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Order signed : place not specified, to the Master Shipwright and Clerk of the Cheque [Edward Gregory] and Storekeep at Chatham, 1668 May 12.

BIB_ID
304155
Accession number
MA 940.78
Creator
Middleton, Thomas, Col., -1672.
Display Date
1668 May 12.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr., 1914.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 11.5 cm
Notes
Addressed at foot of the page "To ye Ma[ster] Shipwright and Clerke of ye Cheque and Storekeep at Chatham." Edward Gregory Jr. (d. 1713) held the post of Clerk of the Cheque at Chatham 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.
The first of four documents dated 12 May 1668.
Provenance
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr. from Quaritch, 1914.
Summary
Instructing him to employ the House Carpenter to repair Captain Brook's lodgings.