BIB_ID
304166
Accession number
MA 940.86
Creator
Pepys, Samuel, 1633-1703.
Display Date
1668 May 16.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr., 1914.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 30.8 cm
Notes
Also signed by Arthur, Earl of Anglesey, Sir John Mennes and Col. Thomas Middleton.
Edward Gregory Jr. (d. 1713) held the post of Clerk of the Cheque at Chatham from 1665-1689.
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 16 May 1668.
Edward Gregory Jr. (d. 1713) held the post of Clerk of the Cheque at Chatham from 1665-1689.
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 16 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 suspend from employment the Boatswain of the ship Ann and Carpenter of the Kent (lately the Deputy Carpenter of the Royal Katharine) until they can "give us a satisfactory accompt concerning some Imbezelments mad in his Ma[jesty's] shipps."
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