BIB_ID
304061
Accession number
MA 940.54
Creator
Pepys, Samuel, 1633-1703.
Display Date
1667 Mar. 19.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr., 1914.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 28.9 cm
Notes
Addressed at foot of page "To Mr Edw[ard] Gregory Clerke of ye Cheque of his Ma[jesty's] yard. Chatham." Edward Gregory Jr. (d. 1713) the post Clerk of the Cheque at Chatham from 1665-1689.
Also signed by William, 2nd viscount Brouncker, Sir John Mennes and Sir William Penn.
Docketed on verso.
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 William, 2nd viscount Brouncker, Sir John Mennes and Sir William Penn.
Docketed on verso.
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 Royal Highness [the Duke of York, later James II, King of England] to man the ship Victory with not more than 340 seamen.
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