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moste place at such rates that [t]he Buier … moste place at such rates that [t]he Buiers professe openly they<br />
will not pay and worke, and that [t]hey cannot live excepte<br />
they may steale. And lastly many new and (as we thinke)<br />
unwarranted allowance upon the seabookes. Namely the<br />
double or rather treble payments of wage to new erected<br />
leiutennants, viceadmiralls, and others, who receiving<br />
first 20 s or 10 s per diem in the exchequer, receive againe the<br />
same wages for themselves upon the shipps Charge, and<br />
receiving 8. or .16. mens wages in the Exchequer for their [retinne] <br />
likewise somany mens wages form the Treasurer of the Navye<br />
and againe allowan[c]e for [the] victualls of somany men from the <br />
[Surveiors] of victualls. Wee understand allso that of late<br />
three principall officers of the Navy have each of them<br />
allowance of the wages and victualls for a deadpaye in <br />
every shipp at Sea, and that in Narrow seas there is an<br />
allowance demanded for a preacher and his man, though<br />
noe such devotion be ever used aboard, and wee finde 7<br />
or 8 Admiralls, viceadmiralls, and Captens w[i]th <br />
Extraordinary allowance in one yeare. /.
9 Cause./.
Wee ffind the chiefe and inward causes of all disorder to be the<br />
multitude of officers, and povertie of wages, and that [t]he chiefe<br />
officers Commit all the truste to their inferiors and Clerks, whereof<br />
some homeparte of their maintenance from the Merchants, that <br />
[deliver] in the provisions, w[hi]ch they are trusted to receive, and these<br />
men are allso governed by the Cheife officers verball direccons<br />
w[hi]ch the directors themselves will not give under their hands<br />
when it is required; And w[hi]ch of all is moste inconveniente<br />
they are the warrants and vouchies for the Issueinge of all his<br />
Majesty’s moneyes, and stores, whoe are moste interrested in the the<br />
greatnes of his Expence, And therefore the busines ever was<br />
and still is soe carryed, that neither due survey is taken of<br />
ought that cometh in, nor orderly warrant given for moste<br />
that goeth oute, nor any perticuler accompte made, nor now<br />
possible to be made of any one maine worke or service that is<br />
Done. /.ke or service that is<br />
Done. /. +
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