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<HEAD>His Maje&s;ties REGULATION In the bu&s;ine&s;s of PLATE-CARRIAGE, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> WITH HIS ESTABLISHMENT Of an Allowance for their <HI>TABLES,</HI> and other Encouragements to his <HI>SEA-COMMANDERS.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED>James R.</SIGNED></OPENER>
<P>WHEREAS from the Enquiries by Us &s;o|lemnly made (&s;ince Our acce&s;&s;ion to the Throne of this Our Kingdom of <HI>England)</HI> into the State of Our Royal Navy, and the general Di&s;orders into which both it and it's Di&s;cipline have of late years fallen, We are (among the many other Evils di&s;co|vered therein, and which We have already in great mea&s;ure provided Remedies to) arrived at a full Information in that particular one, whereto Our Service is in a mo&s;t e&s;pecial man|ner expo&s;ed, from the liberty taken by Commanders of Our Ships (upon all opportunities of private profit) of converting the Service of Our &s;aid Ships to their own u&s;e; to the total neg|lect of the Publick Ends for which they, at Our great Charge, are &s;et forth and maintained, namely, the annoying of Our E|nemies, the protecting the E&s;tates of Our Trading-Subjects, and the &s;upport of Our honour with Forreign Princes; And fora&s;|much
<PB N="2" REF="2">al&s;o as this Evil &s;eems principally to ari&s;e from the univer|&s;al abu&s;e of the liberty for &s;ome time indulged to Our &s;aid Com|manders, of Tran&s;porting of Plate, Bullion and Jewels; to the occa&s;ioning thereby the &s;aid General mi&s;-employment of Our Ships, and Our want of tho&s;e full and frequent Accounts of the Procedings of Our Commanders abroad, which by their known In&s;tructions they &s;tand obliged to give Us; Our will and plea|&s;ure is, and it is hereby &s;olemnly declared.</P>
<P N="1">I. That no Admiral, Commander in chief, Captain of any of Our Ships, or other Officers &s;erving Us therein, &s;hall pre|&s;ume from henceforward upon any pretence, or by vertue of any former Allowance, In&s;truction, or Practice what&s;oever, to receive, direct, or permit to be received, on board any of Our &s;aid Ships, any Money, Plate, Bullion, Jewels, or other Merchandize or Goods, (fine or gro&s;s) what&s;oever, whether belonging to Strangers or Our own Subjects, either under pre|text of concealing or protecting the &s;ame, or the Tran&s;por|ting thereof from Port to Port, or from any Forreign Port for <HI>England,</HI> whether upon Application to them made by any Our Merchant-Subjects in Forreign Parts, or from any other in|ducement what&s;oever, &s;aving by Written Warrant under Our own Royal hand, and that only; upon pain of being (on conviction) immediately di&s;charged from their pre&s;ent, and rendred incapable of any future Employment in Our Service, as al&s;o of refunding to the u&s;e of Our maimed Seamen of the Che&s;t at <HI>Chatham,</HI> the full value of the Profits they &s;hall be found to have made by any violation of this Our Or|der, and of &s;uffering &s;uch further puni&s;hment, as by the Laws of the Sea, they &s;hall become liable to for the &s;ame.</P>
<P N="2">II. That none of Our afore&s;aid General Officers or private Commanders &s;hall (upon like forfeiture and penalties) pre|&s;ume to carry, or direct the carrying any Pa&s;&s;enger or Pa&s;|&s;engers (whether Strangers or others) of what Degree or Qua|lity &s;oever, from one Place to another, in any of Our Ships
<PB N="3" REF="2">of War under their Command, unle&s;s by like particular Or|der given in Writing from Our &s;elf for their &s;o doing; &s;uch only excepted, as by the Eleventh Article of our pre&s;ent General In&s;tructions they are obliged to receive and give pa&s;&s;age to; namely, Our Subjects redeemed from Slavery, Shipwreckt, or taken at Sea out of Forreign Ships.</P>
<P N="3">III. That all Admirals and Commanders in chief of Our Ships do for the time to come take care, that as often as they &s;hall have occa&s;ion of giving Orders for the proceding of any of Our Ships under their Command on any Service, the &s;ame be done in Writing under their hands, with Copies thereof to be &s;ent by the fir&s;t opportunity of Conveyance (by Land and Sea) to the Secretary of Our Admiralty for Our information. And that the &s;ame be in like manner done by the Commanders of every of Our private Ships, in Tran&s;mitting to our &s;aid Secre|tary for our like Information, Copies of every Order they &s;hall receive from their Admiral, Commander in chief, or other Su|perior Officer.</P>
<P N="4">IV. That every of Our fore-mentioned Officers and Com|manders re&s;pectively, do ob&s;erve, that as often as Our Service requires their going into any Forreign Port, they do by the fir&s;t Po&s;t after their arrival, (and &s;o from Po&s;t to Po&s;t during their &s;tay there) give Us (through the hand of our &s;aid Se|cretary) a particular Account of their Proceedings, from the date of their la&s;t, with Ab&s;tracts of their Journals during that time; and that care be taken for their leaving the like with Our Con&s;ul or other publick Mini&s;ter in that Place, to be by him forwarded to Our &s;aid Secretary, by the fir&s;t Convey|ance after their departure thence; &s;o as we may at all times have a con&s;tant and thorough knowledge of the Condition, Services, and Procedings of all and every of Our Ships Employed on Forreign Service, with the occa&s;ions of the &s;ame.</P>
<P>La&s;tly, That at the end of each Voyage, an entire Book, containing a perfect Journal thereof, together with a Book
<PB N="4" REF="3">of Entries to be kept of all Orders, either i&s;&s;ued or received (as before) by them therein, be delivered for Our u&s;e to Our &s;aid Secretary of the Admiralty (and &s;worn to if required) by every of Our &s;aid Admirals, Commanders in Chief, and private Commanders, immediately upon their coming into Port to be laid up, and before the paying off of the Ships where|to they re&s;pectively belong. Both which Books Our &s;aid Se|cretary is to cau&s;e to be well Examined by him&s;elf, or &s;uch other Per&s;on as &s;hall be expre&s;ly appointed thereto, in order to a Report to be therefrom made to Us, of the different De|grees of Care or neglect wherewith the&s;e and all other Our Orders &s;hall appear to have been ob&s;erved, and Our receiving full &s;atisfaction from them therein, before the payment of their Wages, or the further allowance hereafter appointed in con&s;idera|tion of their good Service during their &s;aid Voyage.</P>
<P>Of all which as well every Our &s;aid Admirals, Commanders in Chief, private Commanders of Our Ships, and other the Officers within mentioned, as Our pre&s;ent Secretary of Our Admiralty, and the Secretary of Our Admiralty for the time being, are hereby required to yeild full and con&s;tant obe|dience and conformity, as they will an&s;wer the contrary at their perils.</P>
<P>And to the end, that with the Provi&s;ion thus made, to|wards the recovery and advancement of the Honour, Di&s;ci|pline, and Pro&s;perity of Our Naval-Service, We may at the &s;ame time Te&s;tifie Our like Royal Inclination to the giving all rea&s;onable Encouragement to tho&s;e, who &s;hall from hence. forward be employed as Commanders in any of Our Ships; thereby as well to excite and oblige them to a &s;trict comply|ance with the&s;e and all other Our Royal Re&s;olutions and Orders, as the better to enable them to &s;upport the Charge and Dignity of their &s;aid Employments and Entertainment therein, without re&s;orting to Methods of doing it &s;o injurious to our Honour and Service, and wa&s;teful of Our Trea&s;ure, as tho&s;e before mentioned have been; We are in the fir&s;t place graciou&s;ly plea&s;ed (in favour to Our &s;aid Commanders) to take upon Our &s;elf an encrea&s;e of
<PB N="5" REF="3">Charge, beyond what has ever hitherto been at any one time done by any of Our Royal Predece&s;&s;ors, namely, by granting (as We hereby do) to the Commanders of every of Our Ships and Ve&s;&s;els (Yachts only excepted) an annual Allowance (over and above the value of the Victualling they now enjoy in common with their Ship's Companies) for the &s;upport of their Tables, proportioned to the re&s;pective Rates of the Ships and Ve&s;&s;els they &s;hall happen &s;everally to Command; the &s;aid allowance to commence upon tho&s;e of Our Ships which are now &s;itting forth, and &s;hall at any time hereafter be fitted forth to the Seas, from the date and delivery of their Commanders and Signing Officers joynt Certificate to the Secretary of Our Admiralty, and Com|mi&s;&s;ioners of Our Navy, of their Ships being compleatly fitted for the Sea, and in readine&s;s to Execute Our &s;inal Orders for their Sailing; and upon &s;uch of Our Ships as are at this pre|&s;ent abroad, from the day of their Commanders receiving from Our &s;aid Secretary (which he is with all convenient &s;peed to di|&s;patch to them) Copies of this Our Order; and to be continu|ed both on the one and the other to the Determination of their re&s;pective Voyages.</P>
<P>The value of which allowance hereby &s;o granted is as follows,
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<HEAD>A Table of the Am<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3+ letters"> A<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">lowance of a <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> C<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 chunk">der of each Rate.</HEAD>
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<CELL COLS="3">Pre&s;ent wages.</CELL>
<CELL COLS="3">Pre&s;ent victual|ling.</CELL>
<CELL COLS="3">Additional grant for his table.</CELL>
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<CELL><ABBR>ll.</ABBR></CELL>
<CELL>s.</CELL>
<CELL>d.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL><ABBR>ll.</ABBR></CELL>
<CELL>s.</CELL>
<CELL>d.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL><ABBR>ll.</ABBR></CELL>
<CELL>s.</CELL>
<CELL>d.</CELL>
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<CELL>1</CELL>
<CELL>273</CELL>
<CELL>15</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>12</CELL>
<CELL>3</CELL>
<CELL>4</CELL>
<CELL>250</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
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<CELL>2</CELL>
<CELL>219</CELL>
<CELL>00</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>12</CELL>
<CELL>3</CELL>
<CELL>4</CELL>
<CELL>200</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
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<CELL>3</CELL>
<CELL>182</CELL>
<CELL>00</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>12</CELL>
<CELL>3</CELL>
<CELL>4</CELL>
<CELL>166</CELL>
<CELL>5</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
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<CELL>4</CELL>
<CELL>136</CELL>
<CELL>10</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>12</CELL>
<CELL>3</CELL>
<CELL>4</CELL>
<CELL>124</CELL>
<CELL>5</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
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<CELL>5</CELL>
<CELL>109</CELL>
<CELL>10</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>12</CELL>
<CELL>3</CELL>
<CELL>4</CELL>
<CELL>100</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
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<CELL>6</CELL>
<CELL>91</CELL>
<CELL>00</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>12</CELL>
<CELL>3</CELL>
<CELL>4</CELL>
<CELL>83</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
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<P><PB N="6" REF="4">
Wherein Our Royal Intention is, that this allowance for Tables granted to Our &s;aid Commanders, as Captains of Pri|vate Ships, &s;hall not be con&s;trued to the taking away or di|mini&s;hing ought of what has been heretofore E&s;tabli&s;hed to Flag Officers, upon account of their Flags.</P>
<P>And that We may yet the more effectually excite to a vigo|rous pro&s;ecution of Our Service, &s;uch of Our &s;aid Commanders, as &s;hall be by Us employed in Our Wars with any of the peo|ple of <HI>Barbary,</HI> (&s;uch as that wherein We now are, and have, to the great Expence of Our Trea&s;ure and hazard to Our Subjects Trading into tho&s;e Seas, for &s;everal years been en|gaged with tho&s;e of <HI>Sally</HI>) We are graciou&s;ly pleas'd farther to grant to &s;uch Our Commanders the full benefit of all Prizes, (both Hulls, Furniture, Lading and Slaves) that &s;hall be by them taken, whether of Ships of VVar, or Merchant Men, &s;aving only the Ve&s;&s;els of Our Subjects happening to have fallen into the hands of &s;uch Our Enemies; In which ca&s;e the Salvage only of the Ve&s;&s;els of Our Subjects re&s;cued, &s;hall go to the Retakers. The whole of which forementioned Prizes and Salvage &s;hall be divided between the Commander or Com|manders, of &s;uch Our Ship or Ships (with their Officers and Companies) as were concerned in the Cha&s;e and Capture of the &s;aid Prizes, according to the Law and practice of the Sea. Pro|vided always, that no part of the Charge of &s;ecuring or main|taining any of the Ve&s;&s;els, Lading, or Companies of the &s;aid Prizes, &s;hall be placed to Our Account, from the day where|in the &s;ame &s;hall be fir&s;t brought into any Chri&s;tian Port, and that the &s;aid Prizes be carried into Port, with as little Charge as may be to Us, and without any interruption to the Service wherein Our &s;aid Ships were imployed at the time of the Capture.</P>
<P>La&s;tly, VVe are hereby graciou&s;ly plea&s;ed further to declare to all Our &s;aid Admirals, Commanders in chief, and private Commanders, that as Our Royal Expectation will from hence|forward be, to have a &s;trict Account given Us of their careful applying them&s;elves to the Execution and ob&s;ervance of the&s;e
<PB N="7" REF="4">and all other Our Orders, with intention of expre&s;&s;ing Our &s;evere&s;t Di&s;plea&s;ure again&s;t &s;uch of them (whoever they be) as &s;hall be found in any wi&s;e negligent or unfaithful in the &s;ame; &s;o are We no le&s;s graciou&s;ly determined at the End of their re&s;pective Voyages, to Te&s;tifie by &s;ome e&s;pecial In&s;tance of Our Bounty (beyond what is hereby already &s;o Extraor|dinarily provided for them) Our particular Regard to whoe|ver of Our &s;aid Commanders &s;hall appear to have merited the &s;ame from Us, by any &s;ignal In&s;tances of their Indu|&s;try, Courage, Conduct or Frugality evidenced therein on Our behalf.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given at Our Court at <HI>Wind&s;or</HI> <DATE>this 15th. day of <HI>July</HI> 1686.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>By His Maje&s;ties Command.
<HI>S. PEPYS.</HI></SIGNED>
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<P>A True Copy.</P>
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