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           1695
        
      
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             Reasons for granting letters of mart to trading ships humbly offered to the honourable House of Commons.
             England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.
          
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             s.n.,
             [London? :
             1695?]
          
           
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           REASONS
           For
           Granting
           Letters
           of
           Mart
           to
           Trading
           Ships
           .
        
         
           Humbly
           offered
           to
           the
           honourable
           House
           of
           Commons
           .
        
         
           THAT
           the
           French
           King
           forces
           his
           Subjects
           Merchant
           Ships
           to
           take
           Commissions
           instead
           of
           denying
           them
           ,
           and
           Spain
           and
           Holland
           grant
           them
           freely
           ;
           being
           of
           Opinion
           ,
           That
           they
           are
           serviceable
           to
           themselves
           and
           Allies
           ,
           and
           hurtful
           to
           none
           except
           their
           Enemies
           .
        
         
           That
           the
           French
           Letter
           of
           Mart
           Ships
           have
           done
           us
           more
           damage
           in
           our
           Trade
           than
           their
           Men
           of
           War
           ;
           and
           such
           of
           our
           Merchant
           Ships
           and
           Gallies
           that
           have
           been
           so
           lucky
           to
           obtain
           Commissions
           ,
           have
           done
           very
           good
           Service
           ,
           by
           taking
           in
           the
           Mediterranean
           only
           many
           rich
           Prizes
           from
           the
           French
           ,
           to
           the
           Value
           of
           at
           least
           One
           hundred
           thousand
           Pounds
           within
           these
           last
           Six
           Months
           .
        
         
           That
           upon
           the
           Incouragement
           of
           having
           Letters
           of
           Mart
           ,
           which
           were
           not
           denied
           till
           lately
           ,
           the
           Merchants
           have
           built
           many
           very
           fine
           Frigats
           and
           Gallies
           ,
           the
           better
           to
           annoy
           the
           Enemy
           ,
           and
           secure
           their
           own
           Trade
           ,
           which
           was
           before
           in
           a
           great
           measure
           lost
           in
           several
           Places
           ,
           and
           now
           thereby
           partly
           regain'd
           ;
           but
           should
           not
           the
           Commissions
           already
           granted
           ,
           which
           are
           expired
           or
           expiring
           (
           for
           they
           last
           but
           for
           one
           Voyage
           ,
           which
           is
           also
           esteemed
           hard
           )
           be
           removed
           ,
           and
           new
           Ones
           granted
           to
           the
           Frigats
           and
           Gallies
           lately
           built
           ,
           it
           will
           be
           a
           great
           Hinderance
           to
           their
           hopeful
           way
           of
           recovering
           our
           Trade
           ,
           and
           also
           a
           Discouragement
           to
           the
           Merchants
           and
           Marriners
           .
        
         
           That
           in
           regard
           Merchant
           Ships
           of
           all
           other
           Nations
           in
           War
           have
           Commissions
           ,
           our
           Commanders
           and
           Sea-men
           are
           unwilling
           to
           go
           to
           Sea
           without
           being
           upon
           equal
           Terms
           with
           them
           :
           For
           without
           Commissions
           they
           dare
           not
           seize
           a
           French
           Ship
           ,
           though
           she
           falls
           in
           their
           way
           ,
           for
           fear
           of
           being
           afterwards
           retaken
           by
           the
           French
           ,
           and
           hanged
           for
           Pirates
           .
           Besides
           ,
           Commissions
           encourage
           the
           Men
           the
           better
           to
           defend
           their
           Ships
           ;
           For
           who
           will
           fight
           ,
           when
           if
           they
           should
           overcome
           they
           dare
           not
           seize
           ?
        
         
           That
           such
           Ships
           as
           have
           Commissions
           are
           obliged
           to
           give
           1500
           or
           2000
           l.
           Security
           to
           perform
           their
           Instructions
           ,
           and
           particularly
           to
           carry
           one
           half
           of
           their
           Compliment
           Land-men
           ,
           which
           raises
           a
           great
           Number
           of
           Sea-men
           for
           his
           Majesties
           Service
           ;
           and
           their
           Prizes
           pay
           considerable
           Customs
           and
           Fifths
           to
           the
           Crown
           ,
           besides
           the
           Gain
           it
           brings
           to
           the
           Concerned
           and
           Nation
           in
           general
           ;
           for
           each
           Prize
           is
           a
           double
           Gain
           to
           us
           ,
           in
           regard
           the
           Enemy
           looses
           as
           much
           as
           we
           get
           .
        
         
           The
           Objection
           that
           hath
           been
           made
           against
           granting
           Commissions
           is
           ,
           That
           some
           of
           these
           Commission
           Ships
           have
           committed
           Irregularities
           .
           To
           which
           is
           answered
           ,
           That
           there
           hath
           been
           several
           hundred
           Commissions
           granted
           since
           the
           War
           ,
           and
           it
           s
           believed
           there
           never
           was
           fewer
           Irregularities
           committed
           by
           such
           a
           great
           Number
           of
           Ships
           as
           by
           those
           ,
           if
           any
           at
           all
           .
           But
           with
           submission
           ,
           suppose
           One
           in
           a
           Hundred
           of
           them
           have
           broken
           their
           Instructions
           ,
           (
           though
           we
           know
           of
           none
           )
           it
           would
           be
           severe
           for
           all
           the
           rest
           to
           suffer
           for
           their
           Faults
           ,
           when
           they
           may
           be
           so
           easily
           punished
           for
           it
           .
        
      
    
     
  

