BIB_ID
304057
Accession number
MA 940.51
Creator
Pepys, Samuel, 1633-1703.
Display Date
1667 Mar. 1.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr., 1914.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 30 cm
Notes
Addressed at foot of page "To Mr Edward Gregory His Ma[jesty's] Clerke of the Cheque at Chatham." Edward Gregory Jr. (d. 1713) the post Clerk of the Cheque at Chatham from 1665-1689.
Also signed by Sir John Mennes and Sir William Penn.
Issued from the Navy Office.
Part of a large collection of letters and documents issued from the Naval Office and signed by Samuel Pepys, Sir William Penn, Sir William Batten, and others. Items have been cataloged individually; see collection-level record for more information.
Also signed by Sir John Mennes and Sir William Penn.
Issued from the Navy Office.
Part of a large collection of letters and documents issued from the Naval Office and signed by Samuel Pepys, Sir William Penn, Sir William Batten, and others. Items have been cataloged individually; see collection-level record for more information.
Provenance
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr. from Quaritch, 1914.
Summary
Relaying an order from His Majesty the Duke of York [later James II, King of England] to man the ship Greenwich with not more than 200 seamen as "soon as she shall be in a condition to enter men."
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