Greenwich Hospital, etc. Act 1695

XIV. Proviso for registering of Seamen Inhabitants of Cinque Ports.

Registers appointed in such Case, to take the Oath for due Execution of this Act.; Such Registers to observe Directions of this Act, &c.; Such Seamen so registered to have all the Benefits of this Act.; and liable to the aforesaid Penalties and Punishments.

Provided moreover and itt is hereby further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Seamen and Seafareing-men as aforesaid to bee registred by vertue of this Act who are or shall bee Inhabitants within any of the Cinque Ports or the Townes and Members thereof shall and may bee registred att such Places within the said Cinque Ports or the Townes and Members thereof or within some of them and in such manner according to the true Intention of this Act and by such Persons Registers as shall for that purpose bee appointed and nominated by the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports for the tyme being or in case there bee noe Lord Warden or in his Absence by the Lieutenant of Dover Castle for the tyme being Which Persons soe to bee nominated and appointed Registers shall (before they or any of them enter or register any Seaman or Seafareing-man as aforesaid by vertue of this Act) take such Oath for the due Execution of this Act as is herein before directed before the Lord Warden for the tyme being or the Lieutenant of Dover Castle or his Deputy or Deputies or one of them for the tyme being or before the Mayor of some one of the Cinque Port Townes or Members (which Oath they or any of them are impowered hereby to administer) and shall in the Execution of their respective Offices observe and performe all such Directions and Orders as are particularly given and made by this Act concerning the same under the respective Penalties hereby in that behalfe established and all such further Directions and Orders as the Kings Majesty His Heires and Successors and the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports for the tyme being shall in that behalfe give make or prescribe according to the Tenor of this Act And that all Seamen and Seafareing men as aforesaid soe registred as last menc[i]oned and their Wives and Children shall have receive and enjoy the like Bounties Advantages Proffitts Capacities Priviledges and Exemptions, to all Intents and Purposes as any other Seamen or Seafareing men as aforesaid being elsewhere registred by vertue of this Act or their Wives or Children shall or may have receive or enjoy by vertue hereof and bee liable to all such Penalties and Punishments in case of not repairing (on Summons from the Lord Warden for the tyme being or in his absence or in case there bee noe Lord Warden from the Lieutenant of Dover Castle his Deputy or Deputies in such manner as by this Act is before directed to bee made) to the respective Shipps whereto they shall respectively belong or bee appointed by the said Lord Admirall or by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty for the tyme being or in case of Desertion and in all other Respects as such other Seamen or Seafareing men as aforesaid soe elsewhere registred shall or may bee lyable to by vertue of this Act any thing herein contained to the contrary thereof notwithstanding.