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Order signed : place not specified, to the Master Attendants, Master Shipwright, Clerke of the Cheque [Edward Gregory], Stores and Ropeyard at Chatham, 1668 May 7.

BIB_ID
304151
Accession number
MA 940.76
Creator
Pepys, Samuel, 1633-1703.
Display Date
1668 May 7.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr., 1914.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 30.3 cm
Notes
Addressed at foot of the page "Master Attendants, Master Shipwright, Clerke of the Cheque [Edward Gregory], Stores and Ropeyard at Chatham." Edward Gregory Jr. (d. 1713) held the post of Clerk of the Cheque at Chatham from 1665-1689.
Also signed by Sir John Mennes and Sir William Penn.
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.
The first of two documents dated 7 May 1668.
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 outfit the ships Henrietta and Dunkirke for sea.