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ROCHESTER. IJ
is true if none but ordinary mariners were to serve
in them, who are able to endure, and are used to
the tumbling and rowiing of ships srom side to
side when the sea is never so little grown ; but
men of better sort, and better breeding, would be
glad to find more steadiness, and less tottering
cage work; and albeit the mariners do covet store
of cabins, yet indeed they are but sluttiili dunces
that breed sickness, in part serving to cover stealths,
and in fight are dangerous to tear men with their
Splinters.
" There are also manv and great reasons why
ail his Majesty's Navy should not in such sort be
penned up as they are at Rochester water, but
only in respecl of the ease and commodity of the
officers, which is encountered with sundry incon-
veniences for the sea service, the difficulty being
very great to bring them in or out at times of
need, through so many flats and sands, is the wind
and weather be not very favourable. Betides, they
rauss have sundry winds to bring them to the Land's
end, and to put them to the seas ; which osten-
times fails, and causeth delay, when haste is moll:
needful; for if any service be to be done upon
the South pavts of England, as the Wight, Ports-
mouth, issands of Guernsey and Jersey, or West-
ward, towards Devontnire or Cornwall, or to-
wards Wales or Ireland, it is so long; before his
Majesty's
is true if none but ordinary mariners were to serve
in them, who are able to endure, and are used to
the tumbling and rowiing of ships srom side to
side when the sea is never so little grown ; but
men of better sort, and better breeding, would be
glad to find more steadiness, and less tottering
cage work; and albeit the mariners do covet store
of cabins, yet indeed they are but sluttiili dunces
that breed sickness, in part serving to cover stealths,
and in fight are dangerous to tear men with their
Splinters.
" There are also manv and great reasons why
ail his Majesty's Navy should not in such sort be
penned up as they are at Rochester water, but
only in respecl of the ease and commodity of the
officers, which is encountered with sundry incon-
veniences for the sea service, the difficulty being
very great to bring them in or out at times of
need, through so many flats and sands, is the wind
and weather be not very favourable. Betides, they
rauss have sundry winds to bring them to the Land's
end, and to put them to the seas ; which osten-
times fails, and causeth delay, when haste is moll:
needful; for if any service be to be done upon
the South pavts of England, as the Wight, Ports-
mouth, issands of Guernsey and Jersey, or West-
ward, towards Devontnire or Cornwall, or to-
wards Wales or Ireland, it is so long; before his
Majesty's