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A50378
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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.
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Maydman, Henry.
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Wing M1420; ESTC R30058
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Practices are in any of Their Ships I know and am sorry to speak it That for many Years past that not only the Navy but the Nation in general hath had a vein of Debauchery running through it at a prodigious rate not one Vice only but all Vices from the Cardinal's Vice to the Parish Priest from the Peer to the Peasant And all these Abominations were brought amongst us by like Pollicies as the Moabites did to the Children of Israel by the Advice of Balam to commit wickedness with their Women and anger the Lord so was this no less a design contrived at Rome That finding they could not shake the Church of England by dint of Argument nor undermine it by secret maintaining of Heresies and Schisms within her Bowels this third Project of Balam is tried with the pleasures of Wickedness of the most flagitious and sinfullest Nature nay both Prince and Prelate that Religion was as little practised as meant in any Matters nay it was rather a Subject for Ridicule This did go near and bid for the Mark having effeminated and destroyed the Prowess good Methods and Government of our Armies by Sea and Land and shook even the Pillars of the Church Wherefore I think it may be high time to apply a Remedy to this foul Disease insinuated and dispersed as well into the Navy as Land that the Nation do not lie under God's Interdict for their former Pollutions spoken of for Israel had a smart Scourge sent them for being taken with Balam's Device So hoping as well the Navy as the Land may re-assume their Pristine Order Government and Innocence and then may we hope God's Judgments may be averted for what is past But before I take leave on Ship-board I will entertain you with a short Dialogue between the four standing Officers viz. Jack Purser Tom Boatswain Ralph Gunner and Stephen Carpenter Enter Purser HOw is' t Brother Tom to day after your Quarter-Deck Lecture Boatsw Heart-whole still for that will not easily break though my Young Lieutenant's Cane fell pockily upon the string on 't Purs But how came it to pass Prithee tell me Tom. Boats Thus As I was sitting upon that Step the Captain 's Raft of Boys playing in the Steeridge came thundering out of the Door over me and over-set me Horse and Foot with my Victuals in my hand you know I durst not go in and sit down to eat my Victuals for there stands a Centinel with a drawn Sword to keep us out and another with a flaming Blade at the great Cabin-door so I recovered up and took one of them a Lick or two with this little Rod he happened to be the Young Lieutenant 's half-pay Man but I knew it not he seeing it off the Quarter-Deck came to me saying Sirrah How dare you strike that Fellow And paid me double I faith and called me all to nought beside Purs Ha I 'm sorry But wont you complain to the Captain on 't Boatsw You know enough of that so I may have as much more remember your Steward t'other day for denying the Captain ' s Boys Candle to play at Cards with Carp You may remember Purser your self how you were treated but last Week for bidding the Cooper deliver no more Pease nor Oatmeal for the Captain ' s Sheep and Fowls till that was spent I lookt for the Strappado on you but I think the Cooper bore the more for that time Prithee Gunner Why do'st Scrub so Art Lousie Gunn Faith very Lousie going up and down this Scuttle under the Hamocks and the poor Men hang so thick that I cannot pass and the Men are stifled for want of Air Purser Are not you Lousie Purs Faith never so Lousie in my life and we are choaked all in the Cock-pit the steem of the Hold for want of passage up the Steeridge way kills us I cannot endure my Cabin for the Men come so thick down and the Room is so strait that we cannot turn for you know the Captain ' s Store-Room is half the Cock-pit Carp You know I was forced to enlarge it thither least I should have my Pate broke and do it afterwards Purs I cannot tell where to go and breath a little come let 's go down to the Gunner ' s Cabin there 's a little Air I 'll make a Can of Flip Boys Gunn Faith I 'm a most afraid of your coming there for you know the Captain ' s Cosin is in the Gun-room side Cabin and it will be carried up to the Captain that we are all together Whist This is one of the Captain ' s Servants stands and hearkens to us come hang it let us go down Tom Stephen A Nod. Purs Send your Boy for a Can of Beer Gunner I 'll bring t' other things Boatsw But how com'st thee off Stephen I heard that you was sent for up to the Eldest Lieutenant for not making a Locker aloft for their Boys Carp Faith Tom I gave sugary Words and came off better than I did a Fortnight agoe for not making his Boy a hanging Cabin in the Cock-pit he gave me a scurvy drub or two and a curse or two at the end on 't Gunn Faith I am heartless here 's no hopes of comfort in this Voyage I was never so cast down in my life For I hoped that this Voyage would have mended our Lives and now I 'm out of hopes although the Captain says little yet he leaves the Lieutenants too rampant over us Gentlemen our dancing Days are over I see it grows worse and worse 't is not us alone but I hear it a Board of most Ships I speak with Would to God I had been a Tayler Tinker any Trade to get my Living on Shoar with for the Navy Employment viz. Warrant Officers are turned to a Vassalage unsufferable Well I 'm resolved to find some way to live on Shoar Purs Here Tom Health and a good Arrival at Portsmouth I 'm resolved as soon as I can wind up my Bottoms I 'll leave the Sea Cheer up Lads Carp Well I lived a better life with my Adds on Shoar than I do here and saw more merry days in a Week than I shall in a Month at Sea as things are now I was born to work and so I do here but no content the Egyptian Bondage was not worse I believe Purs Why truly Gentlemen the Navy is come to a bad pass happy is that Man that hath but a Morsel to eat at home in quiet Since I 've known the Navy there was some comfort in our Lives at Sea and a Warrant Officer had some Countenance from the Captain and would often eat and drink with them but now they are Pist upon by every Body Well I 'll take care for one shortly our Drink is done and so Farewel before we be ill represented to the Captain for this meeting Exit Thus having run through the Affairs of the Naval strength of the Nation with a swift motion as