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admiralty advice Anglesey appointed arrival attend Biog buoy capers Captain Binning Captain Rooth Captain Young Carteret Charnock Chatham Colonel Piper Commander Commissioner Deane concerning convoy Dartmouth Deptford despatch Dieppe discharge dogger Dover Downs Encloses orders fireship fleet give Governor of Plymouth Harwich hasten hath Hopes July ketch king and lords king's ships Kinsale late letter lieutenant lord treasurer Majesty Majesty's master merchant ships Navy Board Nore officers Ormonde Pepys Pepys's Register port Portsmouth purser ready received refitting River Robes Chamber S. P. to Captain S. P. to Colonel S. P. to Commissioner S. P. to Sir sail seamen Secretary at war sent Sept Sheerness Signatures Sir John Narbrough Sir Thomas sloop soldiers Straits supply supra Tangier touching Underwritten vessels victuals voyage warrant Wetwang Woolwich writer yacht Yarmouth
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Page vi - SOCIETY desire it to be understood that they are not answerable for any opinions or observations that may appear in the Society's publications; the Editors of the several Works being alone responsible for the same.
Page 263 - As soon as the Third Dutch War came to an end in February, 1674, another period of feverish retrenchment set in, and an attempt was made 'to lessen the growing charge in the navy, towards which no one particular seems more to conduce than that of reducing the number of the persons employed therein, both at sea and in the yards.'4 Other economies were also practised.
Page xviii - I find him so full of the thoughts he is now under of stopping of all things that look like occasions of laying out money, that I perceive he is more thoughtful of getting out of debt for what is past (wherein God bless his endeavours) than willing to entertain any proposition that may tend to the increasing of it...
Page 169 - ... the disorder wherein the seamen concerned in the payment of the tickets at this time are, to the threatening the pulling down of his majesty's office, and the embezzlement or spoil of all the books and papers there, besides the yet more public effects thereof, to the dishonour of his majesty's service, and discouragement of seamen against the next...
Page 240 - England, to the degree of their making no difference between his Majesty's service, where the want of payment of their wages may in some measure give excuse for it, and that of the merchants, where they not only have their pay certain but their wages excessive. A vice which I pray God grant I may see rectified before it prove too fatal, not only to his Majesty's service, but the whole navigation of our country.
Page xxxiii - ... can be more inclined than myself to favour a gentleman that is a true seaman, so neither is there any man more sensible than (after many years' observation) I am, of the ruinous consequences of an over-hasty admitting persons to the office and charge of seamen upon the bare consideration of their being gentlemen.