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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50378	Naval speculations and maritime politicks being a modest and brief discourse of the Royal Navy of England, of its oeconomy and government : and a projection for an everlasting seminary of seamen by a royal maritime hospital : with a project for a royal fishery : also necessary measures in the present war with France &c. / by Henry Maydman.	Maydman, Henry.	1691 (1691)	Wing M1420; ESTC R30058	112,498	385

Visit all the Sea Ports Rivers and Creeks of every Parish and place where Maritime People Inhabit as Seamen Fishermen Hoymen Ferrymen Bargemen c. within their several Counties and there shall send for or summon before them the Church-wardens and Overseers of the Poor who shall give them account of what such Men live within their Precincts their true Names Sir-names Ages and Aboads which said Accounts shall by the said Vice-Admiral be drawn into a fair List and sent unto the said Office and there be entred into the said Books Now the Vice-Admiral might by his Warrant send to the said Parishes to send in to him by such a day appointed at a most convenient place for their ease the said Account and in case any shall neglect the said Duty or Conceal any Man that hath used the said Practice and place for the space of Six Months from between the Ages of Eighteen and Sixty that are not worth one Hundred Pounds clear when Debts paid or in such sort as the Lord High Admiral shall direct his Warrant to the Vice-Admiral the Nature and Substance of the Vice-Admirals to contain the substance of the High-Admirals which Returns or Presentments least they prove to be false by Concealments and Partialities they should be required upon Oath After which if the said Vice-Admiral shall upon his Visits find false or partial he should send to the Quarter Sessions next his Information of that Officer's Perjury under Hand and Seal to the Clerk of the Peace who should file the said Information against that Church-warden or Overseer of the Poor and proceed against him in behalf of the King as for Perjury and punished by the Judgment of the Bench. If the Laws extant are not sufficient to impower the Lord High Admiral to do these things as here mentioned there might be a Clause added to his Power as the King and Parliament shall think meet for the better governing of the Maritime Affairs by which Methods aforesaid being duly observed and kept it would cost the King for keeping the said Office but a small matter which would soon be saved in the great Expences for Pressing of Men beside the great Abuses done in the Countrys be prevented if the Vice-Admirals be good Men. Also if the said Law were That if any Parish shall Conceal any one between the said Sessions and summoned and not bring him forth That for every Man so Concealed and proved by the Oath of one Man That he was in the Parish by the space of Twenty four Hours and not seized by any of the Parish then the Vice-Admiral's Deputy shall take Distress upon the said Church-wardens or Overseers of the Poor for Ten Shillings for every such Man and for every time so Concealed to be born by the Parish equally out of the Parish Rates I only add That if the Lord High Admiral 's Warrants to all the High Sheriffs of England that they do send their Warrants to the Constables of Hundreds Wapentakes c. and they to the Petty-Constables or Tything-men That they should make a like Presentment viz. The Constable of the Hundred should deliver it in every Assizes or Goal-delivery which Presentment the Petty-Constables should be sworn to the truth thereof before some Justice of the Peace before the High Constable receiveth it and then he should from thence draw one Presentment for the Hundred to give in at the Assizes and say as from the Petty-Constables under their Oaths thus presenteth out of which Presentments the Clerk of the Assizes shall give the Admiralty the needful Account at the end of every Circuit there to be entered into the Office aforesaid For many Men when War is do betake themselves to live with their Friends in the Inlands and follow their Occupations and at the end of the Wars do return to their Maritime Lives or wait to make slips into Merchant-men but this being duly executed by Vice-Admirals Custom-houses and High-Sheriffs and trinsmitted unto such an Office as before mentioned and there well digested into Method and duly kept so it would enable the Lord High Admiral at all times to give the King his Council and Parliament when required a true and certain state of the Kingdom as to Maritime Strength and also enable him to collect them from all Places in little Time less Charges and less Trouble to the People in their Disquiet of the Country So there might be made good Estimates of the Increase or Decrease of our Maritime Strength at any time to be gathered out of the Ledger-Books of the said Office and only Communicable to the Admiralty and yet farther at the King 's or perhaps the Lord High Admiral 's Order Proclamation might be made upon the Exchange or put out in Gazattes Requiring all Merchants Owners of Ships c. to signifie by their Letter to the said Office where their Ships were by their last Advices and whither bound and where expected next with some Estimate of the Ships number of Men Burthen and some value of Cargo that care proportionably might be taken for their Protection and Preservation the which may often prevent the sudden Seisures of the Subjects and Wealthy Effects of the Nation for it is not possible that Merchants c. can be privy to the Intrigues of States which ought to have their Paths in Secret and Select Councils As for the Methodizing these things I do not project but only hint the Basis and Foundations thereof that the Superstructures might be raised thereon to perfection by the Skilful Architectors of the Wise Legislators and State Politicians of the Nation IX The Measures necessary to be taken in our Present Wars with the French and in point of Balancing of Trade for the future And First For War it being our present Condition IT would be an extraordinary means to Facilitate our Desires if we did bid at a large rate for the whole subjecting them in the West-Indies and for the doing of which we should have an especial eye of Intelligence whensoever they shall send any Succours thither and if the strength of ours already sent were not sufficient to perform it in December next a sufficient Supply with Land-men and all Military Provisions with Artillery should be sent for the effecting it and never upon making Peace should they be restored to any Command there I mean in any part of America So would our Collonies thrive undisturbed and be a mighty help to our Navigation and as much an Abatement to them For the whole Commands of those Parts being once brought under one Interest it would be like a well-twisted Cord made up of many Threds although some thereof were not of any strength of themselves yet by their near conjunction and twisting together with the others all being twisted one way acquireth a considerable strength For the Interest of the French in those parts have of late Years thriven to a great degree not only to the Extirpating of us out of St. Christophers

abroad to certifie c. whereas the Parties aggrieved would find of the Officers that are Witnesses of the Chance enough to let them know the truth thereof and not Persons interested in their Cure a Shoar and never saw the Mischance I will say no more but thus That the best Constituted Pollicies that ever yet were in the World nay go so high as God's Church they are Humane and Servants or rather Subjects to time which corrupts and rusts the most durable things and therefore for its perpetuation it must undergo some time of cleansing away the Corruptions after which it may re-assume its pristine Vigour and Beauty So I say if the Navy may undergo a cleansing and scouring so may this also viz. of the right Chanels in the first Act and Institution thereof and pare off all evil by Orders or by Constitutions crept in as by Allowances of Wages and Sallaries to Receivers Pay-masters Clerks Chyrurgeens c. Sale of Lands and Rents and make due Elections and also for due accounting with the Pay-master Although I accuse not yet it is not to be doubted That Corruptions have not failed to be here also and therefore I do heartily recommend it to the Inspection of the Supervisors and Visitors of the same And for an encrease of the Revenue That whereas of late Years the Ships of small Complements seldom have Chaplains to supply the place that those Groats are ordered for the Chest I confess for some time before that Money was begged of the King by some Navy Officers I think as odd a sort of Request as Gift to beg the Money stopt out of Mens Pay to enrich them but now it goes to the Chest to relieve the Limbless and Maimed Sailer from whom it is taken I say no more but that if the Ships which are fitted out only for the Chanel had no Chaplains put on Board them save some in the Flags and only the Allowance of the Chaplains Eighteen Shillings per Month be given to one whom the Captain or majority of Officers shall chuse to read Prayers and do the Offices for the Dead the said Eighteen Shillings per Month added to his other Pay would be a sufficient Recompence for the same but any that goes out of the Chanel should have Chaplains and they able as I said before But in the Chanel there is the greatest Ships and most Money given away and for the least purpose for very seldom have they Opportunities for other than Prayers and that rarely for they are either coming in or going out heaving working or coming to Anchor or bad Weather in the Chanel so that I say the use of such Missions serves to a very little purpose viz. to instruct Men to a Godly Life For the Prayers I spake before of would amount to as much and many poor maimed Men be relieved with the same the which is no small Sums in the great Ships which are in the Channel but when Ships are to go on a Foreign Voyage they should never go without able Men. Secondly To Provide for the Poor Male Children of the Nation That is a great part of the product of the People of the Nation are poor People who are not able to provide for the Fruit of their own Bodies so that in the Reign of the said good Queen Elizabeth was devised and enacted a Law for an equal Tax to be raised from all Estates Personal and Real for the Relief of the Poor and therein prescribed a Method to keep the Poor on work to avoid their being idle and useless in the State that they might not live in Idleness and Looseness at the charge of their Neighbours which part of the Law took so little effect that no Workhouses were used out of a general pity to the Poor which made that defect so that of that Act only one part took effect viz. the poor were provided for in their Wants which fell upon them by Converting the Lands of the Monasticks and Recluses into Lay Possessions on which depended great numbers of People Poor and Idle but for that part which was to provide for their Idleness that they might not live useless and burthensome Members of the State took I say no effect but that they and their Children also bred up in the said Idle Life are generally Heirs of their Parents Poverties by which they are constant sharers of their Neighbours Estates and Labours and are of no more use to the State than by their generally fruitful Procreations and serve to people the Nation of which there is great want considering the Situation Product and Manufact thereof sufficient to afford Maintainance and Employment for five times the number and especially upon the Seas to Employ five times the number which would Employ and Maintain ten times the number on the Land Now that there might be a kind of willing Constraint if I may say so on the People to addict themselves to Maritime Lives which might produce the effect of producing Seamen and encreasing our Maritime strength If there were a Law enacted that every poor Boy of a Parent that receives Alms from the Parish shall at the Age of Fourteen Years be brought to the Sheriff of every County with an Indenture made by a Justice of Peace and bound to the King until he comes to the Age of Twenty four Years as the former Law directs which Sheriff shall cause a Pass to be made and convey them from Parish to Parish at the Countrys Charges to London to a general Hospital viz. at Greenwich the great new House that stands void there it might soon be fitted into an excellent general Hospital where should be Officers appointed to keep them viz. a Superannuated Captain to Command the House a Purser to Victual them with Petty-Warrants from the Victualling-Office a Boatswain Gunner and Carpenter all Superannuated Officers each to take a Squadron of them under their care to go with them and Employ them in the Yard at Deptford to serve the Caulkers and such Work as Boys may do and to have Junke to the House and pick Oakam there and dry it ready for all the Yards and some of them that are fit to be taught there to Write and Read and learn Navigation to be divided and ordered into Squadrons by the said Captain and lodged in Beds and Hammocks as if on Board and also at every one of the King's-Yards let there be a proportionable Hospital provided to keep a convenient number of them to be sent from the general Hospital from time to time as they shall dispose of them viz. all the King's Officers Warranted that have Servants allowed them if there be Servants in these Hospitals should take of them to be Turn'd-over with their Indentures and bound to them by the Commissioner of the place who shall serve them in the full of their Indenture made to the King also at the general Hospital should be a Commissioner of the Navy whose particular Station shall be