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Navy Records Society, 1913
 

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Pagina iv - SOCIETY desire it to be understood that they are not answerable for any opinions or observations that may appear in the Society's publications; the Editors of the several Works being alone responsible for the same.
Pagina 46 - I spake, one told me they knew my friends, and if my name had not discovered it yet my face did shew me to be a Manwaring. In short, they made me believe I had a command of them and their country, and that no man was ever so welcome as Captain Manwaring. Entering into the house of Mr. Cormack, his three hackney daughters rose to entertain me, and conducted me to the hall newly strewed with rushes, as the richest decking their abilities or the meanness of the place could afford. In the corner was...
Pagina 185 - Norway, and of divers other places of the empire, do declare, that whereas the kings of England, by right of the said kingdom from time to time, whereof there is no memorial to the contrary, have been in peaceable possession of the sovereign lordship of the sea of England, and of the isles within the same...
Pagina 337 - ... the master had acquainted my Lord Admiral therewith, yet I thought it my duty not to direct my letter to any but to your Lordship and expect his Majesty's directions how to dispose of my Lady, for that I am unwilling that she should go ashore until I have further authority. But in the mean time she shall not want anything the shore can afford, or any other honourable usage.
Pagina 169 - The new rates for seamen's monthly wages, confirmed by the commissioners of his majesty's navy, according to his majesty's several rates of ships, and degrees of officers...
Pagina 419 - The seamen are much discouraged, of late times, by preferring of young, needy, and inexperienced gentlemen captains over them in their own ships. As also by placing lieutenants above the masters in the King's ships, which have never been accustomed by the English till of late years.
Pagina 15 - ... when the sword should make an end of the difference, and publicly wished the success to the Hollanders, cursing both me and his majesty's ship. But it was no marvel, for most of the inhabitants are either born, bred or descended from Holland : their religion truly Dutch, as two of the grave ministers of Sandwich have complained to me, protesting they think that that town and the country thereabouts swarms as much with sects as Amsterdam.
Pagina 420 - A captain may punish according to the offence committed, viz. putting one in the bilboes during pleasure ; keep them fasting ; duck them at the yard-arm, or haul them from yard-arm to yard-arm under the ship's keel; or spread them at the capstan, and whip them there or at the capstan or main mast; hang weights about their necks till their hearts and backs be ready to break ; or to gag or scrape their tongues for blasphemy or swearing.
Pagina 47 - Manwaring and all his gallant crew are arrived this place. Make haste ; for he floweth in wealth, and is most kind to all men. Farewell ; and once again make haste. This letter being writ, and the pass enclosed in it, I took it into my own hand, offering to hire a messenger to carry it. But night drawing on, which required my return on board, and having drawn from the country the secret I desired, I caused the harp to cease playing, and commanded silence, for that I was to speak. I told them, that...
Pagina 185 - ... other points, where a man may have reasonable cause to suspect them of robbery or other misdemeanours: And whereas the masters of the ships of the said kingdom of England in the absence of the said admiral, have been in peaceable possession of taking cognizance, and judging of all actions done in the said sea between all manner of people, according to the laws, statutes, prohibitions and customs. And whereas in the first article of the league lately made between the said kings, in the treaty...

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