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A59919	Britannia triumphans; or An effectual method wholly to destroy the power of France by encouraging navigation in all its branches. Whereby their Majesties fleet may be sufficiently mann'd in a months time, on any occasion, without impressing; and by making a competent provision for such as shall be wounded in the service of Their Majesties, against the common enemy, in whatsoever stations they are placed. All which may be effected without any very considerable charge to the kingdom. Together with a brief enumeration of the several advantages to be made by erecting a publick fishery, by which a constant nursery of able seamen, and a security and enlargement of our trade abroad will be surely advanced. To which are subjoined, some proposals for the support and maintenance of the children of sll such as fall in the said service; and the certain and best expedient of encreasing the numbers of our privateers. Humbly represented to Their Majesties, and Members of Parliament. By Capt. St. Loe, one of the commissioners of the prize office.	St. Lo, George, d. 1718.	1694 (1694)	Wing S339; ESTC R219858	35,198	66

not still pretend they have nothing allow'd them if they lose their Limbs whereby many Ships have been lost for want of defending them This Office in case it be thus setled will for the future pay and allow to all Seamen wounded and disabl'd in Merchants-Ships and likewise in private Men of War two third parts of what is allow'd to Seamen in their Majesties Ships of War in the like case But if any Seaman or Sailer in any Merchant-Ship shall absent himself or refuse or neglect to Fight against the Enemy when required by his Captain or Master such Seaman or Sailer so neglecting or resusing to Act in his station shall forfeit and lose all his Wages due and not be capble of recovering the same in any Court whatsoever And in Case any Seaman or Sailer shall desert any Ship when she runs a ground or is in danger to be stranded if such Ship be saved by the Masters industry and getting other hands such Seaman or Sailer so deserting his Ship in time of exigency shall forfeit and lose all his Wages due and not be cacapable of recovering the same in any Court whatsoever Now to demonstrate what may undoubtedly be saved to the King and Kingdom by the foregoing Method I find that the whole Fleet by the List of the Line of Battel consists not of 36000 Men with Fireships and Tenders and now we need not half the Tenders we had before there being no occasion for them to go a Pressing And when the great Ships are come in and paid off that is the 16 first and second Rates and 18 of the third Rates with Fireships which together take up about 21000 Men Officers and all their whole Pay may be saved during the Winter which at the Method usual in the Navy of allowing 4 l. a Man per Month to pay all Wages Victualling Wear and Tear amounts to 84000 l. per Month and that for six Months comes to 504000 l. At the same time we shall have a Winter Squadron which will be 15 third Rates and 13 fourth Rates besides fifth and sixth Rates And then we shall not want 10500 Men to be at all Calls by reason the others are got already Thus besides the said 504000 l. which may be saved each Winter by paying off the great Ships there may be likewise saved 60000 l. at least in Conduct Bounty and Imprest-Mony and the hiring Vessels for Pressing so that by the whole it appears besides saving the King these vast Sums yearly His Majesty will always have men on any occasion for his Service his Ships may be ready to Sail Clean and in good order No Pretence can be made use of for lying still for want of Men when the Terrors of Pressing and frequent Mischiefs attending it are prevented Protections taken off because no need of them Merchants and Traders will have their Liberty to Traffick to their own advantage as well as the encrease of their Majesties Customs and the universal good and benefit of all their Majesties Kingdoms those concern'd are generally willing to it wishing it had been done before for that it would have saved them a great deal of Mony and if this be done I shall have the Satisfaction of Serving their Majesties Effectually upon the French for their Barbarous Usage to Me and I doubt not but it will have that Effect as not only to regain our Ancient Glory and put us beyond the Danger of being ever attempted by them or any Foreign Enemy for the Future but that their Majesties Royal Navy may go and Command where they please and have none dare to oppose them And herein I have taken Care as near as may be not to disoblige or reflect on any Person But it cannot be avoided but that so great a Publick Good will Retrench the Profit of some Officers as the Secretary of the Admiralty and his Clerks c. who may for that reason endeavour to obstruct and object against it in which Case I desire to be rightly understood that what I do is purely for the Service of their Majesties and the Kingdom and not to bring a disadvantage to any Man But that they may not be Sufferers for a General Benefit their Majesties if they so please may compensate their Loss by Sallary or otherwise as their Majesties shall think fit Provided always that in Case any of their Majesties Men of War lose her Men in Action or by Sickness or otherwise and being abroad cannot be supply'd from this Office with safety to the Ship such Ship for her Security may Impress as formerly but so as not to disable any Merchant-man ☞ And in case this Office be thus setled and that the Law Bill lately in being be reviv'd and bestow'd upon it It is humbly Propos'd besides what additional Encouragement is given to Seamen wounded and disabled in their Majesties Ships of War Privatiers and Merchant-men That there shall be likewise two large Schools Erected near a Rivers side in some Cheap Country where the Children of all Seamen kill'd in their Majesties Service shall be taken into one of these Schools at twelve years of Age and be there Taught the Mathematicks That they shall lie in West-India Hammocks which in the day time may be put into Lockers that there may be no room lost for their Lodgings and every thing be in good order so that then it will be wondred where they Lye ☞ That there shall be a Ship in the River near the School where on Play-days or other fit Times the Boys shall go on Board and Learn to Splice and Knot Reef and Furl c. whereby they may know all the parts of a Ship and understand the Mechanick part of a Sailer in two or three years time as well as if they were at Sea and then they may be drawn off to Sea every year as occasion offers when they will want nothing but to get their Sea-Legs ☞ These Youths so drawn off yearly shall be put out Apprentice for three Years to Commanders or Lieutenants of Men of War or Warrant Officers in their Majesties Ships and not for seven Years to Masters of Merchant-men as is done to the King's Scholars in Christ-Church Hospital where after their Majesties have been at great Expence in their Education for three Years and in putting them out Apprentice at 40 l. charge in Mony and Clothes they are bound for seven Years to Masters of Merchant-Ships who alone have the benefit of them without any advantage to their Majesties or the Youths tho at their going out they are examined as to their Qualification for the Sea and perhaps are better Artists than the Masters they are put to whereas if they had never been Taught any thing or were even took out of the street they might as well be put out for half the Mony and the Masters be bound to teach them as much as these and after all the Charge their Majesties are and have been at on this Account and that

besides the Captains of each Ship according to the Rate and Bigness have Imprest Mony some 100 l. some 50 l. some 20 l. Besides bringing in their Bills of Charges and Disbursements which have sometimes amounted to two or three Hundred Pounds a Ship to my knowledge all which by the Method hereafter mentioned may be saved to the Crown and Kingdom which in Conduct Bounty and Imprest-Mony with the hiring of Vessels as aforesaid cannot be reckoned to amount to less than 60000 l. per Annum By this Method the King being assured of having Men ready to Man his Fleet on any occasion in a Month's time will save the vast Charges of keeping the great Ships in Pay all the Winter and besides prevent the Danger of ever being Invaded by any Foreign Enemy as was like to have been this Year for after the Summers Expedition is over and the Fleet come in it would be a great Encouragement to the Seamen to be paid off and their Tickets paid at the same time which would give them Credit at any time prevent the great Abuse of Ticket-buying and enable Seamen to reap the Benefit of their Labour themselves as now they do not and though the King should give 20 l. per Cent. for Mony so to Pay them his Majesty would save vastly by it And upon issuing out his Royal Proclamation at any time have Men sufficient for his Service again And here it may be Objected perhaps from a Book lately set out by one Henry Maydman a Purser That Seamen are discouraged from Their Majesties Service by the Abuses of their Commanders To which it is Answered It is a sign that that Purser hath Sailed with honest Captains that would not let him pinch the Men for the Men never fare better than when a Captain and Purser disagree I observe he carefully conceals his Employ of Purser well knowing that of all Officers such a one in this Case is the least to be Credited for let Commanders see that the Pursers do not wrong the Men and let them be paid their Majesties Allowance and the Tickets at Payment of the Ship or upon tender afterwards they are very well encouraged and care not for hard words from a Captain which break no Bones ☞ But that which discourages Seamen is the want of their due Pay and the lying of their Tickets several Years without Payment unless sold to a Ticket-buyer which occasions the Proverb among them Of going to Sea for a Knife and Sheath This would likewise prevent the Impressing of Land-men altogether unqualified which often breeds Sickness in the Fleet as also Water-men that were never at Sea upon whom it is now very hard For Instance a Water-man is Imprest out of his Boat that has a Wife and four or five Children to maintain in his absence his Boat is unimployed and receives damage his Wife and Children must become burthensom to the Parish or if she has Credit perhaps runs her Husband in debt more than he can get up in a Year or two Likewise when a Ship comes home after a long Voyage the Men are Imprest who perhaps have some of them Ventures on Board which they are snatch'd from without having the liberty of going to their Families and disposing of what they have or even to refresh themselves in which Case their Ventures are lost the Men Dissatisfied and their Families half Ruined Also many Persons have been lost on the Thames and other Places in endeavouring to Escape as particularly Ten or Twelve Persons lately in Boats were Drowned Shot and Died of their Wounds in making off from a Ship that had Prest them and the Sand-Barges at Plymouth when a Press is thereabouts lye wholly unemployed by the Absconding of the Men which hinders the Working of Husband-men for want of that Sand to Manure the Ground so that many Teams of Horses and Yokes of Oxen lye still on that account to the great Damage of the Country This would also prevent the great Abuses by Persons pretending to be Press-Masters who to get Mony often do very ill things sometimes occasion Murder and generally such Disorders as bring an Odium upon Their Majesties Fleet undeserved Besides it is very hard upon Lieutenants who in Pressing cannot but spend more than their Pay and sometimes are turned out for Impressing those that have Protections which by this will be taken off So that no Man as the Case now stands would be a Lieutenant were it not for the Prospect of being advanced to Captain In the next place it is hoped no Man's Private Interest will be thought equivalent to Ballance against so great a Publick Good and Ease as this will be to the King and Kingdom The Reasons that have induced me to undertake this great Work are drawn from my Dear-bought Experience when Prisoner in France where I lay two Years and two Months under great Hardships and Nineteen Months of that time all alone in an uneasie and Disconsolate Condition ☞ When I was first brought Prisoner thither I lay four Months in an Hospital at Brest for Cure of my Wounds and was sent to Nants before half Cured While I was at Brest I was Astonished at the Expedition used in Manning and Fitting out their Ships which till then I thought could be done no where sooner than in England where we have ten times the Shipping and consequently ten times more Seamen than they have in France but there I saw Twenty Sail of Ships of about 60 Guns a piece got ready in Twenty days time they were brought in and the Men Discharged and upon an Order from Paris they were Careen'd Keel'd up Rigg'd Victualled Man'd and out again in the said time with the greatest Ease imaginable I likewise saw a Ship of 100 Guns there had all her Guns taken out in four or five Hours time which I never saw done in England in twenty four Hours and this with greater Ease and less Hazard than here which I saw under the Hospital Window and this I am sure I could do as easie in England I likewise saw on the other side of the River an Imitation of a Ship with a Tire of Guns where the Men were often Exercised and Instructed in the Practice and Use of the Great Gun as if they were at Sea which very much contributed to their Skill and if the same were done and practised near our Sea-Ports it would be of great Use in fitting Men for the Sea-Service in which we need not be ashamed to learn of them for they are ready enough to imitate us in any thing for their Advantage The aforesaid Ships being so soon out again put me upon Enquiry how the Men were got so quickly and I found that the Seamen were all Registred by the Intendant Marine or Commissary of each Province near the Sea which puts that King to vast Charge in paying great Salaries to them their Provosts Marine Arches and other Officers for taking Account of all Maritime Affairs for a

the Governor by the said Mr. Rowley and notice sent to Paris An Order came to take me from the rest of my Company and put me into a Dungeon but the Governor being a Man of more Conscience than the rest because there was no Dungeon but what was so wet would soon have kill'd me He put me in a Tower the Walls twenty Foot thick Archt above and below and the Windows made up save only a little Light twelve Foot high where I lay a lone very disconsolately three or four Months when Mr. Skelton coming thither got me liberty to walk in the Castle which being known at Paris an Order came to send me to Angiers and then I had Ten-pence a Day paid me for all the time I was at Nantz which was the only Mony I received of the French all the while I was in France At Angiers I lay Close Prisoner in the Castle fifteen Months more under a most Cruel and Tyrannical Governor Monsteur Doteshon formerly one of Cardinal Mazarine's Guard who would receive the Sacrament every Week and yet as soon as he came out of the Chappel and sometimes even within it would beat or abuse the Prisoners or do some wicked thing or other on any the least occasion There were in Prison fourteen The Dutchess de la Force three Years in Prison Mr. de Crosnier five Years Mr. de la Brifardiere two Years Mr. de Malle three Years for Religion Mademoiselle Robert Mademoiselle Voison Me. Katharine le Roy. Me. Manon Soignart Me. du Plessis Me. Paulain Me. Bellefuille Me. Carnay Aged 100 Years Me de la Porte Aged 80 Years In Prison 12 years on suspicion of Poysoning but can have no Tryal or Hearing Persons some for Religion and the rest on other Pretences among whom were People of very good Quality whose Names are in the Margin they have some of them been in Prison ten or twelve Years some more some less and some of them Eighty and an Hundred years of Age who are never permitted to Write or receive any Letters from their Friends and particularly the Dutchess de la Force tho her Husband the Duke by his great Age and Hardship in the Bastile was forced to turn his Religion yet they will not suffer him to Write to his Dutchess nor her to Write to him This Governor by his own contrivance to Punish the Prisoners had a Door made to the outside of each Prison Window which upon every slight occasion he would cause to be Locked up that the Prisoners had no manner of Light sometimes for six or seven Months together so that the neerest comparison I can make of a Prison in France is to that of a man buried Alive for such a time being equally debarr'd of all earthly Comfort by any fort of Intercourse or otherwise While I was at Angiers there was a Protestant Marquess Condemned to the Gallies for breaking out of Prison he was Chained to a Turk that had hardly Rags to cover him in this Manner he was carried to the Galleys and then made to Strip and Row with the rest of the Slaves The Taxes upon the People are so Prodigious that a po●● Shoemaker at Angiers one Mathurine Gainer that had a Wife and three Children and paid but Twenty Shillings a Year Rent was rated a Noble and tho he offered to part with all he bad for five Shillings yet they sent Soldiers to Quarter upon him till he paid which is their usual method of raising Taxes who taking away what he had the poor Man by Charity got enough to pay the Tax but yet for saying he would write to the King about it he was clap'd into a Dangeon in the same Castle where I was and there kept three Weeks and then upon the Supplication of his Wife he was permitted to work in the Passage to the Dungeon to keep his Children from Starving And according to the Ability of the Persons they send Soldiers to Rifle and Tyrannize over them till they pay their Taxes and when I came away they were going to lay a Tax upon Saboes or Wooden Shoes besides four Pence upon a Hat tho it cost but half a Crown and Taxes upon Christnings and Funerals ☞ There was likewise a Prisoner at Angiers one Mr. Goddard an English Gentleman who being in the Academy before the War was at the beginning of the War taken up as a Spy tho then but Fifteen Years of Age and kept so closely that they would neither let me see him when he was Sick nor he see me when I was Sick only when I was coming away with much ado I got to see him where he lay in the Common-Goal in a sad Condition and now I hear he is removed to the Bastile and no Exchange will be allowed for him tho there was a Prisoner sent hence by mutual Agreement for him two Tears since who was kept there and yet he not delivered and thus we see what little regard the French have to their Word in performing either Articles or Treaties At my coming away I went to visit the English Prisoners at Dinan in Brittany where they lay in a most miserable condition two lay Dead at the Door and had so lain four and twenty Hours the Place Stunk so I was not able to go in and with their hard Vsage Seven hundred have been Buried out of that Prison since this War which computed with those Dead at Rochfort and other Places we cannot reckon to have lost less than Two thousand good Seamen by the ill Treatment they have had in France And notwithstanding the General Exchange agreed on they continue their wonted Barbarity to our Seamen as much as ever And yet to the Honor of the English Sailers I never found notwithstanding all their ill Vsage by Hanger Beating and otherwise that any of them went into that Kings Service tho much Sollicited to it by the Duke of Berwick and Sir William Jennings and that Mr. Fitz James who is Stiled Grand Prior of England and Ireland went to Sea the two last years yet there was not Fifty English Seamen in their whole Fleet which may serve to confute a popular Mistake among us that the French have abundance of our Seamen in their Service Indeed there are three Privateers belonging to King James that were set out of Ireland when he was there that are Manned with English and Irish And as they at first gave out I was an English Lord so I found afterwards their Demands were accordingly for my Release for they first refused thirty Seamen in Exchange for me then they refused two Captains Pecarr and Busheen afterwards they demanded Captain St. Maria and four Scotch Captains that lay Condemned in Newgate and when that was consented to then they demanded Lieutenant General Hamilton for me and would not be content to take the Earl of Clancarty or any of the other Prisoners in the Tower and now after all this Value put upon me by my Enemies I