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The Extremity of the last Winter having occasioned the loss of the President, a Rich East-India Ship, and many o∣ther of His Majesties Ships and Subjects to perish for want of Provision and Fresh-Water at Sea, His Majesty, for pre∣vention of the like Misfortune, was pleased to Order the follow∣ing Advice to be inserted in the Gazette of March 6. 1683.
HIS Majesty having heard several Rela∣tions of the great Distress some of his Subjects have lately been in at Sea for want of fresh Water, hath been pleased for their Re∣lief in such Cases, to command the Patentees for the new Invention of making Sea-water Fresh, to give the most publick notice they can of the Usefulness of the said Invention, of which his Majesty has received so great satis∣faction, that his Majesty is pleased that those Instruments shall be provided for his Ships and Garrisons, where they are not naturally provided with good Water. And in obedi∣ence to His Majesties Order, the Patentees do hereby give notice, That two Treatises have been written on this subject, which may be had at the Ship against the Royal Exchange, and at the Marine Coffee-house, whereunto all Persons are referred for more particular In∣formation; in which the great benefit and many Conveniences of this Invention, the ea∣siness, both as to the Trouble and Expence, of making the Salt. Water fresh, and the Wholsomness thereof, is clearly demonstra∣ted by the Testimony of many Eminent Phy∣sicians. To which is added a Letter written by the Honourable Mr. Boyle, by which he
assures the Whollomness, Durableness, and Sweetness of this Water. And a Letter from Captain Rand. Macdonnel, of the third of No∣vember 1683. from on Board the Grey-hound Frigat, near the Coast of Spain; wherein he affirms, that he kept of the Patentees Water, some that was given him, in his Ships Hold, from his leaving England, being four Months, and then having several Officers on Board him, gave them a taste of it, pretending it to be of the Spring near Sally, where he had watered, and which is as good as the best in the Streights, and they drank of it as such, till he discovered what it was; and then they approved of it to be as good as could be drank.