By the King and Queen, a proclamation for encouraging seamen and mariners to enter themselves on Their Majesties ships of war England and Wales. Sovereign (1689-1694 : William and Mary) This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A66303 of text R38093 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing W2594). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A66303 Wing W2594 ESTC R38093 17166976 ocm 17166976 106121 2240891905

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A66303) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 106121) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1624:36) By the King and Queen, a proclamation for encouraging seamen and mariners to enter themselves on Their Majesties ships of war England and Wales. Sovereign (1689-1694 : William and Mary) Mary II, Queen of England, 1662-1694. William III, King of England, 1650-1702. 1 broadside. Printed by Charles Bill, and the executrix of Thomas Newcomb ..., London : 1691. "Given at our court at Whitehall the one and twentieth day of December,1691. In the third year of our reign." Reproduction of original in the Harvard University Library. eng England and Wales. -- Royal Navy -- Recruiting, enlistment, etc. Great Britain -- History -- William and Mary, 1689-1702. eebo By the King and Queen, a proclamation for encouraging seamen and mariners to enter themselves on Their Majesties ships of war. England and Wales. Sovereign 1691 1 513 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2008-02 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-07 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-08 Sampled and proofread 2008-08 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
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By the King and Queen , A PROCLAMATION , For Encouraging Seamen and Mariners to Enter themselves on Their Majesties Ships of War . WILLIAM R.

WE being desirous to give all due Encouragement to such Seamen as shall Voluntarily Enter themselves in Our Service on Board Our Ships of War in Our Royal Navy , have thought sit by and with the Advice of Our Privy Council , to publish this Our Royal Proclamation : And We do hereby Promise and Declare , That all such Seamen as shall Voluntarily Enter themselves on Board any of Our Ships of War , of the First , Second , and Third Rates , before the Twentieth Day of January next , shall receive Six Weeks Pay , as Our Free Gift and Royal Bounty , which shall be paid them before the respective Ships to which they belong shall Sail from the Buoy of the Nore . And We do hereby further Declare , That no such able Seamen that shall so Voluntarily Enter themselves within the time before mentioned on Board any of Our Ships of the First , and Second Rates , shall be Turned Over to other Ships . And We do hereby Command and Require the said Seamen to Repair on Board the respective Ships on which they shall so Enter themselves , and give their Constant Attendance , for sitting out to Sea such Ships as each of them do belong unto . And We are also Graciously pleased to Declare , That Conduct-Money , according to the Practice of the Navy , shall likewise be Allowed to such able Seamen as shall Voluntarily enter themselves on Board any of Our said Ships , according to the true meaning of this Our Proclamation . And for the prevention of any Deceits and Abuses that may happen by any Person or Persons leaving the Ships to which they belong , and Entring him or themselves on Board any other of Our said Ships , as aforesaid , in Order to the Obtaining of the Bounty-Money herein before Granted , We do hereby likewise Direct , Declare , and Command , That such Seamen , belonging to any of Our Ships or Vessels whatsoever , as shall leave any the Ships or Vessels to which they belong , and Enter themselves on Board any other of Our Ships , in Order to the Obtaining of the said Bounty-Money , shall not only lose the Wages due to them in the Ship , which they shall so leave , but shall also be severely Punished according to their Demerits .

Given at Our Court at Whitehall , the One and twentieth Day of December , 1691. In the Third Year of Our Reign . God save King William and Queen Mary .

London , Printed by Charles Bill , and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb deceas'd ; Printers to the King and Queens most Excellent Majesties , 1691.