BIB_ID
304144
Accession number
MA 940.71
Creator
Middleton, Thomas, Col., -1672.
Display Date
1668 Apr. 13.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr., 1914.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 30 cm
Notes
Addressed at foot of the page "To the Clerk of the Cheque of his Ma[jesty's] yard at Chath[am]." Edward Gregory Jr. (d. 1713) held this post from 1665-1689.
Docketed on verso.
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.
Docketed on verso.
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
Concerning the fitting out of ships ordered to sea, allowing the shipwrights, joyners, caulkers and housecarpenters "a tide a day extra."
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