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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… Passes for Adrian de Zeuw and Benjamin Wartelaer, Dutch seamen, to go to Holland; and for Nathaniel Starkey, a … of the Admiralty, enclosing a letter concerning English seamen that arrive at Genoa. It is his Majesty's pleasure … for the repayment of his expenses in the relief of such seamen as want it, and in preserving them for his Majesty's …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… concerning the charge of an establishment for registering seamen in the Cinque Ports; I am to send a copy for your … orders issued by the Privy Council about the impressing of seamen for his Majesty's fleet, and desire you will meet … me of your proceedings, of the costs incurred, and of the seamen so impressed. [ Ibid. 169, p. 23.] A letter of like …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… but rejected. They had a long debate whether 15,000 men or seamen, but upon a division it was carried for men only, in … it is hoped 5,000 marines may be gained, who are not seamen, though employed on shipboard. To-morrow their … addition to the question, that by men should be expressed seamen: but it was carried against that addition by a …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… of Dr. Patrick Adair, late physician for sick and wounded seamen, for your report whether a travelling physician be … were allowed at the several ports for the cure of sick seamen, but those officers being retrenched since the peace … and the nation will not be drained, as now it is, of the seamen, through the want of skill in those persons to whose …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… particulars would rather clog than further the getting of seamen for H.M. ships: that giving bounty money, and at the … By the king, a proclamation, for encouraging mariners, seamen, and landmen to enter themselves on board H.M. ships … to give all due encouragement to such able and ordinary seamen, and to all able-bodied landmen, who shall voluntarily …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… By the king, a proclamation, for encouraging mariners, seamen and landmen, to enter themselves on board H.M. ships … dated the 8th of January last we did promise that all seamen [etc.], who either since the 1st of January last had … by the 15th inst., we hereby declare that all such seamen [etc.], who on or before the 10th of March next, shall …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… Whitehall. Pass for Jacob Hamer and Living Janson, Dutch seamen, to go to Holland. [ Ibid. 346, p. 197.] Jan. 4. … Mr. Peter Fontaine for the increasing and encouraging of seamen. [ S.P. Dom. Entry Book 204, p. 113.] Jan. 24. … shows that when the King made him receiver of the wounded seamen, he quitted an employment worth 300 l. a year. His …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… a stop to be put to making any further provision for seamen. The Admiralty here, by their letter of the 2nd inst., … persons in Romney Marsh and France. Though they are no seamen, the first being a house-carpenter, and the others … enter themselves on board his Majesty's ships of war. All seamen offering themselves before the 15th of March to …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… On your report as to Samuel Breton and Martin Burn, seamen lately condemned for mutiny, the King directs the …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… It was answered, for want of money to pay off the seamen; and that has produced another query, what money was … in the Treasurer of the Navy's hands on account of seamen's wages. The Treasury have already answered for him, …