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[004061] [Naval Expenses]; [Sudbury, John and Griffith, Robert] Reasons Humbly Offer’d to the Honourable House of Commons, for Passing a Clause to Encourage the Seamen Etc. [Docket title]. No Place: No Publisher, First Edition. 4to. Unbound. Broadsheet. Fair. [2]p, with docket title to reverse, n.d. but probably 1705

Chipped with loss to head, catching a few letters with loss, but no real loss of sense, slightly chipped to sides and foot, lightly browned with several small tears

ESTC T46435, suggesting that it is possibly by John Sudbury and Robert Griffith, with Hanson providing the date

Notes that sailors, sometimes after many years to sea, are often not paid what they are owed, leading them to sell their wages “at very great loss”, which makes them incapable of paying his creditors, leading to tradesmen not being paid, and seamen deserting or entering into ‘foreign service’

Hanson 529