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Memoirs of the English affairs, chiefly naval, from the year 1660, to 1673
Memoirs of the English affairs chiefly naval from the year 1660 to 1673 Author:James Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: in the laid Ship, fuch Perlbns, Goods, and Pro— vifions as are, or fhall be directed to be fent thither by his Majefty's Privy-Council, or my felf. / am, Jan.... more » i. ifirfo. Tour affectionate Friend, To the principal JAMES. Officer s, 5Cc. Gentlemen, I Have perufed your Letter to my Secretary, concerning the Mifcarriage of the Officers of the Affurance, together with the Examinations encioled : And forafmuch, as I find by your Letter, that you conceive the chief Fault to have been in the Mafter ; I think fit to direct, that as to his part, you declare him incapable of being ever employed for the future, in any Capacity in the King's Ships ; and in pmluance thereof, that you fend to the feve- ral Clerks of the Checque in all the Yards, that if, by Miftake, he fhall at any Time hereafter, obtain any Employment, yet that they ab- Jfhiin from entering him, and give a lpeedy Account of it to me, or to your felves. And I think fit farther to direct, that in refpect the ether Officers were not fo diligent as they ought to rmre been, (tho' the chief Fault may have been his) that as well all the other Officers, as the faid Mafter, lole all the Arrears of Pay due to them in relation to the faid Ship. And for the future, you take care to publifh thro' the whole Navy, Navy, that if at any time after the entering Mates to the feveral Officers on board any of his Majefty's Ships, it fhall happen, that both the Officer and his Mate be abfent from on board the Ship at the fame time, without a particular Leave from the Captain, ot Mafter of Attendance, who fhall in that Gafe Hand charged with fuch Inconvenience as may arrive by the Abfence of the Party fo licenfed by him, that then the Party fo offending, fhall (although no Damage fhall at that time arrive) be difcharged from the ...« less