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Order signed : place not specified, to Edward Gregory, 1668 June 6.

BIB_ID
304186
Accession number
MA 940.93
Creator
Middleton, Thomas, Col., -1672.
Display Date
1668 June 6.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr., 1914.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 30 cm
Notes
Addressed at foot of the page "To Mr. Ed[ward] Gregory Clerke of ye Cheq of his Maj[esty's] yard at Chatham. E." Edward Gregory Jr. (d. 1713) held the post of Clerk of the Cheque at Chatham from 1665-1689.
Also signed by Arthur, Earl of Anglesey and Sir John Mennes. With a postscript signed again by Sir John Mennes and Col. Thomas Middleton.
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
Instructing him not to enter any men onto any shipps "notwithstanding any former order."