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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44078	Humble proposals for the relief, encouragement, security and happiness of the loyal, couragious seamen of England, in their lives and payment, in the service of our Most Gracious King William, and the defence of these nations humbly presented to the two most Honourable Houses, the Lords and Commons of England, in Parliament assembled / by a faithful subject of His Majesty, and servant to the Parliament and nation, and the seamen of England, in order for safety and security of all aforesaid, W. Hodges ; to which is added, a dialogue concerning the art of ticket-buying, in a discourse between Honesty, Poverty, Cruelty and Villany, concerning that mystery of iniquity, and ruin of the loyal seamen.	Hodges, William, Sir, 1645?-1714.	1695 (1695)	Wing H2329; ESTC R2277	51,833	63

my part I say according to the money raised there could never have been better Pay for the Seamen in the world And indeed I would not have the Seamen of England say Justly That God and the King sent good Meat but the Devil sent them Cooks that spoil'd it half in dressing But in short I cannot see how the Nation in the general can answer the Seamen's being left to Ruin For First as I said it is against Grace against the gracious Law of Christ not to do to them as we would others should do to us which is taught the Children in their Catechisms 2. It is against the gracious Providence of God to these Nations who did by a Miracle send over our gracious King William to be a means to secure our Religion Liberties and Properties and if the Nation who enjoys all these in Peace at home should let the Seamen be Ruined and lose all together and their Lives into the bargain I am afraid Christ will tell us another word in our Ears That the Scripture shall not fail and the same measure men mete shall be meted to them again And so much to their being managed contrary to Grace 2. Contrary to Reason for Reason tells us other Ages encouraged their Seamen and paid them on Shore and other Nations do so now And Reason may tell those who have understood the Nature of the paying on Board That the Seamen's Families and Relations have not enjoyed the Benefit of little more than half their Pay to their Familie's Comfort 3. It is contrary to common sense to think that if Seamen do usually die great part where they are kept 2 or 3 years on board that they should have any Policy to keep them until they die rather than to pay them off to Recruit their Health and Lives And indeed who could be ever imagined to come freely into that Service where nothing but Death can part again and then the Widow denied their Mony oft-times at last And besides the Loss of the Seamen's Lives there is extraordinary Charge to the Nation and no benefit to the publick but it may be the Commanders that had abused the Seamen all the War could not get more and would want a Ship to get Mony in and so might want bread while our brave Commanders would have Men enough But those who have driven away the Seamen from their Ships and could have a supply by turning over men from other Ships these might be at a Loss for Men next Year But my Skill in Sea Affairs is too small Did it but attain to the heighth of my Faithulness to his Majesty and Love to my Native Country I would if the Lord assisted me with Life and Health write such an History of the Knavery Folly Cowardize Treachery Ruin and Destruction of this War in the Sea-Affairs the Land would admire at and would write every Line to the best of my Judgment what would be found true not only in another Age where they will speak plainly how his Majesty and the Parliament and Nation and Merchants are cheated and abused But I would write what I believe will be found true in the Day of Judgment where all Cloaks will be thrown off and then it will be known that God did not send Mankind into the world to be like Fishes the great ones to devour the little ones and I bless the Lord who kept me from being one of the Devourers of the Age for I have had an opportunity with ease to be a Monster when I laid out an hundred Pound a week or two in Seamen's Pay if I had bought at half Profit or Twelve Shillings in the Pound Profit as some Monsters did I should have doubled my Mony so often to have been able to have swallowed up 3 or 4 Seamen's Pay for a Breakfast besides what I had for Dinner and Supper and then I should never have said a word of the Ruin of the Seamen but should have been forc'd to have kept all Counsel if the King had been cheated of a quarter of his Money and the Seamen of above half their pay But I presume it will be well to look back to the most happy state of our Ships of War when we did most effectually beat our Enemies and incourage our Seamen and see if we do not find the neglect of their method hath been the Loss of half our Seamen and many of our Ships And Secondly Whether their way was not to go out in the Summer and take all Opportunities to sight and destroy their Enemies and come in again with the greatest part of the Fleet and pay off the Seamen and save their Lives and Pay Whether if this had been done the Seamen would not have been incouraged to come freely into the King's Service as in other Ages as into a place where there was Mony and Liberty and Release and not perpetual Bondage And if at last discharged by reason of Sickness and had Tickets signed by all the signing Officers for the same to be deprived otherwise cheated publickly of their mony to the shame of the Pay and the Ruin of the discharged and whether any can now on the last Terms be safe to serve their King and Country and it may be questioned whether it be not a shameful thing when poor Seamen have had their Pay received by false Powers they should be denied the sight of the Ship 's Books to see who received it and therefore whether also this and the denying them otherwise the knowledg of their Case be not an unjust and unreasonable thing to let poor Creatures be Cheated and Ruined and hide it from them And what advantage it is to the Government to let their poor Seamen be so managed besides the King 's being at extraordinary Charge to pay them so far from London and the City deprived of the benefit of taking their mony as in other Ages wherein the City of London was not used to be so slighted neither the Seamen so Ruined But I shall presume to say more in the Body of my Book for whoever pleaseth to read it at their leisure what my Thoughts are and if the Honourable Houses pardon me I shall not need much to trouble my self with the Offences any others may take at it for I write for good and not to please but to hinder Cheating the King and Ruining the Seamen and not to flatter those that would have it all smuggled up in silence which makes me think of one lately that because he could not find any thing false in my book had this supposition and that was That he supposed if I had Represented so much in France the French King would have hanged me Now to that being only a Supposition I will answer it with other Suppositions As 1. I must have been a Fool or a Knave to have writ it if I did not consult before I writ it whether I could with a good Conscience have suffered Death for the same and if

will be too short to Expect a real Blessing and comfortable Incouragement as we might wish but that the Seamen will be so much oppresed and the Ships Ruined and Spoiled more and more until there be some outward Reformation at least if not a true and sound Reformation of Life and Manners And if the general instructions printed and given to the Captains and Lieutenants of Ships by the Admiralty were minded aright it would mend many things and therefore deserves to be inquired into in drawing up the method of the Well-Government of our Ships and men And the first Paragraph of it is That God be duly worshipped and that twice a day and all Profaneness Drunkenness Swearing and Cursing be discountenanced and punished and the Commanders that allow it turned out And we should meet the Lord by Repentance both by Sea and Land and cry to the Lord that he would meet us with his mercy that we may by Righteousness be an exalted Nation and not for our sins be a ruined people And therefore 59. It were well if every Ship in England that carrieth but ten men were bound to carry that excellent Book of the Church of England's Doctrine the Book of Homilies to read 2 Homilies every Sunday And it hath the 39 Articles bound up with it that all Seafaring men might see the excellent Doctrine of the Old Church of England to be for sound Piety and Holiness And that it may be said of the Prophaneness of this Age That it is such a thing as the Fundamental Doctrine of the Church of England abhors And as it was said of Old of some that knew not Joseph so it may be said of the great Wickedness of this Age That it is from such as know not God neither do they truly know and believe and practice that true fundamental Doctrine of the Church of England And it were well if the Reverend Bishops would consult the great need there is of such Laws as may in some measure at least bring men to as near a Conformity to the substantial Fundamental Holiness Sobriety Charity Justice and all Christian Fundamental Duties of Grace and Holiness that are contained in so holy a Doctrine 60. And that every Ship that doth carry 120 men or more do carry an able sober Minister to instruct the Seamen in their Duty towards God and to reprove the Vices of any one in the Ship And by their Doctrine and Conversation to shew to them that the fundamental Doctrine of the Church of England is for the Real Service of God and Holiness and against all sin And that they that profess the Doctrine and live in Wickedness are false pretenders to so holy Doctrine 61. And therefore that Excellent Act against Cursing and Swearing if well executed will be a good beginning and a good help towards a moral Reformation So if the great Debauchery of this Age could be suppressed it would be a good help towards men's coming to consider of a future state and to think that whatever they are themselves at present yet mankind was created to live to the Glory of God and to honour him and not to live like beasts and worse than beasts And the more excellent the fundamental Doctrine of Christianity is in any Church or Nation the greater the condemnation of those must be that do sin against the Light of the same and will not regard to walk according unto it And now having said this I will return again to another incouragement I think there is great need of altho the Seamen in all Merchant Ships that go well and come well in the Merchant's service pay something towards the same And that is 62. That all Fleets of Merchant Ships should as much as possible keep company and stand by one the other except much over-powered And for want of this there was 6 or 7 Ships taken out of 12 in One Fleet by 2 Privateers Therefore those Ships that would not fight the Commanders ought to be made publick Examples 63. And those that fight stoutly as brave Englishmen to be incouraged and preferred 64. And that those Seamen that lose their Lives or Limbs in Merchant ships should be incouraged and have Bounty-mony as in his Majesties service they that are Wounded or Kill'd there have But now I would not be mistaken to think that his Majesty should pay it altho if a Merchant Ship be lost it may fall out that his Majesty may lose 4000 l Custom And were it so they did fight and save the Ship and Goods if there were 20 kill'd and 10 wounded if his Majesty paid each of them or their Families 20 l it were 200 l and his Majesty would save 3600 l by the saving the Ship at last and the Merchants it may be 30000 l by the bargain also And therefore it would be of great use to the King and to the Merchants and to the Nation in general to save our Ships as much as possible and ruin our Enemies as much as possible and encourage our Seamen and Masters to fight to save the Ships as much as possible But I have often wondred that any Merchants should be so barbarous or Masters so uncharitable as not to give the Seamens Families one penny of Eucouragement who laid down their Lives and saved their Ships And sometimes I have heard of some that have been forc'd to go to Law for their Wages after the Ship was saved And as I remember a Customer of mine was forced to pay the Chirurgeon 3 or 4 l to cure him of his Wounds Now I did look on this as barbarous And I do say in this respect the service of his Majesty is much better than the Merchant-men And would be in many others also if it were not for the Fault of Officers and Officers of divers sorts But this by the way for I think we should be the most happy people under the Face of Heaven if it were not for the Sins and Follies and Bribery and Knavery and Villany of the Age we live in Whereby men are Ruined and plagued and Afflicted more than ever in several Kinds both in Men of War and Merchant Ships and the King and Country lose by the same at last many Seamen serving as is to be feared other Nations by being so much discouraged in their own But I leave that and would to God that all would indeed leave it in good earnest and set themselves to study to serve God and his Majesty and the common good of all these Nations and in order to it I think this is one to incourage all Seamen as much as possible to preserve our Shipping and one way was that as I said Whoever lost their Limbs or Lives in defending a Merchant Ship should have Pensions or Bounty-mony And I suppose that if there were a Law made That every one should be so rewarded every Seaman would be more willing to venture their Lives to save their Ships and the very Seamen in Merchant Ships