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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44076	Great Britain's groans, or, An account of the oppression, ruin, and destruction of the loyal seamen of England, in the fatal loss of their pay, health and lives, and dreadful ruin of their families	Hodges, William, Sir, 1645?-1714.	1695 (1695)	Wing H2327; ESTC R13450	23,824	31

Great Britain's Groans OR AN ACCOUNT OF THE Oppression Ruin and Destruction of the Loyal Seamen of ENGLAND IN THE Fatal Loss of their Pay Health and Lives and Dreadful Ruin of their Families Eccles V. 8. If thou seest the Oppression of the Poor and Violent Perverting of Judgment and Justice in a Province marvel not at the matter for he that is higher than the highest regardeth and there be higher than they Printed in the Year 1695. TO The Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in Parliament Assembled I Have for these two Years been laying before the most Honourable Houses of Lords and Commons the dreadful Groans of His Majesties Loyal Seamen and shall now by God's Assistance continue to lay open their most miserable deplorable Miseries in the fatal loss of their Lives Health and Pay since their new way of being manag'd and costly and chargable way of being Ruin'd and Destroy'd such as these Nations never knew in so few years and the poor Seamen and their Families never groan'd under all which will be found by the King's Pay-Books and Muster-Books wherein it will appear that about a hundred Thousand of them have lost their Health and about 40000 of them lost their Lives and about 60000 of them run out of their Pay to so great an increase of Fatherless Children and Widows and so great Ruin to their Families and Relations as they have never groan'd under and was never known to befall them in so few years in this Nation in any Age of the World since Noah built his Ark all which I humbly Dedicate and Recommend to the serious Consideration of the two most Honourable Houses of Lords and Commons in Parliament to be consider'd of before that Judgment come upon us Malac. 3.5 That God himself do come and be a swift Witness in Judgment against those that oppress the Hireling in his Wages the Widow and the Fatherless and that turn aside the stranger from his Right and fear not God For if these dreadful Evils are not Remedied and those Enemies of God and these Nations that Cause them are not Punish'd it may justly be fear'd that Innotent Blood will be brought upon this Kingdom and the Numerous Cries and Groans of the Valiant Loyal Miserable Seamon and their Perishing Families will at last pierce the Clouds and enter into the Ears of the Lord of Sabbath who may then justly say to 〈◊〉 as he did to the People of the Jews Isa 1.15 When ye spread ●…th your Hands I will hide mine Eyes from you yea when ye make many Prayers I will not hear your Hands are full of Blood Humbly Represented by a Loyal Faithful Subject of his most Gracious Majesty King WILLIAM and a faithful Servant to the Seamen of England Written in the sight and presence of the Eternal and Ever Blessed God to whom he must give an Account who Remains Hermitage-Bridge Decemb. 26. 1695. William Hodges Great Britain's Groans c. INTRODVCTION I May say of the Seamens Miseries as Queen Esther said of the Jews that were contriv'd to be Ruin'd by wicked cursed Haman that if they and their Families had been sold for Bondmen and Bond-women I might have held my peace although the Adversary and Enemy could not have Recompenc'd our Gracious King William's and the Nation 's Damage but to be destroyed die and perish in such dreadful Numbers more than the World ever saw without sighting and so many of their Families Ruined in their Pay also are two deplorable miseries and I fear doth cry aloud in the Ears of the Lord of Host who hath sent such dreadful Loss of Shipping and Merchandize this last Year since I represented their Groans before in part that I believe England never groaned under the like and I am afraid in plain English that God will not always let the poor and Miserable be mocked without either helping of them or considering their Case And if there be an Hundred Thousand Pound or more wickedly gotten out of Ruined Sick and Dead Seamens Pay I fear the Publick hath lost above Three Hundred Thousand Pound Custom and the Nation above Three Millions of Riches this year and Ruining alias Running the Seamen out of their Pay with the two fatal Letters Q. R. will never make us amends especially when so many have those Letters set on their Pay when they have first lost their Healths in the Service and then set a-shore sick and there die But this is but one part of their miseries among some Millions which I will leave to your Honours to consider of and of what fatal consequence and what prodigious Charge their Ruin cost these Nations besides the Loss of their Lives and Pay And indeed their miseries to me seem to be not only great miseries and new miseries and fatal miseries but big-bellied miseries miseries that beget more miseries breed more miseries and bring forth more miseries in a plentiful manner and if not remedied are in my Opinion like to increase more and more and if God 〈…〉 to scourge our Sea-Affairs or do arise to hear the Cry● of the Poor the Oppressed the Fatherless and the Widow then we must expect to be more and more scourged But how God will order it is best known only to himself The Task his Providence layeth on me and which hath cost me the breaking of more Rest in my bed by my thoughtfulness of it within these three months than all my own concerns in the World ever did break my Rest these thirty years And I propose not any advantage to my self in the world by what I write except it be that if the Seamen of England be not Ruined I shall escape among the rest from being made a Prey to our Enemies who are advantaged in a great deal of our Seamens Ruins too plainly to be hid And now therefore I will represent some of them 1. The first misery I shall begin with is that which I think first began with them This War and I think never began before either in these Nations or any Nation and that is their being paid most times on board Ship this War and this hath been so very dreadful a Loss to them and their Families I cannot easily Represent it they have not thereby had the Liberty God and Nature alloweth the rest of Mankind of spending their mony upon the Earth of laying it out at the best hand of sending it to their Families and of Paying their Debts honestly and getting Credit for time to come and I suppose if the● had been Paid but half so much on Shore once in two years and had a Months Liberty on Shore it might have been better for Themselves Families and Relations many of whose Wives Aged 〈◊〉 or Poor ●nd Miserable Masters and Dames have lost a great 〈◊〉 of their Hu●bands Children or Servants Money this War to their very great Ruin and Misery and in the Payment of two Hundred Thousand Payments on board of Ships this War I do look