Speaking of the Royal Navy and their difficulty in finding sailors willing to endure squalid conditions, here is a broadside dated March 30, 1795, offering Twenty Guineas Bounty, for Volunteers for the Navy. Lewisham and Lee. The Navy was looking for "six able bodied land, or seamen" from these two parishes. The 20-guinea bounty was apparently the same amount Parker signed on for a couple of years later. The broadside ends with "God save the King," though it might more appropriately have proclaimed "God save these sailors." $2,250.
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