Excerpt from The Sailors Advocate: First Printed in 1727-8; To Which Is Now Prefixed, Some Strictures, Drawn From the Statutes and Records, Relating to the Pretended Right of Taking Away Men by Force, Under the Name of Pressing Seamen Gate, and alfo references to fome other Sta tutes relating to this fubjeet, in order to thew e fla'miralty Court hath no power of within the Realm, and much lefs of Protectzonr, (levying money without t of Parliament) and of Perfons of Meaztbout a legal pro Court-of Record, according to the common Law of England. As for the fla'mz'ralty lts ordinary Procefs) a Court of Eng/fl Law, but afi'ts upon corrupt Yi'aa'ztzonr and Tyraiinical Maxims growing out of the Lees of. The Roman Tyrann, b Fa: Prerogative, w ich ex y the excellent F0 hath not, as yet, configned to the deferved fate f the Lord f Wales, and of the Court an the Lord Prefident of the North, of Star Chamber, Council Table, &c. &c. All which. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.