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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38836	The path-way to peace and profit, or, Truth in its plain dress wherein is methodically set forth a sure and certain way for the more speedy and effectual building and repairing their Majesties Royal Navy, by such means, as may be saved more than one hundred thousand pound per annum : together with a proposed method for the raising and saving of moneys for monthly payments accordingly : as also proper rules and methods, observable toward the making a regulation in their majesties yards / by George Everett ...	Everett, George, Shipwright.	1694 (1694)	Wing E3548; ESTC R8664	13,515	31

maintain others at so great Expence and Charge in Idleness and Extravagancy For by Impresting and Forcing so many Men into those Yards Workmens Wages abroad is raised to an exorbitant Rate and the Price of Building so highly advanced thereupon in these Parts that the greatest Part of Building is of late carried from hence into the Country and is ready to take Wing for Foreign Nations all which is occasioned by means of the Press for those Yards which may be more fitly called Oppression For that Work may be sufficiently carried on to the great Advantage of all with a likely Possibility of saving 2 or 300000 l. per Annum as is more fully demonstrated in the following Proposals These Publick Grievances being acted in this lower Sphere although very heavy-and oppressive it may be suppos'd that the Noise and Sound thereof may not have ascended the Ears or Knowledge of our Great Deliverers Their Majesties and others in Supreme Authority from whom a Redress of all our Sufferings is desired and expected Having near Twelve Months since Presented to each Lord of the Admiralty a Copy of my Proposals and the same being now made Publick have by their Noble Character of Truth and Strength not only passed the general Applause of all their Judicious Inspecters but are also become Acceptable to many Eminent Persons who as a Mark of their Favour have been Pleased to Commend and Incourage the same I did on the Second of this Instant February Present to the Honourable the Lords of the Admiralty by way of Application a Copy of these Lines following viz. Right Honourable HAving formerly Presented to your Honours some Proposals wherein is set forth a sure and certain way for the more Speedy and Effectual Building and Repairing the Royal Navy by such Methods as may be fairly saved 100000l per Annum or more to the great Benefit of Their Majesties and the whole Nation And the same having been Communicated to many Worthy and Eminent Persons of several Ranks who have given all due Incouragement thereunto I humbly desire that a time may be assigned me to lay the same before this Honourable Board in Order to the Promoting so Great and Profitable an Vndertaking Their Honours in Answer thereunto were then pleased to Appoint me a Hearing on Thursday the Eighth of this Instant and did also direct That I should give an Account in Writing how Money should be Produced to carry on this Undertaking which accordingly I did which with my Proposals was Read at the Admiralty-Board in the Presence of the Right Honourable the Lord Falkland Sir John Lowther and Captain Prestman the Honourable Commissioners of the Navy being then Present and was as followeth The Humble PROPOSALS of George Everett Shipwright in Rotheriff in Behalf of Their Sacred Majesties King William and Queen Mary WIth Submission to your Honours having upon frequent View and Observation taken into Consideration the many Irregular Practices of Shipwrights and others imployed in Their Majesties Yards wherein is Lost and Destroyed by Idleness and Extravagancy near 100000 l. per Annum by such Ways and Means as tend not to the Profit of any but great Prejudice to the whole Nation which said Sum or more may be saved according to the following Proposals wherein is briefly set forth a sure and certain Way for the more speedy and effectual Building and Repairing of Their Majesties Royal Navy by such Rules and Methods as may be saved near one half of the whole now expended in the said Yards to the great Benefit of Their Majesties the Comfort and Happiness of those imployed therein and the Ease and Welfare of the whole Nation AS the Beginning of the War is wholly intended for the common Good and Safety of the whole Nation and the End thereof uncertain so it may be highly necessary That in the Management thereof every Person imployed therein should in their several Stations act with so much Courage Frugality and good Husbandry as to make the Burthen thereof both Light and Easy Imitating therein Their Majesties most Pious Endeavours who for the Benefit and Well-being of Their People and to preserve them in Safety do Expose Their Royal Persons even with the Hazzard of Their Lives into the most dangerous Attempts and also the most August and Honourable Assemblies the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons of England Assembled in Parliament whose indefatigable Care and Industry is such in Raising and Granting suitable Supplies for so great a Work That the Burthen and Charge thereof is not sensibly felt by the meaner sort of Subjects Whilst some others of Inferiour Rank and imployed in the Management of the War do not so sincerely endeavour the Welfare and Well-being of their Majesties and People as in such times of Exigency they ought to do by which means the Burthen and Charge for carrying on the same is the more Heavy and Uneasy to the Nation For Remedy thereof I most humbly offer to your Lordships these following Proposals in Hopes of your Gracious Acceptance and Encouragement of the same for the Service of Their Majesties the Ease of Their Subjects and the Benefit of the whole Nation as followeth viz. I. That for the common Good and Benefit of Their Majesties and the whole Kingdom it is most humbly proposed That if Shipwrights Wages in Their Majesties Yards were Advanced and good Payment Monthly made for Working Weather only as in Merchants Yards the Work may be performed with less than half the Number of Men who for fear of being Discharged would Labour hard Or the greatest part of the said Workmanship may as in other Yards be let out by the Task or Great to able Work-men whereby having Respect to Work Wages and the Number of Officers whose Pay is continued as well in wet as dry Weather as also the extravagant Waste made in Timber and Plank by many idle Persons imployed therein the said Work may be substantially performed with less than half the Number of Men and more than half the Charge of Workmanship thereby saved without prejudice to the Builders who with their Assistance may have the Power of Ordering and Directing as heretofore II. That in impresting of Shipwrights for the said Yards Their Majesties are at great Charges and the Persons imprest think themselves injured to be compelled to serve therein for two Shillings and one penny per Day and that running in Arrears when in other Yards there is allowed near twice the Wages and ready Money which is a great Discouragement to industrious persons who are willing to take pains which brings a Dislike and Unwillingness of the Workmen who go into such Yards as if they were going to Prison which by a Regulation as aforesaid would be esteemed as a Palace So that many imployed and imprest therein do for such Reasons become very negligent in the performing their Duties and spend great part of their time in Idleness Together with Apprentices whose Wages being fixt and no regard had to