BIB_ID
304130
Accession number
MA 940.68
Creator
Pepys, Samuel, 1633-1703.
Display Date
1668 Apr. 7.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr., 1914.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 29.9 cm
Notes
Addressed at foot of the page "To Mr Edward Gregory Clerke of the Cheque of his Maj[esty's] yard at Chatham." Edward Gregory Jr. (d. 1713) held this post from 1665-1689.
Also signed by Arthur, Earl of Anglesey, William, 2nd viscount Brouncker, and Sir John Mennes.
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.
The second of two documents dated 7 April 1668.
Also signed by Arthur, Earl of Anglesey, William, 2nd viscount Brouncker, and Sir John Mennes.
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.
The second of two documents dated 7 April 1668.
Provenance
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr. from Quaritch, 1914.
Summary
Instructing him to man the ships Henry and Defiance with not more than 340 and 250 seamen respectively.
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