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<DIV1 TYPE="title page">
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<P>THE SEA-MANS PROTESTATION Renewed, Confirmed, and Enlarged.</P>
<P>THE FIRST, Concerning their Ebbing and Flowing to and from the Parliament Hou&s;e at We&s;tmin|&s;ter, the 11th of Ianuary 1642.</P>
<P>THE LATTER, As the Cau&s;e and Matters, now &s;tand.</P>
<Q>ORdered againe, by the Vice-Admirall, to bee publi&s;hed and &s;et forth thoroughout the whole Kingdome, as a manife&s;tation of the Seamans Loyalty to their King, and love to their Country.</Q>
<P>LONDON, Printed for H. H. 1643.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="protest">
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<HEAD>The Seamans Prote&s;tation.</HEAD>
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<P>OVr appearance above the Bridge, being a pa&s;&s;age the Hi&s;tories of <HI>England</HI> cannot exemplifie, may cau&s;e our good intents and well meaning, in the various apprehen|&s;ions of mo&s;t men to be mi&s;con&s;trued: For the &s;peedier and more exact remedie of which, we have all re&s;olved at length thus to declare our-&s;elves.</P>
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<P><HI>FIr&s;t,</HI> as in dutie we ought, VVe Prote&s;t to our great Lord and Ma&s;ter <HI>(his mo&s;t Ex|cellent Maie&s;ty)</HI> That it was an act of our owne free voluntary di&s;po&s;ition, not all, or any of us called or invited by the Parliament or Citizens of London, but came as well to protect <HI>White-hall,</HI> had his Maje&s;ty beene there, as the Parliament hou&s;e: but a tumour being &s;pread among&s;t us that that great Court was in fear to be di&s;&s;ovled, and knowing too well the happines of this Kingdome con&s;i&s;ts in their Se&s;&s;ions; re|membring the words of Arch-bi&s;hop <HI>Cranmer,</HI> a Martyr of ever ble&s;&s;ed memory, which were; VVo be to <HI>England</HI> when there is no Parliament.</P>
<P>We &s;eeing and heareing the whole City to be in compleat arms, pre&s;ently turned fre&s;hwater &s;oldiers, and with as &s;udden expedition as we could, attended by water their progre&s;&s;e thither, and joyned our thunder of powder with the City Muskets, at their entrance into the Hou&s;e (the
<PB REF="3">Temple of our &s;afety) to the terrour we hope of all Papi&s;ts, and the Lands Enemies, who wi&s;h for nothing more then the di&s;&s;olation of both hou&s;es, Who&s;e harmony (if they pro<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">eed) will be to our perpetuall good, and their &s;udden Confu&s;ion.</P>
<P>We who are alwayes abroad, can be&s;t tell no goverment upon the Earth is comparable to it; <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;pecially, for the keeping of a Crown upon a Kings head, for the procuration of the Subjects Loyalty, and un<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">igned fidelity to their Mo|narch, for the flouri&s;hing of Traffique and Mar|chandizing (this Kingdoms right-hand) the con|tinuation of all, which is, was, and nece&s;&s;arily mu&s;t be by <HI>Parliaments.</HI></P>
<P>Witne&s;&s;e the heavie and lamentable di&s;tracti|ons in <HI>France, Spain,</HI> and <HI>Germanie</HI> for want of them or the like Goverment.</P>
<P>Long therefore may they here flouri&s;h: In vain is it for us to keepe the narrow Seas, if &s;ome go the way to lo&s;e the Land. This confu&s;ion is that alone which glads the hearts of our Ene|mies abroad, and makes them fat with laughter: while we &s;it and &s;it, but effect nothing: Yet al|though the Conception is long, the birth will be the nobler, and that which <HI>Rome</HI> with all her cur&s;es &s;hall not bla&s;t, we meane, the firm e&s;ta|bli&s;hing of our <HI>Prote&s;tant Religion:</HI> in defence of which chiefly, we di&s;play our Colours on the &s;eas, and expo&s;e each drop of bloud we have, to hourly danger; and all in behalfe of our good and mo&s;t gracious King, who is him&s;elfe the De|fender of our Faith.</P>
<PB REF="3">
<P>Now to the City we manife&s;t our &s;elves, and the occa&s;ion of our conflux, although we are a &s;ort of people in this Commonwealth, which by the Preci&s;er &s;ort of you, are defined but lit|tle different from Athei&s;ts; and therefore &s;hould breede more wonder we &s;hould &s;tickle for Reli|gion Be plea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> to unde<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;tand although we have no Churches, we make our prayers as well as you, and the &s;am<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> God you have at &s;hore is ours at &s;ea: whom we wil &s;erve although not &s;o decently as we would, being for the mo&s;t part of our daies re&s;trained from a Church, to dwell upon the &s;eas for your better &s;ecurity; for be it well knowne to you, y<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ur &s;afety con&s;i&s;ts in ours, youre churches yea and your hou&s;es too, would quickly fall and lie in the du&s;t, &s;hould we let pa&s;&s;e <HI>Tho&s;e</HI> who long to prey upon your lives and Fortunes. But for our Religion, King, and Country, (we do and will advance our Colours again&s;t the world: and for a Confermation to you all of our true hearts, we have all Prote&s;ted in this manner.</P>
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<OPENER>I <HI>A, B, C,</HI></OPENER>
<P>DO Prote&s;t before Almighty God, to main|tain with my deare&s;t life and blood, the <HI>Prote&s;tant Religion</HI> as it was e&s;tabli&s;hed in the dayes of Queen <HI>Elizabeth:</HI> To acknowledge <HI>CHARLES,</HI> by the grace of God, King of <HI>Great Britain, France,</HI> and <HI>Ireland:</HI> To &s;tand, for the Priviledges of <HI>Parliament.</HI> Utterly form my heart to abhor all <HI>Poperie,</HI> and Popi&s;h inno|vations.</P>
<TRAILER>So help me God.</TRAILER>
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<PB REF="4">
<P>NOw it may appear to you all, the main and chiefe&s;t cau&s;e of our gathering together, we who are u&s;ed to tempe&s;ts at &s;ea never &s;tood in fear of a greater then this at Land; That great ve&s;&s;ell the Parliament hou&s;e, which is &s;o richly fraught with no le&s;&s;e value then the price of a King|dome, is fearfully &s;haken, and in great danger: <HI>Rome</HI> has Rocks, and <HI>Spaine</HI> hath Quick-&s;ands, to &s;wallow her up; Now what remaines, but that on our knees we &s;end up our prayers to that great Pilot of Heaven and Earth, who &s;teers the world with his Finger, that he would protect and defend her, to his owne glory and our com|fort: &s;o &s;hall our King be &s;afe and Firm in his Throne, while his Religion flouri&s;hes, and his Subjects peacefully and joyfully live &s;miling under his Scepter, To the Eternall di&s;grace and &s;hame of tho&s;e, who have and would intend to &s;ubvert our proceedings. Thus much the former Prote&s;tation</P>
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<HEAD>Now followeth the Continuation, confirmation, and augmentation of the &s;ame.</HEAD>
<P>AS there are aboundance of Land Malig|nants in and about <HI>London</HI> and el&s;where; that is, malevolent or evill minded per&s;ons, to the proceeding of the mo&s;t high and honourable Court of Parliament, which apears by their fre|quent breathing and fomenting forth fal&s;e and &s;candalous words and Languages of and again&s;t the Parliament; &s;o we are not ignorant that there a generarion of &s;ea-men or &s;aylors that (not for
<PB REF="4">want of malice) are Malignants al&s;o in their ac|tions and vapouring di&s;cour&s;es; but what are they, for the mo&s;t part? but debauched per&s;ons, drunkards, &s;wearers &amp;c. And <HI>Wapping</HI> as well as <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter</HI> is not without the infection of &s;ome &s;uch men: Yea and divers women as well as men (that not for want of ignorance) are Malignants al&s;o and will take upon them <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ft &s;oons to be pra|ting and prattling again&s;t the proceedings of Parl. but be&s;t of it is, womens tongues are their be&s;t &amp; wor&s;t weapons. And to return to &s;ea-men, ble&s;&s;ed be God, the major and better &s;ort of us are not like &s;alt that hath lo&s;t its &s;avour, but we having learnt to feare God and obey the King, we will <HI>Prote&s;t before almightie God, our former reci|ted prote&s;tation:</HI> and now the Kingdom is invol|ved in a civill War, &amp; a mighty Army of Papi&s;ts (and Athei&s;ts) contrary to the Knowne Lawes of the Land are in Arms again&s;t the Parliament, if they could, to de&s;troy the fame, and &s;o trample the Common Laws and the Commons of Eng|land under foot, and to make us all &s;laves in our Religion imunities and priviledges, It behoues us that are &s;ea men, to be&s;tir us and looke about us the better, and the rather becau&s;e we, and who but we, are to manage the <HI>Navy</HI> of Shipps, which are and ever have beene accompted the brazen VValles of this Kingdome, again&s;t all Forraine inva&s;ion, witne&s;&s;e our memorable and never to be forgotten defeating the (falfly tearmed) Invin|cible Armado in 8<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> which was in the ble&s;&s;ed, hap|pie, and haleluyon days and raign of our <HI>Deborah,</HI> the Nur&s;e of our Engli&s;h <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> Queen <HI>Eli&s;abeth</HI>
<PB REF="5">of immortall Memory which victory was to god alone again&s;t the potent Monarch <HI>Phillip</HI> the &s;e|cond King of <HI>Spaine.</HI></P>
<P>And verily it is a pregnant argument to us that &s;ea-men are as ready to doe &s;ervice as ever, the willing and voluntary re&s;orting of &s;o many of us unto the Nauy now at &s;ea under the comand of the right honourable and mo&s;t noble <HI>Robert</HI> Earl of <HI>Warwick</HI> Lord Gen. of the Sea forces for the King and Parliament, whom we be&s;eech God pre|&s;erve and protect for the good of our Faerie land. And for tho&s;e Arch-Pyrates that have taken upon them to come in oppo&s;ition to our great Navie, to have and rob his Maje&s;ties good Sub|jects of their &s;hippes and goods, and for that end (as is &s;aid) they have taken Falmouth Haven in Cornwall, which with roaving and robberies they make a kind of <HI>Algier.</HI> We hope in due time we &s;hall meete with them, and bring them to their de&s;erved and condigne reward at <HI>Wapping</HI> Dock. In the meane time unanimou&s;ly joyn with all true hearted Land-men, e&s;pecially the ho|norable City of <HI>London,</HI> to pray for the hapy pro|ceedings of the A<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">mies as well by land as &s;ea that are in Armes for King and Parliame<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">, again&s;t all our Enemyes as well dome&s;tike as fortain, and for our parts, let them nor theirs pro&s;per, that will not &s;ay to the &s;ame with us, <HI>AMEN.</HI></P>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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