dead in Forty Years which is about a sixth part every Seven Years But our Sea-Affairs by the Ships Books will prove that there hath been more buried in Seven Years than the Honourable House of Commons hath reckoned will man the whole Fleet the next Year and yet I suppose not above one in twenty with sighting against their Enemies And except those two or three thousand poor Seamen dead in France the rest are all dead among those that should be their Friends and by their Death have not hurt one of their Enemies And now I speak of those who die in France I will mention one misery and deplorable misery
not And again 11. This Ruining so many Thousands of Seamen hath been a pretended Necessity to help Ruin the rest either in their Pay as aforesaid or by their totally losing all their Pay that are made Run and have no Friends to look after it For I can shew under the Hands and Seals of near Thirty in one Ship that are made Run in other Ships or in their own where they are still and they did desire to have the Books searched why or when they were made Run But that would not be admitted without Petitioning and the Men cannot have leave to come up to Petition and so their Pay may be lost until Dooms Day But whether the Nation will thrive the better God knows Indeed we thrived better when we beat the French But after that the Seamens miseries came 〈◊〉 thick and Threefold as may be seen in the last part of my Book And how we have thrived since let the Smirna Fleet and the East India Ruines and West India and Guinea Losses speak For I believe God would have the Nation consider what he speaks by them And 12. Another misery to the Nation is That as Capt. St. Lo hath published to the Parliament and to all the World in Print that it cost the Nation above Five Hundred Thousand Pound a Year the not paving off our great Ships every Year and yet he faith we might have a Winter Squadron besides of fifteen Third Rates and fourteen Fourth Rases besides all our Fifth and Sixth Rates and that would be Money saved And 13. The said Capt. St. Lo one of the Commissioners of the Navy hath published as aforesaid That it cost the Eing besides about sixty thousand Pound the Year pressing men and if there be prest Ten Thousand Men in a Year it cost the King by that Rule fix pound a Man for pressing of the said Ten Thousand Men. 14. He saith That the Colliers give 7 or 8 l. a man for Seamen by Reason of the Press which before they did use to have for 30 s and likewise do sometimes give 30 or 40 s a man for men to bring them up the River and if so then I suppose I may modestly Judge that the Collier-Trade and Coasting Trade of England is at much more than an Hundred Thousand Pound the Year extraordinary Charge because of the Press And 15. It may be modestly supposed That if there be Forty Thousand Seamen more imployed in the Merchants service for other Voyages and they have about 30 l. the Year a peice which is 50 s. per month and they use to fail for 30 then there is 20 l. a Year extraordinary charge for every man in the Merchants service and that is Four Hundred and Eighty Thousand Pound the Year extraordinary charges because of the Ruin and scarcity of Seamen and because of the Press And also the Merchant Ships are forced still for to supply the Ruin Destruction Death and Loss of the Seamen in the King's Ships 16. Whereas had the Seamen in the King's Ships been preserved incouraged and increased as it could not have been modestly computed but they should have increased 30 or 40000 Men this War if they had been paid off every Year as the French and Dutch do and their Lives saved on shoar and this Million of Money saved every Year would have been an help to England towards our Losses But 17. If the French save Five Millions of Money this War that we wast and have got as it may be feared Ten Millions of Shipping and Riches from us this must at Seven Years end be a sad difference but in the end of my Book I have shewed how Purser Maidman Published in Print That a French Marquess had told the French King he might make the English ruin themselves But I hope that our Gracious King William and the Two most Honourable Houses will prove that Marquess a â—…yar for time to come But indeed our Seamen's Miseries and Ruin hath been too great and too fruitful And that 18. Another Misery to the Seamen is when coming home of long and hard Voyages trâ—y are Prest away before they come to Land and have not liberty tâ—…reâ—…esh themselves with fresh Air and fresh Provision neither to receive their Pay but it may be sent away of long Voyages again to the â—…langering of the ruin of their Health Lives and Pay and ventures cominng home Many Masters paying them almost what they please or liâ—…arsed Villains make their Friends go to Law for their Wages and all because of the Press 19. This way of management hath been also very fatal to many Tradesmen and Inhabitants in this City and Suburbs concerned with Seamen for the Seamen are not safe one Day from the Press to shew their Heads after they are Paid if it were to save their Health and Lives and Money And thus in Fifty Thousand Merchant Seamen kept from coming to London and about Forty Thousand imploy'd in Men of War and Tenders and paid most part on Board it may be modestly computed the Tradesmen and Inhabitants of London have lost several Years the taking of near a Million of Money a Year at Ten Pound a Man for Cloaths and Victuals and all Conveniences for to sit them again to Sea to serve his Majesty freely and many of them from laying out all their Money in Goods to return home to Scotland to their Friends For it may be modestly judged a Fourth if not a Third part of our Seamen are Scotch 20. And what a Misery it is to have our Seamen so dwindled away as the Government to be forced at seven Years end to press and hawl and tear Seamen from all Merchant Ships coming home and all over the City of London and Suburbs and very many Watermen and the Collier-Trade to boot and that with more violence now when they have not Eight of their Enemies in a Body this Year and yet to be at more trouble to get Men for to fit out half a dozen Ships now then was to sit out the whole Fleet when they were well paid before they beat the French and yet though this work of Pressing hath been almost all this Year yet the scarcity of Searen hath been such that we have had Four or Five of our biggest Ships lain several Months not Mann'd enough to go out to Sea And 21. By this dreadful Press from Year to Year the Seamen of England are hindred from seeing their Families so that it may be sadly laid to Heart how at this rate of turning them from Ship to Ship until they die or if by the King paid off lovingly they shall be catched in a Day or two How then it can ever be expected by any thinking Men that the Seamen's Wives Friends Parents or Relations can ever see their Husbands or Friends again either in London or any Sea-Port-Town of â—…gland or Scotland while this War lasteth 22. Except the Seamen fly away as if they were afraid and ashamed to
appear by Hundreds or Thousands as they have been forced to do of late and as Joah said to David steal away as Men that flee in Battel which 〈◊〉 old David 〈◊〉 be of a sad consequence to him as they that prease may read 〈…〉 beginning of the 19 Chap. of the 2 d. Book of â—amuel and therefore he advised David to speak comsortably to them But by the present management of our Seamen they have been many of them forced to fare miserable card as it seems they did in several hips on small Beans called by them Horse-beans two Days in the Week and pinched for 〈◊〉 Ale called Water until they have six or seven Pound a Man due for Victuals and Water-money as by the King's Books will appear yet they are never like to come to see if His Majesty will pity any of their Miseries provided there be but so much care taken to set two or three Ships Companies to Press diligently in London it scares them away from the City worse than their Enemy's Guns ever did scare them from Fighting But as some of them said when they had hid a Day or two to be kept as if they were in a Goal they could not indure and so as they came privately to London they stole away with speed and secresie And they that can think they will ever come chearfully again into the Service must have a stronger Belief than mine whereas many of them said had they had but one Month's liberty to have spent their Money freely they would have as freely gone into the Service again But not to have one Fourteen Days liberty now at 7 Years end for those poor Souls that escape with their Lives seems to me to be miserable miserable deplorably miserable And whereas had they been paid off yearly and had liberty on Shoar and their Lives preserved multitudes of Seamen we might in reason have expected to have had to spare and save many hundred thousand Pound per Year as aforesaid But 23. If our Seamen be so scarce and so destroy'd when our Enemy's Fleet is all laid up it may be inquired what we shall want when their Fleet is all out And if all our Ship 's Books be examin'd what we have now and what number will be needful to fill them up with Men it will be found to be near fifteen Thousand Men notwithstanding all the extraordinary charge of some Millions of Money for time past And if those in the Service now be never suffered to see their Families or Relations it may be considered by all thinking Men how those who do grow up for time to come will ever be incourag'd to come into the Service of the Nation so freely as others have done formerly seeing those that come into the publick Service must resolve to renounce Wife and Family 24. It may be inquired if Men are turn'd from Ship to Ship until they are Sick and then set on Shoar for cure and there dye and be then Qd. or Rd. out of their Pay how in this case it can be safe to be in the Service of the Nation for time to come or for any Tradesmen to trust them that are therein if there be not care taken to secure the Pay of those who are so miserably turned over from Ship to Ship until fallen sick and so sent on Shoar and so dye and Runn'd out of their Pay 25. And if there be sixty odd Thousand Quaeried and Runn'd out of their Pay if there be a Sitting to pretend to relieve them twice in a Week and there be twenty Petitions in a Week heard that is one Thousand in a Year and so at that rate if all Petition for Relief their Petitions will be sixty Years in hearing pro rato And 27. If some are kept a Year or more before they are Relieved whose case is just then it may be considered how very unjust and cruel it must be to delay Justice to them And to prove the many Cruelties and Injustices put on Ruined Seamen those Certificates and Affidavits laid up in the Navy-Office of those who are Relieved will be sufficient witness besides the many Thousands whose dreadful case is such that can get no Relief 27. And if Sixty Thousand of the miserable Seamen are Run out of their Pay as by the several Ships Books will appear this may admit of a double serious Consideration one of which God in Justice will require of the Nation let it be passed over as slightly as it will by those who have all along helped to ruin our Loyal Seamen and their Families and that is How many are unjustly and cruelly and shamefully and unmercifully Run out of their Pay And if but a sixth part are made Run wrongfully their Groans and Cries will cry louder to Heaven for Justice or Vengeance against the Nation than all the other five parts will do us good And indeed the wise Man fuith Ecolus 34.22 23. The bread of the needful is the life of the Poor he that defraudeth him thereof is a Murderer He that taketh away his Neighbours living slayeth him and be that defraudeth the Labourer of his hire is a blood-shedder And when one prayeth and another curseth whose Voice will the Lord hear Now this is Printed with our Church-Bibles and will witness to the World That it is a killing a bloody and blood-sucking thing to take away the Hire of the Labourer and not such a slight thing as some that have risen almost from the dunghill on the ruins of others may suppose and therefore worthy to be the more â—…ly inquired after and the more especially since there is a more proâ—… Number of Ten Thousands of Men Run out of their Pay than ever the World saw in so few Years and such fatal Losses or Ships and Merchandize followed the same But 2dly Suppose the other Fifty Thousand be made Run Justly then it may be supposed greatly useful for the Information of the Honourable Houses that would encourage the Seamen to known and be informed what dreadful usage or Fatal Management or miserable discouragement the Seamen of England and Scotland have met with this War that should make them Run away so many times Ten Thousand out of the Service of so gracious a King and so good a Country where God Angels and Men will bear them Witness they will lay down their Lives at any time for the Seruice of both and that they have always been Lovers of King William and Couragious for their Countrey and will if led on go up to the Muzzels of their Enemies Guns in defence of their Couetrey and have never lost one Ship by their default this War and have never run away for fear of sighting or being kill'd By which it appears there has been so great a number of miseries thrown on some of them this War which they esteem worse than Death and yet there is a further misery of their conversing with ten times more Death by sickness in some
Voyages than by their fighting For when there hath but about thirty or forty men come home alive that went out in a Ship and the Ship it may be buried Three Five or Seven Hundred Men in a Voyage and they that escaped with Life to come home have not had so much mercy shewn them as to be paid off on shoar to get a little 〈…〉 and Strength and to let the Wives or Relations of about Forty in Seven Hundred see that there was some escaped and come home again And to be plain this kind of stewing to death in Ships tho it have been it may be ten times more fatal to the Seamen than fighting yet it is not such a Death as the Seamen expect or love and it is a death of no profit to the Nation it weakens and is the way to Ruin our Seamen but kills not one Enemy If Forty Thousand of our Seamen be turn'd from Ship to Ship until they die this killeth not one Enemy but if they lose their Lives in sight they do usually kill a greater Number of their Enemies and that is something of Comfort and their Wives or Aged Parents use to get Bounty-money and not be basely run out of their Pay after they are dead And I must faithfully declare my Opinion that they that would hide the dreadful Ruin and Destruction of the Ten Times Ten Thousand Seamen Ruined in their Health Lives and Pay and would not let his Majesty and the Two most Honourable Houses of Parliament know the Truth of their Misery and Destruction are Enemies to God to the King to the Nation to common Justice and Equity yea to common Moral Honesty and prudent Policy For the Seamen of England must be made use of as long as England is an Island both in Peace and War and there is not one Soul in England safe in Life and Estate if our Seamen were destroyed And if by our Blessed Saviour himself it was declared to be a damnable thing of those who should be bid to depart at the Last Day as accursed that did not give meat to the Hungry and drink to the Thirsty and Clothes to the Naked and Strangers and Visits to the Sick then I would appeal to all Mankind how much more a damnable thing it must be instead of giving to take away the Bread from the Hungry or be so unmerciful to the Strangers and Widows to run them out of their Pay wrongfully and then make them wait a Year or Eighteen Months for Justice and pawn some of those Clothes that should help to cover their Nakedness to help them while they petition and give 5 s. a peice to a Fellow or two set to take in their Petitions and get them answered as many have done I do really declare I have sometimes thought that Dives's Dogs might be several Degrees kinder to poor Lazarus than such Fellows are to poor Ruined Seamens Wives for they Kindly licked his Sores and did not snap and snarl at him and tear his Clothes off his back and besides Lazarus came to beg mercy these come to ask but Justice and that which the Nation will smart for I fear by some severer strokes if they have it not and in plain honest love to our gracious King William and good Old English Interest and to Honesty and Policy I will declare my Opinion faithfully That if there be not wiser or honester Tools to be found in England than those who on the one hand help to Ruin or have helped to Ruin so many Scores of Thousands of Seamen in their Lives or Pay and on the other hand have not either Wit enough or Honesty enough to have our extraordinary Rich Merchant Ships waited for as carefully with all our many Scores of Men of War to secure them home to England as the French can do with Eight or Ten Ships to secure them home to France I say in short if there be not better Tools God Almighty knows when there will be better work For our Case is like to be sad and I would say as Christ did to the Pharisees concerning St. John Baptist's Ministry tho in another Case If our Losses be from Heaven they are dreadful and if from â—…en they are shameful and scandalous and ruining and miserable And if as St. Paul saith a little Leaven will leaven the whole Lump then the Almighty God knoweth in what places or Nations a man or two in half a Score may poyson mislead and befool all the rest And now I think of this there is a place of Scripture comes into my mind concerning Israel of old that God did threaten them to do a marvellous work and a wonder Isa 29.14 25. For the wisdom of the wise men shall perish and the Vnderstanding of the Prudent shall be hid and woe to them that seek deep to hide their Counsel from the Lord and their works are in the dark and they say who seeth us and who knoweth us And indeed to make no Application wanting parts I must leave it to the Wise and Learned to Judge of the meaning of this place and that before mentioned of groping as the blind that have no eyes And indeed in England we have a kind of a Proverb That there is none so blind as they that will not see And if that be a true saying there 's certainly much more danger of the King 's being cheated when they that should see to have it punished do all they can to have it smuggled up as some in Offices of the Navy Concerns have been publickly accused to do in the business of stealing the King's Stores at Portsmouth and if our Ships that are in the King's Service cannot see the French in a great while when in the mean time a Merchant Ship is not safe to go 40 Leagues on our own Coast but is in danger to see a French Ship and be taken which hath been a great Riddle to me all this War and I have wondred at it and have consulted how another Nation might be so served and my Reason tells me they might be so served several ways as one is by giving Men of War Command to lye in such and such a place and not to Cruise all over the Channel and in the mean time if people had a continual Correspondence with their Enemy from a Sea-Port Town as Deip may be in France to Rye in England then if the one Nation did know the station of the Ships of the other Nation they might ply up and down in other parts free and safe and if a Ship or two come almost into the Harbours and takes away a Prize and there be a Man of War or two there ready to go out after them yetif the Commanders of the Men of War will not go out after them as a Captain or Two would not lately either for want of Will or want of Orders at Margate in Kent then the Enemies Ships may be safe enough And indeed I have many times
as if the Wives being truly inform'd by one of the Clerks tho she never look into the Books would be the blowing up of the whole Book But if I am not mistaken if I had not left off Ticket-buying above three years ago but had taken all the Advantages of Sea-mens miseries this Trick it self might have helped me with a good Friend to get the Books searched privatly and so have bought Seamens miserable pay at the same cursed price as some others have bought it at But blessed be God that my Mother taught me the Catechism to defy the Devil and all his Works the vain pomps and vanities of this wicked World And now I think of the Church Catechism of defying the Devil and all his Works and teaching us to do to all men as we would they should do to us makes me think also how honest men may Buy the Seamens pay at two or three Shillings in the pound profit as I did and so long as they do as they would be done unto may serve the King the Nation and the Seamen therein But those that buy at ten or twelve shillings in the pound loss to the poor Seamen as many have done since the Seamen beat the French those I do take to be such as the ministers and people and whole Church of England are bound to curse every Year for I find in the Book of Common-prayer that in the Comination there are these several Curses Cursed is he that removeth his Neighbours Land-mark Cursed is he that maketh the Blind to go out of his way Cursed is he that perverteth the Judgment of the Stranger the Fatherless and the Widow Cursed is he that smiteth his Neighbour secretly Cursed are the unmerciful and extortioners Now there is not a Minister in England allowed to take upon him the Cure of Souls in the Church of England but is bound to declare his assent and consent to this by Act of Parliament and these Curses are to be read once every year and all the people are bound to say Amen Now the proving that the generality of seamen have been extorted out of half their pay by Ticket-buyers and been very unmercifully dealt with will prove to all mankind that they that have been unmerciful to them and they that have been Extortioners to them and their Families are a cursed Generation by the Doctrine of the whole Church and by the Assent and Consent of near ten Thousand Ministers and then again if this so solemn a Curse be dreadful as being the work of the whole Church and if one Accursed Act of Achan did trouble the whole Host of Israel and made them flee before their Enemies until it was Discovered and the Author punished then who can tell how dangerous it may be to these Nations to let such unmercifulness cursed unmercifulness and cruelty go unpunished for if God Requires the Authors of such horrid miseries to be found out and punished he expects it should be done or this Nation must surely expect to be Corrected for St. Paul saith God is not mocked for whatsoever a Man sows that shall he also reap And I am sure since the running and ruining of the Seamen and their Families our poors Book is risen to be twenty Seaven months to the Year and we are also in Debt so that I doubt our poors books next year must be about twenty eight or Thirty months in the Year to get us out of Debt for our poors Tax and since we have had so miserable a number of poor ruined seamens Widows or Children our poors Taxes are so exceeding high and our Trade in the mean time is so way-laid that when his Majesty ordered the payment of several Ships it hath been so managed that tho the men are discharged and paid off the King is put to the charge to pay them off near thirty miles from London and the City and Country way-laid to catch them if they come to London and those poor souls who escaped with their Lives where an Hundred or two in a ship died and several scores sent on shore sick when they came in to be paid yet not a sonl of them safe from the Press one day for their poor Wives to take care of them or they to bring their mony to their Wives or to eat fresh provision and get a little strength to Recruit again before they go out or to lay out their mony at best hand in London or to return it home to Scotland but when the King pays them they are many of them prest away in a day or two very miserably and the City of London and Subarbs who must supply them with Bread and Cloaths when they come from Captivity or they may starve are disappointed in taking any of their mony and I think if we have lost above a Thousand merchant ships and near an Hundred men of War it may be modestly computed that there hath been near twenty Thousand carried Captives to France this War and yet let the City supply them what they will in their distress they shall be sure to be paid far enough off from their taking any of their mony so that tho the City of London hath been always Loyal and Faithful to K. William and ready to assist him with their purses and persons and the seamen of England always Loyal and Ready to lay down their Lives at any time for His Majesty and the Nation if led on to the muzels of their Enemies Guns and yet I will challenge all mankind to shew such Examples of the Cities being deprived of the seamens Trade and the sea-mens being so Ruined in their pay in their Liberty and in their Lives with such fatal Ruin and for so long continuance since England was a Nation And indeed however it comes to pass the providence of God by my extraordinary Zeal to assist all Seamen to serve his Majesty and these Nations hath enabled me to know more of their Cases than it may be any private man in England For as I have assisted Thousands and that as cheap as for ready money to encourage them chearfully in the Service so among their Deaths and being turned over or prest from Ship to Ship I shall lose about a Thousand pound and that by about Four Hundred men and of all those Four Hundred men there are near Three Hundred and Forty Dead or gone I know not where and I bless God that I buy my Experience of the Seamens miseries thus dear for instead of Repining against his holy providence I find he fitteth me with Content and with an Heart to compassionate the miseries of those that I have lost so much by and all the rest of their Ruined Companions And I may almost admire how some that have been Raised up in the Ruines of the poor and miserable Seamen can have their Hearts so hard and obdurate yea I say Case-hardened as to help Ruine them more and more and in the mean time smother up what they