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A59941	England's safety, or, A bridle to the French King proposing a sure method for encouraging navigation, and raising qualified seamen for the well manning Their Majesties fleet on any occasion, in a months time, without impressing, and a competent provision for all such as shall be wounded in service against the enemy, either in Their in Their Majesties ships of war, privatiers, or merchant men, to encourage the better defending them : also an in-flight into the advantages may be made by the herring and other fisheries, in respect to the breeding of seamen, and otherwise : together with a proposal for the maintenance and education of the male children ... : also encouragement for commanders of men of war, privatiers and seamen, in taking any ship, or effects of the enemies, and all to be done, without any sensible charge or burthern to the kingdom / by Captain George St. Lo...	St. Lo, George, d. 1718.	1693 (1693)	Wing S341; ESTC R21733	30,938	54

Nineteen Months of that time all alone in an uneasie and Disconsolate Condition ☞ When I was first brought Prisoner thither I lay four Months in an Hospital at Brest for Cure of my Wounds and was sent to Nants before half Cured While I was at Brest I was Astonished at the Expedition used in Manning and Fitting out their Ships which till then I thought could be done no where sooner than in England where we have ten times the Shipping and consequently ten times more Seamen than they have in France but there I saw Twenty Sail of Ships of about 60 Guns a piece got ready in Twenty days time they were brought in and the Men Discharged and upon an Order from Paris they were Careen'd Keel'd up Rigg'd Victualled Man'd and out again in the said time with the greatest Ease imaginable I likewise saw a Ship of 100 Guns there had all her Guns taken out in four or five Hours time which I never saw done in England in twenty four Hours and this with greater Ease and less Hazard than here which I saw under the Hospital Window and this I am sure I could do as easie in England I likewise saw on the other side of the River an imitation of a Ship with a Tire of Guns where the Men were often Exercised and instructed in the Practice and Use of the Great Gun as if they were at Sea which very much contributed to their Skill and if the same were done and practised near our Sea-Ports it would be of great use in fitting Men for the Sea-Service in which we need not be ashamed to learn of them for they are ready enough to imitate us in any thing for their Advantage The aforesaid Ships being so soon out again put me upon Enquiry how the Men were got so quickly and I found that the Seamen were all Registred by the Intendant Marine or Commissary of each Province near the Sea which puts that King to vast Charge in paying great Salaries to them their Provosts Marine Arches and other Officers for taking Account of all Maritime Affairs for a 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 understands 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 ☞ 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

England's Safety Or a Bridle to the French King c. IN THESE LYE THE STRENGTH AND GLORY OF ENGLAND This Encouraged England must Flourish London Printed for Will. Miller at the Gilded Acorn in St. Paul's Church-Yard MDCXCIII ENGLAND's SAFETY OR A BRIDLE TO THE French King PROPOSING A Sure Method for Encouraging NAVIGATION and Raising Qualified Seamen for the well Manning Their Majesties FLEET on any Occasion in a Months Time without Impressing And a Competent Provision for all such as shall be Wounded in Service against the Enemy either in their Majesties Ships of War Privatiers or Merchant-Men to Encourage the better Defending them ALSO An In-sight into the Advantages may be made by the Herring and other Fisheries in respect to the Breeding of Seamen and otherwise Together with a PROPOSAL for the Maintenance and Education of the Male Children of all such as shall be Kill'd in Service both Seamen and Officers And a Provision for Gentlemens Younger Sons and the Sons of Commanders Kill'd in the Service to qualifie them for the Sea in order to make Officers ALSO Encouragement for Commanders of Men of War Privatiers and Seamen in Taking any Ship or Effects of the Enemies and all to be done without any sensible Charge or Burthen to the Kingdom By Captain George St. Lo. London Printed for W. Miller at the Gilded Acorn in St. Paul's Church-yard where Gentlemen and others may be furnished with Bound Books of most Sorts Acts of Parliament Speeches and other sorts of Discourses and State-Matters as also Books of Divinity Church-Government Human●… Sermons on most Occasions c. 1693. 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 Strength 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 without Charge to Your Majesties I humbly presume to lay the same at Your Majesties Royal Feet in hopes of Your Gracious Acceptation 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 ever 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 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 Chirurgions 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

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 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 wonted 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 their 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 Advertisement to the Reader ☞ THE following Proposals being humbly offer'd to the fartherance 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 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 Business 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