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By the King and Queen, A PROCLAMATION, For Encouraging Seamen and Mariners to Enter themſelves on Their Majeſties Ships of War. WILLIAM R.

WE being deſirous to give all due Encouragement to ſuch Seamen as ſhall Voluntarily Enter themſelves in Our Service on Board Our Ships of War in Our Royal Navy, have thought ſit by and with the Advice of Our Privy Council, to publiſh this Our Royal Proclamation: And We do hereby Promiſe and Declare, That all ſuch Seamen as ſhall Voluntarily Enter themſelves on Board any of Our Ships of War, of the Firſt, Second, and Third Rates, before the Twentieth Day of January next, ſhall receive Six Weeks Pay, as Our Free Gift and Royal Bounty, which ſhall be paid them before the reſpective Ships to which they belong ſhall Sail from the Buoy of the Nore. And We do hereby further Declare, That no ſuch able Seamen that ſhall ſo Voluntarily Enter themſelves within the time before mentioned on Board any of Our Ships of the Firſt, and Second Rates, ſhall be Turned Over to other Ships. And We do hereby Command and Require the ſaid Seamen to Repair on Board the reſpective Ships on which they ſhall ſo Enter themſelves, and give their Conſtant Attendance, for ſitting out to Sea ſuch Ships as each of them do belong unto. And We are alſo Graciouſly pleaſed to Declare, That Conduct-Money, according to the Practice of the Navy, ſhall likewiſe be Allowed to ſuch able Seamen as ſhall Voluntarily enter themſelves on Board any of Our ſaid Ships, according to the true meaning of this Our Proclamation. And for the prevention of any Deceits and Abuſes that may happen by any Perſon or Perſons leaving the Ships to which they belong, and Entring him or themſelves on Board any other of Our ſaid Ships, as aforeſaid, in Order to the Obtaining of the Bounty-Money herein before Granted, We do hereby likewiſe Direct, Declare, and Command, That ſuch Seamen, belonging to any of Our Ships or Veſſels whatſoever, as ſhall leave any the Ships or Veſſels to which they belong, and Enter themſelves on Board any other of Our Ships, in Order to the Obtaining of the ſaid Bounty-Money, ſhall not only loſe the Wages due to them in the Ship, which they ſhall ſo leave, but ſhall alſo be ſeverely Puniſhed according to their Demerits.

Given at Our Court at Whitehall, the One and twentieth Day of December, 1691. In the Third Year of Our Reign. God ſave King William and Queen Mary.

London, Printed by Charles Bill, and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb deceas'd; Printers to the King and Queens moſt Excellent Majeſties, 1691.