Publications of the Navy Records Society, Volume 57Navy Records Society, 1923 |
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3rd-rates abroad accordingly Admiral's Admiralty Letters allowed answer approved behalf Captain Catalogue of Pepysian charge Chatham commander Commissioners complaint consideration contract convoy court-martial Coventry's debate Derby House directed discharged discourse dispatch Duke of Lauderdale Duke of Monmouth Duke of Ormonde fleet forthwith galley given granted hath ketch King King's late Lieutenant Lord Arlington Lord Chamberlain Lord Craven Lord Ossory Lord Privy Seal Lord Treasurer Lordships Majesty was pleased Majesty's service Majesty's ships Majesty's subjects master merchants N[avy Navy Officers attending occasion Ordnance paid particular passes payment Pepys Pepysian MSS port Portsmouth praying present pretended Prince Rupert proposed purser referred RESOLVED Robes Chamber satisfaction seamen Secretary Coventry Secretary Williamson sent shewing Sir John Narbrough Sir Richard Sir Thomas Allin Sir Thomas Clutterbuck Speaker Straits taken Tangier therein thereof thereto Thomas Clutterbuck touching vessel Vice-Chamberlain victuallers voyage wages Woolwich yacht yards
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Pagina 203 - Unfortunately blown up.' of the said ship may be prejudicial to that road if not speedily removed ; we do therefore hereby desire and direct you forwith to write to the Master, Wardens and Assistants of the Trinity House of Deptford...
Pagina xlvii - ... withdrawn, and by a warrant from the Lords of the Admiralty dated 28 March, 1674, its duties were handed over to James Pearse, ' chirurgeon-general of his Majesty's navy.'2 Pearse was a man of business after Pepys's own heart, and he carefully systematised the whole of his functions, reducing them ' into such a method that it is not possible for me (or whomsoever shall succeed me) to wrong his Majesty or injure his subjects.
Pagina 438 - Pepys, the meeting of the commissioners being uncertain, and only in cases admitting delay and requiring the formality of public debate ; at which meetings his royal highness did, by the king's command, always assist, until by his removal out of the land in...
Pagina 356 - King's suggestion, something very like the modern method of standardisation was adopted, " the numbers and dimensions of ports, and all the principal sizes and measures requisite to be observed in the building of a ship and fitting her with masts, yards, blocks, etc...
Pagina 160 - an allowance of half-pay' in such cases, to continue ' so long as they shall remain unprovided for to the value of the like half-pay, either by some new employment in his Majesty's service or by any pension, annuity, or other benefit which .already is or may hereafter be conferred by his Majesty,' it being understood that if the value of such employment should fall short ol 1 5.
Pagina lxv - July, forbidding the commanders of the king's ships to take more than the ' anciently accustomed and allowed rate ' of 1 per cent. ' for moneys carried from place to place belonging to the k1ng's subjects
Pagina xv - ... Board, at which the King was present. It was then decided that though the year was well advanced and England had only a small force abroad, and the stock of provisions (for the use of the Navy) both at home and abroad was very low, yet Sir John Narbrough — who was in attendance — should be sent " to demand full restitution and upon denial thereof to declare war. . . . The importance of it to his Majesty's honour to see justice done to his subjects by these people, making it necessary for...
Pagina 423 - HM's ships to meet emergencies, and certainly for the purpose of fighting. The Commissioners generally met once a week, and the King was nearly always present. 1677. 20 October, (p. 505). " Notice being also taken of the difficulty of getting seamen for our ships while so great a merchant trade is going; ORDERED, that it should be referred to the Officers of the Navy to consider of giving some help thereto by mixing a convenient proportion of land-soldiers with each hundred of seamen.