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state_n	council_n	majesty_n	privy_a	1,209	5	9.6979	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38835	Loyalty and fidelity, rejected and oppressed. Or the case of George Everett shipwright, truly stated most humbly offer'd to the Commons of England, assembled in Parliament wherein is briefly set forth, his zealous endeavours for promoting the service of the publick with the obstructions and illegal proceedings of some persons imploy'd in the administration of publick affairs. And the true reason of those false aspersions and scandalous reflections, layd on him by, the euemy's [sic] of the government.	Everett, George, Shipwright.	1698-1699? (1699)	Wing E3547; ESTC R224218	13,302	20

Money wishing that the State of affairs would admit thereof which would Certainly give Dispatch to his Majesty's Service and Save his Treasure tho' not near so great a Summ as the Proposer Imagined All which his Majesty on the 31. of January was Pleased further to refer to the Lords of his most Honourable Privy Councell appointed a Committee of Trade and Plantations before whom on the 1 of April the report of the Navy-Board was proved to be False and Prejudicial to his Majestys Service and that Several other Illegall Practcies were so fully proved before their Lordships against Several Officers belonging to the said Yards then present that the President of the Councill did declare that Plain matter of Fact was fully proved against them And that most Honourable Board did also declare that it was high time to make a Reformation in his Majestys Yards and that they would appoint a time to Consider of the means But the proposer Considering that Nothing could conduce so much to an Effectual cure as the laying the Wound more open did on the 6 th of April lay before their Lordships Several aditionall Articles relating thereunto which their Lordships did gratefully receive giveing the proposer Encouragement beyond Expectation but on the discovery of the Plot as I remember their Lordships time then not permitting to Examine the same that matter was referred to the Lords of the Admiralty where the said abuses were so fully and plainly proved that one of their Lordships did Solemnly protest that things were come to such a pass that he did Believe it was Impossible for an Honest man to be amongst them And after I had proved what I had offered the whole matter being Several days under Examination which is Briefly drawn up in five Sheets of Paper ready to be produced Their Lordships did in September 95 make another report to the Lords of his Majesties most Honourable Privy Councill apointed a Committee as aforesaid wherein they Set forth that they had heard the Proposer and other evidence and that they had dismissed Several offenders and signed ordres to prevent the like abuses for the Future But I never heard of more then one Person viz. the Master Boatmaker of Portsmouth that was dismist amongst them all After this the Lords of the Councill appointed a Committee as aforesaid the 3 d. of Febuary 9â…š did send for me and at my appearance did tell me that it did appear to them that I had done the Nation a Sigual Piece of Service and that I should be well rewarded for the same directing the Clark of the Councill then attending to draw up their Report to the King highly in my Favour and that most Honourable Board did then also move his Grace the Duke of Shrewsbury to recommend me to his Majesty for a reward whereby his Majesty by an order of the 2 d. of February 95. was Graciously pleased to direct the Lords of the Admiralty to put me in some Employment in the Navy or give me a Suitable reward and Bounty for my good Service Care and Pains which after Three Years attendance to my Damage in Expence of time and Money 500. Pounds I was disdainfully put off with 100. Pound without correcting those abuses and Extravagant Practices And altho' the Proposer and his proposalls were so Slighted and rejected by the Admiralty and Navy-board yet I do affirm that which no Unbyassed Person can deny that the said Summ of 100000. Pounds Per Annum might be now saved in building and repairing the Royal Navy and that without any Damage to the Oeconomie as they call it if a Reformation should be made agreeable to what hath been Proposed and sutable Persons Imployed in the Management thereof To which I add that 300000. Pounds Per Annum might be Saved in the Navall affaires if that Service were well Managed 2 That in the Year 95. I Printed and delivered Proposals to the Parliament for supplying the Royal Navy with able Seamen and Marriners upon all occasions and Preventing many abuses committed by disorderly Pressmasters both by Sea and Land together with the saving Severall Immence Summs of Money Yearly Expended in Impress Conduct and Bounty Money with the Charge occsioned by employing Pressmacks and keeping Seamen in pay the Winter Season and secureing the Publick Trade of the Kingdom in time of War as also preventing Several Hardships imposed on Seamen and Marriners to the ruin of many Thousands of them and their Families as is Set forth at Large in the said Proposall 3 After this being informed of great Embezelments made of his Majesties Navall-stores and being Encouraged by his Majestys Royal Proclamation of August 93. I obtained Warrants of the Commissioners of the Navy in the Year 95 to Seize such stores and altho' their Honours told me that they had Granted Several Warrants but had not any returns made thereof yet I made such discoveries that one of the Commissioners at the Board told me he Believed all the Merchants-Ships were fitted with the King's Stores and at Harwich I Seized several Parcells of the King's Navall-Stores Perticularly one great parcell of New cordage to the Value of 65 Pounds which upon a Tryal ill Managed a verdict about two Years after was given against the King and that my self and others for seizing the same were abused as thieves and robbers and our vessell hired by the Commissioners of the Navy was Seized by an Officer of the Custom-house to the Great Prejudice of the owner as also of my self and others yet it is most notoriously evident that the said Goods were really Embezeled Stores as the Lords of the Admiralty did confess and I can plainly make appear with the whole proceedings of that Voyage and the refractory proceedings of Several of his Majesties officers belonging to that Place with their rejecting and contemning his Majestys Royal Proclamation as also the Warrants granted by the Right honourable the Earl of Romney and the Commissioners of the Navy A Complaint at large hath been laid before the said Commissioners and the Lords of the Admiralty and Several Affidavits made thereupon without the least Redress and the said Commissioners of the Navy to stop my further Progress in that matter have not only denied their Warrants to Search but did also refuse to pay the Thirds Pursuant to his Majesties said Proclamation untill the Offenders were convicted and to put a full stop to such discoverys they have often declared that the said Proclamation was against the Law and have Threatened me at their Board for asserting his Majesties Perogative in granting the same And by their Employing their Sollicitor Mr. Whitaker to Prosecute the Offenders as by many Letters I have in my custody it is manifest they did many offences were Stifled and Several others viz. 12 Bills preferred and found at Hickses-hall in July 95. with others Indicted at other times and in other Countys were never prosecuted whereby that Service was obstructed forasmuch as there could be no