At a Councel of War held aboard, the 17 of October, 1654. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A94155 of text R212327 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.19[32]). 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 2017 A94155 Wing S6258 Thomason 669.f.19[32] ESTC R212327 99870959 99870959 163370 2240953416

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A94155) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 163370) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 246:669f19[32]) At a Councel of War held aboard, the 17 of October, 1654. Lawson, John, Sir, d. 1665. 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [London : 1654] At head of text: 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. Haward, Lieut. Pride, Lieut. Trafford, Lieut. Hall, Lieut. Wilkinson, and Mr. Iohn Bear master of the Falmouth. At end: This was signed by all the abovesaid Persons. Imprint from Wing. Annotation on Thomason copy: "Nouemb: 4 1654". Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Sailors -- England -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- History, Naval -- 17th century -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- History -- Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660 -- Early works to 1800. A94155 R212327 (Thomason 669.f.19[32]). civilwar no At a Councel of War held aboard, the 17 of October, 1654.: Lawson, John, Sir 1654 1 440 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. 2007-06 Assigned for keying and markup 2007-06 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-07 Sampled and proofread 2007-07 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
At a Councel of War held aboard , the 17 of October , 1654. Swiftsure . 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. Haward , Lieut. Pride , Lieut. Trafford , Lieut. Hall , Lieut. Wilkinson , and Mr. Iohn Bear Master of the Falmouth .

UPon notice had of a certain Petition drawn and signed by many Sea-men of the Fleet at this place , and intended to be presented to the Lord Protector ; as also , of several Petitions presented by certain Ships Companies , to their respective Commanders ; it was debated of , and resolved as followeth .

Quest. 1. Whether it be lawful for Sea-men to tender their grievances by way of Petion ?

Resolved in the affirmitive , none dissenting .

Quest. 2. Whether the things alleadged in the Petition be real grievances , or no ?

Resolved in the affirmative , none dissenting , that we own them for grievances , except that clause in the fifth head , concerning forraigne service , which we take for no grievance ; in case provision be made for them , as is desired : onely Capt. Poole , Capt. Blake , Capt. Lambert , and Lieut. Haward , are not satisfied that impressing is a grievance .

Quest. 3. The Question being put , Whether the Sea-men Petitioning their private Commanders , and delivering their forementioned Petition , with desires that they would please to move the Generals and chief-Officers , be so far owned by us , as to present the same to our Generals with these foregoing votes , leaving it to their Honours consideration for proceeding in it as they shall see cause .

Resolved in the affirmative by all ; onely Capt. Blake , and Capt. Lambert , are not satisfied as to the Sea-mens presumption , in Petitioning the Lord Protector ; all the rest understand the Lord Protector is not immediately Petitioned by the same .

Resolved , That the Vice Admiral of the Fleet be desired to send these Votes , together with the said Petition and subscriptions , to the Generals .

This was signed by all the abovesaid Persons .