A regulation for seamen wherein a method is humbly proposed, whereby Their Majesties fleet may at all times be speedily and effectually mann'd, and the merchants be more readily and cheaper serv'd, without having their men at any time press'd or taken away; setting forth the great advantages that will accrue thereby to the King merchant, and subject in general, ... wherein is also propos'd, a method or nursery for training up of seamen to supply the loss and decay of them in time of war: as also, the giving hereby equal liberty and advantage to all seamen, removin many hardships that they now suffer under, and giving them many encouragements that they do not now enjoy. By John Perry, late captain of the Signet-fireship, now a prisoner in the Marshalses, according to the sentence of a late court-marshal. To which is added, a short narrative of his case relating to his loss of the said ship in company of the Diamond-friggat, in September 1693.

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• A regulation for seamen wherein a method is humbly proposed, whereby Their Majesties fleet may at all times be speedily and effectually mann'd, and the merchants be more readily and cheaper serv'd, without having their men at any time press'd or taken away; setting forth the great advantages that will accrue thereby to the King merchant, and subject in general, ... wherein is also propos'd, a method or nursery for training up of seamen to supply the loss and decay of them in time of war: as also, the giving hereby equal liberty and advantage to all seamen, removin many hardships that they now suffer under, and giving them many encouragements that they do not now enjoy. By John Perry, late captain of the Signet-fireship, now a prisoner in the Marshalses, according to the sentence of a late court-marshal. To which is added, a short narrative of his case relating to his loss of the said ship in company of the Diamond-friggat, in September 1693.
• Case of Capt. John Perry, lately sentenced at a court-martial, for the loss of Their Majesties fire-ship the Cygnett to a thousand pound fine, and ten years imprisonment

People / Organizations

• John Perry (Author)

Imprint

London: printed [and are to be sold by John Whitlock], in the year 1695.

Publication year

1695-1695

ESTC No.

R30771

Grub Street ID

113611

Description

[12], 48 p. ; 4⁰

Note

Printer's name from colophon.

Includes: "The case of Capt. John Perry, lately sentenced at a court-martial, for the loss of Their Majesties fire-ship the Cygnett to a thousand pound fine, and ten years imprisonment".