Author: TOMLINSON (Lieutenant [Robert])
Title: A Plan for a Practicable, Easy, and Constitutional Method, of Manning the Royal Navy, upon any Emergency, without the usual mode of Impressing Seamen; Rendered intelligible to those who are unacquainted with Maritime Affairs: Illustrated by several Tables, calculated to explain the Whole. And most humbly submitted to the Consideration of the Ministry and of the Legislature.
Description: Printed, only, for the Author, by J.W. Pasham. 1774. First Edition, 4to, viii,54,[2]pp., with a final errata leaf, stitched as issued (becoming loose), some light chipping to blank margins on initial and final leaf, uncut. After Tomlinson's first-hand experience with the impressing of seaman "The employment, which I had in 1770, gave me many opportunities of being a witness to such unspeakable distresses, as moved me to compassionate the sufferers, and exited me to begin an essay for abolishing that mode of raising seaman", he here proposes legislation that would allow more time before seamen had to report for duty, better pay and a maximum time of three years service. No copy in the British Library, ESTC locates 2 copies in the UK and 6 in North America; Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 11143.

Keywords: MARITIME NAVY MANNING ANTIQUARIAN