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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary, 1695
… to Wexford, laden with tobacco. Having taken all the seamen out of her but two, they put four Frenchmen on board … most of the ships not yet having their complements of seamen, which are hard to get. It is said none of the first … weeks last past, officers (or so pretended), soldiers and seamen lying continually in my park or warren, destroying …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… only in respect to the customs that they will pay and the seamen that they will bring home, but in regard to the … To Cabinet Council about this and about the scheme for seamen. [ Colonial Papers, Vol. LXVI., No. 1.] Aug. 27. … upon the success of the Royal Navy manned by the best seamen, and late experience has shown that such men cannot be …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… is most important to England, employing 300 vessels, 9,000 seamen, and making gains of 300,000 a year. The Dutch employ …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… and ammunition to the Plantations, that sufficient seamen may be forthcoming for next year's fleet. Copy. 1 p. … Plantations about ships. Brief notes as to shipping and seamen. 1 p. [ Colonial Papers, Vol. LXVI., No. 49.] Dec. 4. … House of Commons. We had prepared ships with eight hundred seamen to sail this year, and laid out over 150,000 in …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… yearly carried hence to their own country from 100 to 150 seamen and fishermen, which have remained there to the damage …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… of the King in Council. Permitting ships carrying 842 seamen to proceed to the Plantations despite the embargo, two … being substituted for one from London. Two hundred English seamen of the eight hundred allowed to the Virginia and … permit them to sail with their competent number of English seamen. [ Board of Trade. Trade Papers, 13. pp. 7, 8.] Dec. …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… of ships that come over hither generally report that the seamen are not paid their wadges nor owners of ships their … some expedients for remedy; (i.) The appointing all seamen, carpenters, etc., to be fully paid for what is past. …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… It is the greatest, if not the only, nursery for seamen. When it had a government it produced 50,000 for … England to save their return voyage, and thus many good seamen are lost. Owing to a late Act the planters have been … abuses which they suffer from the rudeness of ungoverned seamen, against whom there is no redress. A settled …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… of the Leeward Islands for an allowance of 200 English seamen, and the petition of the merchants of Barbados for an allowance of two hundred seamen, with protection for them from impressment by …
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