Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	follow_v	king_n	scotland_n	2,694	5	8.4812	4	false

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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

appear by Hundreds or Thousands as they have been forced to do of late and as Joah said to David steal away as Men that flee in Battel which 〈◊〉 old David 〈◊〉 be of a sad consequence to him as they that prease may read 〈…〉 beginning of the 19 Chap. of the 2 d. Book of ●amuel and therefore he advised David to speak comsortably to them But by the present management of our Seamen they have been many of them forced to fare miserable card as it seems they did in several hips on small Beans called by them Horse-beans two Days in the Week and pinched for 〈◊〉 Ale called Water until they have six or seven Pound a Man due for Victuals and Water-money as by the King's Books will appear yet they are never like to come to see if His Majesty will pity any of their Miseries provided there be but so much care taken to set two or three Ships Companies to Press diligently in London it scares them away from the City worse than their Enemy's Guns ever did scare them from Fighting But as some of them said when they had hid a Day or two to be kept as if they were in a Goal they could not indure and so as they came privately to London they stole away with speed and secresie And they that can think they will ever come chearfully again into the Service must have a stronger Belief than mine whereas many of them said had they had but one Month's liberty to have spent their Money freely they would have as freely gone into the Service again But not to have one Fourteen Days liberty now at 7 Years end for those poor Souls that escape with their Lives seems to me to be miserable miserable deplorably miserable And whereas had they been paid off yearly and had liberty on Shoar and their Lives preserved multitudes of Seamen we might in reason have expected to have had to spare and save many hundred thousand Pound per Year as aforesaid But 23. If our Seamen be so scarce and so destroy'd when our Enemy's Fleet is all laid up it may be inquired what we shall want when their Fleet is all out And if all our Ship 's Books be examin'd what we have now and what number will be needful to fill them up with Men it will be found to be near fifteen Thousand Men notwithstanding all the extraordinary charge of some Millions of Money for time past And if those in the Service now be never suffered to see their Families or Relations it may be considered by all thinking Men how those who do grow up for time to come will ever be incourag'd to come into the Service of the Nation so freely as others have done formerly seeing those that come into the publick Service must resolve to renounce Wife and Family 24. It may be inquired if Men are turn'd from Ship to Ship until they are Sick and then set on Shoar for cure and there dye and be then Qd. or Rd. out of their Pay how in this case it can be safe to be in the Service of the Nation for time to come or for any Tradesmen to trust them that are therein if there be not care taken to secure the Pay of those who are so miserably turned over from Ship to Ship until fallen sick and so sent on Shoar and so dye and Runn'd out of their Pay 25. And if there be sixty odd Thousand Quaeried and Runn'd out of their Pay if there be a Sitting to pretend to relieve them twice in a Week and there be twenty Petitions in a Week heard that is one Thousand in a Year and so at that rate if all Petition for Relief their Petitions will be sixty Years in hearing pro rato And 27. If some are kept a Year or more before they are Relieved whose case is just then it may be considered how very unjust and cruel it must be to delay Justice to them And to prove the many Cruelties and Injustices put on Ruined Seamen those Certificates and Affidavits laid up in the Navy-Office of those who are Relieved will be sufficient witness besides the many Thousands whose dreadful case is such that can get no Relief 27. And if Sixty Thousand of the miserable Seamen are Run out of their Pay as by the several Ships Books will appear this may admit of a double serious Consideration one of which God in Justice will require of the Nation let it be passed over as slightly as it will by those who have all along helped to ruin our Loyal Seamen and their Families and that is How many are unjustly and cruelly and shamefully and unmercifully Run out of their Pay And if but a sixth part are made Run wrongfully their Groans and Cries will cry louder to Heaven for Justice or Vengeance against the Nation than all the other five parts will do us good And indeed the wise Man fuith Ecolus 34.22 23. The bread of the needful is the life of the Poor he that defraudeth him thereof is a Murderer He that taketh away his Neighbours living slayeth him and be that defraudeth the Labourer of his hire is a blood-shedder And when one prayeth and another curseth whose Voice will the Lord hear Now this is Printed with our Church-Bibles and will witness to the World That it is a killing a bloody and blood-sucking thing to take away the Hire of the Labourer and not such a slight thing as some that have risen almost from the dunghill on the ruins of others may suppose and therefore worthy to be the more ●…ly inquired after and the more especially since there is a more pro●… Number of Ten Thousands of Men Run out of their Pay than ever the World saw in so few Years and such fatal Losses or Ships and Merchandize followed the same But 2dly Suppose the other Fifty Thousand be made Run Justly then it may be supposed greatly useful for the Information of the Honourable Houses that would encourage the Seamen to known and be informed what dreadful usage or Fatal Management or miserable discouragement the Seamen of England and Scotland have met with this War that should make them Run away so many times Ten Thousand out of the Service of so gracious a King and so good a Country where God Angels and Men will bear them Witness they will lay down their Lives at any time for the Seruice of both and that they have always been Lovers of King William and Couragious for their Countrey and will if led on go up to the Muzzels of their Enemies Guns in defence of their Couetrey and have never lost one Ship by their default this War and have never run away for fear of sighting or being kill'd By which it appears there has been so great a number of miseries thrown on some of them this War which they esteem worse than Death and yet there is a further misery of their conversing with ten times more Death by sickness in some