item: #1 of 17 id: A08979 author: M. P. (Martin Parker), d. 1656? title: Saylors for my money a new ditty composed in the praise of saylors and sea affaires ... to the tune of The joviall cobler / [by] M.P. date: 1630.0 words: 1561 flesch: 75 summary: (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A08979) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 29317) Saylors for my money a new ditty composed in the praise of saylors and sea affaires ... to the tune of The joviall cobler / keywords: blow; doth; doth blow; ere; tcp; wind cache: A08979.xml plain text: A08979.txt item: #2 of 17 id: A13446 author: Taylor, John, 1580-1653. title: Faire and fowle vveather: or a sea and land storme betweene two calmes. With an apologie in defense of the painefull life, and needfull vse of sailors. By Iohn Tailor. date: 1615.0 words: 4375 flesch: 80 summary: Like the Glasse Great Arts-men vse , in shewing things that passe In parts farre from vs. This presents a Flawe , Or Storme at Sea : for what I red , I sawe . The ratling Thunder through the Ayre did rumble , As if Heau'ns frame into the Sea would tumble : Whole gusts of Sea ascends and fronts the Raine , And stormes of raine in fury fals againe , As if the Clowd contending water stroue , Great Neptune from his Palace to remoue . keywords: doe; doth; eebo; english; faire; iohn; land; maine; men; sea; storme; taylor; tcp; text; weather cache: A13446.xml plain text: A13446.txt item: #3 of 17 id: A15681 author: Wood, John, d. 1625. title: The true honor of navigation and navigators: or, holy meditations for sea-men Written vpon our sauiour Christ his voyage by sea, Matth. 8. 23. &c. Whereunto are added certaine formes of prayers for sea trauellers, suited to the former meditations, vpon the seuerall occasions that fall at sea. By Iohn Wood, Doctor in Diuinitie. date: 1618.0 words: 53707 flesch: 78 summary: It is certaine that the end , for which Christ thus suffered this tempest thus directly to seaze vpon his ship , was , not onely for the triall of their faith , ( which was yet but weake ) , but also for the confirmation and strengthening thereof , by that great miracle which he then wrought : To teach all men at sea and land , to depend vpon Gods prouidence in their greatest dangers , knowing that p a sparrow c●n●ot fall ●o the ground ▪ nor an haire from their he●ds without him ; and therefore submitting their wils to his will in their most extremities , to say with El● , q It is t●e Lord le● him do what ●●eme●h him good . Dost thou find any comfort by any grace already receiued ? pray for the continuance and increase in it , and for multiplying and increasing of more graces ; g Gi●● al● diligence to ioyne vnto your faith vertue , and with v●●tue k●owl●dge , and with knowledge temperance ▪ an● with temperance patience , and with patience godlinesse , and with godlinesse brotherly kindnes , and with brotherly kind●esse lou● . &c. Pray not only for thy selfe , but for others , both with thee , and farre from thee : Frater si prote solùm oras , solus pro te oras ; si pro omnibus ores , omnes pro te orant : Brother ( saith Saint Augustin● ) if thou onely pray for thy selfe , thou alone prayest for thy self ; if thou pray for all men , all doe pray for thee . keywords: bee; christ; church; danger; day; death; disciples; doe; doth; earth; faith; feare; giue; god; gods; good; hath; haue; heauen; himselfe; holy; hope; iohn; let; life; light; lord; man; mat; meanes; men; ouer; owne; peace; prophet; psal; rest; saint; sauiour; sea; ship; sonne; tempest; thee; things; thou; thy; time; vnto; vpon; wee; world; ● d; ● e; ● h; ● l; ● n; ● o; ● r; ● s; ● t; ● y; ● ● cache: A15681.xml plain text: A15681.txt item: #4 of 17 id: A33550 author: Cockburn, W. (William), 1669-1739. title: An account of the nature, causes, symptoms, and cure of the distempers that are incident to seafaring people with observations on the diet of the sea-men in His Majesty's navy : illustrated with some remarkable instances of the sickness of the fleet during the last summer, historically related / by W.C. date: 1696.0 words: 36115 flesch: 62 summary: Moreover , since the heart hath the same properties , and is subject to the same laws , with the other muscles ; and they being more weakly contracted , because of a lesser quantity of animal spirits , that are deriv'd into them ; so must the heart be more faintly contracted too ; and since , by the consent of Physitians , and the evidence of reason , the motion of the blood depends upon the strength of the hearts contraction ; the contraction of the heart being weaker , 't is plain , that this confus'd mixture of viscid and rarify'd blood , will have but a very weak motion ; which is continu'd in the blood , till its return to the heart , bating what it has communicated , in its circulation , to the arteries and blood to be propelled ; but since it is still losing part of its motion , the further it goes from the heart ; the blood will be , on all occasions , apt to stagnate in the smaller and remoter vessels ; and so produce those red , blue , &c. spots , we have spoken of . Now since the hot and warm parts of the blood are delivered from their confining viscid parts ; because the power of compression is greater than the power of cohesion , which proceeds from that viscidity ; and since the power of compression is proportionable to the velocity of the blood , and its velocity is greatest in these arteries that are next the heart ; the power then of compression in those arteries , that are next the heart , will be greater than in these that are more remote , i. e. the heat will be felt in the parts that are more remote from the heart , or the extremities , a great while after 't is felt in the parts that are nearer the heart , and they have been warm ; and the coldness in the remote limbs , after the rest of the body has been warm , may last even till the power of compression in their arteries be augmented by the continual afflux of blood , and is able to subdue ▪ the force of the viscid and intangling parts ; and since these two powers are uncertain and undetermined , there can be no time assigned , wherein this coldness may last in the remote limbs , after the rest of the body has been hot ; only we may assert , that the coldness will last the longer in the extremities , the more viscid the blood is , and the more firmly and closely it envelopes and confines the heat . keywords: arteries; blood; body; coldness; contraction; cure; day; days; fevers; fit; force; heat; lentor; medicins; motion; muscles; nature; observation; parts; powder; practice; pulse; quantity; spirits; symptoms; thing; tho; thro; time; use; vessels; viscid; way cache: A33550.xml plain text: A33550.txt item: #5 of 17 id: A66312 author: England and Wales. Sovereign (1689-1694 : William and Mary) title: By the King and Queen, a proclamation, for recalling and prohibiting seamen from serving of foreign princes and states date: 1692.0 words: 1515 flesch: 59 summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 37737) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2163:4) By the King and Queen, a proclamation, for recalling and prohibiting seamen from serving of foreign princes and states Proclamations. keywords: eebo; english; tcp; text cache: A66312.xml plain text: A66312.txt item: #6 of 17 id: A68546 author: Page, Samuel, 1574-1630. title: God be thanked A sermon of thanksgiuing for the happy successe of the English fleetes, sent forth by the honourable company of aduenturers to the East Indies. Preached to the honourable gouernors and committees, and the whole company, of their good ship, the Hope Marchant happily returened: at Deptford on Maundy Thursday last being the 29th of March. 1616. Hereunto are added sundry necessary and vseful formes of prayer and thankes-giuing for the helpe of all such as trauell by sea, fitted to their seruerall occasions. By Samuel Page Dr. in Diuinitie. date: 1616.0 words: 3660 flesch: 65 summary: O Lord the preseruer of all , that put their trust in thee , wee beseech thee to saue vs from the hands of our enemies , protect vs from the power of the cruell man , giue vs not a prey to them that seeke our liues to destroy them , and our goods to possesse them : Wee confesse that our sinnes haue deserued to bee chastised with roddes , but O Lord we pray thee to take the matter into thine owne hand , for with thee there is mercy , and in thy rod there is correction , but not destruction to thy seruants ; O Lord set not vp the right hand of our enemies , and make not our aduersaries to reioyce : Wee humbly commit our bodies and soules into thy hands , for we know whom we haue trusted , and thou dost not faile them that depend on thee : Heare vs O Lord our deliuerer , and haue mercy vpon vs for Iesus Christ his sake , our onely Lord and Sauiour , Amen . FAther of mercies , and Lord of life , to whom also belong the issues of death , wee thy children acknowledge against our selues , that it is thy hand which punisheth vs in our health with sicknesse , and it is our sin that deserueth this , and a greater iudgement to bee inflicted vpon vs , O Lord heale our soules , for we haue sinned against thee , heale our bodies which haue beene the instruments of sin , and the weapons of vnrighteousnesse ; command thy destroying Angell to hold his hand , and restore vs againe to the cheerefull light of thy countenance . keywords: christ; iesus; lord; prayer; thee; thou; thy; wee cache: A68546.xml plain text: A68546.txt item: #7 of 17 id: A76403 author: Bennet, William. title: A loving exhortation and warning to sea-men, and all others whom it doth concern. date: 1675.0 words: 1532 flesch: 65 summary: (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A76403) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 172466) Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). keywords: eebo; god; tcp; text cache: A76403.xml plain text: A76403.txt item: #8 of 17 id: A79030 author: Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649. title: By the King. A proclamation of His Majesties grace, favour, and pardon to all sea-men, sailers, marriners and other water-men. date: 1642.0 words: 990 flesch: 68 summary: This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A79030 of text R211316 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.5[101]). Notwithstanding which , We find that by the cunning of some Traiterous and Seditious persons ( who amongst other their false devices , by which they have endeavoured to alienate the hearts of Our Subjects from Us , have suggested that We intended an alteration in Religion ) many of Our Sea-men , Sailers and Marriners have been seduced to keep Our own ships from Us , to contribute towards the maintenance of the Army which is raised against Us ( and which had destroyed Us , if God almighty had not protected Us in the day of Battle ) and have been since drawn on and invited to serve in land-service against Us , though they have ever heretofore been freed by Us , and many of them ( especially those which belong to the Corporation of the Trinity-house ) have had speciall exemptions from any such service . keywords: men; sea; text cache: A79030.xml plain text: A79030.txt item: #9 of 17 id: A79325 author: Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685. title: By the King. A proclamation for recalling and prohibiting sea-men from the services of forraign princes and states date: 1661.0 words: 1446 flesch: 60 summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). keywords: king; majesty; tcp; text cache: A79325.xml plain text: A79325.txt item: #10 of 17 id: A82498 author: England and Wales. Parliament. title: An additional article to the laws of vvar and ordinances of the sea. date: 1653.0 words: 664 flesch: 70 summary: This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A82498 of text R211721 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.17[60]). (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A82498) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; keywords: parliament; text cache: A82498.xml plain text: A82498.txt item: #11 of 17 id: A90162 author: Desborough, John, 1608-1680. title: An order by the Commissioners of the Admirality and the Navy concerning the payment of the prize-money due to seamen and souldiers, and their widows, that have served at sea in this last years expedition. 16 January, 1653. date: None words: 892 flesch: 71 summary: This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A90162 of text R211782 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.17[74]). (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A90162) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 163322) keywords: commissioners; navy; text cache: A90162.xml plain text: A90162.txt item: #12 of 17 id: A94155 author: Lawson, John, Sir, d. 1665. title: At a Councel of War held aboard, the 17 of October, 1654. date: 1654.0 words: 867 flesch: 73 summary: Present Vice-Admiral John Lawson, Rear Admiral Dakins, Capt. Jonas Poole, Capt. Benjamin Blake, Capt. Iohn Lambert, Capt. Leon Harris, Capt. William Crispin, Capt. Rich. Lions, Capt. Edward Morcock, Capt. Iohn White, Capt. Richard Hodges, Capt. William Hannum, Capt. Clark, Capt. William Vessey, Capt. Henry Fen, Capt. Robert Story, Capt. Hawkes, Capt. Lightfoot, Capt. Hubart, Lieut. keywords: capt; lieut; text cache: A94155.xml plain text: A94155.txt item: #13 of 17 id: A96076 author: Watermen and Lightermen of the River Thames (Guild) title: The watermens case, in relation to the bill for increase and encouragement of seamen date: 1700.0 words: 1453 flesch: 55 summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 137642) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2522:8) keywords: eebo; tcp; text; watermen cache: A96076.xml plain text: A96076.txt item: #14 of 17 id: B02977 author: Eccles, William, fl. 1700. title: Reasons for the taking off the Q--s and R--s in the Navy books; together with proposals humbly offered to the honourable House of Commons for the expeditious payment of saylors. date: 1700.0 words: 1487 flesch: 61 summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B02977) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 174930) keywords: saylors; tcp; text cache: B02977.xml plain text: B02977.txt item: #15 of 17 id: B04822 author: L. P. (Laurence Price), fl. 1625-1680? title: The sea-mans compass or A dainty new ditty composed and pend the deeds of brave sea-men to praise and commend, 'twas made by a maid that to Gravesend did pass, now mark, and you quickly shall hear how it was. To the tune of, The tyrant hath stoln. date: 1650.0 words: 1251 flesch: 77 summary: This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B04822 of text R182076 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing P3382D). Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 174565) keywords: man; men; sea; text cache: B04822.xml plain text: B04822.txt item: #16 of 17 id: B04898 author: J. P. title: Neptunes raging fury, or, The gallant sea-mens sufferings. Being a relation of their perils and dangers, and of the extraordinary hazards they undergo in their noble adventures. Together with their undaunted valor, and rare constancy, in all their extremities. And the manner of their rejoycing on shore at their return home. To the tune of, When the stormy windes doe blow. / By J.P. date: None words: 1242 flesch: 80 summary: This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B04898 of text R181454 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing P441F). This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. keywords: blow; english; text; windes cache: B04898.xml plain text: B04898.txt item: #17 of 17 id: B05675 author: Scotland. Privy Council. title: A proclamation for re-calling and prohibiting sea-men from the services of forreign princes and states. At Edinburgh, the seventh day of June, one thousand six hundred and sixty four. date: 1664.0 words: 1445 flesch: 64 summary: Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B05675) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 179635) keywords: majesties; majesty; tcp; text cache: B05675.xml plain text: B05675.txt