A CORDJALL FOR THE CALENTURE AND Those other diseases which distempers the Seamen. OR, A DECLARATION DISCOVERING AND ADVISING HOW ENGLAND'S SEA HONOUR May be regained, and maintained as in the happy Reign of Queen ELIZABETH, Of famous Memory.  
WITH The saving of Two Hundred and Fifteen Thousand One Hundred twenty two pounds a year, one year with the other.  
This Mirror shows you at how dear a Rate,  
Self-love sells public danger to the State.  
LONDON, Printed in the Year, 1648.   

To that Conspicuous, and Right Trusty Pillar, which supports the South Aspect, of London's Royal Exchange.  
The humble Petition, or Declaration, of Andrew's Burrell, Gentleman, sometimes a Servant; in England's Navy.  
Shows,  
THat your Orator, being conscientious, of the Nationall Covenant, In March 1643. presented divers Parliament men, with papers entitled, England's Out-Guard, surveyed, and lamented, etc. A complaint then, & now very seasonable; yet so distaistfull, to some in the Committee of the Admiralty, that from that time to this day, your Orator hath been extremely traduced, and hath not found, that freedom which is called, the Liberty of the Subject, answerable to his affectionate desires, for the peace and Safety of England's Commonwealth.  
The truth is, for speaking of the truth, your Orator hath been extremely scandalised, by those which seeking themselves, delay (and indeed betray,) the Peace of England's Commonwealth.  
However, after many cavaling meetings, before that superlative Authority, your Orator was forced to publish those expostulations that were agitated before them, in a short Remonstrance, to the Honourable House of Commons; which being distasted, by the wise Officers of the Navy; occasioned the Commissioners of the Navy, to publish a learned Legend, in opposition to those truths, which your Orator had presented, to the Honourable House of Commons.  
But since that time, to show the fullness of their integrity to the House, and their weak sense, of England's rotten Navy; The Officers of the Navy, not knowing which Built is most serviceable; That is, which Ships are nimblest, I say, since that time, the Officers of the Navy, have caused seven great Frigates to be built, for the Service of the Parliament; which Frigates are so heavy, in regard of the ordinary Built of Frigates. That they are indeed seven Spanish Ships; But before your Orators survey, The Officers of the Navy, never endeavoured to build, or send forth any nimble Ships, Pinnaces, or Frigates; But instead thereof, (at dear rates, for selfe-ends,) hired Colliers, and some that were the worst of Gollyers; 
* This Service, though slighted, is very Remarkable.  yet now, they are so taken with a Spanish Fancy, That like fantastical Tailors, they endeavour, to change England's sluggish Navy, into the Spanish Fashion; which in the times that are past, would have been a fault, of a Crimson Colour, the truth is, they have betrayed the Kingdom, by that new device.  
For in Queen Elizabeth's days, the best of the Spanish Frigates, were not to be compared with the worst Pinnace in England's Royal Navy; And which is very considerable, The Officers of the Navy, misleading the Master Shipright of the Navy, have wilfully disabled those Spanish Ships, that have been lately built, which mischief your Orator did foresee, and complained of it, in his Survey of England's Navy, etc. before they began to build them.  
In the second Book, of Haklayths Book of voyages, Page 170. line 38. Captain Middleton, in a very good Sailor, That is in a nimble Pinnace, waited thre● days upon a Spanish Armada. Anno. 1591.: To discover their Forces, and to give the Lord Thomas Howard advice of their Approach; which service he performed faithfully, but could not have effected it, if his Ship had not been nimbler, than all those Spanish Ships and Frigates. In the 171. page, lines 52, and 53. Captain Whiddon, in the Pilgrim, was hunted like a hare, by the same Armada; at the 15. line, of the next page, you have the number of the Hounds; In plain English, Captain Whiddon in the Pilgrim was hunted like a Hare by the same Armada; At the 15. line of the next page, you have the number of the hounds in plain English, Captain Whiddon in the Pilgrim was chased, by the nimblest of fifty three Spanish Ships, and Frigates; But being nimbler than the nimblest of them, he escaped, and secured himself, by running from them.  
When the French besieged Dunkirk, the Off cers of the Navy, were offered for less than Five Thousand pounds; Seven of the best Frigates, that were then belonging to Dunkirk; which if the Officers had accepted (at that time) they had not only advanced, the Parliaments Service, in Treasure, and strength; but they had thereby, so disabled the Malignant party, that the contemptible Irish, could never have appeared in England's Seas, formidable as now.  
In the 13. line and 27. page, of the Legend which was published, by the Commissioners of the Navy, they to excuse their not buying of those Dunkirk Frigates, tell the Parliament, that they wanted money; but in the eight page, and 10. pages of Mr. Green's Declaration, he confesseth, that from August 1642. to the beginning of 1647. They did spend, one Million, five Hundred Twenty five Thousand six Hundred and ten pounds.  
And in the 12. page, that at the printing of his Declaration, in 1647. The state was, (for the service of the Navy,) Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand pounds, in debt, or thereabouts, which together is, Three Hundred Fifty five Thousand, one Hundred Twenty pounds a year, one year with another, 
* Before those sluggish Ships which are complained of in this Petition, were sent to encounter the Nolanders, England's Navy thus maintained, and England's Seas were better guarded for Thirty Thousand pounds a year.  what ere they spent, they refused those Frigates, and since that time, have caused seven others to be built, which instead of Five Thousand, have cost England's Commonwealth Thirty Thousand pounds, or more money, and which is very remarkable. Those costly Frigates, which they have caused to be built, are so ill built, and so ill contrived, that they dare not keep the several weathers, and cannot sail so nimbly, as the contemptible Irish; They have ploughed with my Heifer, but they have not found out my Riddle.  
In a Manuscript, which your Orator dedicated to his Excellency, in February 1647. your Orator's principle endeavour was, to demonstrate to his Excellency, the sluggish condition, of England's rotten Navy; It being an undeniable Maxim, that if a Ship be not nimble, she cannot be serviceable. But the Ships of England's Navy, are not nimble, therefore the Ships of England's Navy, are not serviceable.  
In the 19 page of their Legend, the Commissioners of the Navy, tell the Parliament, that no Prince in Christendom, hath so many brave Ships, as the Kingdom of England; yet after your Orator had complained of the sluggish condition, of England's, despicable Navy; the Officers of the Navy, did delusively cause Seven, great Frigates to be built, Carved, and Garnished with Gold. 
* England's Gold is wasted, but if there were no greater waist than that on the Frigates, there would not be so little left for honest men to relieve themselves and those that do depend upon them.  But slighting all their fair shows, and specious pretences; they abuse England's Commonwealth, by their counterfeit practices, and by many dangerous misinformations, telling the Parliament, all is well when in truth all is naught.  
Your Orator hath inquired with much diligence, but cannot here, that any one of the Parliaments new Frigates, by chase the inconsiderable Pirates, hath encountered, and taken any one of them, which is very seazeable, if those Officers which are in Authority, did understand the misery of the Ship-weights Art, as well as they know how by power, to defend the fallacies which your Orator doth complain of.  
There belongeth to Waterford and Wexford, (at this present) fourteen Sail of able men of War, which have thriven so well of late in their wicked Designs; that the Relator told Thirty three Prizes, lying by the Walls in one Harbour, (as not valuable) besides all those that were otherwise trifled away, by this loss your Readers may perceive, how unable the present Government is, with the expense of Three hundred Fifty five Thousand, one hundred twenty two pounds a year, to clear England's Seas of Ireland's Pirates.  

* The first page of your Orator's Remonstrance, did tell the Parliament, that the Guarding of the Seas, did cost Three hundred and Fifty Thousand pounds in one year which Information was very offensive to the Chairman of the Navy. But force that expostulation, his Worship hath declared that scandal to b pure truth and hath added five Thousand one Hundred twenty two pounds a year one with another, unto my Report; besides all the odd● shillings and pence, etc.  In the 19 page, of their Legend, the Commissioners of the Navy, in April 1646. tell the Parliament, That his Majesty, had then but half a dozen men of War, and that the most of them, were of so small Force, that they were not considerable. Since which time, by Mr. Green's Declaration; with a proportionable allowance, for this present year 1648. There hath been one Million, threescore and five Thousand, three hundred sixty six pounds, spent to guard the Seas; that is, to reduce half a dozen inconsiderable Pirates; but notwithstanding that vast and insupportable waist; those Pirates are not reduced, neither are the Seas Guarded with strength equivolent, to half the charge; or necessary to the safety and honour of the Land; The present Government cannot reduce half a dozen inconsiderable Pirates; They have suffered his Majesty's inconsiderable half dozen, to increase to more than a whole dozen, they have suffered them, to increase to more than a whole dozen, of  Pirates, (some say to more than three dozen,) however, this is most certain, one of them about the midst of February last, did in one day take three small Ships, and one Pinnace; which together were worth, Nine Thousand pounds, (or more money) and which hath no Redemption; when those Ships were lost, one of them endeavouring to defend themselves, lost their Master, with one of his Mates, and five of the common men.  
In which conflict, besides the loss of those seven, there were others wounded; wherefore being much weakened, and wounded, the Ship to leeward, and not able to save herself by running they were forced to yield; in this place, your Orator humbly moves this Query, if the present Government, with the expense of ten hundred, threescore and five thousand three hundred sixty six pounds, cannot reduce half a dozen inconsiderable Pirates; in three years' space. 
* That famous service which was performed by Queen Elizabeth's Royal Navy, in the year 1588. did not cost England's Commonwealth, threescore and ten Thousand pounds.  How will England's Commonwealth be wasted, if the French, the Danes, the Dutch, or all of them, shall infest England's Seas, or at once invade this distracted Kingdom, I say, if the present Government, with that insupportable sum of Treasure, which hath been spent within these last three years, cannot subdue and annihilate half a dozen inconsiderable Pirates; what strange confusion and extreme beggary will those profuse wasters bring upon this already too much impoverished Kingdom; if the neighbouring Princes should invade this Island, with powerful Armadas, that is, with Fleets of warlike Ships.  
By this discourse, your Readers may perceive, how vainly the Kingdom's Treasure, how carelessly England's Commonwealth is wasted, it is shamefully wasted, and which is most considerable in the times when England's Treasure was wasted as not valuable; even then, the honour of England's Seas was lost, and shamefully lost; And which adds to this complaint the Kingdom's sufferings, (as now,) are not only insupportable but endless; for though the Commonwealth hath paid an unknown price of Treasure and blood, for a more than necessary Reformation; no Reformation is, or can be expected, unless this or some other Pillar which hereafter may be famous, promote this or the like complaint to those Worthies, which unfeignedly desire the Kingdom's Peace; For this is most certain, some in authority do not see, and some in Authority will not see, and when those that are in Authority will be blind, what can be expected but confusion, and conclusively desolation.  
These great and growing mischiefs your Orator doth see, and therein doth perceive the perverse condition of Flesh and Blood; your Orator doth plainly see how desperately the present powers do slight Petitions, tending to the peace and safety of this famous Kingdom. 
* The Petitioner complained first to the Lord high Admiral of England, to the Lord Say, to the Earl of Warwick, to the Earl of Essex, to several members of the honourable house of Commons, to the House of Commons, to Lieutenant Gen. Crumwell, and to his Excellency England's Victorious General,  For these Reasons, your Orator thinks it duty in him, to complain to thee O Pillar, and would have thy Readers know, that he is so confident of his experience in the misery of the Shipwrights Art, that he dares enter into any engagement, to make the greatest half of those old, sluggish rotten ships, which the Officers of the Navy call England's Royal Navy sail as swiftly as the lest of the Parliaments new Friggots.  
Your Orator is likewise willing (because he knoweth how) to build a ship of the fourth rank, that shall sail, about the nimblest of the Parliaments new Friggots.  
These services your Orator can, and is willing to undertake, upon the striktest Obligations that can be invented. And if he fail to perform what he doth promise, your Orator shall most willingly, as deservedly, undergo the highest Censure that may in justice be inflicted upon him.  
These are the real thoughts and, earnest desires of your humble Orator, who by his own Proposals, expects no particular Emolument until he hath performed the intended Services; And then cast himself at the feet of those Worthies, which shall effectually promote this humble Petition.  
But passing these thoughts, give your Orator leave once more to tell your Readers, the ships of England's Navy are sluggish, and therefore unserviceable.  

* Se● the 12. page of a jornall published by john Denton Minister in the Admiral of the Silly Fleet, Anno. 1637. being the best service that any part of England's Navy hath performed this 46. years.  The Captains and Mariners are generally discouraged, and the Common Seamen so disheartened, and discontented for want of their thirds, and full allowance of wholesome diet, the lumps of fat which grow in the shoulders and cod's of the Oxen, with many chines and choice pieces of the b●st Beef and Pork, seruptitiously exposed to sale and trifled away in bribes, to the quantity of three Oxen in every Twenty six Oxen, (little more or less) besides all that which is stolen and fooled away in pretended fees.  
By which extreme abuses, the Seamen are not only shortened of their just allowance of Beef and Pork, but they are deprived of their Brews; which to many (especially to those that are ancient) was as good as their Beef, (especially in a long voyage.)  

* When twenty shillings is due to each Seaman for his third, some ships companies have received but ten shillings, others not half so much, some not a penny for a pound. In Queen Elizabeth's days every Seaman was allowed one pound of Beef for every Beef meal, and fat for his Brews, but since this blessed reformation four men are allowed but three pounds of beef and many times not so much.  They are also much disheartened for want of due encouragement, when they perform extraordinary services. I say and will aver it, the Seamen are so discouraged, that no good service can be expected or performed though the Ships Pinnisses, and Friggots were as serviceable, as they ought to be. And these these are the true causes why the Seamen revolt, and oppose the present Government.  
In the Remonstrance which your Orator did present unto the Honourable House of Commons, in May 1646. your Orator did compare England's slugish Navy to England's lazy horses, which in England's peaceful days were wantonly fed in the Mews near Charing-cross.  
And hear without offence give me leave to ask you Readers, what good service they can expect from the best troop of horse now in England, if the riders be unskilful, cowards, or unwilling to serve.  
I say if the Ships, Pinnaces, and Frigates, which now spend three hundred fifty five thousand, one hundred twenty pounds a year; were as nimble as Art and Industry can make them, if they were as nimble as they ought to be: There is so much discontent, wilfully, and perniciously, enforced upon the Seamen; that no good service can be expected from them, until the faults which your Orator hath complained off, be mended. 
* This Declaration hath been extant in a Manuscript above six months, and doth now prove itself by the Seamens Revolting from the Parliament.   
'tis thus, and they that make it thus, in your Orator's opinion, deserve to be understood, and rewarded accordingly.  
Your Orator, doth wish that your Readers would seriously consider these truths, these great and serious complaints, whicuh at this time, are obscured by divers malignant Petitions, lately exhibited to the Honourable House of Commons; your Orator doth wish, that by your care and providence, you would occasion a Reformation, in England's almost lost Navy; occasion it before it fall into a more contemptible condition, before it fall into a lost condition past recovery.  
To stop this issue, which doth waste a great part of England's life blood; and to recover England's Sea honour, your Orator hath prepared a design, which hath in it a full Sea, and fair Jail of Honour and Renown, for those that shall cherish and promote it, it is able to bear up and carry on, a real Reformation, in England's despicable Navy; by promoting it, your well-affected friends may glad the hearts of all the honest Seamen in England, which at this time, are not Revolted from the Parliament; (I am afraid I may say, from the King and Parliament;) They will have the prayers of all the honest Land-men in England, they may recover England's Sea-honour; they may support and highly advance their own Reputations, and they may save England's Commonwealth two hundred and fifteen thousand, one hundred twenty two pounds every year.  
These Inducements, your humble Orator presents unto the view, and most serious consideration of all your well-affected Merchants and Seamen; as most considerable, and more than necessary.  

Humbly desiring,  
That in regard this Petition concerns not only the Trade of this Honourable City by Sea; but the peace and safety of the whole Kingdom: This remarkable Pillar, according to the Trust reposed on it, will be pleased to hold forth; and present unto all the well-affected, this humble Petition or Declaration, intended principally for their good, and for the good of England's Common wealth, timely moving them to consider, the many mischiefs which may suddenly fall upon this Renowned City, and the whole Kingdom; If England's Seas be no better Guarded, and the Revolted Ships by force, reduced to the present Government.  
And as in Duty bound, etc.  
How bold, how mad, how desperate is the Treason,  
That sligts all faithful Council, Truth and Reason.  
FINIS.