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land_n	country_n	sea_n	see_v	1,852	5	3.4928	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44083	Ruin to ruin, after misery to misery being the distressed, and ruined, and perishing state of the loyal and faithful seamen of England, and wherein is laid down : I. their ruined state in several particulars, II. that it is like to be three or four years more before they are paid, except an extraordinary supply be raised, and appropriated for them, III. that as many ships, and thousands and ten thousands of men have five or six years pay due, if they are not timely paid, it is like to be eight or nine years between their beginning to earn their money and their being paid, IV. a proposal humbly offered how they may be paid off, all by May next, without borrowing one penny of money, V. several reasons for their being justly and honestly paid, VI. an humble proposal for the advantage of a million or two in a year to the nation in a few years, and lastly, an humble supplication for the taking off some part of the act of Parliament concerning the poor miserable seamens paying 6d the month out of their wages / all humbly represented by ... William Hodges.	Hodges, William, Sir, 1645?-1714.	1699 (1699)	Wing H2332; ESTC R5551	37,766	44

how dreaful will that be and indeed I think the Seamens Families are many times as dreadful Objects of Misery as most in England I was a going to write some Particulars of their Miseries by Reason of their lying out of their Honest Just Pay 4 5 or 6 Years but I will not write a Volume as big as the Book of Martyrs concerning the dreadfullness of their Ruin but instead of that I remember the Church of England Catechism my good old gracious Mother Taught me near fifty Years past To do to all as I would they should do unto me and thus every one in England that is Catechized according to the Order of the Church of England is bound to own and therefore in the Thirteenth Place If any Persons in England would willingly be kept out of their Right and not have one Penny of Money in 4 5 6 or 7 Years to keep their Families from Perishing then with a safe conscience they may be Content that the Seamens Families should be so served But if the Gentry would not be kept out of their Rights several Years neither the Clergy out of their Tithes several Years and run the hazard of Starving their Families I wonder how they can pretend to Teach their Children this Doctrine and will not keep it themselves Fourteenth place Though it may be I shall be complained of for my speaking so much for the Ruined Seamens Families being Relieved yet I will bring this as another Argument That all the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons of Engand are bound by the Churches Order in Prayer in the Litany to beg of God on Sundays Wednesdays and Fridays that God would please to Succour and help and Comfort all that are in Danger Necessity and Tribulation and that God would defend and provide for the Fatherless Children and Widows and all that are desolate and oppressed and I would not be so uncharitable as to think that so Honourable Persons will go to mock God with Praying for that they care not should be brought to pass and I am sure it is not my Duty to Pray for any other to Relieve and Comfort and provide for the Ruined Seamen their Fatherless and Widows but only this Government that they have served for I do declare before God and the World that if it be pretended by others to relieve those ruined Creatures they would be in danger of destroying Thousands at Land before they relieve those at Sea But indeed I will be plain-hearted to say in the Presence of the ever Blessed God before I whom I write every Word and leave it as a Fifteenth Agument That seeing the Seamen of England have served their own Native Country and lost 60 Thousand Lives in that Faithful Service and defence of their Country if this Government at last by the Reason of so many Villains Cheating Couzening and Undermining of them had been overthrown yet it had been a dreadful sin and Shame to the Nation it self to have suffered the Loyal Seamen to Perish and their Families to be ruined for want of their Just and Honest Payments Sixteenth I would appeal to the Reverend Bishops in the House of Lords whether if these Nations starve and ruin the Begger'd miserable Seamen and their Families for want of their Just Payment it be not a more crying Sin than one of Sodom's Sins spoken of in the 16th Chap. of Ezekiel 49th and 50th verses where God said to his professing Church and People by his Prophet These were the Sins of thy Sister Sodom Pride Idleness fullness of Bread and that she did not strengthen hands of th● Poor and Needy Now if these were the Sins of Sodom that She did not strengthen the hands of the Poor and Needy how much greater Sin must it be to starve and Begger and ruin the poor an● Needy by keeping them out of their just Wages and Dues many Sums of which were earned with the Loss of Lives Bu● it was not said of Sodom that She Employed Thousands of po●● and miserable Wretches to defend the Place they did belong to and would not Pay them in time but if Sodom did not she●● Mercy to the Poor and Needy whether if poor Ruined Se●●mens Families be left to Starve and Perish several Years with out their honest Pay the Sin of Eugland will not as far exceed Sodoms as Injustice and Cruelty exceeds Unmercifulness And therefore Justice and Mercy will have that the Seamen of England do require a speedy and honest Payment But it may be some will say that Sodom was guilty of Beastly Lust besides which is seldom seen in England but to that it may be answered That it is to be feared it is practised too much in England witness one Sea Captain which stood in the Pil●ory thrice this Week for attempting it so grosly but if there be not so much of that as was in Sodom it may be feared that there is ten times more Lewdness with Women in London it self than was in Sodom and if one should say there is as many destroyed in London by Fire from Hell in three or four Years as was in Sodom by fire from Heaven it may be some would think I was Mad but to put that out of doubt they that will read the Yearly Bills of Mortality may find that in some years past there was near a hundred Persons in a Year dyed of the French-Pox and if it be true as a Physician hath Printed that there is near ten times as many dye of it that are not set down to dye of that Disease but of Consumptions or other Diseases then it may be supposed there is near a Thousand People the Year dye within the Bills of Mortality that are consumed by Fire which shews that the Judgments of God are not at an end in the World and if one should imagine how many there are that Escape and get Cur'd if they could be numbred up it would be a prodigious number of filthiness that is Committed in London and England and we may dread the Hand of God against these Nations for this or for other Sins and the Reason why I do Represent this being out of the Way of Seamens Payment is because it may be some of the Fathers of the Church may consider of the Crying Voice of this Sin before God and of the Thousands and Ten Thousands of Families Beggered and Ruined and of the Multitudes of Lovely Young-men that are drawn in by Lewd Women and Corrupted in Body and Souls many have been Rotten before they have been Ripe and the Youth of the Nation and the Flower of the age being in danger of Ruin and I do believe it would be very acceptable to God and Man to have Laws made to Transport all those Lewd Women away to the Plantations for Slaves all their days and to cut off the first Joynt of their Little-Finger for a Mark and if ever they returned again to England to hang them up and to Confiscate the

a Ship of 300 Men be ordered to be Paid at Portsmouth or Chatham fourteen Days hence it may be it is ten days before the Money and Commissioners get down Now suppose these 300 Men Officers and all Gost the King but 2 s. a day apiece victuals and Wages that is One Pound a Man for ten Days is 300 l. Now suppose an Order is sent down to Clear them off to Morrow and give every Man 5 s. to Travel to London is 75 l. And pay them at the ten Days end the King will save 225 l. in a Ship besides travelling Charges and they that Live in London also save abundance of Money in their being forced to Run Threescore Miles after their Just Debts But I have often admired at the Reason of putting His Majesty to extraordinary needless Charge to carry away so many Hundred Thousands of Pounds from London to those two miserable Places Chatham and Portsmouth and now I think of Chatham Rochester and Strood makes me think of three Places Nick-named Cheat them Rot them and Starve them God grant that our Seamen and their Families be not any of them left to be Ruined there but it is very strange that a little Town or two should have more Friends to get the Ships paid off last there than the City of London should to get them to be paid here How Kissing goeth by Favour I know not but now to have done with that having almost tired my self with Writing and yet lest a great part unwritten that I should or might have written will come to propose something I promised for the Nations advantage to some Millions of Money in a few Years and it is this Suppose the Distilling Trade for Brandy do take up in one Year about One hundred Thousand Quarters of Malt and now suppose at 30 Shillings the Quarter that is One hundred and fifty Thousand Pound which by the way is a prodigious Quantity of Corn I was a going to say wasted but I will say Distilled out for Idle Tipple that our Forefathers heard not so much as the Name of and it is no wonder Corn hath been so exceeding dear and so many Poor ready to perish if there be near so much of it turn'd into Fire and Vapour that it may be hath killed more Men and Women these late Years in England than the Sword and it fireth the very Souls of many out of their Bodies by degrees if not presently as several have been but by degrees I have known many both Man and Women have shorten'd their Lives many Years by drinking so much of such fiery Drink to dry up their very Livers or Lungs and neither fear of Death or any Wisdom Sence or Reason can take off Mankind from what their Lust and Appetites are set upon and if there were an open Trade to France if we should but send a Million a Year of our Large Money for their Brandy and Wine it would be the way to Begger us in a very few Years therefore if we must have so much Brandy in England I would humbly propose That there might be a Law made to have our Hedge rows in every Field by Act of Parliament obliged in seven or eight Years time to have an Apple-Tree in every Thirty Foot of Hedges and there might be several Millions of Apple-Trees planted in eight Years time the Kernels of Appels now would the first two or three Years produce Nurseries of Trees enough and they in about ten or twelve years might come to bear Fruit and being as I said planted in the Hedg-rows need not take up an Acre of Land for 40 Millions of Trees and if the Trees comes to bear would preserve our Corn from being burnt up I mean into Brandy and it is our English Syder will make almost as good Brandy as the French and if this Plantation were but Established it would Pay its own Charge of the Planting ten times over quickly and if it was once taken up it would never be laid down again for Apples are for Meat and Drink to several poor Families in the Country and at last the very wood of the Trees if Forty Years Old would be worth for Firing when they have done Bearing Fruit five times the Charge of Planting and as I said we need not lose an Acre of Land and if any would propose the Planting of Oaks after the same manner one in every 30 Foot of Hedge-rows Acorns are cheap enough and if every twenty Foot had an Apple-tree and every twenty Foot an Oak planted the timber of one and the Fruit of the other would make the next age Rejoice and have Cause to Bless God for the Care of this which makes me think of the Old Motto He that delights to Plant and Set Makes after Ages in his Debt Now if after-Ages will be in debt to this for several new Follies and Miseries and cheating Tricks it is pitty But they should be in debt to us for several good Laws and indeed good Improvements and God grant they may be in debt to us for some good good Reformation that so Iniquity may not be our Ruin and now having writ out all my Book and made my Charge almost double what I designed by Printing so much in several Cases more than I designed and yet I could not well avoid it being only guided by the good will and Pleasure of God but wanting a wiser Head to let my Notions pass through and being always afraid to leave out my own honest Design to take in other Mens Wit so that if I should suffer for any part of it I could with a good Conscience bless God I have written every Word in the sincerity of my Heart in Love to God and to His Majesty and the Parliament and the Nation for I am not of the Number of those sensless Wretches that would Fire the House to destroy the Rats and Mice neither long for Slavery because the King and the Nation and the Seamen have been so dreadfully Cheated since we had our Liberty but I am of the honest Bishops Mind who had some Brains in his Head when they told him The Presbyterians were worse than the Papists No said he That is false For said he The Presbyterians would pull my Lawn Sleeves off but the Papist would pull off my Skin And this I would leave as a Memorandum for all those who grumble against this Government and would long for the Garlick and Onions of Egypt I mean for a Popish King that as the Presbyterian Ministers and People did Plot and contrive to bring in King Chales II. and lost some thousands of their Lives for him before-hand and yet when he came to the Crown he would not Trust one of them unto the day of his Death but hated them and ruined them and their Religion tho he was called a Protestant and had been in Covenant with God and that People yet he broke through all Oaths that he took to them and through all Bonds of Love or Gratitude and how much more dreadfully would a Popish King Ruin all the Protestant Religion and People in England if he were in Power And now to have done I Humbly beg Pardon of God and of his Majesty King William and of the Two most Honourable Houses for all that is amiss in this or me and that God would be the Protection of me and mine in and thro Christ for time and all Eternity and now to the Father Son and Holy Spirit Three Persons and one Holy Glorious and only Wise God be the Everlasting Praises Amen So prays he who is His Most Gracious Majesty King William's Loyal and Faithful Subject and the Parliament and Nations humble Servant while Feb. the 4th 1698 9. William Hodges By reason of the Author 's great distance from the Press there is some small Errata's as Page 3. Lady-Day for May-day And page 25. Prophesying instead of Professing The Reader is desired to Correct them or any other with his Pen. And the Author being not Born for himself is willing to present every new Member of the House of Commons with two Books one about the Seamens Ruin and the other Proposals for their Incouragement But not knowing which they are will leave the Books with Mr. Applesby their Door-keeper for those that please to call for them FINIS