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    Transcription of the petition of the crew of the HMS Queen Charlotte to Lord Howe, February 28, 1797, for the redress of grievances. It is a sample of the many petitions which preceded the Spithead Mutiny. Presented by ageofsail.wordpress.com

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    To the Right Honourable Richard, Earl Howe, Admiral of the Fleet and

    General of Marines.

    The humble petitioners on board His Majesty’s Ship Queen Charlotte on


    behalf of themselves and their Brethren on Board of the Fleet at
    Spithead. Most humbly sheweth that your petitioners most humbly
    intreat that your Lordship would be pleased to take the hardships of
    which they complain into consideration and lay them before the Lords
    Commissioners of the Admiralty, not doubting in the least from your
    Lordship’s interference in their behalf they will obtain a speedy
    redress.

    It is now upwards of two years since your petitioners observed with


    pleasure the augmentation which had been made to the pay of the
    Army and Militia, and the provision that took place with respect to their
    wives and families, of such soldiers as were serving on board, naturally
    expecting that they should in their turn experience the same
    munificence, but alas no notice has been taken of them, nor the
    smallest provisions made for their wives and families except what they
    themselves sent out of their pay to prevent them being burdensome to
    the parish.

    That your petitioners humbly presume that their loyalty to their


    Sovereign is as conspicuous and their courage as unquestionable as
    any other description of men in His Majesty’s service as their enemies
    can testify, and as your Lordship can witness who so often led them to
    victory and glory and by whose manly exertions the British Flag rides
    triumphant in every quarter of the Globe.

    And your petitioners humbly conceive that at the time when their
    wages were settled in the reign of Charles the Second it was intended
    as a comfortable support both for themselves and families, but at
    present by the considerable rise in the necessaries of life, which is now
    almost double; and an advance of 30 per cent on slops, your Lordship
    will plainly see that the intentions of the legislature is counteracted by
    the before mentioned causes and therefore most humbly pray for
    relief.

    Your petitioners relying on your goodness and benevolence humbly


    implores that my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty will comply
    with the prayers of this petition, and grant such addition will be made
    in their pay as their Lordships’ wisdom they shall think meet.

    And your petitioners will in duty bound ever pray.

    28th Feb. 1797

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