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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38834	Encouragement for seamen and mariners in two parts : being a proposed method for the more speedy and effectual furnishing Their Majesties' Royal Navy with able seamen and mariners, and for saving those immense sums of money, yearly expended in attending the sea-press : in order to prevent those many mischiefs and abuses daily committed (by disorderly press-masters) both at sea and land, to the great prejudice of Their Majesties, and injury of the subject / by George Everett, Shipwright.	Everett, George, Shipwright.	1695 (1695)	Wing E3546; ESTC R21074	10,664	26

great Perils and Losses which too often happen to the great Prejudice of their Majesties and all others concern'd at Sea by means of the Sea-Press Prop. 3. And upon Return of the said Ship or Vessel to her Port of Delivery or Unlading that then the said Master thereof shall be further obliged if belonging to a Ship or Vessel using the Coast-Trade within four Days or if a Merchant-Ship trading to foreign Parts within ten Days or more as may be thought convenient to pay such his Ship 's Company in the Presence of one of the aforesaid Officers at a Place and Day prefix'd And if it happen that any Change or Alteration hath been made amongst the said Company during the said Voyage that then the said Master do give an Account to the said Officer who may be impowered to make Inquiry therein and whosoever of the said Company shipped outward or homeward appeareth not in Person to receive his Wages at such Time and Place prefixed without some lawful Cause or Let shewed to the contrary being such as may be allowed by the Directors of such Office or Officers shall lose and forgo his whole Wages one half to the Use of their Majesties and the other to the Chest of Chatham or otherwise as may be thought convenient ☞ And the said Officers being impower'd to make Inquiry as aforesaid will cause Masters to be more cautious how they do imprison and pack their Seamen off in foreign Countries an Abuse too much practised even to the Ruin of many Families which brings much Poverty on the Nation especially about Rivers and Sea-port-Towns Prop. 4. And if it should happen that any of the said Ships or Vessels should deliver or unlade at any other Port within this Kingdom that then the Officer of such Port may by the Master's Duplicate he being obliged to produce the same or otherwise by a Copy of the Register from the other first Officer be enabled to procede in all Respects as aforesaid ☞ For Conveniency a Copy of all Registers may be transmitted from all Ports to Yarmouth and Portsmouth for the ready Dispatch of all such Affairs but more especially to the Port-Office of London Prop. 5. And that every Officer in his respective Place at the Time of paying such Seamen as aforesaid shall then cause all such as are fit for their Majesties Service to be forthwith sent on board some Ship belonging to the Fleet as Occasion shall require the Charge thereof to be paid by their Majesties And all such as are so sent on board their Majesties Ships shall have equal Benefit with those Seamen who do or shall enter themselves as Volunteers ☞ By such Means there will be a constant supplying of the Royal Navy with able Seamen And by this Means such who use to steal a Voyage or two will unavoidably be brought into their Majesties Service without Prejudice to any which will be an Encouragement to others belonging to the Fleet and will prevent the pressing of Tradesmen from their Business Prop. 6. And as every merchant-Merchant-Ship or Vessel hath a Carpenter or two belonging unto it who for great Wages go voluntarily to Sea their Majesties Ships may by the Means aforesaid be plentifully supplied with able Shipwrights the most experienced and fittest for Sea-Service Prop. 7. And at the End of every Year the said Officers shall present their Majesties with a general List of all Seamen and Shipwrights so sent on board of every particular Ship and if thought convenient shall have an additional Allowance from their Majesties of two Shillings and Sixpence per Head as an Encouragement and Maintenance for such their Service Prop. 8. And whatsoever Officer or Ship-master offendeth herein contrary to the true Intent and Meaning thereof shall forfeit Pounds to the Use of their Majesties Pounds whereof may be allowed to the Informer ☞ This Charge cannot be accounted great for by this Means the prodigious Expence of hiring Smacks and Ketches to attend the Press will determine and 1000 Men and Boys commonly imployed therein may be at liberty to serve their Majesties on board the Fleet besides the Charge allowed and expended by Captains and Lieutenants on such Occasions ☞ And the Seamen and Shipwrights belonging to Merchants Ships being so secured for their Majesties Service may enjoy the Benefit of selling and disposing what they have as an Adventure on board their respective Ships together with the Happiness of receiving their Wages and providing themselves with Apparel and other Necessaries fit for Sea-Service and be sent on board the Fleet like Men who otherwise after a long and tedious Voyage without Recruit or Money are forced on board their Majesties Ships in a poor and ragged Condition which is one main Occasion of Sickness and Distempers on board the Fleet and for such Reasons many refuse to go to Sea and others forsake their Ships in foreign Nations ☞ And by such Means as aforesaid Merchants Ships at Sea and under Convoy may be secure from the Rage and ill Usage of some Commanders who if denied their unreasonable Demands for Light or Convoy-Money do often cause the Seamen to be impress'd whereby such Ships or Vessels are too often disabled and the Ship and Goods with the small and helpless Number of Men left on board do often miscarry or perish at Sea whereby the Merchants lose their Goods their Majesties lose their Customs the Subjects lose their Lives the Owners their Ship or Vessel and many become Widows and Fatherless thereby which brings great Complaints and Poverty throughout the Nation PROPOSALS Part the Second Prop. 1. AND as the Honour and Glory of the English Nation doth so much depend upon the Strength and good Conduct of the Royal Navy so it may be highly necessary at such time when the Common Enemy is so potent and powerful that all due Encouragement be given to Seamen and Mariners And to that end it is most humbly proposed That no Offices belonging to the Fleet be bought or sold but that every Person may be preferred according to his Deserts and Merits Prop. 2. That the said Seamen be allowed their full Share of all Prizes that shall be taken and that some Law be passed to prevent Imbezlements therein and that those Persons in what Station soever that shall endeavour to defraud them of such Parts and Shares as have by Custom or may hereafter be allowed shall being convicted thereof forfeit his said Office or Employment Prop. 3. That if any Seamen be dismembred in their Majesties Service such Smart-Money as hath been formerly allowed may be advanced and be forthwith duly paid And further that there may be an additional Allowance made for all such Pensioners as shall be dismembred in their Majesties Service Prop. 4. That if any Seamen be killed in their Majesties Service that the Bounty-Money generally allowed on such Occasions be forthwith paid to those who shall produce a just Right to receive the same Prop. 5. That all Profaneness which

Injuries and for such Reasons as aforesaid are not in a Capacity to go to Law so that where nothing is nothing can be expected ☞ So that by thus civilly impressing of some and paying and encouraging of others as aforesaid it may be presumed their Majesties Royal Navy may at all times be readily and plentifully provided with the most able Seamen and Mariners on all Occasions and all extraordinary Charge of impressing and maintaining them on board the Fleet the Winter-Season which by Captain St. Lo was computed at 504000l for one Winter-Season besides 60000l expended for Conduct Bounty and Impress-Money avoided and saved as well now as in former times And to this all the Seamen and faithful People of England will say Amen ☞ If any Objection should be made that in manning the Royal Navy according to the Methods of this second Proposition their Majesties Affairs may be prolonged or prejudiced thereby then it is humbly proposed that a Recourse may be had to the aforesaid Register as followeth Prop. 10. That the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty calling to the Port-Officers of London for a general List of all Seamen in each County taken as aforesaid may direct their Warrants to the several Sheriffs of the Counties aforesaid requiring them to direct their Precepts to the several Constables of each Parish as aforesaid who with the Assistance of the Church-wardens and Overseers of the Poor shall forthwith to the utmost of their Power cause such and so many as are required by an equal Quota to appear before the next Port-Officer who shall dispose of them on board their Majesties Ships as shall be most meet and convenient for their Majesties Service And such as press Men to be allowed but 24s per Month. And what Seamen soever shall abscond from their Habitation or usual Place of Being at such time as the Service of their Majesties shall require them on board the Fleet shall suffer Imprisonment or as the Parliament shall think fit And that the Port-Officer do then forthwith pay unto the said Constables for travelling and other necessary Charges the Sum of 2s 6d per Head for every Person by them delivered or produced as aforesaid and that the said Port-Officer be allowed the same with other necessary Charges for sending such on board the Fleet out of their Majesties Treasury By what hath been proposed I hope it will appear that the impressing of Seamen and others by Sea-Officers may be wholly laid aside which hath hitherto been very chargeable to their Majesties and injurious to the Subjects as is briefly summed up as followeth 1. That several Vessels imployed in that Service after having laid twelve or fourteen Days in the River of Thames on that occasion have by the ill Management of some Lieutenants thereunto belonging been sent on board their Majesties Ships with twenty or thirty Men at one time who being not fit or useful in such Service have been often discharged and turned ashore by which Means their Majesties Treasure hath been vainly expended and many Land-men and Tradesmen have been often carried from their Habitations to the Downs Portsmouth and Plimouth to their great Charge and Prejudice 2. That the impressing and detaining Seamen in their Majesties Service on such hard Terms as before specified causeth many to desert their Majesties Service who by such Means come to an untimely Exit And many Seamen there be who having Families will rather expose themselves to such vile and shameful Ends than leave their Families to perish for want of Food and Raiment 3. Many other Inconveniences there be attending the present Discipline of the Navy as paying the Fleet at Portsmouth c. whereby their Majesties Affairs are often retarded and the Seamen whose Wives or Friends are very populous about the River of Thames do by travelling and attending at such remote Parts often expend more than they receive whereby many Families are ruined and undone And many others there be who for want of Money are obliged to take up all they want upon Trust paying one Shilling for the Value of nine Pence losing thereby 25l per Cent. and by selling their Tickets as aforesaid they generally lose 30 40 or 50l per Cent. so that by a modest Computation their whole Loss amounts to 60l per Cent. out of their small Wages 4. The turning of Seamen over from one Ship to another after having been in such Service one two or three Years without Money produceth the same Effect as the former 5. For the aforesaid Reasons the Seamen their Wives and Friends are at a great Charge and Trouble by petitioning and attending the Admiralty and Navy-Board on such Occasions who spend great part of their Time in hearing and examining these and such like Grievances 6. Whereas if Seamen were paid and encouraged as aforesaid these Mischiefs and Disorders with many others occasioned by several indirect Practices of the Clerks of the Navy c. would soon cease and be abolished 7. And for promoting the same it is further proposed That a sutable Fund of Money be raised and set apart for such Uses and Purposes And if the same should fail or fall short of what is intended that then they may be supplied with such Funds as shall be appropriated to pay Merchant-Dealers and Tradesmen who being under no Compulsion in making Agreement for their Commodities are in a Capacity to help themselves 8. And if a Sufficiency of Money cannot be raised as aforesaid that then it may be borrowed and suppose at 10l per Cent. per Annum yet will be of so great Use in answering these Ends that its presumed their Majesties will thereby save 200000l per Annum or more but if the late ingenious Proposals to supply their Majesties with Money at 3l per Cent. per Annum be put into practice the Advantages accruing to their Majesties by this proposed Method will be much greater and the Doubts and Objections that may arise touching the Insufficiency of making such orderly Payments as aforesaid will be removed 9. Thus by preferring Frugality and abolishing Extravagancy their Majesties with the usual Funds generally raised and allowed for such Occasions will soon be in a Capacity of paying and providing with ready Money all things useful and necessary for carrying on the War and the Enemy taking notice of our Industry and Abilities the usual Forerunners of great Actions will be thereby discouraged as they are certain Presages of their approaching Downfal 10. And that by such Means the general Trade of the Nation will be better supplied at home and secured abroad and the Subjects thereby inabled and encouraged to give Supplies to carry on the War and their Majesties thereby be the better supported to prosecute and continue the same 11. Thus having as I humbly conceive proposed a sure and certain Method to prevent those Evils occasioned by the Sea-press which if put in practice I dare affirm will be a useful Instrument to vanquish and overcome all our Enemies both Foreign and Domestick it being observable that since my former Proposals made for performing of Shipwrights Work the impressing of Workmen for that Service hath been little practised In all that hath been most humbly offered I have studied Brevity more than Curiosity my Design being to serve my Country rather than to shew my Skill in Learning and therefore do present the same not as the Labour of my spare Minutes but as the Fruit of a labourious Brain that hath and will be always ready to serve their Majesties and the Government upon all Occasions I shall only offer these following Queries most humbly praying they may be considered 1. Whether the Nation under the present Circumstances of a War can long continue a sutable Supply of Money to carry on the same under the pernicious Effects of Extravagancy 2. Whether Money raised in Parliament with Care collected with Trouble and paid with Tears requires not the most serious Thoughts and Endeavours of all its Disposers for converting the same in all Circumstances to the most useful and advantagious Purposes 3. Whether the King exposing his Royal Person in so many Dangers abroad for promoting the Happiness and Well-being of the Nation doth not expect the due Assistance of all other his Officers and Subjects indispensibly to use their utmost Endeavours for the full accomplishing his Royal Purposes 4. Whether the saving those immense Sums of Money as aforesaid will not settle the Minds of their Majesties good Subjects and stop the Mouths of the most disloyal and restless Spirits who raise Animosities amongst us and instil wicked Notions into the Minds of their Majesties Subjects representing the Government as under an unsettled Condition and groaning under Oppression by reason of great Taxes and a lingring and expensive War and a want of Trade and raising their Expectations of a speedy Change who finding their Hopes defeated by an unanimous Resolution of rooting out the Evils occasioning the same can have no future Pretence to such calumniating Reflections on the Government for bringing to pass their evil Purposes 5. Whether the buying and selling of publick Places be not an undoubted Inlet to bring their Majesties Enemies into such Stations being of dangerous Consequence to the Government 6. Whether it will not be for their Majesties and the Nation 's Interest to advance Persons to Places of Trust according to their Merits and not permit those to be discountenanced and to labour under Difficulties who expose Frauds and Extravagancies and propose proper Remedies for the Cure of those Evils and whether the brow-beating and discouraging those who endeavour to make such Discoveries is not an effectual Means to prevent all others from appearing in such like Cases Much more might be added which for Brevity sake is omitted I shall humbly conclude with the following Admonition of King Henry the IVth who upon his Death-bed spake to his Son as followeth So long as English-men have Wealth so long shalt thou have Obedience from them but when they are poor they are then ready for Commotions and Rebellions from which and all other Evils good Lord deliver us both now and for evermore FINIS