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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	penny_n	pound_n	shilling_n	5,001	5	11.2551	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50378	Naval speculations and maritime politicks being a modest and brief discourse of the Royal Navy of England, of its oeconomy and government : and a projection for an everlasting seminary of seamen by a royal maritime hospital : with a project for a royal fishery : also necessary measures in the present war with France &c. / by Henry Maydman.	Maydman, Henry.	1691 (1691)	Wing M1420; ESTC R30058	112,498	385

I promised not daring to tarry longer upon it lest my Ink should gall and fret it but my Application and Intention being only as a Balsamick Oyntment and therewith to stroak it gently to heal it of the Scurf and Taint that it hath been lately infected with by that Infernal Weed so often mentioned before VIII Of the Seminary for Breeding and Maintaining of Seamen 1. The Chest 2. The providing for the Poor Male Children of the Nation 3. The Encouragement of Fishery 4. Merchants Employments THE Navy as I have said before by which we must gain and maintain our antient Rights of the Dominion of the Narrow Seas c. will require a setled Pollicy as for the Government thereof so also for the Breeding and Maintaining of Marriners and maritime People such a Pollicy as shall produce a sufficient number of the product of the People of the Nation by a kind of willing Constraint to addict themselves to Maritime Lives I say sufficient for the encrease of our Power at Sea and to supply the places at all times of those that the Wars and Accidents thereof shall from time to time consume First The Chest being an old Provision or Pollicy devised and enacted in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth whose Memory may never be forgotten in this Land not only for setling and confirming the Protestant Religion but by putting the Nation into such a posture of Military Defence both by Sea and Land by building of Ships Docks Forts Castles c. and providing of Artillery and Munitions for War that this Land hath not only defended themselves against the shocks of War made by most of the Potent Princes upon it abroad Notwithstanding the often Rebellions in Ireland and Jars of Scotland near two third parts of the now British Dominions giving her continual Diversions at home yet by the Divine Assistance with good Counsellors Publick and Heroick Spirited Just and Wise Leaders and Commanders and a Consentaneous Agreeable Disposition in all her Subjects together for the end desired viz. To maintain their Soveraign Religion and Laws from being Conquered or Imposed upon by any or all the Princes of Europe notwithstanding they were destitute of Allies to assist them but on the contrary gave often Assistance and Succours to the Dutch and French Protestants I say notwithstanding all these great Rubs she defended this Island not only from any great Exploits done on her but scoured the Seas and carried the War into her Enemies Countries to her eternal Fame and their no less Shame The Particulars of which are easily gathered out of the Histories of her Life and the Monuments of her as Castles Forts Ships Artillery and Military Provisions remaining with us to this day will witness the Memory of whom and the Actions of whose days I cannot let pass without mentioning viz. She came to the Crown in a time when the Nation was fresh bleeding of the Wounds given them by their most cruel and bloody Enemies beside which Wounds it was inwardly sick of Malecontents and the Extream Parts viz. Ireland and Scotland so gangren'd that it had been more happy for her they had not been At which time I say God gave them a Soveraign that with his Divine Assistance c. bound up their Wounds and healed their Sickness in Church and State in comparison of which Time and Opportunity I think it very proper to bring in our Soveraigns yet I hope not from a Temper of an ill-boding Prophet to forewarn us to prepare for some long time of Maritime Contentions believing That before the Seas will be again setled in Peace there may be many hard Tugs but between what Nations I guess not But I say that both the Dane and Swede are Arming to put in their Sickles for a Harvest beside Dutch French Spaniard and Portugues As in a Brawl Riot or Breach of the Peace whosoever pretends to preserve the Peace of that place or would preserve himself and have a Rule and Dominion there he ought to be of greater strength than the Rioters or else he were better to hold his Peace and keep farther off lest the said Rioters shall do as I have known in divers Frays many have joined upon one whose design was only to part them Wherefore I say we pretending a Right and Dominion in the Narrow Seas and being by God Almighty so advantageoufly seated as if he intended our Island to be the Husband of these Northern and Western Seas from the Baltick to Cape-Finister and by a properer Dominion and Right to be Married to her every Year than the Venetian has to be Married to the Gulf of Venice and those Seas as they are in solemn manner the which Mistress if we neglect to pay our due Visits and suffer her to be Caressed or evil entreated by others we may lose her Affection and ever after may Court her in vain for a Smile to our eternal loss and shame and not to be too sparing of our Monies in Treating her like the Constantinopolitans when the Turk Besieged it the Emperour went about praying them to spare him Money to pay his Soldiers to defend it who excused themselves that they had it not But when the Turk took it he found enough to pay his Men therewith It is high time now to return to the Chest setled in the said Queens Reign which is That every Warrant Officer and Sea-man in the Service has deducted out of his Pay Six-pence per Month by the Pay-master of the Navy who pays the same to so many viz. Pursers Boatswains and Gunners of the First Rates commonly in all I think five who are new chosen yearly and are called Governours of the Chest who have their Annual Meetings to adjust their Accounts with their Receiver or Clerk and to appoint the Gratuities they allow for Smart-Money what they shall think good to allow a Man either at that instant and an Annual Pension during life or according to his Wound or Loss only to give him a Sumn and no Pension I say that present Money is called Smart-Money and the other a Pension Now they are a Corporation by Act of Parliament with power to buy or sell Land c. They have also a Supervisor who is most commonly a Commissioner of the Navy And moreover the Lord High Admiral or Commissioners of the Admiralty hath a Superseding Power over them an excellent Pollicy for if a Man loses a Limb he receives six Pounds thirteen Shillings four Pence Yearly for his Life and one Year at entrance for Smart-Money The whole Man that hath paid his Six-pences all his Life and never received any may bless God that he never came under that Circumstance and he that does may also bless God for raising the said Queens Heart to make that Provision for him to support his Needs I have not a mind to find Fault with the Management nor have I heard much cause for it but I do not admire the giving of Salaries to Chirurgeons