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<NAME>Paul Schaffner</NAME>
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<HEAD>REASONS FOR THE Taking off the Q&mdash;s and R&mdash;s in the <HI>Navy</HI> Books; together with Propo&s;als humbly Offered to the Honourable Hou&s;e of Commons for the expeditious Payment of Saylors.</HEAD>
<P>I Doubt not but the Greivences of Saylors, touching Q&mdash;s and R&mdash;s have (In di|ver&s;e Modes and Formes) been already repre&s;ented to this Honourable Hou&s;e, &s;o that I &s;hall touch very Slightly upon the &s;ame, I will only add that.</P>
<P><HI>Fir&s;t,</HI> No Q&mdash;s nor R&mdash;s can be taken off to advantage of the whole, unle&s;s they are all taken off in General by Act of Parliament.</P>
<P>For if the Matter be referred to be Examined, by the <HI>Admiralty,</HI> or <HI>Navy,</HI> or any other Per&s;on, or Per&s;ons, the Saylors are &s;till in the &s;ame Condition, being to be Judged, by the &s;ame Judges; or others, that may be Equally Prejudiced, or By|a&s;ed, and can have no other remedy then what they have already.</P>
<P><HI>Secondly,</HI> With humble Submi&s;&s;ion I propo&s;e, that the taking off all the Q&mdash;s and R&mdash;s in General, will be an Encouragement to all Saylors, Encouragement for all Per&s;ons to tru&s;t them, when in Nece&s;&s;ity, and will be for the Honour and Credit, of the Nation.</P>
<P>And that the Saylors may with Ea&s;e be paid, their Creditors &s;atisfyed, and the Money due from His Maje&s;ty in Arrears to Saylors with Ea&s;e paid, I with all Hu|millity propo&s;e.</P>
<P>That Tickets be made out (if there be none made out already) for the Saylors who are Q&mdash;d and R&mdash;d and al&s;o for the future, that at any time, or times, when His Maje&s;ty's Fleet &s;hall have ended their Summers Expedition, and &s;hall put into Harbour; the Captain of each Ship &s;hall there together with other Officers on Board, make out Tickets for Saylors then on Board, and al&s;o for &s;uch Dead, Di&s;|charged, Wounded, or Sick Men &s;et on Shore, or &s;ent to Ho&s;pitals, for their Wages re&s;pectively due to them; as al&s;o Tickets for them&s;elves from time to time, at the end of every re&s;pective Expedition, and their coming into Harbour.</P>
<P>That tho&s;e Tickets &s;o made out, or hereafter to be made out, be &s;ent up to <HI>Lon, don,</HI> or el&s;e where, (according to the direction of this Honourable Hou&s;e) to an Office, or Offices, to be Erected for that purpo&s;e, where each Individual Ticket &s;hall receive a Stamp, and Indor&s;ement, of the Vallue of each Ticket, with an Allow|ance of Intere&s;ts thereon, (that the&s;e Tickets be returned to the Parties in who&s;e Cu&s;tody they now are,) or to the &s;aid Ship, to whom they belong, and paid to the Saylor as ready Mony, that an Act pa&s;s to make the &s;ame Current as Specie, between Subject, and Subject, and be adjudged a good tender in Law for any Debt by any Per&s;ons due, and that the&s;e Tickets be paid in payments for duties to His Maje&s;ty, and that a Fund be appointed for the taking of them in; is mo&s;t humbly propo&s;ed, will make the Saylors Ea&s;ie, all Per&s;ons dealing with them happy, the King quiet, the Nation out of Debt (in this Affaire) Funds thereby will be converted to the u&s;e de&s;igned (procure a Circulation of Mony) and &s;top the Mouths of abundance of Peo|ple, who being ready to Starve for their Money due to them (their Poverty being &s;o pre&s;&s;ing) Make Continual Exclamations and Murmors again&s;t the Government, will bring our Saylors home from Abroad; And I hope make this a Flour&s;hing and Happy Kingdom.</P>
<CLOSER>Which is the Prayers of <SIGNED>your Honours mo&s;t obedient Servant, <HI>William Eccles.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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