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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35158	Justice perverted, and innocence & loyalty oppressed, or, A detection of the corruptions of some persons in places of great trust in the government which would have been laid open the last session of Parliament, according to the intentions of both Houses, had it not been prevented.	Crosfeild, Robert.	1695 (1695)	Wing C7245; ESTC R7496	24,562	31

Lordships were pleas'd to look upon the Navy-board's Report to be scandalous viz. full of Falsities and Prevarications to weary and impose upon your Lordships to set aside Proposals that may be so beneficial to the Publick Good and Safety of the Nation then I shall humbly leave to your Lordships Justice what Censure to pass on the Navy-board for making such a Report to obstruct the King's Service which is sign'd by no less than eight of their Members † † R. Haddock E. Dummer G. Sergison Tho. Wilshaw D. Liddall J. Hill S. Pett G. S. Loe. George Everett Febr. 25th 1695. There 's no rational Man but will conclude this Proposal of Mr. Everett's practicable tho the Navy-board took indirect Means to crade it In short the Design of his Proposal is no other but to root out all those Evils which Custom and the Corruption of the Age hath produced and no ways to alter the Oeconomy of the Navy as is insinuated in the Lords of the Admiralty and Commissioners of the Navy's Reports upon his Proposal So that had it been put in practice by this time His Majesty might have sav'd three or four hundred thousand Pound And for the Commissioners of the Navy to assert the Building and Repairing of the Royal Navy did not annually amount to 100000 l. which plainly appears to be a prevaricating with Mr. Everett's words when they knew at the same time the Estimate given into the House of Commons for the Wear and Tare of the Royal Navy for this present Year was 780000 l. as appears by the Votes of the House of Commons is a most notorious Falshood One would therefore think any Man that had the least spark of Honour or Justice in him would have been ashamed to sign such a Report And why the Lords of the Admiralty should keep it so long by them and not acquaint His Majesty therewith I know not however it 's plain it was never intended it should have seen the light it being forced from them and the design being to weary out the Man that he might waste and spend his Substance and so be forced to decline A most effectual Way indeed and sufficient warning to all Men to take care how they offer any thing for the Publick Service tho never so advantagious Besides this Proposal Mr. Everett hath made appear by a cloud of Witnesses the great Embezlements made in the King 's Yards and proved * Before a Committee of Council many things in the face of the Commissioners of the Navy and made them eat and drink Shame Yet still they stand as firm as a Rock and say they have done no evil The Sailors being inhumanly and barbarously treated is the only true Cause why they so much decline the Publick Service The poor Sailers that venture their Lives and Limbs to serve their King and Country and who are one of the greatest Bulwarks of the Kingdom have been all along most inhumanly and barbarously treated and they and their Families reduced to a miserable and deplorable State particularly by the wicked Practices of putting Queries and Runs upon their pay For amongst those great numbers that are set on Shore sick those that die and others that continue sick above thirty days and those sent to the London Hospitals for cure who are thereby disabled to return to their Ships are for the most part made run Others whose Ships are sailed before recovery having gone on Board other Ships are prick'd run from the Ship they were sent from and if a Seaman is turn'd over from Ship to Ship and by that means has serv'd on Board four or five Ships in the Navy yet if he happens to be prick'd run in the last Ship he serv'd in he shall of consequence be prick'd run in all the preceding Ships By this means a Query or Run takes away a Man's Pay worse than an Execution and by the present Practice no Seaman or his poor Family is at any certainty of having the Benefit of the King's Pay for it is in the Power of the Captain Captain 's Clerk Purser Clerk of the Cheque Muster-Master or Clerks in the Navy-Office when ever they please to put a Run or Query upon any Seaman's Pay without giving Reason for so doing or the Name of the Person that put it So that for these black pieces of Robbery no one is liable to be called to accompt but the poor Sailer is kept wholly in the dark and he or his Wife may wait at the Navy-Office Month after Month with Petitions to no purpose till he has spent all his Substance And when he begins to talk of his being thus cheated and robbed he is threatned to be tried for his Life as a Mutineer So that the Barbarity the poor Sailors do and have suffered during this War is unexpressible The Blood of thousands of Families are poured out as Sacrifices to the Covetousness of those whose Duty and Place it is to be their Guardians and Protectors By all which it 's plain that whatever good Laws may be made for the Increase and Encouragement of Seamen will prove ineffectual so long as these Practices continue These Grievances have been at large set forth in Print by one Mr. Hodges and a Scheme of their true Cause laid barefac'd before the Admiralty by Mr. Trevor in a Letter and a Remedy for them propos'd in Writing to the Admiralty by Mr. Gibson by order of a Committee of Council and why there 's nothing done but this Fraud and Robbery still practised and supported is what no reason can be given for Since neither Mr. Hodges's Mr. Trevor's nor Mr. Gibson's Papers before mention'd have ever been exploded the Lords of the Treasury were so fully convinced of these Cheats that their Lordships did by Warrant under their Hands in December last appoint Mr. Gibson to receive all Informations of Abuses in Paiment of Seamens Tickets which doubtless would have put a stop to these wicked Practices Notwithstanding which the said Mr. Gibson has never been suffered to act and so their Lordships good Intentions have been wholly defeated But why their Lordships have not been able to put their own Orders in execution is another strange thing to me I shall now lay down Mr. Trevor's Letter before mention'd by which the Reader will be satisfied as to the Humour and Temper of these Gentlemen and after what rate things are and have been carried on It is as followeth My Lords HAving consider'd your Lordships Commands to wit That I lay before your Honourable Board a Proposal to prevent false Tickets and Powers for the future I find my self oblig'd humbly to represent the following Particulars in order to satisfy your Lordships therein so far as I may at present not being willing to take on my Shoulders who am so much loaded already such a burden as an effectual Proposal to that purpose must be Therefore to let your Lordships see I am no Stranger to that Practice