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PUBLICATIONS 

OF  THE 

NAVY  RECORDS   SOCIETY 

VOL.    XXXVI. 


NAVAL  MANUSCRIPTS 

IN  THE  PEPYSIAN  LIBRARY  AT 

MAGDALENE  COLLEGE.  CAMBRIDGE 


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EDITED  BY 

J.   R.   TANNER,  Lirr.D. 
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FELLOW  AND  TUTOR  OF  ST.  JOHN'S  COLLEGE,  CAMBRIDGE 


VOL.    III. 

ADMIRALTY    LETTERS 

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THE  COUNCIL 

OF  THE 

NAVY   RECORDS   SOCIETY 

1908-1909 


PATRON 
H.R.H.  THE  PRINCE  OF  WALES,  K.G.,  K.T.,  K.P. 

PRESIDENT 
EARL  SPENCER,  K.G. 


VICE  PRESIDENTS 


BRIDGE,  ADMIRAL  SIR  CYPRIAN 
A.  G.,  G.C.B. 

CORBETT,  JULIAN  S. 


THE       EARL       OF, 


DESART, 
K.C.B. 

FIRTH,  PROFESSOR  C.  H.,  LL.D. 


COUNCILLORS 


DARTMOUTH,  THE  EARL  OF. 

FIELD,    REAR-ADMIRAL  A.   M., 

F.R.S. 
GEARY,     LIEUT. -GENERAL     SIR 

HENRY,  K.C.B. 

GODLEY,  SIR  ARTHUR,  G.C.B. 
GORDON,  THE  HON.  GEORGE. 

GRAHAM,  COMMANDER  C.  CUN- 
NINGHAMS, R.N.,  M.V.O. 

GRAY,  ALBERT,  K.C. 

HORDERN,  LIEUTENANT  LIONEL, 
R.N. 

KENYON,  FREDERICK  G. ,  D.  LITT., 
F.B.A. 

LORAINE,    REAR-ADMIRAL    SIR 
LAMBTON,  BART. 

LYALL,   THE    RIGHT  HON.   SIR 
ALFRED,  G.C.I. E. 

MARKHAM,  ADMIRAL  SIR  ALBERT 
H.,  K.C.B. 


MAY,   ADMIRAL    SIR    WILLIAM, 
K.C.B. 

MOWATT,  THE  RIGHT  HON.  SIR 
FRANCIS,  G.C.B. 

PROTHERO,  GEORGE  W.,  Litt.D., 

LL.D.,  F.B.A. 
RICHMOND,     CAPTAIN    H.    W., 

R.N. 
SANDERSON,  LORD,  G.C.B. 

SEYMOUR,     ADMIRAL     OF    THE 
FLEET  SIR  EDWARD  H.,  G.C.B. 

TARLETON,  LIEUTENANT  A.  H., 
R.N.,  M.V.O. 

TANNER,  J.  R.,  LITT.D. 

WATTS,     SIR     PHILIP,      D.Sc., 

K.C.B.,  F.R.S. 
WHITE,    COMMANDER  J.    BELL, 

R.N.R. 

WHITE,  SIR  WILLIAM  H.,  D.Sc., 

K.C.B.,  F.R.S. 
YORKE,  SIR  HENRY,  K.C.B. 


SECRETARY 

SIR  J.  KNOX  LAUGHTON,  D.Litt.,  King's  College,  London,  W.C. 

TREASURER 
W.  GRAHAM  GREENE,  C.B.,  Admiralty,  S.W, 


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INTRODUCTION 


i.  Administration3 

The  composition  of  the  admiralty  commission  estab- 
lished in  1673  was  not  greatly  changed  during  the  period 
covered  by  the  correspondence  in  the  present  volume. 

1  Publications  of  the  Navy  Records  Society,  vol.  xxvi.  pp.  1-251. 
*  Ibid.  vol.  xxvii.  pp.  vii-ix. 
3  See  supra,  vol.  i.  pp.  36-57. 


This  volume -- CATALOGUE  OF  THE 
PEPYS  MSS.,  VOL.  III.— announced  for  last 
year,  has  been  unavoidably  delayed,  but  is  now  issued 
<>//  //ie  1908  subscription. 

April  1909. 


( 


INTRODUCTION 


IN  the  present  volume  the  official  correspondence  of  the 
secretary  to  the  admiralty  during  Samuel  Pepys's  tenure 
of  the  office  is  continued  from  I  January,  1674-5^07  May, 
1677,  the  letters  calendared  being  those  contained  in 
vols.  iv.  and  v.  of  the  series  in  the  Pepysian  Library  entitled 
S.  P.'s  Letters^  Admiralty.  The  importance  of  the  Pepysian 
papers  as  a  whole  has  been  discussed  already  in  the 
General  Introduction,1  and  the  general  character  of  the 
Admiralty  Letters  has  been  described  in  the  Introduction 
to  the  preceding  volume.2  The  arrangement  there  adopted 
for  indicating  points  of  interest  has  been  adhered  to,  and 
the  Introduction  to  the  present  volume  is  divided  into 
sections  as  follows:  (i)  Administration;  (2}  Finance; 
(3)  Men;  (4)  Pay;  (5)  Victuals;  (6)  Discipline  ;  (7)  Ships; 
(8)  Guns  ;  (9)  Miscellaneous. 


Administration  3 


The  composition  of  the  admiralty  commission  estab- 
lished in  1673  was  not  greatly  changed  during  the  period 
covered  by  the  correspondence  in  the  present  volume. 

1  Publications  of  the  Navy  Records  Society,  vol.  xxvi.  pp.  1-251. 
a  Ibid.  vol.  xxvii.  pp.  vii-ix. 
3  See  supra,  vol.  i.  pp.  36-57. 


viii  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS 

The  commission  of  1673  was  renewed  28  July,  1675,'  with 
the  substitution  for  Shaftesbury  of  Heneage,  Lord  Finch,  who 
on  19  December,  1674,  had  exchanged  the  office  of  keeper 
of  the  great  seal  for  the  more  dignified  position  of  lord 
chancellor,3  and  the  addition  of  the  Earls  of  Ossory  and 
Craven  and  Sir  Joseph  Williamson,  now  Henry  Coventry's 
colleague  as  secretary  of  state.  The  public  meetings  of  the 
commission  had  been  originally  held  at  the  Council  Chamber 
on  Mondays,  Wednesdays,  and  Fridays  at  8  o'clock  in  the 
morning,3  but  in  a  letter  of  31  July,  1675,*  Pepys  approves 
a  proposal  for  a  meeting  of  the  admiralty  once  a  week 
1  besides  that  at  Hampton  Court,'  '  the  business  of  the  navy 
abundantly  calling  for  it,'  and  suggests  Saturday  'as  dividing 
the  week  equallest  from  Wednesday,'  the  day  on  which  the 
Hampton  Court  meeting  was  presumably  held,  From  this 
it  may  perhaps  be  inferred  that  as  soon  as  the  earlier  work 
of  reorganisation  was  completed,  the  admiralty  met  once  a 
week  only  instead  of  thrice,  until  the  pressure  of  routine 
business  compelled  them  to  meet  twice.  Their  place  of 
meeting  in  London  was  the  Robes  Chamber  at  Whitehall ; 5 
and  in  addition  to  their  regular  meetings,  and  to  special 
meetings  summoned  for  particular  purposes,  they  also 
conferred  from  time  to  time  with  the  navy  board.6  The 
letters  in  this  volume  are,  with  a  few  exceptions,  dated 
from  the  new  office  of  the  admiralty  at  Derby  House.7 

During  this  period  there  were  one  or  two  changes  in 
the  membership  of  the  navy  board.  On  25  November, 
1675,  Anthony  Deane,  the  famous  shipbuilder,  became 
comptroller  of  victualling,8  in  succession  to  Sir  Jeremy 
Smyth,  who  retired  from  ill-health,9  and  Deane's  place  as 
resident  commissioner  of  the  navy  at  Portsmouth  was 
filled  by  Sir  John  Kempthorne.10  On  26  November,  1675, 
Sir  John  Chicheley  was  appointed  an  extra  commissioner 

1  i.  39,  supra.  -  D.  N.  B.  xix.  10.  s  ii.  p.  ix,  supra. 

*  No.  2473.  •"'  Nos.  2060,  3654,  3689.  «  No.  3332. 

'  ii.  p.  ix,  supra.  *  i.  41,  supra.  •  See  Nos.  2425,  2581. 

10  i.  41,  supra.     See  also  Nos.  2734,  2759. 


INTRODUCTION  ix 

of  the  navy,1  and  on  24  June,  1676,  Sir  John  Ernie  retired 
from  the  office  of  comptroller  of  stores,  which  remained 
vacant  until  i68o.2 

In  the  Introduction  to  the  preceding  volume  reference 
was  made  to  the  important  part  in  naval  affairs  played  by 
the  king  in  his  official  capacity  as  lord  high  admiral.3 
From  the  correspondence  in  the  present  volume  it  is  clear 
that  all  leave  of  absence  to  officers  holding  by  commission 
was  granted  by  the  king  himself.4  That  Pepys  was  not 
merely  making  use  of  the  king's  name  appears  from  a 
letter  of  7  October,  i676,5  in  which  reference  is  made  to 
the  fact  that  in  the  king's  absence  the  secretary  to  the 
admiralty  spoke  to  '  some  of  the  lords '  for  leave  for  a 
commander  to  come  to  town.  James,  Duke  of  York,  also 
remains,  as  heretofore,6  an  influence  in  the  background  of 
naval  affairs,7  especially  in  connexion  with  shipbuilding* 
and  the  administration  of  patronage.9 

As  in  the  preceding  volume,10  the  correspondence 
calendared  below  contains  many  allusions  to  current 
events,  and  contributes  to  the  political  as  well  as  to  the 
administrative  side  of  naval  history.  Under  the  year 
1676  in  particular  there  are  numerous  references  to  the 
'  insolencies '  of  French  and  Ostend  privateers,  and  to  the 
mischiefs  wrought  by  them  upon  trade  in  the  Channel. 
On  27  April  Pepys  refers  to  'several  complaints'  which 
had  '  of  late '  been  made,11  and  at  the  beginning  of  June 
special  instructions  were  issued  to  the  commander-in-chief 
in  the  Downs,12  and  steps  were  taken  to  strengthen  the 

I  i.  41,  supra.      2  i.  41,  supra.      s  ii.  pp.  x-xii,  supra. 

4  E.g.  Nos.  2999,  3015,  3031,  3254,  3533,  3568. 

5  No.  3290.  e  vol.  ii.  p.  xii,  supra. 

7  Nos.  2074,  2420,  2453,  2476,  2636,  2860,  3036,  3218,  3282,  3340, 
3443,  3600,  3785,  3840,  3863,  3879,  3882,  3931. 

B  Nos.  2400,  2401,  2982,  3197,  3310,  3330,  3863,  and  p.  xlv,  infra. 

9  Nos.  2242,  2847,  3230,  3240,  34M,  3420. 

10  i.  p.  xiii,  supra. 

II  No.  2884.     See  also  No.  2951  ;  and  for  a  particular  instance 
Nos.  2906  and  2923. 

12  No.  2976. 


x  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS 

force  at  his  disposal  '  for  the  suppressing  the  privateers, 
concerning  whom  complaints  daily  come  of  violences 
offered  to  his  Majesty's  subjects.' !  Descriptions  of  the 
offending  ships  were  asked  for, '  so  as  that  they  may  be 
known  and  laid  hold  on  as  often  as  they  shall  come  into 
any  of  His  Majesty's  ports ' ; 2  and  the  secretary  undertook 
to  keep  '  constant  registers,  both  of  the  privateers  com- 
plained of  and  such  as  shall  be  brought  in,'  and  to  give 
'  due  and  timely  notice '  to  the  aggrieved  parties  as  soon 
as  an  offender  was  taken.3  A  description  of  each  privateer 
captured  by  the  king's  ships  was  published  in  the 
Gazette,*  but  if  no  complaint  was  lodged  within  seven 
days  after  publication  there  or  on  the  Exchange,  the  vessel 
was  no  longer  detained.6  One  of  the  difficulties  with 
which  the  admiralty  had  to  contend  was  that  of  identifi- 
cation ;  and  in  the  case  of  a  certain  Dunkirker  Pepys 
suggests  that  it  is  insufficient  for  this  purpose  for  him 
to  be  informed  that  her  lieutenant  '  had  but  one  eye, 
with  his  face  full  of  pock-holes.'6  The  measures  adopted 
did  not  end  the  mischief,7  and  on  17  October,  1676? 
Pepys  wrote  to  the  commander-in-chief  in  the  Downs 
urging  him  to  be  '  very  careful '  to  keep  his  ships  cruis- 
ing in  the  Narrow  for  securing  trade  and  bringing  in 
French  privateers,  '  complaints  arriving  almost  daily  of 
several  of  our  merchant  ships  carried  into  Calais  and 
other  ports  of  France.'  Towards  the  end  of  the  year,  how- 
ever, representations  made  at  the  French  court9  were 
successful,  and  in  recognition  of  the  action  of  that  govern- 
ment 10  the  Order  in  Council  for  bringing  in  French 
privateers  was  revoked,11  as  a  similar  order  concerning 

1  No.  2974  ;  see  also  Nos.  3123,  3149,  3155,  3160,  3193,  3453. 

1  No.  2995  ;  see  also  No.  3144.  '  No.  2996. 

4  Nos.  3115,  3147,  3148,  3231.  3258,  3885,  3886,  3899. 

'  Nos.  3072,  3915.  •  No.  3052. 

7  Nos.  3009,  3045,  3052,  3054,  3059,  3072,  3090,  3102,  3107/3108, 
3"6,  3170,  3193,  3202,  3217,  3231,  3247,  3256,  3258,  3286,  3316,  3317, 
3327,  338o,  3463.  »  No.  3338. 

9  Nos.  3238,  3267.  10  See  Ranke,  History  of  England,  iv.  26. 

"  Nos.  3516,  3535,  3577. 


INTRODUCTION  xi 

Spanish  privateers  had  been  a  short  time  before.1  Never- 
theless, ships  were  still  kept  cruising  in  the  Narrow  for  the 
protection  of  trade,2  and  occasional  references  occur  to 
injuries  done  by  privateers.3  In  April  1677  it  was  con- 
sidered necessary  to  send  out  the  king's  ships  to  cruise  in 
pairs,  lest  his  Majesty  '  might  suffer  some  dishonour '  in 
case  the  vessels  sent  abroad  should  '  meet  with  one  or  more 
capers  of  greater  force  than  themselves.'4 

A  series  of  letters  from  Pepys  to  Sir  John  Narbrough 
furnishes  additional  information  5  with  regard  to  events  in 
the  Mediterranean  during  the  years  1675  and  1676.  On 
1 8  October,  i674,6  Narbrough  had  been  appointed  'com- 
mander-in-chief  of  a  squadron  to  the  Straits,  and  to  wear 
the  Union  flag  at  the  main-top  while  out  of  the  Channel." 
He  was  empowered  to  treat  with  Algiers,  Tunis,  and 
Tripoli,7  and  if  necessary  to  punish  the  corsairs  of  Tripoli 
for  their  acts  of  aggression  upon  English  commerce.8  At 
Algiers  he  failed  to  obtain  a  formal  ratification  of  the 
earlier  treaty,  but  that  government  undertook  to  prevent 
the  Sallee  men-of-war  victualling  in  their  harbours,9  and 
arrangements  were  made  for  the  redemption  of  captives.10 
A  confirmation  of  the  articles  of  peace  was  obtained  from 
Tunis,11  but  at  Tripoli  matters  came  to  an  open  breach,12  as 
Pepys  had  foreseen  would  be  the  case.13  Orders  had 
been  already  sent  on  18  March,  i674~5,u  to  all  the  king's 
ships  '  anywhere  to  be  found  in  the  Straits '  to  join  the 
commander-in-chief,  and  this  concentration  of  force  placed 
at  his  disposal — in  addition  to  his  own  ship,  the  Henrietta, 

1  No.  3535.  *  Nos.  3780,  3783,  3787. 

1  Nos.  3607,  3633,  3807,  3812,  3839,  3841,  3869,  3906,  3926. 

1  No.  3849  ;  see  also  No.  3869. 

5  These  letters  were  already  calendared  when  Mr.  Julian  Corbett's 
work  England  in  the  Mediterranean,  1608-17 18,  was  passing  through 
the  press,  and  he  was  able  to  make  use  of  them  in  proof  (see  his 
Preface,  vol.  i.  p.  viii). 

6  i.  314  supra. 

"'  Cal.  S.  P.  Dom.  1673-5,  P-  379-      8  Vol.  ii.  p.  xvi,  supra. 
9  No.  2144  ;  see  also  Cal.  S.  P.  Dom.  1675-6,  p.  13. 
'  No.  2144  and  note.  u  No.  2350.   12  No.  2244.   13  No.  2144. 
14  No.  2144  ;  see  also  Nos.  2143,  2145,  2146,  2147. 


xii  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS 

a  3rd  rate — the  Diamond,  Dragon,  Mary  Rose,  and  New- 
castle, 4th  rates,  the  Success,  a  5th  rate,  and  the  Roebuck, 
a  6th  rate.1  An  increase  was  also  authorised  in  the  com- 
plement of  ships  of  war  sent  to  the  Straits.2  Narbrough 
was  subsequently  reinforced  by  the  Swallow,  a  4th  rate, 
and  the  Dartmouth,  a  5th  rate,  despatched  early  in  May,3 
by  the  Assistance,  a  4th  rate,  on  20  June,4  and  by  the 
Harwich,  a  3rd  rate,  the  Portsmouth  and  Yarmouth,  4th 
rates,  and  the  Holmes  and  Ann  and  Christopher  fireships 
in  July/'  Early  in  1676  the  possibility  was  considered  of 
sending  a  further  reinforcement  of  five  or  six  frigates  of 
the  4th  or  5th  rates  in  case  the  war  should  continue.6 

The  question  was  raised  early  of  the  establishment  of 
a  naval  base  in  the  Mediterranean.  Leghorn  was  dis- 
missed as  too  far  from  the  scene  of  operations,7  and  on  the 
whole  unkindly  disposed  ; 8  Messina  was  rendered  '  un- 
capable  of  it '  by  reason  of '  the  present  war  between  the 
Spaniard  and  French ' ; 9  but  Malta  was  favourably  con- 
sidered for  '  the  appositeness  of  its  situation,'  in  regard 
both  to  Tripoli  itself  and  to  the  stations  where  the  corsairs 
'  do  generally  keep  in  expectation  of  purchase.'  l°  The 
difficulty  was  its  want  of  provisions.11  A  rival  sug- 
gestion was  the  island  of  Ithaca,  or  Little  Cephalonia,12  but 
the  final  choice  was  left  to  Narbrough  himself, '  as  being 
upon  the  place.' 13  The  selection  of  Malta  may  have  been 
affected  by  the  '  courteous  usage '  which  the  king's  ships 
met  with  there ; N  and  at  the  beginning  of  July  arrange- 
ments were  being  made  for  removing  the  Europa  hulk 

1  No.  2288.  a  Nos.  2268,  2288. 

8  No.  2251  ;  see  also  Nos.  2253,  2280,  2350. 

4  No.  2402.     It  is  to  this  voyage  that  the  earlier  part  of  the  Diary 
of  Henry  Teonge  refers  ;  he  was  on  board  the  Assistance  as  chaplain. 

5  The  Portsmouth  sailed  from  Portsmouth  on  or  about  4  July 
(No.  2441) ;  the  rest  went  from  the  same  port  on  13  July  (No.  2536). 

8  No.  2755.  7  No.  2244. 

'  Nos.  2279,  235°»  2402,  2619.  *  No.  2244. 

10  No.  2244.   '  Purchase '  is  used  in  the  old  sense  of '  prey '  or '  booty.' 
1  No.  2244;  see  also  Nos.  2741,2760.     l*  No.  2279.     l3  No.  2279. 
14  No.  2279.    The  contrast  between  Malta  and  Leghorn  in  this 
respect  is  noted  in  Teonge's  Diary  (pp.  48  and  199).    The  'unkind- 


INTRODUCTION  xiii 

thither  from  Tangier,  to  be  '  laid  there '  for  '  the  lodging  of 
stores '  and  assisting  in  the  careening  and  refitting  of  the 
Mediterranean  squadron.1 

The  letters  from  Pepys  to  Narbrough  contain  few 
allusions  to  the  operations  of  war.  In  April  1675,  at  the 
beginning  of  the  breach  with  Tripoli,  Narbrough's  '  descrip- 
tion of  the  narrowness  of  the  place  '  prompted  the  king  '  to 
a  thought  that  it  might  be  no  unsuccessful  attempt  to  sink 
a  vessel  or  two  in  their  channel,  and  thereby  choking  it  up 
to  render  it  unpassable '  ;2  but  Narbrough  himself  suggested 
difficulties,  and  the  scheme  was  eventually  abandoned.3 
In  a  letter  of  20  September,  1675,*  Pepys  refers  to  '  great 
discourses '  of  '  a  considerable  action  and  success '  the 
particulars  of  which  were  '  yet  wholly  unknown  ; '  but  four 
days  later,5  in  acknowledging  letters  from  Narbrough 
dated  5  and  9  August,  he  mentions  his  'burning  the 
Tripoli  galleys,'6  an  episode  which  does  not  occur  in 
Charnock's  account  of  the  war.7  He  also  refers  to  a  sug- 
gestion from  Narbrough  that  he  should  be  supplied  with 
fireships  'for  attempting  something  upon  their  ships  in 
harbour,'  and  encloses  orders  authorising  the  use  of  his  con- 
tingent money  for  that  purpose.8  The  action  mentioned 
byCharnock9  as  occurring  on  31  August,  1675,  between 
the  boats  of  the  squadron  and  three  galleys  and  a  brigantine, 
is  not  referred  to  by  Pepys ;  but  in  a  letter  of  3  April, 
i676,10  he  signifies  on  behalf  of  the  king  and  lords  of  the 

ness '  of  the  latter  place  did  not  arise  so  much  from  '  any  particular 
disregard  to  his  Majesty,'  as  from  '  the  consideration  of  their  finding 
it  necessary  for  them  to  be  observed  treating  him  in  this  manner  the 
better  to  justify  their  doing  the  like  to  the  King  of  France  when 
occasion  shall  call  for  it '  (No.  2350). 

1  No.  2402.  2  No.  2244  ;  see  also  Nos.  2251  and  2350. 

3  No.  2536.  4  No.  2571.  5  No.  2578. 

"  Possibly  this  is  the  episode  referred  to  in  Teonge's  Diary  >  under 
date  8  August,  as  'our  ships  burning  four  of  their  brigantines '  (p.  51). 
See  also  Cal.  S.  P.  Dom.  1675-6,  p.  319. 

7  Biog.  Nav.  i.  248. 

8  No.  2578.   According  to  Teonge,  the  people  of  Tripoli  were  very 
much  afraid  of  the  expected  fireships  (Diary,  p.  67  ;  cf.  also  p.  144). 

9  Biog.  Nav.  i.  248.  10  No.  2832. 


xiv  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS 

admiralty  '  the  extraordinary  content  they  take '  in  the 
exploit  of  14  January,  1675-6,  when  Lieutenant  Clowdisley 
Shovell,  in  command  of  the  boats,  forced  his  way  into  the 
harbour  of  Tripoli  and  burned  four  men-of-war.1  The 
king  and  lords  also  '  take  note '  of  Narbrough's  '  lesser 
successes'  in  burning  the  enemy's  boats.2  On  25  July, 
1 676,"  an  order  of  the  lords  of  the  admiralty  established 
bounty  money  for  '  the  persons  employed  in  that  great  and 
happy  action  of  Sir  John  Narbrough's  against  Tripoli.' 

Numerous  references  occur  in  the  correspondence  to  the 
political  aspects  of  the  war  in  the  Mediterranean.  It  is 
clear  that  in  its  dealings  with  Tripoli  the  English  govern- 
ment had  from  the  first  insisted  upon  restitution  as  a  con- 
dition of  the  maintenance  of  peace,  since  '  the  not  doing  it 
would  render  all  future  treaties  of  peace  unsafe,  and  that 
not  only  with  these  people,  but  by  their  example  those  of 
Argeir  and  Tunis  would  be  encouraged  to  the  like  pre- 
sumptions of  seizing  on  the  ships  and  goods  of  his  Majesty's 
subjects,  in  confidence  of  having  it  in  their  power  to  come 
to  new  treaties  with  us  without  fear  of  restoring  anything.' 4 
The  death  of  the  Dey  of  Tripoli  was,  however,  regarded  as 
an  opportunity  for  a  modification  of  the  original  terms, 
and  in  a  letter  of  14  June,  1675,*  Pepys  refers  to  '  fresh 
resolutions '  by  which  restitution  was  abandoned  in  favour 
of  the  liberation  of  all  prisoners  taken  in  English  ships, 
'  and  that  some  heads  may  be  taken  off  in  acknowledgment 
of  their  disowning  of  the  proceedings  of  their  late 
Dey.'  A  letter  of  3  September6  refers  to  the  effective 
pressure  of  Narbrough's  operations,  '  by  whose  conduct 
(thanks  be  to  God)  the  business  of  Tripoli  did  upon 
1 1  July  last  stand  very  fair  on  his  Majesty's  behalf,  that 
government  being  under  great  distraction,  and  reduced  by 
it  to  a  strong  inclination  towards  a  peace.'  The  Tripoli 

1  Charnock,  Biog.  Nav.  i.  249.     See  also  Teonge,  Diary,  p.  135. 

2  No.  2832.          *  No.  3189.        *  No.  2144  ;  see  also  No.  2279. 
'"  No.  2350  ;  see  also  Nos.  2529  and  2536. 

6  No.  2537  ;  see  also  Nos.  2402  and  2536. 


INTRODUCTION  xv 

ships  of  war  kept  the  harbour,1  and  trade  in  the  Mediter- 
ranean was  so  far  free  that  some  of  the  merchants  refused 
convoy ; 2  although  Pepys  foresaw  the  possibility  of  a 
permanent  force  in  the  Straits  '  as  the  cheapest  way  of 
making  and  keeping  peace  there.'3  On  24  September, 
16/5,4  mention  is  made  of  a  further  modification  in  the 
terms  on  which  peace  was  to  be  offered.  Narbrough  had 
pointed  out  '  the  little  expectation  to  be  had  of  their  making 
any  restitution  by  money,  and  not  much  more  of  obtaining 
any  heads,'  and  he  was  therefore  instructed  to  '  forbear  to 
insist  upon  heads,'  and  to  obtain  instead  the  liberation  of 
Christian  slaves,  '  though  of  other  nations,'  there  being  '  a 
considerable  point  of  honour  obtained  by  it.'  All  details 
of  the  arrangement  were  left  to  the  '  single  discretion  and 
conduct'  of  the  commander-in-chief,  whose  proceedings 
were  finding  '  universal  acceptance,  both  at  court  and  else- 
where.' Pepys  suggested  that  if  he  should  come  to  a 
treaty,  '  it  might  not  be  hard '  for  him  to  obtain  '  something 
that  might  not  be  ungrateful  to  the  king,  namely,  some  of 
the  horses  and  mares  of  the  breed  of  that  country.'  In  a 
letter  of  24  January,  i675-6,5  reference  is  made  to  new 
instructions  with  regard  to  a  treaty, '  grounded  upon  some 
fresh  advice  of  the  present  pretended  inclination  of  the 
Dey  and  government  to  an  accommodation  with  us,'  and 
on  3  April e  the  outbreak  of  plague  at  Malta  is  mentioned 
as  something  '  which  makes  the  hastening  of  the  peace 
more  desirable  than  it  was  before.'  The  treaty7  had,  how- 
ever, been  signed  already  on  5  March,8  and  the  'most 
welcome  news '  reached  the  admiralty  on  1 3  April,9  when 
Pepys  described  it  as  '  more  satisfactory  and  honourable, 

1  No.  2536.  2  No.  2555.  3  No.  2536. 

4  No.  2578.  6  No.  2737.  6  No.  2832. 

7  There  is  a  copy  of  this  treaty  in  the  Pepysian  Library  (MSS. 
No.  2654)  ;  but  it  is  printed  in  Chalmers'  Treaties  (ii.  41 1)  as  well  as  in 
Teonge's  Diary  (p.  219). 

8  Charnock  gives  5  March  as  the  date  of  the  treaty  (Biog.  Nav. 
i.  249),   as  also   Chalmers,  and  this   is   confirmed  by  the  entry  in 
Teonge's  Diary  (p.  143).    The  Pepysian  MS.  gives  i  March. 

9  No.  2850. 

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xvi  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS 

not  only  than  was  expected  now,  but  what  was  ever  yet 
obtained  by  any  prince  from  that  nation.' l  The  '  80,000 
pieces  of  eight '  paid  by  Tripoli  as  an  indemnity  was  not 
an  arbitrary  sum,  but  the  amount  at  which  '  the  loss 
sustained  by  us  from  them  '  was  calculated.3  On  14 
October,  1676,  advices  from  Tangier  announced  the  con- 
firmation of '  the  marine  peace  '  with  Sallee,  signed  on  28 
August,  '  conformable  to '  the  articles  which  Narbrough  had 
negotiated,3  thus  ending  a  'chargeable  and  fruitless  war,' l 
'  so  that  (thanks  be  to  God),'  wrote  Pepys,5  '  that  thorn  is 
out  of  our  foot.' 

The  war  with  Tripoli  was  scarcely  over  when  trouble 
began  with  Algiers.  On  10  July,  1676*  '  some  merchants 
of  good  quality'  complained  that  the  Leopard,  'a  rich 
ship '  owned  by  the  Houblons,7  had  been  carried  into 
Algiers  in  violation  of  treaty.8  The  English  government 
acted  with  promptitude,  and  on  14  July,  in  a  letter  written 
at  midnight,9  Pepys  reported  to  Sir  John  Narbrough  at 
Cadiz  the  king's  resolution,  '  upon  debate  had  thereon 
with  my  lords  the  committee  for  foreign  affairs/  to 
demand  satisfaction  under  threat  of  war.  The  trouble 
appears  to  have  blown  over,  but  on  6  August10  it  was 
decided  to  take  the  Assurance  and  Drake  from  '  their  pre- 

1  Henry  Teonge,  writing  on  the  spot,  and  upon  the  very  day  the 
peace  was  signed,  uses  a  similar  expression  :  '  'Tis  the  most  honour- 
able peace  that  ever  yet  was  made  with  the  Turks'  (Diary,  p.  143). 

*  No.  2619.     s  No.  3330.     4  No.  3305.     4  No.  3330.     c  No.  3036. 

7  The  Houblon  family  had  an  important  interest  in  the  Mediter- 
ranean trade.  Among  the  papers  copied  into  the  volume  called  Naval 
Precedents  (Pepysian  MSS.  No.  2867,  p.  189),  is  a  memorial  to  the 
lords  of  the  admiralty  from  merchants  trading  to  the  Mediterra- 
nean, asking  for  convoy  in  view  of  war  with  Algiers,  and  putting 
forward  a  complete  scheme  for  'frequent  convoys  for  all  ships  as 
far  as  Cadiz  and  Tangier,'  by  employing  six  frigates  in  pairs  at  three 
stations  :  Livorne  to  Zante  and  back  ;  Livorne  to  Alicante  and  back  ; 
Alicante  to  Cadiz  and  back.  This  is  signed  by  thirty  merchants,  four 
of  whom  wjjre  Houblons — John,  Peter,  James,  and  Isaac.  See  also 
Lady  Al:,£e  Archer- Houblon,  The  Houblon  Family. 

"  Pydations  with  Algiers  had  been  strained  for  some  time,  and  in 
November  1675,  and  again  in  January  1676,  there  had  been  rumours 
of  war  (Col.  S.  P.  Dom.  1675-6,  pp.  407,  526,  532  ;  cf.  also  p.  450). 

•  No.  3042.  10  No.  3103. 


INTRODUCTION  xvii 

sent  work  in  the  Channel '  and  send  them  '  with  all  speed 
into  the  Mediterranean ' ;  and  on  20  September l  the 
surveyor  of  the  navy  was  asked  to  consider  '  what  ships  of 
the  smallest  3rd  rates  and  what  4th  rates  may  be  with  the 
least  charge  and  in  shortest  time  fitted  forth  for  the  service 
of  the  Straits  against  the  Algerines.'  Also  Sir  John  Nar- 
brough,  just  then  arriving  in  England,  was  summoned  to 
attend  the  king  in  order  to  discuss  with  him  '  the  present 
posture  of  his  affairs  with  Algeir,'  and  to  advise  him  '  in 
what  may  be  fit  for  him  to  do  thereon  with  respect  to  his 
honour  and  the  security  of  his  subjects'  trade  concerned  in 
the  same.' 2  A  letter  of  28  January,  1676-7*  suggests  that 
the  situation  had  improved ;  but  the  idea  of  despatching 
another  force  into  the  Mediterranean  4  was  not  abandoned, 
and  a  letter  at  the  end  of  the  volume,  written  to  Sir  John 
Narbrough  on  17  April,  i6/7,5  informed  him  that  the  king 
had  already  signed  his  commission  to  the  Plymouth  'in 
order  to  his  taking  command  of  the  squadron  that  shall  be 
employed  this  year  in  the  Straits.' 

Alike  in  its  origin,  course,  and  conclusion,  the  war 
with  Tripoli  bears  a  suggestive  resemblance  to  more 
modern  English  wars.  It  was  undertaken  with  reluctance,6 
its  ( charge '  being  '  very  irksome '  to  the  king  and  the 
lords  of  the  admiralty  ; 7  but  an  unwilling  government  was 
compelled  to  act  by  the  necessity  of  protecting  English 
commerce.8  As  soon  as  the  war  was  accepted  as  inevit- 
able, the  commander-in-chief  in  the  Mediterranean  was 
instructed  to  prosecute  it  'with  all  the  vigour  that  may 
be,' 9  and  these  instructions  were  faithfully  carried  out.  To 
Narbrough  himself  the  war  brought  nothing  but  credit. 
Appreciative  references  to  the  value  of  his  counsel  and 
the  success  of  his  operations  occur  frequently  throughout 
the  correspondence,10  and  when  the  fighting  was  over  Pepys 

1  No.  3226.  2  No.  3218  ;  see  also  No.  3238. 

8  No.  3669.  4  No.  3238.    '  5  No.  3870. 

J  No.  2144  ;  cf.  also  ii,  403,  supra  (No.  1967).   "       T  No.  2279. 

8  No.  2144.  9  No.  2279.  10  E.g.  Nos.  2578  and  2832. 


xviii          ADMIRALTY  LETTERS 

welcomed  him  home  with  his  '  most  affectionate  respects 
and  congratulation  '  after  '  so  much  good  and  honourable 
service  performed  for  his  Majesty  abroad.' l  It  is  also 
characteristic  of  the  English  habit  of  mind  that  the  govern- 
ment got  no  thanks  from  the  merchants  for  going  to  war 
on  their  behalf.  They  were  '  inclined  to  be  dissatisfied 
with  all  that  is  done  (though  designed  expressly  for  their 
service) '  on  the  ground  that  the  breach  with  Tripoli  had 
been  too  suddenly  effected  for  the  safety  of  homeward- 
bound  ships,  which  would  be  '  exposed  to  great  danger  as 
not  being  provided  against  the  war.' 8  Pepys  found  their 
criticisms  contradictory,3  but  remarked  that  he  had  been 
'  too  long  acquainted  with  the  merchants'  censures  on  other 
occasions  to  wonder  at  anything  they  say  upon  this.' 4 

The  treaties  with  the  Mediterranean  powers  raised  an 
administrative  question  of  some  complexity  in  connexion 
with  the  issue  of  '  passes,'  and  to  this  the  correspondence 
calendared  below  abounds  in  allusions.  The  Navigation 
Act,  which  restricted  trade  to  English  shipping,  had 
defined  an  English  ship  as  one  built  in  the  king's 
dominions  and  having  her  master  and  three-fourths  of  her 
crew  English  ; 8  but  it  was  provided  that  the  privileges 
of  an  English-built  ship  might  be  granted  to  foreign- 
built  ships  if  they  were  owned  by  English  merchants.6 
The  result  of  this  was  that  the  Act  could  be  easily  evaded 
by  means  of  a  pro  forma  bill  of  sale,  enabling  the  masters 
of  foreign-built  ships  to  swear  that  they  were  English- 
owned,  and  so  to  prevail  upon  the  authorities  of  the  out- 
ports,  who  were  notoriously  slack  in  the  discharge  of  this 
part  of  their  duty,  to  grant  them  '  sea-briefs'  or  passports 
entitling  them  to  share  in  English  trade.7  It  was  even 
possible  for  the  ownership  of  a  vessel  to  be  '  fathered  ' 
upon  someone  in  a  distant  port  who  knew  nothing  of  the 
transaction,  and  the  fraud  would  be  difficult  either  to 

'  No.  3218.  3  No.  2251.  '  No.  2251. 

4  No    2350.  *  12  Car.  II,  c.  18,  §  i.  "  §§  10  and  il. 

7  Col.  S.  P.  Dom.  1673-5,  pp.  76,  485. 


INTRODUCTION  xix 

detect  or  punish.  The  existence  of  these  abuses  is  fully 
recognised  in  the  correspondence  under  consideration. 
On  15  January,  1675,  the  Bailiffs  of  Yarmouth  despatched 
a  petition  about '  sea-briefs '  on  behalf  of  their  merchants 
to  '  Commissioner  Peaps '  for  presentation  to  the  king.1 
In  his  reply,  dated  26  January,2  Pepys  assures  them  that 
the  king  and  lords  of  the  admiralty  are  '  sensible '  of  the 
evils  complained  of '  by  foreigners  obtaining  sea-briefs,'  but 
1  such  are  the  arts  by  which  this  is  done,  either  through 
the  negligence  or  want  of  circumspection,  or  unfaithfulness 
in  the  magistrates  of  the  several  ports  from  whence  these 
sea-briefs  are  had,'  that  it  is  to  be  feared  the  frauds  will 
continue.  Elsewhere  3  he  refers  to  the  abuses  '  sheltered  ' 
by  the  '  colouring '  of  foreign  ships  ;  and  later  on  4  to  '  the 
evil  of  these  practices  in  the  fraudulent  procuring  of 
passes  for  the  covering  of  strangers'  ships,'  a  thing  '  com- 
passed with  so  much  villainy  in  the  false  oaths  and  other 
indirect  ways  of  procuring  denizations,  that  no  course  can 
be  thought  too  severe  for  the  suppressing  it.'  The  abuse 
was  all  the  more  serious  because  it  was  likely  to  entangle 
the  government  in  disputes  with  powers  whose  treaties 
required  them  to  respect  vessels  which  carried  passes 
certifying  that  they  were  English-owned  and  manned  by 
an  English  crew.5  This  was  especially  the  case  with  the 
piratical  powers  of  the  Mediterranean,  and  we  find  Pepys 
remarking  on  the  '  great  temptation  and  provocation  '  to  the 
Algerines  and  '  the  Turks  of  other  places  in  amity  with  us ' 
to  see  '  foreign  ships  pass  by  them  under  English  colours.' 6 

1  Cal.  S.  P.  Dom.  1673-5,  P-  S32-         2  No-  2°72-       3  No-  2I°2- 

4  No.  2298.     See  also  Nos.  2192,  2195,  23°9>  23J6,  2333,  2575>  2594- 

5  For  instance,  the '  marine  treaty'  with  the  Dutch,  signed  I  Decem- 
ber, 1674,  provided  that  the  ships  of  both  nations  should  enjoy  immunity 
from  molestation,  detention,  or  search,  on  producing  '  their  passport, 
commonly  called  a  sea-brief  (Chalmers,  Treaties,  i.    180).     On  the 
English  side  this  was  to  be  issued  by  the  admiralty  or  other  specified 
authorities,  and  was  to  certify  that   the   master  of  the  ship  '  hath 
appeared  before  us,  and  hath  declared  by  solemn  oath 'that  she  is 
owned  by  the  king's  subjects  (p.  187). 

"  No.  2350  ;  see  also  No.  2668.  A  writer  of  1673  makes  a  somewhat 
similar  remark  with  regard  to  Tripoli  (Cal.  S.P.  Dom.  1673-5,  P-  7^)« 


xx  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS 

The  English  government  was,  however,  already  be- 
ginning to  feel  its  way  towards  a  remedy.  The  discovery 
of  great  laxity  of  administration  at  Dover,1  and  a  petition 
from  masters  of  vessels  there,2  led  Pepys  to  refer,  in  a 
letter  of  20  March,  1675,*  to  'some  considerations'  now 
before  the  admiralty  from  which  he  expected  '  public 
benefit '  to  '  the  general  English  navigation.'  The  letters 
for  July  show  that  new  rules  designed  to  prevent  the 
fraudulent  procuring  of  passes  were  under  discussion,4  and 
a  letter  of  13  August5  claims  for  the  writer  the  credit  of 
having  'procured  '  them  '  to  be  established  by  his  Majesty 
in  council '  in  such  a  form  as  will  '  thoroughly  secure  us 
against  any  ill  practices  in  that  matter.'  These  rules  were 
afterwards  modified  in  the  light  of  experience,6  and  those 
which  governed  the  grant  of  passes  to  the  Mediterranean 
appear  in  their  final  form  in  Naval  Precedents  7  as  the  rules 
established  by  Order  in  Council,  11  May,  1682,  for  Algiers 
passes.8  As  the  numerous  letters  about  Mediterranean 
passes  in  this  volume  are  scarcely  intelligible  without  a 
knowledge  of  these  rules,  it  is  necessary  to  print  the  sub- 
stance of  them  here.  They  provide  ( I )  that  passes  are  to  be 
issued  by  the  admiralty  alone,  and  only  (2)  to  '  English- 
built  ships,  or  foreign-built  ships  made  free.'  °  (3)  No 
pass  is  to  be  issued  to  any  ship  '  whereof  the  master  is  not 
his  Majesty's  natural  subject  or  foreign  Protestant  made 

1  No.  2072  ;  see  also  Nos.  2162  and  2216. 

•  No.  2149.  *  No.  2149. 
4  Nos.  2431,  2439,  2454.                              *  No.  2488. 

•  E.g.  Algiers  passes   were  granted  at  first  for  a  year  only,  but 
were  afterwards  extended  to  the  end  of  the  voyage  (Nos.  3201  and 
3789).     See  also  Nos.  2820  and  3053. 

7  Pepysian  MSS.  No.  2867,  p.  296. 

8  These  are  expressly  stated  to  be  identical  with  the  rules  for  Tunis 
and  Tripoli  (p.  292) ;  and  the  closeness  of  their  connexion  with  the 
earlier  rules  appears  from  the  fact  that  the  form  of  oath  to  be  taken 
by  the  masters  of  ships  applying  for  passes  (p.  298)  requires  it  to  be 
taken    before   'Samuel    Pepys,   Esq.,   secretary    of   the    admiralty,' 
although  on  11  May,  1682,  Pepys  had  ceased  to  hold  that  office  for 
almost  exactly  three  years. 

9  See  Nos.  2923  and  2976. 


INTRODUCTION  xxi 

denizen,  and  whereof  two-thirds  1  of  the  mariners  are  not 
his  Majesty's  subjects.'  (4)  No  master  is  to  receive  a 
pass  until  he  has  given  bond  to  the  king,  '  as  in  case  of 
granting  other  passes ' — 5O/.  under  100  tons  burden  and 
ioo/.  for  100  tons  or  more — '  for  the  delivering  up  of  his 
pass  upon  the  return  of  such  ship  and  her  being  unladen 
in  England,  Wales,  or  town  of  Berwick-upon-Tweed 
unless  in  the  case  of  capture  or  shipwreck.' 2  (5)  If  the 
vessel  requiring  a  pass  is  in  the  Port  of  London,  such  pass 
is  not  to  be  granted  until  '  she  shall  have  been  first  viewed 
by  the  surveyor  of  the  Act  of  Navigation  or  his  deputy, 
or  the  officer  of  the  navy  especially  appointed  thereunto ' 
by  the  admiralty, 3  and  a  certificate  produced  from  one  of 
them  to  the  admiralty,  '  which  certificate  is  to  be  in  the 
same  form  as  the  certificates  for  English-built  ships  and 
foreign -built  ships  made  free  for  which  passes  are 

1  The  requirement  of  the   Navigation  Act  was  '  three-fourths ' 
(12  Car.  II,  c.  18,  §  i). 

2  See  Nos.  3329  and  3743.     For  certificates  from  Pepys  that  passes 
have  been  actually  returned,  see  Nos.  3681,  3741,  3766.     See  also  in 
this   connexion  a  proclamation   of    22   December,   1675,    'touching 
passes  and  sea-briefs,'  limiting  the  validity  of  all  passes  dated  before 
or  since  the  preceding  January  to  I  May,  1676,  and  explaining  that 
other  passes  'in  the  form  now  established'  will  be  delivered  by  the 
secretary  of  the  admiralty  to  the  parties  interested  on  their  giving 
security  for  delivering  up  their  former  passes  within  six  months  after 
receiving  the  new  ones,  and  declaring  further  that  no  pass  or  sea-brief 
hereafter  granted  (save  where  the  ship  shall  be  bound  to  Guinea  or 
the  East  or  West  Indies)  shall  remain  in  force  longer  than  one  year 
(Cal.  S.  P.  Dom.  1675-6,  p.  457).     By  a  subsequent  proclamation  of 
28  January,  1676,  it  was  explained  that  the  first  proclamation  applied 
only  to  ships  trading   in  the   Mediterranean,  with  reference  to  the 
treaties   with  Algiers,  Tunis,  and  Tripoli   (ib.  p.  533).     These  pro- 
clamations are  referred  to  below  (Nos.  2700,  2731,  2803,  3201). 

3  A  letter  from  Pepys  to  Sir  John  Shaw,  collector  of  customs  in 
the  Port  of  London  and  surveyor  of  the  Act  of  Navigation,  written 
in   reference   to   this   rule,   and   bearing    date   25   August,    1675,   is 
calendared  below  (No.  2514).     The  office  of  'collector  and  surveyor' 
under  the  Navigation  Act  is  also  referred  to  in  '  An  Act  for  preventing 
frauds  and  regulating  abuses  in  his  Majesty's  customs'  (14  Car.  II, 
c.  n,  §  5).     The  'deputy'  at  this  time  appears  to  have  been  Captain 
Henry  Low  (Nos.  2507  and  2514)  ;  and  the  'officer  of  the  navy'  now 
for  the  first  time  '  especially  appointed  thereunto'  was  Captain  John 
Perriman,  the  master  attendant  at  Sheerness  (Nos.  2558,  2639,  2653, 
2752,  3382). 


xxii  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS 

demanded  in  pursuance  of  other  treaties  ' :  *  if  the  vessel 
is  in  any  of  the  outports, '  upon  notice  thereof  to  the  com- 
missioners of  the  customs  from  the  secretary  of  the 
admiralty,2  the  said  commissioners  shall  thereupon  write 
to  the  collector  of  such  port  that  he  cause  the  said  ship  to 
be  reviewed  by  the  deputy  of  the  surveyor  of  the  Act  of 
Navigation,  or  by  their  surveyor  where  there  is  a  surveyor, 
or  by  the  officer  appointed  by  the  said  collector  for 
viewing  of  ships,  and  that  he  return  up  the  like  certificate 
to  the  commissioners  of  the  customs  under  the  hand  of 
the  officer  that  shall  have  surveyed  her,  which  certificate 
shall  be  by  the  said  commissioners  transmitted '  to  the 
admiralty,  and  no  pass  is  to  be  granted  until  this  be  done. 

(6)  Before  the  pass  is  granted,  the  master  of  the  ship  must 
'  make  such  oath  as  is  to  be  made  by  masters  of  ships 
demanding  passes  for  English-built  ships  and  foreign-built 
ships    made   free   in    pursuance    of    any    other   treaties.' 

(7)  Passes  issued   under   these   rules   are  to  be  '  printed 
upon  a  certain  size  of  parchment  .  .  .  that  so  they  may  be 
distinguished  from  all  other  passes.' 3     (8)  A  register  was 
to  be  kept  by  the  admiralty  of  all  passes  granted  by  them, 
'  and    that   the   said    register  be    kept   distinct    from  the 
register  which  shall    be    kept  ...   in    pursuance   of  any 
other  treaties.' 

The  rules  here  given  were  for  '  Turks'  passes '  only  ; 
and  references  in  the  correspondence  show  at  what  points 
these  differed  from  the  rules  for  '  ordinary  passes '  granted 
under  the  treaties  with  the  continental  powers.  Not  only 

1  Copies  of  extracts  of  provisions  in  treaties  with  France,  Spajn, 
Holland,  Denmark,  Sweden,  and  Portugal,  relating  to  passes  among 
other  things,  and  including  the  '  marine  treaty '  of  1674  with  the  Dutch, 
are  to  be  found  in  the  State  Papers  (Cal.  S.  P.  Dom.  1675-6,  p.  484). 

2  A  large  number  of  letters  about  passes  from  the  secretary  of  the 
admiralty  to  the  commissioners  of  the  customs  are  calendared  below. 
These  are  indexed  separately  on  pp.  451-8,  infra. 

3  A  letter  of  24  January,  1675-6,  to  the  English  consul  at  Algiers 
enclosed  '  a  form  of  the  new  indented  pass  and  a  dozen  counterparts,' 
that  he   may   '  detect  any   counterfeit  pass '   tendered    in   his   port 
(No.  2738).     On  31  July  these  paper  passes  were  replaced  by  parch- 
ment (No.  3087). 


INTRODUCTION  xxiii 

was  the  form  of  the  pass  itself  different,1  but  the  lords  of 
the  admiralty  were  '  forbid,  without  special  order  of  dis- 
pensation from  his  Majesty  in  council,  to  grant  ordinary 
passes  to  any  ship  that  is  not  in  the  Port  of  London.' 2 
A  ship  in  any  other  port  of  England  requiring  an  ordinary 
pass  had  to  apply  to  the  '  magistrate  and  officers  of  the 
customs  of  that  outport  where  she  lies  ; ' 3  but  a  monthly 
register  of  passes  had  to  be  transmitted  by  the  magistrate 
of  each  outport  to  the  commissioners  of  the  customs,  and 
by  the  commissioners  to  the  admiralty  itself.4  Special 
dispensations  from  the  king  in  council  are  referred  to  in 
the  correspondence  as  applied  for  by  the  lords  to  enable 
them  to  issue  a  pass  to  an  English  ship  although  she  was 
not  in  an  English  port ; 5  to  issue  a  supplemental  pass  to 
a  ship  whose  voyage  would  not  come  to  an  end  within 
the  period  of  a  year  for  which  her  pass  was  granted  ; 6 
and  to  grant  a  pass, '  in  pursuance  of  the  marine  treaty 
with  the  Dutch,'  to  a  ship  owned  by  Englishmen  living  at 
Hamburg,  and  therefore  not  '  inhabitants  of  some  place 
within  his  Majesty's  dominions,'  as  the  form  of  pass  pre- 
scribed in  the  treaty  required.7  A  similar  system  of  passes 
was  established  for  Ireland,8  but  copies  of  the  registers  kept 
for  Dublin  and  the  outports  were  periodically  transmitted 
to  the  admiralty  in  London, '  to  the  end  that  the  general 
register  designed  here  may  be  kept  complete.' 9 

A  number  of  miscellaneous  references  to  the  working 
of  the  establishments  for  passes  may  be  found  below.10  They 
appear  to  have  been,  on  the  whole,  successful,  although 
a  letter  of  8  June,  1676,"  refers  to  the  '  practices  still  on 
foot '  of  '  applying  passes  granted  for  the  benefit  only  of 
his  Majesty's  own  subjects  to  the  colouring  of  foreign 
ships  and  goods.'  The  view  then  taken  by  the  secretary 
to  the  admiralty  was  that  the  prosecution  and  conviction 

I  No.  3613.                  8  No.  3613.  3  No.  3917. 
*  No.  3053.                   5  Nos.  3463  and  3720.  6  No.  3464. 
7  No.  3744.                    8  No.  3613.  9  No.  3613. 
10  Nos.  2610,  2685,  2719,  2732,  2749,  3040,  3186. 

II  No.  2966  ;  see  also  Nos.  3035,  3837,  3838. 


xxiv          ADMIRALTY  LETTERS 

of  the  offenders  would  '  conduce  more  towards  the  remedy- 
ing of  this  evil  than  all  the  rules  that  any  invention  will 
make  will  ever  obtain,  till  confirmed  by  severity  upon  the 
breachers  thereof.' l 

The  correspondence  relating  to  the  removal  of  English 
subjects  from  Surinam,2  begun  in  the  preceding  volume,3 
is  concluded  below.4  The  expedition  sent  for  this  purpose 
consisted  of  two  hired  ships  escorted  by  the  Hunter,  a 
5th  rate,5  a  fly-boat  being  despatched  in  advance  to  carry 
letters.6  The  principal  commissioner  was  Mr.  Edward 
Cranfeild,7  and  he  and  his  colleagues  were  instructed  to 
land  '  our  Surinamites '  in  other  colonies  belonging  to  the 
Crown  of  England.8  Later  in  the  volume  references  occur 
to  troubles  at  Tangier  connected  with  the  governorship  of 
the  Earl  of  Inchiquin,9  to  '  the  affairs  of  Newfoundland,' '° 
and  to  Captain  John  Wood's  voyage  in  the  Speedwell  for 
the  discovery  of  the  North-East  Passage,  and  the  disaster 
which  befell  him  on  the  coast  of  Nova  Zembla.11 

1  No.  2966. 

2  The  treaty  of  peace  with  the  Dutch  signed  in  February,  1674, 
had  provided  for  the  carrying  out  of  the  surrender  of  Surinam  agreed 
upon  in  1667.     The  King  of  England  was  to  be  allowed  'to  depute 
one  or  more  persons  thither,  to  see  the  condition  of  his  subjects  there 
and  to  adjust  with  them  a  time  for  their  departure,'  and  to  send  'one, 
two,  or  three  ships  at  one  time,  and  thereon  to  embark  and  carry 
away  the  said  subjects,  their  goods  and  slaves '  (Chalmers,  Treaties, 
i.  174).  3  See  vol.  ii.  p.  xvi. 

'  Nos.  2065,  2071,  2153,  2154,  2160,  2185,  2197,  2202,  2572. 

5  Nos.  2071,2572.        '  No.  2071  ;  see  also  ii.  417,  supra(TSo.  2031). 

T  No.  2153.  8  No.  2160.  •  Nos.  3086,  3238. 

10  No.  3543.    The  decay  of  the  Newfoundland  fisheries  was  attract- 
ing attention  at  this  time,  and  in  1675  an  enquiry  among  the  merchants 
was  being  conducted  by  the  Committee  of  Trade  and  Plantations 
(Lady  Alice  Archer- Houblon,  The  Houblon  Family,  i.  207).     As  late 
as  5  June,  1679,  the  lords  of  the  admiralty  were  furnishing  Captain 
Lawrence  Wright,  the  commander-in-chief  of   the  convoy  to  the 
Newfoundland  fishery,  with  '  heads  of  enquiries  to  be  made  by  him 
upon  his  arrival  there'  (Pepysian  MSS.  No.  2867,  Naval  Precedents, 
p.  277  ;  see  also  an  undated  paper  on  p.  280  of  the  same  volume, 
entitled  '  Heads  of  Enquiries  to  be  made  by  the  Commanders  of  his 
Majesty's  frigates  now  going  convoys  for  Newfoundland'  recommended 
by  the  Committee  for  Trade  and  Plantations). 

11  Nos.  3161,  3177.     The  Speedwell  was  sent  at  the  king's  own 
charge  '  for  the  discovery  of  a  passage  by  the  North-East  about  the 


INTRODUCTION  xxv 

Another  episode  which  bulks  largely  in  the  latter  part 
of  the  correspondence  is  the  despatch  of  Sir  John  Berry's 
expedition  to  put  down  the  rising  in  Virginia  under 
Nathaniel  Bacon.1  On  30  September,  1676,  Sir  John 
Berry  was  summoned  to  attend  the  king  '  about  Virginia,' 2 
and  the  same  day  an  order  was  sent  to  the  commander-in- 
chief  in  the  Downs  to  stop  all  merchant-ships  bound  to 
Virginia  and  Maryland,3  this  being  followed  by  a  regular 
embargo.4  At  the  same  time  preparations  were  made  for 
the  despatch  of  a  land  force 5  to  be  transported  under 
contract  on  board  eight  of  the  merchant-ships6  bound 
to  Virginia  which  had  been  stopped  by  the  embargo.7 
These  were  to  be  escorted  by  Sir  John  Berry's  own  ship, 
the  Bristol,  a  4th  rate,  and  by  the  Rose  and  Dartmouth, 
both  5th  rates,8  and  to  be  accompanied  by  the  Deptford 
ketch.9  The  Bristol  and  the  Deptford  ketch  were  ordered 
to  sail  on  1 5  November,10  the  rest  of  the  expedition  follow- 
ing under  the  command  of  Captain  Ashby,  of  the  Rose ;  u 
but  in  consequence  of  the  Rose  '  having  come  to  an  un- 
timely disaster  by  breaking  of  her  rudder  in  striking 
aground  as  she  was  going  through  the  Narrow,'12  the  com- 
mand devolved  upon  Captain  Temple  of  the  Dartmouth,13 

coast  of  Tartary  to  China  and  the  East  Indies.'  She  was  accompanied 
by  the  Prosperous  pink,  Captain  William  Flawes,  commander,  a 
vessel  fitted  put  by  James  Duke  of  York,  George  Lord  Berkeley,  Sir 
Joseph  Williamson,  Sir  John  Bankes,  Arthur  Herbert  Esq.,  Samuel 
Pepys  Esq.,  Laurence  Depuy  Esq.,  and  Mr.  Edward  Hopegood, 
merchant,  'joint-adventurers  for  the  discovery  of  the  said  passage' 
(Pepysian  MSS.  No.  2612,  A  Collection  of  Matters  relating  to  Christ's 
Hospital,  p.  225).  An  account  of  the  expedition  is  printed  in  Charnock 
(Biog.  Nov.  i.  378),  but  the  names  of  the  projectors  are  not  all  given. 

1  On  this  rising  see  Doyle,  The  English  in  America,  vol.  i.  (Vir- 
ginia, Maryland,  &c.)  p.  321  et  seqq.  [English  edition  1882]  ;  also 
Winsor,  History  of  America,  iii.  151-2. 

4  No.  3259.  J  No.  3260. 
*  Nos.  3261,  3262  ;  see  also  No.  3441. 

5  Nos.  3271,  3279,  3280,  3293,  3306,  3340,  3341,  3376,  3385,  3388, 
339i,  3393,  34oi,  3407,  3409,  3428,  3430,  343i,  345°,  3527- 

8  No.  3448.  7  No.  3293. 

8  Nos.  3368,  3390,  3416,  3418,  3419.  9  No.  3443. 

'  Nos.  3443,  3450.  *  No.  3468  ;  see  also  No.  3448. 

18  No.  3492.  13  Nos.  3490,  3506. 


xxvi          ADMIRALTY  LETTERS 

who  sailed  early  in  December,1  the  Rose  being  a  day  behind 
him.2  The  embargo  was  removed  as  soon  as  the  mer- 
chantmen hired  for  transporting  the  land  forces  had  put  to 
sea.3  The  rising  at  one  time  appeared  very  serious,  and 
Pepys,  writing  to  Sir  John  Narbrough  on  14  October, 
1676*  refers  to  'Bacon's  having  got  the  mastery  of  all, 
and  that  not  only  by  land  but  at  sea  too.'  Sir  John 
Berry  took  with  him  a  force  of  1,130  soldiers,8  and  he  was 
armed  with  power  to  impress  ships  and  seamen  on  his 
arrival,6  but  the  trouble  was  over  before  he  reached 
Virginia,7  and  on  30  April,  1677,  arrangements  were  being 
made  for  the  troops  to  return,  although  it  was  proposed 
that  soldiers  who  desired  to  remain  should  be  allowed  to 
do  so,  and  that '  some  small  number  of  them '  should  be 
left  there  'as  a  standing  security  to  the  colony.'8  The 
expedition  carried  two  chaplains,  who  were  to  be  treated 
'with  as  much  respect  to '  their  '  function  as  can  be  shown 
without  increase  of  charge  to  his  Majesty.' 9 

Among  minor  administrative  questions,  the  correspon- 
dence in  this  volume  alludes  to  a  discussion  concerning  the 
desirability  of  appointing  masters  by  warrant  for  6th  rates 10 
instead  of  the  captain  acting  as  master  as  heretofore.11 
The  secretary's  attitude  was  on  the  whole  hostile  to  the 
proposed  innovation,  especially  as  it  had  been  '  some  time 
since '  resolved,  at  his  own  motion,  by  the  king  and  lords 
'  that  captains  appointed  to  6th  rates  should  be  liable  to 
an  examination  at  the  Trinity  House  as  masters.' 12  A 
letter  of  27  January,  1675-6,"  discusses  the  practice  of 
allowing  the  officers  of  ships  in  harbour  leave  to  discharge 
their  duties  by  deputy,  'upon  considerations  either  of 

I  No.  3553.  *  No.  3553. 
'  Nos.  3465,  3553.  *  No.  3330. 
'  No.  3391  ;  see  also  No.  3376.  '  No.  3439. 
7  Charnock,  Biog.  Nov.  i.  151.  8  No.  3904. 
9  No.  3422.  10  No.  2447. 

II  No.  2450.     All  the  masters  of  the  king's  ships  were  appointed 
by  the  navy  board  '  upon  examination  first  had  at  the  Trinity  House ' 
(No.  3240). 

18  No.  2450.  )3  No.  2748  ;  see  also  No.  2791. 


INTRODUCTION  xxvii 

health,  particular  business,  or  passing  their  accounts,'  and 
suggests  desirable  limitations ;  and  another,  of  24  February,1 
refers  to  '  a  standing  rule  '  in  the  navy  '  that  no  purser  be 
permitted  to  go  to  sea  on  a  new  voyage  before  he  hath 
passed  an  account  of  the  former,'  while  other  papers  of  a 
later  date  *  indicate  the  nature  of  the  control  exercised  over 
the  pursers  with  regard  to  the  issue  of  clothes.  Allusions 
in  letters  of  10  October3  and  25  October,4  1676,  suggest 
that  '  the  duty  of  the  officers  in  ordinary '  was  being  recon- 
sidered with  a  view  to  a  new  establishment ;  and  a  corre- 
spondence beginning  about  the  same  date 5  shows  that 
proposals  were  under  the  consideration  of  the  navy  board 
for  '  settling  the  guardships  and  boats  in  the  river  of  Med- 
way,'  and  that  steps  were  being  taken  for  '  putting  all  things 
in  an  order  of  safety '  in  Portsmouth  harbour.6  In  this 
connexion  an  important  letter  of  14  December,  16767 
refers  to  a  report  lately  presented  to  the  king  from  the 
office  of  the  ordnance '  in  discharge  of  that  office  from  being 
burdened  with  the  providing  of  boats  for  the  maritime  forts 
and  castles,  and  that  as  far  as  the  same  must  nevertheless 
in  some  proportion  be  done,  the  office  of  the  navy  is  most 
properly  chargeable  with  the  doing  thereof.' 


2.  Finance* 

In  the  present  volume  the  references  to  financial 
questions  are  few  in  number.  A  paper  of  19  June,  i675,9 
sets  out  the  more  pressing  needs  of  the  navy,  suggesting  in 
particular  that  for  want  of  materials  the  officers  of  the  navy 
were  '  at  an  almost  total  stop  '  in  providing  for  the  repair 
of  the  fleet.  On  24  November  10  Pepys  points  out  to  a 

1  No.  2789.  2  Nos.  3819,  3820,  3821. 

1  No.  3302.  4  No.  3371. 

5  No.  3370  ;  see  also  Nos.  3371,  3480. 

6  No.  3604  ;  see  also  Nos.  3600,  3605,  3614,  3616,  3644,  3930. 

7  No.  3588.  8  See  supra,  vol.  i.  pp.  107-111. 
9  No.  2369.                                       ">  No.  2634. 


xxviii        ADMIRALTY  LETTERS 

meritorious  applicant  the  improbability  of  the  king's  being 
able  'to  enlarge  salaries';  and  on  2  January,  1677,'  he 
remarks  that '  matters  (though  never  so  small) '  are  '  of  very 
slow  advance  here  in  which  any  increase  of  charge  is  con- 
cerned ' ;  but  there  is  no  trace  of  the  extreme  pressure  of 
poverty  such  as  had  been  felt,  during  the  Dutch  wars.2 
We  learn  incidentally  that  the  affairs  of  the  commis- 
sion for  sick  and  wounded,  which  had  come  to  an  end 
in  1674,  at  the  close  of  the  war,3  were  now  being 
wound  up.4  There  are  traces  of  a  difficulty,  which  was 
probably  financial,  with  the  slopseller  of  the  navy  ;5  and 
Pepys  records  the  fact  that  contingent  money  was  not  as 
a  rule  allowed  to  a  single  ship.6 


3.  Men 


In  the  years  1675  and  1676  the  supply  of  officers 
appears  to  have  been  in  excess  of  the  demand,8  but  the 
naval  administration  had  to  contend  from  time  to  time 
with  a  scarcity  of  men,  both  in  the  yards  and  at  sea.  This 
was  ascribed  by  Pepys  at  first  to  '  the  fulness  of  employment 
that  seamen  now  meet  with  among  merchantmen,'9  and  later 
on  to  the  high  wages  offered  both  by  '  merchant  builders ' 10 
and  on  board  the  merchant  ships.11  The  result  was  that  the 
tradition  against  pressing  seamen  in  time  of  peace  12  was 
thrown  over,  and  powers  were  taken  to  issue  press- 
warrants.  The  difficulty  of  manning  is  first  referred  to  in 
a  letter  of  3  June,  i675,13  written  at  the  time  when  ships 
were  being  fitted  out  to  reinforce  Sir  John  Narbrough  in 

I  No.  3637.     2  i.  99-103,  105-7,  supra.     s  i.  137,  supra. 

*  Nos.  2588,  3109,  3547,  3563,  and  an  important  undated  memo- 
randum, No.  3110. 

5  Nos.  2264,  2290,  2977.  '  No.  2120. 

7  See  supra,  vol.  i.  pp.  128-39.  "  No.  2692. 

9  No.  2320  (3  June,  1675).  10  No.  3915  (2  May,  1677). 

II  No.  3426  (8  November,  1676). 

13  See  i.  129-30,  supra;  also  Nos.  2266,  2322,  2596,  2597,  3257, 
3566. 

1S  No.  2320  ;  see  also  Nos.  2322,  2326,  2345. 


INTRODUCTION  xxix 

the  Mediterranean.  The  commanders  '  not  being  per- 
mitted to  help  themselves  by  pressing,'  it  was  arranged 
that  seamen  should  be  invited  '  by  beating  of  drums  in  the 
places  usual.'  This  traditional  expedient  effected  so  little 
towards  manning  the  Harwich,  that  on  1 5  June  a  press- 
warrant  was  granted  to  her  commander,1  but  in  accordance 
with  the  regular  practice  in  such  cases,8  its  operation  was 
limited  to  taking  men  out  of  homeward-bound  ships. 
Other  commanders  also  received  press-warrants,3  but  they 
were  accompanied  by  exhortations  to  be  careful  in  executing 
them,  and  only  to  use  them  in  case  of  necessity.  In  the 
autumn  of  the  following  year  the  same  scarcity  of  men  was 
complained  of,4  and  on  8  November,  1676,  in  a  memorial 
addressed  to  the  Council,5  the  lords  of  the  admiralty 
asked  that  press-warrants  might  be  issued  to  the  Rulers  of 
the  Watermen's  Company  empowering  them  to  press 
watermen  to  make  up  the  complements  of  the  new  galley- 
frigates,  the  Charles  and  the  James.  On  2  May,  i677,6  the 
lords  applied  for  fresh  powers,  not  only  to  press  '  so  many 
seamen  as  shall  be  wanting  for  the  manning  of  the  ships 
now  and  hereafter  to  be  set  forth  for  the  summer's  service,' 
but  also  'shipwrights,  carpenters,  caulkers,7  joiners, and  other 
workmen  and  artificers,'  for  the  repairs  now  in  hand  and  for 
the  building  of  the  thirty  new  ships  granted  by  Parliament. 
In  commenting  upon  the  pressing  of  seamen,8  Pepys 
observes  that  it  was  'what  has  been  seldom  done  or 
demanded  in  time  of  peace ' ; 9  but  press-warrants  were, 
nevertheless,  offered  to  fifteen  commanders.10 

1  No.  2353.  2  See  i.  131,  supra. 

3  Nos.  2356,  2378,  2379,  2380,  2381,  2382  ;   cf.  also  No.  2916. 

4  Nos.  3276,  3426,  3556. 

5  No.  3426.     For  the  particulars  of  a  curious  controversy  which 
arose  out  of  this,  see  Nos.  3566,  3569,  3578,  and  3585. 

6  No.  3915  ;  see  also  No.  3919. 

7  The  deficiency  of  caulkers  had  been  felt  earlier.      On  I  July, 
1676,  warrants  had  been  issued  for  impressing  caulkers  for  Chatham 
and  Woolwich  yards  (No.  3014). 

8  Pressing  for  the  yards  was  on  a  different  footing.    See  i.  130, 
supra. 

9  No.  3920.  10  No.  3920  ;  see  also  Nos.  3928,  3929,  3930. 


xxx  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS 

The  captains  of  the  king's  ships  were  required  by 
their  instructions  '  to  take  out  of  any  foreign  merchant- 
ships  such  of  his  Majesty's  subjects  as  shall  be  found 
serving  therein,' l  and  '  serving  in  foreigners  '  was  also  for- 
bidden by  proclamation  ; 2  but  the  prohibition  was  not  easy 
to  enforce,  especially  as  the  enlistment  on  board  foreign 
vessels  of  a  crew  in  part  English  was  sometimes  a  conve- 
nient way  of  getting  round  the  Navigation  Act3  The 
admiralty  was,  however,  resolute  in  punishing  Englishmen 
taken  out  of  privateers.4 

Allusions  of  interest  occur  in  the  correspondence  to 
1  reformadoes,' 6  '  midshipmen  extraordinary,'  and  '  volun- 
teers.' The  applications  from  persons  desirous  of  being 
entered  as  reformadoes  were  so  numerous6  and  their 
importunities  so  great,7  that  in  a  letter  of  2  April,  i675,8 
Pepys  declared  himself  resolved  '  to  bring  that  thing  to 
some  settlement,  that  is  to  say,  both  in  the  qualifications 
of  those  that  shall  be  esteemed  capable  of  being  reforma- 
does, and  those  that  are  not,  together  with  the  number  to 
be  affixed  to  each  rate,  which  shall  not  be  exceeded.'  The 
details  of  this  '  settlement '  do  not  appear,  but  something 
may  be  inferred  from  the  correspondence.  From  an  earlier 
letter9  we  learn  that  the  king  did  not  grant  a  warrant 
for  a  reformado  to  be  borne  on  board  one  of  his  ships 
'  without  some  good  regard  had  to  the  qualifications  of  the 
persons  that  request  it,'  more  particularly  with  regard  to 
'  age  and  education,  experience,  or  addiction  to  the  study 
and  work  of  a  seaman.'  '  To  the  end  his  Majesty  may 
understand  the  fruits  of  his  bounty,  and  the  extraordinary 
charge  attending  the  same  in  allowing  midshipmen's  and 
reformadoes'  pay  extraordinary  on  board  his  ships  to  some 
persons  specially  recommended  to  him,'  a  later  letter10 
asks  for  '  a  particular  and  impartial  account  of  the 

1  No.  2671  ;  see  also  Nos.  2268,  3072,  3667,  3730. 

J  No.  3469  ;  see  also  Nos.  3035,  3072.  a  No.  2923. 

*  Nos.  3045,  3072,  3369.  5  See  i.  190  ».  supra. 

e  No.  2200.  7  No.  2189.  8  No.  2189. 

9  No.  2133.  I0  No.  2784. 


INTRODUCTION  xxxi 

behaviour,  sobriety,  diligence,  and  obedience  to  orders ' 
of  a  certain  Mr.  Charles  Dallison  on  board  the  Success. 
On  2  December,  1676,*  the  lords  made  an  order  for 
the  examination  of  reformadoes,  and  on  4  December,1 
and  again  on  7  December,2  Pepys  instructs  the  navy 
board  to  examine  gentlemen  who  had  served  some 
time  as  reformadoes,  and  to  report  to  him  '  their  pro- 
ficiency in  the  study  and  practice  of  navigation.'  We 
learn  from  other  references  that  both  volunteers  and 
midshipmen  extraordinary  were  borne  as  supernumeraries 
above  the  complement  of  the  ship,  but  that  each  midship- 
man was  allowed  a  servant  who  was  also  a  supernumerary, 
while  in  his  '  establishment  about  volunteers '  the  king  had 
'  expressly  declared '  that  '  there  shall  be  no  servant 
allowed  to  any  of  them ' ; 3  and  that  the  allowance  of 
midshipmen  extraordinary  was  limited  to  '  such  only  who 
have  been  commanders  or  lieutenants.' 4  It  is  also  clear 
that  the  establishment  allowed  to  4th  rates  three  volunteers, 
and  two  midshipmen  extraordinary  with  two  servants,5 
and  to  other  rates  presumably  in  proportion. 

In  letters  of  2  and  12  April,  1675,  Pepys  notes  the 
advantages  of  having  work  done  in  the  yards  '  by  strangers 
upon  particular  bargains  made ' G  over  the  system  by  which 
'  particular  tradesmen  '  were  appointed  by  warrant  to  serve 
the  king  in  their  respective  trades  '  in  exclusion  to  others.' 7 
He  comments  unfavourably  in  December,  1676,  upon  'the 
present  inability  of  the  generality  of  the  ordinary,'  in  spite 
of  the  fact  that  '  upon  the  single  consideration  of  bettering 
the  choice  of  his  shipkeepers  in  harbour '  the  king  had 
lately  raised  harbour  wages  to  the  level  of  wages  paid  at 
sea  ; 8  and  he  has  a  low  opinion  of  the  soldiers  despatched 
in  September,  1676,  to  Tangier.9  The  volume  also  contains 
illustrations  of  the  kind  of  influence  brought  to  bear  upon 


1  No.  3536.  8  No.  3544- 

1  No.  2917;  see  also  Nos.  3651,  3658.  *  No.  3532. 

5  Nos.  2917,  3532.  6  No.  2187.  7  No.  2217. 

8  No.  3614.  9  Nos.  3206,  3664. 

VOL.  III.  b 


xxxii          ADMIRALTY  LETTERS 

the  filling  up  of  minor  appointments.  '  At  the  instance 
of  some  persons  of  quality  '  Pepys  applied  for  a  berth  in 
one  of  the  great  ships  laid  up  in  ordinary  at  Chatham  for  a 
seaman  who  had  '  by  time  become  not  so  able  to  perform 
hand-labour,  though  otherwise  healthy  and  his  senses 
good';1  at  Prince  Rupert's  request  he  found  'a  very 
sober  person  and  experienced  soldier '  a  place  as  corporal  on 
board  one  of  the  king's  ships  ; 2  and  he  obliged  a  member 
of  Parliament  in  the  matter  of  '  two  honest  and  able  ship- 
wrights '  desirous  of  entering  the  yard  at  Deptford.3  It  is 
unnecessary  to  place  a  sinister  interpretation  upon  any  of 
these  transactions.  The  statement  of  each  case  is  scrupu- 
lously fair,  and  the  right-minded  administrator  of  the  period 
could  scarcely  do  more  than  see  that  no  wrong  was  done 
to  the  king's  service.  The  attitude  of  incorruptibility4 
which  Pepys  affected  in  these  days  of  his  greater  responsi- 
bility may  very  well  have  expressed  his  real  thought, 
at  any  rate  where  the  minor  patronage  of  his  office  was 
concerned. 

In  the  discharge  of  persons  unreasonably  enlisted,  the 
secretary  of  the  admiralty  appears  to  have  shown  himself 
wise  and  considerate.  On  7  September,  1676,  at  the  instance 
of  his  mother,  a  '  gentlewoman,'  Pepys  wrote  to  advise  the 
discharge  of  Philip  Hanbury  from  a  merchantman  bound  to 
Virginia,  on  the  ground  that  he '  is  neither  at  his  own  disposal 
nor  hath  any  reasonable  occasions  to  call  him  out  of  his  own 
country  '  ; 5  on  26  September,  '  having  been  applied  to  by  a 
poor  woman  complaining  that  herself  and  some  small 
children  will  be  liable  to  ruin  '  if  her  husband  'be  taken  away 
from  them '  to  serve  as  a  soldier  at  Tangier,  he  interested 
himself  in  procuring  his  exchange;6  and  on  23  February, 
1677,  at  the  request  of  a  scrivener  in  Westminster,  he  took 
steps  to  recover  for  him  Henry  Wiggins,  his  runaway 
apprentice,  who  had  contrived  to  get  himself  carried  over 

1  No.  2167.  2  No.  2179. 

s  No.  3880.  4  See  Nos.  2273  and  34M- 

4  No.  3188  ;  but  see  also  No.  3222.    6  No.  3248. 


INTRODUCTION  xxxiii 

into  Holland  on  board  a  royal  yacht  '  among  the  retinue  of 
the  envoy  of  the  Elector  of  Cologne.' l  He  also  ordered 
the  discharge  of  two  '  schoolboys  belonging  to  the  Charter- 
house/ who  had  been  '  seduced  from  Southwark  Fair  and 
shipped  against  their  wills.' 2 


4.  Pay3 


The  present  volume  contains  few  allusions  to  arrears  of 
pay,4  but  on  24  February,  I6/7,5  Pepys,  in  a  letter  to  the 
master-shipwright  at  Portsmouth  with  reference  to  the 
non-payment  of  '  the  parish  duties  '  by  the  officers  of  the 
yard,  condoles  with  him  on  his  arrears,  '  the  consideration 
of  which,'  he  writes, '  shall  and  doth  often  grieve  my  heart, 
nor  do  I  fail  upon  any  occasion  of  mentioning  you  either 
to  his  Majesty  or  my  lord  treasurer,  to  put  them  in  mind 
of  your  condition,  and  that  it  hath  been  his  Majesty's 
service  that  hath  reduced  you  to  it.'  Other  letters  sug- 
gest that  a  ship's  company  returning  home  did  not  always 
receive  their  wages  in  full  before  going  to  sea  again  ; 6  that 
his  pay  was  not  continued  to  a  commander  after  the  loss 
of  his  ship  ; 1  and  that  no  allowance  was  made  for  the 
loss  of  clothes  '  in  any  case  but  that  of  ships  lost  in  fight' 8 
A  letter  of  20  May,  1676,°  explains  the  precautions  taken 
in  the  transport  of  money  to  Tangier  for  the  pay  of  the 
garrison  there.  Other  correspondence  refers  to  the  reward- 
ing of  Mr.  William  Idle,  the  master  of  the  merchant  ship 
Bachelor,  '  in  consideration  of  the  good  service  by  him 
performed  '  in  retaking  her  from  the  Dutch  and  bringing 
her  away  from  Cadiz  Bay.10  It  was  at  first  proposed  to 
give  him  a  medal  to  the  value  of  5o/.,n  but  either  in  addition 


1  No.  3757.  2  No.  3215.       3  Vol.  i.  pp.  140-51,  supra. 

4  Nos.  2205,  2230,  3601,  3740.          5  No.  3760  ;  see  also  No.  3711. 

1  No.  2908.  7  No.  3603.      8  Ib. 

9  No.  2914  ;  see  also  No.  2587.       10  No.  2606. 

11  Ib.     See  also  No.  3522. 

b2 


xxxiv        ADMIRALTY  LETTERS 

to  or  substitution  for  this  he  actually  received  a  substantial 
payment  in  cash.1  In  November,  1676,  a  payment  of 
wages  was  authorised  to  be  made,  not  to  the  seaman  to 
whom  they  were  due,  but  to  the  master  of  the  Duke  of 
Ormonde's  barge  to  whom  he  was  apprenticed  by  in- 
denture, on  the  ground  that  he  had  taken  '  very  ill  courses,' 
and  had  thereby  contracted  '  debts  upon  himself  on  shore 
as  often  as  he '  had  '  opportunity  of  coming  there,'  '  with 
design  of  bereaving  his  said  master  of  his  wages,'  who  is 
'  a  very  painful  and  poor  man.' 2 


5.  Victuals 


The  victualling  during  this  period  was  still  managed  by 
the  contractors  appointed  in  November  1673,*  who  had 
shown  themselves  on  the  whole  careful  and  efficient.5 
References  of  26  September,  i675,6  suggest  that  the  con- 
tract of  1673  was  being  revised,  and  later  on  7  questions  of 
interpretation  arose,  but  there  is  no  indication  of  any 
dissatisfaction  with  the  service  until  January,  1677,  when 
notice  was  given  to  the  contractors  for  the  navy,  for 
Tangier,  and  for  the  Mediterranean  that  the  king  had 
received  '  proposals  offered  him  by  others  tending  to  his 
being  served  .  .  .  with  all  the  circumstances  of  advantage, 
both  in  price  and  otherwise,  which  your  contract  contains, 
and  yet  with  an  appearance  of  better  security  for  its  due 
performance,  and  more  ease  to  his  Majesty  in  the  method 
of  payments.'8  This  led  eventually  to  the  contract  for 
victualling  being  placed  in  fresh  hands.9 

A  '  State  of  the  Victualling  Action  '  for  the  year  1675  10 
shows  that  3,551  men  were  to  be  employed  at  sea  at  a 


1  Nos.  3121,  3122.  3  No.  3442. 

3  See  supra,  vol.  i.  164-83.  4  16.  pp.  164-5. 

3  Vol.  ii.  p.  xxviii,  supra.  6  Nos.  2580,  2581. 

7  Nos.  2793,  3243.   B  No.  3689.  9  i.  165,  supra.  10  No.  2085. 


INTRODUCTION  xxxv 

charge  for  sea  victuals  of  3 1 ,037/.,  the  harbour  victuals  during 
the  same  period  amounting  to  5,604/1  There  are  also  refer- 
ences in  the  correspondence  to  the  victualling  declarations 
for  1676 l  and  I6/7,2  but  no  figures  are  given.  The  com- 
plaints of  bad  victuals  are  neither  many  nor  serious,3 
although  exception  was  taken  to  '  the  smallness  of  the  Gar- 
land's beer  ; ' 4  and  there  are  only  a  few  instances  of  delay.5 

A  letter  from  Pepys  to  Sir  John  Narbrough,  dated 
13  December,  I6/5,6  refers  to  the  'practice  time  out  of 
mind  constantly  used  in  the  king's  navy '  of  putting  the 
ship's  company  to  short  allowance  '  as  soon  as  they  come 
out  of  the  Channel,'  and  on  behalf  of  the  king  and  lords 
directs  that  it  be  observed  ;  but  in  a  later  letter 7  Pepys 
writes  that  Narbrough's  arguments  against  putting  his 
ships  to  short  allowance  are  approved  and  adds  '  another 
consideration '  formerly  urged  by  Sir  John  Lavvson  against 
the  common  practice  of  short  allowance  in  the  Straits, 
'  that  the  money  given  the  seamen  upon  that  score  was  but 
an  occasion  of  the  seamen's  insisting  to  go  on  shore  for  the 
refreshing  themselves  therewith,  to  the  great  disappointment 
of  his  Majesty's  service  by  staying  of  his  ships  in  port,  and 
sometimes  by  occasioning  the  total  loss  of  the  men,  and 
putting  the  whole  into  a  course  of  debauchery.' 

A  letter  of  31  October,  i676,8  describes  the  special 
provision  for  their  own  personal  comfort,  over  and  above 
the  ordinary  victualling  allowance,  indulged  in  by  two 
young  gentlemen  who  were  going  to  Virginia  as  passengers 
on  board  one  of  the  king's  ships  :  for  '  each  of  them  a 
seaman's  chest  and  mattress  to  lie  on,  one  runlet  of 
brandy,  one  hamper  of  wine,  one  firkin  of  butter,  one  cask 
of  cheese  and  biscuit,  and  one  hamper  of  arms  for  their 
particular  use.' 

1  Nos.  2711,  2725.  3  Nos.  3289,  3304. 

3  Nos.  2952,  3072,  3073,  3092,  3246.  4  No.  3072. 

5  Nos.  3232,  3252,  3765,  3871.  °  No.  2671. 

7  No.  2832  (3  April,  1676).  B  No.  3384. 


xxx vi        ADMIRALTY  LETTERS 


6.  Discipline1 


The  difficulties  connected  with  the  maintenance  of 
discipline  in  the  navy  have  already  been  discussed,  both 
in  the  General  Introduction  !  and  in  the  Introduction  to  the 
preceding  volume  of  papers  ; 2  and  the  present  volume 
affords  additional  illustrations  of  the  conditions  there 
described.  The  attitude  of  the  secretary  of  the  admiralty 
was  unexceptionable,  '  as  being  resolved  to  omit  nothing  in 
my  place  to  do  towards  the  improvement  of  the  discipline 
and  manners  of  the  navy,  as  long  as  I  shall  be  thought 
worthy  of  serving  his  Majesty  in  it ' ; s  but  a  sound  tradi- 
tion took  long  in  the  building.  The  old  complaints 4  recur 
of  the  king's  commanders  wasting  their  time  in  foreign 
ports  '  upon  occasion  of  private  trade  or  pleasure  of  their 
own,' 5  and  bringing  home  merchants'  goods  in  the  king's 
ships.0  The  evil  was  regarded  as  '  no  longer  sufferable,' 
and  on  12  July,  1675,  the  consul  at  Malaga  was  asked  to 
report  such  delinquencies  to  the  admiralty ; 7  but  on 
15  November,  in  acknowledging  the  care  taken  by  Sir 
John  Narbrough  in  the  Mediterranean  to  prevent  his 
captains  spending  time  uselessly  in  port,  Pepys  admits 
'  with  infinite  reluctancy  and  grief,'  that  his  own  '  pains ' 
had  not  put  an  end  to  '  the  liberty  taken  by  commanders 
in  that  particular,' 8  and  a  month  later  9  he  refers  again  to 
'  the  great  evil  under  which  his  Majesty's  service  hath  so 
long  laboured  of  commanders  going  so  often  into  and 
spending  so  much  time  in  port.'  It  is  possible  that  this 
accounts  for  the  strictness  shown  by  the  admiralty  in 

1  See  vol.  i.  pp.  183-221,  supra,        *  Vol.  ii.  pp.  xxix-xxxiii,  supra. 

8  No.  2633  ;  see  also  Nos.  2624,  2636,  3658. 

4  Vol.  i.  pp.  192-3  ;  vol.  ii.  p.  xxix. 

5  No.  2438  ;  see  also  No.  2143.          °  Nos.  2078,  2511,  2533. 

7  Nos.  2438,  2566,  2670  ;  see  also  Nos.  2078,  3702.        8  No.  2619. 

9  13  December  ;  No.  2671.     See  also  Nos.  2567,  2620,  2670,  2832, 
3004,  3311,  3702.     In  April  1675  the   stay  of  the  king's   yachts   in 
ports  whither  they  were  sent  had  been  limited  to  four  days  (No  2241  ; 
see  also  No.  2694). 


INTRODUCTION  xxxvii 

calling  for  the  journals  of  commanders  who  had  returned 
from  voyages  abroad.1  The  same  trouble  also  arose  with 
regard  to  officers  at  home.  Notwithstanding  the  measures 
adopted  in  October  1673  2  to  stop  the  liberty  taken  by 
commanders  '  upon  the  coming  in  of  the  fleet  to  leave  their 
ships  and  stay  at  their  own  pleasures  on  shore,'3  they  still 
continued  '  appearing  daily  in  the  town  without  any  justi- 
fiable account  given  for  the  same.' 4  The  commanders  of 
the  king's  ships  employed  in  the  Downs,  '  and  possibly 
their  under-officers  and  companies,'  were  also  suspected  of 
taking  '  too  much  liberty  '  of  spending  their  time  on  shore,5 
and  on  24  November,  1676,  the  muster-master6  and  the  post- 
master 7  at  Deal  were  both  invited  to  report  their  neglects  ; 
but  Pepys  learned  from  the  former  a  few  days  later  that  there 
was  little  cause  for  '  any  suspicion  that  the  commanders  in 
the  Downs  resort  to  and  lie  on  shore.' 8  The  carrying  of 
money  and  plate  for  the  merchants  was  not  yet  prohibited,9 
but  in  a  letter  dated  23  January,  i677,10  Pepys  expressed  an 
opinion  adverse  to  this  also,  '  it  seeming  to  me  that  for 
every  penny  that  a  poor  commander  gains  this  way  it  were 
better  husbandry  for  his  Majesty  out  of  his  own  purse  to 
give  him  twopence,  and  this  should  be  my  advice  to  him 
were  it  demanded,  in  justice  both  to  the  king  and  his 
captains.'  Other  difficulties  of  discipline  were  connected 
with  drink  ;  n  with  '  the  liberty  taken  by  commanders  when 
abroad,  either  of  overlooking  or  contemning  their  orders ' ; 12 

1  Nos.  2941,  3311.  See  also  Nos.  2063,  2079,  2099,  2123,  2327, 
2523,  2530,  2538,  2542,  2550,  2603,  2612,  2613,  2682,  2787,  2942,  2944, 
3007,  3047,  3070,  3079,  3290,  3313,  3321,  3325,  3436,  3459,  3649,  3664, 
3677,  3679,  3695,  3698,  3724,  3770. 

'2  Vol.  ii.  p.  xxx,  supra.  3  Vol.  ii.  p.  74,  supra. 

4  No.  2299.    See  also  Nos.  2486,  2501,  3581.    The  flagrant  case  of 
Captain  Preistman,  commander  of  the  Lark,  has  been  referred  to 
already  in  the  General  Introduction  (vol.  i.  p.  196,  supra  :  see  also 
Nos.  2427,  2442,  2447,  2453,  2469,  and  2476  infra). 

5  No.  3499.  6  No.  3499. 
7  No.  3500.                                             8  No.  3528. 

9  The  carrying  of  money  or  plate  without  royal  warrant  was  pro- 
hibited by  James  II  in  1686.    See  vol.  i.  p.  210,  supra. 

10  No.  3691.  n  No.  2905.  12  No.  3309. 


xxxviii      ADMIRALTY  LETTERS 

and  with  quarrels  among  the  officers  themselves.1  In  the 
case  of  the  Success  the  charges  brought  by  the  commander 
and  his  lieutenant  against  each  other  came  before  a  court- 
martial,  which  found  them  '  groundless  and  full  of  private 
animosity.'  Both  officers  were  acquitted,  '  but  so  as  that  a 
brand  will  remain  on  them  that  may  be  an  example  to  other 
officers  of  the  king's  for  the  preservation  of  a  better  decorum 
between  commanders  and  lieutenants.' 2 

Several  cases  occur  during  this  period  of  trials  by  court- 
martial  and  other  disciplinary  measures.  At  the  beginning 
of  1676  Captain  Joseph  Harris,  commander  of  the  Quaker 
ketch,  was  condemned  to  death 3  for  submitting  to  an 
Ostender,4  and  arrangements  were  actually  made,  with  '  as 
much  appearance  of  reality '  as  was  possible,  for  his  execu- 
tion, although  a  warrant  was  to  be  produced  '  for  the  for- 
bearance thereof  'just  before  the  act  of  execution  should 
be  done.' 5  In  August,  1676,  Mr.  Beckett,  the  late  master 
of  the  Henrietta,  was  tried  '  for  running  her  on  ground  in 
the  Bay  of  Cadiz.' 6  In  October  of  the  same  year  Captain 
Atkins,  who,  curiously  enough,  was  the  successor  of 
Captain  Harris  in  the  command  of  the  Quaker  ketch,  was 
ordered  to  be  sent  home  a  prisoner  from  the  Mediterranean 
'  to  answer  for  his  late  behaviour  upon  his  meeting  with 
the  two  Argeir  men-of-war,  and  suffering  himself  to  be 
carried  away  and  towed  .  .  .  into  that  port,' 7  attended 
with  '  such  an  affront  done  to  his  Majesty's  flag,'  wrote 
Pepys,  as  '  cannot,  I  think,  be  remembered  to  have  been 
ever  offered  to,  much  less  borne  by,  any  other.'8  His 
punishment  appears  to  have  been  imprisonment9  and 

1  Nos.  2832,  3305,  3311. 

2  No.  2832.     The  trouble   appears  to  have  originated  in    the 
'  failure  of  the  Success  in  not  doing  her  part  upon '  two  '  Tripolines ' 
(No.  2619). 

3  No.  2772.  4  No.  2716. 

5  No.  2773.  Charnock  notes  that  Captain  Harris  was  '  condemned 
to  death  for  suffering  dishonour,  but  pardoned  afterwards,'  but  adds 
that  the  'particular  circumstances  attending  this  guilt'  were  not 
known  (Biog.  Nov.  i.  234).  See  also  Nos.  2720,  2733. 

';  No.  3100.  7  No.  3313.  8  No.  3308.  »  No.  3814. 


INTRODUCTION  xxxix 

dismissal  from  the  service.1  The  master-gunner  of  the 
Diamond  2  and  the  boatswain,  gunner,  and  carpenter  of  the 
Quaker  ketch  3  were  also  tried  by  court-martial  for  the 
embezzlement  of  stores,  and  complaints  against  the  boat- 
swain of  the  Guernsey  4  were  similarly  investigated.5 

Among  minor  disciplinary  measures,  instances  occur  of 
the  stop  of  wages  by  order  of  the  lords  of  the  admiralty 
until  the  accused  was  cleared  of  the  charges  brought 
against  him  ;6  the  dismissal  of  boatswains  for  breach  of 
orders  ; 7  and  the  suspension  of  pursers  by  the  navy  board.8 
In  one  case  the  king  and  lords,  acting  on  the  report  of  the 
commander  and  his  lieutenant,  ordered  the  navy  board  to 
suspend  a  boatswain — among  other  things  for  being  absent 
from  his  ship  without  leave  '  at  a  time  when  his  attendance 
was  in  a  special  manner  requisite '  ; 9  but  they  took  occasion 
at  the  same  time  to  point  out  to  the  commander  concerned 
that '  the  beating  of  warrant  officers,10  whether  in  public  or 
private,  is  a  thing  which  they  do  not  find  either  the  practice 
or  discipline  of  the  navy  doth  in  any  wise  warrant,  or  can 
in  any  degree  either  allow  or  be  thought  to  need,  while 
commanders  have  in  their  power  other  regular  ways  of 
punishing  them,  by  bilboes,  confinement,  or  suspension.'  n 
Another  case,  that  of  Mr.  Brouncker,  the  purser  of  the 
Unicorn,  serves  to  illustrate  the  kind  of  slackness  in  high 
quarters12  with  which  Pepys  had  to  contend.  Mr.  Brouncker 

1  Vol.  i.  319,  supra,  and  Charnock,  Biog.  Nav.  ii.  10. 

2  Nos.  3077,  3099,  3229. 

3  No.  2789  ;  see  also  Nos.  2173,  2196,  2615. 

4  Nos.  2777,  2785,  2786. 

5  The  case  of  Sir  William  Poole,  commander  of  the  St.  David,  who 
was  punished  for  delaying  in  a  foreign  port,  contrary  to  orders,  and 
then  bringing  home  merchants'  goods,  has  been  already  discussed  in 
the  General  Introduction  (vol.  i.  pp.  193-4,  supra}. 

6  Nos.  2699,  2709,  2711,  2717,  3229.  7  No.  2800. 
8  No.  2225.                                                                      9  No.  3026. 

10  Cf.  Maydman's  Naval  Speculations  (1691),  p.  178,  et passim. 

11  No.  3026. 

12  If  Mr.  Brouncker  was  related  to  Lord  Brouncker,  the  comptroller 
of  the  treasurer's  accounts,  and  to  his  brother,  Henry  Brouncker,  the 
intimate  friend  of  the  Duke  of  York,  this  might  account  for  the  indulg- 
ence shown  to  him.     See  D.  N.  £.  vi.  469. 


xl  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS 

makes  his  first  appearance  as  a  martyr  to  his  own  high 
sense  of  duty.  On  3  April,  1675,*  he  complained  to  the 
lords  of  the  admiralty  of  the  '  ill-usage '  he  had  received 
from  the  cook  of  his  ship  'upon  no  other  provocation 
than  that  of  pressing  him  to  the  performance  of  his  duty,' 
and  also  of  his  being  confined  as  a  prisoner  '  by  the 
commissioner's  warrant '  on  board  the  Royal  Sovereign. 
Mr.  Brouncker's  imprisonment  was,  nevertheless,  richly 
deserved,  and  by  14  April  Pepys  had  satisfied  him- 
self by  correspondence  with  the  commissioner  at  Chatham 
that  he  was  unfit  to  be  continued  longer  in  the  service.2 
Upon  his  submission,  however,  Commissioner  Beach 
'  thought  fit  to  pass  by  his  misbehaviour,' 3  and  on 
24  November  the  secretary  to  the  admiralty  '  thought 
it  his  duty'  after  six  months'  further  trial  to  ask  how 
he  had  behaved  himself.4  The  answer  was  to  the  effect 
that  the  delinquent,  '  notwithstanding  the  clemency 
formerly  shown  him/  remained  'as  little  obedient  to 
orders  as  ever,' 5  and  he  appears  to  have  been  sus- 
pended ; 6  but  as  he  put  in  a  certificate  of  illness  in  ex- 
planation of  his  long  absence  from  duty  on  board  his 
ship  7  and  gave  better  attendance,8  Commissioner  Beach 
interceded  for  him  and  the  king  excused  his  fault.9  '  To 
which  give  me  leave  to  add  my  own  entreaty  on  behalf  of 
his  Majesty's  service,'  wrote  Pepys  to  Beach  on  5  February, 
1675-6,'°  'that  you  will  not  let  your  charity,  which  you 
seem  to  make  use  of  in  the  present  case,  persuade  you  to 
bear  with  more  of  this  kind,  either  from  him  or  anybody 
else,  than  may  stand  with  the  preservation  of  that  dis- 
cipline without  which  the  whole  service  must  go  to  ruin.' 
By  October  1676  'new  neglects'11  had  exhausted  the 
patience  even  of  Sir  Richard  Beach,  and  the  king  and 
lords  of  the  admiralty  were  about  to  '  put  it  out  of  Mr. 
Brouncker's  power  to  give  any  further  trouble  of  this  kind.' I2 

1  No.  2194.  8  No.  2225.  s  No.  2633.  4  Ib. 

4  No.  2698.  8  No.  2746.  7  No.  2743.  8  No.  2756. 

9  No.  2765.      10  Ib.      u  No.  3291.      13  No.  3273  ;  see  also  No.  3291. 


INTRODUCTION  xli 

Another  case  not  without  personal  interest  is  that  of  the 
cook  of  the  Victory,  who,  having  received  '  a  large  certificate 
from  his  chirurgeon  '  of  '  the  ill  condition  he  was  in  by 
wounds  formerly  received  in  the  king's  service,'  '  pre- 
vailed upon  the  charity  of  my  lords  of  the  admiralty  to 
give  warrant  for  a  dispensation  to  his  attendance  for  three 
months,'  and  then  'instead  of  being  solicitous  for  his  cure,' 
spent  his  time  '  scandalously  in  drunkenness  and  gaming.' l 

Difficulties  of  discipline  occasionally  arose  in  con- 
nexion with  convoy.  The  king  and  lords  of  the  admiralty 
were  '  in  the  utmost  degree  solicitous '  in  all  things  '  con- 
ducing to  the  benefit  of  trade/  2  and  where  mercantile 
interests  were  concerned,  the  Exchange  was  sometimes 
'  very  clamorous.' 3  Thus  pains  were  taken  to  inquire  into 
every  miscarriage4  and  to  meet  all  reasonable  requests 
for  convoy  ; 5  although  difficulties  sometimes  arose  from 
the  conduct  of  the  merchant  captains  themselves.  In  one 
case  some  failed  to  obey  the  signal  to  sail  when  the  wind 
was  fair,  being  '  drunken  on  shore,'  and  the  convoy  sailed 
without  them  ; 6  and  in  others  they  showed  '  little  regard ' 
to  '  his  Majesty's  care  of  them  in  the  providing  them 
convoy '  by  '  slightly  leaving  it.' 7  Attempts  were  also 
sometimes  made  by  the  masters  of  ships  for  which  convoy 
was  provided,  to  use  it  '  for  the  convoying  of  contraband 
goods.' 8 

Measures  were  taken  during  this  period  to  keep  the 
admiralty  better  informed  than  hitherto  with  regard  to 
the  condition  and  movements  of  ships.  In  order  to  remedy 
'  the  supineness  of  commanders  in  that  particular '  Pepys 
was  contemplating  in  March  1674-5  tne  insertion  of  a 
new  article  in  their  instructions  '  for  the  keeping  and  pre- 
serving a  better  and  more  certain  and  constant  account  of 
the  condition,  virtues,  defects,  and  trim  of  his  Majesty's 

1  No.  2851.  2  No.  2654.  3  No.  2141. 

4  Nos.  2095,  2096,  2097,  2141,  3524. 

5  Nos.  2411,  2569,  2654,  3723,  3785,  3895.     See  also  the  'State  of 
Sir  John  Narbrough's  fleet,'  dated  23  Sept.  1676  (No.  3237). 

8  No.  2105.          7  No.  3597  ;  see  also  No.  2668.  8  No.  3775. 


xlii  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS 

ships  than  seems  at  this  day  to  be  found  anywhere.' l  He 
was  also  careful  to  insist  that  daily  lists  should  be  fur- 
nished to  his  office  of  the  ships  at  anchor  in  the  Downs.2 

In  Pepys's  view  one  of  the  conditions  of  the  main- 
tenance of  discipline  in  the  navy  was  fair  promotion  and 
the  dispensing  of  equal  justice  between  man  and  man. 
We  find  him  defending,  as  something  incontrovertible  in 
the  practice  of  the  navy,  the  right  of  a  lieutenant  to  suc- 
ceed to  the  command  of  the  ship  on  the  death  of  his 
captain  ; 3  using  his  influence  with  the  Duke  of  York  to 
ensure  that  the  vacant  appointment  of  storekeeper  at 
Chatham  Yard,  as  '  an  employment  of  very  great  trust ' 
and  one  which  calls  not  only  for  integrity  but  also  for 
'  experience  in  the  business  and  methods  of  the  navy,' 
should  be  filled  from  among  those  who  '  by  many  years' 
education  and  labour  '  in  the  king's  service  '  have  qualified 
themselves  above  others  for  his  favour  herein  ' ; 4  and  com- 
municating with  evident  satisfaction  the  news  of  the 
bestowal  of  other  offices  strictly  according  to  merit.5  '  By 
the  grace  of  God,'  he  writes  on  7  November,  1676*  to  Sir 
John  Kempthorne,  the  resident  commissioner  of  the  navy 
at  Portsmouth,  c  so  long  as  I  have  the  honour  of  serving 
his  Majesty  in  this  post,  no  man  shall  endeavour  more 
his  Majesty's  bestowal  of  employments  by  advancement 
of  officers  well  deserving  in  lesser  offices  to  greater  than 
I  have,  and  shall  do,  and  in  particular  favour  this  person 
so  recommended  by  you  ;  though  on  the  present  occasion 
his  Majesty  hath  in  justice  bestowed  this  vacancy  upon 
one  who  hath  neither  now  solicited  for,  nor  knows  any- 
thing of  it — namely,  Captain  Richard  Country,  who  hath 
for  many  years  served  his  Majesty  as  a  commander, 
with  an  extraordinary  character  given  him  by  Sir  John 
Narbrough  in  his  late  service  under  him  within  the 
Mediterranean.'  Thus  even  in  the  navy  of  the  Restora- 
tion promotion  could  be  dispensed  upon  sound  principles. 

1  No.  2132.  3  Nos.  3338,  3410.  3  No.  2272. 

4  No.  2847.  '  Nos.  3352,  3414.  6  No.  3414. 


INTRODUCTION  xliii 

Pepys  may  have  been  somewhat  self-righteous,  but  it  is 
difficult  to  believe  that  the  root  of  the  matter  is  not  to  be 
found  in  him. 


7.  Skips1 

The  development  of  an  energetic  shipbuilding  policy 
during  1675    and  the  following   years   has   been  already 
discussed   in   the   General    Introduction,3  but   the   letters 
calendared    below   contain    many   allusions    to    it.      On 
23  April,  I6/5,3  Pepys  is  busy  collecting  materials  for  his 
report  to  the  House  of  Commons  on  '  the  present  condition 
of  the  navy,  and  of  the  stores  and  provisions  thereof,'4 
which  was  to  be   presented   on   the   following  day ;  and 
on  5  May 5  he  is  writing  '  at  8  in  the  morning '  to  make 
enquiries  with  regard  to  the  number  of  places,  '  whether 
his  Majesty's  or  private  men's,'  where  ships  of  the  first 
three  rates  '  may  find  present  conveniences  to  be  built.' 
On  II   May6  he  writes   to   Commissioners  Tippetts  and 
Deane  to  ask  for  the  '  number  of  workmen  necessary  for 
building    a  ship   of  each    rate   within   6   months   or    12 
months,'  due  regard  being  had  to  the  repairs  of  the  old 
fleet,  and   '  the   number  of  shipwrights  of  this  kingdom 
abroad    and    at   home/  with  '  an    account   of  how  many 
of  these  the  common  service  of  the  merchants  may  take 
up  in  their  yards,  and    what   remains  for  the  king's,  to 
be   distributed   between   the    repairing    of    the    old    and 
building   of  new   ships.'     These   enquiries   were   in    pre- 
paration for  '  our  great  business ' G — the   '  full    repair  '  of 
the  old  fleet  and  the  assignment  of  3OO,ooo/.  to  the  build- 
ing of  twenty  new  ships — but  this  fell  through  in  October 
i675.7      The   scheme  was,  however,  revived   on   a   more 
ambitious  scale  in  1677,  and  in  a  long  and  characteristic 

1  See  vol.  i.  pp.  221-32,  supra.  z  Ib.  pp.  43-5 7. 

3  Nos.  2252,  2254.  4  i.  46,  supra. 

*  No.  2271.  6  No.  2282.  '  i.  47-8,  supra. 


xliv  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS 

letter  to  the  navy  board,  dated  23  February,  1676-7? 
Pepys  (with  all  due  modesty)  thanks  God  that  his  own 
account  of  the  '  past  and  present  state  '  of  the  navy  '  com- 
pared first  with  one  another  and  then  with  the  naval  force 
of  our  neighbours  as  it  now  is,  different  from  what  it  ever 
heretofore  has  been,'  had  moved  the  House  of  Commons 
to  vote  a  sum  not  exceeding  6oo,ooo/.  for  building  ships. 
'  Nor  did  I  omit  doing  my  part/  he  adds,  '  in  laying  before 
them  (in  the  most  intelligible  manner  I  thought  to  that 
assembly)  the  present  ill  condition  of  the  old  fleet — namely 
by  representing  the  sum  of  money  that  it  would  require  to 
put  the  same  into  repair,  furnishing  them  for  the  sea,  and 
making  a  provision  for  a  magazine  of  stores  for  a  reserve 
which  ...  I  valued  at  about  3OO,ooo/. ;  but  upon  that 
head  nothing  was  then  prosecuted  beyond  my  lodging  it 
plainly  and  fairly  with  them.'  On  16  April 2  he  writes  to 
Sir  John  Tippetts,  the  surveyor  of  the  navy,  to  tell  him 
that,  in  spite  of  differences  between  the  two  Houses  which 
rendered  him  '  very  distrustful '  of  success, '  the  Bill  (blessed 
be  God)  is  ...  passed  this  night  by  the  king.'  The 
repair  of  old  ships  is  to  be  continued,  together  with  the 
building  of  new,  'the  prospect  of  the  condition  wherein 
matters  are  likely  to  stand  between  us  and  France  render- 
ing the  despatch  of  our  repairs  no  less  indispensable  than 
that  of  our  new  building ' ;  and  the  king  and  the  duke 
are  '  extremely  importunate  that  not  an  hour's  time  be  lost 
that  may  be  saved  in  our  preparations  for  each  of  these 
matters,'  and  therefore,  although  themselves  proposing  to 
repair  to  Newmarket  for  some  days,  they  nevertheless 
expect '  that  in  their  absence  every  hand  do  fall  to  work 
for  the  forwarding  of  each  of  these  services  with  the  same 
vigour  as  if  they  themselves  were  here.'  The  correspon- 
dence in  this  volume  relating  to  the  Act  of  1677  for 
building  thirty  new  ships — in  a  sense  the  first  Naval 
Defence  Act— closes  with  a  letter  of  30  April,3  stating  that 
the  king  '  is  not  yet  come  to  any  determinate  resolution, 
1  No.  3754.  2  No.  3863.  3  No.  3902. 


INTRODUCTION  xlv 

touching  the  building  of  any  of  the  ships  by  contract, 
but  seems  inclined  to  build  them  all  in  his  own  yards  if 
time  and  room  will  admit  it.' 

The  history  of  the  launches  which  took  place  during 
this  period  illustrates  the  personal  interest  taken  in  ship- 
building both  by  the  king  and  the  Duke  of  York.  On 
II  June,  1675,  the  Lark,  a  6th  rate  intended  for  the  service 
of  Sallee,1  was  launched  at  Blackwall,2  the  king  being 
present  at  the  launch,3  and  afterwards  showing  himself 
'  much  intent '  upon  her  '  well-sailing.' 4  A  little  later  the 
Sapphire,  a  5th  rate  designed  for  the  same  service,5  was 
launched  at  Harwich.  On  26  June  the  king  went  by  sea 
to  Portsmouth  6  to  be  present  at  the  launch  of  the  Royal 
James,  a  ist  rate  of  1,422  tons.  He  was  accompanied  by 
James  Duke  of  York7  and  the  Duke  of  Monmouth,8  and 
attended  by  frigates  and  yachts.9  As  the  wind  was  un- 
favourable, he  did  not  arrive  in  time  for  the  launch,  which 
took  place  '  very  happily '  at  noon  on  29  June.10  Pepys, 
who  preferred  to  come  by  land,11  was  more  fortunate.13 
It  was  on  this  occasion  that  John  Tippetts,  the  surveyor 
of  the  navy,  Richard  Haddock,  one  of  the  commissioners 
of  the  navy,  and  Anthony  Deane,  the  famous  shipbuilder, 
received  the  honour  of  knighthood.13  The  king  and 
duke  were  also  present  at  the  launch  at  Woolwich  on 
26  August u  of  the  Woolwich,  a  4th  rate  ;  and  on  15  June, 
i676,15  they  went  down  the  River  attended  by  yachts  16 '  to 
spend  the  time  about  Sheerness  for  that  day,  and  so  up 
to  Chatham  ' 17  to  be  present  at  the  launch  of  the  Defiance, 
a  3rd  rate. 

On  13  September,  i675,18  the  king  paid  a  visit  to 
Rotherhithe,  where  Sir  Anthony  Deane  was  building  the 

1  Nos.  2330,  2342.  See  also  vol.  ii.  p.  xxxiv,  supra. 

2  No.  2342  ;  see  also  No.  2310.  3  No.  2310.        4  No.  2346. 
5  Nos.  2312,  2342,  2354.       6  No.  2398  ;  see  also  No.  2342. 

7  No.  2400.  8  No.  2388.  9  No.  2385. 

0  No.  2400.  «  No.  2386.  «  No.  2400. 

5  No.  2401.  u  Nos.  2467,  2513.  ls  No.  2982. 

16  Nos.  2967,  2969,  2970,  2972.  17  No.  2978.  18  No.  2559. 


xlvi  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS 

Charles  yacht,  and  interested  himself  in  the  casting  of  the 
lead  designed  for  her  ballast ;  and  in  November  he  was 
asking  for  a  report  of  the  results  of  a  trial  of  her  '  sailing, 
working,  and  other  qualities.' l  A  year  later, '  having  some 
thoughts  of  building  a  new  yacht,'  he  was  examining 
models  prepared  by  the  Petts.2  The  year  1676  also 
witnessed  the  launching  of  the  two  galley-frigates,  the 
Charles  and  the  James,  built  for  service  in  the  Mediter- 
ranean. The  development  of  the  idea  of  thus  imitating 
the  French  builders  is  described  in  the  General  Introduc- 
tion,3 but  the  letters  calendared  below  supply  a  slight  cor- 
rection in  Pepys's  dates.  According  to  his  account  of  the 
matter  it  was  'in  1676' — /.rafter  2  5  March,  1676 — that  the 
matter  was  first  broached  ;  but  a  letter  from  Pepys  to  the 
navy  board,  dated  3  March,  1 675-6,*  shows  that  the  neces- 
sary calculations  for  what  was  already  a  second  galley- 
frigate  were  then  being  made.  This  was  the  Charles, 
launched  on  12  September,  1676,*  the  king  'choosing 
rather  that  some  little  of  her  joinery  and  carving  be  left  to 
be  done  on  float,  rather  than  either  defer  the  day,  or  have 
it  done  the  duke  not  present,  who  desires  to  be  at  it.' 
The  galleys  were  being  fitted  and  manned  during  the 
autumn,6  and  in  January  their  trials  in  the  River  proved 
them  to  be  both  'extraordinary  sailers,  even  to  the  coming 
up  to  the  Katherine  yacht  when  sailing  large,  upon  which 
great  confidence  is  grounded  that  they  will  prove  to 
answer  the  utmost  use  expected  from  their  service  against 
the  Turks.' 7  The  king  is  described  as  '  very  solicitous ' 
concerning  the  behaviour  of  the  vessels  in  their  voyage  to 
Tangier,8  but  the  only  complaint  which  appears  in  the 
correspondence  is  that  the  rigging  of  the  Charles  was  too 
small,  so  that  in  bad  weather  her  commander  was  afraid 
of  'rolling  her  masts  by  the  board.'9  This  was  remedied 

1  No.  2630.  a  Nos.  3377,  3573-  s  i.  228,  supra. 

1  No.  2799.  8  No.  3197.   "        9  Nos.  3310,  3426,  3559,  3560. 

r  No.  3658  ;  see  also  Nos.  3620,  3660. 
8  No.  3705  ;  see  also  No.  3704.  *  No.  3848. 


INTRODUCTION  xlvii 

by  the  despatch  of  hawsers  to  Tangier  '  for  the  furnishing 
of  the  galley-frigates  with  the  shrouds  of  the  bigger  size 
than  those  they  now  have  and  complain  of.'1  The  two 
yachts  built  by  Sir  Anthony  Deane  for  the  King  of  France 
'  in  imitation  of  his  Majesty's,' 2  were  inspected  by  the  king 
on  2.  July,  1675,  on  tne  occasion  of  his  visit  to  Portsmouth  ; 
and  they  were  despatched  under  convoy  at  the  end  of  the 
month  to  be  *  safely  lodged '  in  the  canal  at  Versailles.4 
Pepys  wrote  of  one  of  them  that '  taking  in  all  qualities 
and  its  little  draught  of  water,'  it '  seems  to  outdo  anything 
that  ever  yet  swam.' 5 

The  experiments  made  in  this  period  towards  sheath- 
ing ships  with  milled  lead  have  been  already  described.6 
The  correspondence  calendared  below  records  in  a  letter 
of  14  June,  16757  Sir  John  Narbrough's  observations  on 
the  '  extraordinary  damage '  arising  from  it  to  the  iron- 
work of  the  Harwich.  This  '  excess  of  rust  in  the  iron  ' 
was  ascribed  by  Sir  John  Narbrough  himself  to  the  ship's 
'being  covered  with  lead  and  nailed  with  copper  nails,'  but 
according  to  Pepys  the  king  did  not  'incline  to'  this  'philo- 
sophy,' '  it  not  appearing  to  him  how  lead  and  nails  should 
have  any  such  effect  upon  the  iron.'  The  same  question 
was  raised  again  in  a  letter  of  3  April,  1676*  but  the  king 
again  suspended  judgment  until  he  could  '  make  his  own 
observations  in  it  upon  the  ship's  coming  home,  as  being 
unapt  to  admit  that  that  which  never  becomes  rusty  itself 
(such  as  these  nails  are  said  to  be)  can  communicate 
rust  to  any  other  matter.'  The  trouble  was  probably  due 
to  the  electrolytic  action  of  sea-water.  Nevertheless  in 
January  1675-6  9  an  estimate  was  asked  for  of  the  cost  of 
sheathing  the  galley  at  Tangier  with  lead,  and  lead  sheath- 
ing was  not  abandoned  until  i682.10 

1  No.  3871.  2  See  vol.  ii.  p.  xxxiv,  supra. 

3  No.  2401.  *  No.  2420;  see  also  Nos.  2446,  2456. 

5  No.  2401.  6  See  vol.  ii.  pp.  xxxiv,  184  «.,  401,  supra. 

7  No.  2350.  8  No.  2832. 

9  No.  2741.  10  See  ii.  184  n.  supra. 

VOL.  III.  C 


xlviii         ADMIRALTY  LETTERS 


8.   Guns1 

The  '  general  establishment '  of  men  and  guns  adopted 
in  1677  has  been  described  in  the  General  Introduction,2 
but  references  to  the  preparation  of  it  occur  in  the  corre- 
spondence below.  It  appears  from  a  letter  of  14  April, 
i675,3  that  the  secretary  to  the  admiralty  was  already 
beginning  to  collect  information  upon  this  head ;  and  on 
29  May4  the  navy  board  reported  to  the  lords  of  the 
admiralty  'about  the  establishment  of  men  and  guns,' 
there  being,  in  Pepys's  opinion, '  no  one  thing  in  the  navy 
that  requires  a  thorough  settlement  more '  .  .  .  'in  refer- 
ence both  to  the  disorders,  increase  of  charge,  and  con- 
founding of  calculations  that  it  occasions.' 6  On  8  July  6 
he  was  completing  a  '  grand  list  and  state  of  his  Majesty's 
navy,'  which  he  had  been  '  some  time  by  his  command ' 
preparing  for  the  king,  and  for  this  purpose  applied  to  the 
master-general  of  the  ordnance  for  information  about  the 
gunning  of  the  ships.  The  final  establishment  seems, 
however,  to  have  been  delayed,  and  on  3  March,  1675-67 
he  was  still  asking  the  navy  board  that '  the  bringing  the 
business  of  manning  and  gunning '  the  king's  ships  '  to  an 
established  method  may  be  ripened  as  fast  as  may  be,  and 
this  the  rather  for  that  there  is  not  at  this  day  one  vessel, 
great  or  small,  ordered  forth,  that  the  king  is  not  impor- 
tuned for  increase  of  her  men  and  guns  ;  nor  will  it 
probably  be  otherwise  till  the  numbers  thereof  are  settled 
and  confirmed  by  Order  of  Council,  so  as  no  room  for 
reasonable  objections  may  be  left  therein,  nor  power  of 
alteration  thereof  but  by  Order  of  Council.'  The  '  establish- 
ment '  was  eventually  adopted  on  3  November,  i677.8 

1  See  vol.  i.  pp.  233-44,  supra.  a  i.  233,  supra. 

8  No.  2227.  *  No.  2306. 

5  No.  2288.  The  reference  in  this  letter  is  to  '  the  manning  of  the 
ships,'  but  other  allusions  show  that  it  was  a  general  establishment  of 
guns,  and  men  to  work  them,  which  Pepys  had  in  mind. 

«  No.  2422.  7  No.  2799.  8  i.  233,  supra. 


INTRODUCTION  xlix 


9.  Miscellaneous 

A  question  arose  during  the  period  concerning  the 
precedence  of  commanders  '  where  they  chance  to  fall  in 
company  (as  it  often  happens)  without  any  warrant  from 
the  lord  admiral  giving  the  command  to  some  one  of 
them,'  the  want  of '  a  clear  determination '  in  this  matter 
having  'begot  very  much  ill-blood  and  some  disorder  to 
the  king's  service.' 1  There  was  some  correspondence 2 
with  regard  to  '  the  late  establishment  ...  by  which  the 
officers  of  the  navy  were  directed  to  provide  a  red  pennant 
of  larger  size  than  ordinary  to  be  worn  constantly  by  the 
ship  that  commands  in  chief  in  the  Downs  as  a  mark  of 
distinction ; ' 3  about  the  proper  person  to  set  the  watch 
and  answer  salutes  in  the  Downs  ; 4  and  with  regard  to 
the  right  form  of  salute  in  passing  the  Castle  at  Elsinore.8 
References  also  occur  to  the  failures  of  merchant  ships  '  in 
the  timely  payment  of  the  respect  due  to  his  Majesty '  by 
striking  to  his  flag,6  '  contrary  to  the  known  practice  of 
the  sea,  time  out  of  mind ' ; 7  to  their  '  wearing  the  king's 
jack,  contrary  to  the  discipline  of  the  navy ' ; 8  and  to  the 
importance  of '  exacting  all  due  obeisance  to  his  Majesty's 
flag  from  foreigners.' 9  In  this  last  connexion  it  may  be 
observed  that  while  on  the  one  hand  Admiral  de  Ruyter 
was  punctilious  in  striking  his  flag  to  the  king's  colours  on 
board  a  small  boat  which  put  off  to  him  from  Dover, '  and 

1  No.  2683  ;  see  also  No.  2126. 

3  Nos.  2480,  2487,  2502,  2648,  2950,  2951,  3778. 

1  No.  2950.  4  Nos.  2644,  2648.  5  Nos.  2860,  2865. 

5  No.  2093  ;  see  also  Nos.  2115,  2118,  2873.  2884.         7  No.  2679. 

5  No.  3410 ;  see  also  Nos.  3417,  3469,  3496,  3531. 

'  No.  2325  ;  see  also  Nos.  2897,  3079,  3813,  3815,  3843.  In  one 
case  the  commander  of  a  French  merchantman, '  for  the  contempt  and 
affront  he  offered  to  his  Majesty's  flag  (which  was  attended  with 
circumstances  of  highest  aggravation),'  was  fined  5oo/.,  and  '  con- 
demned to  lie  in  prison  till  he  paid  the  same '  (No.  3650 ;  see  also 
Nos.  3612,  3640,  3643).  Cf.  Teonge's  Diary,  p.  6. 


1  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS 

keeping  it  down  all  the  time  the  boat  was  by  his  side,' 1  on 
the  other  hand  a  French  caper  offered  not  only  '  personal 
injury '  to  the  master  of  '  a  vessel  of  Boston  lately  come 
from  Norway,'  but  '  expressed  great  indignity  towards  his 
Majesty,  commanding  him  to  strike  to  the  King  of  France's 
colours.' 2 

A  charge  was  made  and  enquired  into  of  soldiers  for 
Tangier  being  '  ill-used  '  on  board  the  Assurance  ; 3  and 
complaints  were  brought  to  the  king  of  '  the  want  of  room 
and  convenience  to  those  to  whom  his  Majesty  grants  the 
use  of  his  yachts,  by  their  taking  strangers  on  board 
without  order.' 4  In  the  case  of  a  lady  of  quality  who  had 
missed  the  '  accommodation  and  content '  which  she  ex- 
pected on  board  the  Phcenix,  Pepys  sagaciously  observed 
that '  the  perfection  of  courtship  '  is  not  '  to  be  looked  for 
from  a  tarpauling '  or  '  the  fulness  of  accommodation  from 
so  small  a  ship,'  but  he  promised  to  let  her  commander 
understand  'that  in  this  case  both  might  have  been 
bettered.' 5 

References  to  the  protection  enjoyed  by  persons  in  the 
service  of  the  navy  against  arrest  and  imprisonment  by 
their  creditors  occur  throughout  the  volume ; 6  and  from 
these  it  appears  that  the  leave  of  the  lords  of  the  ad- 
miralty had  to  be  obtained  before  an  arrest  could  take 
place,7  but  that  under  ordinary  circumstances  this  leave 
was  readily  granted, '  their  lordships  not  holding  it  fit  that 
any  man  should  be  protected  by  his  relation  to  the  king's 
service  in  his  denying  rightful  satisfaction  to  others  his 
Majesty's  subjects  where  the  present  condition  of  his 
service  under  the  care  of  that  officer  will  without  obstruc- 
tion permit  the  same.' 8  The  same  principle  of  action  led 
the  lords  to  refuse  any  support  to  the  officers  of  Portsmouth 
Yard  when  they  neglected  or  refused  '  to  do  and  pay  what 

1  No.  2575.  2  No.  2338.  *  No.  3339. 

4  No.  3203  ;  see  also  No.  3163.  5  No.  3238. 

<;  Nos.   2082,    2221,    2491,  2614,   2883,  2886,   2889,  3034,  3389, 
3598,  3883.    See  also  vol.  ii.  p.  xxxvi,  supra. 

1  No.  2491.  8  No.  2614 ;  see  also  Nos.  2883,  3389. 


INTRODUCTION  li 

may  rightfully  be  demanded  from  them  by  the  parishes  to 
which  by  their  abode  in  his  Majesty's  yard  they  belong.' l 
Other  allusions  worthy  of  notice  are  to  an  execution  of 
pirates  on  1 8  January,  1674-5  ; 2  to  the  '  great  violence  to  the 
right  both  of  his  Majesty  and  the  lord  high  admiral  offered 
by  several  people  of  the  country  in  the  spoiling  and 
embezzling  of  the  goods  and  furniture'  saved  from  a 
foreign  vessel  driven  on  shore  at  Ferring,  in  Sussex  ; 3  to 
claims  on  the  part  of  Harwich  4  and  Bristol 5  to  exemption 
from  the  admiralty  jurisdiction  ;  to  the  setting  up  of  Sir  John 
Clayton's  lights  at  Lowestoft ; 6  to  restrictions  on  French 
fishermen  holding  licences  from  the  Lord  Warden  of  the 
Cinque  Ports  '  as  to  the  seasons,  places,  numbers,  size,  or 
shape  of  their  nets  or  other  engines ; 7  to  the  dispute  between 
Lord  Fitz- Walter  and  the  Essex  fishermen  concerning  the 
nature  of  his  rights  in  Walfleet  river  ; 8  and  to  the  dangerous 
fire  which  broke  out  in  April  1677  in  Chatham  Yard.9 
A  reference  should  be  noticed  to  the  appointment  of 
chaplains,  from  which  it  appears  that  in  1675  the  'election 
of  his  chaplain'  lay  with  the  commander  of  the  ship.10 
A  letter  u  relating  to  the  reorganisation  of  the  Mathematical 
School  founded  by  the  king  in  1673  in  connexion  with 
Christ's  Hospital  also  strays  into  the  official  correspondence.12 


I  No.  3711  ;  see  also  No.  3751.  2  No.  2067. 
3  No.  2103.                            *  No.  2223.        5  No.  2745. 
6  Nos.  3000,  3019,  3051,  3080.  7  No.  3851. 

8  Nos.3i59,  3184,  3722.        9  Nos.  3848, 3852,  3853, 3872. 

0  No.  2463.    Cf.  Teonge's  Diary,  pp.  227-8.    See  also  i.  206,  supra. 

II  No.  3619. 

12  Letters  Patent  of  19  August,  1673,  had  established  in  Christ's 
Hospital  a  Foundation  of  forty  poor  boys  '  who  having  attained  to 
competent  skill  in  the  grammar  and  common  arithmetic  to  the  rule  of 
three  in  other  schools  in  the  said  Hospital,  may  be  fit  to  be  further 
educated  in  a  Mathematical  School,  and  there  taught  and  instructed 
in  the  art  of  navigation  and  the  whole  science  of  arithmetic,'  in  order 
that  they  may  be  apprenticed  to  the  sea  service  (Pepysian  MSS. 
No.  2612,  A  Collection  of  Matters  relating  to  Christ's  Hospital, 
p.  121).  Pepys  had  taken  great  interest  in  the  project  as  clerk  of  the 
acts  (ib.  p.  120),  and  on  i  February,  1675,  when  secretary  to  the 
admiralty,  he  had  been  appointed  a  governor  of  Christ's  Hospital 
(ib.  p.  175). 


Hi  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS 

Personal  touches  are  to  be  found  in  Pepys's  decorous 
references  to  what  looks  very  like  a  quarrel  between  the 
king  and  queen ; l  in  the  king's  desire  that  '  instead  of 
that  one  pipe  of  the  pale  wine  '  which  was  to  be  procured  for 
him,  steps  were  to  be  taken  to  '  make  it  three  ' ; a  in  the  des- 
patch of  a  royal  yacht  to  the  Isle  of  Sheppey  '  to  get  fowl 
for  the  king,' 3  and  the  '  bringing  up  some  salt  water  to 
Whitehall,  to  be  by  his  Majesty's  order  employed  upon  an 
experiment  of  extracting  fresh  water  out  of  salt.'4  A 
certain  human  interest  attaches  to  the  action  of  the 
Countess  of  Middleton,  who  having  lost  her  husband, 
the  late  governor  of  Tangier,  through  his  falling  down- 
stairs in  a  state  of  intoxication,5  sent  on  board  the 
Assurance  at  the  Nore  '  one  or  more  chests  containing 
a  tomb '  which  she  had  '  caused  to  be  made  for  her 
late  lord,  the  same  being  to  be  transported  to  Tangier ' ; 6 
as  also  to  the  predicament  of  Mr.  Muddiman,  who 
having  incautiously  printed  in  his  weekly  paper  of 
intelligence  '  matters  not  only  untrue '  but  provocative 
to  the  government  of  Algiers,7  found  himself  called 
upon  to  answer  for  his  '  vanity  and  presumption '  before 
the  king  in  council.8  At  one  or  two  points  in  the  corre- 
spondence Pepys  the  official  reminds  us  of  Pepys  the 
diarist.  On  6  July,  1675,'  he  congratulated  his  brother- 
in-law,  Balthazar  St  Michel,  the  muster-master  at  Deal, 
on  having  waylaid  the  king  with  an  offering  on  his  journey 
by  sea  to  Portsmouth  to  the  launch  of  the  Royal  James. 
'You  did  very  well  in  attending  his  Majesty  and  the 
duke,  and  making  them  the  little  present  of  the  lamb  and 
fish  you  mention,  the  king  having  need  enough  of  it  (I 
believe)  before  he  got  on  shore  at  the  Isle  of  Wight.' 
On  28  February,  I675-6,10  he  wrote  to  Sir  John  Bankes 
to  give  him  notice  of  a  meeting  in  connexion  with  the 
adventure  of  the  North-East  Passage,  and  added,  'You 

1  Nos.  2927,  2928.  3  No.  2928.         *  No.  2987. 

4  No.  3005.         5  ii.  346  n.  supra.        6  No.  3195.         7  No.  3282. 
9  No.  3294.         9  No.  2405.  10  No.  2796. 


INTRODUCTION  liii 

shall  find  me  attending  the  king  at  his  dinner,  and  a  piece 
of  ling  at  my  house  afterwards  for  yours.'  The  most 
characteristic  sentence,  however,  is  one  in  which  Pepys 
draws  a  thumbnail  sketch  of  a  certain  cantankerous 
Elder  Brother  of  the  Trinity  House — Captain  Crisp, '  who 
is  since  dead,'  and  'had  the  misfortune  while  living  to 
be  too  often  found  singular  in  his  judgments  different 
from  the  sense  of  the  whole  board.' l 

1  No.  3051. 


The  Editor  desires  again  most  gratefully  to  acknow- 
ledge the  kindness  of  the  Master  and  Fellows  of  Magdalene 
College,  Cambridge,  and  especially  of  the  Pepysian 
Librarian,  Mr.  Stephen  Gaselee,'in  giving  him  access  to 
the  Library.  He  also  thanks  Mr.  Julian  Corbett  for 
some  notes  about  guns,  and  Sir  J.  K.  Laughton  for  good 
counsel  and  ready  help. 


CALENDAR 

OF 

S.  R'S     LETTERS 


VOL.   IV 
ADMIRALTY 

FROM  JANUARY  i,  1674-5,  TO  APRIL  10,  1676. 

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without  book-plates  ;  marbled  edges.  Press  mark  No.  2851. 
Ledger  index,  54  pp. ;  12  blank  pp.;  397  written  pp.  The 
letters  in  this  volume  are  written  from  Derby  House,  unless 
otherwise  stated.] 

2056.  [p.  i.]     2  Jan.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Gunman,  Anne 
yacht,  at   Greenwich. — To  get  ready  for  going  into  the 
Downs  to  put  on  board  the  Dragon  some  money  for  the 
garrison  of  Tangier  [2057]. 

2057.  [p.  i.]     2  Jan.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Fasby,  Cleve- 
land [yacht]. — To  receive  on  board  the  bearer,  Mr.  John 
Wilkinson,  and  such  chests  of  money  as  he  shall  bring  with 
him  [2056],  and  to  put  them  on  board  Sir  Roger  Strick- 
land, commander  of  the  Dragon  in  the  Downs,  returning 
with  the  said  John  Wilkinson  into  the  river  of  Thames. 

2058.  [p.  i.]     4  Jan.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Roger  Strickland,1 
Dragon,  Downs. — The  money  departed   hence  yesterday 
morning  by  the  Cleveland  yacht  [2057].     Desires  his  care 
of  the  enclosed  packets — one  from  Mr.  Creed,2  secretary  to 


1  D.  N.  B.  lv.  52. 
VOL.  III. 


See  ii.  388  n.  supra. 


2  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          Jan. 

the  commissioners  for  Tangier,  to  himself,  the  other  from 
Colonel  Norwood  to  Sir  Martin  Wescombe1  and  other 
merchants  at  Cadiz  ;  to  which  are  added  a  couple  more 
from  the  writer— one  to  Mr.  St.  John,2  the  other  to  Mr. 
Phineas  Bowles,3  at  Tangier. 

2059.  [p.  2.]      S  Jan.      S.  P.  to  Captain  Day*  Bezan 
yacht. — To  receive  Mr.  Benjamin  Harvey,  water-bailiff  of 
the  City  of  London,  and  his  company,  and   carry  them 
about   into  the   river  of  Medway,  returning  with  them 
according  to  such  orders  as  he  shall  give  him. 

2060.  [p.  2.]     5  Jan.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Leoline  Jenkins?— 
Desires  him  to  attend  the  king  and  lords  at  the  Robes 
Chamber  to-morrow  morning  at  9.     '  It  is  on  occasion  of 
the  next  day's  work,  and  in    particular  the  determining 
touching  the  appearing  or  not  appearing  of  a  quorum  of 
the  lords  thereat.' 

2061.  [p.  2.]     s  Jan.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— Will 
not  fail  to  offer  to  the  lords  what  they  propose  touching 
the  method  of  declaring  for  the  current  year's  victualling, 
as  also  about  the  number  of  men  to  be  borne  on  the  Europa 
hulk  at  Tangier.     Desires  them  to  hasten  the  victualling 
of  the  advice-ship  for  Surinam  [1910,  2031,  2083],  and  to 
direct  the  master  to  come  to  the  writer  in  order  to  his 
procuring  him  his  instructions  [2065]. 

2062.  [p.   3.]     14  Jan.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Daniel  Hoare, 
Mayor  of  Hull. — Encloses   a   complaint  by  the   French 
envoy  against  him   for   seizing  a   prize  belonging  to   a 
privateer  of  Dunkirk  at  the  request  of  the  former  Dutch 
owners,  while  the  said  privateer  was  forced  to  stay  in  port 
for  a  fair  wind   to   carry  him   to    France.     The  king  is 
much  offended   at   this,   as   an   action   contrary   to  that 
neutrality   which   he    expects   should    be   duly   observed 
towards  all  his  allies  ;  it  is  therefore  his  pleasure  that  the 
prize  be  returned  to  the  privateer  without  delay. 

2063.  [p.  3.]     15  Jan.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Thomas  Allin*- 
Has  received   from  Captain    Finn   a  journal  for  his  late 
voyage  in  the  Dartmouth  [2017]. 

1  Consul  at  Cadiz  [1553].  3  Paymaster  at  Tangier  [1678]. 

8  Afterwards  paymaster  at  Tangier  [2587]. 

*  Captain  Richard  Day  :  there  were  three  others  (i.  344,  supra). 

5  Judge  of  the  admiralty  court  [2649].    D.  N.  B.  xxix.  302. 

6  Comptroller  of  the  navy.    Ibid.  i.  332. 


1674-5  FOURTH   VOLUME  3 

2064.  [p.  4.]     1 6  Jan.     S.   P.   to  Mr.  Pett,1  muster- 
master,  Gravesend. — Has  obtained  the  king's  leave  for  his 
coming  up  to  town  for  4  days  if  with  the  consent  of  the 
navy  board. 

2065.  [p.  4.]     17  Jan.    S.  P.  to  Captain  Baker ^  master  of 
the  Henry  and  Sarah.2 — He  is  to  take  care  that  no  letters 
or  papers  for  Surinam  be  received  by  him  or  any  of  his 
company  other  than  those  from  one  of  the  secretaries  of 
state,  the  writer,  or  the  navy  board,  '  which  I  am  to  direct 
you  to  observe  with   all   strictness,   as  well  by  making 
enquiries  for  any  such  letters  among  your  men  as  other- 
wise, as  you  will  answer  the  same  to  his  Majesty  at  your 
utmost  peril  ; '  and   if  any  such  have  been   received,   he 
is  forthwith  to  transmit  them  either  to  the  writer  or  to 
one  of  the  principal  secretaries  of  state  [2061,  2070]. 

2066.  [p.    5.]     17  Jan.     Sent  by  express,  u    in  the 
morning.     .S.  P.  to  the  Mayor  or  chief  magistrate  of  the 
town  of  Falmouth. — By  particular  directions  from  the  king 
and   lords   upon   an   occasion   very   much  importing   his 
Majesty's  service,  the  writer  desires  to  know  by  the  next 
post  whether  two  French  frigates  did  not  about  6  weeks 
since  or  later  come  into  his  port.     They  are  said  to  be  of 
about  40  guns  apiece,  one  of  them  resembling  an  English 
frigate,  as  having  galleries  and  a  yellow  stern,  the  other  a 
French-built  ship,  with  a  blue  stern.     Desires  their  names 
and  the   names  of  their  commanders,  the  time   of  their 
coming  in  and  departure,  and  a  description  of  the  ships 
themselves. 

2067.  [p.  5.]     1 8  Jan.     S.  P.  to  Sir  John  Robinson?— 
He  is  to  order  two  or  three  files  of  musketeers  with  an  officer 
to  be  at  Execution  Dock  at  Wapping  at  10  this  morning, 
'  there  to  continue  for  the  preventing  of  any  disturbance, 
and  to  be   assisting  to   Mr.  Joynes,  the   marshal  of  the 
admiralty,  until  the  execution  of  the  pirates  be  over.' 

The  margin  refers  to  it  as  '  the  execution  of  Cusack,  &c.'  [i  226]. 

2068.  [p.  6.]     21  Jan.    S.  P.  to  the  Chief  Officer  of  the 
Custom-house  at  Yarmouth,  in  the  Isle,  of  Wight. — Desires 
him  to  give  the  best  account  he  can  of  the  names  and 

1  See  ii.  92  n.  supra.  "*  MS.  in  error,  'John  and  Sarah.' 

a  MS.  '  Robert,'  but  the  reference  is  clearly  to  Sir  John  Robinson, 
lieutenant  of  the  Tower  [2320]. 


4  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          Jan. 

commanders'  names  of  three  French  men-of-war  said  to 
come  sometimes  into  Yarmouth  Roads  or  thereabouts  to 
water.  '  They  are  described  to  be  single-deck  ships  with 
their  sterns  all  full  of  flower-de-luces,  the  biggest  of  them 
having  24  guns  and  8  pedereros,1  and  another  16  guns 
and  6  pedereros,  and  the  third  14  guns  and  6  pedereros.' 

Underwritten  :  '  The  like  to  the  chief  officer  of  the  custom- 
house at  Cowes  in  that  place.' 

2069.  [p.  6.]     22  Jan.,  'at  1 1  of  the  clock.'     5.  P.  to 
Captain  Baker,  master  of  the  advice-boat  [2065,  2071].— 
He  is  to  lose  no  time  in  his  making  ready  for  departure. 

2070.  [p.  7.]     23  Jan.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Secretary  William- 
son?— Has  received  from  the  advice-master  [2069]  these 
letters,  which  he  desires  him  to  peruse  and  return  such  as 
are  fit,  that  he  may  send  them  to  the  Downs  this  post  for 
the  sake  of  the  poor  persons  concerned  [2065]. 

2071.  [p.  7.]     25  Jan.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Baker,  master 
of  the  advice-boat  bound  for  Surinam. — Returns  the  letters 
[2070].     Cautions  him  against  carrying  so  many  passengers 
as  he  is  informed  he   purposes   to   do,  '  it  seeming  very 
unreasonable  that  while  his  Majesty  is  at  the  charge  of 
sending  you  and  two  other  ships  expressly  for  the  removing 
of  his  subjects  from  Surinam   [1910],  you  should  at  the 
same  time,  not  only  without  order  but  contrary  to  the 
only  purpose  of  your  voyage,  take  upon  you  the  liberty 
of  carrying  more  thither,  or  (which  is  very  little  better)  to 
the  Barbados.' 

2072.  [p.  8.]     26  Jan.     S.  P.  to  the  Bailiffs  of  Yar- 
mouth.— The  king  and  lords  are  sensible  of  the  evils  they 
complain  of  in  their  petition  by  foreigners  obtaining  sea- 
briefs,3  but  '  such  are  the  arts  by  which  this  is  done,  either 
through  the  negligence  or  want  of  circumspection,  or  un- 

1  The  Fr.  and  Engl.  '  perier ' ;  Ital. '  petriero ' ;  Span. '  pedrero ' — 
originally  a  large-calibre,  but   later  a   small   breech-loading  swivel 
piece.     In  the  I7th  century  it  meant  the  one  surviving  type  called  in 
Italian  text-books  '  petriero  a  Braga'  (see  Mr.  Julian  Corbett's  Drake 
and  the  Tudor  Navy  [2nd.  edn.    1899],  »•  367).      Mr.   Corbett  has 
pointed  out  that  it  survived  into  the  1 8th  century  as  the  typical  gun  of 
piratical  craft,  and  was  usually  called  in  the  English  service  a  '  swivel ' 

2  D.  N.  B.  Ixii.  2. 

3  A  technical  term  for  the  formal  specification  of  the  nature,  quan- 
tity, and  destination  of  a  cargo ;  but  as  here  used  it  means  a  passport. 
See  Introduction,  p.  xviii.  supra. 


1674-5  FOURTH   VOLUME  5 

faithfulness  in  the  magistrates  of  the  several  ports  from 
whence  these  sea-briefs  are  had,'  that  it  is  to  be  feared 
that  these  frauds  will  still  continue  unless  they  can  them- 
selves suggest  a  remedy,  the  king  having  already  ex- 
pressed severity  in  several  cases,  both  at  Dover  and  else- 
where, where  practices  of  this  kind  have  been  discovered. 

2073.  [p.  8.]     26  Jan.    S.  P.  to  Captain  Booth,1  Pearl,  in 
the  Downs. — He  w-ill  be  supplied  with  3  months'  victuals 
from    Dover.     Will   endeavour  to  answer  his  desires  for 
having  his  ship  continued  abroad. 

2074.  [p.  9.]     26  Jan.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— Has 
delivered  their  account  about  the  exchequer  orders  to  Mr. 
Chancellor  of  the  Exchequer,2  who  is  very  well  satisfied 
therewith,  but  desires   to  know  what   advance  has  been 
made  at  the  board  in  passing  the  accounts  of  Lord  Angle- 
sey's time,3  in  addition  to  this  of  Mr.  Speaker's 4  and  Sir 
Thomas  Littleton's.5     His  Royal   Highness   hath  under- 
stood some  stop  to  have  been  made  by  them  of  the  pay- 
ment of  Captain  Levi  Greene's 6  wages,  and  desires  them 
to  be  informed  that  since  the  court-martial  on  him  ap- 
pointed 'came  to  no  issue  .  .  .  and  therefore  passed  no 
sentence  upon  him,  either  to  the  declaring  any  forfeiture 
of  his  wages,  or  any  other  punishment,'  they  are  at  full 
liberty  to  pay  him. 

2075.  [p.   10.]     26  Jan.     S.  P.  to  Colonel  Robinson? — 
Since  the  lords  have  written  to  the  attorney-general  to 
stop  the  proceedings  in  the  exchequer  in  the  business  he 
mentioned  [2055],  his  attorney  should  see  how  far  this  is 
complied  with.     To  hasten  up  the  particulars  demanded 
from  him  by  the  lords. 

2076.  [p.  10.]     29  Jan.     S.  P.  to  MY.  Denn,  chief  officer 
aboard  the  Deal  yacht,  Downs. — If  the  wind  does  not  serve 

1  See  ii.  218  ;/.  supra. 

-  Sir  John  Duncombe  (Cat.  S.  P.  Dom.  1673-5,  index). 

3  The  Earl  of  Anglesey  had  been  treasurer  of  the  navy  from  June 
1667  to  Nov.  1668  (i.  12,  supra). 

4  See  ii.  49  n.  supra. 

5  Sir  Thomas  Littleton  was  one  of  the  ex-victualling  contractors 
(see  supra,  ii.  103  n.  and  138). 

6  Captain  Levi  Greene,  appointed  commander  of  the  Greenwich  in 
1672,  is  entered  in  Pepys's  Register  of  Sea  Officers  as  '  discharged  by  a 
court-martial '  (i.  356  supra). 

7  Vice-admiral  of  North  Wales  [2055]. 


6  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          Jan. 

for  Portsmouth,  he  is  to  take  Mr.  St.  Michel,  muster-master 
at  Dp al,  with  his  son  and  company,  over  to  Calais  and  bring 
him  back  when  his  business  is  finished. 

2077.  [p.  ii.]     30  Jan.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Carverth)- 
The  court-martial  to   be  held  by  Captain   Gunman 2  for 
examining  his  business  [1760]  will  be  on  Monday  morning 
next  (being  Feb.  i  )at  8  on  board  the  Greyhound  at  Deptford. 

2078.  [p.   i  i.j     i  Feb.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— At 
Captain  Belbin's  desire,  gives  an  extract  of  a  letter  from 
Mr.  Ball,  who  acts  as  deputy-consul  at  Livorne,  in  answer 
to  some  enquiries  of  the  writer's  touching  the  behaviour 
of  the  king's  captains  in  the  point  of  taking  in  merchants' 
goods,  stating  that  he  had  refused  to  take  in  any  goods 
there  on  board  the  Sweepstakes  [1938]. 

2079.  [p.  ii.]     2  Feb.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Thomas  A  llin.z- 
Captain   Belbin  has  delivered  in  his  journal  for  his  late 
voyage  in  the  Sweepstakes. 

2080.  [p.  12.]    3  Feb.    S.  P.  to  Captain  Lovell,  Kathe- 
rine  yacht — To  fetch  the  Marquis  de  Ruvigny  the  younger 
from  Dieppe  [2094]. 

2081.  [p.  12.]     3  Feb.     S.  P.  to  Charles  Bertie,  Esq*- 
Upon  particular  knowledge  of  the  bearer's  husband,  Mr. 
Edward  Taylor,  his  neighbour  for  several  years  together  in 
London,  the  writer  joins  with  Sir  Thomas  Allin,3  Sir  John 
Robinson,8  and  '  several  other  persons  of  very  good  quality 
and  esteem  in  the  city '  in  a  certificate  recommending  him 
to  the  lord  treasurer  for  a  land -waiter's  place,6  he  being 
'  a  very  careful  and  substantial  housekeeper  and  trader  as 
a  poulterer,  until  his  losses  by  the  late  fire  rendered  him 
less  able  to  support  himself  therein.'     Desires  him  to  re- 
present the  same  to  his  lordship. 

2082.  [p.  13.]     3  Feb.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Cox,  purser  of  the 
Falcon. — Has   communicated  to  the  lords  his  answer  to 
the  petition  of  Mr.  Pollexfen,  and  he  thereupon  declaring 
himself  willing  to  accept  of  the  2O/.  offered  and  to  stay 
6  months  for  the  payment  of  the  remainder  of  the  debt 

^  Commander  of  the  Woolwich  sloop  (i.  333,  supra). 
-  Commander  of  the  Anne  yacht  [2183]. 
3  Comptroller  of  the  navy.     D.  N.  B.  i!  332. 
1  Secretary  to  the  lord  treasurer  (Cal.  S.  P.  Dom.,  1673,  index). 
\  Lieutenant  of  the  Tower  (ibid.) 

'  <  A  land- waiter '  was  an  officer  of  the  custom-house  who  inspected 
imported  goods  (Smyth,  Sailor's  Word-Hook}. 


1674-5  FOURTH   VOLUME  7 

on  security  of  his  bond,  the  lords  desire  his  answer  to 
this  proposal,  '  as  being  that  without  which  my  lords  will 
think  it  fit  to  leave  you  to  the  giving  him  satisfaction  at 
law.' 

2083.  [p.  13.]     6  Feb.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.—  De- 
sires them  to  give  orders  to  the  masters  of  the  two  hired 
ships  going  to  Surinam  [2071]  to  sail  immediately  to  the 
Downs,  whither  the  Hunter  is  ordered  [2084]. 

2084.  [p.  13.]     6  Feb.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Dickenson,1 
Hunter,  Hope.  —  To  sail  to  the  Downs. 

2085.  [p.  15.  2]     8  Feb.     State  of  the  Victualling  Action 
for  the  year  commencing   January  i674[~5]  and  ending 
December  3ist,  1675,  upon  the  present  year's  declaration 
of  3,55  1  men  to  be  employed  at  the  seas  the  said  time. 

Charge  of  the  £  s.  d. 

Sea  victuals  according  to  the  said  declaration  .  31,037  3  4 
Harbour  victuals  at  ^£467  per  month  accord- 

ing to  contract        .....  5,604  o  o 

36,641     3    4 

To  be  paid  by  the  Officers  of  the  Navy  for 

The  arrear  payable  by  them  out  of  the  last 

year's  ^200,000  — 

For  sea  service    .         .         ^1,166  19  10 
On  the  harbour    .         .         .     2,940  12     o 

-       4,107  ii   10 
The  proportion  due  out  of  the  present  year's 

^200,000  — 

For  sea  service    .        .        y£i9>3°8  10    o 
On  the  harbour    .        .        .     5,604    o    o 

24,912  10    o 

29,020     i  10 
By  my  lord  treasurer  for  supplying  the  remainder       7,621     i     6 

3     4 


2086.  [p.  14.]  ii  Feb.  S.  P.  to  Colonel  Piper?  Ply- 
mouth. —  Desires  him  to  send  the  enclosed  [2087]  to 
Captain  Harman4  so  soon  as  the  Bristol  shall  arrive  at 
Plymouth. 

1  See  ii.  367  n.  supra.  -  Out  of  order  in  the  MS. 

3  Deputy-governor  of  Plymouth  [2667]. 

4  Captain  William  Harman.     See  ii.  88  n.  supra. 


8  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          Feb. 

2087.  [p.  14.]  1 1  Feb., '  sent  to  Plymouth.'  S.P.  to  Captain 
Harman,  Bristol  [2086]. — Encloses  orders  for  his  coming 
into  the  river  of  Thames.     The  king  and  lords  received 
full  satisfaction  from  his  of  24  November  in  what  related 
to  his  returning  into  the  Straits  by  Sir  John  Narbrough's  ' 
orders,  and  the  money  of  the  merchants   which  he  was 
thereby  driven  to  take  along  with  him,  but  the  king  does 
not  by  any  means  think  fit  to  admit  of  his  going  over  to 
St.  Malo  with  it '  as  being  what  (it  is  true)  may  prove  of 
some  present  little  inconvenience  to  some  few  particular 
merchants  concerned  therein,  but  what  in  the  consequence 
(should  the  practice  be  encouraged)  would   prove  (as  it 
hath  hitherto  sometimes  done)  of  too  much  charge  as  well 
as  disappointment  and  dishonour  to  his  Majesty's  service 
in  the  continuance,  and  since  therefore  his  Majesty  doth 
judge  the  same   unfit   to   be   allowed,  he  holds  it  more 
reasonable  to  put  the  stop  to  it  now  than  by  his  present 
silence  in  it  give  grounds  to  another  to  repeat  the  same  error.' 

2088.  [p.    15.]     13  Feb.     S.  P.  to  Sir  J.  Knight?  at 
Bristol. — The   lords  will    not   determine   anything  in  Sir 
Thomas  Bridges'3  behalf  to  the  prejudice  of  the  city  of 
Bristol  without  giving  them  an  opportunity  of  being  heard. 

2089.  [p.   1 6.]     17  Feb.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Roy  den.*— 
Thanks  for  his  of  yesterday's  date. 

2090.  [p.  1 6.]     17  Feb.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Dickenson?- 
Has  received  his  of  yesterday's  date  giving  notice  of  his 
arrival  in  the  Downs,  where  the  hired  ships  will  join  him 
[2083],  and  the  commissioners  he  is  to  carry  to  Surinam 
[1982]. 

2091.  [p.  1 6.]     17  Feb.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— 
They  are  not  to  deliver  to  Mr.  Jones  any  more  of  the  ships' 
books  [2362,  2574]  without  special  orders  from  the  lords. 

2092.  [p.  1 6.]     17  Feb.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Robert  South- 
well*— Refers  him   to   the   writer's  memorial  some  days 
since  delivered  to  Mr.  Secretary  Williamson  7  touching  the 
provisions   to   be   issued   to   the   king's  subjects  in  their 
transportation  from  Surinam  [1910]. 

1  D.  N.  B.  xl.  89. 

2  Sir  John   Knight  was   a  notable  merchant    of   Bristol.     See 
D.N.B.  xxxi.  255. 

*  Vice-admiral  of  Somerset  [712]. 

4  Commander  of  the  Guernsey  [2096].       *  See  ii.  367  ;/.  supra. 

*  See  ii.  63  n.  supra.  i  />.  fr  B.  Ixii.  2. 


1674-5  FOURTH   VOLUME  9 

2093.  [p.  17.]     i%-Feb.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Collins,  com- 
mander of  the  Recovery  merchantman,  at  New  Crane. — 
To  attend  the  lords  on  Saturday  morning  to  answer  for 
his  late  failure  '  in  the  timely  payment  of  the  respect  due 
to  his  Majesty '  in  his  passing  by  his  yacht  the   Richmond 
in  the  river  of  Thames. 

2094.  [p.  17.]     1 8  Feb.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Lovell,  Kathe- 
rine  [yacht],  at  Dieppe. — Monsieur  Ruvigny's  son  L  being 
already  come  over  in  the  Cleveland  from  Calais,  he  is  to 
return  to  Greenwich  [2080]. 

2095.  [p.  17.]     1 8  Feb.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Stock,  at  Dover. 
— The  Guernsey  being  now  in  the  Downs,  the  lords  have 
required  an  account    from  her  commander   touching  his 
complaint  of  him  in  relation    to  his  ships   bound  to  St. 
Valery  [2096,  2097]. 

2096.  [p.    1 8.]      1 8   Feb.     S.    P.    to    Captain  Roy  den, 
Guernsey,  Downs. — Since  his  late  parting  from  the  Downs 
with  the  ships  bound  to  St.  Valery,  complaint  has  been 
made  from  Dover  of  his  neglect  of  several  ships  lying  there 
in  expectation  of  convoy  for  the  same  port.     The   lords 
desire  an  explanation  [2095,  2097,  2105],  'their  whole  care 
and  your  whole  business  being   to   render  most  advan- 
tageous to  the  merchants  the  charge  his  Majesty  is  at  in 
maintaining  your  own  and  the  rest  of  the  ships  which  are 
put  under  your  direction  for  that  very  use.' 

2097.  [p.  1 8.]     1 8  Feb.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  \Vivell,  Dover.— 
Doubts  not  that  the  information  he  gave  him  will  be  found 
true  and  Captain  Royden  acquitted,  though  '  such  is  the 
care  due  to  the  merchants  and  trade  in  general '  that  Mr. 
Stock's  complaint    must   be  inquired    into   [2095,    2096]. 
Thanks  him  for  his  advice  of  De  Ruyter's  passing  by. 

2098.  [p.  19.]     1 8  Feb.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— 
Captain  Rooth  grounds  his  pretence  to  the  allowance  of 
half-pay  granted  to  the  commanders  of  first  and  second 
rates2  upon   a  bill  passed  by  the  board  I  Nov.  1673,  for 
3 1/.  i6s.  on  account  of  half-pay  allowed  him  as  captain  of 
the  Victory.     Does  not  find  in  the  books  of  the  admiralty 
any  but  a  first  lieutenant's  commission  to  him  for  that  ship,3 
yet  as  either  by  mistake,  or  haste,  or  by  some  commission 

1  Afterwards  Earl  of  Galway.     See  D.  N.B.  xxxvii.  17. 

2  See  i.  146,  supra. 

3  As  in  Pepys's  Register  of  Sea- Officers,  i.  400,  supra. 


io  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS         Feb. 

given  him  at  sea,  he  may  have  had  the  said  command 
notwithstanding,  the  writer  desires  to  know  how  this  was 
made  to  appear  to  them  at  their  granting  of  the  said  bill. 

2099.  [p.  19.]     1 8  Feb.     Certificate  by  S.  Pepys  of  the 
receipt  of  Captain  Russell's  ]  journal  for  the  late  voyage  of 
the  Swallow  to  the  Straits. 

2100.  [p.  20.]     19  Feb.     S.  P.  to  tlie  Mayor  or  oilier 
chief  magistrate  of  the  town  of  Rye. — Encloses  the  king's 
orders  concerning  the  French  man-of-war  that  lately  mis- 
carried by  fire  near  Rye. 

2101.  [p.  20.]     19  Feb.     S.  P.  to  Commissioner  Beach,2 
Chatham. — His  Majesty  having  thought  fit  to  gratify  Sir 
Cornelius  Tromp3  in  his  desires  of  visiting  his  ships  at 
Chatham,  orders  are  enclosed  on  that  behalf. 

2102.  [p.  20.]    23  Feb.    S.  'P.  to  Mr.  Hayter*— Desires 
to  know  when  Lord  Brouncker 6  will  be  waited  on. 

2103.  [p.  21.]     23  Feb.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners  for 
the  Admiral's  Rights.6 — The  lords  being  informed  that  the 
Hope,  of  Rochelle,  '  which  some  time  since  having  been 
taken  by  the  Dutch,  was  driven  on  shore  at  Ferring 7  in 
Sussex,  and  being  there  by  them  deserted  hath  been  con- 
demned as  bona  inimicorum  to  his  Majesty,  but  with  great 
violence  to  the  right  both  of  his  Majesty  and  the  lord  high 
admiral  offered  by  several   people  of  the  country  in  the 
spoiling  and  embezzling  of  the  goods  and  furniture  saved 
in  the  said  vessel,'  one  William  Westbrook,  Esquire,  being 
represented   as   he  under  whom   (as   lord  of  the   manor 
adjacent)  the  greater  number  of  the   persons  concerned 
therein  were  employed — it  is  desired  by  the  lords  that  at 
their  being  here  to-morrow  morning  upon  occasion  of  the 
business  of  Mr.  Idle  [1490],  they  will  also  come  prepared 
to  give  them  some  account  of  this. 

2104.  [p.  2 1 .]    23  Feb.    S.  P.  to  Mr.  Pargiter,  goldsmith, 
Charing  Cross. — If  he  is  dissatisfied  with  what  was  yester- 
day discoursed  between  himself  and  Mr.  Brooking,  he  is  to 
know  that  the  writer  is  altogether  indifferent  in  the  matter 

1  Afterwards  admiral,  and  Earl  of  Orford  (D.  N.  B.  xlix.  429). 

2  Resident  commissioner  of  the  navy  at  Chatham.  3  MS.  'Trump. 
4  Thomas  Hayter  and  John  Pepys  were  joint  clerks  of  the  acts. 

SteD.N.£.  xliv.  363. 

s  Comptroller  of  the  treasurer's  accounts.    Ibia.  vi.  469. 

6  See  i.  38,  note  5,  supra. 

7  On  the  coast  3^  miles  west  of  Worthing. 


r674-5  FOURTH    VOLUME  n 

2105.  [p.  22.]     24  Feb.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Stock,  Dover.— 
Captain  Royden  alleges  in  his  defence  '  that  he  lay  before 
the  port  above  24  hours  in  expectation  of  the  merchants' 
vessels  setting  sail,  notwithstanding  the  wind  was  fair,  but 
that  finding  them  very  negligent  in  making  their  appear- 
ance, he  went  himself  on  shore  and  gave  them  notice  that 
he  would  sail,  and  that  moreover  he  gave  them  the  sign  to 
weigh  anchor,  according  to  his  instructions  ; '  therefore  the 
neglect  was  only  in  the  masters  of  the  said  vessels,  who 
were  drunken  on  shore  when  he  set  sail  with  about  20 
vessels  under  his  convoy  [2096]. 

2106.  [p.  22.]     24  Feb.     Certificate  by  S.  Pepys  of  the 
receipt  of  Captain  Wylde's  l  journal  for  the  Centurion  in 
her  late  voyage  to  Turkey  and  back. 

2107.  [p.  23.]     25  Feb.     S.  P.  to  Commissioner  Deane? 
Portsmouth. — Encloses  orders   to    Captain    Baker,3   com- 
mander of  the  Merlin  yacht,  and  desires  his  care  for  filling 
the  blank  therein  for  the  name  of  the  vessel  and  her  master 
which  is  to  transport  some  horses  from  Southampton  to 
France  for  the  use  of  the  French    king.     He   is  to  give 
order  for  the  Wivenhoe  fireship  to  accompany  the  yacht 
and  follow  Captain  Baker's  orders,  if  she  is  in  fit  condition. 
The  horses  will  be  in  readiness  to  be  embarked  the  begin- 
ning of  the  next  week  at  Southampton. 

2108.  [p.  23.]     27  Feb.     S.  P.   to   Sir  Robert  South- 
well.4— The  navy  board  all    agree  in  opposing  the  pro- 
position of  the   Surinam    ships  [1910]  stopping  at  Cape 
Verd  Islands  5  for  salt,  as  it  will  expose  the  king  to  ten 
times  greater  charge  by  loss  of  time  and  the  expenses 
attending  it  than  any  conveniences  can  compensate. 

2109.  [p.  24.]     27  Feb.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Dickenson* 
Hunter,  Downs.— Two  months'  victuals  are  ordered  him 
from  Dover.     He  is  to  keep  his  ship  and  the  two  hired 
vessels  in  readiness  for  sailing  [2083]. 

2110.  [p.    24.]     27    Feb.      S.   P.    to    Captain   Royden, 
Guernsey,  Downs. — Has  received  his  letters  of  the  2Oth 
and  25th,  and  doubts  not  that  the  lords  will  give  him  such 
an  answer  as  will  be  of  satisfaction  to  him  [2105]. 

1  See  ii.  355  n.  supra. 

2  Resident  commissioner  of  the  navy  at  Portsmouth.    D.N.B. 
xiv.  251. 

3  See  note  to  No.  2177,  4  See  ii.  63  n.  supra. 

5  MS.  '  Cape-de-Verd.'  c  See  ii.  367  n.  supra. 


12  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS         Mar. 

2111.  [p.  25.]     i  Mar.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Kempthorne? 
Monmouth  yacht,  Calais.— Upon   his   meeting   with   the 
Richmond   yacht   [2112]  before   his   departure,  he   is  to 
receive   from   her  Lord  Wrangel 3  and   one  Mr.  Welling, 
and  take  them  with  him  to  Hamburg. 

2112.  [p.  25.]     I  Mar.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Tyte?  Rich- 
mond yacht. — Encloses  an  order  for  his  going  over  to  Calais 
and  thence  to  Hamburg  with  Lord  Konigsmark  [21 38],*  and 
another  for  his  carrying  over  from  Dover  Lord  Wrangel  2 
and  Mr.  Welling  [2111],  the  latter  coming  on  board  here 
in  the  River  this  evening. 

2113.  [p.    25.]      i   Mar.      S.   P.    to    Captain   Royden, 
Guernsey,  in  the  Downs. — To  sail  to  Portsmouth  to  fit  for 
transporting  Lord  Inchiquin  *  to  Tangier. 

2114.  [p.  26.]     i  Mar.      S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— 
Desires  their  care  in  despatching  orders  to  Portsmouth  for 
the  Guernsey  being  fitted  and  her  victuals  completed  to 
4  months  to  carry  Lord  Inchiquin  to  his  designed  govern- 
ment at  Tangier  [2113]. 

2115.  [p.  26.]     i  Mar.     S.  P.  to  Captain    Tinker*— 
Has  received  from  the  captain  of  the  Richmond  yacht  '  an 
account  of  some  very  ill  behaviour  towards  his  Majesty's 
flag  borne  thereon   by  a  merchant  vessel,  the  James,  of 
London,  Peter  Blake   commander,  and  that  towards  the 
bringing  the  same  to  an  inquiry  and  punishment  before 
the  lords  of  the  admiralty  he  had  fetched  the  boat  of  the 
said  vessel  on  shore,  and  haled  her  up  into  the  king's  yard 
at  Deptford.'     Desires  to  hear  from  him  concerning  the 
said  boat,  as  also  what  proof  is  left  by  Captain  Tyte  of 
the  truth  of  this  report,  and  that  he  will  direct  to  the  lords 
at  their  meeting  on  Wednesday  morning  any  person  who 
shall  come  to  solicit  him  about  her  [2118]. 

2116.  [p.  27.]     2  Mar.     S.  P.  to  Captain  PercivalJ  at 

1  See  ii.  1 13  n.  supra. 

2  On  the  Swedish  field- marshal  of  the  name,  see  Michaud,  Bio- 
graphic  Universelle,  xlv.  85.     He  died  in  1676. 

3  See  ii.  375  n.  supra. 

*  On  this  Swedish  family,  see  Hoefer,  Nouvelle  Biographic  Gtfntfraie, 
xviii.  17. 

5  Lord  O'Brien  had  been  appointed  Governor  of  Tangier  early 
in  1674,  and  had  succeeded  to  the  earldom  of  Inchiquin  at  his  father's 
death  on  9  Sept.  1674  (&•  M  B.  xli.  330). 

6  Master  attendant  at  Deptford  [2988]. 

7  Deputy-governor  of  Deal  Castle  (Cal.  S.  P.  Dom.  1675  6>  p.  86). 


1674-5  FOURTH   VOLUME  13 

Deal  Castle. — The  king  approves  his  seizing  the  vessel  and 
persons  he  mentions  [2128]. 

2117.  [p.  27.}    4  Mar.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— At 
the  request  of  Captain  Killigrew  (who  is  designed  for  the 
command  of  the  Swan,'  which  goes  with  the  Swallow  to 
Newfoundland)  the  writer  recommends   the   bearer,   Mr. 
Benjamin  Holmes,  to  go  along  with  him  as  master,  having 
before  served  well  under  him  as  master  in  the  Monck. 
It  is  unusual  with  the  writer  to  become  a  recommender 
of  a  master,  but  it  is  for  the  king's  service. 

2118.  [p.   28.]     4   Mar.      S.   P.   to    Captain    Tinker? 
Deptford. — As  Captain  Tyte  is  not  present  [2112]  to  justify 
his  complaint  against  Mr.  Blake  for  refusing  to  strike  his 
flag  to  the  king's  colours  [2115],  the  lords  are  not  willing 
to  detain  the  boat,  whereby  the  despatch  of  the  ship  may 
be  probably  hindered.     He  is  therefore  to  restore  it  upon 
Blake's  promising  under  his  hand  that  he  will,  either  by 
himself  or  some  other,  attend  the  lords  to  give  satisfac- 
tion when  they  shall  require  it. 

2119.  [p.  28.]     4  Mar.     S.  P.  to  Commissioner  Beach? 
Chatham. — Will  answer  his  desires  for  Mr.  Rice  Freeman 
as  far  as  he  can. 

2120.  [p.   28.]     4  Mar.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Dickenson? 
Hunter,  Downs. — The  lords,  finding  the  practice  to  be  new 
of  allowing  contingent  money  to  a  single  ship,  and  judging 
it  not  necessary,  will  not  allow  it  to  him. 

2121.  [p.   29.]      4  Mar.      S.  P.  to  Captain  Barman? 
Bristol,  in  the  Downs. — Has  received  (by  Mr.  Wells)  his 
of  yesterday  intimating   his   safe   arrival  in  the   Downs, 
which  is  the  more  welcome  since  it  was  feared  he  had 
gone  to  St.  Malo,  which  the  king  had  forbidden  by  orders 
lodged  some  time  since  in  the  hands  of  the  Governor  of 
Plymouth  [2086]  directing  his  coming  into  the  River. 

2122.  [p.  29.]     5  Mar.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Fownes,  clerk  [of 
the]  check,  Deptford. — The  bearer,  James  Ellis,  is  recom- 
mended by  Mr.  Evelyn,  and  is  otherwise  represented  a  very 
diligent   and   able   workman,   as  well  as   one   heretofore 

1  See  Note  to  No.  2 1 59. 

a  Master  attendant  at  Deptford  [2988]. 

3  Resident  commissioner  of  the  navy  at  Chatham. 

4  See  ii.  367  n.  supra. 

5  Captain  William  'Harman.     See  ii.  88  n.  supra. 


i4  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          Mar. 

employed  in  the  king's  service,  and  an  inhabitant  with  a 
family  in  Deptford.  He  tells  the  writer  that  (upon  occa- 
sion of  the  ships  now  ordered  to  be  fitted  forth)  some 
joiners  are  designed  to  be  entered  in  the  king's  yard  on 
Monday  next.  Desires  that  he  may  be  entered,  unless 
those  of  the  navy  board  who  direct  the  entries  have  any- 
thing to  object  to  his  qualifications. 

2123.  [p.   30.]     5    Mar.      Certificate  by  S.  P.  of  the 
receipt  of  Captain  Preistman's  l  journal  in  the  Richmond  in 
her  late  voyage  to  the  Straits. 

2124.  [p.    30.]     6   Mar.     S.   P.   to   Colonel  Piper?- 
Wonders   at   Captain's  Harman's  failing  to  send  for   his 
orders  [2121],  if  it  be  true  that  he  was  told  of  them. 

2125.  [p.  30.]     10  Mar.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Smith?- 
Desires  to  know  what  condition  his  yacht  is  in  for  making 
a  voyage  to  Flanders  with  a  person  of  quality. 

2126.  [p.  30.]     10  Mar., '  two  at  noon,  sent  by  express.' 
S.  P.  to  Captain  Booth?  Pearl,  in  the  Downs. — He  is  to  put 
himself  into  a  condition  of  proceeding  upon  an  especial 
service  to  Gottenburg  the  beginning  of  next  week,  and  to 
that  end  if  he  cannot  completeto  3  months'  victuals  at  Dover, 
he  is  to  come  up  to  the  Nore.     The  king  is  gone  to  New- 
market this  morning,  'who,  had  he  been  here,  would  (I 
fear)  have  been  very  little  satisfied  with  your  desire  of 
having  no  body  put  over  your  head  (upon  the  removal  of 
Captain  Royden),  nothing  rendering  a  man  (I  am  sure)  in 
his  Majesty's  opinion  more  fit  to  command  than  the  being 
found  willing  to  be  commanded.' 

2127.  [p.  31.]     10  Mar.     S.  P.  to   Captain    Clements, 
Greyhound. — As   the   Pearl,   on    her    returning    into  the 
Downs,  is  designed  upon  an  especial  service  [2 1 26],  he  is 
to  continue  in  the  Downs  until  further  order. 

2128.  [p.  31.]     10  Mar.     S.  P.  to  Lieutenant  Percival* 
— Returns  enclosed  -the  papers  he  sent  him  belonging  to 
the  vessel  he  lately  stopped  in  the  Downs  [2116]. 

2129.  [p.  32.]     ii  Mar.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Taylor?  at 
Harwich. — Thanks  for  his  of  the  6th. 

1  See  ii.  49  n.  supra.        -  Deputy-governor  of  Plymouth  [2667]. 
1  Captain  Anthony  Smith,  commander  of  the  Navy  yacht  [2039]. 
There  were  seven  others  (i.  406-7,  supra). 

*  See  ii.  218  n.  supra.  '•>  See  note  to  No.  21 16. 

:  Storekeeper  at  Harwich.     See  ii.  44  n.  supra. 


1674-5  FOURTH   VOLUME  15 

2130.  [p.  32.]     II   Mar.     S.  P.  to   Sir  Martin   Wes- 
combe.1 — Thanks  for  his  trouble  in  the  conveyance  of  letters. 

2131.  [p.    32.]     II    Mar.      S.   P.   to  Captain   Roy  den, 
Guernsey,    Portsmouth. — Orders   have    some    days   since 
been  lodged  with  the  board  [2114]  for  his  being  fitted, 
victualled,  and  his  complement  increased  to  the  establish- 
ment appointed  for  his  ship  in  time  of  peace  on  foreign 
service  [2222]. 

2132.  [p.  33-]     13  Mar.     S.  P.  to  Commissioner  D earn* 
— Confirms  what  was  done  the  other  day  by  Mr.  Gibson's 3 
hand  (the  writer  being  at  that  time  very  full  of  business) 
about  the   draught   of  an   article  to  be  inserted  in   the 
instructions  of  the  king's  captains,  '  for  the  keeping  and 
preserving  a  better  and  more  certain  and  constant  account 
of  the  condition,  virtues,  defects,  and  trim  of  his  Majesty's 
ships   than    seems   at   this   day   to   be   found   anywhere, 
through  the  change  and  supineness  of  commanders  in  that 
particular.'    As  the  finishing  and  reprinting  of  these  instruc- 
tions waits  for  the  writer's  coming  to  some  determination 
in  that  particular,  he  prays  his  advice  at  his  first  leisure. 

2133.  [p.  33.]     13  Mar.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Booth*  Pearl, 
Downs. — Has  received  his  of  the  nth  from  Dover,  and  is 
glad  his  ship  will  be  so  soon  ready.     Having  been  spoken 
to  by  a  gentleman  at  court,  Mr.  Brouncker,5  in  behalf  of 
Mr.  George  Sanders,  said  to  be  now  on  board  him,  for  a 
warrant  for  his  being  there  borne  as  a  reformado,6  which 
the  king  doth  not  grant  without  some  good  regard  had  to 
the  qualifications  of  the  persons  that  request  it,  the  writer 
desires  to  know  '  his   age   and   education,  experience,  or 
addiction  to  the  study  and  work  of  a  seaman.' 

2134.  [p.    34.]     Whitehall,    13   Mar.    'sent   to  New- 
market.'    5".  P.  'to  the  Duke  of  York. — Believing  that  the 
letters  this  day  arrived  from   Sir  John   Narbrough 7  will 
make  it  necessary  for  the  writer  speedily  to  attend  his 
Majesty,  he  troubles  his  Royal  Highness  with  the  perusal 
only  of  the  enclosed  papers. 

2135.  [p.    34.]     13    Mar.     S.  P.   to  Colonel  Piper*  — 

1  Consul  at  Cadiz  [1553].  2  See  ii.  6n.  supra. 

3  See  ii.  62,  supra.  4  See  ii.  218  n.  supra. 

5  Probably  Henry  Brouncker,  formerly  cofferer  to  the  king,  and  gen- 
tleman of  the  bedchamber  to  the  Duke  of  York  (see  D.  N.  B.  vi.  470). 

6  See  i.  190  n.  supra.  7  D.  N.  B.  xl.  89. 
8  Deputy-governor  of  Plymouth  [2667]. 


1 6  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS         Mar. 

When  the  commander  of  the  Bristol  comes  to  town,  the 
writer  will  satisfy  himself  about  his  not  calling  for  his 
orders  [2124]. 

2136.  [p.  34.]     13  Mar.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Clements^ 
Downs. — Has  received  his  of  the  nth,  and,  as  he  desires, 
has  written  to  the  officers  of  the  navy  to  make  good  his 
late  loss  of  his  fore-topmast. 

2137.  [p.  34.]     15  Mar.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Fasby?—\t 
is  the  king's  pleasure,  signified  by  Mr.  Secretary  Coventry 3 
from  Newmarket,  that  he  transport  the  directors  of  the 
Dutch  East  India  Company,  that  came  over  hither  about  the 
treaty  of  commerce,  unto  such  port  in  Holland  or  Zeeland 
as  they  shall  desire,  and  this  done  to  return  to  Greenwich. 

2138.  [p.  35.]     15  Mar.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Tyte.*— Has 
received  his  of  the  1 2th  from  Dover.     He  is  to  proceed  on 
his  voyage  to  the  Elbe  or  Weser  with  the  Lord  Konigs- 
mark  and  his  people  [211 2]. 

Postscript. — Understands  since  writing  the  above  that 
Lord  Konigsmark  wishes  to  embark  at  Harwich,  and 
therefore  he  is  to  sail  thither  [2166]. 

2139.  [p.  35.]     15  Mar.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Booth.6— To 
sail  to  Harwich  to  meet  his  convoy. 

Postscript. — Since  writing  the  above,  has  received  his 
of  the  I4th,  and  has  written  to  the  officers  of  the  navy  to 
send  down  a  pilot  there  to  meet  him  [2140,  2151]. 

2140.  [p.  3 5.]    15  Mar.    S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— The 
Pearl  being  ordered  to  Gottenburg,  and  her  master  being 
unacquainted  with  that  place,  they  are  to  send  a  pilot  to 
meet  her  at  Harwich  [2139,  2157]. 

2141.  [p.  36.]     1 8  Mar.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Roger  Strick- 
land,6 Livorne. — Has  received  his  of  6  Feb.  from  Cadiz, 
'  wherein  as  to  what  concerns  the  fish-ships  going  away 
without  convoy  (about  which  the  Exchange  here  hath  been 
very  clamorous),'  and  his  '  stay  at  Cadiz  and  proceeding 
thence  into  the  Straits  after  the  fish-ships  were  gone,'  he 
will  doubtless  satisfy  the  king  on  his  return.     The  king 
approves  his  sending  the  Rose  to  ply  off  Sal  lee,  though  she 

1  Commander  of  the  Greyhound  [2127]. 

2  Commander  of  the  Cleveland  yacht  [2007]. 

3  D.  N.  B.  xii.  357.  *  £ee  jj   375  n  supra. 

5  Commander  of  the  Pearl  [2133].    See  ii.  1 18  n.  supra. 

6  Commander  of  the  Dragon  [2058].     D.  N.  B.  Iv.  52. 


1674-5  FOURTH    VOLUME  17 

prove  no  good  sailer.     Encloses  orders  for  his  finding  out 
Sir  John  Narbrough.1 

2142.  [p.  36.]     1 8  Mar.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Stout?  Suc- 
cess,   at    Livorne. — Has   received   his    of   25    Jan.  from 
Alicante.     Encloses   orders   for   his  finding  out  Sir  John 
Narborough.1 

2143.  [p.  36.]     1 8  Mar.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Wetwang? 
Newcastle,  Livorne. — Has  received  his  of  10  and  17  Jan. 
from  Cadiz ;  as  to  his  going  to  Genoa,  '  the  king  hath  of 
late  been  made  so  sensible  of  what  he  suffers  by  his  ships 
attending  other   business  than  his   own  abroad,  that  he 
thinks   it   time  for  him  to  take  notice  of  it,  as  he  hath 
already  done  upon  some/  but  the  writer  doubts  not  that 
he   will   take   such  care   as  to  give   no   occasion   to   his 
Majesty's  displeasure.     Encloses  orders  for  his  finding  out 
Sir  John  Narbrough,1  '  the  business  of  Tripoli  being  likely 
to  call  for  all  the  force  that  his  Majesty's  ships  now  in  the 
Mediterranean  can  make  for  bringing  them  to  terms  of 
reason  and  decency  towards  his  Majesty.' 

Underwritten:  Exact  copies  of  these  3  letters  [2141,  2142, 
2143]  were  sent  to  Cadiz  [2147],  with  copies  of  the  original 
orders  to  Livorne,  and  the  like  to  Cadiz  and  Livorne  on  the  2 and 
by  Monday's  post. 

2144.  [p.  38.]     1 8  Mar.     S.  P.  to  Sir  John  Narbrough}- 
at  Livorne, '  sent  to  Sir  Thomas  Clutterbuck '  [2145].-— 
Is  sorry  the  writer's  of  23  and  30  Nov.  did  not  reach  him, 
containing  instructions  in  reference  to  his  proceedings  with 
the  people  of  Tripoli  [1967].     Encloses  fresh  orders  from 
which  he  will  find  his  Majesty  persisting  in  his  resolution 
of  insisting  upon  restitution  for  what  they  have  taken  from 
on  board  any  ships  of  his  subjects,  or  upon  their  refusal,  to 
come  to  an  open  breach  with  them,  which  to  enable  him 
the  better  to  execute,  orders  are  sent  to  all  the  king's  ships 
anywhere  to  be  found  in  the  Straits  for  their  repairing  to 
him  forthwith.     '  I  must  confess  I  have  very  little  hopes  of 
your  obtaining  restitution  from  those  people,  be  your  force 
what  it  will,  and  so  could  with  all  my  heart  wish  that  the 
occasion  had  never  happened  of  our  breach  with  them, 
but  on  the  other  hand,  that  which  leads  the  king  and  my 

1  D.  N.  B.  xl.  89.  2  See  note  to  No.  2374. 

3  D.  N.  B.  Ix.  388. 
VOL.   III.  C 


i8  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS         Mar. 

lords  to  this  resolution  of  insisting  upon  it  hath  so  much 
force  in  it,  namely,  that  the  not  doing  it  would  render  all 
future  treaties  of  peace  unsafe,  and  that  not  only  with 
these  people,  but  by  their  example  those  of  Argeir  and 
Tunis  would  be  encouraged  to  the  like  presumptions  of 
seizing  on  the  ships  and  goods  of  his  Majesty's  subjects, 
in  confidence  of  having  it  in  their  power  to  come  to  new 
treaties  with  us  without  fear  of  restoring  anything.' 

The  king  and  lords  '  are  very  well  satisfied  with  what 
you  have  thus  far  done  in  relation  to  Argeir  and  Tunis.  It 
had  been  a  very  good  thing  could  you  have  obtained  a 
formal  ratification  of  the  former  peace  at  Argeir ;  but  you 
give  a  satisfactory  account  of  your  not  insisting  upon  it. 
I  pray  God  they  may  prove  as  good  as  their  words  in 
their  denying  the  liberty  of  their  port  to  those  of  Sallee, 
forasmuch  as  their  not  doing  it  may  prove  greatly  to  our 
inconvenience.' 

The  king  does  not  incline  to  take  upon  himself  the 
charge  of  the  redemption  of  captives  brought  in  by  the 
ships  of  Sallee  and  Tetuan, '  what  he  hath  done  being  more 
than  was  ever  done  by  the  crown  before,1  and  more  than 
(for  the  example  sake)  his  Majesty  would  now  possibly 
have  done  but  for  the  obligation  he  lay  under  of  doing 
it  by  the  express  terms  of  the  last  treaty.' 

The  Quaker  ketch  is  arrived  here  about  6  days  since 
in  company  with  the  Bristol.  Mr.  Brisbane 8  is  kept  by 
illness  at  Paris.  Captain  Anguish 3  is  arrived  also,  having 
delivered  up  his  ketch  to  Captain  Waltham  [1916],  and 
came  overland  from  Marseilles  with  Mr.  Brisbane. 

If  he  finds  upon  visiting  Tripoli  that  matters  will 
come  to  a  rupture,  the  writer  desires  his  advice  as  to  any 
greater  force,  and  the  disposing  of  it  when  there. 

Underwritten:  'A  duplicate  sent  22  March,  1674-5.' 

2145.  [p.  39.]  18  Mar.  S.  P.  to  Sir  T.  Clutterbuck* 
— Encloses  letters  for  Sir  John  Narbrough  [2144]  ar>d 
others  [2141,  2142,  2143].  Cannot  foresee  anything  less 
than  a  rupture  with  the  people  of  Tripoli,  and  has  there- 

1  Some  450  captives  had  been  redeemed  from  Algiers  (Cal.  S.  P. 
Dom.  1674-5,  p.  12). 

*  Mr.  John  Brisbane,  judge-advocate  (Cal.  b.P.Dom.  1673-5,  index). 

3  See  ii.  390,  note  3,  supra. 

4  Victualler  for  the  Mediterranean.    See  ii.  236  n.  supra. 


1674-5  FOURTH   VOLUME  19 

fore  sent  the  orders  to  the  commanders  enclosed.  Doubts 
he  may  be  called  upon  for  more  victuals  and  by  earlier 
demands  than  was  expected,  and  in  particular  Sir  J.  N. 
demands  a  present  supply  for  the  Henrietta. 

2146.  [p.  39.]     1 8  Mar.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Hamilton,  of 
the  Mary  Rose,  at  Tangier. — Encloses  orders  for  his  join- 
ing a  second  time  with  Sir  John  Narb^ugh  [2144].    Hopes 
his  wants  are  not  such  as  will  disable  him  without  supply 
to  proceed  upon  this  service. 

Underwritten :    '  A  duplicate  hereof  sent  again   to   Tangier, 
22  March,  1674-5.' 

2147.  [p.  40.]     S.  P.  to  Sir  M.  Wescombe?  at  Cadiz.— 
Encloses  letters  for  several  of  the  king's  commanders  [2143]. 

2148.  [p.  40.]     1 8  Mar.     S.  P.  to -Captain  Voteer?— 
Being  informed  of  the  present  ill  condition  of  his  wife  to 
the  despair  of  her  life,  the  writer  takes  upon  him  in  the 
absence  of  the  king  and  lords  to  give  him  leave  to  come 
to  town  for  a  few  days. 

2149.  [p.   40.]     20   Mar.     S.   P.    to    Mr.    Stock  dale? 
Dover. — Thanks  him  for  his  of  the  lyth,  with  a  copy  ot 
the   petition   of  so  many  of  his   neighbours,  masters  ol 
vessels,  to  the  Mayor  and  Jurates  of  Dover,  '  wherein,  as 
the   matter   of  its   complaint   seems    most    just  .  .  .  his 
Majesty,  with  the  advice  of  my   lords  of  the   admiralty 
will,   I  hope,  in  a  very  little  time  ripen  some  considera- 
tions  they  have  now   before  them  on  the  same   subject, 
so  as  I  hope  these  poor  wretches  will  have   their  share 
of  the  public  benefit  which  I  hope  will  arise  therefrom 
to  the  general  English  navigation.' 

2150.  [p.    40.]     20  Mar.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Clements, 
Greyhound,  Downs. — To  get  ready  for  a  voyage  to  St.  Malo. 

2151.  [p.  41.]     20  Mar.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Booth* Pearl, 
Downs. — He  is  to  hasten  getting  his  provisions  on  board. 
A  pilot  will  meet  him  at  Harwich,  where  he  will  receive 
his  orders  [2139,  2140]. 

2152.  [p.  41.]     20    Mar.     S.  P.   to    Captain   Roy  den, 
Guernsey,  Portsmouth. — To  lose  no  time  in  getting  ready 
for  sailing  [2114]. 

1  Consul  at  Cadiz  [1553].  2  See  ii.  361  n.  supra. 

3  Mr.  Robert  Stockdale  was  collector  of  customs  at  Dover  [2749]. 

4  See  ii.  218  n.  supra. 

C  2 


20  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS         Mar. 

2153.  [p.  41.]     20  Mar.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— 
Thanks   them    for   theirs   of    the    i;th,   intimating   their 
opinion  touching  the  vessel   fittest   to   be    employed    for 
Tangier  and  Guernsey.     Finds  from  the  charter-party  of 
the  3  ships  hired  for  Surinam  that  one  George  Broad  goes 
as  master  of  the  Hercules,  whereas  Simon  Orton  appears 
in  the  papers  to  the  Dutch  governor  there  ;  it  will  therefore 
be  necessary  for  the  said  Broad  to  take  the  name  of  Orton 
for  this   voyage  [2154,  2170], '  lest  any  misunderstanding 
should    arise,  or  any  pretence  be   taken    by   the   Dutch 
governor  for  any  misunderstanding  from  the  difference  of 
the   names.'     Desires  them   to  consider   this  against  the 
writer  waits  on  them  with  Mr.  Cranfeild,  who  is  going  as 
the  principal  commissioner  to  Surinam  [1910].     Will  ac- 
quaint  the   king    and    lords  with   what   they  write  from 
Mr.  Betts  l  touching  the  state   of  the   mole   at  Tangier. 
They  approve  the  number  of  men    propounded    by   the 
board  in  their  letter  of  2  Jan.  for  the  Europa  [1962]. 

2154.  [p.  42.]     20  Mar.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Robert  South- 
well?— Is  come  back,  but  a  little  out  of  sorts,  so  as  he 
has  kept  within-doors  ever  since,  or  had  visited  him  and 
his  domesday   book.      Broad  must   go    as    Orton  [2153, 
2170],  as  another  is  obliged  to  do   in    behalf  of   Baker, 
master   of  the    Henry  and    Sarah,  whose  illness    at    his 
departure  left  little  hopes  with  his  merchants  of  his  sur- 
viving half  the  voyage. 

2155.  [p.  43.]     23  Mar.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Royden?- 
Has  written  for  a  supply  of  gunner's  stores  [2156],  but  he 
must  not  expect  an  increase  in  his  number  of  guns. 

Postscript. — Hears  nothing  of  the  gunner  of  the  Ports- 
mouth being  dismissed,  but  if  so  it  will  not  be  of  prejudice 
to  his  present  gunner. 

2156.  [p.    43.]      23    Mar.      S.    P.    to    Sir    Thomas 
Chicheley? — The  Guernsey  being  appointed  to  carry  Lord 
Inchiquin  5  to  Tangier,  wherein  all  haste  is  required,  the 
officer  for  the  ordnance  at  Portsmouth  makes  some  diffi- 
culty   of    supplying    her    with    gunner's    stores    [2155]. 
Desires  his  orders.     As  the  Guernsey  is  to  proceed  from 

1  Master  attendant  at  Tangier  [1613].  2  See  ii.  (>3  n.  supra. 

3  Commander  of  the  Guernsey  [2 1 1  dj. 

4  Master-general  of  the  ordnance.    D.N.B.  x.  231. 

5  See  note  to  No.  2113. 


1674-5  FOURTH   VOLUME  21 

Tangier  to  join  Sir  John  Narbrough  in  view  of  the  pro- 
spect of  a  speedy  breach  with  Tripoli  [2145],  she  will  want 
a  larger  proportion  than  otherwise  [2222]. 

2157.  [p.  44.]     23  Mar.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— 
The  Pearl  is  to  take  up  her  convoy  at  the  Nore,  so  the 
pilot  should  meet  her  there  instead  of  at  Harwich  [2140]. 

2158.  [p.   44.]      23   Mar.     S.  P.   to  Captain   Booth^ 
Downs. — Is  sorry  the  weather  delays  his  taking  in  his  pro- 
visions.    He  is  to  come  to  the  Nore  instead  of  Harwich 
[2157,2168]. 

2159.  [p.  44.]     26  Mar.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Trevanion? 
of  the   Dartmouth. — To   recommend   'a    very   ingenious 
man,'  one  Mr.  Turner,  son  to  the  storekeeper  at  Deptford, 
to  serve  as  his  chaplain. 

Underwritten :  '  The  like  to  Captain  Killigrew,3  of  the  Swan.' 

2160.  [p.  45.]     26  Mar.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Robert  South- 
well.4— Has   provided    supplemental   instructions   for   the 
Surinam  masters  :  he  is  to  do  the  like  for  his  commissioners 
and  the  governors  of  the  colonies  where  '  our  Surinamites ' 
are  to  be  landed  [1910]. 

2161.  [p.  45.]     27  Mar.     The  same  to  the  same. — En- 
closes a  letter  from  which  he  will  find  that  upon  the  2nd 
inst.  the  Norwich  had  no  tidings  of  the  errand  last  sent  him. 

Margin :  '  Sends  him  a  letter  from  Captain  London.'5 

2162.  [p.  45.]     27  Mar.    S.  P.  to  Mr.  Stockdale?  Dover. 
— Desires  to  know  the   effects  of  that  order  whereof  he 
gives  an  account  in  his  of  the  23rd,  in  reforming  the  abuses 
that  have  been    sheltered  by  the   colouring7  of   foreign 
ships  [2149],     Thanks  him  also  for  his  advice  touching  the 
Brandenburg  caper, '  at  which  I  find  the  Swedish  Resident 

I  See  ii.  218  n.  supra. 

•  Captain  Richard  Trevanion  had  formerly  commanded  the 
Dreadnought  [i  120]  ;  his  commission  to  the  Dartmouth  is  dated  9  Mar. 
1674-5  ('•  4!6,  supra). 

3  D.  N.  B.  xxxi.  109.     Captain  Henry  Killigrew  had  formerly  com- 
manded the  Monck  ;  his  commission  to  command  the   Swan  prize 
is  dated  9  Mar.  1674-5  ('•  374i  supra). 

4  See  ii.  63  n.  supra.  6  Commander  of  the  Norwich  [2444]. 

II  Collector  of  customs  at  Dover  [2749]. 

7  To  '  colour '  foreign  goods  was  to  enter  them  at  the  custom-house 
under  an  English  merchant's  name,  to  evade  additional  duties.  Hence 
applied  to  ships.  The  word  occurs  in  §  10  of  the  Navigation  Act  of 
1 66 1  (12  Car.  II.  c.  18). 


22  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS         Mar. 

is  awakened,  and  I  doubt  not  will  solicit  for  right  to  be 
done  his  master  against  the  same  by  appealing  to  the 
king,  the  violence  being  reported  to  have  been  done  not 
only  under  his  Majesty's  flag,  .  .  .  but  .  .  .  within  the 
protection  of  the  English  shore.' 

2163.  [p.  46.]     27  Mar,     S.  P.  to  Captain  Dickenson? 
Hunter,  Downs. — The  king's  instructions  to  the  commis- 
sioners going  to  Surinam  [1910]  are  so  near  finishing  that 
he  may  expect  in  a  few  days  to  have  the  commissioners 
on  board. 

2164.  [p.  46.]     27  Mar.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Moore,  master 
attendant  at  Portsmouth. — Desires  to  know  the  time  the 
Merlin  yacht  and  her  convoy  of  horses  sailed  from  the 
Isle  of  Wight  [2177]. 

2165.  [p.   46.]     27   Mar.     S.   P.   to    Captain  Royden, 
Guernsey,  Portsmouth. — Is  glad  of  his  forward  condition 
for  sailing  with  Lord  Inchiquin  to  Tangier  [2156]. 

2186.  [p.  46.]  27  Mar.  S.  P.  to  Captain  Taylor?  at  Har- 
wich.— Has  received  his  of  the  25th,  giving  an  account  of 
the  Richmond  yacht  being  arrived  at  Harwich,  and  there 
attending  the  coming  of  Lord  Konigsmark  [2138]. 

2167.  [p.  47.]     27  Mar.     S.  P.  to  Commissioner  Beach? 
at  Chatham. — At  the  instance  of  some  persons  of  quality, 
the  writer  desires  a  berth  in  one  of  the  great  ships  in  ordinary 
at  Chatham  for  one  Edmund  Fisk,  '  who  having  belonged 
to  the  sea  these  40  or  50  years  and  though  by  time  become 
not   so   able   to   perform  hand-labour,  though   otherwise 
healthy  and  his  senses  good,  is  as  capable  as  heretofore  of 
performing  his  watch  and  doing  the  other  works  depending 
upon  the  experience  and  care  of  a  seaman  (hand-labour 
excepted)  and  also  very  sober.'  He  is  known  to  Mr.  Lately, 
the  master  attendant. 

2168.  [p.  47.]     29  Mar.     'Sent to  Harwich  by  express 
at   10  of  the  clock  in  the  morning.'     S.   P.   to  Captain 
Booth? — Encloses  a  copy  of  a  former  letter  that  has  missed 
him  [2158]  ordering  him  to  the  Nore,  where  the  pilot  is 
ready  to  meet   him.     Is   sorry  for  his  running  upon   the 
Shipwash,  and  advises  him  to  give  an  account  of  it  to  the 
officers  of  the  navy  that  they  may  call  the  pilot  to  account. 

1  See  ii.  367  n.  supra.     -  Storekeeper  at  Harwich.  See  ii.  44  n.  supra. 

3  Resident  commissioner  of  the  navy  at  Chatham. 

4  Commander  of  the  Pearl  [2133].     See  ii.  2i8«.  stifira. 


i675  FOURTH   VOLUME  23 

2169.  [p.  48.]     29  May.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Taylor} — 
Desires  him  to  send  the  enclosed  [2168]  to  the  Pearl. 

2170.  [p.  48.]     29  Mar.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board. — 
Orton  is  to  proceed  to  Surinam  on  the  terms  they  mention, 
that  appearing  to  his  Majesty  a  much  less  evil  than  the 
taking  up  of  his  name  by  any  other  [2153,  2154]. 

2171.  [p.  48.]     29  Mar.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Robert  South- 
well.-— Seeking  present  conveyance  for  Lord  Orrery 3  from 
Ireland,  the  writer  desires  to  know  where  orders  will  reach 
the  Norwich,  whether  at  Bristol,  Minehead,  or  elsewhere,  if 
he  can  guess  where  the  Duke  of  Ormonde 4  [i  505]  purposes 
to  land  [2174]. 

2172.  [p.  49.]    30  Mar.     '  1 2  at  noon.'     5.  P.  to  Captain 
Sanderson,  Portsmouth  yacht,  at   Greenwich. — Desires   a 
description  of  the  Ostender  that  offered  indignities  to  the 
honour  of  his  Majesty's  flag  [2190]. 

2173.  [p.  49.]      30  Mar.    S.  P.  to  Captain  Clements, 
Greyhound,  Downs. — The  king  directs  him  to  continue  his 
gunner  in  custody,  who  was  detected  in  embezzling  some 
powder.     If  the  king  shall  dismiss  him  [2332]  another  shall 
be  speedily  sent,  but  not  the  party  he  recommends,  there 
being  so  many  that  have  the  king's  promise  of  employment. 

2174.  [p.   49.]     30  Mar.     S.   P.   to   Captain    London, 
Norwich,    at    Minehead. — Has    received   his  of  the   2nd 
from  Kinsale,  and  supposes  this  will  find  him  arrived  at 
Minehead  with  my  Lord  of  Ormonde.     Encloses  orders 
for  his  fetching  over  Lord  Orrery,  returning  to  his  station 
at  Carrickfergus  [2171,  2176,  2193]. 

2175.  [p.  50.]     30  Mar.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Perriman? 
Sheerness. — About  the   bringing  of  letters  from   Queen- 
borough  to  Sheerness. 

2176.  [p.  50.]     30  Mar.      S.  P.  to  Mr.  Rumsey,  col- 
lector, of  Bristol. — Encloses   an   order   to    the   Norwich, 
she  being  daily  expected  from  Ireland  with  the  Duke  of 
Ormonde  [2174]. 

Underwritten :  '  The  like  to  the  collector  of  the  customs  at 
Milford,  and  to  Mr.  Josias  Walker,  collector  at  Minehead.' 

1  Storekeeper  at  Harwich.    See  ii.  44  n.  supra. 
9  See  ii.  63  n.  supra.         3  D.N.B.  vi.  123.         4  Ibid.  viii.  52. 
5  Captain  John  Perriman  was  master  attendant  at  Sheerness  (see 
ii.  50  n.  supra}. 


24  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS         Mar. 

2177.  [p.  50.]    30  Mar.   S.  P.  to  Captain  Baker ?  Merlin 
yacht,  Portsmouth. — Has  received  his  of  the  28th,  and  is 
glad  he  is  so  well  returned  after  his  bad  weather  he  met 
with  at  sea  [2164].     To  continue  at  Portsmouth. 

2178.  [p.  51.]     30  Mar,     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board. — 
To  hasten  the  getting  forth  of  the  ships  lately  ordered  to 
be  fitted  for  sea.     The  lords  of  the  privy  council  desire 
their  giving  to  Mr.  Cranfeild  a  copy  of  the  supplemental 
orders  which  they  shall  give  to  the  masters  of  the  hired 
ships  going  to  Surinam  [1910,  2185]. 

2179.  [p.  51.]     30  Mar.     S.  P.  to  Sir  John  Berry*  or 
Captain  Rooth.3 — Signifies  Prince  Rupert's  desires  that  the 
bearer,  Mr.  Edward  Dimock,  'a  very   sober  person  and 
experienced  soldier/  should  be  entertained  as  a  corporal 
on  board  one  of  their  ships. 

2180.  [p.  51.]     30  Mar.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Williams? 
Wivenhoe,  at  Portsmouth. — Has  received  his  of  the  28th 
giving  an  account  of  his  return  from  Cherbourg  ;  he  is  to 
continue  upon  the  guard  at  Portsmouth. 

2181.  [p.  52.]    31  Mar.    S.P.  to  Sir  John  Berry  ° — For 
the  speedy  fitting  forth  of  his  ship. 

Underwritten :  '  The  like  to  Captain  Lassells 6  of  the  Gar- 
land, Captain  Trevanion  6  of  the  Dartmouth,  Captain  Killigrew  7 
of  the  Swan,  Captain  Rooth 3  of  the  Adventure,  and  Captain 
Trotter 8  of  the  Speedwell.' 

2182.  [p.  52.]     31  Mar.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— 
Desires  them   to  send    Orton  after   Mr.  Cranfeild  to  the 

1  Captain  Jacob  Baker :  there  were  two  others  (i.  320,  supra). 

2  D.  N.  B.  iv.  398.    Sir  John  Berry  had  formerly  commanded  the 
Resolution  ;  his  commission  to  the  Swallow  is  dated  9  Mar.  1674-5 
(i.  324,  supra}. 

3  Charnock,    Biog.   Nav.   i.  28.      Captain    Richard    Rooth   had 
formerly  commanded  the  Swiftsure  ;  his  commission  to  the  Adventure 
is  dated  9  Mar.  1674-5  (i-  4°°>  supra). 

*  Captain  Henry  Williams's  commissions  as  commander  of  the 
Wivenhoe  fireship  and  the  Holmes  were  both  dated  25  May,  1675 
(i.  424,  supra\but  he  was  presumably  already  in  command  of  the  former. 

*  Captain  Ralph  Lassells  had  formerly  commanded  the  Yarmouth 
[1162] ;  his  commission  to  the  Garland  is  dated  9  Mar.  1674-5  (••  376, 
supra).    See  also  ii.  236  n.  supra. 

6  See  note  to  No.  2159.        7  Ibid. 

*  Captain  David  Trotter  had  formerly  commanded  the  Richmond 
[180];  his  commission  to  the  Speedwell  is  dated  9  Mar.  1673-4  in 
Pepys's  Register  of  Ships  (i.  416,  supra),  but  perhaps  this  should  be 
1674-5,  ^ke  the  other  commissions  referred  to  in  the  text. 


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Downs  [2170, 2185].  Entreats  a  copy  some  time  to-morrow 
morning  of  the  orders  to  the  hired  ships  for  Surinam  pur- 
suant to  the  last  resolutions  of  the  lords  [2178].  Will 
speedily  give  them  the  king's  pleasure  in  the  business  of 
Rochester  Ground. 

2183.  [p.  53.]     31  Mar.     S.  P+  to  Captain  Gunman^ 
Anne  yacht,  at  Deptford. — Encloses  the  king's  warrant  for 
his  immediate  carrying  over  to  Holland  Mr.  Skelton  1  (in 
whose  company  will  be  Mr.  Ashton  2)  to  visit  the  Prince  of 
Orange,  now  dangerously  sick  of  the  small-pox.3 

2184.  [p.  53.]     i  Apr.     S.  P.  to   Captain   Sanderson, 
Portsmouth   yacht. — To  prepare  to  take  on  board  from 
the  merchants  money  for  France,  and  deliver  it  on  board 
the  Greyhound  in  the  Downs. 

2185.  [p.  53.]     2  Apr.     S.P.toMr.Cranfeild*—Qrt<m 
is  to  follow  him  by  a  vessel  on  purpose   this   very   tide 
[2182,  2197],     Both  the  writer  and  the  secretaries  of  state 
are  surprised  at  his  sudden   departure,    as    he   will   find 
from  the  two  papers  enclosed  from  Mr.  Secretary  Coventry 5 
relating  to  his  visiting  the  rest  of  his  Majesty's  colonies 
after  he  has  been  at  Surinam  [2193].     The  first  instruc- 
tions to  the  masters  of  the  hired  vessels  have  been  com- 
municated to  him  from  the  lords  of  the  council  relating 
to  transporting   the   king's   subjects   from   Surinam,  and 
issuing  the  victuals  to  them  which  hath  been  provided  by 
his  Majesty  for  their  support  during  their  passage  [1910]  ; 
encloses   also   a   copy   of  the   supplemental   instructions 
(belonging  to  the  victualling)  [2178],  and  of  the  Hunter's 
sailing  orders  [2186]. 

2186.  [p.  54.]     2  Apr.      S.  P.  to  Captain  Dickenson? 
Downs. — Supposes   this   will   find   the   Katherine    yacht 
arrived  in  the  Downs  which  brings  Mr.  Cranfeild  and  the 
rest  of  the  commissioners  down  to  him.     Mr.  C.  designs  to 
take  his  passage  in    the    America,  whither  the  enclosed 


1  Probably  Bevil  Skelton,  the  diplomatist,  afterwards  English 
envoy  to  Holland.  D.  N.  B.  Hi.  325. 

a  Mr.  Ashton  was  a  servant  of  the  Duke  of  York,  and  was  the 
bearer  of  a  letter  of  sympathy  from  him  to  the  Prince  of  Orange  in  his 
illness  (Cal  S.  P.  Dom.  1675-6,  p.  47). 

3  D.  N.  B.  Ixi.  309. 

4  Principal  commissioner  for  Surinam  [2153]. 

5  D.  N.  B.  xii.  357.  b  See  ii.  367  n.  supra. 


26  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS         Apr. 

packet  is   to  be   sent   to   him.     Encloses  orders  for  his 
sailing  [2185]. 

2187.  [p.  55.]     2  Apr.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board. — 
Being  advertised  this  morning  of  the  death  of  the  painter 
of  Portsmouth  Yard  by  persons  suing  to  succeed  him,  the 
writer  desires  their  opinion  [2217]  whether  it  be  necessary 
to  continue  auy  particular  person  in  that  capacity  in  the 
yards,  which   has  sometimes  (and   particularly  not   long 
since  at  Deptford)  been  controverted  by  an  experiment 
then  made  of  some   piece  of  work  performed   at   much 
easier  rates  by  strangers  upon  particular  bargains  made, 
than  they  would  have  been  at  the  rates  required  by  the 
painter  who  is  under  warrant. 

2188.  [p.  55.]    2  Apr.    S.  P.  to  Sir  Thomas  Ckicheley} — 
The  king  desires  that  no  time   be   lost  in  setting  forth 
the  ships  now  going  abroad  [2181].     The  Swallow,  if  she 
stay  not  for  what  concerns  the  office   of  the  ordnance, 
may  be  ready  in  very  few  days. 

2189.  [p.  56.]     2  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Sir  John  Berry?  Swal- 
low, Deptford. — Has  written  to  the  officers  of  the  navy 
and   ordnance   [2188]   for   despatching  him.     The  writer 
'  passes  not  a  day  without  some  quarrel  or  other  in  op- 
posing the  solicitations  made  for  the  getting  of  recom- 
mendations to  the  king's  commanders  for  reformadoes  ; 3 
neither  the  arguments  raised  from  the  considerations  of 
the  smallness  of  th&  ships   nor  that  of  the  numbers  of 
men  sufficing  to  stop  the  importunities,  besides  the  many 
greater  inconveniences  attending  it  to  his  Majesty's  ser- 
vice, as  well  as  the  burden  they  bring  along  with  them 
to  his  captains.'     Is  resolved  'to  bring  that  thing  to  some 
settlement,  that  is  to  say,  both  in    the  qualifications  oi 
those  that  shall  be  esteemed  capable  of  being  reformadoes, 
and  those  that  are  not,  together  with  the  number  to  be 
affixed  to  each  rate,  which  shall  not  be  exceeded '  [2200]. 
Assures  him  in  the  meantime  that  not  one  shall  come  to 
him  or  any  of  the  rest  without  their  approbation. 

2190.  [p.  56.]     3  Apr.    S.  P.  to  Sir  Leoline  Jenkins.'— 
Before  the  king's  orders  for  seizing  the  Ostender  go  out 
[2172],  the  writer  desires  his  advice  how  far  the  proceed  - 

1  Master-general  of  the  ordnance.    D.  N.  B.  x.  231. 

2  See  note  to  No.  2179.  3  See  i.  190  n.  supra. 
4  Judge  of  the  admiralty  court  [2649].    D.  N.  B.  xxix.  302. 


1675  FOURTH   VOLUME  27 

ing  is  well  grounded, '  if  it  should  be  objected  that  this 
ship  did  lie  at  anchor  within  the  ordinary  bounds  of  ships 
riding  before,  and  within  the  notice  of  the  port,  though 
not  strictly  within  gunshot.1 

2191.  [p.  57.]     3  Apr.     S.  P.  to  the  Lord  Lieutenant  of 
Ireland? — Captain    Rooth2    is   appointed   to   sea   in    the 
Adventure  this    summer  to  secure  trade  against  Sallee  ; 
therefore  his  Excellency  is  prayed  to  excuse  his  absence 
from  his  charge  at  Kinsale. 

2192.  [p.  57.]     3  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Stockdale?  Dover. 
— Thanks  him  for  his  intimation  in  his  letter  of  the  2pth 
of  the  effects  of  the  late  order  of  the  Mayor  of  Dover 
relating  to  sea-briefs  [2162],  and  that  which  he  has  since 
received  from  the   lord  treasurer.     Will  move   the   lords 
for  what  he  desires  as  soon  as  he  shall  inform  him  how 
far  and  in  what  respects  he  would  have  the  king's  com- 
manders be  assistant  to  him  [2207],  so  as  not  to  interrupt 
them  in  the  performance  of  the  other  services  commanded 
them  from  day  to  day. 

2193.  [p.  58.}    3  Apr.    S.  P.  to  Sir  Robert  Southwell*— 
Mr.  Cranfeild's  going  away  was  very  quick,  in  that  he  left 
behind  him  his  instructions  from  the  king  for  all  that  con- 
cerns him  after  his  having  done  at  Surinam,  which  would 
have  called  for  a  good  deal  of  discourse  with  the  secretary 
of  state  to  have  made  himself  master   of  them   [2185]. 
Knows   not   what  can  be  done  in  the  case  of  the  Nor- 
wich, for  either  my  Lord  of  Orrery  did  stop  her  or  she 
is  past  recalling  [2174],   but   will    advise   with   the    lord 
treasurer. 

2194.  [p.  58.]     3  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Commissioner  Beach? 
at  Chatham. — A  complaint  was  this  day  brought  to  the 
lords  in  behalf  of  Mr.  Brouncker,  purser  of  the  Unicorn,  of 
ill-usage  from  the  cook  of  that  ship  '  upon  no  other  provo- 
cation than  that  of  pressing  of  him  to  the  performance 
of  his  duty,'  and  of  his  being  some  time  confined  as  a 
prisoner   by   the   commissioner's    warrant    on   board   the 
Royal  Sovereign.     They  desire  his  account  of  it  [2225]. 

1  The  Earl  of  Essex  had  succeeded  the  Duke  of  Ormonde  as  Lord 
Lieutenant  of  Ireland  in  February,  1672  (D.  N.  B.  ix.  13). 

'z  See  note  to  No.  2179.       3  Collector  of  customs  at  Dover  [2749]. 

4  See  ii.  63  n.  supra. 

s  Resident  commissioner  of  the  navy  at  Chatham. 


28  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS         Apr. 

2195.  [p.  59.]     3  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Sir  James  Johnson,  at 
Yarmouth. — Application  having  been  made  to  the  lords 
by  Mr.  Abraham  Gill  [2213],  the  pretended  owner  of  the 
two  Dutch  busses  some  time  since  brought  into  Yarmouth 
by   a  French  privateer,  pretending  that  notwithstanding 
his  having  bought  them  of  the  privateer  and  sold  them 
again  to  some  subjects  of  his  Majesty,  both  they  and  he 
are  by  Lord  Townshend l  denied  the  liberty  of  carrying 
them  forth  upon  a  pretence  of  the  order  of  the  lords  of 
the  admiralty  for  preventing  the  Frenchman's  manning 
them  with  English,  the  writer  desires  his  account  of  the 
facts  for  '  preventing  any  counterfeit  sale  of  them  accord- 
ing to  the  common  practice  at  this  day  used,  only  thereby 
to  obtain  protection  and  freedom  of  manning  them  with 
English.' 

2196.  [p.  59.]     3  Apr.    S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— The 
Dartmouth  being  on  the  point  of  going  to  sea,  and  the 
boatswain  bearing  a  good  character  as  well  from  Captain 
Tinker 2  as  otherwise,  and  as  no  embezzlement  is  proved 
against  him  himself,  the  lords  are  willing  he  be  continued 
in  his  employment,  'but  that  caution  be  entered  against 
him  whenever  he  shall  return,  that  out  of  his  wages  his 
Majesty  may  have  full  satisfaction   for  the  value  of  the 
lead  so  embezzled,  their  lordships  thinking  it  reasonable 
that  the  masters  be  so  far  at  least  obliged  to  answer  for 
the  actions  of  their  servants  and  their  own  care  in  the 
breeding  of  them.' 

2197.  [p.   60.]     5   Apr.    'At  one   at   night,  sent   by 
express.'      S.   P.   to  Mr.    Cranfeild?  in  the  Downs. — Is 
extremely  sorry  for  the  loss  of  time  arising  from  Orton's 
absence  [2185],  but  it  is  not '  much  to  be  wondered  at  that 
a  man  that  has  any  business  in  the  world  should  not  be 
ready  upon  the  Wednesday  for  a  voyage  from  England  to 
Surinam  of  which  he  could  not  know  any  thing  till  the 
Monday,  it  being  resolved  .  .  .  upon  at  the  council  but 
on  Sunday  night  that  he  should  go '  [21 70]  ;  but  hopes 
he  is  ere  this  with  him,  the  officers  of  the  navy  having 
hastened  him  away  with  direction  for  a  vessel  to  be  taken 

1  Vice-admiral  of  Norfolk  [71  il    D.  N.  B.  Ivii.  158. 

2  Master  attendant  at  Deptford  [2988]. 

3  Principal  commissioner  for  Surinam  [2153]. 


i6;5  FOURTH   VOLUME  29 

up  on  purpose  for  him  [2185].    Both  secretaries1  are  sur- 
prised at  his  sudden  departure. 

2198.  [p.  6 1.]     5  Apr.     'Sent   by   express   at  one   at 
night.' — S.  P.  to  Captain  Dickenson?  Hunter,  Downs. — Is 
sorry  for  Orton's  absence  [2197]. 

2199.  [p.  6 1.]     6  Apr.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board— -To 
hasten   Orton   away  [2197,   2198].     'For  preventing  the 
distracted   reckoning   that  must   accompany   the  Quaker 
ketch's   being  sent  to  Tangier  in   the  method  first  pro- 
pounded by  my  Lord  of  Inchiquin,  of  being  part  manned 
out  of  the  garrison  and  part  in  the  ordinary  method  of  the 
navy,  the  king  is  pleased  to  resolve  that  she  be  manned 
with  10  men  (besides  her  officers  and  necessary  servants) 
in  the  usual  manner  by  order  of  your  office '  [2218]. 

2200.  [p.  62.]     6  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Sir  John  Berry?— Will 
be  as  good  as  his  word  in  that  business  of  reformadoes 
[2 1 89],  for  '  such  are  now  the  applications  made  for  more 
and  more  entries  that  I  do  believe  the  king  will  soon  find 
it  intolerable,  it  seeming  to  me  to  be  for  the  most  part  but 
the  drawing  upon  himself  the  constant  charge  of  main- 
taining so  many  persons  out  of  his  own  purse,  to  the  ruin 
of  the  service  they  pretend  to  be  maintained  for.'     His 
desire  about  Boatswain  Mills  is  granted.     Leave  to  come 
up  to  town. 

2201.  [p.  62.]     7  Apr.    '  Sent  by  express,  ^  past  one 
in   the  morning.'     S.   P.   to  Mr.  Cranfeild,  Downs. — To 
prevent  some  delay  which  the  officers  of  the  navy  have 
this  day  seemed  to  doubt  the  masters  of  the  hired  ships 
may   make   in  their  departure,   the  writer  encloses  par- 
ticular directions  as  to  whose  orders  they  are  to  obey  in 
their  sailing  [2185,  2202]. 

2202.  [p.  62.]     7  Apr.     S.  P.  to  either  of  the  masters  of 
the  hired  ships  going  to  Surinam. — To  follow  such  orders 
as   they   shall   from   time   to  time  receive  from  Edward 
Cranfeild,  Esquire,  or  any  one  other  of  his  Majesty's  com- 
missioners now  bound  to  Surinam  [2201]. 

2203.  [p.  63.]     7  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Booth?  at  the 
Nore. — Has  received  his  of  the  2nd  giving  notice  of  his 
arrival    at   the    Nore,   and   doubts    not   he   has   ere   this 

1  There  were  two  secretaries  of  state,  Coventry  and  Williamson. 

2  See  ii.  367  n.  supra.  3  See  note  to  No.  2179. 
4  Commander  of  the  Pearl  [2133].     See  ii.  218  n.  sutra. 


30  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS         Apr. 

received  from  Monsieur  Leyenbergh,1  the  Swedish  Resi- 
dent, his  Majesty's  orders  for  his  sailing  to  Gottenburg  so 
soon  as  his  convoy  be  ready  [2209].  Application  has 
been  made  by  the  said  Resident  for  his  convoying  also 
the  Swedish  ships  mentioned  in  the  paper  enclosed,  which 
though  the  king  thinks  not  fit  to  grant  (they  being 
foreigners),  yet  as  far  as  he  can  without  hindrance  to  his 
voyage  or  proceeding  to  any  acts  of  force  by  engaging  in 
their  defence,  he  may  give  them  countenance  in  their 
passage  with  him. 

2204.  [p.  63.]    7  Apr.    '  Sent  by  express  at  \  past  one 
in  the  morning.'     S.  P.  to  Captain  Taylor? — Desires  him 
to   signify   to  the  officer  of  the  vice-admiralty  of  Essex 
touching  a  vessel  of  Scotch  coals  said  to  have  been  lately 
found  floating  at  sea  and  brought  into  Harwich  the  5th 
inst,  that  he  seize  her  as  a  derelict  to  the  use  of  the  king 
till  the  owners  shall  make  out  their  claim  thereto,  and  that 
he  take  care  that  the  charge  of  the  waiters  to  be  appointed 
to  the  said  vessel  and  other  incident  charges  be  rendered 
as  little  as  may  be ;   lastly,   that   no   pretender   to   any 
property  in  her  have  possession  given  him,  either  of  her  or 
any  part  of  her  lading,  until  he  make  a  legal  proof  of  his 
title  [2239,  2256]. 

2205.  [p.  64.]     8  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Waith?— Desires 
to   know  what  sum  of  money  was  paid  by  the  commis- 
sioners of  parliament  to   the  fleet  at  the  king's   coming 
in  for  wages  only,  and  what  may  be  estimated  to  remain 
yet  unpaid  for  wages  upon  that  old  arrear  [2230]. 

2206.  [p.  64.]     8  Apr.     S.  P.   to  Lord  Brouncker.4— 
Desires   his   view   of  the   reasonableness   of  the  present 
medium  of  the  navy  of  4/.  per  man  a  month. 

2207.  [p.  65.]     8  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  S  toe  kdale.*— \V\\\ 
move  the  king  and  lords  that  the  commander-in-chief  in  the 
Downs  may  assist  him  in  the  matter  of  passes  [2192,  2216]. 

2208.  [p.  65.]    8  Apr.    S.  P.  to  Commissioner  Tippet  ts? 
at  Portsmouth.— Desires  he  will  return  to  town. 

1  See  note  to  No.  2209. 

2  Storekeeper  at  Harwich.     See  ii.  44  n.  supra. 

3  See  ii.  313  n.  supra. 

4  Comptroller  of  the  treasurer's  accounts.    D.  N.  B.  vi.  469. 

5  Collector  of  customs  at  Dover  [2749]. 
*  Surveyor  of  the  navy  [1957]. 


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2209.  [p.  65.]     8  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Lord  Lcyenbergh?— 
Desires  him  to  hasten  down  the  ship  Charles  to  the  Nore, 
the  Pearl  being  ordered  to  depart   as  soon  as  ever  she 
comes  [2203,  2210]. 

2210.  [p.  66.]     8  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Booth,  Pearl, 
at  the  Nore. — Encloses  a  copy  of  the  directions  sent  him 
yesterday  touching  the  Swedish  vessels  [2203].     Lest  he 
may  not  have  received  the  original  of  the  king's  orders  for 
his  voyage  to   Gottenburg    (which   are   in   the   Swedish 
Resident's   hands),  and  that  the  same  should   be  indus- 
triously delayed  in  their  delivery  in  order  to  gain  convoy 
to  other  ships,  a  copy  of  these  orders  is  enclosed,  with 
directions  that  as   soon  as   the   ship   therein   mentioned 
[2209]  comes   down   to  him   he   is   not   to   stay  for,  the 
original  or  for  any  other  ships. 

2211.  [p.  66.]     8  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Sir  John  Duteil?  at 
Tangier. — Hears  that  he  has  been  arrived  at  Tangier  ever 
since  14  Feb.,  and  wonders  to  have  received  no  advice  of  it 
from  himself.     To  send  the  king  and  lords  a  journal  of  all 
his  proceedings,  from  his  last  arrival  at  Livorne  to  his  coming 
to  Tangier,  with  an  account  of  the  condition  of  the  galley, 
the  number  of  his  men  and  their  qualities,  the  state  of  his 
victualling  and  stores  and  all  his  disbursements,  his  stay 
at  each  port  where  he  has  called,  the  truth  of  Captain 
Flawes'  behaviour  in  reference  to  his  leaving  him  before 
his  coming  to  Tangier,  the  accommodation  he  meets  with 
there  for  the  safe  receiving  and  laying  of  the  galley,  &c. 

2212.  [p.  67.]     10  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Royden?- 
Hopes  he  has  received  the  orders  sent  last   post  for  his 
proceeding  to  Tangier.    Sends  herewith  orders  for  his  con- 
voying thither  two  victualling  ships  which  Sir  D.  Gauden 4 
saith  are  in  readiness. 

Postscript. — Encloses  also  orders  for  giving  Major  Fair- 
borne  5  passage  to  Tangier,  and  to  wait  at  Spithead  till  his 
arrival. 

1  MS.   'Lyonbergh.'     Sir  John   Barckman  Leyenbergh  was   the 
Swedish  Resident  [2203]. 

2  See  ii.  207  n.  supra. 

3  Commander  of  the  Guernsey  [2165].          *  See  note  to  No.  2518. 
5  Major  Palmes   Fairborne  was  a  distinguished  officer    in    the 

garrison  of  Tangier,  and  was  afterwards  governor  (D.N.B.  xviii.  125). 
He  was  knighted  13  April,  1675,  'for  services  at  Tangier'  (Shaw, 
The  Knights  of  England,  ii.  250). 


32  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS         Apr. 

2213.  [p.  67.]     10  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Sir  James  Johnson, 
Yarmouth. — Desires    an    answer  about   the    business    of 
Mr.  Gill  [2195].     Is  apt  to  mistrust  there  may  be  some- 
thing in  the  case  more  than  ordinary  from  his  having  this 
night  let  fall  his  pretence  of  having  been  the  first  proprietor 
of  the  said  vessels,  which  he  before  thought  fit  again  and 
again  to  declare  he  was  [2240]. 

2214.  [p.   69.']     12   Apr.     S.   P.   to  Matthew  Lock? 
Esquire. — By  the  direction  of  the  Duke  of  Monmouth,3 
the  writer  desires   him   to   prepare   orders   for   6   of  his 
Majesty's  guard  to  be  at  St.  George's  Church  in  South  - 
wark,  at  9  o'clock  on  the  morning  of  the  1 3th,  to  escort 
money  to  Portsmouth  for  the  garrison  of  Tangier  [2259]. 

2215.  [p.  69.1]     12  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Chambers,  at 
Pembroke. — Does  not  expect  that  the  Norwich  will  come 
thither. 

2216.  [p.  69.1]    12  Apr.    S.  P.  to  Mr.  Stockdale?  Dover, 
— Hopes  the  evil  of  the  passes  which  have,  so  much  to  the 
prejudice   of  navigation  and   his  Majesty's  honour,  been 
granted    with    so   little   limitation    by  his   neighbours   of 
Dover  [2207]  is  far  advanced  towards  a  remedy  [2298], 
though  knows  not  what  to  say  to  that  part  of  the  remedy 
which  he  tells  him  the  King  of  France  hath  taken  by 
ordering  the  seizure  of  all  Flemish-built   vessels   though 
guarded  with  passes. 

2217.  [p.  70. >]     12  Apr.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— 
Finds  they  concur  in  what  hath  long  been  his  opinion  from 
the  many  years'  observations  he  has  had  while   at  their 
board  of  the  consequence  of  having  particular  tradesmen 
warranted  to  serve  his  Majesty  in  their  respective  trades 
in  exclusion  to  others.     Therefore  chooses  most  willingly 
to  lay  down  any  consideration  of  his  particular  interest, 
and  will  endeavour  (beginning  in  the  case  of  the  painter 
of  Portsmouth  Yard  [2187])  the  keeping  their  liberty  of 
choice  of  tradesmen  enlarged  for  the  time  to  come  without 
the  restraint  they  have  hitherto  lain  under  in  that  par- 
ticular. 

1  Out  of  order  in  the  MS. 

2  Secretary  at  war  [1392]. 

3  In   January     1670,   Monmouth    had    succeeded  Albemarle    as 
captain-general  of  the  forces  (D.  N.  B.  li.  29). 

4  Collector  of  customs  at  Dover  [2749]. 


i6;5  FOURTH   VOLUME  33 

2218.  [p.  68.]     1 3  Apr.     The  same  to  the  same. — They 
are  to  allow  a  chirurgeon  to  the  Quaker  ketch  over  and 
above  the  10  men  lately  ordered  for  her  [2199],  the  healths 
of  the  men  requiring  it. 

2219.  [p.  68.]     13  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Thynne>—1o 
give  him  a  sight  of  the  letter  from  Harwich  about  his 
purchase  there. 

2220.  [p.  68.]     13  Apr.     S.   P.   to  Mr.  Waith.^—lo 
attend  the  lords  at  Derby  House  on  Wednesday,  the  I4th, 
in   order   to  their   receiving  some  satisfaction  from  him 
touching  the  moneys  due  to  the  Chest  from  Lord  Anglesey 

[1559]. 

Underwritten :  '  The  like  to  Mr.  Fenn.' 2 

2221.  [p.  70.]    13  Apr.    S.  P.  to  Lieutenant  Gauden?'— 
Mr.  Evans,  the  purser  of  the  Nonsuch,  endeavouring  to 
excuse  himself  to  the  lords  for  his  not  satisfying  a  debt 
due  from  him  to  one  Mr.  Park,4  alleges  that  he  is  the  king's 
creditor  by  more  than  2OO/.  Desires  to  know  the  truth  of  this. 

2222.  [p.  71.]     13  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Richard  Rooth? 
Adventure,  at  Portsmouth.— Has  written  to  the  master  of 
the  ordnance  about  his  having  a  supply  of  ammunition 
proportionable  to  his  foreign  service  [2236],  and  which  he 
says  the  Guernsey  hath  received  [2 1 56].     His  purser,  Mr. 
Bunce,  is  gone  towards  him.     Doubts  not  but  he  has  the 
number  of  men  established  for  his  ship  on  foreign  service 
in  time  of  peace,  which  is  as  many  as  hath  been  heretofore 
allowed  her  on  the  same  voyage,  and  to  which  the  Guernsey 
is  increased  [2131],  she  being  before  manned  only  for  time 
of  peace  in  the  Channel. 

2223.  [p.  71.]      13  Apr.      S.   P.  to  Captain    Taylor? 
Harwich. — The  exemption  claimed  by  the  town  of  Harwich 
from  the  power  of  the  admiralty  must  be  proved,  but  till 

1  MS.  'Thinn.'  •  See  ii.  313  n.  supra. 

3  Probably  Benjamin  Gauden,  the  son  of  Sir  Denis  Gauden,  who 
was  associated  with  his  father  and  others  in  the  victualling  contract 
(see  ii.  138  supra). 

4  *  Mr.  Park '  appears  again  at  the  end  of  the  letter  as  '  the  said 
Sparks.' 

5  Charnock  (Biog.  Nav.  i.  29)  gives  the  date  of  Captain  Rooth's 
knighthood  as  9  Mar.  i67[4-]5,  on  the  occasion  of  his  appointment 
to  command  the  Adventure  ;  but  Pepys's  letter  of  31  Mar.  (No.  2181) 
is  not  consistent  with  this.     The  date  of  the  patent  is  14  Apr.  (Shaw, 
The  Knights  of  England^  i.  250). 

c  Storekeeper  at  Harwich.     See  ii.  44  n.  supra. 

VOL.   III.  D 


34  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          Apr. 

then  the  jurisdiction  of  the  admiral  is  not  to  be  questioned 
especially  since  they  have  so  long  forborne  to  put  in  their 
claim. 

2224.  [p.  72.]     13  Apr.      S.   P.   to    Captain   Roy  den  > 
Guernsey,    Portsmouth. — Encloses   the   king's   orders    for 
giving  three  Moors  passage  to  Tangier,  for  whom  never- 
theless he  is  not  to  stay  ;  he  is  to  do  the  like  for  Mrs. 
Joan  Hopton. 

2225.  [p.  72.]     14  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Commissioner  Beach? 
at  Chatham. — Doubts  not   the  truth   of  his   report   and 
consequently  the  unfitness  of  Mr.  Brouncker  to  be  con- 
tinued   longer   in    the   service   [2194,  2633].     Desires   to 
know  how  far  the  pursers  some  time  since  suspended  by 
order  of  the  officers  of  the  navy — namely,  Brome,  purser 
of  the  Ruby,  and  Uthwat,  deputy-purser  of  the  Dunkirk — 
hath  given  him  satisfaction  in  the  matters  they  had  then 
offended  in,  and  whether  the  suspension  remains  still  upon 
them. 

2226.  [p.  72.]     14  Apr.     S.  P.  to   Captain    Clements, 
Greyhound,  Downs. — Has  received  his  of  the  I2th,  and  is 
glad  of  his  safe  return  into  the  Downs,  where   he   is   to 
remain  until  further  order.     Will  move  his  Majesty  con- 
cerning his  gunner. 

2227.  [p.  73.]     14  Apr.    S.  P.  to  Sir  Thomas  Chicheley:1 
— Being  at  a  loss  in  some  preparations  he  is  making  to 
answer  certain  present  inquiries  of  his  Majesty's  relating 
to  the  navy,  through  the  uncertainty  daily  found  in  the 
number  of  the  guns  appointed  to  this  or  that  particular 
ship,  the  writer  desires  that  in  the  enclosed  list  the  number 
of  guns  be  set  to  each  ship's  name  as  they  were  respectively 
gunned  within  the  time  of  the  late  Dutch  war. 

2228.  [p.  73.]     15  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Roy  den,  of 
the   Guernsey,   at    Portsmouth. — To   allow    passage    and 
victuals  to   Tangier  to  Thomas  Spencer,  William  Beard, 
and  19  others,  such  as  Lord  Inchiquin  3  shall  direct,  being 
soldiers  and  workmen  and  their  servants  desirous  to  serve 
his  Majesty  at  Tangier. 

2229.  [p.  73.]     15  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Robert  South- 
well*— The  enclosed  is  what  he  asks. 

1  Resident  commissioner  of  the  navy  at  Chatham. 

2  Master-general  of  the  ordnance.     D.  N.  B.  x.  231. 

3  See  note  to  No.  21 13.  *  See  ii.  63  n.  supra. 


1675  FOURTH   VOLUME  35 

2230.  [p.  74.]     15  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Fittingham.— 
Desires  to  know  the  sum  of  money  actually  paid  by  the 
commissioners  of  Parliament   upon  account  of  seamen's 
wages  belonging  to  the  ships  which  the  Parliament  under- 
took to  satisfy  of  those  which  were  abroad  at  the  time  of 
the  king's  coming  in,  and  how  much  remained  which  was 
not  so  satisfied  [2205]. 

2231.  [p.  74.]     1 5  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Lord  Leyenbergh}- 
Desires  his  lady  will  let  him  have  a  sight  of  the  survey- 
books  of  the  king's  ships  as  taken  by  Sir  William  Batten  2 
upon  or  soon  after  the  king's  coming  in  [2233]. 

2232.  [p.  74.]     15  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Lord  Brouncker?— 
Desires  he  will  appoint  a  time  to  confer  upon  some  general 
matters  of  the  navy. 

2233.  [p.  75.]     15  Apr.    S.  P.  to  Mr.  Hay ter.*— Desires 
'  a  view  of  the  first  survey  taken  after  the  king's  coming  in, 
in  order  to  the  enabling  us  the  more  fully  to  show  the 
true  state  of  the  ships  at  that  time.'     Prays  him  to  use  the 
writer's  name  to  any  to  whom  he  can  direct  his  inquiries, 
as  possibly  Mr.  Honywood,"5  or  the  executors  of  James 
Norman,6  or  Mr.  Uthwat,7  with  promises  of  returning  any 
books  or  papers,  as  he  will  in  the  meantime  himself  do  to 
Lady  Batten  [2231], 

The  marginal  reference  is  here,  as  in  No.  2231,  to  'the  surveys 
taken  by  Sir  William  Batten  after  the  king's  coming  in.' 

2234.  [p.   75.]     15   Apr.     S.  P.  to  Colonel  Piper*— 
Thanks  for  his  advice  of  the  nth  of  the  Phoenix.     Does 
not  despair  of  her  safety  notwithstanding  the  ill  condition 
the  Dutch  privateer  left  her  in  [2257]. 

2235.  [p.  75.]      15  Apr.     S.   P.    to    Captain  Roy  den, 

1  See  note  to  No.  2209. 

2  Sir  William  Batten  had  been  reappointed  surveyor  of  the  navy 
at  the  Restoration,  and  had  held  the  office  until  his  death  in  1667 
(D.  N.  B.  iii.  420).     In  1671  his  widow  married  the  '  Lord  Leyenbergh ' 
referred  to  in  the  text  (Pepys's  Diary,  ed.  Wheatley,  i.  286  n.\ 

3  Comptroller  of  the  treasurer's  accounts.     D.  N.  B.  vi.  469. 

4  See  note  to  No.  2102. 

5  MS.  'Honewood.'     See  the  Diary,  passim. 

u  Sir  William  Batten's  clerk  {Diary,  ii.  305  ;  iv.  92,  127). 

7  MS.  '  Vthwatt.'  The  reference  in  the  text  is  probably  to  the  Mr. 
'  Uthwayt '  who  is  mentioned  in  the  Diary  in  connection  with  Sir 
William  Batten  and  his  family  (see  Diary,  ii.  338  ;  v.  324).  He  was 
clerk  of  the  survey  at  Deptford  (ib.  vii.  172  n.}. 

*  Deputy-governor  of  Plymouth  [2667]. 

D2 


36  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          Apr. 

Guernsey,  Portsmouth. — Will  move  the  king  for  a  lieutenant 
for  him,  but  dare  not  promise  success,  as  his  ship  was  only 
fitted  forth  for  service  in  the  Channel,  and  his  stay  is  very 
uncertain  on  his  present  voyage  [2212]. 

2236.  [p.  76.]     15  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Richard  Rooth? 
Portsmouth. — Is  glad  his  ship  is  in  so  good  a  readiness, 
and  that  he  has  received  satisfaction  concerning  his  guns 
and  gunner's  stores  [2222].     Encloses  his  sailing  orders,  and 
hopes  Lord  Inchiquin'-2  will  suddenly  be  with  him  [2259]. 

2237.  [p.  76.]     15  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Mr.    Walker,  Mine- 
head.— Thanks  for  his  of  the  6th. 

2238.  [p.  76.]     15  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Taylor?— 
Desires  to  know  '  the  issue  of  the  French  vessels  waiting 
the  going  forth  of  the  Flushinger.' 

2239.  [p.  76.]     1 5  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Samuel  Newton, 
at  Harwich. — The  lords  are  satisfied  with  his  diligence  in 
executing  their  orders  touching  the  derelict  ship  [2204]. 
She  now  being  in  the  hands  of  the  admiralty,  and  provision 
made  for  her  being  kept  safe  from  embezzlement,  they 
leave  her  to  be  disposed  of  according  to  law. 

2240.  [p.  77.]     1 5  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Sir  James  Johnson, 
at  Yarmouth. — Will  not  trouble  the  lords    further  about 
Gill's  business  of  the  busses  [2213],  leaving  him  to  satisfy 
himself  as  he  shall   see   fit   [2258],  to   which  the   orders 
formerly  given  by  the  lords  to  Lord  Townshend  [2195] 
can  be  no  prejudice,  as  they  related  only  to  prevent  the 
Frenchman's  manning   them    with   Englishmen,  which  is 
contrary  to  the  articles  of  treaty  between  the  king  and  the 
States  of  Holland,4  by  which  articles  also  the  said  Gill  (if 
he  be)  or  whoever  else  indeed  is  the  first  proprietor  of  the 
said  busses,  may  appeal  to  his  Majesty  in  council  in  case 
they  find  themselves  aggrieved   by   any   of  his   subjects 
within  his  ports. 

Postscript. — Since  writing,  has  received  his  of  the  1 2th. 
The  lords  having  not  interposed  any  further  in  this  busi- 
ness than  to  prevent  the  breach  of  the  treaty  with  Holland 
by  the  said  busses  being  carried  away  by  English,  they  can- 
not take  cognisance  of  anything  else  relating  to  these  vessels. 

1  See  note  to  No.  2222. 

2  MS.  '  Insiqueen.'    See  note  to  No.  2113. 

3  Storekeeper  at  Harwich.     See  ii.  44  n.  supra. 
*  See  Chalmers's  Treaties,  i.  177-89. 


1675  FOURTH   VOLUME  37 

2241.  [p.  78.]    1 5  Apr.    S.  P.  to  Mr.  Porter}  at  Brussels. 
—A  yacht  shall  attend  him  at  Ostend  on  the  23rd,  in  de- 
pendence upon  his  being  ready  at  that  time.     Mentions 
this  in  regard  of  the  inconveniences  his  Majesty  hath  of  late 
met  with  from  the  long  stay  of  yachts  abroad,  by  which 
he  hath  been  induced  to  limit  the  time  for   their  future 
practice  in  that  case  to  4  days  after  their  arrival  at  the 
port,  and  from  the  day  they  were  directed  to  be  there  [2269]. 

2242.  [p.  78.]     17  Apr.    S.  P.  to  Captain  Baker?  Merlin 
yacht,  at  Portsmouth. — Did  not  fail,  as  soon  as  he  heard  of 
the  Mary  yacht's  misfortune,3  to  move  his  Majesty  and  his 
Royal  Highness  concerning  him  for  the  Cleveland,  but  they 
had  already  promised  it  to  a  commander  now  at  sea,  who 
hath  had  the  command  of  2nd-rate  ships,  and  hath  been  long 
designed  by  the  king  for  a  vacancy  among  the  best  of  the 
yachts.'     But  believes  that  the  service  of  Ireland  [2255] 
was  as  beneficial  to  the  captain  of  the  Mary  yacht  as  the 
captainship  of  any  yacht  that  remained  here  in  England. 
The  king  will  not  supply  furniture  for  the  accommodation 
of  passengers,  who  are  rarely  on  his  service  ;   thinks  the 
Mary  yacht  was  furnished  at  the  cost  of  her  captain,  or 
the  Lord  Lieutenant  of  Ireland,  or  others  who  have  been 
most  concerned  in  the  use  of  her. 

2243.  [p.  79.]      1 8  Apr.     Sunday  'morn.'     S.  P.  to 
Mr.  Tippetts? — Is  sorry  for  his  illness.     If  he  cannot  with- 
out hazard  come  at  8  to-morrow  morning,  the  writer  will 
wait  on  him  in  the  evening  about  6. 

Some  letters  are  come  to  hand  last  night  from  Tripoli 
signifying  a  breach  with  that  people  [2144,  2244]  ;  '  which 
I  doubt  not  you  will  think  as  well  as  I  to  be  very  ill  and 
unwelcome  news,  upon  the  consideration  of  the  interruption 
it  may  give  us  in  the  leisure  I  hoped  we  might  have  had 
for  attending  closely  to  the  repair  of  the  fleet  and  new 

1  Afterwards  Sir  Charles  Porter,  from    1686  lord  chancellor  of 
Ireland.    D.  N.  B.  xlvi.  170.  3  See  note  to  No.  2177. 

3  She  was  cast  away  near  Holyhead  (i.  295,  supra). 

4  The  reference  is  to  Captain  William  Davies,  who  had  com- 
manded the  St.  George  and  the  Triumph,  both  2nd-rates,  and  was 
now  at  sea  in  command  of  the  Foresight,  a  4th-rate  (i.  343,  supra). 
He  was  not  actually  appointed  to  the  Cleveland  yacht  until  1 1  July, 
1676  (ibid.}     Charnock  remarks  with  regard  to  this  appointment  that 
it  was  '  always  esteemed  highly  honourable  to  the  officer  on  whom  it 
is  bestowed,  as  it  is  considered  a  professional  reward  for  meritorious 
service '  (Biog.  Nav.  i.  159).  r>  Surveyor  of  the  navy  [1957]. 


3$  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          Apr. 

building.'  Desires  his  advice  touching  what  8  ships  of  the 
4th  and  5th  rates  may  be  with  most  despatch  and  least 
present  charge  set  forth  against  that  people,  regard  being 
had  to  the  goodness  of  their  sailing.  Entreats  an  answer 
against  3  o'clock  this  afternoon,  when  a  council  is  sum- 
moned on  purpose  to  debate  this  matter.  There  is  also  a 
3rd  rate  intended  to  go  in  the  room  of  the  Henrietta, 
'  which  by  some  accident  she  has  met  with  by  foul  weather 
at  sea  Sir  John  Narbrough  '  reports  to  be  in  no  fit  con- 
dition to  stay  longer  abroad.'  The  king  has  the  Harwich 
in  his  thoughts,  unless  he  can  propound  a  better  [2244]. 

Postscript. — Supposes  these  ships  should  be  sheathed, 
'  or  at  least  the  Harwich,  as  being  a  new  and  therefore  a 
sweet  ship  to  invite  the  worm.' 

2244.  [p.  80.]      19   Apr.     S.   P.    to    Sir  John  Nar- 
brough,1 commander  of  the   Henrietta. — Received  his   of 
9  Mar.  on  the  I7th  inst.,  he  being  then  on  his  way  from 
Tripoli  towards  Malta  and  Livorne,  which  letter  has  been 
communicated   to  the    king   and    lords    and    the    matter 
thereof  particularly  debated.     They  are  satisfied  with  his 
proceedings  pursuant  to  his  instructions  of  23  and  30  Nov. 
last ;  '  wherein  though  you  may  easily  believe  that  at  this 
time  a  war  of  no  kind  can  be  very  acceptable,  and  least  of 
all  one  so  far  from  home,  and  from  whence  charge  to  his 
Majesty  and  loss  to  his  subjects  may  be  found  without 
hopes  of  much  reparation  to  either,  nothing  seems  to  be 
wished  for  in  relation  to  this  breach  than  that  his  Majesty's 
said  instructions  could  have  found  you  before  your  depar- 
ture from  Argeir  and  your  sending  away  from  you  the 
ships  which  you  then  had  in  company,  the  sight  whereof 
,  .  might  probably  have  inclined  the  people  of  that  place 
to  some  carefuller  thoughts  of  preserving  a  good  corre- 
spondence with  us  than  by  your  letter  they  seem  to  have 
had,  though  that  also  I  find  doubtful  when  I  consider  that 
part  of  your  letter  which  tells  me  that  their  men-of-war 
which  were  abroad  at  the  time  of  your  coming  thither  had 
instructions  to  bring  in  all  the  English  ships  4liey  should 
meet  with  at  sea  ;  that  implying  an  absolute  resolution  of 
war  with  us,  whatever  your  force  had  been.' 

Matters,  however,  being  as  they  are,  his  Majesty  hath, 

1  D.  N.  B.  xl.  89. 


i6;5  FOURTH    VOLUME  39 

with  the  advice  of  the  lords,  concluded  to  prosecute  the 
war  as  vigorously  as  his  present  condition  will  allow  him, 
as  he  will  find  by  his  orders  enclosed.  He  designs  to  call 
the  Henrietta  home,  and  in  her  room  to  give  him  the 
Harwich  [2243].  The  Success  also  is  intended  home,  and 
likewise  the  Newcastle,  upon  Captain  Wetwang's  l  report  of 
her  ill  condition  ;  in  the  room  thereof  he  is  to  keep  with  him 
the  Dragon,  now  in  the  Straits,  under  the  command  of  Sir 
Roger  Strickland  2  (who  in  case  of  any  accident  is  designed 
to  succeed  him  in  his  charge),  and  the  Diamond,  who  by 
orders  long  since  sent  to  Cadiz  is  directed  to  join  him  on 
her  arrival  there  from  New  York.  To  these  the  king  is 
pleased  to  add  the  Portsmouth,  Jersey,  Constant  War- 
wick, Assurance,  and  Dartmouth,  but  in  a  most  especial 
manner  recommends  it  to  him  that  he  '  keep  a  strict  hand 
and  eye  upon  them,  that  they  spend  not  their  time  as  in 
like  cases  heretofore  fleets  have  been  complained  of  to  do 
in  going  from  port  to  port,  and  loitering  there  upon  par- 
ticular occasions  of  their  own,'  '  but  that  you  will  with  all 
imaginable  strictness  call  from  time  to  time  for  their 
journals,  and  upon  view  thereof  exact  from  them  a  satisfac- 
tory account  of  all  their  proceedings,  enabling  me  to  inform 
his  Majesty  and  my  lords  of  the  admiralty  in  any  case 
where  commanders  shall  be  found  in  any  sort  failing 
therein  ;  it  being  little  less  than  demonstrable  that  for 
want  hereof  every  former  expedition  into  the  Straits  hath 
been  of  more  than  double  the  charge  it  ought  to  have 
been,  besides  the  infamy  brought  thereby  upon  the  honour  of 
the  king's  service  and  disappointment  to  the  designs  thereof.' 
He  is  to  consider  what  place  may  be  most  useful  for  a 
general  rendezvous  and  refitting  and  victualling,  the 
distance  of  Livorne  rendering  it  unfit  to  be  continued  for 
that  work.  The  king  and  lords  incline  to  think  Malta 
[2279]  the  fittest  for  this  purpose  ('  since  the  present  war 
between  the  Spaniard  and  French  renders  Messina  uncap- 
able  of  it ')  by  the  '  appositeness  of  its  situation  '  in  regard 
both  to  Tripoli  itself  and  the  stations  where  the  Tripoline 
ships  '  do  generally  keep  in  expectation  of  purchase.' 3 
The  difficulty  is  its  want  of  provisions. 

1  D.  N.  B.  lx.  388.  2  Ibid.  Iv.  52. 

3  'Purchase'   is  used  here  in  the  old  sense  of  'prey,'   'booty,' 
'  plunder.' 


40  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          Apr. 

Presumes  2  or  3  fireships  will  be  added  to  these  8 
ships.  Desires  his  opinion  of  the  best  way  of  proceeding, 
'  your  description  of  the  narrowness  of  the  place,  and  their 
being  reduced  to  laying  anchors  in  the  channel  as  often 
as  they  expect  any  attack  from  an  enemy,  prompting  the 
king  to  a  thought  that  it  might  be  no  unsuccessful 
attempt  to  sink  a  vessel  or  two  in  their  channel,  and 
thereby  choking  it  up  to  render  it  unpassable.'  He  is  not 
to  attack  any  of  the  Tripoline  vessels  in  the  ports  of  the 
Grand  Signior.  Till  he  hears  to  the  contrary,  Livorne 
is  to  be  esteemed  the  place  for  all  intelligence  to  be 
directed  to. 

2245.  [p.  83.]    19  Apr.   S.  P.  to  Mr.  Ball,1  at  Livorne.— 
To  deliver  the  enclosed  [2244]. 

2246.  [p.  83.]     19  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Sir  M.  Wescombe? 
at  Cadiz. — To  deliver  the  enclosed  letters   to   the    com- 
manders of  the  Mary  Rose  and  the  Diamond. 

2247.  [p.  83.]     20  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Pett?  Chatham. 
— To  send  word  when  the  flyboat  he  has  contracted  to 
build  at  Woodbridge  will  be  in  readiness  to  launch  [2362]. 

2248.  [p.  83.]     20  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Richard  Rooth* 
— As  to  what  he  desires  concerning  an  addition    to   his 
number  of  men,  his  midshipmen  extraordinary  and  volun- 
teers are  to  be  borne  as  supernumerary  to  his  ship's  com- 
plement, as  was  done  for  Sir  Roger  Strickland5  [1969]. 

2249.  [p.  83.]     20  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Williams? 
Portsmouth. — Leave  to  come  to  town  for  14  days. 

2250.  [p.  85.7]     22  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Sanderson, 
Portsmouth,8  at  Dover. — On  his  arrival   at   Dieppe  with 
Mr.  Lamotte  he  is  to  bring  back  Mrs.  Le  Febure  to  what 
port  in  England  she  desires. 

2251.  [p.  84.]    23  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Sir  John  Narbrough, 
at  Livorne. — For  fear  of  miscarriage,  encloses  a  duplicate 
of  his  of  the  I9th  [2244],  and  the  orders  therein  sent.     The 
king  would  have  him  sound  the  entrance  of  the  harbour  at 
Tripoli  towards  seeing  if  the  sinking  of  flyboats  to  stop  up 

1  Consul  at  Leghorn  [2435].  2  Consul  at  Cadiz  [1553]. 

3  See  ii.  92  n.  supra.  *  See  note  to  No.  2222. 

5  Commander  of  the  Dragon  [2058].    D.  N.  B.  Iv.  52. 

6  See  note  to  No.  2180.  7  Out  of  order  in  the  MS. 

8  Captain  Ralph  Sanderson  was  commander  of  the  Portsmouth 
yacht  (i.  403  supra}.  There  was  also  a  4th  rate  of  the  same  name  (ib. 
274). 


1675  FOURTH   VOLUME  41 

the  passage,  at  least  against  their  greater  ships,  can   be 
done  or  no. 

'  Since  the  writing  my  last,  I  have  met  with  some  dis- 
course among  the  merchants,  who  (though  generally  our 
friends)  I  find  still  inclined  to  be  dissatisfied  with  all  that 
is  done  (though  designed  expressly  for  their  service),  that 
your  declaring  of  a  war,  though  never  so  well  grounded, 
was  a  little  too  sudden  in  regard  to  the  considerableness  of 
their  effects,  which  they  say  are  at  this  time  coming  home 
and  will  be  exposed  to  great  danger  as  not  being  provided 
against  the  war ;  which  though  it  may  possibly  be  in  some 
degree  true,  yet  I  do  not  find  the  merchants  do  agree  in 
their  complaints,  there  being  those  that  do  as  much  ap- 
prove of  it  as  others  censure  it,  but  whether  one  or  t'other, 
it  will  be  well  remembered  that  the  instructions  sent  you 
were  drawn  by  the  advice  and  upon  the  joint  application 
of  several  of  the  considerablest  of  the  merchants  of  the 
Turkey  Company  [2350].  True  it  is  .  .  .  it  was  presumed 
that  the  said  instructions  would  have  come  time  enough 
to  you  to  have  stopped  the  sending  away  of  the  ships 
which  were  in  your  company  at  Argeir,  that  you  might 
have  taken  them  along  with  you  to  Tripoli,  whose  appear- 
ance might  possibly  have  awed  the  Tripolines  into  some 
better  inclination  to  the  giving  satisfaction  to  his  Majesty, 
but  as  it  proves  by  what  you  are  informed  by  Consul 
Bradly  l  they  had  before  your  arrival  commissioned  their 
ships  then  abroad  to  bring  in  all  Englishmen,  so  as  that 
they  had  already  prevented  you  in  the  declaration  of  the 
war,  and  put  it  out  of  your  power  to  continue  a  peace 
unless  you  would  without  insisting  upon  restitution  have 
begged  one  of  them  upon  their  own  terms,  which,  I  pre- 
sume, none  of  the  merchants — the  most  dissatisfied — would 
have  been  pleased  with.' 

The  king  'is  so  intent  upon  bettering  your  strength 
against  this  people,  that  1  have  reason  to  believe  he  will 
take  a  couple  of  ships  from  some  other  services  to  which 
they  were  designed  and  send  them  away  towards  you 
within  few  days,  particularly  the  Swallow  and  Dart- 
mouth,' for  whom  instructions  should  be  lodged  at 
Livorne. 

Underwritten:  'Duplicate  hereof  sent  17  May  to  Livorne.' 
1  Mr.  Arthur  Bradly  was  consul  at  Tripoli  [2408]. 


42  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          Apr. 

2252.  [p.  85.]     23  Apr.     S.  P.   to   Sir  J.   Smyth}- 
Desires  of  him  an  account  of  the  provisions  and  stores  for 
the  writer's  report  to  the  House  of  Commons  to-morrow 
morning  on  the  state  of  the  navy  [2282]. 

2253.  [p.  86.]     23  Apr.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board— 
They  are   to  despatch  the  Swallow  and  Dartmouth  into 
the  Straits  [2251],  '  his  Majesty  pressing  very  earnestly  to 
have  them  forthwith  gone.' 

2254.  [p.  86.]     23  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Tippetts?—£)Q- 
sires  to  know  what  works  are  in  hand  in  the  king's  yards, 
'  that  I  may  be  able  to  show  we  are  not  wholly  idle  (as 
some  would  have  us)  but  doing  something,  and  what  that 
something  is '  [2252]. 

2255.  [p.  86.]      23   Apr.      'Sent   to   Portsmouth  by 
express  at  6  in  the  evening.'     6".  P.  to  Captain  Baker? — To 
stay  where  he  is,  as  the  Mon mouth   yacht   is   to   go   to 
Ireland  in  the  room  of  his  [2242],  she  being  a  fitter  vessel 
for  those  seas  [2262].      The  Monmouth  is  gone  over  to 
Dieppe  with  instructions  to  return  to  Portsmouth. 

2256.  [p.  86.]     24  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Taylor?  at 
Harwich. — The  lords  leave  the  business  of  the  Scotch  ship 
to  be  determined  according  to  law  [2204]. 

2257.  [p.    87.]     24  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Colonel  Piper?  at 
Plymouth. — Thanks  for  his  of  the  2Oth  with  the  good  news 
of  the  safe  arrival  of  the  Phoenix  [2234]. 

225S.  [p.  87.]  24  Apr.  S.  P.  to  Sir  James  Johnson, 
at  Yarmouth. — The  lords  find  no  ground  for  their  inter- 
posing any  further  in  the  business  of  the  busses,  or  of  Mr. 
Gill,  their  pretended  proprietor  [2240,  2276]. 

2259.  [p.  87.]     24  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Richard  Rooth?  at 
Portsmouth. — Thanks  for  his  account  of  the  2Oth  of  having 
received  the  moneys  for  Tangier  [22 1 4]  from  Mr.  Steventon. 
Is  sorry  Lord  Inchiquin  is  still  in  town  [2236], '  the  busi- 
ness  of  Sallee   calling  every   day    for  your  being   there, 
which  I  the  rather  say  to  you  that  you  may  in  your  own 
behalf  prevent  the  loss  of  any  time  in  Ireland.' 

2260.  [p.    88.]      25  Apr.      S.   P.   to    Captain   Lovell, 

1  Sir  Jeremy  Smyth  was  comptroller  of  the  victualling.    D.  N.  B. 
li".  65.  2  Surveyor  of  the  navy  [1957]. 

3  Commander  of  the  Merlin  yacht.     See  No.  2177. 

4  Storekeeper  at  Harwich.     See  ii.  44  «.  supra. 

6  Deputy-governor  of  Plymouth  [2667].        °  See  note  to  No.  2222. 


i6;5  FOURTH   VOLUME  43 

Katharine  yacht. — To  hasten  to  Dunkirk,  the  Spanish 
Minister  being  ready  to  come  away  and  expected  there 
upon  the  28th  [2261]. 

2261.  [p.  88.]     26  Apr.     '  Sent  to  Dunkirk.'     The  same 
to  the  same. — To  fetch  the  Spanish  envoy  from  Ostend,  his 
orders  of  the  25th  [2260]  notwithstanding. 

2262.  [p.  88.]    27  Apr.    S.  P.  to  Captain  Baker?  Merlin 
yacht,   at    Portsmouth. — If  he   has   no   objection    to  the 
Merlin's  going  to  Ireland,  he  may  set  forward  upon  his 
former  orders  [2242,  2255].     But  if  he  think  her  not  so 
fit  for  those  seas,  particularly  by  '  her  sharpness,  and  her 
being  thereby  rendered  less  fit  to  lie  on  ground,'  and  that 
on  that  account  the  Monmouth  must  go,  he  is  not  to  expect 
to  remove  into  the  Monmouth  unless  Captain  Kempthorne 2 
shall  be  contented  with  it  [2265], 

2263.  [p.  90.3]     29  Apr.     S.  P.  to  the  Mayor  of  Rye  — 
Desires  information  about  a  shallop  belonging  to  the  post- 
master of  Calais  called  the  St.  John,  of  Calais,  Nicholas 
Battell,  master,  alleged  to  have  been  lately  chased  into  Rye 
by  a  caper  of  Flushing,  and  afterwards  there  arrested  by 
one  Mark  Thomas  and  her  master  and   company  put  in 
prison,  '  under  pretence  that  she  was  employed  in  trans- 
porting of  wool.' 

2264.  [p.  89.]     30  Apr.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board— 
Will  receive  the  pleasure  of  the  king  and  lords  concerning 
the  caulkers  necessary  to  be  sent  down  to  Portsmouth  for  the 
despatch  of  the  new  ship.4    Orders  were  sent  them  yesterday 
for  fitting  the    Bristol    and   Yarmouth ;    they   shall   also 
suddenly  know  the  king's  resolutions  concerning  the  Mon- 
mouth yacht  in  case  he  shall  order  her  to  Ireland  [2262, 
2265].    The  king  will  comply  with  the  desires  of  the  Chest 
in  having  the  conveyances  of  the  marsh  land  near  Chatham 
made  immediately  to  them.     The  lords  desire  their  opinion 
as  to  the  complement  fitting  for  the  Harwich,  Ann  and 
Christopher,  and    Wivenhoe,  and    for   the  Eagle  also,  in 
case  she  be  sent  to   the    Straits.     As   concerning    Major 
Beckford's 5  declining  to  furnish  clothes  to  the  ships  now 

1  See  note  to  No.  2177.  -  See  ii.  113  n.  supra. 

3  Out  of  order  in  the  MS.  4  The  Royal  James  [2342]. 

'  Major  Thomas  Beckford  was  slopseller  to  the  navy  (Cal.  S.  P. 
Dom.  1673,  index;  ;  he  was  a  member  of  the  Clothworkers'  Company 
(ib.  1675-6,  p.  1 68). 


44  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          May 

bound  out  to  the  Straits,  they  are  to  consider  whether 
there  be  any  expedient  for  answering  the  demands  of  these 
ships  with  slops  without  putting  Major  Beckford  to  do  it 
under  the  lords'  and  his  present  dissatisfactions. 

2265.  [p.  90.]    i  May.    S.  P.  to  Captain  Baker?  Merlin 
yacht,  at  Portsmouth. — The  Monmouth  is  to  go  to  Ireland, 
as  the  fitter  for  lying  on  ground,  so  unless  he  and  Captain 
Kempthorne  can  agree  to  change  vessels  by  consent,  it  will 
be  the  latter's  turn  to  go  [2262,  2267]. 

2266.  [p.  91.]    i  May.    S.  P.  to  Commissioner  Beach? - 
Captain  Killigrew,  being  removed  out  of  the  Swan,3  hath 
taken  along  with  him  several  men  to  serve  in  the  Harwich, 
which  being  not  in  condition  to  receive  them,  he  prays 
nevertheless  that  they  may  be  entered  into  pay  to  keep 
them  for  his  use.     The  king's  pleasure  is  that  if  he  has 
present  service  to  employ  them  on  as  seamen  relating  to 
the  said  ship  they  may  be  entered,  but  if  not  his  Majesty 
'  doth  not  apprehend  the  want  of  seamen  such  in  time  of 
peace  as  should  need  the   taking  them    into   his  charge 
before  there  be  work  for  them,  though  we  were  driven  to 
submit  to  that  and  a  great  many  other  chargeable  diffi- 
culties during  the  war '  [2283]. 

2267.  [p.  91.]     i  May.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Kempthorne? 
Monmouth  [yacht],  at  Portsmouth. — In  answer  to  his  of 
the  27  Apr.  intimating  his  return   from  France  and  his 
being  at  Portsmouth,  these  are  to  tell  him  that  either  he 
or  the  Merlin  is  to  attend  the  coast  and  service  of  Ireland 
in  the  room  of  the  Mary  lately  lost 5 ;    and  the  Merlin 
being  judged  not  fit  through  the  rankness  of  her  keel  to 
lie  on  ground  at  Holyhead,  it  will  be  for  his  vessel  to  go ; 
but  he  may  if  he  wishes  exchange  with  the  commander 
of  the  Merlin  [2265,  2277]. 

2268.  [p.  92.]     3  May.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Carter*  Swan, 
in  the  Hope. — His  complement  of  95  agreed  on  by  the 
officers  of  the  navy  for  foreign   service  in  time  of  peace 

1  See  note  to  No.  2177. 

2  Resident  commissioner  of  the  navy  at  Chatham. 

s  See  note  to  No.  2159.  Captain  Killigrevv's  new  commission  to 
the  Harwich  is  dated  22  April,  1675  ('•  374  su^ra). 

4  See  ii.  1 13  ».  supra.  *  See  note  to  No.  2242. 

fi  Captain  Richard  Carter,  hitherto  commander  of  the  Crown 
[1786],  had  been  appointed  to  the  Swan,  in  succession  to  Captain 
Killigrew  [2266],  by  a  commission  dated  12  April,  1675  (>•  332>  supra}. 


i675  FOURTH   VOLUME  45 

cannot  be  increased  without  special  order  from  the  king, 
who  will  at  no  time  grant  it  without  the  advice  of  the 
board.  It  is  true  an  increase  hath  been  made  to  ships 
going  into  the  Straits  of  40  extra  to  a  4th  rate  and  20 
to  a  5th  upon  the  score  of  the  present  war  with  Tripoli, 
which  increase  he  also  may  take  so  soon  as  he  comes 
thither  and  the  war  continues,  but  not  before  nor  other- 
wise, no  other  ship  having  the  said  increase  upon  any 
other  terms.  If  he  takes  Englishmen  out  of  Dutch  ships, 
he  is  to  do  it  with  as  much  gentleness  as  he  can,  that  the 
Dutch  commanders  may  have  no  cause  to  complain  of  any 
ill-usage  within  our  ports.  To  lose  no  time  in  getting  to  sea. 

2269.  [p.  92.]     3  May.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Gunman.1— 
Mr.  Porter 2  having  been  carried  back  to  Brussels  by  some 
commands  of  his  Majesty's,  and  being  determined  without 
fail  to  be  at  Ostend  upon  the  4th  or  5th,  he  is  to  hasten 
back  thither  and  stay  till  he  comes  [2241]. 

2270.  [p.  93.]     4  May.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Kempthorne? 
Monmouth,4  at  Portsmouth. — Leave  to  come  up  to  town 
for  a  week  before  going  to  Ireland  [2267]. 

2271.  [p.  93.]     5  May,  '  at  8  in  the  morning.'     5.  P.  to 
Mr.  Hayter?* — Because  the  writer  would  be  very  perfect  in 
the  number  of  the  places,  whether  his  Majesty's  or  private 
men['s],  where  ist,  2nd,  and  3rd  rate  ships  may  find  present 
conveniences  to  be  built,  he  encloses  Commissioner  Deane's 6 
paper  with  a  draught  of  the  method  begun  in  the  writer's  own 
hand,  and  desires  him  with  the  assistance  of  the  surveyor  7 
and  Commissioner  Deane  to  finish  it  some  time  this  day. 

2272.  [p.  93.]     5  May.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Atkins,  on 
board  the  Phoenix,  in  the  Downs. — The  king's  resolution 
of  doing  right  to  Lieutenant  How  [2273]  by  giving  him  a 
commission  for  the  ship 8  hath  not  arisen  from  any  personal 
displeasure   towards   himself,  but  '  out  of  regard  to  that 
justice  which  must  be  preserved  in  all  matters  of  that  kind 

1  Commander  of  the  Anne  yacht  [1958]. 

2  See  note  to  No.  2241.  3  See  ii.  113^.  supra. 

*  The  Monmouth  yacht  [2264].  There  was  also  a  3rd-rate  of  the 
same  name  (i.  270,  supra).  5  See  note  to  No,  2102. 

6  Resident  commissioner  of  the  navy  at  Portsmouth.  D.N,B. 
xiv.  251.  7  Mr.  John  Tippetts  [1957]. 

8  Lieutenant  John  How's  commission  from  the  king  to  be  captain 
of  the  Phoenix  was  dated  23  April,  1675  (i.  368,  supra).  Pepys's  Register 
of  Sea-Officers  enters  it  as  a  lieutenant's  commission,  but  see  No.  2470. 


46  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          May 

or  the  whole  discipline  of  the  navy  must  be  abandoned,  in 
which  nothing  is  less  to  be  controverted  than  the  right  of 
a  lieutenant  to  succeed  to  the  command  of  the  ship  upon 
the  death  of  his  captain,  at  least  until  he  shall  come  within 
the  reach  of  his  Majesty  or  the  lord  high  admiral,  who 
have  never  to  this  day  (as  I  know  of)  done  anything  to 
the  prejudice  of  the  surviving  lieutenant,  nor  will  I  suppose 
ever  be  led  to  do  it  where  nothing  is  laid  to  the  charge 
of  that  lieutenant  that  might  deserve  such  severity.' 

'  As  to  my  own  particular,  besides  the  impartiality 
which  I  pretend  to  govern  myself  by  in  all  other  cases, 
there  will  be  little  ground  to  suspect  me  of  any  other  deal- 
ings in  this,  the  lieutenant  being  one  I  never  saw,  much 
less  have  any  particular  concernment  for,  he  having  had 
his  commission  given  him  by  Captain  Rooth  at  sea ; 
whilst  on  the  other  hand  I  have  that  especial  regard  to 
my  noble  friend  your  father,  Sir  Jonathan  Atkins,1  as 
would  easily  incline  me  to  the  giving  preference  to  a  son 
of  his  on  any  fair  occasion.  But  right  is  right,  and  shall 
never  on  any  consideration  receive  interruption  where  I 
can  prevent  it,  and  least  of  all  where  the  prejudice  attend- 
ing his  Majesty  from  it  may  be  of  importance  a  thousand- 
fold more  than  the  benefit  of  the  private  person  that  is  to 
be  gratified  by  it.  I  therefore  desire  and  expect  your 
taking  it  in  good  part  from  me,  as  being  with  all  reality 
your  very  faithful  and  humble  servant.' 

2273.  [p.  95.]  5  May.  '  Sent  to  the  Downs.'  5.  P.  to 
Captain  How,  of  the  Phoenix. — The  king  and  lords  expect 
a  much  fuller  information  from  his  journal  of  his  proceed- 
ings with  the  Phoenix  since  the  death  of  Captain  Watson 2 
[2272].  '  As  to  your  latter  letter  I  find  something  to  take 
very  ill  from  you,  and  the  more  upon  account  of  another 
letter  from  one  whose  hand  I  know  not,  not  from  any  un- 
reasonableness in  what  you  ask,  it  being  a  thing  so  just 
that  without  your  knowledge,  much  less  bespeaking,  I 
had  moved  his  Majesty  for  and  despatched  it  towards  you 
by  his  commission  of  the  25th  of  April,  i67$.3  .  .  .  But 
that  which  I  have  reason  to  take  amiss  from  you  is  your 
thinking  that  any  consideration  of  benefit  to  myself  or 

1  Governor  of  the  Barbados  (Cal.  S.  P.  Dom.  1675-6,  p.  in). 

8  Captain  George  Watson  :  see  ii.  33  n.  supra. 

3  Pepys's  Register  gives  the  date  as  23  April  (i.  368,  supra). 


i6;5  FOURTH   VOLUME  47 

expectation  of  reward  from  you  should  be  of  any  induce- 
ment with  me.  Therefore  pray  reserve  that  sort  of  argu- 
ment for  such  as  will  be  guided  by  it,  and  know  that  your 
meriting  well  of  the  king  is  the  only  present  that  shall 
ever  operate  with  me,  and  that  it  was  my  belief  of  your 
having  so  done  that  led  me  unknown  and  without  your 
asking  to  the  moving  his  Majesty  for  that  just  kindness.' 

2274.  [p.  95.]     6  May.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Fowfer,1  of 
the  Swallow,  in  the  Hope. — Is  this  day  advised  that  Sir 
John  Berry 2  has  sent  him  down  28  men  of  the  34  which  he 
is  said  to  have  taken  away  with  him  out  of  the  Swallow 
(besides  his  retinue  and  trumpets).     It  will  be  matter  of 
no  small  displeasure  to  the  king  to  hear  of  any  loss  of 
time  in  his  sailing,  having  been  so  complied  with  by  Sir 
J.B.  beyond  what  he  could  reasonably  have  expected. 

2275.  [p.  95.]    6  May.    S.  P.  to  Sir  John  Berry?  of  the 
Bristol,  at  Deptford. — Will  acquaint  the  king  and  lords  of 
his  readiness  in  complying  with  his  orders  for  returning  so 
many  men  to  the  Swallow  [2274]. 

2276.  [p.  96.]     8  May.     S.  P.  to  Sir  James  Johnson,  a,t 
Yarmouth. — The  lords  will  bear  him  out  in  what  he  has 
done   pursuant   to   their   orders,  and    so  the   writer    will 
acquaint  Mr.  Gill  [2240,  2258]. 

2277.  [p.  96.]     8  May.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Kempthorne? 
Monmouth  yacht,  at  Portsmouth. — Understanding  he  de- 
sires to  go  to  Ireland,  the  writer  will  signify  to  Captain 
Baker  that  he  is  to  do  so  [2267,  2278]. 

2278.  [p.  96.]  8  May.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Baker,4'  Merlin 
yacht,   at    Portsmouth. — Sir   John    Kempthorne3  having 
signified  that  his  son,  Captain  Kempthorne,  chooses  rather 
to  proceed  in  the  Monmouth  to  the  coast  of  Ireland  than 
to  remove  into  the  Merlin,  the  king  assents  thereto,  and 
the  Merlin  is  to  continue  in  her  station  about  Portsmouth 
[2277]. 

2279.  [p.  97.]     10  May.     '  Sent  to  Sir  Thomas  Clutter- 

1  Captain  Thomas  Fowler,  who  had   formerly   commanded   the 
Rupert  [1308],  had  been  appointed  to  the  Swallow  by  a  commission 
dated  27  April,  1675  ('•  352>  supra}. 

2  D.N.B.  iv.  398.     Sir  John  Berry   had   been  transferred  from 
the  Swallow  to  the  Bristol   by  a  commission  dated  28  April,  1675 
(i.  324,  supra). 

3  See  ii.  ii3».  supra.  4  See  note  to  No.  2177. 


48  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          May 

buck  l  for  conveyance  in  his  packet.'  S.  P.  to  Sir  John 
Narbrough?  at  Livorne. — '  His  Majesty  resents  very  justly 
the  ill-usage  you  have  received  from  the  Court  of  Florence 
in  your  being  denied  pratique 3  and  the  use  of  their  hulk, 
and  purposeth  in  due  manner  to  take  notice  of  the  same 
to  the  Grand  4  Duke  [2350],  and  in  the  meantime,  as  he  is 
pleased  to  observe  also  and  take  in  very  good  part  from 
you  the  care  you  have  expressed  in  the  making  the  best 
shift  you  otherwise  could  to  despatch  the  refitting  of  his 
ships  without  the  helps  you  might  reasonably  have  expected 
from  the  place,  so  it  hath  put  him  to  the  considering  of 
some  other  place  to  be  from  henceforward  the  rendezvous 
of  his  ships  [2244],  wherein  he  hath  had  regard  to  what 
you  propound  concerning  Malta  and  what  hath  here  been 
objected  thereto  by  Commissioner  Beach  5  [2283],  and  the 
place  by  him  propounded  in  lieu  thereof,  namely,  Little 
Cephalonia,6  which  his  Majesty  is  pleased  to  leave  to  you 
to  determine  of,'  as  being  upon  the  place.  Desires  the 
result,  of  his  opinion  what  place  from  henceforward  he 
would  propound  for  his  rendezvous  [2350].  Meanwhile 
provisions  and  stores  of  all  sorts  will  be  made  ready  for 
the  supply  of  his  fleet,  to  be  directed  to  what  place  he 
shall  advise. 

'  The  hopes  you  seem  to  have  of  obtaining  something 
this  summer  upon  the  Tripolines  towards  the  reducing 
them  to  terms  of  reason,  are  (you  may  believe)  very 
welcome '  to  the  king  and  lords,  '  to  whom  the  charge  of 
the  war  is  at  this  time  very  irksome ;  yet  not  so  as  to 
invite  them  to  the  letting  fall  or  slackening  your  prose- 
cution of  it  with  all  the  vigour  that  may  be,  until  by  the 
intercepting  some  of  their  ships,  disturbing  their  trade, 
or  other  inconveniences,  that  people  shall  be  brought  to 
desire  peace  from  his  Majesty  by  offer  of  heads  [2350]  or 
some  other  pecuniary  satisfaction  to  be  made  at  times 
(though  not  at  once) — or  by  some  other  way  that  may  let 
the  world  see  that  his  Majesty  doth  not  pass  by  their  late 
violating  of  articles  without  some  apparent  satisfaction. 

1  Victualler  for  the  Mediterranean.     See  ii.  236  n.  supra. 

2  D.N.B.  xl.  89.  3  MS.  'prattick.'  "  MS.  'great.' 

5  Resident  commissioner  of  the  navy  at  Chatham. 

6  The  island  of  Ithaca,  east  of  Cephalonia,  was  sometimes  known 
as  Little  Cephalonia. 


1675  FOURTH   VOLUME  49 

The  want  whereof  would  but  lead  them  and  encourage 
others  by  their  example  to  the  breaking  of  peace  as  often 
as  they  should  meet  with  any  advantage  tempting  them 
thereto.' 

The  king  is  very  greatly  satisfied  with  the  courteous 
usage  he  meets  with  at  Malta,  and  a  letter  of  thanks  will 
very  speedily  be  sent  to  the  Grand  l  Master.  Orders  are 
enclosed  for  increasing  the  numbers  of  men  upon  the  ships 
now  abroad  with  him,  those  coming  hence  (whose  names  are 
mentioned  in  the  margin)  being  manned  with  a  suitable 
number.  Had  by  the  favour  of  his  Royal  Highness  2  pro- 
vided for  him  a  draught 3  of  the  port  of  Tripoli,  but  he  has 
otherwise  supplied  himself.  The  king  hath  committed  to 
Mr.  Secretary  Coventry4  the  care  of  seeing  his  needful 
orders  issued  in  what  concerns  'the  answering  of  the 
desires  of  the  people  of  Tunis  touching  the  liberty  for 
his  subjects  to  carry  thither  iron,  shot,  and  masts'  [2350]. 
Thanks  for  his  list  of  the  number  and  force  of  the  Tripoli 
men-of-war  and  galleys.  The  Mary  Rose  and  Diamond 
are  ordered  to  join  him  from  Cadiz.  Sends  herewith  his 
Majesty's  orders  for  paying  the  short  allowance  money 
due  to  his  seamen  out  of  the  remainder  of  the  redemption 
money,  and  a  commission  from  the  lords  empowering  him 
to  hold  courts-martial.  He  must  expect  his  Majesty's 
pleasure  about  making  a  peace  with  Tripoli  from  one  of 
the  secretaries  of  state,5  what  the  writer  has  said  being 
'  only  the  substance  of  what  seemed  to  be  his  Majesty's 
sense  upon  the  debate  thereof  last  night  with  several  of  the 
council.'  The  packet  he  mentions  to  have  sent  by  Captain 
Fenn  in  the  Paragon  6  is  not  yet  come  to  hand  [2350]. 

Margin  :  Swallow,  Dartmouth,  Harwich,  Portsmouth, 
Assistance,  Yarmouth;  Wivenhoe  [2 321]  and  Ann  and  Christopher 
fire-ships. 

Underwritten :  '  Implicate  hereof  sent  to  Livorne  also  the 
1 7th  inst.  by  Monday's  post.' 

2280.  [p.  99.]  10  May.  S.  P.  to  Mr.  Pett?  muster- 
master  at  Gravesend. — Desires  him  to  send  every  Monday 
an  account  of  what  ships  are  under  his  check,  together 

1  MS.  'Great.'  *  The  Duke  of  York.  s  MS.  'draft.' 

4  D.N.B.  xii.  357.  5  See  note  to  No.  2197. 

6  MS.  '  Paramour.'  7  See  ii.  92  n.  supra. 

VOL.  III.  E 


50  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS         May 

with  the  numbers  of  men  belonging  to  them,  and  how 
many  of  them  appeared  at  his  last  mustering,  mentioning 
also  the  day  when  any  ship  shall  have  sailed  away  the 
preceding  week.  In  case  the  Swallow,  Dartmouth,  or 
Speedwell  be  sailed,  desires  to  know  what  day  they  went 
away. 

2281.  [p.  100.]     1 1  May.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— 
Has  received  a  letter  from  Captain  Temple,1  of  the  Dart- 
mouth, from  the  Downs,  wherein  he  acquaints  the  writer 
that  by  reason  of  his  sudden  sailing  out  of  the  River  he 
left  behind  him  a  new  pinnace  which  was  built  for  him  at 
Woolwich,  and  though  ready  was  denied  him,  and  he  has 
only  with  him  an  old  rotten  boat  altogether  unserviceable. 
Desires  them  to  furnish  him  with  a  boat  [2295],  either  from 
hence  or  at  Portsmouth,  where  he  intends  to  call  in  case  he 
be  not  furnished  with  one  in  the  Downs. 

2282.  [p.  100.]     II  May.     S.  P.  to  Commissioners  Tip- 
petts"1  andDeane? — Must  give  them  'one  little  trouble  more" 
in  relation   to  'our  great  business'4  [2252],  namely,  the 
number  of  workmen  necessary  for  building  a  ship  of  each 
rate  within  6  months  or   12  months,  with  their  opinion 
how  many  of  the  ships  propounded  can  reasonably  be 
expected  to  be  put  in  hand  and  where,  during  the  time 
that  the  repairs  of  the  old  fleet  shall  be  also  in  hand  in  the 
king's  yards,  with  some  provision  made  for  the  ordinary 
supply  of  the  merchants'  works.     And  as  the  due  digesting 
of  this  depends  upon  a  reasonable  estimate  to  be  first 
made    of  the   number   of  shipwrights    of  this   kingdom 
abroad  and  at  home,  and  the  places  where  they  that  are  at 
home  may  be  judged  to  reside,  the  writer  desires  such  an 
estimate  from  them,  with  an  account  of  how  many  of  these 
the  common  service  of  the  merchants  may  take  up  in  their 
yards,  and  what  remains  for  the  king's,  to  be  distributed 

1  Captain  John  Temple,  formerly  commander  of  the  Adventure 
[1484],  had  been  appointed  to  the  Quaker  ketch  29  Mar.  1675,  and  to 
the  Dartmouth  on  22  April  following  (i.  413,  supra). 

2  Surveyor  of  the  navy  [1957]. 

3  Resident  commissioner  at  Portsmouth.     D.N.B.  xiv.  251. 

4  On  22  Apfil  Pepys  had  been  ordered  to  '  bring  into  the  House  a 
true  state  of  the  present  condition  of  the  navy,  and  of  the  stores  and 
provisions  thereof,'  and  on  24  April  he  had  presented  a  report  to  the 
Commons  (i.  46,  supra).     Out  of  this  grew  the  scheme  for  building, 
which  was  eventually  embodied  in  the  Act  of  1677  for  thirty  new  ships. 


i6;5  FOURTH   VOLUME  51 

between  the  repairing  of  the  old  and  building   of  new 
ships. 

2283.  [p.  101.]     ii  May.    S.  P.  to  Commissioner  Beach? 
at  Chatham. — Thanks  him  for  his  regard  to  the  saving  of 
his   Majesty's   treasure    by   respiting    the   entry   of  men 
upon  the  Harwich,  notwithstanding  the  desire  of  Captain 
Killigrew,  until  she  be  in  condition  to  receive  them  [2266]. 
Thanks  him  also  for  his  advice  touching  the  unfitness  of 
Malta  for  refitting   the   ships   employed   against  Tripoli 
[2279]. 

2284.  [p.  102.]     ii  May.     S.  P.  to    Captain    Temple, 
Dartmouth,  at  Downs. — The  navy  officers  will  take  care 
for  a  boat  for  him  [2281,  2295]. 

2285.  [p.  102.]     12  May.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— 
Encloses  a  letter  from  one  Mr.   Horsman,2  at  Plymouth, 
touching  the  supplying  of  a  Dutch  East  Indiaman  there 
with  one  of  his  Majesty's  New  England  masts.     They  are 
'  to  consider  as  well  the  particular  case  of  this  East  India- 
man in  want,  and  the  disposing  in  general  of  his  Majesty's 
said  masts,  which  have  long  lain  there  and  may  still  long 
do  so,  and  do  therein  what  may  be  most  convenient  for 
his  Majesty  first,  and  then  what  may  be  courteous  to  the 
said  East  Indiaman.' 

2286.  [p.  103.]     12  May.     'At  ii  at  night.'     S.  P.  to 
Captain  Fasby,  Cleveland  yacht,  at  Greenwich. — To  pre- 
pare for  a  voyage  to  Brest  to  fetch  the  Duchess  of  Ports- 
mouth's mother. 

2287.  [p.  103.]     13  May.     S.P.  to  Sir  Thomas  Chiche- 
ley? — To  hasten  his  calculations  of  the  yearly  charge  of 
the  ordnance,  which  will  be  needed  in  relation  to  the  bill 
brought  in  yesterday  by  Sir  Thomas  Littleton  about  the 
customs.4 

2288.  [p.  103.]     14  May.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— 
The  king  has  authorised  Sir  John  Narbrough 5  to  allow  the 
increase  of  men  mentioned  in  the  margin  to  the  ships  with 

1  Resident  commissioner  of  the  navy  at  Chatham. 

2  Probably  Andrew  Horsman,  a  merchant  of  Plymouth  (Col.  S.  P. 
Dom.  1673,  P-  268)- 

3  Master-general  of  the  ordnance.    D.N.B.  x.  231. 

4  A  bill  for  '  appropriating  the  duty  arising  by  the  customs  to  the 
use  of  the  navy,'  brought  into  the  House  12  May,  1675  (Commons 
Journals,  ix.  335). 

5  D.  N.  £.  xl.  89. 

E  2 


52  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          May 

him  in  the  Straits.  Knows  not  how  they  will  approve,  but 
wishes  very  earnestly  we  were  out  of  these  uncertainties 
in  a  matter  of  so  much  moment  as  the  manning  of  the 
king's  ships  by  the  '  thorough  establishment '  which  upon 
their  report  will  now  in  a  few  days  be  obtained  [2306]. 
So  soon  as  that  is  done,  an  increase  may  also  be  ordered 
to  the  ships  employed  against  Sallee,  to  which  end  it  seems 
fit  to  be  considered  once  for  all  whether  there  needs  not 
an  establishment  of  a  fourth  number — for  war  abroad,  as 
there  is  for  peace,  '  foreign  war  seeming  to  call  for  a  less 
increase  of  men  than  war  at  home,  as  peace  abroad  calls 
for  more  than  peace  at  home.' l  There  is  no  one  thing  in 
the  navy  that  requires  a  thorough  settlement  more  than 
this  business  of  the  manning  of  the  ships,  '  in  reference 
both  to  the  disorders,  increase  of  charge,  and  confounding 
of  calculations  that  it  occasions.' 

Will  send  the  king's  orders  about  the  Tangier  hulk.8 

Margin :  Henrietta,  90  ;    Dragon,  40  ;    Diamond,  40  ;    New- 
castle, 40;  Success,  20;  Mary  Rose,  40;  Roebuck,  10. 

2289.  [p.   104.]     14  May.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Shales?— 
Desires  him  to  answer  the  enclosed  petition  against  him. 

2290.  [p.  105.]     19  May.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board— 
Sir   John    Hanmer   acquiesces    in    what    they   propound 
touching   the  wages  of  runaways   to   be   forfeited  to  his 
Majesty,  provided  that  it  may  not  turn  to  his  prejudice  in 
relation  to  so  much  thereof  as  he  shall  appear  to  have  truly 
disbursed  in  clothes  for  their  use,  which,  as  far  as  the  same 
can  be  satisfactorily  proved  to  the  board,  is  no  more  than 
what  is  ordinarily  done  in  the  case  of  all  other  runaways, 
the  only  difficulty  therein  lying  in  the  sufficiency  of  those 
proofs.     But  as  to  that  of  bringing  letters  of  attorney  or 
administration,  he  allegeth  that  that  neither  is  usually  done 
among  the  land  forces,  nor  hath  been  exacted  by  the  board 
in  the  case  of  some  other  captains,  particularly  Captain 
Barton  and  Captain  Porter,  concerning  which  the  writer 
desires  the  board  to  inform  him. 

1  In  Pepys's  Register  of  Ships  the  force  of  men  and  guns  for  each 
ship  is  calculated  on  three  scales — '  peace  everywhere,' 4  war  abroad, 
and  '  war  at  home '  (sufira,  i.  267  ».). 

2  The  Europa  [2292]. 

'  See  i.  73  and  79,  supra. 


1675  FOURTH   VOLUME  53 

2291.  [p.  105.]     19  May.     The  same  to  the  same. — The 
Cambridge  and  St.  David  being  suddenly  expected  home, 
the  writer  desires  their  opinion  to  which  yards  they  should 
be  ordered  to  be  laid  up. 

2292.  [p.    1 06.]     19  May.     The  same  to  the  same. — 
The   king  and   lords  greatly  approve  what  they  propose 
touching  the  Europa  hulk  at  Tangier  going  to  the  Straits, 
but    Sir  John  Narbrough's  rendezvous    is  still    uncertain 
[2279].     In  the  meantime  they  are  to  bethink  themselves 
in  general  of  all  things  necessary  for  the  removal  of  the 
hulk,  and  the  rendering  her  useful  for  the  service  they  may 
foresee  to  be  called  for  from  her  [2350]. 

2293.  [p.  1 06.]     5.  P.  to  Captain  Clements,  Greyhound, 
in  the  Downs. — Will  give  him  notice  when  he  hears  of  the 
king's  going  abroad  by  sea  this  summer. 

2294.  [p.  107.]    igMay.    S.  P.  to  Sir  Edward  Walker^ 
clerk  to  the  council  in  waiting. — The  report  of  the  Trinity 
officers  about  Sir  John  Clayton's  lights2  [3000]  is  ready  for 
the  lords  of  the  council. 

2295.  [p.    107.]     19  May.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Temple? 
Dartmouth,    at    Portsmouth. — The    officers    of  the   navy 
have  made  a  double  provision  for  his  boat  [2281], — one  by 
ordering  a  boat  to  be  brought  after  him  by  the  Swallow, 
the  other  by  directing  one  to  be  delivered  him  at  Ports- 
mouth in  case  he  should  put  in  there.     But  the  officers  of 
the  navy  have  observed  to  the  writer  that  the  boat  which 
was  prepared  for  him  here  was  not  denied  him  upon  any 
other  score  than  his  want  of  care  to  send  the  proper  officer 
of  his  ship — the   boatswain — to   receive   and  give  a  dis- 
charge for  it ;  and  that  which  is  yet  less  excusable  is  that, 
contrary  to  the  4th  article  of  his  instructions,  he  never 
took  notice  to  them  of  the  rottenness  of  the  boat  which  he 
now  complains  of.    The  king  and  lords  shall  be  acquainted 
with  it ;  a  few  more  such  neglects  may  meet  with  much 
displeasure  from  them. 

1  D.  N.  B.  lix.  48. 

4  A  licence  had  been  granted  by  the  Crown  to  Sir  John  Clayton 
and  George  Blake  to  erect  lighthouses  on  the  northern  coast  (CaL 
S.  P.  Dom.  1673-5,  P-  4J)>  Dut  their  plans  were  opposed  by  the 
Trinity  House.  Documents  relating  to  the  controversy  are  to  be 
found  among  the  State  Papers  (see  Col.  S.  P.  Dom.  1673-5,  P-  457 
and  1675-6,  p.  251). 

3  See  note  to  No.  2281. 


54  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          May 

2296.  [p.  1 08.]     22  May.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Lassells.1 — 
The  service  of  the  king's  ships  is  designed  for  convoying 
the  trade  of  his  subjects  and  not  strangers,  especially  men- 
of-war  and  their  prizes.     He  is  therefore  to  continue  to 
forbear  answering  the  desires  of  the  Dunkirkers,  or  any 
others  of  that  kind. 

2297.  [p.   1 08.]      22   May.      S.    P.    to    Commissioner 
Beach?- — Leave  from  the  king  for  him  to  go  and  drink  the 
waters.     Wishes  him  a  perfect  recovery  of  his  health. 

2298.  [p.   109.]     22  May.     S.  P.   to  Mr.  Stockdale? 
at  Dover. — Desires  him  to  demand  another  sight  of  the 
passes  the  two  masters  he  mentions  show  from  the  lords, 
and  detain  them  in  his  own  hands  till  the  writer  has  oppor- 
tunity of  asking  their  pleasure  concerning  it,  '  the  evil  of 
these  practices  in  the  fraudulent  procuring  of  passes  for 
the  covering  of  strangers'  ships  being  of  so  much  import- 
ance, and  compassed  with  so  much  villainy  in  the  false 
oaths  and  other  indirect  ways  of  procuring  denizations, 
that  no  course  can  be  thought  too   severe  for  the  sup- 
pressing it,  and  a  few  examples  well  prosecuted  by  punish- 
ment will,  I  doubt  not,  be  more  effectual  towards  it  than 
all  the  cautions  and  circumspections  we  do  or  can  hope 
to  make  use  of  [2216].     Desires  him  from  time  to  time 
to  advertise  the  writer  of  any  practices  of  this  kind  which 
he   shall  think   may  be  designed  by  the  coming  up  of 
masters  to  London  as  these  two  have  done  when  by  his 
care  they  could  not  succeed  with  the  magistrates  of  Dover  ; 
that  he  may  put  in  timely  and  proper  caveats  at  the  offices 
through  which  they  must  pass  in  their  proceedings  towards 
the  same  [2309]. 

2299.  [p.  1 10.]     25  May.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— 
The  enclosed  papers  were  put  into  the  writer's  hands  by 
Mr.  Huddlestone,  a  gentleman  of  Cumberland,  containing 
materials  for  a  treaty  between  the  board  on  behalf  of  his 
Majesty  and  him  for  a  considerable  parcel  of  timber  to  be 
had  in  that  country  ;  presumes   it  is   the  same  that  was 
some  years  since  offered  to  us  in  the  lifetime  of  Sir  Thomas 
Strickland.     Will  direct  the  proposer  to  visit  them. 

1  See  note  to  No.  2181. 

3  Resident  commissioner  of  the  navy  at  Chatham. 

3  Collector  of  customs  at  Dover  [2749]. 


i6;5  FOURTH   VOLUME  55 

Observing  with  much  trouble  how  much  the  late  reso- 
lutions of  the  king  and  lords  for  preventing  commanders 
misspending  their  time  in  town  ;  are  already  forgotten, '  by 
commanders  appearing  daily  in  the  town  without  any 
justifiable  account  given  for  the  same,'  and  doubting  '  lest 
the  same  should  arise  from  the  clerks  of  the  check  not  ob- 
serving the  rules  established  towards  preventing  thereof 
that  commanders  should  be  pricked  for  their  times  of 
absence  where  it  is  not  grounded  upon  leave  given  them 
by  their  superiors,  the  writer  desires  them  without  more 
ado  to  cause  the  books  of  the  clerks  of  the  check  to  be 
overlooked  to  see  whether  in  fact  commanders  are  at  this 
day  pricked  for  absence  or  not. 

2300.  [p.   in.]     25  May.     S.  P.  to  Colonel  Piper?— 
Thanks  for  his  of  the  I4th,  the  contents  of  which  and  the 
enclosed  certificates  touching  the  abuse  offered  to  the  Lady 
Francis,  of  London,  by  two  French  men-of-war  have  been 
communicated  to  the  king,  who  immediately  caused  the 
same  to  be  made  known  to  the  French  minister,  Monsieur 
Ruvigny  [2303]. 

2301.  [p.  in.]     25  May.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Robert  South- 
well?— Sir  John  Berry  is   very   near  the  point  of  being 
ready  to  sail,  and  will  want  his  instructions. 

2302.  [p.  in.]     26  May.     S.  P.  to  the] Navy  Board.— 
The  Cambridge  is  in  the  Downs  and  is  ordered  (by  their 
advice)  to  Chatham  ;   but  Captain    Herbert,4  upon   con- 
sideration of  her  condition,  offers  it  as  more  advisable  that 
she  may  come  up  the  River '  '  that  she  may  fall  within  the 
care  of  her  father,  Mr.  Shish,' 5  whereto  his  Majesty  seems 
enough  inclined  if  the  board  think  his  service  will  admit 
thereof  [2303] ;  in  which  case  it  is  left  to  them  to  meet  her 
with  their  orders  to  prevent  her  going  up  to  Chatham. 

2303.  [p.  112.]     26  May.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Herbert* 
Cambridge. — The   king   approves   his  proceedings  in  the 
matter  of  the  French  ships,  and  has  already  expressed  his 
resentment  of  it  to  Monsieur  Ruvigny,  who  seems  surprised 

1  This  probably  refers  to  the  resolutions  of  October  1673  (see 
No.  412,  supra). 

*  Deputy-governor  of  Plymouth  [2667].  3  See  ii.  63  n.  supra. 

*  Captain  Arthur  Herbert,  afterwards  Earl  of  Torrington.     D.N.B. 
xxvi.  169. 

5  The  Cambridge  had  been  built  at  Deptford  in  1666  by  Mr.  Jonas 
Shish  (i.  268,  supra). 


56  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          May 

and  indeed  confounded  [2300,  2360].  His  ship  is  ordered 
to  Chatham  [2302]  to  be  laid  up,  Woolwich  and  Deptford 
having  already  as  many  ships  as  the  service  can  admit 
to  be  lodged  there. 

2304.  [p.  113.]     27   May.     S.   P.   to    Captain  Story,1 
commander  of  the  Portsmouth. — To  lose  no  time  in  getting 
his  ship  ready  for  sea. 

Underwritten :  '  The  like  to  Sir  John  Berry,  of  the  Swallow 2 ; 
Captain  Moulding,3  of  the  Assistance  ;  Captain  Killigrew,4  of  the 
Harwich ;  and  Captain  Trevanion  5  of  the  Yarmouth. 

2305.  [p.  1 1 3.]     27  May.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— 
To  hasten  the  ships  fitting  out,  and  see  nothing  be  wanting 
for  them,  his  Majesty  being  '  very  earnest '  to  have  them 
immediately  in  a  condition  to  sail  away  to  the  Downs. 

2306.  [p.  114.]     28  May.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Hayter*— The 
lords   desire   the   navy  board  to  attend  them  to-morrow 
morning  at  8,  and  if  it    may  be    it  would  do  very  well 
that  they  come  perfectly  prepared  about  the  establishment 
of  men  and  guns  for  the  ships  [2288].     Desires  him  also 
to  bring  the  papers  which  Mr.  Beverley  sent  to  the  board 
containing  the  present  condition  of  the  galley,  and  the 
number  and  names  of  her  present  company  [2324]. 

2307.  [p.  114.]     28  May.     S.  P.  to  the  Contractors  for 
Victualling  the  Navy.7 — To  attend  the  lords'  meeting  to- 
morrow morning  at  8. 

2308.  [p.    114.]      28   May.      S.   P.    to    Sir    Thomas 
Chicheley* — To  hasten  guns  and  gunner's  stores  for  the 
ships  in  the  margin. 

Margi :  Harwich,  Portsmouth,  Assistance,  Yarmouth, 
Bristol,  Holmes  fireship,9  Ann  and  Christopher  fireship. 

2309.  [p.  115.]     29  May.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Stockdale™  at 
Dover.     Observes  his  story  of  the  evasion  heretofore  made 

1  Captain  James  Story's  commission  to  the  Portsmouth  is  dated 
23  Apr.  1675  ('•  4°9»  supra). 

2  But  see  note  to  No.  2275.     The  Swallow  was  already  bound  to 
the  Mediterranean  [2280].        3  MS.  '  Holding.'  See  note  to  No.  2317. 

4  D.  N.  B.  xxxi.  109.     See  note  to  No.  2266. 

5  Captain  Richard  Trevanion  had  been  transferred  from  the  Dart- 
mouth to  the  Jersey  on  22  Apr.,  and  to  the  Yarmouth  on  28  Apr. 
(I.  416,  supra).  6  See  note  to  No  2102.  7  See  No.  738. 

8  Master-general  of  the  ordnance.     D.N.B.x..2$\. 

9  But  see  i.  277  and  284  supra,  where  1677  is  given  as  the  date  of 
conversion  into  a  fireship. 

10  Collector  of  customs  at  Dover  [2749]. 


1675  FOURTH   VOLUME  57 

use  of  in  the  case  of  the  Covenant  Thanks  him  also  for 
his  cautions  against  the  persons  he  mentions  may  come  for 
passes,  that  the  writer  may  make  some  example  of  them 
[2298]  ;  but  desires  to  know  how  he  is  satisfied  that  the 
said  vessels  belong  to  foreigners,  both  Brown  and  Franklin 
having  made  affidavit  that  they  wholly  belong  to  the 
king's  subjects.  Prays  him  to  stop  Brown's  vessel,  and 
get  his  pass  from  him. 

Underwritten:  'Vide  3  sides  forward' — i.e.  to  p.   118  (No 
2316). 

2310.  [p.  115.]     29  May.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— 
The  king  leaves  it  to  them  to  choose  a  day  for  launching  the 
new  ship  building  at  Blackwall.1     He  intends  to  be  present. 

2311.  [p.   ii  6.]     29   May.     S.   P.    to    Captain  Booth? 
Pearl,  in  the  Downs. — Has  received  his  of  the  26th,  and 
is  glad  to  hear  of  his  safe  return  from  Gottenburg.     To 
send  up  a  note  of  what  boatswain's  and  carpenter's  stores 
he  needs,  and  an  account  of  what  victuals  he  has  remain- 
ing on  board. 

2312.  [p.    1 1 6.]      29   May.      S.   P.    to    Commissioner 
Deane?  at  Portsmouth. — Thanks  for  his  care  in  returning 
the  packet  that  was  sent  to  the  Phcenix.     The  orders  for 
the  Monmouth's  sailing  go  by  this  post  [2313],  and  the 
Wivenhoe  [2321]  will   suddenly  have  a  commander  sent 
down  to  her.     Desires  to  know  when  the  ship  he  is  building 
at  Harwich 4  will  be  ready  to  launch. 

2313.  [p.    1 1 6.]     29  May.-    S.   P.    to    Captain   Kemp- 
thorne?  Monmouth  yacht,  at  Portsmouth.     Encloses  orders 
for  his  proceeding  to  Ireland. 

2314.  [p.    117.]     29  May.     S.  P.    to    Captain   Booth? 
Pearl,  in  the  Downs. — As  his  Majesty  may  probably  call 
for  his  service  upon  an  extraordinary  occasion  very  sud- 
denly, his  company  is  to  be  kept  together,  and  his  ship  in 
readiness. 

Underwritten:  The  like  to  Captain  Clements,  of  the  Grey- 
hound ;  Captain  Lassells,6  of  the  Garland ;  and  Captain  Trotter,6  of 
the  Speedwell — all  in  the  Downs. 

1  Probably  the  Lark,  a  6th-rate  (i.  278,  supra^  and  No.  2342,  infra}. 

2  See  ii.  218  n.  supra. 

3  Resident  commissionerofthenavy  at  Portsmouth.  D.N.By\v.  251. 

4  Probably  the  Sapphire,  a  5th-rate  (i.  277,  supra,  and  No.  2342,  infra). 

5  See  ii.  113  n.  supra.  6  See  note  to  No.  2181. 


58  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          May 

2315.  [p.   1 1 7.]     29  May.     S.  P.  to  the  commander  of 
any  of  his  Majesty's  yachts  that  shall  be  at  Dieppe. — To 
receive  on  board  a  bed  and  such  other  things  as  shall  be 
brought  him  for  the  Duchess  of  Richmond,1  and  bring 
them  carefully  over. 

2316.  [p.    1 1 8.]     29   May.      S.  P.   to  Mr.  Stockdale? 
Dover. — Since    writing    the    above    [2309],    finds     that 
Franklin,3  one   of  the   masters   he   mentions,  hath   been 
applying   himself  here   for   a   pass,   but   for   a   vessel  of 
another  name.     Sends  a  copy  of  his  affidavit  that  she  is  '  all 
English  propriety  and  her  company  English,'  and  will  stop 
the  issuing  of  any  pass  upon  this  affidavit  until  he  hears 
from  him.     Desires  speedy  information,  whilst  Franklin  3 
is  in  town  and  within  reach  [2333]. 

Underwritten:  ''Vide  3  leaves  backward' — i.e.  to  p.  115 
(No.  2309). 

2317.  [p.  1 1 8.]     30  May.    S.  P.  to  Captain  Moulding*— 
Encloses  the  king's  warrant  for  his  hastening  to  the  Downs. 

Underwritten :  '  The  like  to  Captain  Trevanion,5  of  the  Yar- 
mouth ;  Captain  Story,4  of  the  Portsmouth  ;  Captain  Killigrew,6 
of  the  Harwich  (sent  1 1  June) ;  Sir  John  Berry,7  of  the  Bristol ; 
and  Captain  Voteer,  of  the  Ann  and  Christopher.' 

2318.  [p.  119.]     31  May.  S.  P.  to  Captain  Sanderson, 
Portsmouth  yacht,  at  Greenwich. — To  give   Mr.  Browne 
passage  to  Dieppe,  '  when  you  go  thither,  in  pursuance  of 
his  Majesty's  orders,  for  my  Lady  Hamilton.' 

2319.  [p.  119].     31  May.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Trevanion, 
Assistance,8  in  the  Hope. — Thanks  for  his  account  of  his 
daily  proceedings  in  the  fitting  of  his  ship. 

2320.  [p.  119.]     ^June.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.  - 
Understanding  by  several  of  the  commanders  of  the  ships 

1  See  D.  N.  B.  Iv.  80.  2  Collector  of  customs  at  Dover  [2749]. 

3  MS.  'Francklyn.'     See  also  note  to  No.  2333. 

4  MS. 'Holden.'     Captain  William  Houlding  had  been  appointed 
commander  of  the  Assurance  on  22  Apr.  1675,  and  had  been  trans- 
ferred five  days  after  to  the  Assistance,   by  a  commission   dated 
27  Apr.  (see  i.  366,  supra,  under  '  Holden '). 

5  See  notes  to  No.  2304. 

6  D.N.B.  xxxi.  109.    See  note  to  No.  2266. 

7  D.  N.  B.  iv.  398.     Sir  John  Berry  had  been  transferred  from  the 
Swallow  to  the  Bristol  on  28  Apr.  (i.  324,  supra). 

8  Captain  Trevanion  was  commander  of  the  Yarmouth  (see  note 
to  No.  2304).    The  Assistance  was  Captain  Houlding's  ship  [2304]. 


i6;s  FOURTH   VOLUME  59 

now  going  forth  that  '  through  the  fulness  of  employment 
that  seamen  now  meet  with  among  merchantmen  they 
find  great  difficulty  in  manning  the  king's  ships,  and  that 
not  being  permitted  to  help  themselves  by  pressing  'tis 
their  desire  that  they  may  be  allowed  to  invite  seamen  by 
beating  of  drums  in  the  places  usual ;  and  this  the  rather 
for  the  advertising  seamen  of  their  ships  being  ready  to 
receive  them,  for  want  whereof  (as  they  apprehend)  several 
do  not  appear  who  have  some  time  since  offered  them 
their  services,'  the  writer  acquaints  the  board  herewith, 
that  if  they  apprehend  no  inconvenience  in  it,  they  are  to 
desire  of  Sir  John  Robinson  l  the  use  of  some  of  his  drums 
in  such  manner  as  heretofore  on  like  occasions  [2322]. 

2321.  [p.    1 20.]     5  June.      The  same   to  the  same. — 
Finding  that  some  have  again  suggested  to  his  Majesty 
that  the  Wivenhoe  fireship  will  through  her  weakness  and 
smallness  be  a  vessel  very  unfit  to  send  to  Sir  John  Nar- 
brough  [2279],  the  writer  desires  their  joint  opinion  in  this 
matter. 

2322.  [p.  1 20.]     5  June.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Killigrew? 
of  the  Harwich,  in  the  Hope.— 'During  peace  it  hath  not 
been  the  practice,  nor  doth  his  Majesty  think  it  convenient, 
to  give  way  to  the  pressing  of  men  in  the  particular  case 
of  the  ships  now  going  out,'  but  the  officers  of  the  navy 
will  desire  the  Lieutenant  of  the  Tower  to  employ  a  drum 
or  two  to  beat  for  volunteers,  as  hath  been  usual  in  like 
cases  [2320,  2353].      His   stores   and   provisions  will   be 
hastened  down. 

2323.  [p.  121.]     5  June.    S.  P.  to  Captain  Kempthorne? 
Monmouth  yacht,  at  Portsmouth. — The  Lord  Lieutenant 
of  Ireland  is  expecting  him  with  earnestness. 

2324.  [p.  121.]      5  June.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board— 
Returns   the   papers   about  the    state  of   the    galley   at 
Tangier,  and  Mr.  Beverley's  letters  [2306]. 

2325.  [p.  121.]     8  June.     S.  P.  to  Sir  John  Berry? 
Bristol,  in  the  Downs. — Hopes  he  will  find  the  good  effects 
of  the  care  he  has  taken  for  completing  his  number  of  men 
from  Dover  and  the  parts  thereabouts.      Encloses  orders 
for  his   proceeding   to   Newfoundland.     '  In  this  present 

1  Lieutenant  of  the  Tower  [2322].  2  See  note  to  No.  2266. 

8  See  ii.  H3«.  supra.  4  See  note  to  No.  2317 


6o  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS         June 

juncture  of  time  it  will  be  fitting  that  in  your  passing 
through  the  Channel  you  be  more  than  ordinarily  careful 
in  exacting  from  all  foreigners'  ships  you  shall  meet  with 
what  by  the  lord  admiral's  instructions  you  are  directed  to 
require  from  them.' 

Margin :  '  It  will  behoove  him  to  be  extra  careful  in  exacting 
all  due  obeisance  to  his  Majesty's  flag  from  foreigners.' 

2326.  [p.  122.]     SJune.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Story,1  of 
the  Portsmouth,  in  the  Downs. — Is  sorry  to  find  he  is  in  so 
great  want  of  men. 

2327.  [p.  122.]     8  June.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board— 
Certifies  that  Captain  Anguish  has  delivered  in  a  journal  of 
his  proceedings  in  the  Deptford  ketch,  from  his  going  out 
from  Deptford  to  his  surrendering  his  command  to  Captain 
Waltham.2 

2328.  [p.  122.]     ZJune.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Booth?  Pearl, 
Downs. — Has  received  his  of  the  5th,  and   thanks  him  for 
his  account  of  his  late  business  at  Hythe.  Has  transmitted 
the  demands  of  his  boatswain  and  carpenter  to  the  officers 
of  the  navy,  who  will  speedily  supply  him  with  stores  [2329]. 

2329.  [p.  123.]     8  June.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— 
Transmits  them  a  demand  of  stores  for  the  Pearl  [2328]. 
To  send  after  the  Assistance  some  small  things  of  her 
boatswain's  stores  that  were  left  behind  upon  her  sailing 
out  of  the  River  [2341]. 

2330.  [p.  1 23.]     SJune.    S.  P.  to  Commissioner  Deanef 
at  Portsmouth. — His  Majesty  cannot  come  down  at  the 
launching  the  ship  this  spring,6  but  she  is  to  lie  on  the  , 
stocks  until  his  further  order.     He  is  at  liberty  to  come  up 
and  hasten  the  launching  of  the  Sapphire,  the  service  of 
Sallee  calling  for  her. 

2331.  [p.  1 24.]     8  June.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Moulding,  of 
the  Assistance  in  the  Downs. — Has  written  to  the  officers 
of  the  navy  to  hasten    down   the   stores   he    left  behind 
[2329].     Presses  him  to  complete  his  number  of  men,  and 
put  his  ship  in  a  condition  for  service. 

1  See  note  to  No.  2304.  3  See  Nos.  1913  and  1916. 

3  See  ii.  218  n.  supra. 

*  Resident  commissioner  of  the  navy  at  Portsmouth.  D.  N.  B. 
xiv.  251. 

'"  I.e.  spring-tide.  The  ship  referred  to  was  probably  the  Royal 
James  (see  p.  65  n.  infra}. 


1675  FOURTH   VOLUME  61 

2332.  [p.  124.]     8  June.     S.  P.  to  Captain    Clements, 
Greyhound,  in  the  Downs.  —To  bring  his  ship  up  to  Sheer- 
ness  to  be  refitted  [2334].     His  gunner  is  dismissed,  and 
one  Christopher  Taylor  appointed  in  his  room  ;  in  the  mean- 
time he  is  to  discharge  the  other  from  his  restraint  [2173]. 

2333.  [p.   125.]     8  June.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Stockdale?  of 
Dover. — The  lords  have  not  met  since  his  last  letters,  but 
he  is  still  to  stop  Brown,  master  of  the  William  and  James 
[2575]  unless  he  delivers  up  the  pass  [2309,  2316].     Mr. 
Claude  Hays 2  alleges  that  the  property  as  well  of  Brown's 
as  Franklin's3  ship  does  solely  belong  to  him  and  Mr. 
Nepueu 4  of  Dover,  which  he  did  not  doubt  of  clearing  to 
their   lordships'    full    satisfaction  ;    however,    the    writer 
acquainted  him  that  till  he  had  done  so  the  lords  would 
not  suffer  their  pass  to  be  made  use  of  upon  the  said  ship, 
and  that  unless  they  could  very  well   make  it  out  they 
would  severely  punish  the  master  for  the  cheat  put  upon 
them  by  the  affidavit  made  by  him.     Desires  to  under- 
stand what  further  he  has  to  offer  to  satisfy  the  king  and 
lords  touching  the  falseness  of  the  affidavit  made  by  the 
said  Brown,  '  it  being  as  little  justifiable  to  offer  this  injury 
to  the  owners  in  case  our  suspicions  be  not  well  grounded, 
as  it  would  be  to  let  the  vessel  go  in   case  they  prove 
reasonable.' 

2334.  [p.  126.]     9  June.     'Sent  to  Sheerness.'     S.  P. 
to  Captain  Clements,  Greyhound. — To  bring  his  ship  up  to 
Woolwich  instead  of  Sheerness  [2332]. 

2335.  [p.   126.]     10  June.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Brereton? — 
Hears  from  Sir  John  Berry,6  commander  of  the  Bristol,  in 
the  Downs,  that   the  muster-master   at   Deal  coming  on 
board  to  muster  him,  he  could  not   give   him  a  perfect 
muster-book  without  one  to   compare   it  with.      Desires 
him  to  cause  one  to  be  sent  after  him  to  the  Downs. 

2336.  [p.  126.]     10  June.     S.  P.  to  Colonel  Piper?  Ply- 
mouth. —Thanks   him    for  his   constant   advices  of  what 


1  Collector  of  customs  at  Dover  [2749]. 

2  Mr.   Claude  Hays  was  a   London  merchant  (Cal.  S.  P.  Dom. 

1673-5,  P-  343)- 

3  MS.  '  Franklyn,'  and  elsewhere  '  Frankline '  and  '  Franklyne.' 

4  MS.  '  Nephew.'     See  Cal.  S.  P.  Dom.  1673-5,  P-  343- 

5  Clerk  of  the  check  at  Woolwich  [2442]. 

6  See  note  to  No.  2317.        7  Deputy-governor  of  Plymouth  [2667] 


62  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS         June 

passes  in  his  port,  and  particularly  for  his  account  of  the 
6th  of  what  hath  happened  at  Dominica.1 

2337.  [p.  127.]     10  June.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Story?  of 
the  Portsmouth,  Downs. — To  have  his  ship  in  readiness. 

2338.  [p.  127.]     10  June.     S.   P.  to  Mr.   Butler?  at 
Boston,  Lincolnshire. — Having  been  lately  shown  by  Mr. 
Secretary  Coventry4  a  letter  of  his  of  the  5th  inst.  directed 
to  Mr.  Cooke,5  wherein  he  advises  him  of  a  report  given  him 
by  one  Daniel  Watson,  master  of  a  vessel  of  Boston  lately 
come  from  Norway, '  touching  a  French  caper  he  lately  met 
with,  who  offered  him  not  only  personal  injury  but  ex- 
pressed great  indignity  towards  his  Majesty,  commanding 
him  to  strike  to  the  King  of  France's  colours,'  the  writer 
desires  him  to  obtain  from  the  said  master  a  sworn  narrative 
of  what  passed  between  him  and  the  caper,  and  as  perfect 
a  description  of  the  vessel  as  he  can. 

2339.  [p.  128.]     10  June.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board— 
Sends  a  transcript  of  Sir  John  Narbrough's  letter  about 
sheathing  [2350]  that  they  may  compare  his  observation  of 
his  ship,  the  Henrietta,  with  what  they  have  observed  of 
the  like   nature   upon  the   Phcenix,   Eagle,  or  any  other 
vessel  so  sheathed.     Has  also  given  a  like  transcript   of 
what  he  says  about  stores  to  be  sent  to  Malta. 

2340.  [p.    128.]      ii  June.      S.  P.  to  Captain  Voteer* 
Hope. — Desires  an  account  of  the  reason  of  his  stay  in  the 
Hope. 

2341.  [p.  129.]     12  June.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board. — 
The   stores   left    behind    by  the  Assistance    are  not  yet 
come  to  her  [2329].     Desires  a  copy  of  the  account  they 
have  received  from  the  officers  of  the  Mary  yacht  touching 
the  manner  of  her  being  lost,7  that  if  blameworthy  they 
may  be  called  to  an  account.     To  give  despatch  to  the 
Deptford  ketch  and  Saudados,8  as  also  to  the  Greyhound 
so  soon  as  she  shall  come  up  to  Woolwich. 

2342.  [p.    129.]      12  June.      S.   P.    to    Commissioner 
Deane,9  Portsmouth. — Hopes  the  launching  of  the  Sapphire 

1  MS.  '  Dominico.'  3  See  note  to  No.  2304. 

3  Collector  of  customs  at  Boston  [2376]. 

4  D.  N.  B.  xii.  357.  '•>  See  note  to  No.  2529. 

6  Commander  of  the  Ann  and  Christopher  fireship  [2317]. 

7  See  note  to  No.  2242.  8  See  ii.  9  n.  supra. 

9  Resident  commissioner  of  the  navy  at  Portsmouth.     D.  N.  B. 
xiv.  251. 


1675  FOURTH   VOLUME  63 

will  not  be  delayed  ;  the  Lark  was  launched  yesterday  that 
is  to  accompany  her.  The  king  is  now  '  very  intent '  upon 
his  journey  to  Portsmouth  to  the  launching  of  the  Royal 
James,  and  intends  to  come  by  sea. 

2343.  [p.  1 30.]    12  June.    S.  P.  to  Captain  Moulding?  of 
the  Assistance,  in  the  Downs. — Has  written  to  the  officers 
of  the  navy  to  hasten  down  his  stores  [2341]. 

2344.  [p.  1 30.]     1 2  June.    S.  P.  to  Sir  William  Poole? 
of  the  St.  David,  at  Plymouth. — Has  received  his  of  the 
8th  from  Plymouth  Sound,  and  is  glad  of  his  safe  return. 

2345.  [p.  130.]     12  June.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Story,1  of 
the  Portsmouth,  in  the  Downs. — Hopes  he  will  find  some 
speedy  means  for  bettering  his  complement  of  men. 

2346.  [p.  131.]     1 4  June.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board. — 
Encloses  his  Majesty's  warrant  for  the  fitting  forth  of  the 
Lark    to  attend    him   to  Portsmouth    next   week    [2342, 
2352],     The    king   being  'much    intent'  upon    the   well 
sailing  of  this  vessel,  has  commanded  him  to  write  to  Sir 
Thomas  Chicheley 3  for  some  broken  guns  and  unserviceable 
shot   towards   her  ballasting  [2347].      The   board  are  to 
inform  themselves  from  the  office  of  the  ordnance  whether 
any  be  to  be  expected,  and  accordingly  direct  her  gunner 
to  look  after  it. 

2347.  [p.    131.]       14  June.      S.   P.   to    Sir    Thomas 
Chicheley? — Encloses  his  Majesty's  warrant  for  the  fitting 
forth   of  the   Lark.     Desires   him    to    furnish    her    with 
ballast  [2346]. 

2348.  [p.  132.]     14  June.    S.  P.  to  Mr.  Pett?  master- 
shipwright  at  Chatham. — The  Katherine  yacht  to  be  forth- 
with fitted  and  cleaned. 

2349.  [p.    132.]     14  June.      S.  P.  to    Captain  Lovell? 
Katherine  yacht. — To  sail  to  Chatham  [2348]. 

2350.  [p.  132.]     Monday,  14  June.     S.  P.  to  Sir  John 
Narbrough?  at  Livorne. — Has  received    his   letters  of  II, 
14  and  26  April  and   I   and  22  May,  and  therefore  the 
packet  he  committed  to  Captain  Fenn,  commander  of  the 
Paragon,  merchantman,  with  the  articles  of  peace  confirmed 
by  the  people  of  Tunis  [2279].     Has  moved  the  king  in 

1  See  note  to  No.  2317.  2  See  ii.  2647?.  supra. 

3  Master-general  of  the  ordnance.  D.  N.  B.  x.  231. 

4  See  ii.  92  n.  supra.  5  Charnock,  Biog.  Nav.  i.  347. 
6  D.  N.  B.  xl.  8Q. 


64  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          June 

behalf  of  what  he  propounds  touching  a  salary  for  Mr. 
Baker,  the  consul  there,  though  cannot  yet  give  him  any 
perfect  answer  to  it,  as  increasing  the  king's  charge,  which 
will  in  course  call  for  some  time  in  the  settling  of.  The 
king  and  lords  have  readily  agreed  to  what  the  government 
of  Tunis  desires  touching  a  liberty  to  be  granted  to  the 
English  merchants  to  transport  masts,  iron,  and  shot 
thither  '  Those  of  Tunis  have  been  very  just  in  denying 
longer  entertainment  to  the  Sallee  man-of-war  ;  and  I  do 
join  with  you  in  esteeming  it  a  very  good  fortune  that  the 
ships  of  his  Majesty's  subjects  have  so  well  escaped  him, 
and  the  Tripolines  also,  while  there  was  so  many  and 
those  rich  ones  then  in  the  Straits,  which,  thanks  be  to 
God,  are  since  well  come  home.' 

It  is  without  doubt  a  great  temptation  and  provocation 
to  the  Algerines l  and  the  Turks  of  other  places  in  amity 
with  us  to  see  foreign  ships  pass  by  them  under  English 
colours,  and  his  Majesty  hath  resolved  to  use  all  means  for 
the  suppressing  of  the  practice  of  his  subjects,  merchants 
abroad,  and  hath  particularly  determined  upon  a  proclama- 
tion. In  the  meantime  no  ships  of  war  bound  to  the 
Straits  shall  depart  hence  without  an  instruction  of  ap- 
pearing before  Argeir  and  Tunis  for  the  end  he  proposes. 

The  king  is  very  thoroughly  satisfied  with  his  con- 
firming the  articles  of  peace  with  Tunis,  wishing  that  the 
like  could  upon  honourable  terms  be  obtained  with  them 
of  Tripoli.  Towards  which  he  has  taken  notice  of  his 
industry  in  getting  his  ships  despatched  at  Livorne,  in  spite 
of  the  unkindness  of  that  place  [2279],  whereof  his  Majesty 
has  expressed  his  resentment  both  to  the  minister  of  the 
Duke  of  Florence  here,  and  by  letters  to  the  duke  himself ; 
though  it  is  some  sort  of  satisfaction  to  him  that  it  'hath 
not  arisen  so  much  from  any  particular  disregard  to  his 
Majesty  as  from  the  consideration  of  their  finding  it 
necessary  for  them  to  be  observed  treating  him  in  this 
manner  the  better  to  justify  their  doing  the  like  to  the 
King  of  France  when  occasion  shall  call  for  it.' 

His  news  of  the  death  of  the  Dey  of  Tripoli  is  very 
welcome,  as  it  may  much  conduce  to  an  accommodation. 
In  expectation  of  which  the  king  and  lords  'have  come  to 

1  MS.  'Argereens.' 


i675  FOURTH   VOLUME  65 

some  fresh  resolutions  touching  the  terms  upon  which 
you  may  admit  of  a  treaty  with  that  people  in  case  upon 
your  return  to  that  coast  you  find  them  either  offering  or 
inclining  to  any  overtures  of  that  kind,  which  resolutions 
you  will  have  signified  to  you  from  his  Majesty  by 
Mr.  Secretary  Coventry1  (whereto  I  refer  you)  to  the 
following  effect,  namely  :  that  in  case  they  will  submit  to 
the  present  discharging  of  all  persons  taken  in  the  Hunter 
and  Martin,  and  any  other  of  his  Majesty's  subjects'  ships 
since  the  last  breach  with  them  (including  therein 
strangers  as  well  as  the  king's  own  subjects),  and  that 
some  heads  may  be  taken  off  in  acknowledgment  of  their 
disowning  of  the  proceedings  of  their  late  Dey,  and  those 
with  him  by  whose  advice  and  assistance  the  articles  of 
peace  with  his  Majesty  were  first  broken,  you  may  accept 
of  that  in  satisfaction  for  the  wrongs  his  Majesty  and  his 
subjects  have  received  from  them,  without  insisting  upon 
any  restitution  of  goods  or  their  value,  which  upon  the 
considerations  you  mention  his  Majesty  doth  incline  to 
think  is  not  to  be  obtained  from  them,  and  therefore  is 
pleased  to  depart  from  his  first  determination  of  insisting 
upon  restitution,  and  content  himself  with  this  of  their 
discharging  persons  and  taking  off  of  heads.' 

Hopes  the  Mary  Rose  is  ere  this  with  him  from  Tangier. 
The  Guernsey  is  directed  wholly  to  the  service  of  Sallee, 
and  he  is  not  to  expect  her.  The  Assistance  is  in  the 
Downs  in  expectation  of  some  Levant  ships  which  she  is 
to  convoy  to  him.  The  Portsmouth  is  there  ready  to  sail, 
but  is  first  to  take  in  a  princess  (kinswoman  to  the  queen)  at 
Rochelle  and  put  her  ashore  at  Lisbon  [2441].  The  Harwich 
and  Yarmouth,  with  the  Holmes  and  Ann  and  Christopher 
fireships,  will  come  to  him  after  they  have  attended  the 
king  to  Portsmouth,  '  where  he  is  pleased  to  resolve  of 
entertaining  himself  with  the  launching  of  a  new  first-rate 
ship  (a  third  Royal  James) ' 2  [2342],  which  will  detain  them 
about  14  days.  The  Swallow  and  Dartmouth  have  been 

1  D.  N.  B.  xii.  357. 

3  The  first  Royal  James,  of  1,108  tons,  was  built  at  Woolwich  by 
Christopher  Pett  in  1658,  but  she  was  burnt  at  Chatham  by  the  Dutch, 
13  June,  1667.  The  second,  of  1,465  tons,  was  built  at  Portsmouth  by 
Deane  in  1671,  but  was  burnt  in  the  action  of  28  May,  1672.  The 
same  builder  was  now  replacing  her  by  a  vessel  of  1,422  tons  (i.  266, 
supra). 

VOL.   Ill  F 


66  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS         June 

at  sea  upon  their  way  to  him  a  month  since  their  departure 
from  the  Downs. 

Has  informed  the  king  of  his  observation  touching  lead 
sheathing  [2  3  39]  and  the  extraordinary  damage  arising  to  the 
ironwork  from  it  [2832].  '  Yet  he  doth  not  seem  to  incline  to 
your  philosophy  upon  it,  by  which  you  do  impute  that  excess 
of  rust  in  the  iron  to  its  being  covered  with  lead  and  nailed 
with  copper  nails,  it  not  appearing  to  him  how  lead  and 
nails  should  have  any  such  effect  upon  the  iron.  However, 
(as  I  told  you)  it  doth  administer  matter  both  to  you  there 
and  the  officers  of  the  navy  here  for  having  more  particular 
regard  for  the  future  to  the  condition  of  the  ironwork  of 
ships  so  sheathed  which  shall  hereafter  fall  within  their 
and  your  view,  and  in  the  mean  time  hath  led  his  Majesty 
to  the  making  this  use  of  that  other  part  of  your  note 
which  relates  to  the  seas  washing  away  by  degrees  the 
very  substance  of  the  lead,  to  direct  the  officers  of  the 
navy  to  consider  whether  it  may  not  be  reasonable  to 
increase  something  the  thickness  of  our  lead  sheathing,  in 
order  to  its  better  resisting  the  force  and  fretting  virtue  of 
the  sea.' ' 

The  king  is  greatly  satisfied  that  the  ships  he  has  with  him 
will  be  so  well  supplied  (as  he  says)  for  6  months'  service  at 
his  departure  from  Livorne,  within  which  time  supplies  can 
be  lodged  at  Malta  for  him  and  a  hulk  also  from  Tangier 
[2292]  for  careening  the  ships  by,  the  reasons  he  has  given 
having  satisfied  both  the  king  and  lords  in  the  fitness  of 
that  place  before  any  other  for  the  seat  of  his  action  and 
the  rendezvous  of  all  ships  and  intelligence  [2279].  The 
king  is  the  more  satisfied  with  his  choice  of  Malta  from 
the  civil  usage  he  has  received  and  is  promised  from  the 
Grand  Master,  who,  however,  is  dissatisfied  at  his  not 
saluting  him  '  in  such  manner  as  he  pretends  a  right  of 
being  saluted.'  The  king  and  lords  send  him  orders  to 
inform  himself  in  what  manner  the  ships  of  the  Kings  of 
France  and  Spain  use  to  salute  that  place  and  conform 
thereto. 

The  king  expects  the  result  of  his  further  inquiries 
[2536]  touching  the  '  practicableness  and  probable  success  ' 
of  sinking  a  vessel  in  the  mouth  of  the  port  of  Tripoli  [2244]. 

1  The  effects  here  noticed  were  due  to  the  electrolytic  action  of 
sea-water.     See  ii.  184  n.  supra. 


i6;5  FOURTH   VOLUME  67 

He  likes  very  well  of  the  method  he  propounds  for 
annoying  this  troublesome  people.  As  for  Sir  Thomas 
Clutterbuck's  l  not  being  satisfied  with  the  king's  making 
as  little  use  as  he  can  of  the  port  of  Livorne,  his  Majesty 
will  doubtless  '  put  more  weight  upon  the  value  of  his  own 
service,  which  has  suffered  so  much  from  that  place  [2279], 
than  to  give  way  to  any  private  consideration  of  Sir  Thomas 
Clutterbuck's  to  the  prejudice  of  that.' 

The  king  and  lords  are  satisfied  with  what  he  writes 
in  answer  to  the  merchants  who  complain  of  the  sudden- 
ness of  his  breach  with  Tripoli  [2251],  '  as  having  been  too 
long  acquainted  with  the  merchants'  censures  on  other 
occasions  to  wonder  at  anything  they  say  upon  this.' 

Encloses  his  Majesty's  orders  for  his  preserving  to  his 
own  use  such  Turks  or  Moors  as  he  may  happen  to  take 
in  ships  belonging  to  Tripoli,  'it  being  likely  to  turn  to 
better  account  to  the  king  that  they  be  kept  for  the  service 
of  his  own  galley  at  Tangier  than  sold  or  otherwise  disposed 
of.' 

Underwritten:  Duplicates  of  these  [2350  and  2351]  were  sent 
to  Livorne  by  Friday's  post,  18  June. 


2351.  [p.    138.]       14  June.     S.   P.    to   Mr.   £att*    at 
Livorne.  —  To  send  the  enclosed  packet  to  Sir  John  Nar- 
brough  [2350]. 

2352.  [p.  139.]     i  $  June.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.  — 
The  king  refers  the  manning  of  the  Lark  to  their  discretion 
[2346],  leaving  the  confirming  thereof  to  be  done  at  the 
same   time  when    the  general  establishment  of  the  fleet 
shall  pass.     The  lords  have  committed  it  to  Mr.  Speaker  3 
to   solicit  the  lord  treasurer  for  a  supply  of  money  for 
procuring  the  stores  the  board  propound  to  be  sent  to 
Malta  [2369],  and  they  are  to  inform  themselves  from  him 
in  the  issue  of  his  solicitations.    As  a  formal  estimate  must 
be  presented  to  his  Majesty  in  council  and  passed  there  in 
order  to  a  privy  seal  for  these  stores,  they  are  to  send  it 
hither    against    to-morrow's    council     in    the    afternoon. 
Desires   to   know  what  money  for  contingencies  will  be 

1  Sir  Thomas  Clutterbuck  was  victualler  for  the  Mediterranean, 
and  had  a  house  at  Leghorn.     See  also  ii.  236  n.  supra. 

2  Consul  at  Leghorn  [2435]. 

3  See  ii.  49  n.  supra. 

F  2 


68  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS         June 

needful  to  be  sent  to  Sir  John  Narbrough  [2350].  The 
king  and  lords  approve  their  proposal  of  having  the 
victuals  to  be  supplied  at  Tangier  furnished  out  of  the 
present  stores  remaining  here. 

2353.  [p.  140.]     15  June.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Killigrew? 
of  the  Harwich,  in  the  Hope. — Has  moved  the  king  and 
lords  touching  the  difficulties  he  meets  with  in  the  man- 
ning of  his  ship,  and  the  little  effects  he  has  had  of  the 
beating  of  drums  or  other  means  used  [2322],  who  have 
thereupon  granted  him  the  press-warrant  enclosed,  limiting 
him  to  taking  men  only  out  of  ships  homewards  bound,  in 
the  execution  whereof  he  is  to  exercise  all  circumspection 

[2356]. 

2354.  [p.  140.]   i  $June.  S.  P.  to  Commissioner  Deane?- 
Concurs  in  his  staying  at  Portsmouth  till  his  ship  there  be 
launched,3  but  hopes  that  his  not  being  at  Harwich  will 
occasion  no  delay  to  the  launching  of  the  ship  there,4  whose 
service  is  very  much  called  for  at  Sallee. 

2355.  [p.  141.]     1 6  June.    S.  P.  to  Boatsivain  Andrews, 
boatswain  of  the  Holmes. — Notwithstanding  the  protection 
which  he  may  possibly  suppose  his  present  employment 
upon  the  Holmes  and  her  being  ready  to  go  to  sea  may 
give  him,  the  king   and  lords  expect  him  to  give  satis- 
faction   either   by   payment   or    security   to   the    parties 
concerned  in  the  enclosed  petition. 

Underwritten :  '  The  petition  of  Simon  Trout  showing  that 
this  Andrews  is  indebted  to  them  8/.  for  meat,  &c.,  which  he 
refuseth  to  pay  ;  they  pray  leave  to  arrest  him.' 

2356.  [p.  141.]     1 6  June.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Trevanion? 
of  the  Assistance,  in  the  Downs. — Having  acquainted  the 
king  and  lords  with  the  difficulties  he  and  the  other  com- 
manders of  the  ships  now  going  out  meet  with  in  com- 
pleting their  numbers  of  men,  they  have  directed  the  issue 
of  press-warrants  [23 5  3],  whereof  one  is  enclosed.     Desires 
him  to  be  very  careful  in  its  execution  [2378-82] :  par- 
ticularly when  taking  men  from  ships  inward  bound  to 
leave  enough  on  board  to  bring  them  safe  into  harbour. 

1  D.  N.  B.  xxxi.  109.     See  note  to  No.  2266. 

2  Resident  commissioner   of  the  navy  at  Portsmouth.     D.N.B. 
xiv.  251.  «  The  Royal  James  [2342]. 

4  The  Sapphire,  a  5th-rate  of  333  tons  and  32  guns,  built  at  Har- 
wich by  Anthony  Deane  (i.  276,  supra).        b  See  note  to  No.  2319. 


i6;5  FOURTH   VOLUME  69 

2357.  [p.   142.]     17  June.    S.  P.  to  Colonel  Piper?  at 
Plymouth. — Thanks  for  his  of  the  1 3th,  giving  an  account 
of  the  Bristol's  putting  into  his  port  and  the  St.  David's 
sailing  thence  towards  the  Downs. 

2358.  [p.  142.]      17  June.      S.  P.  to  Captain    Booth? 
Pearl,  in  the  Downs. — Is  glad  his  ship  is  in  so  good  a 
readiness. 

2359.  [p.  142.]     17  June.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Moulding? 
of  the  Assistance,  Downs. — To  give  passage  to  Mr.  John 
Bland  to  Tangier. 

2360.  [p.  143.]     i  S  June.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Herbert*— 
To  prepare  and  send  by  to-morrow  morning  to  the  lords  a 
narrative  of  his  late  rencounter  with  the  French  men-of- 
war  [2303]. 

2361.  [p.  143.]     1 8  June.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Hamilton, 
commander  of  the  Mary  Rose,  in  the  Straits. — Sends  him  a 
commission s  to  succeed  Sir  John  Duteil0  in  command  of  the 
Margaret  galley  at  Tangier.     Sir  John  Narbrough  [2350] 
is  directed,  in  case  he  shall   think  fit  to  keep  the  Mary 
Rose  with  him,  to  find  some  opportunity  for  sending  him 
to  Tangier  and  deliver  the  commission  sent  him  for  Lieu- 
tenant Coppow7  to  command  the  ship.     But  if  she  shall 
not  be  in  condition  to  be  continued  abroad,  Sir  J.  N.  is  to 
send  her  presently  home  with  orders  to  put  him  ashore  at 
Tangier  as  she  passes  by. 

2362.  [p.  143.]     i8/»«*.     5.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— 
Desires  them  to  consider  whether  ships  under  the  4th  rate 
designed  against  Sallee  and  Tripoli  should  not  be  furnished 
with  oars.    They  are  to  hasten  the  building  of  the  flyboat  by 
Mr.  Pett 8  at  Woodbridge  [2247],  the  king  (not  seldom)  in- 
quiring after  her  despatch  ;  to  hasten  also  the  report  of  the 
clerks  (pursuant  to  the  lords'  letter  of  10  May)  relating  to 
the  business  of  Mr.  Jones's  discoveries  [2574].     One  of  the 
ships  designed  for  the  Straits  (he  supposes  the  Yarmouth) 
will  be  ordered  to  call  at  Tangier  for  taking  the  hulk  thence 
to  Malta  [2292],  and  she  will  probably  be  going  away  about 

1  Deputy-governor  of  Plymouth  [2667].        2  See  ii.  2i8#.  supra. 

3  See  note  to  No.  2317.  4  See  note  to  No.  2302. 

5  Dated  18  June,  1675  (i.  359,  supra).          6  See  ii.  207  n.  supra. 

1  William  Coppow  was  lieutenant  of  the  Mary  Rose.  His  com 
mission  as  captain  is  dated  18  June,  1675  (i-  33^>  supra). 

s  Mr.  Phineas  Pett,  the  master-shipwright  at  Chatham  [2247]. 
See  also  ii.  92  n.  supra. 


70  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          June 

14  days  hence,  so  soon  as  she  hath  attended  his  Majesty 
with  the  rest  to  Portsmouth  [2342]. 

2363.  [p.  144.]     iS/une.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Killigrew? 
commander   of  the    Harwich,   in    the    Hope. — The    king 
expects  to  have  his  ship's  company  with  him  to  Ports- 
mouth [2342].     He  is  to   set   sail    from    hence  with   the 
yachts  upon  Wednesday  or  Thursday  next. 

2364.  [p.  145.]     iSfune.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Houlding? 
of  the  Assistance,  in  the  Downs. —  Is  assured  by  the  Turkey 
Company  that  the  Scipio  (the  chief  of  the  two  ships 3  he  is 
to  convoy)  is  already  in  the  Downs  and  that  the  other  will 
suddenly  be  there,  but  in  case  she  come  not   before  the 
wind  is  fair  he  is  not  to  stay  for  her  [2402]. 

2365.  [p.  145.]     19  June.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Trevanion? 
of  the  Yarmouth,  in  the  Downs. — The  officers  of  the  navy 
have  directions  to  allow  as  supernumeraries  to  his  com- 
plement of  men  such   as    are  sent  on  board  him  by  his 
Majesty's  particular  order  to  serve  as  midshipmen  extra- 
ordinary or  volunteers  [2248]. 

2366.  [p.  146.]     19  June.     S.  P.  to  Captain    William 
Coleman*  at  Plymouth. — Thanks  for  his  of  the  1 5th,  giving 
advice   of  his  laying  the  buoy  on    the   sunken    rock  he 
mentions  at  the  coming  into  Plymouth. 

2367.  [p.  146.]     19  June.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Story?  of 
the  Portsmouth,  in  the  Downs. — Encloses  the  king's  war- 
rant for  staying  him  to  attend  him,  with  the  rest  of  the 
ships  now  in  the  Downs,  in  his  passage  to  Portsmouth 
[2342].     His   number   of  men    will   be    increased    if  the 
officers  of  the  navy  '  shall  deliver  it  as  their  opinion  that 
it  is  necessary.' 

2368.  [p.    147.]      19  June.      S.  P.  to  Captain  Fasby, 
Cleveland  yacht,  at  Greenwich. — After  he  has  landed  the 
Prince  of  Neuburg5  at  Dieppe,  he  is  to  return  to  Ports- 
mouth for  further  orders. 

2369.  [p.  147.]     19  June.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Speaker.6— The 
particulars  he  required  this  day  for  moving  the  lord  trea- 
surer for  some  supplies  of  money  thereon  [2352]  were  these  : 
(i)  'For  the  enabling  the  officers  of  the  navy  to  proceed 

1  D.  N.  B.  xxxi.  109.   See  note  to  No.  2266.     2  See  note  to  No.  2304. 

3  The  other  was  the  Mary,  a  '  Maligo  man '  (Teonge,  Diary,  p.  13). 

4  Collector  of  customs  at  Plymouth  [2948]. 

4  MS.  '  Newburgh.'  G  See  ii.  49  n.  supra. 


1675  FOURTH   VOLUME  71 

upon  the  repair  of  the  fleet,  and  saving  the  season  for 
providing  and  bringing  in  of  materials  towards  the  same 
(through  the  want  whereof  they  are  said  to  be  at  this  day 
at  an  almosttotal  stop  therein)' — 144,0167.  (2)  'Towards  the 
providing  of  materials  and  stores  for  the  magazine  required 
for  maintaining  the  whole  fleet  when  repaired  for  8  months' 
sea  service ' — 95,0837.  i6s.  'jd.  (3)  'For  the  providing  of 
stores  to  be  lodged  at  Malta  for  answering  the  wants  of  the 
fleet  under  Sir  John  Narbrough ' — 4,7 12/.  '  To  these  three 
particulars  which  his  Majesty  was  pleased  to  commit  to 
your  soliciting  my  lord  treasurer  about  this  day  sevennight 
[2352]  there  are  added  upon  discourse  had  thereon  by  my 
lords  of  the  admiralty  with  the  officers  of  the  navy  this 
day  :  (4)  The  making  good  i6,ooo/.  by  them  said  to  be  yet 
in  arrear  upon  their  assignations  on  the  assessment. 
(5)  The  payment  off  of  the  St.  David  newly  come  home 
from  the  Barbados.  (6)  The  enabling  the  officers  of  the 
navy  to  pay  themselves  their  own  salaries.' 

2370.  [p.  148.]     20  June.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Pett,1  Wool- 
wich.— To  cause  the  Portsmouth  yacht  to  be  refitted  and 
cleaned  for  some  present  service  with  all  despatch. 

2371.  [p.  148.]     21  June.     S.  P.  to  the  Contractors  for 
Victualling? — To  attend  the  lords  at  the  navy  office  in 
Mark  Lane,  at  9  in  the  morning,  on  Tuesday,  22  June,  to 
complete  the  business  of  the  victualling  contract. 

2372.  [p.  149.]     22  June.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Williams? 
Holmes   fireship,   in    the    Hope. — To  give  advice  of  the 
condition  of  his  ship,  as  he  is  expected  in  the  Downs  to 
attend  his  Majesty  to  Portsmouth  [2342]. 

2373.  [p.    149.]     22    June.     S.    P.    to    Sir     William 
Poole^  of  the  St.  David,  at  Erith. — The  king  permits  his 
coming  to  town  as  soon  as  he  has  brought  his  ship  to  her 
moorings  at  Woolwich.     Doubts  not  that  he  is  preparing 
his  books  for  her  discharge,  and  will  speedily  send  up  his 
journal. 

2374.  [p.  149.]     22  June.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board. — 

1  Master-shipwright  at  Woolwich.     See  ii.  92  n.  supra. 

•  See  No.  738. 

3  Captain  Henry  Williams,  commander  of  the  Assurance,  had 
been  appointed  to  the  Wivenhoe  fireship  [2321]  and  then  to  the 
Holmes  fireship,  both  commissions  being  dated  25  May,  1675  (i.  424, 
supra).  '  See  ii.  264  n.  supra. 


72  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          June 

Encloses  a  copy  of  a  letter  from  Captain  Stout,1  of  the 
Success,  with  a  particular  of  stores  he  hath  been  supplied 
with  at  Livorne. 

2375.  [p.  1 50.]     22  June.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Brett?  a  com- 
missioner for  admiral's  rights,  at  St.  James's. — Has  moved 
the  lords  touching  his  paper  about  the  charge  of  the  sick 
men  put  on  shore  at  Portland  out  of  the  ship  Arms  of 
Horn.     They  desire  to  know  c  what  it  is  that  is  to  be  said 
for  the  removing  the  said  charge  from  being  borne  by  the 
admiral  (to  whose  single  benefit  the  profit  arising  from  the 
said  wreck  hath  accrued)  to  the  king,  who  received  no  advan- 
tage therefrom,  nor  hath  at  any  time  borne  any  such  charge.' 

2376.  [p.    150.]      22  June.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Butler,  col- 
lector  of  the   customs  at  Boston. — Thanks    him  for  his 
letter  of  the  i6th  and  his  affidavit  touching  the  truth  of 
what   has  been  lately  reported   to  him  by  one  Watson, 
master  of  a  vessel  of  Boston,  concerning  the  affront  done 
to  the  king  by  the  French  privateers.     As  Watson  has 
gone  to  sea  leaving  his  report  imperfect,  all  that  can  be 
done  at  present  is  to  desire  that  he  will  advise  the  writer  of 
Watson's  return  to  Boston. 

2377.  [p.  151.]     23  June.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board— 
Encloses  an  extract  from  Sir  John  Narbrough  3  desiring  a 
supply  of  long  oars  and  coals  [2402].     All  the  king's  ships 
bound  for  the  Straits  are  now  in  the  Downs,  and  consequently 
too  far  advanced  for  transporting  stores  or  doing  anything 
else  outward-bound  relating  to  the  service  of  Tripoli,  other 
than   the   taking  on   of  the  artificers   and  20   men    they 
propound  to  be  sent  to  the  hulk,  and  taking  the   hulk 
along  with  them  from  Tangier  [2362]. 

2378.  [p.  151.]    23  June.    S.  P.  to  Captain  Preistman? 
of  the  Lark. — Doubts  not  ere  this  he  has  by  the  help  of 
the    press-warrant  sent  him  from   the  lords   [2356]  fully 
manned  his  ship  ;   is  therefore  to  desire  him  to   be  very 
tender  of  making  any  further  use  of  it. 

1  Captain  Robert  Stout,   formerly  commander  of  the  Warspite 
[1323],  had  been  appointed  to  command  the  Success  by  a  commission 
dated  15  June,  1674  (i.  410,  supra}.     He  is  'wrongly  described  as  still 
commander  of  the  Warspite  in  the  note  to  No.  1585. 

2  See  No.  116.  3  D.  N.  B.  xl.  89. 

4  Captain  Henry  Preistman  had  formerly  commanded  the  Rich- 
mond [1170].  His  commission  to  the  Lark,  a  new  6th-rate  [2310],  is 
dated  II  June,  1675  ('•  395>  supra). 


1675  FOURTH   VOLUME  73 

2379.  [p.  152.]     23  June.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Harman^ 
of  the  Sapphire. — He  is  not  to  use  the  press-warrant  lately 
sent  him  [2356]  unless  there  be  an  absolute  necessity  for  it 

2380.  [p.  152.]     23  June.    S.  P.  to  Captain  Killigrew? 
of  the  Harwich,  in  the  Downs. — Desires  that  being  now 
manned,  or  near  it,  he  will  be  very  tender  in  making  any 
further  use  of  his  press-warrant 

2381.  [p.  153.]     z^June.    S.  P.  to  Captain  Trevanion* 
Downs. — Is  glad  he  is  so  fully  manned  and  has  no  occasion 
to  make  use  of  his  press-warrant  [2356];  'his  Majesty's 
intentions  being  that  it  should  be  employed  no  otherwise 
than  for  the  supplying  such  present  wants  of  men  as  no 
other  means  could  furnish  you  with,  and  that  being  done, 
to  be  laid  aside,  that  no  unneedful  interruption  be  given 
to  the  merchants  in  their  trade.' 

2382.  [p.    153.]     23  June.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Story :4— 
Hopes  ere  this  his  ship  is  completely  manned  ;  he  is  to  be 
very  tender  of  making  any  further  use  of  his  press-warrant. 

2383.  [p.   153.]     23  June.      S.   P.  to  Captain  Booth? 
Pearl,  Downs. — The  Duke  of  Monmouth  having  this  even- 
ing informed   the  king  that  the  horses  which  he  was  to 
convoy  to  Calais  are  shipped,  but  that,  the  wind  being  out 
of  the  way  and  his  orders  limiting  him  to  depart  last  night, 
he  is  in  pursuance  of  them  returned  to  the  Downs  ;  and 
his   Grace   moving  his   Majesty   that  his   orders  may  be 
renewed  for  a  longer  time,  which  some  alteration  in  the 
suddenness  of  his  Majesty's  departure  happens  to  give  way 
to  [2342],  it  is  the  king's  pleasure  that  he  take  again  into 
his  convoy  the  said  vessel  with  horses,  provided  that  he  is 
back  in  the  Downs  before  Sunday. 

2384.  [p.   154.]     23  June.     'Sent  by  express  at  12  at 
night.'     S.  P.  to  Commissioner  Deane* — To  launch  the  ship 
on  the  2Qth,  it  being  the  king's  full  purpose  to  be  there 

1  Captain  Thomas  Harman  had  formerly  commanded  the  Tiger. 
His   commission   to  the  Sapphire,  a  new  5th-rate  [2312],  is   dated 
12  June,  1675  (i.  360,  supra).    He  should  not  be  confused  with  Captain 
William  Harman,  commander  of  the  Bristol,  to  whom  letters  in  this 
volume  are  also  addressed.     See  also  ii.  88  n.  supra. 

2  D.  N.  B.  xxxi.  109.     See  note  to  No.  2266. 

3  Commander  of  tiie  Yarmouth  [2365].      See  note  to  No.  2304. 

4  Commander  of  the  Portsmouth  [2337].     See  note  to  No.  2304. 

5  See  ii.  2i8«.  supra. 

6  Resident  commissioner  of  the  navy  at  Portsmouth.     D.  N.  B. 
xiv.  251. 


74  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          June 

then  if  possible,  he  seeming  to  have  a  great  desire  to  be 
[2386]. 

2385.  [p.  1 54.]     Thursday  night,  24  June.     S.  P.  to  the 
respective  commanders   of  his  Majesty's  ships   and  vessels 
undernamed.^ — To  fall  down  to  Gravesend,  the  king  purpos- 
ing to  embark  there  on  board  one  of  his  said  yachts  on 
Saturday  morning  next  for  his  intended  voyage  to  Ports- 
mouth [2342]. 

Undernamed :     Greyhound,    Saudados,    Lark ;    Portsmouth, 
Anne,  Katherine,  and  Richmond  yachts. 

2386.  [p.     155.]     24   June.     S.    P.    to    Commissioner 
Deane?  at  Portsmouth. — The  king  will  embark  on  Satur- 
day [2385].     The  writer  purposes  to  come  by  land,  setting 
out  on  Sunday. 

2387.  [p.  155.]     24 June,  'past  12  at  night.'     5.  P.  to 
Mr.  St.  Michel?  at  Deal. — He  is  to  give  notice  to  the  ships 
in  the  Downs  that  the  king  purposes  to  embark  upon  his 
yachts  for  Portsmouth  [2342]  on  Saturday  morning  next,  at 
Gravesend,  that  they  may  be  ready  to  attend  him  thither 
at  his  passing  through  the  Downs. 

2388.  [p.  155.]     25  June.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Sanderson, 
Portsmouth  yacht,  at  Greenwich. — To  attend  the  Duke  of 
Monmouth  in  his   passage  with  the  king  to   Portsmouth 

[2387]- 

2389.  [p.    156.]     25  June.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Jenifer, 
Saudados,4  at  Deptford. — To   attend  Lord  Ossory  in  his 
passage  with  the  king  to  Portsmouth  [2387]. 

2390.  [p.  156.]     25  June.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Waltham, 
Deptford  ketch,  at  Deptford. — To  receive  such  provisions, 
goods,  and  persons  as  shall  be  directed  on  board  him  from 
Sir  Stephen  Fox  r>  [2396],  whose  orders  he  is  also  further  to 
obey  in  reference  to  his  attending  his  Majesty  to  and  from 
Portsmouth  [2387], 

2391.  [p.  156.]     25  June.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Day,  Bezan 
yacht,  at  Deptford. — To  carry  Don  Ignacio  de  Mira  to  the 
Downs  and  put  him  on  board  the  Portsmouth  [2395], 

1  I.e.  Captains  Clements  [2332],  Jenifer  [2389],  Preistman  [2378] ; 
Sanderson  [2388],  Gunman  [2414],  Lovell  [2412],  and  Tyte  [2466]. 
-  See  note  to  No.  2384. 

3  Balthazar  St.  Michel,  the  brother-in-law  of  Pepys,  was  muster- 
master  at  Deal.     This  letter,  as  is  usually  the  case  in  this  correspon- 
dence, is  addressed  to  '  Mr.  Mitchell,'  and  begins  '  Brother  Baity.' 

4  See  ii.  9  n.  supra.  i  Paymaster-general  (D.  N.  B.  xx.  134). 


1675  FOURTH   VOLUME  75 

2392.  [p.  157.]     25  June.     S.  P.  to  Commissioner  Had- 
Will    make  use  of  him  as  well  for  the   directing 

any  papers  to  him  which  he  shall  have  occasion  to  send 
towards  the  king,  as  for  his  acquainting  the  writer  by 
every  opportunity  with  the  king's  proceedings  at  sea, 
directing  his  letters  to  him  at  Derby  House.  He  is  to 
direct  the  like  accounts  from  time  to  time  to  Mr.  Secretary 
Williamson  2  at  his  office  at  Whitehall,  '  that  he  may  daily- 
know  the  king's  motions  while  he  is  at  sea  by  some  body 
which  will  be  always  at  sea  with  him.' 

2393.  [p.  157.]     25  June.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Killigrew? 
— Lest  his  letter  to  Deal  should  miscarry  [2387],  this  is  to 
say  '  that  his  Majesty  purposes  to  set  forth  with  his  yachts 
towards  the  Downs  to-morrow  morning,  in    expectation 
of  finding  you  and  all  the  rest  of  his  ships  with  you  in  the 
Downs  ready  upon  his  arrival  to  accompany  him  thence 
to  Portsmouth.'     Desires  him  to  communicate  this  to  every 
one  of  the  said  commanders  [2394]. 

2394.  [p.  158.]     25  June.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  St.  Michel?  in 
the  Downs. — Lest  his  of  last  night  should  miscarry  [2387] 
the  writer  repeats  the  substance  of  it  [2393]. 

2395.  [p.  I59.5]     25  June.    'Sent  by  express  past  12  at 
night.'     5.  P.  to  Captain  Story?  Portsmouth,  in  the  Downs. 

—Encloses  the  king's  warrant  for  his  taking  in  a  Portu- 
guese gentleman  [2391]  with  his  company  and  goods,  who 
is  setting  out  towards  him  in  the  Bezan  this  afternoon, 
whom  he  is  to  transport  to  Rochelle.  But  if  the  Bezan 
should  not  be  with  him  before  the  king's  coming  [2387],  he 
is  to  attend  his  Majesty  for  his  further  pleasure. 

2396.  [p.  158.]     26  June.     S.P.to  Captain   Waltham, 
Deptford  ketch. — The  Kitchen  yacht  being  now  come  to 
Gravesend,  he  is  to  deliver  to  her  the  things  put  on  board 
him  yesterday  [2390,  2397],  and  then  to  repair  to  Deptford 
for  further  orders  [2399]. 

2397.  [p.   158.]     26  June.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Wright? 
Kitchen  yacht. — To  receive  all  things  from  the  Deptford 
ketch  [2390,  2396],  and  then  to  attend  the  king,  following 

1  See  ii.  36  n.  supra.  2  D.  N.  B.  Ixii.  2. 

3  Commander  of  the  Harwich  [2380],     See  note  to  No.  2266. 

4  See  note  to  No.  2387.     This  letter  begins  '  Brother.' 

5  In  the  MS.  this  letter  follows  No.  2397. 

e  See  note  to  No.  2304.  1  See  ii.  12  n.  supra. 


76  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          June 

such  orders  in  his  further  proceedings  as  he  shall  receive 
from  Sir  Stephen  Fox,1  or  in  his  absence  the  chief  officer 
belonging  to  the  Board  of  Green  Cloth. 

2398.  [p.  159.]     26  June.    S.  P.  to  Commissioner  Deane? 
— His  Majesty  is  gone  towards  Portsmouth  this  morning 

[2387]- 

2399.  [p.  1 60.]     28  June.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Waltham, 
Deptford  ketch,  at  Deptford. — To  carry  what  goods  and 
persons  shall  be  sent  on  board  him  by  the   Duchess  of 
Portsmouth  to  Southampton,  where  he  will  receive  further 
orders  touching  his  proceeding  thence  to  Brest. 

2400.  [p.  1 60.]     Portsmouth,  30  June.     S.  P.  to  Mr. 
Secretary  Williamson?  at  Whitehall. — '  I  reached  this  place 
yesterday   noon,   at   which  time  the  new  ship  was  very 
happily  launched  [2342],  but  without  any  tidings  of  his 
Majesty  till  about  the  same  hour  this  day,  when  his  Royal 
Highness  came  in  with  the  Anne,4  in  company  with  the 
Portsmouth   yacht,   from   whom    I    have   understood    his 
Majesty's  proceedings  from  the  Downs  to  have  been  as 
follows : — 

'  He  passed  the  Downs  early  on  Sunday  in  the  after- 
noon, the  wind  at  WNW  ;  was  thwart  the  South  Foreland 
at  3  of  the  clock,  it  being  then  high  water,  and  with  that 
ebb  turned  down  to  a  little  short  of  Hythe,5  where  he  came 
to  an  anchor  at  9  at  night.  On  Monday  morning  between 
3  and  4  his  Majesty  set  sail,  the  wind  at  S,  turning  to  the 
westward  to  within  4  miles  of  the  Ness  point.6  About  7 
the  same  morning  he  bore  up  for  the  Downs  again,  and  came 
in  there  about  u,and  rode  there  all  the  following  night. 
On  Tuesday  morning  at  3,  the  wind  at  ENE,  he  weighed, 
and  lying  an  hour  driving  till  the  frigates  could  get  under 
sail,  at  4  passed  the  South  Foreland,  and  at  7  was  thwart 
the  Ness,6  then  steering  WS  W  was  before  1 1  off  of  Beachy, 
when  steering  W  by  S  and  WSW  they  at  4  in  the 
morning  see  the  Isle  of  Wight,  the  island  bearing  NW, 
distant  between  3  and  4  leagues,  the  wind  at  N.  At 
past  12  that  night  the  duke  came  to  an  anchor  in  San- 

1  Paymaster-general  (D.N.B.  xx.  134). 

2  Resident    commissioner   of    the   navy    at    Portsmouth.       Ibid. 
xiv.  251. 

3  See  ibid.  Ixii.  2.    This  letter  is  in  S.  P.  Dom.   Car.  II,  371 
No.  164.  4  I.e.  the  Anne  yacht  [2385], 

5  MS.  « Hide.'  •  Dungeness. 


i675  FOURTH   VOLUME  77 

down  Bay,  the  king  then  plying  to  windward,  between  2 
and  3  leagues  short  without  Dunnose.1  This  morning  at  5 
the  king  was  under  sail  about  SE  from  the  Anne,  and 
about  the  same  time  came  to  an  anchor,  when  the  Anne 
weighed,  the  wind  then  at  N  and  by  W,  and  came  in 
hither  between  1 1  and  1 2  in  company  with  the  Portsmouth 
yacht  His  Majesty  and  the  frigates  (who  attend  him) 
came  not  in  sight  of  this  place  while  we  had  day,  but  our 
expectations  are  to  see  him  in  the  morning. 

'  As  to  any  further  particulars,  I  have  only  to  tell  you 
that  the  Harwich  carries  the  bell  from  the  whole  fleet,  great 
and  small ;  and  that  in  case  his  Majesty  comes  not  in  by 
the  morning,  his  Royal  Highness  purposes  to  go  out  again 
towards  him,  to  the  great  discomfort  of  our  land  men,  who 
have  had  enough  of  the  sea  for  this  bout.' 

2401.  [p.  162.]  In  Fareham  2  River,  3  July,  '6  after- 
noon, going  to  Portsmouth.'  The  same  to  the  same.3 — 
.  .  .  '  His  Majesty,  having  first  landed,  and  been  entertained 
(noon  and  night)  by  Sir  Robert  Holmes  4  in  the  Isle  of  Wight 
on  Thursday,  he  spent  yesterday  at  Portsmouth,  with  much 
appearance  of  satisfaction  in  his  visits  afloat  in  the  morning 
(and  particularly  from  the  new  ship,  and  the  yachts  built 
by  Commissioner  Deane  for  the  King  of  France),  and  on 
shore  in  the  afternoon  from  the  governor.  He  is  this 
morning  going  to  Titchfield,  where  he  dines  with  Mr.  Noel,5 
resolving  to  set  out  thence  homeward  by  sea  again  this 
evening,  with  this  (I  hope)  better  choice  in  his  passage  that 
he  will  take  it  on  the  Harwich  to  the  Downs,  where  Commis- 
sioner Haddock 6  and  some  others  will  attend  him,  to  the 
lessening,  though  not  wholly  removing,  the  apprehensions 
we  were  lately  under  from  the  too  great  adventure  his 
Majesty  was  then  running  without  other  security  on  board 
him  than  his  own  seamanship,  and  poor  Clements's.' 7 

1  Dunnose  Point,  the  most    south-easterly  point  of  the   Isle  of 
Wight. 

8  MS.  '  Farnham.' 

3  This  letter  is  in  S.  P.  Dom.  Car.  77,  371,  No.  215. 

4  D.N.B.   xxvii.  194.     Sir   Robert   Holmes   was  vice-admiral  of 
Hampshire  [712]  and  governor  of  the  Isle  of  Wight. 

5  Edward  Noel  (Noell  or  Nowell),  M.P.,  afterwards  Lord  Lieutenant 
of  Hampshire  (Cal.  S.  P.  Dom.  1675-6,  p.  577). 

6  See  ii.  36  n.  supra. 

1  Commander  of  the  Greyhound  [2334],  in  which  the  king  had 


78  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          July 

'  Just  as  I  was  come  to  the  bottom  of  the  other  side  I 
was  called  away  to  attend  the  king  to  Titchfield,  where  he 
has  been  very  hospitably  treated  by  Mr.  Noel,  and  dinner 
being  done,  is  returned  to  his  yachts,  to  be  by  them  trans- 
ported to  the  Spithead,  where  the  Harwich  and  the  rest  of 
the  frigates  expect  him,  with  purpose  of  making  the  best 
of  his  way  this  evening  towards  London,  the  wind  blowing 
at  WSW  very  fresh,  and  the  weather  fair.  God  give  him 
a  good  passage !  He  has  been  pleased  to  bestow  the 
honour  of  knighthood  this  day  on  Sir  John  Tippetts,  Sir 
Richard  Haddock,  and  Sir  Anthony  Deane,  the  two  former 
at  Portsmouth  (together  with  Sir  R.  Manley,1  the  deputy- 
governor  there),  and  the  last  at  Titchfield.  Some  work 
the  king  has  set  me  which  will  keep  me  at  Portsmouth  this 
night,  towards  which  I  am  now  going  from  Titchfield  in  the 
new  French  yacht,2  which,  taking  in  all  qualities  and  its 
little  draught  of  water,  seems  to  outdo  anything  that  ever 
yet  swam.' 

Postscript. — The  king  is  going  on  board  the  Harwich, 
now  under  sail.  Desires  him  to  dispose  of  the  enclosed 
from  the  king  to  Mr.  Chiffinch.3 

2402.  [p.  163.]  6  July.  'Sent  by  the  Harwich.' 
5.  P.  to  Sir  John  Narbrough  [2408]. — A  duplicate  of 
the  writer's  last  of  the  I4th  [2350]  was  sent  him  by 
the  Assistance,  who  sailed  from  the  Downs  on  the 
2Oth,  having  under  his  convoy  one  of  the  Turkey 
Company's  ships  named  the  Scipio  [2364,  2555].  His 
letters  of  1 7  and  26  May  are  come  to  hand,  the  former  of 
which  brought  an  account  of  the  unhappy  loss  of  the 
Samuel  merchantman  by  her  running  on  board  the 
Dragon.  The  merchants  seem  to  be  of  his  opinion  that  it 
was  solely  occasioned  by  the  men  in  the  Samuel  not 
timely  looking  out. 

The   king  and  lords  are  satisfied  with  the  so  quick 

come  down  to  Portsmouth  from  Gravesend  [2385].  She  is  often 
referred  to  as  a  yacht  (e.g.  Cat.  S.  P.  Dom.  1673-5,  P-  47°)>  although 
entered  in  Pepys's  Register  of  Ships  as  a  6th-rate  (i.  278,  supra], 

1  MS.  '  Sir  P.  Manley.'  On  Roger  Manley,  see  D.  N.  B.  xxxvi.  38, 
where,  however,  his  appointment  as  deputy-governor  of  Portsmouth  is 
not  given. 

3  Sir  Anthony  Deane  had  built  two  yachts  for  the  King  of  France. 
See  No.  2420. 

3  MS.  '  Chevins.'     On  this  notorious  character  see  D.  N.  B.  x.  238. 


1675  FOURTH   VOLUME  79 

despatch  of  the  king's  ships  with  him  in  their  refitting  at 
Livorne  under  the  unkindnesses  he  met  with  there  [2279], 
and  that  he  was  under  sail  (as  his  last  letter  mentioned)  for 
the  coast  of  Tripoli,  hoping  to  find  the  good  effects  of  his 
appearing  there  by  those  people's  willingness  to  come  to  a 
treaty  of  peace  upon  the  terms  he  is  directed  to  conclude 
with  them  by  his  Majesty's  orders  of  the  I4th,  sent  to 
Livorne  by  one  of  his  secretaries  of  state  l  [2350]. 

The  navy  board  will  send  him  a  supply  of  long  oars, 
smith's  coals,  and  iron  [2377].  The  Harwich,  with  the 
Holmes  and  Ann  and  Christopher  fireships,  is  to  sail  directly 
to  Malta,  and  thence  to  the  coast  of  Tripoli  to  find  him 
out ;  the  Yarmouth  is  to  call  at  Tangier  and  convoy  thence 
the  Europa  [2407]  to  Malta  [2362],  which  is  to  be  laid  there 
for  the  lodging  of  stores,  and  assisting  in  the  careening  and 
refitting  his  squaidron. 

By  the  king's  orders  enclosed,  he  will  find  what  number 
of  ships  he  is  to  keep  with  him  for  carrying  on  the  war 
against  Tripoli,  the  choice  whereof  is  left  to  him  ;  but  he 
is  to  give  such  orders  to  the  commanders  of  those  he  sends 
home  as  that  no  time  may  be  lost  in  their  return  by  their 
staying  at  any  unnecessary  port,  several  commanders 
having  lately  taken  the  liberty  to  go  from  port  to  port  for 
their  own  private  advantage,  '  to  the  great  dishonour  of  his 
Majesty's  service  and  needless  expense  of  his  treasure.' 

Postscript. — Has  just  received  a  letter  of  29  May  from 
the  captain  of  the  Diamond,2  probably  from  Cadiz.  He  did 
then  expect  to  sail  within  4  days  with  purpose  of  touching 
at  Tangier  for  a  supply  of  victuals  and  stores,  and  then  to 
proceed  to  Livorne  for  intelligence  after  him. 

2403.  [p.  165.]  6  July.  'Sent  by  express,  past  8  at 
night.'  5.  P.  to  Captain  Killigrew?  of  the  Harwich,  in  the 
Downs. — The  king  being  returned  safe  hither,  it  is  his 
pleasure  that  he  hasten  back  to  Spithead  to  take  in  what 
stores  Sir  Anthony  Deane 4  shall  send  on  board  him,  and 
that  done  to  pursue  the  orders  lately  left  with  Sir  A.  D. 

1  See  note  to  No.  2197. 

2  Captain  Richard  Griffith  [1726]. 

3  D.N.B.  xxxi.  109.     See  note  to  No.  2266. 

4  D.N.B.  xiv.  251.     Anthony  Deane,  resident  commissioner  ot 
the  navy  at  Portsmouth,  had  been  knighted  on  3  July,  on  the  occasion 
of  the  king's  visit  [2401]. 


8o  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          July 

for  him  by  the  writer.     Thanks  for  his  late  civilities  on  board 
the  Harwich. 

In  the  marginal  reference  the  stores  in  question  are  described 
as  the  stores  '  he  is  to  carry  for  Malta.' 

2404.  [p.   165.]     6  July.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Trevanion1 
of  the  Yarmouth,  in  the  Downs.     [To  the  same  effect  as  the 
preceding^ 

Margin :  This  refers  to  the  stores  '  he  is  to  carry  to  the 
Straits.' 

Underwritten :  '  The  like  to  Captain  Voteer,  of  the  Ann  and 
Christopher  fireship,  in  the  Downs,  and  to  Captain  Williams,2  of 
the  Holmes  fireship,  in  the  Downs,  all  sent  by  express  at  past  8 
at  night.' 

2405.  [p.  1 66.]     6  July.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  St.  Michel?  at 
Deal. — Thanks  for  his  of  29  June  which  he  met  with  at  his 
return  home  from  Portsmouth  last  night.     '  You  did  very 
well  in  attending  his  Majesty  and  the  duke,  and  making 
them  the  little  present  of  the  lamb  and  fish  you  mention, 
the  king  having  need  enough  of  it  (I  believe)  before  he  got 
on  shore  at  the  Isle  of  Wight.'     To  convey  the  enclosed 
letters  [2403,  2404.] 

2406.  [p.  1 66.]     6  July.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Killigrew.*— 
Prays  him  to  discharge  one  John  Thrale,  lately  pressed  on 
board  him  out  of  the  ship  Hopewell  in  her  passage  from 
the  Barbados,  to  whom  not  only  a  great  arrear  of  wages  is 
due  from  his  commander,  but  the  support  of  his  mother 
and  her  younger  children  depends  upon  him. 

2407.  [p.  1 66.]    6  July.    S.  P.  to  Mr.  Betts?  Europa,at 
Tangier. — Encloses  orders  for  sending  the  Europa  under 
his  command  to  Malta,  there  to  be  employed  in  the  re- 
fitting and  careening  his  Majesty's  ships  employed  in  the 
present  war  against  Tripoli  [2402]. 

2408.  [p.   167.]     6  July.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Anthony  Deane? 
at  Portsmouth. — The  ships  for  the  Straits  are  ordered  to 
Spithead  [2403,  2404]  to  take  in  such  stores  for  the  use 
of  Sir    John    Narbrough's  ships   '  as  you  upon   the   late 

1  See  note  to  No.  2304.  a  See  note  to  No.  2372. 

3  See  note  to  No.   2387.     This  letter  is  addressed  to  'Mr.  St. 
Mitchell,'  and  begins  '  Brother  Baity.' 

4  Commander  of  the  Harwich  [2380].     See  note  to  No.  2266. 

5  Master  attendant  at  Tangier  [1613]. 

6  See  note  to  No.  2403. 


1675  FOURTH    VOLUME  81 

advice  of  the  officers  of  the  navy  shall  think  convenient 
for  each  ship.'  Desires  him  to  deliver  to  Captain  Killigrew,1 
in  the  Harwich,  the  two  packets  of  letters  the  writer  left 
with  him  directed  to  Mr.  Martin,  consul  at  Argeir,  and  Mr. 
Bradly,  consul  at  Tripoli,  or  Mr.  Baker,  of  Tunis  (which 
of  the  two  latter  his  memory  is  not  perfect  in),  together 
with  another  here  enclosed  to  Sir  John  Narbrough  [?  2402]. 
Desires  him  also  to  give  Captain  Trevanion,1  in  the  Yar- 
mouth, the  packets  for  Lord  Inchiquin 2  and  Mr.  Bland  at 
Tangier,  and  another  which  he  will  receive  directed  to  Mr. 
Bowles  there  [2433]. 

2409.  [p.  1 68.]     6  July.     S.  P.  to  Sir  John  Knight* 
Bristol. — Has  been  applied  to  by  Mr.  Baylie,  shipwright,  of 
Bristol,  for  a  letter  from  the  lords  to  the  said  city  for  their 
excusing  him  from  a  debt  said  to  have  been  laid  on  him 
for   the   use  of  the  waste  ground   belonging  to  the   city 
whereon   some   time   since   he   built  his  Majesty's   ships 
St.  Patrick4  and  Edgar.5     Before  moving  the  lords,  the 
writer  desires  information  in  the  true  state  of  that  matter 

[2445]. 

2410.  [p.  169.]     6  July.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board. — 
The  ships  named  in  the  margin  bound  for  the  Straits  being 
ordered  to  Spithead  [2408],  they  are  to  consider  whether 
in  case  the  wind  should  keep  them  any  time  in  the  Downs, 
where  they  now  are,  or  at  Spithead,  it  will  not  be  convenient 
that   they  be   supplied   with   three   weeks'  or  a  month's 
victuals,  to  make  up  what  they  have  already  expended. 

Margin :    Harwich,  Yarmouth  ;  Ann  and   Christopher  and 
Holmes  fireships. 

2411.  [p.  169.]     6  July,  sent  to  Portsmouth.     5.  P.  to 
Captain  Killigrew?-  of  the  Harwich. — Encloses  the  king's 
warrant  for  his  calling  at  Cadiz,  Genoa,  and  Livorne  in  his 
voyage  out  [2434],  according  to  his  request.  This  is  meant 
with  some  personal  kindness  to  himself,  but  '  his  Majesty 
has  so  far  an  eye  to  the  use  which  it  may  be  really  of  to 
the  trade  of  his  subjects  with  regard  to  our  present  breaches 

1  See  note  to  No.  2304.  2  See  note  to  No.  2113. 

3  See  note  to  No.  2088. 

4  The  St.  Patrick  was  a  4th-rate  built  at  Bristol  by  Mr.  Baylie  in 
1666,  and  taken  by  the  Dutch,  Feb.  1666-7  (i.  274,  supra). 

r>  See  ii.  310  n.  supra. 
VOL.   III.  G 


82  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS  July 

with  Sallee  and  Tripoli,'  and  is  also  so  sensible  of  the 
injury  which  any  unnecessary  delay  in  his  getting  to  Sir 
John  Narbrough  may  be  attended  with,  that  the  writer 
advises  him  not  to  outstay  the  time  set  him  in  each  port. 

2412.  [p.    170.]     7  July.     S.   P.   to   Captain   Lovell? 
Katherine    yacht. — To    transport  Sir   William   Temple,2 
ambassador  extraordinary  to   the  States  General  of  the 
United  Provinces,  to  the  Brill  in  Holland,  and  this  done, 
to  return  to  Greenwich. 

2413.  [p.    170.]     8  July.     S.  P.  to  the  Officers  of  the 
Ordnance. — Will  send  orders  to  the  Yarmouth  to  convoy 
their  ships  [2415]. 

2414.  [p.  170.]     8  July.     S.  P.   to  Captain   Gunman, 
Anne  yacht,  at  Deptford. — To  transport  Monsieur  St.  Ravy 
to  Dieppe,  and  bring  over  Sir  Thomas  Bond's  lady,  if  she 
be  ready  to  come  away  within  3  days  after  Monday.    Also 
to  make  inquiry  at  Dieppe  for  something  for  their  Majesties 
provided  by  order  of  Mr.  Montagu,3  master  of  the  king's 
great  wardrobe. 

2415.  [p.  171.]     8  July.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Trevanion? 
of  the  Yarmouth,  at   Portsmouth. — Desires  him    to  give 
passage   to   Tangier  to  Mr.  Shadwell,5  an  officer   of  the 
place,  his  wife,  servants,  and  baggage,  provided  that  he 
come  before  he  is  ready  to  sail  [245  5].     He  is  to  convoy 
the   ships  named  in  the   margin,   laden    with  stores  and 
provisions  of  war  from  the  office  of  the  ordnance  for  the 
service  of  Tangier  [2413],  if  ready  to  sail  in  time. 

Margin :  David,  of  London,  Caleb  Cock,  master  ;  Jonas,  of 
London,  Robert  Peck,  master. 

2416.  [p.    172.]      8  July.      S.   P.   to    Captain  Fasby, 
Cleveland  yacht,  Portsmouth. — To  follow  the  orders  of  the 
Governor  of  Portsmouth  relating  to  the  service  and  security 
of  the  garrison  there,  until  further  orders  from  the  king. 

2417.  [p.  172.]     8  July.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Booth?  Pearl, 
in  the  Downs. — To  victual  for  2.  months  at  Dover,  and  then 

1  Charnock,  Biog.  Nov.  i.  347.  *  D.  N.  B.  Ivi.  42. 

3  MS.  '  Mountagu.'  Ralph  Montagu,  afterwards  Duke  of  Montagu. 
See  D.  N.  B.  xxxviii.  263. 

4  See  note  to  No.  2304. 

5  Mr.  J.  Shadwell,  who  was  going  to  Tangier  as  judge  [3313],  did 
not  sail  as  arranged.     See  Cal.  S.  P.  Dom.  1675-6,  p.  267. 

6  See  ii.  2i8».  supra. 


i675  FOURTH   VOLUME  83 

to  ply  for  the  better  securing  of  trade  for  6  days  between 
Dover  and  Calais,  at  the  end  thereof  repairing  to  the 
Downs  for  further  orders  [2461]. 

2418.  [p.    173.]     8   July.     S.   P.   to  Captain   Ridley  ^ 
Wivenhoe   fireship,  at   Portsmouth. — Has   communicated 
his  desires,  both  in  reference  to  his  officers'  servants  and 
the  increase  of  his  complement,  to  the  officers  of  the  navy 
[2419]. 

2419.  [p.  173.]     Sfuty.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— To 
consider  if  an  increase  of  4  men  should   be  allowed  to 
Captain  Ridley's  complement,  and  whether  his  officers,  in 
so  low  a  number  of  men,2  shall  be  permitted  to  carry  each 
of  them  a  servant   [2418].     Thanks  for  their  extract  of 
Captain    Langley's 3   letter   about   his  packet-boat    being 
plundered  [2421]. 

2420.  [p.  174.]     SJufy.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Anthony  Deane? 
at  Portsmouth. — Acquaints  him  of  a  memorial  from  Mon- 
sieur Ruvigny,   the   French  ambassador,  'containing  his 
desire  in  the  name  of  his  master  for  your  having  leave  to 
accompany  the  two  yachts  you  have  lately  built  for  him  at 
Portsmouth,  and  see  them  safely  lodged  in  his  canal  at 
Versailles'  [2570],  adding  that  the  Greyhound  [2436]  and 
Cleveland  [2446]  may  be  appointed  to  convoy  them,  and 
that  for  their  greater  security  they  may  be  navigated  as  if 
they  belonged  to  the  king — meaning  that  they  may  be 
manned  with  Englishmen  and  sail  with  English  colours — 
and  that  both  he  and  the  convoys  be  ready  to  depart  by 
the  2Oth  inst.     The  writer  can  issue  no  orders  till  he  has 
had    opportunity  of  speaking  with   the   king,  which   he 
hopes  in  very  few  days  to  have  at  Windsor,  but  his  Royal 
Highness  tells  him  the  king  had  knowledge  of  it  before 
his  going.     Desires  him  therefore  to  consider  the  matter. 

2421.  [p.    175.]      8  July.      S.  P.   to    Captain  Langley, 
master  of  the  packet-boats,  at  Harwich. — Desires  a  sworn 
statement  in  writing  of  the  violences  said  to  be   of  late 

1  Captain  Hugh  Ridley,  formerly  commander  of  the  Woolwich 
sloop  [1430],  had  been  appointed  to  the  Wivenhoe  fireship  by  a  com- 
mission dated  3  June,  1675  (5.  397,  supra). 

2  The  complement  of  the  Wivenhoe  fireship  in  time  of  peace  is 
given  in  Pepys's  Register  as  20  (i.  287,  supra). 

3  Master  of  the  packet-boats  at  Harwich  [2421]. 

4  See  note  to  No.  2403. 

G  2 


84  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS  July 

offered  to  his  packet-boat  by  capers  pretending   to  have 
Brandenburg  commissions,  but  supposed  to  be  French  [24 19]. 

2422.  [p.  176.]     SJuty.    S.  P.  to  Sir  Thomas  Chicheley.1 
4  In  order  to  my  finishing  the  grand  list  and  state  of  his 
Majesty's  navy,  which  I  have  some  time  by  his  command 
been  preparing  for  the  king,  I  must  entreat  the  assistance 
you  were  pleased  to  offer  me  in  transmitting  the  enclosed 
list  of  ships  to  the  proper  officer  who  may  with  most  ease 
and  certainty  inform  me  in  the  number  of  guns  heretofore 
borne  by  each  of  the  said  ships,  which  for  the  rendering 
of  as  little  trouble  as  may  be  to  the  hand  you  shall  please 
to  employ  [2484],  I  have  caused  the  said  list  to  be  drawn 
alphabetically,  and    not   only  sorted  the  ships   according 
to  their  several  ranks  and  qualities,  but  given  you  the  year 
about  which  the  knowledge  of  their  several   gunning  is 
desired,  and  which  may  be  done  without  other  pain  to  the 
hand  that  doth  it  than  by  inserting  the  number  of  guns 
upon  the  very  list  I  send  you,  without  the  trouble  of  tran- 
scribing it,  I  having  taken  care  to  have  the  list  ready  ruled 
with  columns  to  that  purpose.' 

4  To  which  I  am  only  to  add  that  supposing  you  may 
make  the  same  difference  in  the  gunning  which  we  of  the 
navy  do  in  manning  of  his  Majesty's  ships — namely,  that 
the  number  of  guns  do  differ  in  war  from  what  they  are 
in  peace,  and  that  even  in  peace  ships  employed  abroad 
on  foreign  service  have  a  greater  number  than  those  serving 
at  home  in  the  Channel,  I  entreat  that  for  his  Majesty's 
fuller  satisfaction  the  said  different  numbers  (where  different 
numbers  have  been)  may  be  inserted  in  the  proper  columns 
which  you  will  find  drawn  in  this  paper  to  that  particular 
purpose.' 

2423.  [p.  177.]     %  July.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Trevanion* 
Yarmouth,  at  Portsmouth. — The  king  having  resolved  that 
none  of  the^ships  now  bound \ to  the  Straits  to  Sir  John 
Narbrough  [2408,  2410]  shall  touch  at  Livorne  except  the 
Harwich  [2411],  and  Sir  Thomas  Clutterbuck  3  fearing  he 
shall  not  be  able  to  despatch  his  business  so  as  to  go  by 
her,  what  things  are  on  board  him  of  Sir  T.  C.'s  are  by 
his  desire  to  be  delivered  on  board  the  Harwich,  into  the 

1  Master-general  of  the  ordnance.     D.  N.  B.  x.  231. 

2  See  note  to  No.  2304. 

3  Victualler  for  the  Mediterranean.     See  ii.  236  n.  supra. 


1 675  FOURTH   VOLUME  85 

charge  of  the  bearer,  Mr.  Nathaniel  Powell,  who  is  going 
over  in  the  said  ship  to  be  employed  by  Sir  T.  C. 

2424.  [p.  177.]     8  July.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Killigrew? 
Harwich,  at  Portsmouth. — To  give  Mr.  Nathaniel  Powell, 
with  several  things  of  Sir  Thomas  Clutterbuck's,  passage 
to  Livorne  [2423]. 

2425.  [p.  177.]     9  July.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board— 
The  Navy  yacht  is  at  liberty  to  fetch  Sir  Jeremy  Smyth 2 
to  London,  whose  present  ill  state  of  health  calls  for  his 
speedy  coming  thither,  and  by  sea  [2426]. 

2426.  [p.   178.]     9  July.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Jeremy  Smyth? 
at   Thorpe.3 — Has   taken    care   that   the    Navy  yacht   be 
hastened  to  him  [2425]. 

2427.  [p.  178.]     10  July.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Anthony  Deane? 
at  Portsmouth. — Desires  to  know  what  orders  were  given 
to  the  Lark,  as  he  remembers  something  was  said  of  her 
being  ordered  in  to  Portsmouth  to  have  somewhat  done 
to  her.     Understands  that  she  is  come  into  the  River,  but 
knows  not  '  where,  nor  why,  nor  what  she  is  doing  or  has 
to  do  here,  as  having  heard  nothing  from  her  commander 5 
more  than    that  yesterday    I    spied    him    at   a  distance 
sauntering  up  and  down   Covent  Garden,  as   I  have  too 
often  heretofore  observed  him  spending  his  time  when  the 
king's  service  required  his  attendance  on  shipboard  [2442, 
2447]  ;  a  practice  which  shall  never  pass  my  knowledge  in 
any  commander  (be  he  who  he  will)  without  my  taking 
notice  of  it  to  his  Majesty  and  my  lords  of  the  admiralty.' 

2428.  [p.  179.]     lojuly.     S.  P.  to  Sir  John  Nicholas* — 
At  the  desire  of  Monsieur  Leyenbergh,7  encloses  a  copy 
of  Sir  Leoline  Jenkins's 8  report  touching  the  two  Swedish 
ships  surprised    by  the  private    man-of-war  belonging  to 
his  Electoral  Highness  of  Brandenburg,  and  now  under 
arrest  at  Dover. 

1  See  note  to  No.  2304. 

2  Comptroller  of  the  victualling.     D.  N.  B.  liii.  65. 

3  Of  the  four  places  bearing  this  name,  the  only  one  upon  the 
coast  is  the  Suffolk  Thorpe,  between  Aldeburgh  and  Dunwich. 

4  See  note  to  No.  2403.  5  Captain  Preistman  [2447]. 

8  Sir  John  Nicholas  was  the  son  of  Sir  Edward  Nicholas,  who 
had  been  secretary  of  state  to  Charles  I  and  Charles  II  (D.  N.  B.  x'. 
422).  He  had  been  knighted  in  1661  (Shaw,  The  Knights  of  England, 
i.  164).  7  MS.  '  Lyonbergh.'  See  note  to  No.  2209. 

*  Judge  of  the  admiralty  court  [2649].     D.  N.  B.  xxix.  302. 


86  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          July 

2429.  [p.  179.]     10  July.     S.  P.  to  Captain    Waltham, 
commander  of  the   Deptford   ketch. — On   his   arrival   at 
Southampton  he  is  to  wait  for  the  coming  of  the  Count  De 
Queroualle *  and  transport  him  to  Brest,  and  this  done  to 
return  into  the  Downs. 

2430.  [p.  179.]  lojuly.  S.  P.  to  the  Duke  of  Ormonde?— 
In  order  to  the  filling  up  his  Majesty's  warrant  which  is 
to  go  this  night   to  Chester  to  meet  the  captain  of  the 
Norwich  upon  landing  the  lord  lieutenant 3  (who  is  to  be 
daily  looked  for  there),  the  writer  desires  to  know  when 
he  will  be  at  Minehead,  and  how  long  the  Norwich  is  to 
wait  for  him  there  [2444]. 

2431.  [p.  1 80.]     10  July.    S.  P.  to  the  Lord  Privy  Sea!* 
at  Kensington.6 — Forwards  the  report  he  has  prepared  in 
pursuance  of  the  lords'  resolutions  on  the  business  of  passes, 
together  with  the  paper  from   the  commissioners  of  the 
customs  upon  which  it  is  founded,  but  with  considerable 
improvement  given  it  from  the  lords  [2454] ;  desires  him, 
if  he  approves  it,  to  sign  the  enclosed  letter  to  the  lord 
treasurer 6  about  it. 

2432.  [p.  1 80.]     lojuly.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Trevanion? 
of  the  Yarmouth,  at  Portsmouth. — Has  received  from  Sir 
Anthony  Deane  his  letter  of  the  9th,  intimating  his  arrival 
at  Portsmouth,  and  purpose  of  proceeding  thence  as  soon 
as  the  stores  to  be  sent  by  him  shall  be  on  board  him  [2404]. 

2433.  [p.  1 8 1 .]     10  July.     S.  P.  to  Sir  A  nthony  Deane? 
at   Portsmouth. — Has   received    his   of  yesterday's    date 
notifying  the  arrival  of  the  ships  from  the  Downs  [2408]. 
Desires    advice  whether  the   packet  to    Mr.  Bowles 9  at 
Tangier,  despatched  yesterday,  came  to  his  hands  [2408]. 

2434.  [p.  1 8 1.]     10  July.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Killigrew? 
of  the   Harwich,  at   Portsmouth. — Wishes   him    a    good 
voyage  [24 1 5]. 

1  The  Duchess  of  Portsmouth's  father  had  come  over  to  England 
on  a  visit  to  his  daughters  early  in  May  (Cat.  S.  P.  Dom.  1675-6, 
P-  96). 

2  D.  N.  B.  viii.  52. 

8  Arthur  Capel,  Earl  of  Essex,  had  been  appointed  Lord  Lieutenant 
of  Ireland  in  1672.     See  D.  N.  B.  ix.  12. 

4  The  Earl  of  Anglesey.    D.N.  B.  ii.  i.  •  MS.  '  Kingsinton.' 

6  The  Earl  of  Danby.    D.  N.  B.  xlii.  295. 

7  See  note  to  No.  2304.  8  See  note  to  No.  2403. 

9  Paymaster  of  the  garrison  at  Tangier  [2587]. 


i675  FOURTH   VOLUME  87 

Postscript. — Supposes  the  orders  of  the  6th  for  his 
touching  at  Cadiz,  Genoa,  and  Livorne  are  delivered  him 
by  Sir  Anthony  Deane  [2411]. 

2435.  [p.  182.]     12  July.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Ball,  consul  at 
Livorne. — Is   greatly   surprised  that   Captain   Hamilton's 
instructions  to  carry  the  Mary  Rose  after  Sir  John  Nar- 
brough,  directed  to  Livorne  under  Mr.  Secretary  Coventry's 
packet  of  17  March,  have  not  reached  him.     Repeats  his 
earnest  request  that  '  you  will  please  make  it  a  piece  of 
your  care  to  observe  how  the  commanders  of  his  Majesty's 
ships  spend  their  time  in  your  port,'  the  old  practice  of 
attending   their  private   trade  being  still  on    foot  [2438]. 
Encloses  letters  for  Captain  Hamilton  [2440]  and  Sir  John 
Narbrough  [2441]. 

2436.  [p.  183.]     12  July.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Clements, 
Greyhound,  at  Deptford. — To  sail  to  Portsmouth  to  attend 
the  two  yachts  to  France  [2420,  2446]. 

2437.  [p.  183.]     12  July.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Thomas  Clutter- 
buck}-  London. — Doubts  not  but  the  lords  will  take  very 
well  his  paying  the  wages  of  the  Grand  Duke's  soldiers  at 
Livorne.     Desires  him  to  recommend  to  his  house  there 
the  hastening  away  of  the  Mary  Rose  [2435],  and  their 
informing  him  of  any  neglects  of  the  king's  commanders 
by  attending  to  private  trade  or  otherwise  '  whereby  his 
Majesty's  ships  are  kept  in  port  longer  than  his  occasions 
indispensably  require '  [2438]. 

2438.  [p.    184.]      12  July.      S.   P.   to  Mr.   Humphry 
Colston,  consul   at   Malaga. — Thanks   him  for  his  of  the 
1 8th  with  an  enclosure  from  Captain  Temple,2  commander 
of  the  Dartmouth,  intimating  his  being  kept  by  contrary 
winds  at  his  port 

'  I  cannot  omit  the  taking  this  occasion  of  begging 
that  you  will,  as  often  as  any  of  his  Majesty's  ships  shall 
come  within  your  observation,  have  an  eye  on  his  Majesty's 
behalf  to  the  ground  of  their  coming  in  and  stay  there, 
enabling  me  to  inform  his  Majesty  and  my  lords  of  the 
admiralty  where  you  shall  observe  the  same  to  arise  from 
anything  but  apparent  service  to  his  Majesty  or  the  neces- 
sities of  wind  or  weather.  The  dishonour  which  hath 


Victualler  of  the  Mediterranean.     See  ii.  236  n.  supra. 
See  note  to  No.  2281. 


88  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          July 

attended  his  Majesty,  as  well  as  the  waste  of  his  treasure 
and  disappointment  of  his  service  from  his  captains'  putting 
into  and  long  stay  at  foreign  ports  upon  occasion  of  private 
trade  or  pleasure  of  their  own,  have  been  such  as  his 
Majesty  holds  no  longer  sufferable,  and  doth  therefore  in 
order  to  the  preventing  of  it  for  the  future,  depend  (among 
other  remedies)  upon  the  particular  service  that  may  be 
done  him  therein  by  the  information  to  be  given  him  in 
such  cases  hereafter  from  those  who  are  entitled  to  his 
service  abroad,  and  particularly  yourself  at  the  port  of 
Malaga '  [2670], 

2439.  [p.   185.]     12  July.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Stockdale}  at 
Dover. — The  lords  have  for  some  time  held  their  hands  in 
granting  any  passes  until  the  whole  business  of  passes  be 
better  established,  which  is  now  near  finished  [2431,  2488]. 
Hopes  it  will  be  found  such  as  will  leave  very  little  room 
for  the  frauds  to  which  that  matter  hath  hitherto  been 
exposed. 

2440.  [p.  185.]     12  July.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Hamilton, 
of  the  Mary  Rose,  at  Livorne. — Is  much  surprised  to  find 
that  the  king's  orders  of  17  March,  directing  him  in  case  of 
a  war  with  Tripoli  to  find  out  Sir  John  Narbrough,  have 
not  arrived  [2435].     As  the  service  of  Tripoli  will  now  be 
otherwise  supplied,  he  is  to  return  forthwith  to  Tangier  to 
take  up  the  command  of  the  galley  there,2  sending  home 
the  Mary  Rose  under  the  command  of  his  lieutenant  [2361]. 

2441.  [p.  1 86.]    1 2  July.   '  Sent  to  Mr.  Ball,3  at  Livorne.' 
5.  P.  to  Sir  John  Narbrough. — Hopes  his  next  will  give 
tidings  of  his  having  been  before  Tripoli.     The  Portsmouth 
set  sail  from  Portsmouth  toward  him  about  8  days  since, 
having  on  her  way  a  princess  to  take  up  at  Rochelle  and 
put  on  shore  at  Lisbon  [2524].     The  Harwich  is  at  Ports- 
mouth taking  in  the  last  of  the  stores  she  is  to  bring  with 
her  for  his  ships  [2403],  and  with  the  first  opportunity  will 
set    forwards    thence   with    the    Holmes   and    Ann   and 
Christopher  fireships.     The  Yarmouth  is  also  just  in  the 
same  state  of  readiness  at  Portsmouth,  taking  in  some  other 
stores  for  him  [2432],  being  bound  to  Tangier,  and  thence 

1  Collector  of  customs  at  Dover  [2749]. 

2  Captain  Hamilton's  commission  to  command  the  Margaret  galley 
is  dated  18  June,  1675  (!-  359,  supra). 

8  Consul  at  Leghorn  [2435]. 


i6;5  FOURTH   VOLUME  89 

to  take  the  Europa  to  Malta  [2407].  The  Diamond  was 
at  Cadiz  on  29  May  with  expectation  to  sail  towards  him 
within  4  days  [2402]. 

2442.  [p.  1 86.]     i  $  July.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Brereton,  clerk 
[of  the]  check  at  Woolwich. — Desires  a  copy  of  his  several 
musters  taken  upon  the  Lark  since  her  return  to  Woolwich 
from  Portsmouth  [2427, 2469],  that  he  may  inform  the  lords 
of  the  attendance  (night  and  day)  that  hath  been  given  by 
her  officers  and  company. 

2443.  [p.  1 87.]     1 3  July.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Trevanion? 
of  the  Yarmouth,  at  Portsmouth. — To  give  convoy  to  the 
Ann,  Christopher  Kell,  master,  now  in  the  Downs,  bound 
to  Tangier  with  horses  and  stores  for  the  use  of  the  mole. 

2444.  [p.   187.]     13  July.     S.  P.   to  Captain  London^ 
Norwich,  at  Chester.2 — To  sail  to  Minehead  [2448]   and 
wait  there  14  days  for  the  Duke  of  Ormonde,3  whom  he  is 
to  transport  to  such  port  in   Ireland   as   he  shall  direct 
[2430]. 

2445.  [p.  187.]     13  July.     S.  P.  to  Sir  John  Knight* 
at  Bristol. — Will  give  the  king  and    lords  to  understand 
the  indirectness  of  Mr.  Baylie's  purpose  and  proceedings 
in  his  late  request  to  them  [2409]. 

2446.  [p.  1 88.]     13  July.     S.  P.  to  Sir  A  nthony  Deane? 
at  Portsmouth. — The  Greyhound  is  ordered  to  repair  forth- 
with to  Portsmouth  to  take  in  the  carriage  and  other  things 
belonging  to  the  King  of  France  his  yachts  [2436].     The 
Cleveland  is  at  the   disposal  of  the   Governor   of  Ports- 
mouth,6 who  designs  her  for  Hull,  but  if  she  is  not   at 
liberty  another  shall  take  her  place   [2420,  2456].      The 
king's  orders  for  his  own  going  shall  be  sent  to  him  when 
he  comes  to  town. 

2447.  [p.  1 88.]     i$July.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— 
Has  this  morning  seen  Captain   Preistman,7   commander 
of  the   Lark  [2427],  and  understands  by  him  that   after 
being  a  full  week  in  the  River  his  sails  were  but  yesterday 

1  See  note  to  No.  2304. 

3  The  words  '  in  Ireland '  follow,  but  see   No.   2448.      Cf.  also 
No.  2532.  3  D.  N.  B.  viii.  52. 

4  See  note  to  No.  2088.  *  See  note  to  No.  2403. 

6  Colonel  George  Legge,  afterwards  Earl  of  Dartmouth,  held  the 
office  of  lieutenant-governor  of  Portsmouth  from  167010  1683.  See 
D.  N.  B.  xxxii.  408.  The  reference  is,  however,  more  probably  to  Sir 
Roger  Manley,  the  deputy-governor  [2401].  7  See  note  to  No.  2378. 


90  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          July 

unbent  for  alteration  and  the  stopping  of  a  leak.  Desires 
that  all  possible  despatch  may  be  made  on  her,  and  that 
they  will  advise  him  where  the  delay  is  to  be  laid  [2450], 
for  '  I  do  not  in  the  whole  navy  meet  with  anything  that 
I  find  more  reason  to  be  afflicted  with  than  that  insuffer- 
able loss  his  Majesty  receives  by  the  long  lying  of  ships 
in  port  uselessly,  and  to  the  scandal  of  his  service.'  Pre- 
sumes her  wants  might  have  been  answered  at  Portsmouth, 
as  Sir  Anthony  Deane  did  expect. 

If  it  be  their  opinion  that  a  master  should  be  appointed 
by  warrant  for  6th  rates,  the  writer  desires  that  they  will 
by  a  letter  showing  the  inducements  thereto  to  the  lords 
give  them  a  justifiable  ground  of  advising  the  king  to  this 
increase  of  charge  and  number  of  officers  above  the 
establishment  of  the  navy  in  this  particular,  '  which  till 
now  I  do  not  remember  ever  met  with  any  exception, 
several  ships  of  the  same  rate,  on  foreign  service  as  well 
as  at  home,  being  at  this  day  thought  safe  under  no  other 
provision  than  is  made  for  this  ;  which  last  consideration  I 
do  not  urge  in  opposition  to  your  offering  any  increase  of 
charge  to  his  Majesty  where  evils  appear  from  the  want 
thereof  which  were  not  apparent  before,  but  out  of  a 
desire  of  doing  that  part  of  my  duty  of  my  place  which 
will  not  suffer  me  to  see  his  Majesty  or  my  lords  of  the 
admiralty  led  to  the  admitting  any  alteration  in  the  known 
rule  and  practice  of  the  navy,  especially  where  his  Majesty's 
treasure  is  concerned,  without  something  remaining  of 
record,  that  may  show  the  alteration  to  have  risen  upon 
debate,  and  not  fallen  into  either  by  chance  or  surprise ' 
[2450]. 

Desires  the  despatch  of  the  Sapphire. 

2448.  [p.   190.]     15  July.     S.  P.   to   Captain  London, 
commander  of  the  Norwich,  at  Minehead. — Encloses  a  copy 
of  the  king's   orders  for  his   transporting  the    Duke   of 
Ormonde  to  Ireland,  and  afterwards  to  sail  to  Dublin  and 
put  in  execution  such  further  orders  as  he  shall  receive 
from  the  lord  lieutenant  [2452].     The  original  is  sent  to 
Chester  [2444]  in  hopes  of  meeting  him  there. 

2449.  [p.  191.]     19  July.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Shish,  master- 
shipwright  at  Deptford. — To  cause  the  Kitchen  yacht  to 
be  hastened  in  her  fitting. 

2450.  [p.  191.]     igjuly.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— 


1675  FOURTH   VOLUME  91 

Has  received  theirs  of  the  1 5th  touching  Captain  Preistman. 
They  are  not  to  think  that  by  what  he  lately  wrote  on 
that  matter  [2447]  he  did  conceive  their  board  '  chargeable 
with  taking  notice  of  any  other  unnecessary  stay  of  com- 
manders in  port  than  whilst  they  lie  there  upon  occasion 
of  any  refittings  or  supplies  of  provisions  or  stores  at  his 
Majesty's  yards,  where  their  good  or  ill  attendance,  and 
the  reason  of  that  attendance — whether  from  any  backward- 
ness they  meet  with  or  no  in  the  king's  officers,  or  want  of 
supplies  there — doth  not  so  naturally  appear  either  to  my 
lords  of  the  admiralty  or  me,  nor  can,  without  my  keeping 
such  a  constant  correspondence  with  all  your  under  officers 
in  the  yards  (the  truth  of  whose  report  too  I  have  no  ways 
of  controlling)  as  I  presume  cannot  be  looked  for  from  me  ; 
upon  which  ground  it  was  that,  as  in  this  case  so  as  I 
shall  in  others  entreat,  that  where  it  shall  happen  to  appear 
to  you  that  captains  are  not  so  steady  in  their  attendance 
on  and  solicitous  for  the  despatch  of  their  ships  fitting 
forth  as  their  duty  obligeth  them,  you  will  be  at  the 
trouble  of  advertising  me  thereof,  whose  best  information 
being,  as  you  observe,  from  their  journals,  will  otherwise 
be  too  late  to  rectify  commanders'  present  misbehaviour 
in  that  particular  by  how  much  their  journals  come  not 
in  view  till  the  end  of  the  voyage.' 

Thanks  them  for  what  they  inform  him  touching 
Preistman's  proceedings,  and  shall  take  such  notice 
thereof  not  only  to  him  [2453]  but  to  the  king  and  lords 
as  will  prevent  his  no  better  observing  his  instruc- 
tions for  the  time  to  come.  'As  to  what  you  close 
with  about  his  having  a  master  [2447],  Sir  Richard 
Haddock l  will  bear  witness  to  my  concurring  so  far 
with  you  in  your  opinion  of  its  being  better  for  the  king 
to  be  at  some  charge  extraordinary  in  the  present  case 
than  expose  the  hazard  of  his  ship,  service,  and  subjects' 
lives  under  the  direction  of  one  not  so  fitly  qualified  for 
taking  the  sole  charge  thereof  as  could  be  wished,  that  I 
did  myself  propound  some  encouragement  extraordinary 
to  be  promised  to  the  mate  (who  hath  been  provided  for 
him)  at  the  end  of  the  voyage,  but  not  under  the  name  of 
a  master,  to  avoid  the  consequence  of  it  in  the  precedent, 

1  See  ii.  36  n.  supra,  and  No.  2401. 


92  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          July 

which  I  do  not  see  can  be  done  if  it  should  be  admitted 
in  any  one  case.  To  which  I  shall  only  add  that  it  was 
not  from  the  rules  being  overlooked,  by  which  it  was  some 
time  since,  at  my  own  motion,  resolved  by  his  Majesty  and 
my  lords  that  captains  appointed  to  6th  rates  should  be 
liable  to  an  examination  at  the  Trinity  House  as  masters, 
that  Captain  Preistman  did  not  pass  such  examination, 
but  from  its  not  being  provided  that  that  rule  should  extend 
to  such  who  had  borne  the  charge  of  commanders  in  ships 
of  greater  rates.'  .  .  .  '  You  have  offered  a  very  proper 
matter  for  consideration  touching  the  ground  of  our  present 
want  of  seamen  which  I  shall  not  omit  to  make  use  of.' 

2451.  [p.    193.]     19  July.     The  same  to   the  same. — 
They  will  shortly  receive  the  lords'  warrant  for  impresting 
5<x>/.  to  Sir  John  Narbrough,1  pursuant  to  their  letter  of 
22  June.     The  king's  resolutions  for  raising  the  number  of 
men  to  the  ships  abroad  employed  against  Sallee  extends 
yet  only  to   5th  rates.     The  king  and  lords  assent  to  a 
muster-master  being  appointed  for  Sir  John  Narbrough's 
fleet  in  the  Straits,  and  if  they  certify  the  fitness  of  Mr. 
Melmoth,2  the  writer  will  mention  him  to  the  king  for  it. 
Prays  them  to  satisfy  themselves  how  his  duty  as  chirur- 
geon  at  Sheerness  may  in  the  meantime  be  provided  for. 

2452.  [p.   194.]     19  July.     S.  P.  to  Captain  London, 
Norwich  frigate,  at  Bristol. — Understanding  that  he  was 
directed  by  the  Lord  Lieutenant  of  Ireland  [2448]  to  give 
passage  to  a  certain  lord  to  Bristol,  this  comes  in  hopes  of 
meeting  him  there,  and  to  desire  him  to  give  notice  of  his 
arrival  and  to  remain  there  until  further  orders. 

2453.  [p.  1 98.3]     \gjuly.    S.  P.  to  Captain  Preistman? 
commander  of  his  Majesty's  ship  Lark,  at  Woolwich. — 
Takes  notice  to  him  of  the  great  loss  of  time  occasioned  by 
his  bringing  his  ship  into  the  River  without  order,  when  all 
that   she  needed  might   have   been  done  at  Portsmouth 
[2447].     '  To  which  I  must  also  take  leave  to  add  that  the 
time  spent  in  your  coming  up  the  River,  your  giving  no 
notice  either  by  visit  or  letter  to  my  lords  of  the  admiralty 
of  your  being  come,  nor  acquainting  me  on  their  behalf 
therewith  (till  some  days  after  my  accidental  meeting  you 

1  D.  N.  B.  xl.  89.  -  MS.  '  Melmouth.' 

s  In  the  MS.  this  letter  stands  after  No.  2461. 
*  See  note  to  No.  2378. 


1675  FOURTH    VOLUME  93 

in  the  town  [2427]),  and  your  forbearing  to  give  your 
attendance  on  board  to  the  despatch  of  your  ship  after 
you  were  come  (as  appears  by  the  clerk  of  the  check's 
muster-books),  seems  to  imply  such  a  deportment  towards 
his  Majesty's  service  and  the  instructions  of  the  lord  high 
admiral,  as  (without  a  better  account  in  my  next  advice 
from  your  ship)  I  shall  not  without  manifest  unfaithfulness 
be  able  to  omit  the  making  known  both  to  his  Majesty 
and  my  lords,  and  to  his  Royal  Highness  also,  who,  I  am 
sure,  expects  a  better  account  of  the  diligence  of  every 
person  he  favours.'  He  will  remember  the  effects  of  his 
like  non-attendance  on  board  his  ship  at  his  entrance  upon 
his  last  command  in  the  Richmond. 

2454.  [p.  194.]     20  July.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners 
of  the  Customs,  London. — Having  by  command  of  the  king 
and  lords  prepared  a  second  draught  of  the  rules  designed 
for  preventing  the  fraudulent  procuring  of  passes  [2431], 
pursuant  to  the  late  debates  and  expressly  conformable  to 
their  advice  upon  the  former,1  it  is  sent  for  their  further 
correction,  that  it  may   not   want   anything   towards   its 
receiving  a  final  determination   from  the  king  and  lords 
to-morrow  at  Hampton  Court. 

2455.  [p.   195.]      22  July.      S.    P.    to   Mr.    Shadwell 
[2415],  at  St.  James's. — Believes  the  Yarmouth  to  be  before 
this  clear  of  the  Channel,  but  if  he  thinks  fit  to  venture 
it  by  a  journey  to  Plymouth  her  captain  will  take  him  on 
board.    As  for  the  Lark  and  Sapphire,  he  will  do  what  the 
lords  commissioners  direct  concerning  his  passage  on  either 
of  them,  but  they  may  resent  his  failure  of  going  by  the 
Yarmouth. 

2456.  [p.  195.]     22  July.    S.  P.  to  Captain   Clements, 
Greyhound,    at    Portsmouth. — Encloses    orders     for    his 
accompanying  the  Cleveland  to  Havre  de  Gr&ce  with  the 
French  yachts  [2446]. 

2457.  [p.  195.]     22  July.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Taylor?  at 
Harwich. — Thanks   for    his  letter   of  the   2Oth,  and   the 
hopeful   conjecture  that  is  made  of  the  Sapphire's  well 
sailing. 

2458.  [p.   196.]     22  July.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Lassells? 

1  I.e.  the  former  draught. 

2  Storekeeper  at  Harwich.     See  ii.  44  n.  supra. 

3  See  note  to  No.  2181. 


94  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          July 

Garland,  in  the  Downs. — To  wait  where  he  is  for  further 
orders. 

2459.  [p.   196.]     22  July.     S.  P.  to  Captain   Trotter? 
Speedwell,  in  the  Downs. — To  wait  where  he  is  for  further 
orders. 

2460.  [p.    196.]     22  July.     S.  P.   to   Captain  Booth? 
Pearl,  in  the  Downs. — Since  he  was  ordered  for  the  general 
security  of  trade  to  cruise  between  Dover  and  Calais  [2417] 
he  did  well  in  refusing  to  give  convoy  to  Mr.  Kirk's  vessel 
with  horses  to  France.     As  for  his  taking  advantage  of  his 
company,  it  is  what  a  stranger  might  have  done  without 
leave ;  but  he  is  not  to  employ  his  ship  as  convoy  in  any 
case  of  transporting  of  forces  (either  horse  or  foot)  apper- 
taining to  the  armies  abroad  upon  any  verbal  pretence 
whatsoever. 

2461.  [p.  197.]     22  July.     The  same  to  the  same. — He 
is  to  return    again   to   his   late   employment   of  cruising 
in  the  Narrow  between   Dover  and  Calais  [2417],  taking 
along  with  him  at  his   departure   from  the  Downs  such 
ships  of  his  Majesty's  subjects  as  shall  be  ready  to  sail  and 
bound  for  Calais — and  particularly  the  Bell,  Mr.  William 
Packer,   master,   and   the    Hope,    Mr.    Nathaniel   Martin, 
master,  on  behalf  whereof  application  has  been  made  for 
convoy.     He  is  to  continue  in  this  service  of  cruising  for 
10  days  and  then  to  repair  to  Portsmouth  to  take  in  the 
remainder  of  his  stores. 

Postscript. — The  stores  being  taken  in  he  is  to  return 
to  the  Downs  for  further  orders. 

2462.  [p.  199.]     24  July.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Preistman? 
at  Woolwich. — The   king  has  inquired  very  particularly 
after  the  reason  of  his  so  long  stay  here  [2453]  ;  shall  be 
able  from  his  letter  of  yesterday  to  give  him  an  account 
to-morrow  at  Windsor.     The  letter  he  mentions  touching 
his  want  of  men  never  came  to  the  writer's  hand.     Is  sorry 
to  meet  at  last  with  that  effect  (among  the  rest)  of  the 
ship's  coming  into  the  River,  in  the  running  away  of  his 
men,  and  the  want  of  order  on  board  (in  his  absence)  for 
preventing  it.    Advises  him  to  lose  no  opportunity  of  sailing 

2463.  [p.   199.]     24  July.      S.  P.  to  Mr.  Lee.— Will' 

1  See  note  to  No.  2181.  *  See  ii.  218  n.  supra. 

3  See  note  to  No.  2378. 


i675  FOURTH   VOLUME  95 

serve  his  son,  Dr.  Lee,  to  a  chaplain's  place  as  soon  as  any 
ship  worth  his  charge  (which  he  cannot  think  any  vessel 
under  a  4th  rate  to  be)  shall  be  ordered  forth,  by  using  his 
interest  with  her  commander,  in  whom  the  election  of  his 
chaplain  lies. 

2464.  [p.  200.]     24  July.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board. — 
Will  move  the  king  and  lords  in  what  they  advise  touching 
the  number  of  guns  fit  to  be  supplied  to  the  Eagle  for  the 
service  she  is  at  present  assigned  to.     In  regard  of  her 
being  turned  into  a  fireship x  (which  by  the  practice  of  the 
navy  is  not  allowed  a  purser)  her  purser  will  be  dismissed, 
and  they  may  order  her  provisions  to  be  delivered  to  the 
captain.     Will  acquaint  the  lords  with  the  faultiness  lately 
complained  of  in  the  victuals,  expressed   in  the  surveys 
enclosed  in  their  letter  of  the  2ist. 

2465.  [p.  200.]     26  July.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Brereton,  clerk 
[of  the]  check,  Woolwich. — Thanks  for  his  muster-book 
[2442,  2469].     To  send  notice  what  he  knows  of  Captain 
Preistman's  lodging  on  board,  and  what  attendance  he  has 
given  by  day  [2453]. 

2466.  [p.  201.]     26  July.     S.P.  to  Captain  Tyte?  Rich- 
mond yacht,  at  Greenwich. — Understanding  that  the  officers 
of  the  navy  have  ordered  the  Bezan  yacht  to  carry  some 
seamen  down  to  the  Sapphire,  which  she  is  not  at  liberty 
to  do,  he  is  to  carry  out  the  orders  directed  by  them  to 
Captain  Day.3 

2467.  [p.  201.]     27  July.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board— 
The  king  approves  their  proposal  of  launching  the  new 
ship  at  Woolwich  4  on  26  August  [2513]. 

2468.  [p.  201.]     27  July.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Waltham, 
Deptford  ketch,  in  the  Downs. — Has   received  his  of  the 
22nd  giving  notice  of  his  arrival  in  the  Downs,  where  he 
is  to  continue  till  further  orders. 

2469.  [p.  202.]     27  July.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Preistman? 
of  the  Lark  frigate,  in  the  Downs. — Will  take  the  direction 
of  the  lords  touching  the  clerk  of  the  check's  muster-books 

1  The  Eagle  had  been  converted  into  a  fireship  from  a  5th-rate  in 
1674(1.  282,  supra). 

•  See  ii.  375  n.  supra.  3  See  note  to  No.  2059. 

4  Probably  the  Woolwich,  a  4th-rate,  built  by  Phineas  Pett  (i.  274, 
supra). 

s  See  note  to  No.  2378. 


96  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          July 

wherein  he  has  made  him '  run  ' l  [2465]  ;  the  effects  whereof 
cannot  by  the  rules  and  practice  of  the  navy  be  otherwise 
removed  than  by  special  warrant  of  the  lord  admiral 
[2476].  What  he  calls  severity  in  his  late  letters  was 
designed  out  of  friendship.  'Your  letter  seems  a  little 
ambiguous  concerning  your  present  manning,  one  part  of 
it  saying  that  though  you  have  fewer  eaters  yet  you  have 
more  men,  while  another  saith  that  could  you  help  it  not 
three  of  those  you  either  had  or  have  should  go  to  sea 
with  you  ;  but  I  hope,  seamen  coming  in  daily  to  you,  you 
will  in  a  little  time  be  manned  as  you  desire.'  Will  speak 
with  the  officers  of  the  navy  about  an  increase  in  his 
complement. 

2470.  [p.  203.]     27  July.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board— 
The  king  being  disposed  to  give  Mr.  Atkins,  who  lately 
brought  home  the  Phoenix  from  the  Barbados  by  a  com- 
mission from  his  father,  Sir  Jonathan  Atkins,  the  governor 
of  that  island,  a  bounty  equal  to  the  pay  of  a  commander 
for  such  a  ship,  though  the  said  commission  being  wholly 
irregular  the  king  does  not  think  fit  to  grant  it  in  the  name 
of  pay  for  preventing  the  consequence  of  such  a  precedent, 
the  writer  desires  to  know  what  the  captain's  pay  of  a 
4th  rate  amounts  to,  from   the   time   he   set   sail  to  his 
delivering  up  the  charge  of  her   to  Captain  How,2   late 
lieutenant  thereof,  by  virtue  of  the  king's  commission  of 
23    April   last,  constituting  him  captain  of  the  said  ship 

[2511]- 

2471.  [p.    204.]     27  July.     S.   P.   to   Mr.    Wilch  and 
[Mr.]  Stile,  at  Genoa. — Thanks  for  their  care  about  the 
packet  from  Sir  John    Narbrough.3     Will  impart  to  the 
king  the  presumption  of  the  magistrate  of  the  Sanita  in 
opening  it,  though  superscribed  for  his  Majesty's  special 
service. 

2472.  [p.  204.]     30  July.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Gunman* 
— To  carry  the  Marquis  of  Belmar  to  Flushing,  and  this 
done  to  return  to  Greenwich. 

2473.  [p.  204.]     31  July.     S.  P.  to  Lord  Anglesey?  at 
Kensington. — Thanks  ^him    for   his  proposal  of  having  a 


1  See  ii.  30  n.  and  273  n.  supra.  2  See  note  to  No.  2272. 

8  D.  N.  B.  xl.  89.  4  Commander  of  the  Anne  yacht  [2414]. 

5  See  ii.  2i5».  supra. 


1 675  FOURTH  VOLUME  97 

meeting  of  the  admiralty  once  a  week  besides  that  at 
Hampton  Court,  the  business  of  the  navy  abundantly  call- 
ing for  it.  Let  Saturday  be  the  day,  as  dividing  the  week 
equallest  from  Wednesday. 

2474.  [p.  205.]     31  July.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board. — 
Captain  Harman,1  commander  of  the  Sapphire,  desires  that 
an  order  might  be  sent  them  for  despatching  the  fitting  of 
his  ship  to  sea,  and  in  particular  that  he  may  have  a  long- 
boat fit  for  the  special  service  which  he  is  appointed  to, 
which  will  require  it  to  be  a  good  rowing-boat,  and  well 
fitted  with  oars.    Has  moved  the  king  and  lords  concerning 
the  sending  a  supply  of  victuals  and  stores  to  the  Fore- 
sight and  Vulture  sloop  at  Jamaica,  and  the  refitting  the 
Norwich  at  Kinsale. 

2475.  [p.   205.]     31   July.     S.  P.   to  Captain   Booth? 
Pearl,  in  the   Downs. — Thanks  for  his  advertisements  of 
the  coming  into  the  Downs  of  the  East  India  ships. 

2476.  [p.  206.]     3 1  July.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Preistman, 
of  the  Lark,  in  the  Downs. — Is  confident  that  his  absence 
from  on  board  [2469]  could  not  be  wholly  without  some 
necessity  in  preparing  for  his  voyage,  '  though  no  necessity 
can  be  esteemed  a  thorough  excuse  in  a  matter  where  the 
leave  of  the  lord  high  admiral  is  by  your  instructions  so 
expressly  required,  on  which  regard  it  is  that  at  my  moving 
his  Majesty  in  it  in  the  presence  of  his  Royal  Highness 
and  my  lords  of  the  admiralty,   they  did  conceive   you 
truly  blameable,'  and  '  have  thought  it  reasonable  that  a 
note  should  be  taken  for  the  stopping  of  your  pay  for  the 
time  of  such  your  absence  without  leave.     But  when  I  came 
to  open  to  them  the  extraordinary  proceeding  of  the  clerk 
of  the  check  in  the  making  of  you  "  run  "  upon  his  book 
[2469],  not  only  beyond  all  precedent  but  contrary  to  the 
express  letter  of  my  lords  the  commissioners'  instructions 
to  the  officers  of  the  navy  upon  that  point  of  commanders' 
absences,3  by  which  it   is   expressly   declared    that   they 
should  not  be  pricked  upon  the  book  or  made  "  run "  to 
the  lessening  their  dignity  and  authority,  but  their  absences 
only  noted,  so  as  that  the  same  might  be  taken  notice  of 
at  the  end  of  the  voyage — they  expressed  a  very  just 

1  See  note  to  No.  2379.  2  See  ii.  218  n.  supra. 

3  See  i.  195-6,  supra. 
VOL.  III.  H 


98  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS         Aug. 

dislike  of  that  proceeding,  commanding  me  to  signify  the 
same  to  the  officers  of  the  navy,  and  resolved  that  it  should 
not  be  necessary  in  this  case  to  take  in  the  old  commission 
and  grant  a  new  one  (as  it  had  been  by  them  propounded), 
but  that  the  "  R " l  should  be  tacitly  taken  off,  and  you 
continued  without  interruption  in  your  command  by  virtue 
of  your  present  commission.' 

2477.  [p.  207.]     3  Aug.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Booth?  Pearl, 
at  Portsmouth. — The  king  and   lords  will  no   doubt   be 
satisfied  with  his  proceedings. 

2478.  [p.  208.]     3  Aug.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Tyte?  Rich- 
mond yacht. — To  transport  the  Archbishop  of  St.  Andrews4 
and  the  Earl  of  Seaforth  to  Leith,  and  this  done  to  return 
to  Deptford. 

2479.  [p.  208.]     6   Aug.     S.  P.   to  Captain   Wright? 
Kitchen  yacht. — To  receive  on  board  such  things  as  may 
be  sent  him  by  Madame  Desbordes,  and  that  being  done 
to  repair  to  Dover  and  transport  her  to  Dieppe,  returning 
to  Greenwich. 

2480.  [p.   209.]     7  Aug.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Lassells? 
Garland,  in  the  Downs. — Desires  to  know  whether  or  no 
the  rule  lately  established  for  the  pennant  of  distinction 
[1956]  to  be  worn  by  the  ship  that  commands-in-chief  in 
the  Downs  be  observed,  and  whether  he  at  this  time  bears 
it  [2487]. 

2481.  [p.  209.]     9  Aug.   'Sent  by  express,  10  in  the 
morning.'     .S.  P.  to  Captain  Clements,  Greyhound,  in  the 
Downs. — To  convoy  some   horses   going  over  from  Rye 
from  the  Duke  of  Monmouth  for  the  King  of  France's  own 
use,  under  the  care  of  Monsieur  Cognard. 

2482.  [p.  2i3.7]     10  Aug.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Duckworth? 
Trinity  House. — To   state   in  writing   what   the   Turkey 
Company  desire  of  the  king  touching  convoy. 

2483.  [p.  210.]     13  Aug.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Harman? 
Sapphire,  at  Woolwich. — To  go  to  Long  Reach  to  take  in 
his  guns,  stores,  and  provisions  ;  and  this  done  to  sail  into 
the  Hope. 

1  See  ii.  76,  102,  and  273  n.  sufra.  8  See  ii.  218  n.  supra. 

3  See  ii.  375  n.  supra.  4  D.  N.  B.  Ii.  404. 

6  See  ii.  12  n.  supra.  8  See  note  to  No.  2181. 

7  In  the  MS.  this  letter  comes  after  No.  2491. 

8  See  ii.  i8o».  supra.  9  See  note  to  No.  2379. 


i6;5  FOURTH   VOLUME  99 

2484.  [p.  210.]     13  Aug.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Jonas  Moore^ 
and  Edward  Sherwin,  Esquire? — Thanks  them  for  their 
account  of  the  guns  [2422]. 

2485.  [p.  210.]     13  Aug.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Thomas  Clutter- 
buck? — Has  provided  a  memorial  by  the  king's  command 
for  Mr.   Secretary   Coventry,4  to   be   transmitted   to   the 
Spanish  Minister  here,  concerning  the  complaint  made  by 
his   house  at   Livorne  touching   violence    offered   to   an 
English  vessel  called  the  Three  Sisters  by  a  Majorcan.6 

2486.  [p.    211.]     13  Aug.     S.  P.   to  Captain   Booth? 
Pearl,  in  the  Downs. — His  ship  will  be  kept  out  as  long  as 
the  season  will  permit,  his  diligence  being  very  well  ob- 
served.    In   the   meantime   desires   an  account   how  the 
purser's  place  of  his  ship  is  performed,  and  by  what  order 
his  purser  spends  his  whole  time  on  shore  here  in  town 
[2501]. 

2487.  [p.  211.]     13  Aug.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Lassells? 
Garland,  in  the  Downs. — Is  sorry  that  the  pennant  of  dis- 
tinction [2480]  hath  been  so  soon  forgotten  after  it  had 
been  with  so  much  care  established  by  the  king  and  lords, 
the  reason  whereof  he  will  inquire  into  [2502].     What  sort 
of  differences  are  they  of  which  he  speaks   between  the 
masters  and  the  men  of  the  merchant  ships  ? 

2488.  [p.   212.]     13   Aug.     S.  P.   to  Mr.   Stockdale? 
Dover. — Thanks  him  for  his  advice  about  the  two  ships  ; 
though  the  rules  which  the  writer  has  at  length  procured 
to  be  established  by  his  Majesty  in  council 9  for  preventing 
the  frauds  suspected  to  be  practised  in  the  procuring  of 
passes  [2514]  are  such  as  (the  commissioners  of  the  customs 
and  their  officers  doing  their  parts)  will  thoroughly  secure 
us  against  any  ill  practices  in  that  matter  [2439]. 

2489.  [p.    212.]     13   Aug.     S.  P.   to  Mr.    Wivell,  at 
Dover. — The  writer's  being  out  of  town  will  excuse  his  no 
sooner  thanking  him  for  his  of  the  7th  with  advice  of  the 
passing  by  of  the  Dutch  fleet. 

2490.  [p.  212.]     13  Aug.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Gunman, 

1  Surveyor-general  of  the  ordnance.     See  note  to  No.  3619. 

2  A  principal  officer  of  the  ordnance. 

3  Victualler  for  the  Mediterranean.     See  ii.  236  n.  supra. 

*  D.N.B.  xii.  357.      5  MS.  '  Mayorkeene.'      e  See  ii.  2i8».  supra. 
1  Commander-in-chief  in  the   Downs  [2480].    See  also  note  to 
No.  2181.  8  Collector  of  customs  at  Dover  [2749]. 

9  See  Introduction,  p.  xx.  supra. 

H  2 


ioo  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS        Aug. 

Anne  yacht,  at   Rye. — To   give  Mr.  Fetteau  passage  to 
England  if  he  applies  at  his  being  at  Dieppe  [2498]. 

2491.  [p.  213.]     13  Aug.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Lodge,1  at  Deal. 
— Desires  a  speedy  account  of  the  reason  of  the  arrest  at 
his   suit   of  Thomas   Bowles,   a   seaman   actually   in   his 
Majesty's   service,  by  one  Stephen    Shidendon,  a  bailiff, 
without  the  privity  and  leave  of  the  lords  of  the  admiralty. 

2492.  [p.  214.]     1 6  Aug.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Fownes,  clerk 
of  the  check,  Deptford. — To  keep  a  look-out  to-day  and 
to-morrow  for  the  coming  up  of  the  Portsmouth  yacht  to 
Greenwich  or  Deptford,  and  give  notice  to  her  commander 
forthwith  to  repair  up  hither  for  orders.     Desires  him  to 
do  the  like  to  any  other  of  the  yachts  that  shall  come  in, 
in  case  she  should  not  [2497]. 

2493.  [p.  214.]     1 6  Aug.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Jenifer,  of 
the  Saudados,2  at  Deptford. — To  prepare  for  a  little  trip 
on  Wednesday  next  [2497]. 

2494.  [p.  2 1 4.]    1 7  A  ug.    S.  P.  to  the  Duke  of  Ormonde? 
at  the  Bath. — The  Norwich  arrived  the  nth  inst.  at  Mine- 
head.     Desires  to  know  his  commands  [2444]. 

2495.  [p.    215.]     17  Aug.     S.  P.  to  Captain  London, 
Norwich,  at  Minehead. — To  stay  at  Minehead  till  further 
order  [2494].     The  lords  will  advise  with  the  officers  of  the 
navy  about  the  refitting  of  his  ship  [2520], 

2496.  [p.  215.]     17  Aug.     S.  P.  to  Sir  James  Johnson, 
at  Yarmouth. — Encloses  a   copy   of  a   memorial   to   the 
lords    from    one   Thomas  Paris,  a  gunner,  for  protection 
against  some  inconveniences  he  is  likely  to  meet  with  in 
executing  the  warrant    from  the   lords,  some   time  since 
directed  to  Lord  Townshend,4  touching   the   two   Dutch 
prizes  ;  and  desires  to  know  upon  what  account  it  is  that 
the  said  Paris  and  his  fellow  gunners  are  molested,  and 
'  how  far  the  said  gunners  are  concerned  as  officers  (or 
otherwise)  in  the  admiralty,  and  to  come  within  the  com- 
mand and  protection  of  my  lords '  [2547]. 

2497.  [p.    216.]     1 8   Aug.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Jenifer, 
Saudados,2  at  Deptford. — The  coming  of  the  Portsmouth 
yacht  [2492]  removes  the  occasion  of  his  going  forth  [2493], 
'  though  at  the  time  his  Majesty  gave  me  that  direction, 
the  queen  being  by,  he  was  pleased  to  ask  her  assent  for 

1  See  note  to  No.  2548.     2  See  ii.  gn.  supra.     8  D.  N.  B.  viii.  52 
4  Vice-admiral  of  Norfolk  [711].    Ibid.  Ivii.  128. 


i675  FOURTH   VOLUME  101 

your  being  employed  forth  a  while  until  some  occasions 
of  her  Majesty  should  call  you,1  whereto  the  queen  agree- 
ing, you  may  expect  very  suddenly  his  Majesty's  orders.' 

2498.  [p.  216.]     1 8  Aug.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Sanderson, 
of  the   Portsmouth   yacht,   at  Greenwich. — To  carry  the 
writer's  cousin,  Mr.  Wynne  Houblon,2  to  Dieppe,  and  wait 
there  4  days  from  the  23rd  for  the  Countess  of  Shrewsbury,3 
and  give  her  passage  into  the  river  of  Thames  or  any  other 
port  of  the  kingdom  that   she  shall  desire.     Failing  her 
coming  within  the  said  time,  he  is  to  return  to  Greenwich. 
Should  a  certain  Monsieur  Fetteau  [2490]  at  his  being  at 
Dieppe  desire  passage  with  him  into  the  River  he  is  to  give 
it,  and  to  leave  word  to  do  so  at  Dieppe  for  any  other 
commanders  of  his  Majesty's  yachts  who  may  happen  to 
be  there  when  he  shall  come  thither  for  passage. 

2499.  [p.  217.]     19  Aug.     '  Sent  by  express  at  10  in 
the  morning.'     5.  P.  to    Mr.  St.  Michel?  at  Deal.— To 
convey  the  enclosed  [2500]  to  Captain  Sanderson  as  the 
Portsmouth  yacht,  which  departed  from  Greenwich    last 
night,  passes  the  Downs.     If  she  be  gone  [2506],  he  is  to 
advise  with  Captain  Llassells,  who  now  commands-in-chief 
in  the  Downs,  that  the  Deptford  ketch  or  any  other  of  his 
ships  follow  her  to  Dieppe  with  it.     If  she  be  come  away 
from  thence,  the  captain  of  the  said  ketch  or  ship  is  to 
open  the  letter,  and  inquiring  for  the  gentleman  named 
therein  [2500]  to  give  him  passage  to  Greenwich,  but  he  is 
not  to  stay  for  him  beyond  4  days. 

2500.  [p.  218.]     19  Aug.  '  Sent  into  the  Downs.'  S.  P. 
to  Captain  Sanderson,  Portsmouth  yacht. — To  give  passage 
from  Dieppe  to  Edmund  Sheffield,  Esquire  [2504]. 

2501.  [p.    218.]      19  Aug.      S.   P.  to  Captain  Booth,6 
Pearl,  in  the  Downs. — Has  received  his  of  the  i6th,  touch- 
ing his  purser's  absence  from  on  board  [2486],  '  it  being 
a  matter  most  fit  to  be  inquired  after,  as  that  from  the 

1  See  ii.  9  n.  supra. 

2  M.S. '  Winne.'  Wynne  Houblon  was  a  son  of  Mr.  James  Houblon, 
junior  (afterwards  Sir  James  Houblon),  the  intimate  friend  of  Pepys 
(Lady  Alice  Archer  Houblon,  The  Houblon  Family,  i.  201  n.,  311-12, 
316  ;  D.  N.  B.  xxvii.  417)  ;  but  there  was  no  relationship. 

3  On   this  notorious  character  see  ibid.  Iv.  301,  Iviii.  342,  and 
Diary,  vii.  283  n. 

4  See  note  to  No.  2387.    This  letter  is  addressed  to  '  Mr.   St. 
Michell.'  5  See  ii.  218  n.  supra. 


102  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS        Aug. 

neglect  whereof  manifold  inconveniences  arise  to  his 
Majesty,  and  therefore  do  desire  you  (as  upon  the  like 
occasions  I  do  all  commanders)  to  reckon  themselves 
chargeable  with  any  neglects  of  under  officers  which  they 
permit  in  them  to  pass  without  complaint.' 

2502.  [p.  219.]     19  Aug.'    S.  P.  to  Captain  Lassells? 
Garland,  in  the  Downs. — Will  have  the  business  of  the 
pennant  better  settled,  there  appearing  in  the  meantime 
nothing  wherein  he  is  to  be  held  blameable  in  relation  to 
what  is  past  [2487]. 

2503.  [p.  219.]     19  Aug.    S.  P.  to  Captain  Day?  Bezan 
yacht,  at  Greenwich. — To  receive  Mr.  George  Bowerman 
with  his  company,  and  attend  on  him  for  3  or  4  days  in 
his  passage  to  Chatham  and  back  again  to  Greenwich. 

2504.  [p.  219.]     19  Aug.     S.  P.  to  the  Commander  of 
the  Portsmouth,  or  any  of  the  yachts  that  shall  be  or  come  to 
Dieppe. — To  give  Edmund  Sheffield,  Esquire,  passage  to 
England  [2500]. 

2505.  [p.  220.]     19  Aug.     S.  P.  to  the  Bailiffs  of  Yar- 
mouth.— Believes  that  their  seizing  and  securing  Justinian 
Coghlan  [2597],  captain  of  a  French  privateer,  will  be  ap- 
proved, as  agreeable  to  the  treaty  with  the  States  General,  he 
being  an  Irishman,  and  consequently  his  Majesty's  subject. 

2506.  [p.  220.]     21  Aug.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  St.  Michel?— 
Is  glad  the  packet  met  with  Captain  Sanderson  [2499]. 

2507.  [p.  220.]     24  Aug.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Low.4' — A  certi- 
ficate being  this  day  brought  to  the  writer  in  order  to  the 
obtaining  a  pass  for  a  ship,  '  signed  by  yourself  as  deputy 
surveyor  of  the  Act  of  Navigation,'  the  lords,  before  they 
will  admit  it,  desire  to  be  satisfied  under  Sir  John  Shaw's 5 
own  hand  that  he  is  his  deputy  in  that  employment  [2514]. 

2508.  [p.  221.]     24  Aug.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Lassells^ 
Garland,  in   the  Downs. — He   is   to  appoint  one  of    the 
ships  now  in  the  Downs  to  carry  Mr.  St.  Michel 6  to  Calais, 
and  to  bring  him  back  again  in  case  his  stay  there  shall  not 
exceed  4  days  [2521]. 

1  Commander-in-chief  in  the   Downs  [2480].     See  also  note  to 
No.  2181. 

2  See  note  to  No.  2059. 

3  See  note  to  No.  2387.     This  letter  is  addressed  to  '  Mr.  Michell.' 

4  See  No.  2514.  5  Collector  of  customs  in  London  [2514], 

6  See  note  to  No.  2387.    The  spelling  in  the  text  is  '  St.  Michell,' 
and  in  the  margin  '  Mitchell,' 


1675  FOURTH   VOLUME  103 

2509.  [p.  221.]     24  A ug.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Shadwell}  on 
board  the  Guinea  merchantman,  in  the  Downs. — Desires 
his  care  for  delivering  the  enclosed  packet  carrying  orders 
of  importance   to  Captain   Hamilton,  commander  of  the 
Mary  Rose,  at  Tangier  [2512]. 

2510.  [p.  221.]     24  Aug.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  St.  Michel?  at 
Deal. — Desires  his  care    to   deliver  the   enclosed  packet 

[2509]- 

2511.  [p.  222.]     25  Aug.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board. — 
Touching  Mr.  Atkins's  pay,  the  lords  are  satisfied  and  he 
acquiesces  in  their  calculation  [2470].     As  to  the  freight 
of  merchants'  goods  brought  by  him  whereof  they  take 
notice,  the  lords  have  ordered  him  to  account  for  as  much 
as  he  shall  appear  to  be  concerned  in,  which  is  two  tons  of 
white  sugar  and  no  more. 

2512.  [p.  222.]     25  Aug.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Hamilton? 
at  Tangier. — Sends  a  duplicate  of  his  commission  for  com- 
manding the  galley,  and  a  commission  for  his  lieutenant  to 
command  the  ship  [2440]. 

2513.  [p.  222.]     25  Aug.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Pett?  at  Wool- 
wich.— The  king  and  duke  purpose  to  be  with  him  at  his 
launching,5  intending  to  take  their  dinner  in  the  way 6  at 
Whitehall,  and  from  thence  come  to  him.     Knows  not 
whether  '  my  cousin  Houblon  7  intends  to  bear  me  com- 
pany or  no.' 

2514.  [p.  223.]     25   Aug.     S.  P.  to   Sir  John  Shaw, 
collector  of  the  customs,  London. — '  Whereas  by  occasion 
of  some  rules  lately  established  in  council  for  preventing  of 
the  frauds  discovered  in  the  procuring  of  passes  [2558],  the 
king  hath  thought  fit  to  command  that  a  certificate  contain- 
ing the  build,  force,  and  other  circumstances  of  each  ship 
be  given  under  the  hand  of  the  surveyor  of  the  Act  of 
Navigation  as  a  ground  for  granting  the  said  passes ' ;  and 
whereas  the  lords  have  seen  a  letter  of  deputation,  bearing 
date  30  March,  1669,  from  him  to  Captain    Henry  Low 
[2507],  the  lords  desire  to  know  whether  the  said  deputa- 
tion doth  remain  at  this  day  in  force,  and  the  said  Captain 
Low  continues  the  only  deputy  in  the  Port  of  London. 

1  One  of  the  officers  at  Tangier  [2415].      2  See  note  to  No.  2387. 
3  See  note  to  No.  2440.  *  See  ii.  92  n.  supra. 

5  See  No.  2467  and  note.  6  I.e.  from  Windsor. 

7  See  note  to  No.  2498.    The  reference  here  would  probably  b$ 
to  Mr.  James  Houblon  himself. 


104  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS        Aug. 

2515.  [p.  223.]    26  Aug.    S.  P.  to  Captain  Booth,1  Pearl, 
in  the  Downs. — He  will  be  supplied  with  2  months'  victuals 
from  Dover. 

2516.  [p.  224.]     26  Aug.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Hall,  customer, 
at  Rye. — Will  communicate  his  of  the  2ist  to  the  lords. 

2517.  [p.  224.]     26  Aug.     S.    P.  to  Captain   Ridley? 
Wivenhoe,  at  Portsmouth. — Hears  that  his   boatswain  is 
attending  the  officers  of  the  navy  for  the  procuring  the 
allowance  of  a  servant,  as  being  allowed  to  other  of  the 
ship's  officers  whose  work  calls  for  it  less  than  the  boat- 
swain's. 

2518.  [p.  224.]     28  Aug.     S.  P.  to  Sir  D.  Gauden?— 
Acquaints  him  that  the  Sapphire,  now  in  the  Downs,  is 
within  10  days  going  towards  the  Straits,  in  case  he  may 
make  use  of  her  convoy  to  Tangier,  she  being  the  last  ship 
of  his  Majesty's  that  will  for  some  months  be  going  to  the 
southward. 

2519.  [p.   225.]     28  Aug.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Buckworth? 
Turkey  merchant,  London. — The  king  having  been  pleased 
to  grant  his  desires  in  behalf  of  the  Turkey  Company 
that  the  Sapphire  may  see  their  ships  safe  to  Sir  John 
Narbrough,  the  writer  acquaints  him  that  she  is  gone  to 
the  Downs.     The  king  expects  their  ships  to  be  ready  by 
10  Sept.  at  latest. 

2520.  [p.  225.]     28  Aug.     S.   P.   to  Captain  London, 
Norwich,  at  Minehead. — Is  glad  his  ship  escaped  so  well 
in  the  late  violent  storm,  though  with  some  loss.     The 
Duke  of  Ormonde  being  uncertain  of  the  time  of  his  going 
to  Ireland  [2444],  he  is  to  repair  to  Kinsale  to  have  his 
ship  fitted  for  the  winter  [2495,  2549]. 

2521.  [p.  226.]     28  Aug.*     S.  P.  to  Captain  Lassells* 
Garland,  in  the  Downs. — Thanks  him  for  his  care  in  send- 
ing away   the  Speedwell  with  his  brother  St.  Michel  to 
Calais  [2508].    His  Majesty  intending  the  Garland,  Speed- 
well,  and  Deptford  ketch   to   be  convoys  to  the  herring 
fishery  off  Yarmouth  for  this  fishing  season,  he  is  to  com- 
plete his  victuals  to  2  months  from  Dover. 

1  See  ii.  218  n.  supra.  *  See  note  to  No.  2418. 

s  One  of  the  victualling  contractors  [738].  He  was  also  victualler 
for  Tangier  (i.  165  supra}. 

4  See  ii.  i8o«.  supra.  8  MS.  'July.' 

6  Commander-in-chief  in  the  Downs  [2499].  See  also  note  to 
No.  2181. 


1 675  FOURTH   VOLUME  105 

2522.  [p.  226.]     28  Aug.     S.  P.  to  the  Bailiffs  of  Yar- 
mouth.— The  king  has  been  pleased,  in  compliance  with 
their  desires,  to  appoint  two  5th  rates  and  a  ketch  named 
in  the  margin  for  convoy  to  their  fishery  [2521]. 

Margin  :  Garland  [2541],  Speedwell  [2 540],  Deptford  ketch  [2543]. 

2523.  [p.    227.]     30  Aug.,    sent   to   Tangier   by   Mr. 
Shad  well  [2527].     S.  P.  to  Captain  Hamilton^  of  the  Mary 
Rose. — The  king  and  lords  desire  the  reason  of  his  long 
stay  at  Livorne,  and  his  taking  in  so  great  a  quantity  of 
provisions  beyond  what  were  needful  to  have  brought  him 
home ;  as  also  that  he  will  transmit  to  them  his  journal 
from  the  time  of  his  going  forth  in  the  Mary  Rose  to  that 
of  his  leaving  her  [2440]. 

2524.  [p.  228.]    30  Aug.   '  Sent  to  Sir  John  Narbrough 2 
under  cover  to  Sir  T[homas]  C[lutterbuck],3  at  Livorne.' 
5.  P.  to  Captain  Story,4  of  the  Portsmouth. — Has  received 
his  letters  from  St.  Martin's  Road,5  and  the  king  is  not  dis- 
pleased with  his  stay  there  for  the  Duchess  of  Cadaval 
beyond  the  time  limited  him,  since  he  did  it  upon  the 
desire  of  the  King  of  France  signified  by  Monsieur  de 
Pomponne6  [2441].     Is  glad  that  by  her  arrival  he  was 
delivered  from  any  error  he  might  have  fallen  into,  if  by 
the  coming  by  of  the  French  fleet  he  should  have  been 
put  upon  the  exercise  of  his  own  single  judgment  touch- 
ing the  right  of  the  flag  in  that  place.7     The  behaviour  of 
the  Scots  gives  the  king  and  lords  very  just  offence,  and 
they  desire  the  ships'  and  masters'  names. 

2525.  [p.  229.]     30  Aug.    '  Sent  to  Sir  T[homas]  C[Iut- 
terbuck]3  at  Livorne.'  S.  P.  to  Sir  John  Narbrough? — Has 
communicated  his  of  1 1    July  to  the  king  and  lords,  who 
with  great  satisfaction  take  notice  of  his  care  and  prudence 
in    the   business  of  Tripoli,  as  he  will  find  by  what  he 

1  See  note  to  No.  2440. 

2  D.  N.  B.  xl.  89. 

3  Victualler  for  the  Mediterranean.     See  ii.  236  n.  supra. 
*  See  note  to  No.  2304.  5  Off  Rochelle. 

6  MS.  '  Monsieur  Pompone.'      Pomponne,   at   this   time   French 
ambassador  to   Sweden,   was    soon  to   be   appointed  secretary  for 
foreign  affairs  to  Louis  XIV.     He  succeeded  Lionne  on  his  death, 
I  Sept.  1675  (Michaud,  Biog.  Univ.  xxxiv.  35). 

7  The  marginal  note  refers  to  the  '  dispute '  '  like  to  rise  touching 
the  flag  between  him  and  the  Frenchman.' 


io6  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS        Aug. 

encloses  him  of  this  day's  date  from  his  Majesty.  The 
king  and  lords  do  unanimously  agree  that  for  preventing 
any  inconveniences  or  differences  that  may  arise  in  a  matter 
wherein  mistakes  may  so  easily  arise  as  that  of  judging 
of  contraband  goods  [2536],  he  should  not  make  prize  of 
any  Christian  vessels  coming  to  the  port  of  Tripoli  with 
contraband  goods  in  them,  but  should  turn  them  back. 

2526.  [p.  230.]     30  Aug.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Thomas  Clutter- 
buck^  at  Livorne. — To  convey  the  enclosed  to  Sir  John 
Narbrough  [2524,  2525]. 

2527.  [p.   230].     30  Aug.     S.  P.   to  Mr.   Shadwell? 
aboard  the  Guinea,  a  merchantman,  in  the  Downs. — Desires 
his  care  of  the  enclosed  to  Captain  Hamilton  [2523]. 

2528.  [p.    230.]      31   Aug.      S.  P.  to  Captain   Booth* 
Pearl,  in  the  Downs. — To  hasten  his  getting  in  a  supply 
of  victuals. 

2529.  [p.  231.]     31  Aug.     S.P.  to  John  Cooke,  Esq.*  at 
Mr.  Secretary  Coventry's,  Whitehall. — Desires  a  copy  of 
the  king's  orders  of  14  June  to  Sir  John  Narbrough,  '  giving 
him   liberty   of  accepting   of  peace  with   the   Tripolines 
upon  lower  terms  than  that  of  restitution  '  [2350],  that  it 
may  be  despatched  to  him  in  consideration   of  the    im- 
portance it   is  that  he   should   not  miss   receiving  these 
orders. 

2530.  [p.    231.]     31  Aug.      S.  P.   to    Captain   Fasby, 
Cleveland  yacht,  at  Portsmouth. — Has  received  his  letter 
of  the  29th  with  his  journal  enclosed,  which  appears  satis- 
factory,  and   in    pursuance   of    the   lords'   order   therein, 
desires  his  continuing  to  send  the  like  monthly  to  them. 
His  carpenter  shall  be  hastened^down  to  him,  being  one 
William  Keldridge,  who  is  in  an  especial  manner  recom- 
mended by  Sir  John  Tippetts 6  and  Sir  Anthony  Deane.6 

2531.  [p.  232.]     31  Aug.     S.  P.  to  Captain    Waltham, 
Deptford  ketch,  in  the  Downs. — Orders  are  sent  to  complete 
his  victuals  to  2  months  from  Dover. 

2532.  [p.  232.]    31  Aug.    S.  P.  to  Captain  London,  Nor- 

1  Victualler  for  the  Mediterranean.     See  ii.  236  n.  supra. 

3  One  of  the  officers  at  Tangier  [2415].        3  See  ii.  218  n.  supra. 

*  Mr.  John  Cooke  was  Mr.  Secretary  Coventry's  clerk  (Cal.  S.  /*., 
Dom.,  1672-3,  index). 

5  Mr.  John  Tippetts,  the  surveyor  of  the  navy,  had  been  knighted 
by  the  king  on  3  July,  on  the  occasion  of  his  visit  to  Portsmouth 
[2401].  6  See  note  to  No.  2403. 


i6;5  FOURTH   VOLUME  107 

wich,  at  Minehead,  Ireland.1 — If  this  reaches  him  before  his 
departure  to  Kinsale,  he  is  to  search  for  and  seize  a  French 
picaroon 2  which  was  lately  in  the  port  of  Minehead,  and 
is  said  to  have  lately  plundered  some  English  vessels,  and 
particularly  a  certain  vessel  of  Barnstaple,  richly  laden. 

2533.  [p.  233.]  31  Aug.  S.  P.  to  Sir  William  Poole? 
late  commander  of  the  St.  David. — '  Upon  my  attending 
his  Majesty  yesterday  at  Windsor  with  a  committee  of  the 
lords  of  the  admiralty,  among  other  things  coming  then 
into  debate  before  them,  one  was  your  particular  case 
under  the  restraint  you  have  now  for  some  time  been. 
Where,  I  do  assure  you,  as  I  failed  not  in  my  place  to 
express  the  utmost  kindness  that  became  me  towards  you, 
and  particularly  in  observing  to  his  Majesty  and  my  lords,' 
as  the  officers  of  the  navy  had  already  done,  '  namely,  your 
general  deportment  in  his  Majesty's  service  as  conformable 
as  any  and  more  than  most  of  the  commanders  in  the 
fleet  to  the  lord  high  admiral's  instructions,  so  was  both 
his  Majesty  himself  and  every  lord  there  as  much  inclined 
to  friendliness  towards  you  as  you  could  with  any  justice 
and  regard  to  his  Majesty's  service  expect  them  to  be. 
But  what  with  the  general  sense  they  all  have  of  the 
infinite  prejudice  his  Majesty's  service  suffers,  both  in  the 
honour,  success,  and  expense  of  it,  through  the  liberty 
usurped  by  commanders  when  abroad  of  betaking  them- 
selves only  to  thoughts  of  profit  or  pleasure  to  them- 
selves, without  any  appearance  of  their  considering  either 
the  service  they  are  appointed  to  or  the  chargeableness  of 
their  neglect ;  and  that  the  continuing  of  the  St.  David 
6  months,  contrary  to  the  express  letter  of  his  Majesty's 
orders,  without  one  hour  spent  by  the  ship  in  the  service 
of  the  king,  .  .  .  while  she  might  have  been  so  much  use 
either  at  home  or  abroad  elsewhere,  and  thereby  saved  the 
setting  forth  of  another  ship  of  her  charge,  and  all  this 

1  See  note  to  No.  3078. 

3  Span.  '  picaron,'  a  rogue  :  hence  a  pirate  vessel. 

3  See  ii.  264  n.  supra.  Charnock  (Biog.  Nav.  i.  26)  makes  no 
mention  of  this  episode,  but  comments  on  the  fact  that  a  man  of  Sir 
William  Poole's  'rank  and  family  consequence'  should  have  con- 
tinued so  long  in  the  service  and  yet  be  '  so  little  noticed  by  historians.' 
'  We  must  naturally  conclude,'  he  adds,  that  his  '  character  and  repu- 
tation as  an  officer  was  unblemished,  or  he  would  not  have  been  so 
repeatedly  entrusted  with  a  command,' 


io8  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS        Aug. 

without  your  insisting  upon,  or  (for  what  appears)  so  much 
as  showing  to  Sir  Jonathan  Atkins  l  your  instructions  for 
coming  home,  or  either  having,  or  standing  upon  having 
any  timely  orders  in  writing  from  himself  for  your  stay,  or 
taking  notice  of  anything  concerning  it  in  your  journal, 
adding  thereto  your  appearing  to  have  employed  your 
whole  time  there  in  attending  occasions  of  your  own,  with 
the  evident  breach  of  your  instructions  in  bringing  home 
of  merchants'  goods — I  say  all  this  put  together  arising  in 
the  judgment  of  his  Majesty  and  my  lords  to  the  most 
exorbitant  instance  of  contempt  of  orders  and  breach  of 
discipline  that  has  yet  appeared  in  the  navy,  they  con- 
cluded that  the  passing  by  of  a  misbehaviour  like  this 
could  be  construed  no  other  than  the  delivering  up  his 
Majesty's  honour,  service,  and  treasure  (by  the  example  of 
it)  to  irrecoverable  ruin,  and  therefore  found  it  necessary 
to  resolve  upon  making  their  proceedings  with  you  in 
some  degree  exemplary ;  though  their  great  kindness 
prompted  them  to  some  considerations  of  doing  it  so  as 
might  come  short  of  the  rigour  the  law  has  provided  in 
cases  of  this  kind,  and  as  an  effect  of  those  their  conside- 
rations have  commanded  me  to  let  you  know  that  his 
Majesty  is  graciously  pleased  to  leave  it  to  your  election 
whether  you  will  remain  in  custody,  as  you  now  are,  until 
an  opportunity  shall  fall  of  making  your  defence  before 
and  abiding  by  the  censure  of  a  court-martial,  which 
(through  the  want  of  a  sufficient  number  of  commanders) 
cannot  be  presently  called,  or  forfeit  to  his  Majesty  your 
whole  pay  as  commander  of  that  ship  from  the  beginning 
of  the  voyage  to  the  end  of  it,  with  the  making  good  to 
the  poor  of  the  Chest  out  of  your  own  purse  what  the 
freight  of  the  merchants'  goods  brought  home  by  your- 
self (or  by  your  permission  by  others)  on  board  his 
Majesty's  said  ship  shall  at  the  market  rate  be  valued  at. 
One  of  which  two  his  Majesty  and  their  lordships  are 
unalterably  resolved  to  expect  from  you,  and  have  given 
it  me  in  commission  thus  plainly  to  represent  the  same 
to  you  as  the  result  of  their  special  favour,  in  putting  it 
into  your  power  to  avoid  the  more  severe  and  less  honour- 
able method  of  being  punished  by  a  court-martial,  his 
Majesty  contenting  himself  under  the  dead  loss  your  mis- 
1  Governor  of  Barbados  [2470]. 


i6;5  FOURTH   VOLUME  109 

carriage  has  occasioned  him,  to  above  4,ooo/.  value  (besides 
the  other  evils  attending  it),  with  providing  barely  for  the 
preventing  your  being  a  gainer  by  it'  [2551]. 

2534.  [p.  235.]     [2  Sept.}     'Sent  in  Sir  J[ohn]  N[ar- 
broughj's  packet'  [2536].     5.  P.  to  Captain  Houlding^  of 
the  Assistance,  in  the  Straits. — The  king  and  lords  are  very 
well  satisfied  with  his  making  no  longer  stay  at  Tangier. 

2535.  [p.    236.]     2    Sept.     S.   P.   to   Captain  Lovell? 
Katherine  yacht,  at  Greenwich  — To  carry  Leonard  Gray, 
Esq.,  to  Dieppe,  and  this  done  to  return  to  Greenwich. 

2536.  [p.  236.]     3  Sept.     '  Sent   under   cover  to   Mr. 
Ball,3  at  Livorne.'     5.  P.  to  Sir  John  Narbrough?  before 
Tripoli. — Encloses  the  king's  instructions  touching  vessels 
with  contraband  goods  [2525].     '  It  is  very  welcome  to  his 
Majesty  and  my  lords  to  find  that  government  under  so 
much  unsettlement,  and  so  great  a  disposal  to  a  peace 
with  us,'  which  we  hope  here  we  may  hear  of  when  the 
king's  instructions  of  14  June  shall  become  to  hand  [2529], 
another  copy  whereof  is  enclosed.     By  these  '  you  will  find 
yourself  at   liberty  from   insisting   upon   restitution,  and 
leave  given  you  to  descend   to  the  demanding  only  the 
setting  at  liberty  all  prisoners  (as  well  strangers  as  English) 
taken  in  the  ships  Martin  and  Hunter  or  any  others,  and 
the  heads  of  some  that  were  most  guilty  of  their  breach  of 
articles  with  us,  which  latter  methinks  should  not  be  very 
hard  to  obtain  from  the  present   Dey  himself,  who  .  .  . 
hath  violently  thrust  himself  into  the  throne  to  the  dis- 
satisfaction of  the  old  officers,  and  had  command  of  the 
ship  which  brought  in  the  said  two  English  ships.     Not- 
withstanding which  concession    of  his  Majesty's   part,  it 
would  nevertheless  be  matter  of  great  satisfaction  to  him, 
no  less  than  honour  to  yourself,  if  anything  like  restitution, 
though  but  in  part,  could  be  obtained.' 

Concerning  the  brass  bases  5  and  pedereros,6  he  will 
find  the  king's  pleasure  in  the  order  signed  by  himself. 

1  See  note  to  No.  2317.  *  Charnock,  Biog.  JVav.  i.  347. 

s  Consul  at  Leghorn  [2435].       *  D.  N.  B.  xl.  89. 

5  This  was  a  swivel  breech-loading  gun  like  the  '  pederero '  (see 
note  to  No.  2068),  but  of  the  culverin  or  long  type.  The  '  pederero ' 
in  its  later  forms  probably  resembled  the  mortar  in  shape.  Brass 
ones  may  be  seen  at  Woolwich  and  the  Tower  at  the  present  day. 
See  also  Corbett,  Drake  and  the  Tudor  Navy  [2nd  edn.  1899],  i.  369. 
See  note  to  No.  2068. 


no  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS        Sept. 

'  It  is  at  present  a  very  fortunate  posture  wherein 
matters  stand  between  us  and  Tripoli,  though  it  be 
attended  with  some  charge  to  his  Majesty,  namely,  that  all 
their  ships  of  war  are  in  port,  so  that  our  merchants  trade 
under  no  less  security  in  those  seas  than  if  we  were  at 
peace  with  them.  What  with  the  probability  conceived  of  a 
peace,  and  the  many  difficulties  you  reasonably  suggest  in  the 
undertaking  either  to  burn  their  ships  or  to  block  up  their 
harbour  [2350],  his  Majesty  and  my  lords  do  for  the  present 
lay  aside  the  thoughts  of  directing  you  to  attempt  anything 
therein,  until  upon  some  further  proof  of  the  inclinations  of 
that  people,  either  to  continue  the  war  or  come  to  a  peace, 
they  shall  be  led  by  something  further  from  you  to  fall  to 
any  such  undertaking ;  and  this  the  rather  also  in  regard 
of  the  force  which  his  Majesty  supposes  you  may  by  this 
time  have  with  you,  and  will  appear  such  when  they  shall 
be  together  before  the  place  that  may  induce  it  to  quicker 
determinations  of  submitting  to  us.  Which  force,  in  regard 
of  some  changes  that  have  been  in  it  since  the  king's  first 
resolutions  of  sending  Sir  John  Berry l  to  you,  will  for  your 
clearer  information  be  in  short  this :  The  Henrietta, 
Dragon,  Newcastle,  Success,  and  Roebuck  you  had  with 
you  at  the  date  of  your  last ;  the  Swallow  and  Dartmouth 
were  upon  23  July  [S.N.]  off  of  Trapani  in  Sicily  with  a  fair 
wind  in  their  way  towards  you ;  the  Diamond  was  on 
3  Aug.  at  Livorne  completing  his  victuals  unto  six  months 
according  to  your  orders  and  then  intended  to  hasten  to 
you  ;  the  Assistance  was  on  her  way  towards  you,  on 
1 5  July  then  under  sail  from  Tangier  Bay  ;  the  Portsmouth 
sailed  from  Rochelle  4  Aug.  with  nothing  to  do  in  her  way 
towards  you  but  the  putting  on  shore  a  lady  (which  he  took 
in  there)  at  Lisbon  [2441] ;  the  Harwich,  Ann  and  Chris- 
topher and  Holmes  fireships  sailed  from  Portsmouth 
towards  you  on  13  July  with  directions  to  stay  in  their 
way  at  Cadiz  not  exceeding  4  days  there,  at  Genoa  one 
day,  and  at  Livorne  three ;  the  Yarmouth  departed  in  like 
manner  the  same  day  from  Portsmouth  with  instructions 
to  go  to  Tangier  in  order  to  her  carrying  the  hulk  with 
her  from  thence  to  Malta  [2402],  Which  force  when 
together  his  Majesty's  instructions  of  3  July  tells  you  what 

1  Commander  of  the  Bristol.     See  note  to  No.  2274. 


i675  FOURTH  VOLUME  in 

number  and  of  what  sort  you  are  to  retain  with  you,  the 
rest  being  to  be  sent  home  [2402]  ;  you  will  also  find  that 
his  Majesty's  said  orders  directs  your  disposal  of  the  ships 
in  reference  to  the  sending  them  home  upon  the  conclusion 
of  a  peace,'  though  it  may  be  '  held  needful  to  keep  2  or  3 
frigates  constantly  in  the  Straits  as  the  cheapest  way  of 
making  and  keeping  peace  there.' 

Underwritten:  A  duplicate  of  13  Sept.  to  Sir  Thomas  Clutter 
buck,1  Livorne. 

2537.  [p.  239.]     3  Sept.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Ball?  at  Livorne. 
Thanks  for  his  letters  and  the  papers  enclosed,  particularly 
the  packet  from  Sir  John  Narbrough,3  '  by  whose  conduct 
(thanks  be  to   God)  the  business   of  Tripoli    did    upon 
1 1  July  last  stand  very  fair  on  his  Majesty's  behalf,  that 
government  being  under  great  distraction,  and  reduced  by 
it  to  a  strong  inclination  towards  a  peace '  [2536].     Thanks 
him  for  his  advice  touching  the  Mary  Rose,  and  particularly 
as  to  that  point  of  her  commander's  being  clear  in  the 
business  of  carrying  merchants'  goods  [2437].     The  king  is 
sensible  of  what  he  and  his  subjects  suffer  from  the  Major- 
cans,4  and  will  demand  satisfaction.     Desires  him  to  press 
the  Diamond  and  the  Harwich  and  the  .two  fireships  8  in 
her  company  to  hasten  away  from  his  port.     Encloses  a 
packet  [2536]  for  Sir  John  Narbrough. 

2538.  [p.    239.]      3    Sept.     S.   P.    to    Captain  Jenifer, 
Saudados,6  Downs. — Has  received   his   letter  of  31   Aug. 
with  his  journal  for  that  month  enclosed.     Will    do  him 
right  in  his  punctuality  therein. 

2539.  [p.  240.]     3  Sept.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Thomas  Clutter- 
buck^  at  Greenwich. — The  lords  respite  the  doing  anything 
in    his    business    till  the  king   comes   to   town.     Wishes 
he   could    furnish  him  with  the  particulars  of  the  Mary 
Rose's  work  and  charge  at  Livorne.    Hopes  the  Diamond's 
business  will  be  sooner  done  her,  her  service  being  much 
wanted   at   Tripoli,  in   which    the    writer  prays  him   to 
quicken  his  house. 

1  Victualler  for  the  Mediterranean.    See  ii.  236  n.  supra. 

2  Consul  at  Leghorn  [2435].  s  D.  N.  B.  xl.  89. 

4  MS.  '  Mayorkeenes.' 

5  The  Ann  and  Christopher,  and  the  Holmes  [2536]. 

6  MS.  '  Saudades.'    See  ii.  9  n.  supra. 


ii2  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS        Sept. 

2540.  [p.  240.]     4  Sept.     S.  P.   to  Captain  Trotter,1 
Speedwell,  in  the  Downs. — Sends  him  his  orders  to  attend 
the  fishery  [2522]. 

2541.  [p.   240.]     4  Sept.     S.   P.  to   Captain  Lassells? 
Garland,  in  the  Downs. — Sends  him  his  orders  to  attend 
the  fishery  at  Yarmouth  [2522]. 

2542.  [p.  241.]     4  Sept,     S.  P.  to   Captain    Clements, 
Greyhound,  in  the  Downs. — Has  received  his  of  the  2nd 
with  his  journal  for  August  enclosed.     Will  do  him  right 
in  his  punctuality  therein. 

Underwritten :  '  The  like  to  Captain  Carverth,3  of  the  Young 
Spragge.' 

2543.  [p.  241.]     4  Sept.     S.  P.  to  Captain    Waltham, 
Deptford  ketch,  in  the  Downs. — Sends  him  his  orders  to 
attend  on  the  herring  fishery  [2522]. 

2544.  [p.  241.]     4  Sept.     S.  P.  to  the  Bailiffs  of  Yar- 
mouth.— They  may  expect  the  convoys  in  their  Roads  in 
a  few  days  [2522,  2540,  2541,  2543]. 

2545.  [p.  242.]     6  Sept.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board. — 
Has   received   theirs   of  the    ist   complaining   of  the   ill 
behaviour  of  Richard  Collier.     The  lords  can  only  commit 
him  to  the  Marshalsea  to  answer  at  a  court-martial  for  his 
running  away  from  the  king's  service.     They  are  to  let  the 
writer  know  if  they  find  his  rudeness  to  be  such  as  to  call 
for  that   way   of  correction.     Will   inform    himself  from 
Captain  Ridley 4  touching  his  boatswain's  crime,  and  will 
not  fail  to  make  use  of  their  information. 

2546.  [p.  242.]  6  Sept.    S.  P.  to  Mr.  Buckworth. — Desires 
to  know  the  forwardness  of  the  Turkey  ships  [2519]. 

2547.  [p.  243.]     9  Sept.     S.  P.  to  Sir  James  Johnson, 
at  Yarmouth. — Does  not  apprehend  that  the  order  of  the 
lords  commissioners  to  Lord  Townshend 5  doth  in  any  wise 
justify  the  arresting  of  the  busses,  or  doing  more  than 
preventing  the  French  privateers  manning  them  with  the 

1  See  note  to  No.  2181. 

3  Hitherto  commander-in-chief  in  the  Downs  [2449].     See  also 
note  to  No.  2181. 

3  Captain  Henry  Carverth,  formerly  commander  of  the  Woolwich 
sloop  [1733],  had  been  appointed  to  command  the  Young  Spragge  by 
a  commission  dated  29  Mar.  1675  (i-  333>  supra}. 

4  Commander  of  the  Wivenhoe  fireship.     See  note  to  No.  2418. 

5  Vice-admiral  of  Norfolk  [711].    D.  N.  B.  Ivii.  128. 


1675  FOURTH   VOLUME  113 

king's  subjects,  and  consequently  does  not  see  that  either  by 
any  relation  of  Mr.  Paris's  to  the  admiralty,  or  the  method  of 
his  proceedings  in  the  execution  of  their  lordships'  order,  he 
can  expect  any  protection  from  the  lords  '  further  than  what 
was  necessarily  done  for  the  preventing  any  of  the  king's 
subjects  being  entertained  on  board  the  said  busses  '  (2496]. 

2548.  [p.  244.]     9  Sept.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Lodge,1  at  Deal. 
Will  speak  to  '  my  brother  St.  Michel ' 2  to  advise  Bowles 
to  forbear  such  demeanour  towards  him  as  may  tend  more 
to  his  own  prejudice  than  his. 

2549.  [p.  244.]     10  Sept.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— 
Acquaints  them  that  the  Norwich  is  ordered  to  Kinsale  to 
to  be  refitted  for  this  next  winter's  service  on  the  coast  of 
Ireland  [2520],  that  they  may  send  orders  thither  for  her 
speedy  despatch.     The  commander  of  the  Eagle  fireship 3 
on  the  guard  at  Sheerness  is  ordered  to  lay  his  ship  there 
in  such  manner  as  they  shall  direct. 

2550.  [p.  245.*]     10   Sept.     S.   P.   to  Captain  Kemp- 
thorne?  Monmouth  yacht,  at  Dublin. — Has  received  his  of 
31  Aug.,  and  is  glad  he  has  taken  the  French  privateer. 
About  six  weeks  since  an  order  of  the  lords  was  sent  him 
for  his  transmitting  to  them  the  beginning  of  every  month 
a  journal  for  the  preceding  month.     Having  heard  nothing 
from  him,  encloses  another  with  which  the  lords  expect  his 
punctual  compliance. 

2551.  [p.  243. 4]     1 1  Sept.     S.  P.  to  Sir  William  Pooled 
The  king  insists  upon  the  terms  offered  him  by  the  letter 
of  31  Aug.  [2533],  and  agrees  to  the  choice  he  has  made  of 
forfeiting  his  wages  and  making  good  to  the  Chest  the 
value  of  his  freight,  concerning  the  amount  of  which  the 
writer  has  written  to  the  officers  of  the  navy  [2552].    Will 
do  him  all    the  right  he  can  touching  his  seamen's  pre- 
tences to  share  in  the  value  of  the  negroes  given  him  by 
Lord  Willoughby.7 

1  A  good  many  letters  written  from  Deal  by  Morgan  Lodge  are 
among  the  State  Papers  (Cal.  S.  P.  Dom.  1675-6,  index). 

3  See  note  to  No.  2387.  8  See  note  to  No.  2464. 

*  Out  of  order  in  the  MS.  8  See  ii.  113  n.  supra. 

e  Late  commander  of  the  St.  David  [2533].  Charnock,  Biog.  Nav. 
\.  26. 

7  The  reference  is  probably  to  the  sixth  Lord  Willoughby  of 
Parham,  Governor  of  Barbados,  who  died  in  April  1673  (D.  N.  B. 
Ixii.  34). 

VOL.  III.  I 


n4  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS        Sept. 

2552.  [p.  245.]    1 1  Sept.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— 
Desires  them  to  compute  and  report  to  the  lords  what 
the  freight  of  Sir  William  Poole's  goods  will  amount  unto 
'  according  to  the  ordinary  rate  given  between  merchant  and 
merchant  at  the  time  of  lading  the  said  goods  '[2533,2551], 

2553.  [p.  246.]     i  $  Sept.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Day,1  Bezan 
yacht,  at   Greenwich. — To   carry  some  Essex  gentlemen 
into  the  Medway  and  back. 

2554.  [p.  246.]     13  Sept.      S.  P.  to  Sir  William  Pooled 
Has  obtained  from  the  king  and  lords  an  interpretation 
of  the  commencement  of  his  last  voyage  that  he  will  think 
very  favourable  to  him,  which  is  that  it  shall  be  from  his 
departure  out  of  the  Downs  towards  the  Barbados  [2533, 
2551].     The  stop  of  his  pay  will  be  calculated  according  to 
this,  and  upon  his  signifying  under  his  hand  his  submission 
to  this  sentence  an  order  shall  be  issued  forthwith  for  his 
discharge.     As  to  what  goods  were  brought  by  any  of  his 
officers,  doubts  not  the  officers  of  the  navy  have  or  will  stop 
from  the  parties  interested. 

2555.  [p.  247.]    13  Sept.    S.  P.  to  Sir  John  Narbrough? 
at  Tripoli. — Has  received  his  of  19  July,  giving  an  account 
of  his  proceedings  touching  the  Madonna  and  the  other 
vessels  therein  mentioned,  and  more  particularly   of  his 
having  sent  the  negroes — men,  women,  and  children — to  be 
sold,  and  his  keeping  the  Greeks  to  be  disposed  of  as  his 
Majesty  should  direct.     His  Majesty  hath  by  the  advice  of 
the  lords  declared  his  approval  of  his  selling  the  negroes, 
'  and  determined  that  the  Greeks  (notwithstanding  their 
pretence  of  being  Christians)  shall  be  sent  to  Tangier,  and 
there  employed  as  slaves  on  board  the  galley ; '  this  deter- 
mination '  being  founded  upon  the  consideration  of  their 
being  inhabitants  of  Tripoli,  and  actually  employed  in  the 
service  of  that  government,  and  not  going  as  passengers 
upon  the  said  ship.1 

Hopes  every  day  (not  without  some  disquiet  for  want 
of  it)  to  hear  of  his  having  received  his  Majesty's  instruc- 
tions of  14  June  [2350],  and  that  the  Swallow,  Dartmouth, 
Assistance,  and  Diamond  are  come  to  him,  and  will  be 

1  See  ii.  2 1  n.  supra. 

3  Late  commander  of  the  St.   David  [2533].      Charnock,  Biog. 
New.  i.  26. 

3  D.N.B.  xl.  80. 


1675  FOURTH   VOLUME  115 

followed  soon  after  by  the  Harwich  and  the  two  fireships 
[2441],  'that  if  possible  the  summer  may  conclude  with 
some  conclusion  to  that  war,  his  Majesty,  my  lords,  and  the 
merchants  receiving  in  the  meantime  universal  satisfaction 
in  the  success  you  have  already  obtained  upon  them  so  far 
as  that  our  trade  is  free,  as  an  evidence  whereof  Captain 
Houlding,  of  the  Assistance,  tells  me  from  Malta  that  the 
Turkey  ships  [2402]  he  was  to  have  convoyed  to  you 
apprehended  themselves  so  safe  without  convoy  as  to 
decline  his  company.' 

Underwritten :  '  A  duplicate  sent  to  Livorne  to  Mr.  Ball,1 
24  Sept.  1675.' 

2556.  [p.  248.]     1 3  Sept.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Thomas  Clutter- 
buck^  at  Livorne. — Desires  his  care  of  the  enclosed  [2555]. 

2557.  [p.   248.]     14   Sept.     'Sent    by   the    Sapphire, 
Captain  Harman.' 3      S.  P.  to  Captain  Trevanion?  in  the 
Straits. — Is  glad  the  hulk  will  so  suddenly  be  in  a  con- 
dition to  go  to  Malta  [2407]. 

2558*  [p.  249.]  14  Sept.  S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— 
The  writer  fears  he  has  gone  too  fast  in  a  late  business,  the 
pressingness  whereof  urged  him  to  the  doing  what  he  did 
without  calling  for  their  advice.  Which  is  that  of  Captain 
Perriman's  being  appointed  '  to  look  after  the  business  of 
surveying  of  merchant  ships  in  order  to  the  preventing 
the  manifold  frauds  practised  ...  in  the  undue  procuring 
of  passes '  [25 14].  Does  not  know  any  officer  of  the  navy 
'  so  well  qualified  by  reason  of  his  ancient  experience  in  the 
proceedings  of  merchantmen '  as  Captain  Perriman,5  and 
'  the  smallness  of  the  action '  at  present  at  Sheerness 
'  led  me  to  believe  that  his  presence  might  be  dispensed 
with  by  the  help  of  a  fitting  deputy,  such  as  he  seemed 
to  represent  Nathaniel  Clifford  to  be,  and  the  nature  of 
his  employment  as  boatswain  of  the  hulk  induced  me 
without  much  difficulty  to  the  belief  of.'  If  he  is  mistaken, 
desires  them  to  propound  or  themselves  make  choice  of 
another  person  as  master  attendant's  deputy. 

1  Consul  at  Leghorn  [2435]. 

3  Victualler  for  the  Mediterranean.     See  ii.  236  n.  supra. 

3  See  note  to  No.  2379. 

4  Commander  of  the  Yarmouth.     See  note  to  No.  2304. 

5  Captain  John  Perriman,  the  master  attendant  at  Sheerness.    See 
ii.  50  n,  supra. 

I  2 


ii6  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS        Sept. 

2559.  [p.  249.]     14  Sept.     The  same  to  the  same. — The 
king  having    been    yesterday   to    visit    his   new   yacht,1 
building   by   Sir    Anthony   Deane,2   at   his   return   com- 
manded the  writer  very  earnestly  to  write  to  them  for  their 
causing  their  plumber  to  repair  on  board  her    and    take 
directions  for  the   casting   of  the  lead  designed   for   her 
ballasting.     Knows  that  their  going  about  this  without  a 
special  fund  for  it  is  irregular,  but  if  the  plumber  vwill  be 
persuaded   to   give  them  credit  for  it,  the  writer  will  be 
'  very  solicitous  for  the  finding  some  way  for  the  having  of 
him  paid,'  and  the  lords  will  be  so  too.     The  truth  is  this 
point  of  her  building  may  be  as  well  expected  to  be  done 
by  Sir  A.  D.  as  any  other,  and  perhaps  they  may  persuade 
his  foreman  to  undertake  it,  as  he  doth  the  rest. 

2560.  [p.  250.]     14  Sept.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Lassells? 
Garland,  in  the  Downs. — Presses  him  to  hasten  with  the 
ships  that  are  to  accompany  him  to  his  station  with  the 
herring  fishery  off  Yarmouth  [2522]. 

2561.  [p.  251.]      14  Sept.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Baker* 
Merlin,  at  Portsmouth. — It  is  very  hard   to  his  Majesty 
that  a  yacht  should  be  employed  a  whole  summer  upon  one 
occasion.6     Is  sorry  for  his  disappointment  that  the  king 
has  preferred  Captain  Pinn,  as  out  of  employment  [20 1/],6 
to    command    the   Cleveland    yacht    in   the   absence  of 
Captain  Davies,7  especially  as  he  had  so  long  made  it  his 
request. 

2562.  [p.  252.]     14  Sept.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Fasby*  at 
Portsmouth. — Sends  him  the  king's  orders  for  carrying  a 
certain  lady  of  Sussex,  Lady  Goring,9  into  France.     The 


1  The  Charles,  built  at  Rotherhithe  in  1675,  and  cast  away  on  the 
coast  of  Holland  in  Nov.  1678  (i.  294,  supra}. 

3  See  note  to  No.  2403.  3  See  note  to  No.  2181. 

4  See  note  to  No.  2177. 

5  The  marginal  note  is  :  '  Very  ill  for  his  waiting  so  long  for  my 
lord's  body.' 

6  Captain   Edward  Pinn  had  formerly  been  in  command  of  the 
Dartmouth,  which  had  been  ordered  to  be  paid  off  in  Dec.  1674  [2017]. 

7  Captain  William  Davies,  formerly  commander  of  the  Foresight 
[1949],  was  not  actually  appointed  to  the  Cleveland  yacht  until  1 1  July, 
1676  (i.  343,  supra).     See  also  ii.  399  n.  supra. 

8  Commander  of  the  Cleveland  yacht  [2570]. 

9  Lady  Goring  of  Bruton.     See  Cal.  S.  P.  Dom.  1675-6,  pp.  286 
and  311  ;  and  note  to  No.  2861. 


i675  FOURTH    VOLUME  117 

king  has  signed  his  commission  for  the  Charles  yacht,1  and 
another  to  Captain  Finn  to  succeed  him  [2561],  but  it  is 
left  to  him  whether  to  stay  for  Lady  Goring  or  leave  that 
work  to  Captain  Finn,  the  new  yacht  [2559]  being  not  yet 
ready  to  launch. 

2563.  [p.  252.]     14  Sept.     '  Sent  by  Captain  Harman,2 
of  the  Sapphire.'     5.  P.  to  Captain  KUligrew?  of  the  Har- 
wich, in  the  Straits. — Has  received  his  of  2  Aug.  intimating 
his  having  been  then  4  days  in  Cadiz  Bay.     Sir  John  Nar- 
brough  has  been  in  great  want  of  the  two  fireships  in  his 
company  [2441],  so  the  writer  hopes  he  will  not  exceed 
the  time  limited  for  his  stay  at  the  several  ports  [2411]. 

2564.  [p.  253.]     14  Sept.     '  Sent  by  the  Sapphire,  Cap- 
tain Harman.' 2     6*.  P.  to  Captain  Hamilton?  at  Tangier. — 
His  letter  of  16  Aug.  from  Livorne,  giving  notice  of  his 
being  driven  back  thither  with  great  loss  of  sails,  is  very 
unwelcome  to  the  king  and  lords.     Prays  that  no  further 
time  be  lost  in  despatching  his  ship  home,  and  giving  the 
lords  an  account  of  the  galley  [2440]. 

2565.  [p.  252.8]     17  Sept.    S.  P.  to  Lieutenant  Godwin, 
at  the  N[avy]  O[ffice]. — To  know  how  much  victuals  the  Sap- 
phire hath  taken  in  and  when,  in  order  to  the  calculating  how 
much  is  spent,  and  her  being  presently  supplied  from  Dover. 

2566.  [p.  254.]     17  Sept.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Colston,  consul 
at  Malaga. — Expects  that  he  will  do  his  part  in  preventing 
'  that  long  practised  evil '  of  captains '  going  into  and  staying 
unnecessarily  in  foreign  ports  upon  business  of  their  own.' 

2567.  [p.  254.]     17  Sept.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Harman? 
of  the  Sapphire,  in  the  Downs. — Encloses  his  orders  for 
convoying  the  Turkey  Company's  ships  to  Sir  John  Nar- 
brough  [2519,  2569];   he  may  daily  expect  them  in  the 
Downs.     The  king  will  not  assent  to  his  calling  at  Cadiz 
and  Genoa,  as  the  work  the  Turkey  Company  hath  now 
occasioned  him  will  interrupt  his  attendance  on  Sallee  ;  and 
moreover  it  will  occasion  a  breach  of '  the  rules  his  Majesty 
hath  with   so  much  earnestness  set  against  the  allowing 
his  ships  to  go  into  ports  upon  any  other  account  than  that 
of  his  own  necessary  service.' 

1  The  commission  is  dated  1 1  Sept.  (i.  349,  supra}. 

2  See  note  to  No.  2379. 

8  D.  N.  B.  xxxi.  109.    See  note  to  No.  2266. 
See  note  to  No.  2440.  5  Out  of  order  in  the  MS. 


n8  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS        Sept. 

2568.  [p.  255.]     17  Sept.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Langley? 
mayor,  at  Harwich. — Has  communicated  his  of  the  I4th  to 
the  king  and  lords. 

2569.  [p.  255.]     17   Sept.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Rooke?  at 
Portsmouth. — Will   do   him   all   offices   of  friendship,  his 
diligence  in  his  Majesty's  service  deserving  it  from  him  ; 
but  as  to  any  convoys  designed  for  the  Straits,  the  Turkey 
Company  having  demanded  no  more  than  that  the  Sapphire, 
which  is  going  thither  upon  the  account  of  Sallee,  may 
bear  them  company  [2567],  the  writer  does  not  see  any  likely 
to  be  ordered  out  this  year  unless  the  herring  ships  should 
require  it. 

2570.  [p.    256.]     19    Sept.     S.   P.    to   Captain  Fasby, 
Cleveland  yacht,  at  Portsmouth. — Encloses  orders  for  his 
proceeding    with    Lady    Goring   to   Dieppe    [2562],  and 
thence  to  Havre  de  Grace  to  fetch  Sir  Anthony  Deane 
[2420]. 

2571.  [p.   256.]     20  Sept.     S.  P.  to    Captain  Jenifer, 
Saudados,3  in  the  Downs. — Thanks  for  his  advices  of  the 
1 8th  concerning  the  injuries  said  to  have  been  done  to 
some  of  our  ships  by  the  ships  of  Argeir ;  also  about  the 
ships  come  in  from  the  Straits  and  East  Indies,  and  of 
what  the  Smyrna   ships  say  touching   the  Swallow  and 
Dartmouth   being  joined   with   Sir   John  Narbrough,  '  of 
whom  we  have  among  us  great  discourses  of  a  considerable 
action  and  success  obtained  by  him  against  the  Tripolines, 
but  the  particulars  yet  wholly  unknown.' 4 

2572.  [p.  257.]     20  Sept.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Dickenson* 
Hunter,  in  the  Downs. — His  Majesty  is  well  pleased  with 
the  success  of  the  service  on  which  he  was  sent  to  Surinam 
[2031]  and  his  speedy  return.     Desires  to  know  if  his  ship 
is  in  a  condition  for  staying  abroad  a  while  in  the  Downs 
before  he  is  called  in  [2585],  in  place  of  the  Garland  and 
two  more  lately  ordered  thence  to  attend  the  Yarmouth 
fishery    [2540,    2541,    2543].     The    Richmond   yacht    is 
ordered  to  him  to  bring  up  some  fowl  for  his  Majesty's 
own  use. 

1  Master  of  the  packet-boats  at  Harwich  [2035]. 

a  Afterwards  Sir  George  Rooke.  For  an  account  of  his  career  see 
D.  N.  B.  xlix.  204.  He  had  been  in  command  of  the  Holmes,  now 
paid  off  [1928]. 

3  See  ii.  9».  supra.  *  See  Introduction,  p.  xiii,  supra. 

5  See  ii.  367  n.  supra. 


i6;5  FOURTH  VOLUME  119 

2573.  [p.  258.]     22  Sept.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Harman} 
of  the  Sapphire,  in  the  Downs. — There  being  a  sum  of 
money  designed  to  be   sent  by  him  for  the  garrison  at 
Tangier,  he  is  to  stay  in   the  Downs  till  further  order, 
notwithstanding  the  Smyrna  ships  should  all  come  there 
[2582]. 

2574.  [p.  258.]     22  Sept.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Whitfeld,  navy 
office. — Captain  Willshaw,2  late  commander  of  the  Reserve, 
having  applied  to  the  lords  for  an  opportunity  of  clearing 
himself  from  his  purser's  charges  in  relation  to  the  frauds 
pretended  by  Mr.  Jones 3  upon  the  books  of  that  ship  [2362], 
and  the  lords  having  referred  the  whole  matter  to  a  second 
inquiry  by  himself  and  the  rest  of  the  gentlemen  formerly 
entrusted  therewith,  Friday  next  is  agreed  on  with  Captain 
Shales  4  and  Mr.  Maddockes 5  for  their  meeting  at  the  trea- 
surer's office  in  Broad  Street,  and  he  is  desired  to  notify 
this  to  Captain  Willshaw  that  he  may  attend  with  his  wit- 
nesses and  papers,  amongst  which  is  a  book  which  he  has 
declared  himself  ready  to  make  oath  to  be  a  true  and  per- 
fect copy  of  the  book  signed  by  him  and  delivered  to  the 
purser,  so  as  all  differences  between  the  said  two  books 
which  shall  be  found  at  this  day  he  alleges  to  be  charge- 
able upon  the  unfaithfulness  of  the  purser  and  not  on  him. 
It  will  be  needful  that  he  advertise  the  purser  also  of  their 
meeting. 

2575.  [p.  259.]  23  Sept.  S.  P.  to  Mr.  Stockdale?  at 
Dover. — Thanks  for  his  of  the  i8th,  wishing  only  that  he 
had  favoured  him  with  '  an  account  of  what  I  somewhere 
heard  imperfectly  the  other  day  of  the  civility  De  Ruyter 
in  passing  by  to  the  westward  expressed  to  yourself  or 
some  other  officer  of  the  king's  that  went  off  from  Dover 
to  him,  and  more  particularly  in  his  striking  his  flag  to  the 

1  See  note  to  No.  2379. 

2  Captain  Thomas  Willshaw  (Charnock,  Biog.  Nav.  i.  276)  must 
not  be  confused  with  his  brother,  Francis  Willshaw,  who  had  com- 
manded the  Concord  merchantman  [1654].  i 

s  See  No.  2362.  This  is  possibly  the  Thomas  Jones  who  had 
been  investigating  frauds  committed  by  the  purser  of  the  Speedwell 
(Cat.  S.  P.  Dom.  1675-6,  p.  201). 

4  See  i.  73-4  and  79,  supra. 

5  Robert  Maddockes  was  a  paymaster  of  the  navy  (Cal,  S.  P, 
Dom.  1673,  p.  161).     See  note  to  No.  2990. 

8  Collector  of  customs  at  Dover  [2749]. 


120  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS        Sept. 

king's  colours  on  board  the  small  boat  which  that  officer 
went  off  in,  and  keeping  it  down  all  the  time  the  boat  was 
by  his  side.' 

As  to  Mr.  Brown's  vessel  [2333],  the  lords  incline  more 
to  rely  upon  the  assertion  of  one  of  his  Majesty's  own 
officers  than  the  oaths  of  persons  interested  for  their  own 
benefit,  and  have  done  so  in  the  present  case,  where  Mr. 
Nepueu  '  and  Mr.  Hays  l  make  oath  that  they  were  the 
only  proprietors  of  the  vessel,  whilst  he  in  his  letter  of 
28  May  expressly  says  with  much  assurance  that  no 
English  has  any  share  or  interest  in  her.  If  they  do  insist 
upon  the  vessel's  going  to  sea  by  virtue  of  the  pass  given 
them  by  the  lords,  the  lords  will  certainly  insist  upon  that 
assurance  of  his  of  her  being  foreign  property  ;  but  if  they 
shall  be  contented  to  deliver  up  the  lords'  pass  and 
demand  a  new  one  from  the  magistrate  of  Dover  (as  they 
may  now  regularly  do  by  virtue  of  the  late  regulations  set 
by  the  council  board  in  the  business  of  granting  passes 2), 
the  writer  will  be  ready  to  send  to  him  or  them  the  affidavit 
Mr.  Nepueu  and  Mr.  Hays  last  made  before  a  master  in 
Chancery,  to  enable  them  to  give  the  Mayor  of  Dover 
and  the  officers  of  the  customs  concerned  in  it  the  satis- 
faction requisite  for  leading  them  to  grant  them  one. 

2576.  [p.  260.]     24  Sept.     '  Sent  by  express,  past  2, 
afternoon.'     5.  P.  to  Mr.  Taylor*  at  Harwich. — Thanks  for 
his  letter  of  yesterday  touching  the  Pearl,  and  Higgeson, 
who  shall  be  immediately  inquired  after.     Desires  his  care 
of  the  enclosed  [2577]  which  comes  open  to  him. 

2577.  [p.  261.]     24  Sept.     '  Sent  by  express  at  past  2 
in  the  afternoon,  under  cover  to  Captain  Taylor,3  at  Harwich 
[2576],     5.  P.  to  the  Commanders  of  his  Majesty* 's  frigates 
the  Pearl  and  Saudados,  or  either  of  them,  at  Harwich  or 
elsewhere. — His    Majesty   being,  by  a  petition   delivered 
him  by  some  merchants  about  an  hour  since,  informed  of  a 
particular  injury  offered  to  the  Hope,  of  Hamburg,  belong- 
ing to  his  Majesty's  subjects,  by  a  small  vessel  said  to  be 
commanded  by  an  Englishman,  one  Polston  by  name,  and 
with  him  one  Hunter,  acting  as  his  lieutenant   under  a 
French  commission,  they  are  to  seize  her  and  bring  her  in, 
either  to  the  Downs  or  Harwich. 

1  See  note  to  No.  2333.  2  See  Introduction,  p.  xx,  supra. 

^  *  Storekeeper  at  Harwich.     See  ii.  44  n.  supra. 


i675  FOURTH   VOLUME  121 

2578.  [p.  262.]  24  Sept.  '  Sent  under  cover  to  Mr.  Ball l 
in  Mr.  Secretary  Coventry's2  packet  to  Livorne'  [2579]. 
S.  P.  to  Sir  John  Narbrough?  at  Tripoli. — His  letters  of 
5  and  9  Aug.  were  considered  by  the  king  and  lords  with 
great  satisfaction,  and  particularly  his  burning  the  Tripoli 
galleys,4  and  the  earnestness  wherewith  that  people  seem  to 
be  thereby  now  driven  to  solicit  for  a  peace.  The  king 
and  lords  '  being  much  convinced  of  the  reasonableness  of 
what  you  note  touching  the  little  expectation  to  be  had  of 
their  making  any  restitution  by  money,  and  not  much 
more  of  obtaining  any  heads,  .  .  .  through  the  death  and 
absence  of  those  who  were  chiefly  guilty  of  the  breach  with 
us,  and  the  concernment  of  the  present  Dey  in  the 
matter,  it  is  determined  .  .  .  that  you  shall  forbear  to 
insist  upon  heads,  and  proceed  upon  what  you  propose  for 
his  Majesty's  accepting  of  their  discharge  of  Christian 
slaves,  though  of  other  nations,  there  being  a  considerable 
point  of  honour  obtained  by  it,  and  that  seeming  to  be  all 
that  is  to  be  hoped  for  from  it ;  the  manner  of  your  execu- 
tion whereof  as  to  the  number,  value,  and  other  circum- 
stances relating  to  the  obtaining  of  liberty  for  those  slaves, 
and  removing  of  them  thence,  his  Majesty  is  pleased  to 
leave  to  your  single  discretion  and  conduct '  [2619].  As  to 
his  advice  of  supplying  him  with  small  vessels  to  be 
employed  as  fireships  for  attempting  something  upon  their 
ships  in  harbour  in  case  they  should  not  be  brought  to  a 
peace  upon  our  terms,  the  writer  encloses  orders  authorising 
his  using  the  remainder  of  the  contingent  money  for  that 
purpose,  hoping  in  a  very  little  time  to  remit  him  a  further 
sum  of  money  for  making  good  the  value  of  the  said  boats 
borrowed  out  of  the  contingent  money.  His  conduct  of 
this  affair  '  finds  universal  acceptance,  both  at  court  and 
elsewhere.'  If  he  should  come  to  a  treaty,  it  occurs  to 
the  writer  that  it  might  not  be  hard  for  him  to  obtain  some- 
thing that  might  not  be  ungrateful  to  the  king,  namely, 
some  of  the  horses  and  mares  of  the  breed  of  that  country. 

Postscript. — Sends  herewith  duplicates  of  his  of  the  I3th 
[2555],  and  the  king's  orders  sent  therein. 

Underwritten:  'Duplicate  hereof  sent  15  Oct.  to  Livorne.' 

1  Consul  at  Leghorn  [2579].  *  D.  N.  B.  xii.  357. 

3  Ibid.  xl.  89.  4  See  Introduction,  p.  xiii,  stipra. 


122  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS        Sept. 

2579.  [p.  264.]     24  Sept.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Ball,  consul, 
at  Livorne. — Desires  his  care  of  the  enclosed  [2578]. 

2580.  [p.  264.]     26  Sept.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board— 
Transmits  the  substance  of  the  lords'  resolutions  on  those 
points  of  the  victualling  contract x  still  in  dispute  at  their 
last  meeting,  and  desires  them  to  cause  the   draught  of 
the  contract  to  be  new  drawn  over  with  such  alterations 
as  these  shall  occasion,   and   that  done   to  be   returned 
hither  in  order  to   its   being  despatched   to   the  council 
board  for  its  passage  to  the  great  seal. 

2581.  [p.  265.]     26  Sept.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Hayter?  navy 
office. — This   comes,    accompanied   with   a    letter   to  the 
board  [2580],  the  trouble  of  which  will  fall  principally  to 
his  single  share,  partly  to  notify  to  him  the  earnestness 
wherewith  it  is  expected  the  victualling  contract  should 
now   receive   its   finishing  after  the  stay  it  has  so  long 
received    from   the   expectation  of    Sir  Jeremy  Smyth's 
return  to  town,  in  whose  peculiar  charge  it  lies 3  (would  his 
health  have  permitted  it  [2425])  that  the  same  should  be 
well  done,  and  partly  to  desire  that  if  he  conceives  any  part 
of  the  paper  sent  not  to  come  up  to  the  full  of  what  was 
determined  he  will  advise  him. 

2582.  [p.   265.]      27  Sept.      S.  P.   to    Captain    Tyte? 
Richmond  yacht,  at  Deptford. — To  carry  the  bearer,  Mr. 
Arthur  Read,  with  such  chests  of  money  as  he  shall  bring 
with  him,  into  the  Downs  to  the  Sapphire  [2573,  2587], 
where   he   is   to   deliver  the  money  to   Captain  Thomas 
Harman,  her  commander,  and  return  with  Mr.  Read  to 
Deptford. 

2583.  [p.  266.]     27  Sept.    '  Sent  by  express  to  Captain 
Taylor,5  5  a  clock  afternoon.'     5.  P.  to  Captain  Booth?  Pearl, 
at    Harwich. — Has   acquainted   the    king   with   what    he 
writes  of  the  leakiness  of  his  ship,  and  encloses  his  orders 
for  her  being  brought  up  to  Deptford  [2590]. 

2584.  [p.  266.]     27  Sept.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  St.  Michel? 

1  This  appears  to  have  been  a  revised  contract  with  the  old 
victuallers  (i.  165,  supra). 

2  See  note  to  No.  2102. 

8  Sir  Jeremy  Smyth  was  comptroller  of  the  victualling.    D.  N.  B. 
liii.  65.  *  See  ii.  375  n.  supra. 

5  Storekeeper  at  Harwich.    See  ii.  44  n.  supra. 

6  See  ii.  218  ».  supra.  7  See  note  to  No.  2387. 


1675  FOURTH   VOLUME  123 

Deal. — To  repair  on  board  the  Katharine,  of  London,  a 
merchantman  in  the  Downs,  and  inform  himself  in  as 
many  of  the  circumstances  contained  in  the  enclosed 
paper  as  he  can  from  his  personal  visiting  of  the  ship  and 
discoursing  with  her  master  and  company,  it  being  in 
order  to  a  pass.  He  is  to  put  the  sea-water  on  board  the 
Richmond  yacht,  now  going  to  the  Downs  [2582];  as  for 
cask,  he  may  demand  it  of  any  purser  there,  to  whom  it 
will  be  allowed  on  his  account,  it  being  for  the  king's  par- 
ticular service. 

2585.  [p.  267.]     27  Sept.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Dickenson? 
Hunter,   Downs. — His   Majesty   being   satisfied  with  the 
condition  his  ship  is  in  for  staying  abroad  for  some  time, 
his  warrant  for  so  doing  is  enclosed  [2572], 

2586.  [p.  267.]   27  Sept.    S.  P.  to  Commissioner  Beach? 
at  Chatham. — Leave  to  come  to  town. 

2587.  [p.  267.]     27  Sept.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Harman? 
of  the   Sapphire,   in  the   Downs. — Sends   orders   for  his 
receiving  some  money  for  the  garrison  of  Tangier  from 
Mr.  Arthur  Read  [2582],  who  has  directions  to  bring  from 
him  three  receipts  of  like  date  and  tenor,  expressing  the 
number  of  bags  and  boxes,  and  marks  of  the  contents. 
He  is  to  receive  from  his  hand  the  key  of  the  boxes  sealed 
up  and  directed  to  Mr.  Phineas  Bowles,  paymaster  of  the 
garrison  at  Tangier,  who  is  to  receive  the  money  and  give 
him  three  like  acquittances.     Hopes  to  send  him  his  last 
despatches  to-morrow  or  next  day,  and  by  that  time  it  is 
possible  the  remainder  of  the  Turkey  ships  [2569]  may  be 
with  him. 

2588.  [p.  268.]     27  Sept.     S.  P.  to  Sir  John  Pettus.*— 
Has  moved  the  king  and  lords  in  the  subject  of  his  petition 
on   behalf  of  the  towns  of  Dunwich,   Southwold,5  Aide- 
burgh,6  Lowestoft,7  and    Ipswich.     The   lords — after   de- 
manding of  the  commissioners  for  the  sick  and  wounded 
their  respective  accounts,  as  well  for  the  time  preceding 
the  provision  last  made  by  the  lord  treasurer's  favour  of 
5<x>/.    a   week,   as   the  payments  made   thereupon  since 

1  See  ii.  367  n.  supra. 

3  Resident  commissioner  of  the  navy  at  Chatham. 

8  See  note  to  No.  2379.  *  See  ii.  311  n.  supra. 

5  MS.  'Sould.'     See  note  to  No.  3289.  6  MS.  '  Alborough.' 

7  MS.    'Lastoofe.' 


124  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS        Sept. 

towards  satisfying  proportionably  the  arrears  due  to  the 
several  sea  towns — depend  for  that  neighbourhood  for 
which  he  is  so  worthily  concerned  upon  an  account  to  be 
delivered  in  by  Sir  William  Doyley,1  which  he  appears  to 
have  been  prevented  by  sickness  from  delivering  in  sooner, 
but  may  be  looked  for  from  him  before  the  next  term,  till 
which  time  the  writer  does  not  see  what  can  be  done 
more  than  is,  the  lord  treasurer  continuing  (as  he  thinks) 
to  do  his  part  still  duly.  Is  sorry  his  is  the  only  district 
from  which  any  complaints  have  been  hitherto  made, 
either  of  the  unequal  distributing  or  not  due  paying  the 
moneys  found  by  the  lord  treasurer  for  answering  this  so 
charitable  occasion. 

2589.  [p.  269.]    28  Sept.    S.  P.  to  Captain  Kempthorne? 
Monmouth   yacht,  at  Dublin. — Has  received  his  of  the 
1 8th,  with  a  copy  of  his  journal  for  the  last  month. 

2590.  [p.  269.]     4  Oct.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— To 
survey  the  Pearl  at  Deptford  and  report  her  condition  to 
the  lords  [2583]. 

2591.  [p.  270.]     5   Oct.     S.  P.  to  Captain   Wright?— 
When  he  has  landed  Monsieur  Calloet  at  Dieppe,  he  is  to 
return  to  Calais  [2592],  to  take  on  board  arms,  &c.,  for  the 
Duke   of  Monmouth  (staying  for  them    2    days  and  no 
longer),  and  this  done  to  return  to  Greenwich. 

2592.  [p.     270.]      6    Oct.       The  same   to    the   same, 
Kitchen  yacht,  at  Greenwich. — To  continue  at  Dieppe  4 
days,  notwithstanding  his  former  orders  [2591],  to  receive 
Madame  de  la  Tremblaye  and  her  company,  and  also  a 
coach  for  Lady  Mordaunt  [2607].     His  voyage  to  Calais 
being  by  this  means  put  by,  he  is  to  acquaint  Captain 
Tyte,4   commander   of  the  Richmond   yacht,   with   what 
directions  he  has  received  from  the  Duke  of  Monmouth 
[2607]. 

2593.  [p.  270.]     8  Oct.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Jenifer,  of 
the  Saudados,5  in   the  Downs. — As  the  king's  orders  of 
27   Sept.   last,   sent  him   to  Harwich,   for    enlarging  his 

1  Sir  William  Doyley  had  been  a  commissioner  for  the  care  of 
sick  and  wounded  seamen  during  the  second  and  third  Dutch  wars 
(i.  133-4,  supra). 

3  See  ii.  113  n.  supra. 

*  Commander  of  the  Kitchen  yacht  [2592].     See  ii.  12  n.  supra. 

4  See  ii.  375  n.  supra.  s.  See  ii.  9«.  supra. 


1675  FOURTH   VOLUME  125 

station  as  far  as  Yarmouth  Roads  are   not  come   to  his 
hands,  another  order  for  that  service  is  enclosed. 

Margin :  'Sends  the  king's  orders  for  his  cruising  for  8  days.' 

2594.  [p.    271.]     8  Oct.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Stockdale}  at 
Dover. — Encloses  the   affidavit  of  Mr.  Nepueu  and  Mr. 
Hays  as  desired  [2575].     Is  very  sorry  that  'neither  you  nor 
the  Mayor  of  Dover  have  yet  received  any  advertisement 
from  the  commissioners  of  customs  touching  those  regula- 
tions lately  passed  in  council  [2488]  about  granting  of  passes.' 2 
As  to  the  mayor,  it  may  possibly  be  more  proper  that  he 
should  receive  them  from  the  council  board,  about  which 
care  shall  be  taken  to  know  his  Majesty's  pleasure,  but  as 
to   the   officers    of    the   customs  they  are  for  certain  to 
receive  them  from  the  commissioners  in  pursuance  of  the 
lord  treasurer's   order  to  them.      Has  communicated  to 
the  lords  his  of  29  Sept.  about  Mr.  Crocker,  who  will  hold 
their  hands  from  granting  of  any  passes  upon  the  reputa- 
tion of  his  propriety. 

2595.  [p.  271.]     8  Oct.     S.P.  to  Mr.  Neale,  postmaster 
at  Deal. — Has  received  the  packet  of  the  2nd  inst,  sent  to 
Captain  Harman,  whose  sudden  departure  prevented  its 
delivery  [2599].     Desires  him  to  put  a  reasonable   value 
upon  his  services  in  despatching  his  Majesty's  letters  and 
providing  and  sending  up  the  daily  list  from  the  Downs. 

2596.  [p.  272.]      8   Oct.      S.  P.  to  Captain    Clements, 
Greyhound,  in    the  Downs. — Neither   the   king   or   lords 
have   at   any  time,  or  very  rarely  (and   that   on  foreign 
voyages  only),  granted  press-warrants  in  time  of  peace,  so 
the  writer  would  not  advise  him  to  solicit  the  lords  for  it, 
as  they  will  make  very  great  difficulty  of  granting  it.     Has 
received  the  desires  of  his  boatswain,  gunner,  and  carpenter 
for  being  allowed  servants,  but  they  are  to  apply  to  the 
officers  of  the  navy. 

2597.  [p.  272.]     9  Oct.     S.  P.  to  the  Bailiffs  of  Yar- 
mouth.— Is  sorry  they  find  pilots  so  hard  to  come  by  for  the 
king's  ships  ;  it  stands  not  with  the  practice  of  the  navy 
in  time  of  peace  to  make  use  of  press-warrants  to  compel 
them.     Coghlan,  the    privateer   [2505],    upon    confession 
was  '  deeply  fined  '  by  the  court,  and  remains  in  prison  till 

1  Collector  of  customs  at  Dover  [2749], 
*  See  Introduction,  p.  xx,  supra. 


126  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS         Oct 

the  same  be  either  paid,  or  remitted  by  his  Majesty  ;  the 
court  recommends  to  them  that  some  expedient  be  found 
to  pay  the  charges  of  those  that  came  from  Yarmouth  to 
prosecute  him. 

2598.  [p.  273.]     9   Oct.     S.  P.  to  Captain   Taylor*  at 
Harwich. — Thanks  for  his  advices. 

2599.  [p.   274.]      15    Oct.     'Sent   by   express,    12   at 
night'     S.  P.  to  Captain  Harman?  at  Falmouth. — Hopes 
this  will  reach  him  at  Falmouth  [26cx>],  it  being  of  import- 
ance to  the   king  that  the  packet  come  to  his  hand  for 
which  he  was  expressly  directed  by  his  last  orders  to  stay 
in  the  Downs  [2595]. 

Postscript. — Besides  the  packet  returned  from  the  Downs, 
the  writer  encloses  one  to  Lord  Inchiquin,3  one  to  Mr.  Bland, 
and  a  third  to  Mr.  Bowles  4  at  Tangier. 

2600.  [p.  274.]     15    Oct.     'Sent  by  express  at  12  at 
night'     S.  P.  to  the  Mayor  of  Falmouth. — Having  this  day 
received  a  letter  from  the  commander  of  the  Sapphire  of 
his  being  put  back  to  Falmouth  by  contrary  winds,  with 
his  convoy,  the  writer  desires  him  to  convey  the  enclosed 
to  him  [2599],  or  to  return  it  if  he  be  gone  [2616]. 

2601.  [p.  274.]    20  Oct.    S.  P.  to  Sir  Thomas  Chicheley? 
— Prays  for  a  particular  of  the  charge  of  guns,  carriages, 
and  gunner's  stores  for  a  ship  of  the  rate  in  the  margin. 

Margin:  4th  rate,  Assistance;  5th  rate,  Dartmouth;  6th 
rate,  Greyhound. 

2602.  [p.  275.]     21    Oct.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Gunman? 
commander  of  the  Anne  yacht. — To  stay  10  days  at  Dieppe 
after  his  arrival  there  with  Mrs.  Churchill,  to  bring  Colonel 
Churchill 7  thence  in  case  he  be  ready. 

2603.  [p.  275.]     24  Oct.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board— 
Encloses  Captain  Booth's  8  journal  of  the  late  voyage  of  the 
Pearl. 

1  Storekeeper  at  Harwich.     See  ii.  44  n.  supra. 

2  See  note  to  No.  2379.  3  See  note  to  No.  2113. 

4  Paymaster  of  the  garrison  at  Tangier  [2587]. 

5  Master-general  of  the  ordnance.     D.  N.  B.  x.  231. 

6  Charnock,  Biog.  Nav.  i.  225. 

7  John  Churchill,  afterwards  Duke  of  Marlborough,  was  at  this 
time  a  colonel  in  the  French  service  (D.N.B.  x.  315).     He  did  not 
marry  until  1678,  so  '  Mrs.  Churchill'  is  not  the  future  duchess.     The 
reference  might  possibly  be  to  his  sister  Arabella,  the  mistress  of  the 
Duke  of  York  (D.  N.  B.  x.  307).  8  See  ii.  218  n.  supra. 


i675  FOURTH   VOLUME  127 

2604.  [p.  275.]     26  Oct.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Sanderson, 
of  the  Portsmouth  yacht. — To  give  passage  to  Mr.  Fosse- 
well  to  Dieppe  when  he  goes  thither  with  Lord  Berkeley.1 

2605.  [p.  276.]     29  Oct.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Tyte?  Rich- 
mond yacht,  at  Deptford. — To  take  on  board  the  bearers 
with  the  goods  and  baggage  of  Lord  Wiltshire,3  and  proceed 
to  Rye  to  attend  his  coming  for  transport  into  France. 

2606.  [p.  276.]     29  Oct.     S.  P.  to  Lord  Arlington,  lord 
chamberlain   of  the   household. — Signifies   his   Majesty's 
resolution  of  bestowing  on  the  bearer,  Mr.  William   Idle 
[1490],  as  of  his  bounty,  a  medal  to  the  value  of  5O/.  in 
consideration  of  the  good  service  by  him   performed   in 
retaking  from  the  Dutch,  and  bringing  away  from  Cadiz 
Bay,   an   English   ship  called  the  Bachelor  [1482,   2032, 
3121],  which  had  formerly  been  taken  by  them  at  New 
York,  and  whereof  the  said  Idle  was  master. 

2607.  [p.  277.]     31  Oct.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Tyte?  Rich- 
mond yacht,  at  Rye,  bound  for  Dieppe. — To  give  passage 
to  Madame  de  la  Tremblaye  from  Dieppe  [2592],  and  a 
small  coach  belonging  to  Monsieur  Ruvigny,  envoy  extra- 
ordinary of  his  most  Christian  Majesty. 

2608.  [p.  277.]     i  Nov.     S.  P.  to  Sir  John  Frederick '.4 
— Had  the  business  of  the  poor  children  discoursed  at  the 
last  sitting  of  the  lords,  and  hopes  to  see  it  ripened  for 
confirmation  at  the  council  table  next  council  day.     The 
lords   of  the   admiralty   are    greatly   satisfied    with    the 
beginning  he  had  so  happily  made  in  the  disposal  of  two 
of  the  children. 

2609.  [p.  278.]     9  Nov.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— 
The  ships  in  the  margin  being  suddenly  expected  home 
from  the  Straits  and  Tangier,  the  writer  desires  to  know 
unto  which  yards  they  should  be  brought  to  be  laid  up. 

Margin  :  Success,  Mary  Rose,  Guernsey,  Rose. 

1  MS.    'Bartlett,'  a  form    which  occurs    in  the  Diary  (i.    158, 
Wheatley's  edition).    John,  Lord  Berkeley  of  Stratton,  was  one  of  the 
ambassadors   extraordinary   appointed   in  Dec.  1675   to  attend  the 
congress  of  Nimeguen  (D.  N.  B.  iv.  362). 

2  See  ii.  375  n.  supra. 

3  Charles,  Earl  of  Wiltshire,  the  eldest  son  of  the  Marquis  of 
Winchester,  was  about  to  travel  abroad  for  two  years  (Cal.  S.  P.  Dom. 
1675-6,  p.  368). 

*  Sir  John   Frederick  was  at  this  time    President  of   Christ's 
Hospital  (Pepysian  MSS.  No.  2612,  p.  151).    See  also  ii.  382  n.  supra. 


128  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS        Nov. 

2610.  [p.  278.]     9  Nov.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  St.  Michel,1  at 
Deal. — There  having  been  lately  obtained  from  the  lords 
by  virtue  of  an  order  from  the  king  and  council  a  pass  for 
the  security  of  the  Nativity  of  Christ  on  her  passage  from 
Amsterdam  to  the  Port  of  London,  she  being  now  lately 
arrived    in  the  Downs  laden  with  deals  for  Spain,  he  is 
desired  to  visit  and  report  on  her,  as  in  the  case  of  the 
Katharine  of  London  [2584],  that  the  lords  may  be  moved 
for  granting  a  further  pass  for  her  safety  in  her  intended 
voyage  [2657]. 

2611.  [p.  279.]     9  Nov.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— 
There  being  some  recruits  of  men  to  be  suddenly  sent  over 
for  Tangier,  the   Garland  is  ordered   into    Sheerness   to 
refit  for  that  service.     Besides  the  ships  named  in  his  of 
this  morning  [2609],  the  Speedwell  and  Deptford  ketch 
are  likewise  ordered  up  to  Deptford  to  be  paid  off.     They 
are  to  take  care    that  the   lord  treasurer   be   moved   for 
moneys  for  their  discharge. 

2612.  [p.  279.]      10  Nov.     S.  P.   to   Captain  Jenifer, 
Saudados,2  in  the  Downs. — Has  received  his  of  the  last 
of  October  with  a  copy  of  his  journal  for  that  month. 

2613.  [p.  279.]     10  Nov.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Clements, 
Greyhound,  in  the  Downs. — Has  received  his  of  the  ist, 
with  a  copy  of  his  journal  for  last  month.     Having  ac- 
quainted his  Majesty  with  what  he  writes  of  the  present 
condition  of  his  ship,  he  is  pleased  to  direct  her   being 
brought  to  Sheerness  to  be  refitted. 

2614.  [p.  280.]    1 1  Nov.    S.  P.  to  Mr.  Peachey,  clerk  of 
the  ropeyard  at  Portsmouth. — '  Letting  alone  the  mention- 
ing anything  relating  to  your  proceedings  against  Pope,  &c. 
(which  have  been  by  them  reported  to  have   been  very 
irregular),'  or  the  resentment  of  the  lords  '  for  her  proceed- 
ings in  arresting  an  officer  of  the  king's  without  their  per- 
mission, I  shall  only  give  you  a  copy  of  my  lords'  order 
...  for  the   discharge   of  the  said  Pope  and   the   bailiff 
that  arrested  you,  as  also  a  copy  of  my  lords'  declaration 
upon    her   petition    to   them   after  her  being  discharged, 
praying  their  leave  for  prosecuting  you  at  law,  granting 
her  the  leave  she  desired  ;  their  lordships  not  holding  it 
fit  that  any  man  should  be  protected  by  his  relation  to  the 

1  See  note  to  No.  2387.  2  See  ii.  9  n.  supra. 


1675  FOURTH   VOLUME  129 

king's  service  in  his  denying  rightful  satisfaction  to  others 
his  Majesty's  subjects  where  the  present  condition  of  his 
service  under  the  care  of  that  officer  will  without  obstruction 
permit  the  same.' 

2615.  [p.  280.]     II   Nov.     S.   P.   to    Captain  London, 
Norwich,  Beaumaris.1 — Will  inform  the  king  and  lords  of 
his  complaint  to  the  officers  of  the  navy  of  his  boatswain's 
embezzling  stores  belonging  to  his  ship. 

2616.  [p.  280.]     1 1  Nov.     S.  P.  to  the  Mayor  of  Fal- 
mouth. — Thanks   for  his  care  of   the  packet  to    Captain 
Harman  [2600].     It  was  a  misfortune  that  it  missed  him 
so  little. 

2617.  [p.  281.]     1 2  Nov.    S.  P.  to  Captain  Gunman?  of 
the  Anne  yacht. — When  he  arrives  at  Calais  (where  Lady 
Hamilton  designs  to  land  instead  of  Dieppe)  he  is  to  wait 
6  days  for  the  Count  de  Grammont,3  and  bring  him  into  the 
river  of  Thames. 

2618.  [p.  281.]    12  Nov.    S.  P.  to  Captain  Smith?  Navy 
yacht. — If  during  his  stay  upon  the  coast  of  Holland  he  is 
applied  to  by  Colonel  Fenwick,6  he  is  to  give  him  and  his 
company  passage  into  the  river  of  Thames. 

2619.  [p.  282.]     15  Nov.     'Sent  under   cover  to  Sir 
Thomas  Clutterbuck's  house 6  at  Livorne.'    S.  P.  to  Sir  John 
Narbrough,1  before  Tripoli. — In  reply  to  his  of  12  Sept. 
and  13  Oct.,  the  latter  of  which  arrived  last  night,  the  king 
sends  him  the  enclosed  orders  under  his  own  hand. 

'  I  am  very  sorry  for  the  blame  you  find  cause  to  impute 
to  the  failure  of  the  Success  in  not  doing  her  part  upon 
the  two  Tripolines  that  first  came  forth  ;  ...  his  Majesty 
is  of  opinion  that  the  most  regular  and  that  which  is  like 
to  prove  the  most  effectual  way  of  taking  notice  of  and 
preventing  any  like  failures  for  the  future  is  by  ...  a 
court-martial,  which  you  are  by  special  authority  to  that 
purpose  given  you  fully  empowered  to  do.  .  .  .  The  king 

1  MS.  '  Bewmorris.'  2  Charnock,  Biog.  Nov.  \.  225. 

8  Philibert,  Comte  de  Grammont,  who  had  married  '  la  belle 
Hamilton'  in  1664.  He  paid  frequent  visits  to  England  (D.N.B. 
xxiv.  146). 

4  See  note  to  No.  2125. 

5  Afterwards  Sir  John  Fenwick.     See  D.  N.  B.  xviii.  329. 

6  See  note  to  No.  2350.     '  House '  is  probably  used  here  in  the 
commercial  sense. 

7  D.  N.  B.  xl.  89. 

VOL.   III.  K 


1 3o  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS        Nov. 

is  moreover  pleased  to  take  notice  that  the  captain's  sick- 
ness seeming  to  make  excuse  for  him,  the  lieutenant  ought 
to  be  accountable  after  him  for  what  neglect  there  was.  .  .  . 
His  Majesty  approves  of  the  reason  of  your  proceeding  in 
sending  home  of  that  ship l  (after  borrowing  what  powder, 
shot,  and  victuals  she  could  spare  for  the  use  of  the  ships 
remaining  with  you),  together  with  the  Newcastle  and 
Roebuck,  the  captain  of  the  former  of  which  hath  for  a 
good  while  seemed  desirous  to  come  home,  and  upon  his 
coming  he  will  as  you  desire  be  consulted  with  touching 
what  is  requisite  for  the  further  carrying  on  of  this  war  in 
the  state  whereto  'tis  at  this  day  brought  through  the 
obstruction  and  headiness  of  the  present  Dey,  and  his 
military  men  about  him,  in  whose  hands  you  observe  the 
conduct  of  all  things  to  be  at  this  day  fallen  without 
expectation  of  being  bettered  until  constrained  to  it  by 
some  loss  at  sea,  or  induced  to  it  upon  the  arrival  of  the 
chiaus  2  from  the  Grand  Signior,  whom  your  letter  men- 
tions to  be  on  his  way  towards  Tripoli.' 

'  Though  it  did  not  speed,  yet  his  Majesty  is  pleased  to 
approve  of  your  proposing  to  them  of  Tripoli  their  dis- 
charging so  many  Christian  captives  as  amount  to  the 
value  of  the  80,000  pieces  of  eight  at  which  the  loss  sus- 
tained by  us  from  them  is,  it  seems,  calculated  [2578] ; 
.  .  .  and  how  needful  it  is  that  something  should  be 
insisted  upon  by  way  of  restitution  appears  from  the  ill 
effect  of  that  one  instance  which  the  Tripolines  do  now 
make  use  of,  of  our  having  heretofore  made  peace  with 
those  of  Argeir  on  those  terms,  plainly  showing  that  a 
peace  to  be  now  made  on  the  same  terms  can  in  no  wise 
be  depended  upon  ;  on  which  consideration  it  is  that  his 
Majesty  and  my  lords  do  hold  it  advisable  to  continue  the 
war  still,  in  hopes  that  by  some  means  or  other  they  will  be 
brought  to  a  desire  of  compliance  upon  much  cheaper 
terms  to  the  king,  though  the  war  should  remain  a  while 
longer,  than  it  would  be  (after  what  hath  already  been 
spent  upon  it)  to  make  a  peace  that  cannot  reasonably  be 
relied  upon  to  last  without  as  great  a  charge  to  maintain 

1  According  to  Teonge,  the  Success  was  sent  home  because  she 
was  '  no  longer  able  to  abide  the  sea '  (Diary,  p.  67). 

a  MS.  '  Chiouse.'  'A  Turkish  messenger,  sergeant,  or  lictor' 
(Oxford  Dictionary'). 


1675  FOURTH   VOLUME  131 

it  after  making  as  it  hath  cost  in  the  procuring,  which  by 
your  letters  seems  also  to  be  your  own  apprehensions 
concerning  it.' 

His  Majesty  approves  very  well  of  what  he  has  done, 
since  the  getting  forth  of  those  ships  of  Tripoli  (which  he 
could  not  prevent),  in  sending  the  Dragon,  Assistance,  and 
Dartmouth  up  the  Levant  for  securing  of  trade,  and  his 
own  intentions  of  going  himself  with  the  Swallow  as  high 
as  Zante.  It  is  matter  of  very  much  trouble  to  the  king 
and  lords  that  he  has  so  long  wanted  the  company  of  the 
Harwich  and  her  fireships  [2441].  Desires  him  to  make 
very  strict  inquiry  both  of  Captain  Killigrew  '  and  his 
officers  when  they  shall  arrive,  of  the  true  occasion  of  his 
spending  two  months'  time  between  his  being  at  Cadiz 
and  coming  to  Livorne,  as  also  what  merchantmen  he 
convoyed  thither,  and  what  is  offered  in  excuse  for  his 
omitting  to  go  first  to  Argeir  and  Tunis.  Hopes  it  will 
be  the  last  time  that  his  Majesty  will  ever  be  prevailed 
with  to  indulge  any  captain's  request  in  the  like  kind 
[2411,  2441,  2563].  He  should  examine  also  how  the 
Portsmouth  and  Yarmouth  come  to  be  so  soon  out  of  pro- 
visions, who  went  away  with  4  months'  victuals  complete 
from  hence,  which  by  short  allowance  might  have  lasted  six  ; 
besides,  the  writer  finds  by  the  account  of  stores  sent  to 
Malta  for  the  use  of  his  fleet  that  no  inconsiderable  part 
thereof  was  put  on  board  the  Yarmouth,  which  his  letters 
are  silent  in  as  if  she  had  brought  none,  as  he  also  is 
touching  the  Europa  [2402],  which  was  ordered  to  bring 
him  some  fishes  and  other  stores  of  that  kind,  which  were 
lodged  in  her  for  the  use  of  the  king's  ships  employed 
about  Tangier  and  Sallee. 

'  Give  me  leave  to  take  notice  of  one  thing  which  I 
find  in  a  letter  of  yours  to  the  officers  of  the  navy  touching 
one  reason  of  the  Tripolines  so  much  outsailing  us — 
namely,  our  ships  being  pestered  with  cabins,2  an  evil  which 
his  Majesty  hath  long  paid  dearly  for,  and  is  very  worthy 
your  taking  severe  notice  of  and  causing  to  be  rectified.' 

His  Majesty  doth  take  notice  of  the  great  care  he  has 
taken  in  his  instructions  to  his  commanders  that  they  spend 

1  Commander  of  the  Harwich  [2563].     D.  N.  B.  xxxi.  109. 
a  A  new  establishment  of  cabins  had  been  adopted  by  an  order  of 
16  Oct.  1673.     See  i.  189-192,  supra. 

K  2 


1 32  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS        Nov. 

not  time  uselessly  in  port.  '  It  is  with  infinite  reluctancy 
and  grief  that  the  pains  which  I  in  my  own  particular 
have  taken  ever  since  I  had  the  honour  to  serve  the  king 
in  this  post  in  relation  to  that  very  circumstance  [2435, 
2438]  have  succeeded  no  better  than  to  have  such  an 
instance l  at  this  day  given  us  of  the  liberty  taken  by 
commanders  in  that  particular.' 

Hopes  there  will  be  no  want  of  victuals  ;  shall  press 
Sir  Thomas  Clutterbuck2  for  providing  timely  further  sup- 
plies, '  as  well  knowing  how  much  the  success  of  this  war 
depends  upon  the  steadiness  of  your  supplies  at  Malta,  and 
how  unhappy  the  whole  affair  must  be  if  you  should  be 
driven  to  fetch  them  from  Livorne,  especially  under  the 
ill  usage  the  king's  ships  at  present  receive  from  that 
place '  [2279]. 

He  is  to  inquire  into  the  occasion  of  the  Diamond's 
long  stay  from  him.  As  Sir  John  Berry3  in  the  Bristol, 
together  with  Captain  Carter 4  in  the  Swan,  are  likely  to  be 
very  soon  at  Livorne  with  the  fish  ships  under  their 
convoy  from  Newfoundland,  they  are  left  to  his  disposal 
if  he  shall  think  fit  to  keep  them  with  him. 

Underwritten :  Duplicate  sent  to  Livorne,  22  Nov.,  and 
another  1 3  Dec.  per  the  Katharine,  a  merchant  ship,  Mr.  Andrews, 
master,  bound  to  Malta. 

2620.  [p.  287.]    i  $Nov.   'Sent  to  Livorne  with  Sir  John 
Narbrough's'    [2619].     .S.   P.   to    Captain    Story,6  of  the 
Portsmouth. — The  king  and  lords  desire  that  he  will  lose 
no  time  in  refitting  for  sea,  'his  Majesty's  service  having 
already  too  much  suffered  since  the  present  breach  with 
Tripoli  by  the  liberty  taken  by  some  commanders  of  his 
ships   of  going  in  and  continuing  in    port   unnecessarily 
[2435,  2438],  to  his    Majesty's  and  my  lords  of  the  ad- 
miralty's great  displeasure,  which  I  doubt  not  but  you  will 
be  always  careful  to  avoid.' 

Underwritten  :  Duplicate  to  Livorne,  22  Nov. 

2621.  [p.  287.]    i$Nov.  '  Sent  as  before '  [2620].    6".  P 

1  I.e.  as  that  of  Captain  Killigrew. 

2  Victualler  for  the  Mediterranean.     See  ii.  236  n.  supra. 

3  See  note  to  No.  2274.  4  See  note  to  No.  2268. 
5  See  note  to  No.  2304. 


i6;s  FOURTH   VOLUME  133 

to  Captain   Trevanion?  of  the  Yarmouth.     \To  the  same 
effect  as  the  preceding^ 

Underwritten  :  Duplicate  as  before  [2620], 

2622.  [p.  288.]     1 5  Nov.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Thomas  Clutter- 
buck?  at  Livorne. — Thanks  for  his  advices  of  the  king's 
ships  that   have  been  in  his   port.     Presses  him  to  give 
all  despatch  to  what  ships  shall  come  there  for  refitting, 
and  desires  him  to  send  the  enclosed  letters  [2619,  2620, 
2621]. 

2623.  [p.  288.]     15  Nov.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  St.  Michel?  at 
Deal. — Desires  him  to  deliver  the  enclosed  letters  to  the 
commanders  of  several  ships  expected  in  the  Downs  from 
the  Straits  and  Tangier. 

2624.  [p.  2 8 1.4]     17  Nov.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board— 
Has  spoke  to  Captain  Perriman  5  of  what  they  wrote  in 
theirs  of  12  Oct.     'But  being  above  all  things  jealous  of 
having  any  neglect,  either  of  the  king's  service  or  your 
orders,  shrouded  under  any  pretences  within  my  power  to 
prevent  or  remove,  I  desire  that  in  case  he  hath  not  dis- 
charged himself  of  the  blame  your  said  letter  of  1 2  Oct. 
seems  to  lay  upon  him,  you  will  please  to  let  me  know  it, 
that  I  may  do  what  shall  be  my  further  duty  touching  the 
same.' 

2625.  [p.   289.]      18  Nov.     S.   P.  to  Captain  Jenifer, 
Saudados,6  in  the  Downs. — Doubts  not  but  redress  will  be 
obtained  for  the  English  master  he  speaks  in  his  of  the 
1 7th.     As  to  his  of  the  1 5th,  his  not  being  gratified  in  what 
he  desires  proceeds  from  no  want  of  kindness  in  the  writer 
but  a  compliance  with  the  occasions  of  the  king's  service. 

2626.  [p.  289.]     1 8  Nov.     S.  P.  to  Captain  LassellsJ 
Garland,   at   Sheerness. — Has   received   his  of  the    i6th, 
having   for   several   days  looked    for  notice  of  his  being 
arrived  at  Sheerness,  both  the  king  and  lords  expecting  it 
in  order  to  his  being  immediately  refitted  for  transporting 
some  soldiers  to  Tangier  [2637].     To  use  all  endeavours 
for  his  despatch. 

1  See  note  to  No.  2304. 

2  Victualler  for  the  Mediterranean.    See  ii.  236  n.  supra. 

3  See  note  to  No.  2387.  4  Out  of  order  in  the  MS. 

5  Probably  Captain  John  Perriman,  the  master  attendant  at  Sheer- 
ness.     See  ii.  50  n.  supra. 

6  See  ii.  9  n.  supra.  7  See  note  to  No.  2181. 


134  ADMIRALTY  LEISTERS        Nov. 

2627.  [p.  290.]     19  Nov.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Clements, 
Greyhound,  at  Sheerness. — Leave  to  come  to  town  for  4 
days. 

2628.  [p.  290.]     20  Nov.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Tyte,1  Rich- 
mond yacht. — In  his  present  voyage  to  Dieppe,  he  is  to 
give  passage  to  Madame  Le  Roy  and  one  person   more 
with  her  [2645]. 

2629.  [p.  291.]     21  Nov.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Finn?  of 
the  Cleveland  yacht,  at  Greenwich. — To   accompany  the 
Charles  yacht  [2630]  in  the  trial  which  Captain  Fasby  is  to 
make  of  her  sailing,  working,  and  other  qualities. 

2630.  [p.  291.]     21  Nov.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Fasby,  of 
the  Charles  yacht,b  at  Greenwich.     He  is  to  fall  down  with 
his  yacht  to  the  buoy  of  the  Nore  or  thereabouts,  in  order 
to   his   making   the    most  effectual   proof  he   can  of  her 
'  working,    sailing,   and    other    qualities/    improving    his 
passage  down  and  back  again  in  the  best  manner  he  can 
towards  the  end  aforesaid  and   reporting  the  same  to  his 
Majesty  at  his  return. 

2631.  [p.  297.*]     22  Nov.     'Sent  to  Livorne   in    Mr. 
Secretary  Coventry's 5  packet.'     S.  P.  to  Sir  John  Nar- 
brougli* — '  His  Majesty  and    my  lords   of  the  admiralty 
have  been  of  late  greatly  alarmed  by  some  advices  touch- 
ing  a   breach   like   to   happen   between  us  and  those   of 
Argeir,  by  the  mediation  of  the  Dutch,  who  are  said  to  be 
at  this  time  soliciting  for  a  peace  for  themselves  to  the 
prejudice  of  ours,  which,  if  it  should  happen,  may  occasion 
a  great  increase  of  charge  to  the  king,  but  must  be  gone 
through  with  the  best  husbandry  that  we  can.' 

Underwritten :  Duplicate  1 3  Dec.  by  the  Katharine,  a  merchant 
vessel  in  the  Downs,  bound  to  Malta. 

2632.  [p.  292.]     24  Nov.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Hayter?  at  the 
navy  office. — Went  to  the  duke  this  morning  to  gain  his 
assistance,  but  found  that  upon  the  removal  of  Mr.  Betts, 
and  the  intercession  of  Sir  John  Tippetts 8  and  Sir  Anthony 
Deane,0  he  had  promised  the  next  vacancy  of  the  caulker's 
place  at  Portsmouth  to  Mr.  Medbury  ;  but  the  writer  hopes 

1  See  ii.  375  n.  supra.  2  See  No.  2561. 

3  See  No.  2562.  4  Out  of  order  in  the  MS. 

5  D.  N.  B.  xii.  357.  ,          6  Ibid.  xl.  89. 

7  See  note  to  No.  2102.  s  See  note  to  No.  2530. 

9  See  note  to  No.  2403. 


1675  FOURTH   VOLUME  135 

to  serve  his  kinsman  Mr.  Evans  in  somewhat  else  that  may 
befit  him. 

2633.  [p.  292.]     24  Nov.     S.  P.  to  Commissioner  Beach,1 
at  Chatham. — Having  understood  that  upon  the  submission 
of  Mr.  Brouncker,  purser  of  the  Unicorn,  he  had  thought 
fit  to  pass  by  his  misbehaviour  at  that  time  [2225],  the 
writer  yet  thought  it  his  duty  after  6  months'  trial  which 
he  has  now  had  of  his  amendment  to  ask  how  he  hath 
behaved  himself  since  that  time,  desiring  him  impartially 
to  enable  him  to  give  the  king  and  lords  a  true  account 
of  it  [2698],  'as   being   resolved  to  omit  nothing  in  my 
place  to  do  towards  the  improvement  of  the  discipline  and 
manners   of   the   navy,  as   long   as   I   shall   be  thought 
worthy  of  serving  his  Majesty  in  it '  [2743]. 

2634.  [p.  293.]     24  Nov.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Pitt,  clerk 
[of  the]  control  at  Portsmouth. — Desires  to  know  whether 
he  continues  to  ask  his  removal  from  his  present  employ- 
ment to  a  purser's  place  of  a  great  ship.     '  This  I  do  pro- 
pose the  rather  to  you  for  that  I  do  not  see  any  great 
probability  of  the  king's  being  in  a  condition  to  enlarge 
salaries,  though  truly  I  should  as  soon  give  my  advice  for 
it  in  your  case  as  in  the  case  of  any  person  in  the  navy,  so 
much  do  I  consider  the  length  of  your  service,  with  your 
great  industry  and  experience  in  it,  and  the  charge  you 
have  in  family  to  support  by  it.' 

2635.  [p.  293.]     24  Nov.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Clements, 
Greyhound,  at  Sheerness. — Has  received  his  of  the  i9th. 

2636.  [p.  294.]     24  Nov.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Burgess,  store- 
keeper at  Woolwich. — It  has  not  been  from  unmindfulness 
but  from  the  mislaying  of  a  paper  that  the  writer  has  no 
sooner  taken  notice  to  him  of  an  information  of  22  April 
sent  him  from  the  officers  of  the  navy  about  his  having 
without  order  lent  a  cable  out  of  his  Majesty's  stores  to 
one  John  Bugby,  master  of  a  merchantman,  and  continued 
the  loan  of  it  even  after  his  having  entered  it  returned 
upon  his  books.     Knows  his  Royal  Highness's  particular 
goodwill  to  him,  and  recollects   that  Sir  John  Werden 2 
did  say  something  in  his  behalf,  but  '  I  cannot,  either  in 
duty  to  his  Highness,  faithfulness  to  the  king,  or  friend- 

1  Resident  commissioner  of  the  navy  at  Chatham. 

2  Commissioner  of  the  navy  (i.  40,  supra}  and  secretary  to  the 
Duke  of  York  (D.  N.  B.  Ix.  295). 


136  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS        Nov. 

ship  to  you,  upon  the  papers  coming  again  this  day  to  my 
view,  omit  (though  late)  to  take  this  notice  of  it  to  you, 
with  my  advice  that  you  will  upon  no  consideration  what- 
soever adventure  upon  any  practice  like  this  again.' 

2637.  [p.  295.]     24  Nov.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Lassells? 
Garland,  at  Sheerness. — The  king  and  lords  do  not  think 
fitting  to  make  him  any  addition  of  men  and  guns,  in 
regard  his  ship  is  designed  only  to  carry  some  recruits  of 
soldiers  to  Tangier,  and  immediately  to  return  back  again. 
The  number  of  soldiers  is  120  [2723] ;  desires  to  hear  from 
him  if  he  has  not  convenience  for  the  stowage  of  so  many. 

2638.  [p.  295.]     24  Nov.     S.  P.  to  Mr.Joynes,  marshal 
of  the   admiralty. — The   lords    having    understood    that 
Richard   Collier,  the   seaman   lately  committed  into  his 
custody,  is  dead,  desire  to  know  the  truth  of  it  and  the 
occasion  of  his  death. 

2639.  [p.  296.]     24  Nov.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Perriman? 
master   attendant  at    Sheerness. — Acquaints   him   of  an 
information  come  against  him  [2653]  that, 'to  the  entire 
defeating  the  king  and  my  lords  of  the  admiralty  of  the 
fruits  of  all  that  care  and  circumspection  which  has  been 
by  them  taken  towards  the  preventing  the  manifold  frauds 
to  which  the  granting  of  passes  is  subject,  you  have  found 
out  a  way  of  giving  certificates  upon  surveys  by  you  pre- 
tended to   be  made  on  ships  lying  in   the  River,  whilst 
either  no  such  ships  are  at  all,  or  if  they  be  they  are  not 
actually  in  the  River,  but  abroad,  out  of  your  power  to 
have  any  survey  upon  ;  and  that  as  an  instance  thereof  you 
did  by  such  a  certificate,  bearing  date  19  Oct.  last,  mislead 
my  lords  to  the  granting  a  pass  to  a  ship  called  the  Town 
of  Newcastle,  Leonard  Williamson,  master,  which  is  said 
not  only  not  to  have  been  at  that  time  in  the  River,  but 
that  upon  that  score  a  pass  had  been  denied  to  her,  and 
would  still  have  been  so  had  not  you  been  prevailed  with 
to  give  a  certificate  for  her  as  if  she  had  been  at  Gravesend 
and  there  been  surveyed  by  you.'     Desires  an  answer  from 
him  in  time  for  the  meeting  of  the  lords  on  Saturday  next 

[2752]. 

2640.  [p.  297.]    26  Nov.   S.  P.  to  Sir  Martin  Wescombe? 

1  See  note  to  No  2181. 

*  See  note  to  No.  2752,  infra,  and  ii.  50;;.  supra. 

3  Consul  at  Cadiz  [1553]. 


1675  FOURTH   VOLUME  137 

at  Cadiz. — Prays  him  to  send  the  enclosed  packet  to  Mr. 
Phineas  Bowles  1  at  Tangier. 

2641.  [p.  297.]    27  Nov.    S.  P.  to  Captain  Lassel/s,2  Gar- 
land, at  Sheerness. — Leave  to  come  to  town  for  2  or  3  days. 

2642.  [p.  298.]     27  Nov.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Shales?  at 
my  lord  treasurer's.4 — Those  servants  of  the  duke's  which 
have  heretofore  solicited  the  lords  touching  the  matter  in 
difference  between  him  and  them,  have  become  very  soli- 
citous again  in  their  attendance  on  the  lords,  and  particu- 
larly Lord  Craven,5  about  it,  and  the  lords  have  committed 
to  the  writer  the  care  of  accommodating  the  difference  if 
he  can  [2764].     Prays  an  opportunity  to  speak  with  him 
about  it. 

2643.  [p.  298.]     27  Nov.     S.  P.  to  the  Right  Honour- 
able Ralph  Montagu?  Esquire. — A  yacht  will  be  at  Calais 
on  the  day  he  directs  [2949].     Presumes  that  he  will  let 
the  Conde  de  Castel  Melhor 7  be  informed  thereof  that  he 
may  not  fail  of  meeting  her  [2652],  the  time  limited  by  his 
Majesty  for  the  attendance  of  his  yachts  on  these  occasions 
not  exceeding  4  days. 

2644.  [p.  299.]      29  Nov.      S.  P.  to  Captain  Jenifer, 
Saudados,8  in  the  Downs. — Will  take  the  pleasure  of  the 
king  and  lords  touching  his  exercising  the  place  of  com- 
mander-in-chief  in  the  Downs,  but  first  desires  '  an  answer 
to  these  two  or  three  queries  :  '  First,  whether  this  be  the 
first  and  only  occasion  of  your  answering  salutes  in  the 
Downs ;  Next,  how  far  you  have  understood  it  to  be  the 
right  of  the  eldest  captain  (only  upon  the  score  of  seniority) 
to  set  the  watch  and  answer  salutes  in  the  Downs,  several 
instances  lying  within  my  memory  where  not  the  seniority 
of  the  commander  but  the  rate  and  quality  of  the  ship  hath 
been  the  rule  of  precedence  in  this  matter ;  and  Lastly, 

1  Paymaster  of  the  garrison  at  Tangier  [2587], 

2  See  note  to  No.  2181.  3  See  i.  73-4  and  79,  supra. 
4  The  Earl  of  Danby.    See  D.  N.  B.  xlii.  296. 

*  On  William  Craven,  Earl  of  Craven,  see  D.  N.  B.  xiii.  43.  He 
had  been  appointed  one  of  the  lords  of  the  admiralty,  28  July,  1675 
(i.  39,  supra). 

u  Afterwards  Duke  of  Montagu.  He  was  master  of  the  great 
wardrobe,  and  had  been  admitted  to  the  Privy  Council  2  Jan.  1672 
(D.  N.  B.  xxxviii.  263). 

7  MS.  '  Castell  Melior.'  On  this  Portuguese  statesman  see 
Michaud,  Biog.  Univ.  vii.  157.  8  See  ii.  qn.  supra. 


i38  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS        Nov. 

by  what  measure  you  answer  salutes  as  to  the  number 
of  guns,  and  how  you  have  proceeded  in  the  present  case 
or  any  other  (if  any  other  hath  lately  happened  in  the 
Downs),  your  standing  instructions  being  very  express  in 
this  point,  as  you  will  find  in  the  39th  article  thereof 
[2648,  2658]. 

2645.  [p.  299.]     29  Nov.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Tyte,1  Rich- 
mond yacht,  in  the  Downs. — When  at  Dieppe  [2628],  to 
give  the  Earl  of  Stafford  z  passage  to  England. 

2646.  [p.  300.]     29  Nov.     S.  P.  to  the  Governors  of  the 
Chest  at  Chatham. — To  examine  the  bearer,  Richard  Ashley, 
about  his  having  any  right  to  a  pension  from  the  Chest  for 
his  hurts  received  at  sea  in  his  Majesty's  service.3 

2647.  [p.  300.]     29  Nov.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board. — 
Desires  them  to  examine  the  enclosed  petition  from  Mary 
Jenkins,  widow  of  Lieutenant  Francis  Jenkins,  and  report 
to  the  lords.     Doubts  there  is  a  mistake  in  it,  '  it  seeming 
very  uneasy  to  imagine  how  3OO/.  can  become  due  to  a 
lieutenant  for  service  at  sea  within  the  wars  mentioned.' 

2648.  [p.  301.]     29  Nov.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Dickenson* 
of  the  Hunter,  in  the  Downs. — Is  mightily  surprised  at 
what  he  writes  touching  Captain  Jenifer's  taking  upon  him 
to  answer   salutes    in  a   manner   different  from  constant 
usage  and  standing  instructions.     Has  written  to  him  for 
an  account  of  his  proceeding  and  the  ground  of  it  [2644, 
2658].     Desires   to   know  whether   either  he  or  Captain 
Jenifer  '  do  wear  the  pennant  of  distinction  which  was  some 
time  since  appointed  by  his  Majesty  and  my  lords  to  be 
lodged  at  Deal  and  to  be  worn  by  the  ship  of  his  Majesty's 
that  should  from  time  to  time  command  in  chief  in  the 
Downs'  [1956,  2480]. 

2649.  [p.   301.]      30  Nov.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Jenifer, 
Saudados,5  in  the  Downs. — The  king  and  lords  are  greatly 
satisfied  with  his  proceedings 6  towards  the  Dutch  admiral. 

1  See  ii.  375  //.  supra. 

3  Presumably  William  Howard,  Viscount  Stafford,  the  victim  or 
the  Popish  plot  (D.  N.  B.  xxviii.  81).  The  earldom  of  Stafford  was  re- 
vived in  1688  for  his  son. 

3  See  i.  139,  supra.  4  See  Nos.  2658  and  2683. 

5  See  ii.  9  n.  supra.  MS.  usually  '  Suadadoes,'  as  here,  but 
sometimes  'Suadades.' 

"  The  margin  refers  to  these  proceedings  as  '  about  the  men  aboard 
the  Dutch  admiral.' 


i6/5  FOURTH    VOLUME  139 

Has  taken  care  also  to  confer  with  Sir  Leoline  Jenkins,1 
the  judge  of  the  admiralty,  about  it,  whose  opinion  is  that 
his  proceedings  are  in  the  main  most  justifiable,  both  by 
his  particular  instructions,  the  ancient  practice  of  this 
nation,  and  the  general  law  of  all  nations. 

2650.  [p.  302.]    30  Nov.    S.  P.  to  Mr.  St.  John  Steven- 
ton^  Mayor  of  Portsmouth. — The  king  is  very  well  satisfied 
with  his  proceedings.     This  unhappy  accident 2  falling  out 
upon  the  sea,  the  writer  presumes  it  must  be  tried  by  a 
court-martial  [2651,  2659]. 

2651.  [p.  302.]     30  Nov.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Ridley?  of 
the  Wivenhoe,  at  Portsmouth. — The  king  finds  no  cause  of 
being  dissatisfied  with  his  proceedings.     Upon  receipt  of 
the   result   of  his  and  the   mayor's   examinations  [2650, 
2659],  the  writer  will  send  him  further  commands  from  the 
king  ;  meanwhile  he  is  to  secure  Northall  until  he  be  dis- 
charged by  law,  which  he  supposes  will  be  by  sentence  of 
a  court-martial.     Desires  him  to  explain  what  he  says  of 
Northall's  '  being  weak-sighted  by  reason  of  his  toiling  in 
a  laboratory,  you  seeming  to  desire  from  thence  that  his 
killing   the   carpenter   of  the    Oxford  should  be  judged 
accidental,  whereas  the  former  part  of  your  letter  and  the 
whole  tenor  of  the  mayor's  would  have  it  that  it  was  in 
performance  of  his  duty  and  obedience  to  your  orders.' 

2652.  [p.    303.]      I    Dec.     S.   P.    to    Captain   Fasby? 
Charles  yacht,  at  Greenwich. — The  Portugal  ambassador 
having   given   advice   this   morning   that   the    Conde   de 
Castel  Melhor 5  is  fallen  sick,  he  is  not  to  go  to  Calais  to 
fetch  him  [2643]. 

2653.  [p.  303.]     I  Dec.     S.  P.  to   Captain  Perriman, 
surveyor  of  ships    for    enabling   the   granting   of  passes 
[2558]. — What    he    lately   wrote    about    the   information 
[2639]  is  asserted  absolutely ;  prays  to  speak  with   him 
about  it. 

2654.  [p.  304.]     i  Dec.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  John  Gold,  mer- 
chant.— Has  taken  care  of  his  commands  and  committed 
them  to  Sir  John  Narbrough  [2671],  the  king  and  lords 

1  D.  N.  B.  xxix.  302. 

5  The  margin  refers  to  these  proceedings  as  '  about  the  man  killed 
by  the  guard-ship.' 

s  See  note  to  No.  2418.  4  See  No.  2562. 

5  MS.  'Castell  Meglior.' 


140  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS        Dec. 

being  in  the  utmost  degree  solicitous  for  his  safety  in  this 
particular  case,  as  in  all  other  things  conducing  to  the 
benefit  of  trade. 

2655.  [p.  304.]    I  Dec.    Summons  for  Captain  Stephen 
Pyend,  late  commander  of  the  Ruby,  and  John  Brome,  his 
purser,  to  attend  the  lords  at  9  on  Saturday  morning,  the 
time  appointed  for  hearing  the  business  of  William  Bed- 
ford, now  prisoner  in  the  Gatehouse. 

2656.  [p.  304.]     I  Dec.     Summons  for  William  White, 
James  Alleburton,  Robert  Downes,  and  George  Ash,  at 
Bedford's  request,  to  give  evidence  on  his  behalf  [2655]. 

2657.  [p.  305.]     i  Dec.     S.  P.  to  the  Collector  or  Chief 
Officer  of  the  Customs  at  Dover. — To  survey  the  ship  called 
the  Nativity  of  Christ,   now  said  to   be   in   the   Downs 
[2610]. 

2658.  [p.    305.]     2    Dec.     S.   P.   to    Captain  Jenifer, 
Saudados,1  in  the  Downs. — Will  communicate  his  answer 
to  the  queries    [2644]  to  the  king  and    lords,  not  being 
desirous  to  interfere  in  the  difference  between  him  and 
Captain  Dickenson  [2648]  further  than  he  has  their  order 
to  do  [2683],     Will  acquaint  the  king  with  the  ill  condition 
of  his  ship  ;  believes  he  will  order  her  to  Deptford  either 
to  be  refitted  or  paid  off. 

2659.  [p.   306.]      2    Dec.      S.   P.  to  Captain  Ridley, 
Wivenhoe    fireship,    at    Portsmouth. — Has    received    his 
examinations  '  as  well  of  the  ship's  company  as  the  boat's 
crew  wherein  the  man  was  slain'  [2650,  2651].     Supposes 
a  habeas  corpus  will  issue  from  the  judge  of  the  admiralty 
for  bringing  his  mate  to  a  trial  according  to  the  law  of 
the  admiralty  [2666],  which  the  writer  hopes  will  acquit 
the  said  mate  and  his  whole  company  as  having  acted  in 
pursuance  of  their  duty. 

Margin :  '  A  habeas  corpus  will  shortly  be  sent  for  Northall.' 

2660.  [p.  306.]     2  Dec.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Steventon,  Mayor 
of  Portsmouth. — Has  received  the  examinations   [2659]. 
Doubts  not  a  habeas  corpus  will  be  sent  him  for  delivering 
his  prisoner  to  the  admiralty  [2666]. 

2661.  [p.  307.]     2  Dec.      S.  P.  to  Captain  Dickenson, 
Hunter,    Downs. — Will    communicate    his    and    Captain 
Jenifer's  letters  to  the  king  and  lords  [2658].     Orders  will 

1  Sec  ii.  9 ;/.  supra. 


1675  FOURTH    VOLUME  141 

be  given  for  supplying  him  with  2  months'  victuals  from 
Dover. 

2662.  [p.  307.]    3  Dec.    S,  P.  to  Mr.  Shisk,1  Sheerness. 
— Is  glad  to  hear  of  the  forwardness  of  the  Garland.   There 
seems  to  have  been  some  time  lost  in  the  ship's  stay  8  days 
from  her  first  coming  in  to  the  taking  out  of  her  powder, 
guns,  and  ballast. 

2663.  [p.  308.]     3  Dec.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— 
Pursuant  to  a  dormant  order  of  the  lords,  the  writer  de- 
sires their  warrant  to  the  officers  at  Deptford  for  supply- 
ing the  master  joiner  there  with  so  much  wainscot  and  other 
materials   as  shall  be  necessary  for  making  two  presses 
for  the  use  of  this  office  for  holding  books  and  papers. 

2664.  [p.  308.]     4  Dec.     The  same  to  the  same. — Desires 
to  know  in  which  yards  the  Newcastle,  Roebuck,  and  Hen- 
rietta should  be  laid  up. 

2665.  [p.  308.]     7  Dec.     The  same  to  the  same. — The 
Anne  yacht  being  ordered  to  transport  the  corpse  of  the 
late  Lord  Widdrington  to  Widdrington  to  the  northward 
of  Newcastle,2  for  which  voyage  at  this  time  of  year  Cap- 
tain Gunman's  sails  are  not  safe,  the  writer  desires  them 
to  furnish  her  with  some  if  they  think  it  necessary. 

2666.  [p.  309.]     7   Dec.      S.   P.    to    Captain    Ridley, 
Wivenhoe  fireship,  at  Portsmouth. — Hopes  to  send  him  a 
warrant  for  the  removal  of  his  mate  in  a  day  or  two  [2659, 
2660],  and  will  see  how  far  he  may  be  bailable  till  a  court- 
martial    can   be    called,  which   for  want   of  a   sufficient 
number  of  commanders  here  in  sea  pay  cannot  be  presently 
had  ;  '  and  very  great  pity  it  is  that  being  so  good  a  man 
as  you  describe  him  he  should  remain  under  any  unneces- 
sary charge  for  a  crime  that  arose  from  the  execution  of 
his  duty  ;  but,  on  the  other  hand,  the  death  of  one  of  his 
Majesty's  subjects  must  also  be  duly  inquired  into,  and 
therefore  some  inconvenience  must  be  borne  with  by  him ' 
[2748]. 

1  Mr.  John  Shish,  master-shipwright  at  Sheerness.  See  ii.  339  ». 
sufra. 

8  The  date  of  Lord  Widdrington's  death  is  usually  given  as  1676 
(e.g.  Burke,  Dormant  and  Extinct  Peerages,  p.  583)  :  this  letter  fixes 
the  date  more  accurately.  His  burial  at  Widdrington  was  in  accord- 
ance with  the  directions  in  his  will.  At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was 
governor  of  Berwick-on-Tweed  (Cal.  S.  P.  Dom.  1675-6,  p.  450). 


142  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS        Dec. 

2667.  [p.  309.]     7  Dec.     S.  P.  to  Colonel  Piper,  deputy- 
governor,  Plymouth. — Desires  him  to  send  the  enclosed 
on  board  the  Mary  Rose  on  her  arrival  at  Plymouth,  where 
she  is  directed  to  call  for  orders  in  her  return  from  Tangier. 

2668.  [p.  310.]      8   Dec.      'Sent  with  Sir  John    Nar- 
brough's  of  the  I3th'  [2671].     S.  P.  to  Sir  John  Berry  ^ 
commander  of  the  Bristol,  before  Tripoli. — The  king  and 
lords  have  taken  very  great  notice  of  the  punctuality  of 
his  inquiries  in  what  relates  to  the  public  concerns  of  the 
fishery  at  Newfoundland,  conducing  to  the  rectifying  so 
important  a  mistake  as  the  advice  of  some  particular  mer- 
chants seems  to  have  occasioned  touching  that  affair.     The 
proper  use  will  also  be  made  of  his  information  touching 
the  liberty  taken  by  the  merchants'  vessels  to  quit  their 
convoy.     Thanks  for  his  information  from  Malaga  about 
English  subjects  fathering  foreign  ships, '  the  consequence 
whereof  is  very  much   apprehended,  it  giving  the  Turks 
too  just  an  occasion  of  a  new  rupture  with  us  when   it 
shall  seem  seasonable  on  their  parts  to  make  it.'   The  king 
and  lords  '  have  taken  the  greatest  care  that  is  possible 
for  the  preventing  it  by  bringing  the  method  of  granting 
passes  to  a  much  greater  strictness  than  ever  hitherto  hath 
been  practised  [2514],  and  are  desirous  of  adding  anything 
else  that  can  be  hinted  to  them  for  the  further  prevention 
of  this  evil.' 

Sends  him  copies  of  his  orders  to  find  out  and  join  Sir 
John  Narbrough." 

2669.  [p.  3io.3]     10  Dec.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— 
Mr.  Gregory,  clerk  of  the  check  at  Chatham,  for  reasons  of 
health  desires  leave  to  take  the  benefit  of  his  patent,  by 
which  he  hath  power  given  him  of  executing  his  said  em- 
ployment by  deputy,  and  propounds  William  Brown  as  his 
deputy,  who  hath  been  employed  under  him  therein  for 
1 1  years  past,  and  for  whose  future  performance  of  his  em- 
ployment as  a  deputy  he  is  ready  to  stand  accountable. 
Desires  their  opinion. 

2670.  [p.  3 1 1.]     13  Dec.    S.  P.  to  Mr.  Colston, consul  at 
Malaga. — Desires   his   continued  care  about  commanders 
putting  into  ports  and  staying  there  contrary  to  order  [2438, 

1  See  note  to  No.  2274.  *  D.  N.  B.  xl.  89. 

*  Out  of  order  in  the  MS. 


i6;5  FOURTH   VOLUME  143 

2566],  as  he  has  done  in  his  of  12  Nov.  with  reference  to 
the  Bristol  and  Quaker  ketch,  '  there  being  not  one  par- 
ticular in  the  whole  business  of  the  navy  for  which  his 
Majesty  and  my  lords  of  the  admiralty  seem  more  (or 
more  reasonably)  concerned.' 

2671.  [p.  312.]  13  Dec.  '  Sent  by  the  Katharine,  John 
Andrews,  master,  a  merchant  ship  bound  directly  to  Malta 
and  so  forward.'  .S.  P.  to  Sir  John  Narbrough^  before 
Tripoli. — Sends  a  copy  of  the  observations  contained  in  a 
letter  of  17  Nov.  from  the  officers  of  the  navy,  'touching 
the  expiring  of  the  victualling  upon  the  ships  under  your 
command  much  sooner  than  by  their  calculation  they 
ought  to  have  done  upon  a  presumption  of  the  said  ships 
observing  a  practice  time  out  of  mind  constantly  used  in 
the  king's  navy,  of  putting  their  company  to  short  allowance 
as  soon  as  they  come  out  of  the  Channel.'  The  king  and 
lords  direct  that  for  the  future  this  be  put  in  practice  ; 
what  moneys  shall  be  wanting  for  satisfying  the  seamen 
for  the  same  shall  be  remitted  to  him. 

Sends  also  a  copy  of  what  by  another  letter  of  25  Nov. 
the  officers  of  the  navy  have  noted  '  touching  the  ill  con- 
dition wherein  the  commanders  of  the  Swallow,  Portsmouth, 
and  Yarmouth  have  complained  to  you  of  their  ships 
being  fitted  forth,  which  complaint  being,  as  the  officers  of 
the  navy  report,  wholly  groundless,  and  therefore  to  be 
feared  arising  from  the  remissness  of  commanders  in 
making  their  personal  inspection  upon  the  state  of  their 
stores  and  provisions,  as  by  their  instructions  they  are 
expressly  required,  his  Majesty  and  their  lordships  are 
pleased  to  agree  with  what  the  officers  of  the  navy  pro- 
pound in  your  being  directed  to  cause  a  present  and  strict 
survey  to  be  taken  of  the  state  of  each  of  the  said  ships' 
remains  of  stores  and  provisions  when  they  shall  come 
within  your  reach,  viewing  their  respective  boatswain's, 
carpenter's,  and  purser's  indents  at  their  going  hence,  and 
taking  an  account  of  what  further  supplies  they  have 
received  abroad,  and  overlooking  their  expense  and  the 
grounds  thereof;  it  seeming  very  reasonable  that  this 
should  be  done,  forasmuch  as,  among  other  reasons,  it  is 
very  unlikely  ever  to  prevent  the  great  evil  under  which 

1  D  N.B.  xl.  89 


i44  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS        Dec. 

his  Majesty's  service  hath  so  long  laboured  of  commanders 
going  so  often  into  and  spending  so  much  time  in  port, 
while  their  pretences  thereto  by  want  of  stores  and  pro- 
visions shall  be  admitted  without  examination,  and  this 
also  notwithstanding  the  expressness  of  their  instructions 
in  the  4th  article  thereof,  by  which  they  are  bound  to 
make  complaint  before  their  going  out  of  port  to  the 
officers  of  the  navy,  with  condition  of  taking  upon  them- 
selves the  whole  blame  of  whatever  the  king's  service  shall 
afterwards  suffer  through  their  going  to  sea,  either  without 
the  full  of  their  stores,  or  with  stores  unfit  for  service,  such 
as  the  commanders  of  these  ships  appear  to  have  so  largely 
reported  their  sails  and  other  stores  to  have  been.' 

The  king  and  lords  have  been  for  some  time  in  a  special 
manner  concerned  for  'the  numerous  reports  which  they 
daily  receive  of  the  liberty  taken  by  the  king's  subjects  to 
put  themselves  into  strangers'  ships,  and  by  virtue  of  their 
being  English  and  presuming  to  wear  English  colours,  not 
only  offer  great  wrong  to  our  English  navigation,  but 
administer  just  matter  of  offence  to  the  Turks  with  whom 
we  are  in  amity,  which  whenever  they  shall  think  season- 
able may  be  employed  to  the  justifying  a  breach  of  peace 
with  us.'  Desires  him  to  consider  any  means  to  prevent 
this,  particularly  in  putting  commanders  in  mind  of  the 
36th  article  of  their  instructions, '  by  which  they  are  com- 
manded to  take  out  of  any  foreign  merchant-ships  such  of 
his  Majesty's  subjects  as  shall  be  found  serving  therein.' 

'  The  last  matter  which  I  have  in  like  command  to 
note  to  you  is  what  ariseth  from  the  daily  solicitations  of 
our  merchants  with  his  Majesty  for  the  securing  of  trade 
in  the  Levant,  now  become  more  doubtful  by  reason  of 
the  Tripolines'  ships  being  abroad  '  .  .  .  '  to  recommend 
to  you  the  3  ships  named  in  the  margin,  about  which  some 
merchants  of  note  have  been  suitors  to  the  king,  declaring 
that  they  would  probably  be  ready  to  depart  Scanderoon 
in  all  January  next  richly  laden,  .  .  .  and  that  you  may 
understand  in  a  more  particular  manner  the  present  solici- 
tousness  of  the  merchants  for  their  ships  in  the  Levant,  I 
herein  trouble  you  with  a  copy  of  a  letter  wrote  me  on 
that  behalf  by  Mr.  John  Gold,1  merchant  [2654],  of  24  Nov. 

1  MS. '  Gould. 


1675  FOURTH   VOLUME  145 

last.'  Has  lately  received  advice  that  the  Sapphire, 
Captain  Thomas  Harman,1  commander,  left  her  convoy  of 
merchant  ships  bound  to  Turkey  off  Cape  St.  Mary's,3 
with  purpose,  contrary  to  order,  to  visit  Cadiz,  promising 
his  convoy  to  meet  them  at  Malaga  ;  which  having  failed 
to  make  good  they  are  gone  without  him,  and  thereby 
exposed  to  all  the  danger  they  can  be  liable  to,  which 
though  they  do  escape,  yet  'so  enormous  is  this  liberty 
taken  by  captains  that  I  begin  to  despair  of  ever  seeing  it 
mastered  .  .  .  until  the  whole  business  of  carrying  money 
upon  any  pretence  be  entirely  taken  away ;  and  by  the 
grace  of  God  I  will  do  my  part  to  the  bringing  that 
about,  since  nothing  else  will  do  it.' 3  This  last  week  are 
come  home  the  Mary  Rose  and  Success,  the  lieutenant  of 
the  latter  full  of  complaints  of  his  commander,  and  some  of 
them  of  the  kind  now  mentioned,  he  having  put  in  at 
Cadiz  and  there  stayed  some  time  by  virtue  of  an  order, 
as  he  pretends,  from  the  Governor  of  Tangier. 

Margin:  Aleppine,  Martin,  Guinea. 

Underwritten :  Duplicate  sent  to  Livorne,  27  Dec.,  to  Sir 
Thomas  Clutterbuck.4 

2672.  [p.  315.]  13  Dec.  S.  P.  to  Mr.  Andrews,  master 
of  the  Katharine,  a  merchantman,  bound  to  Malta,  and 
thence  to  Sir  J[ohn]  N[arbrough]. — Desires  his  care  of 
the  enclosed  [2671], 

Postscript. — And  also  of  the  enclosed  to  Sir  John  Berry 
[2668]. 

2678.  [p.  315.]  13  Dec.  S.  P.  to  Mr.  St.  Michel?**. 
Deal. — To  deliver  the  enclosed  to  Captain  Andrews  [2672, 
2680]. 

2674.  [p.  3 1 6.]    13  Dec.    S.  P.  to  Captain  Lassells?  Gar- 
land, in  the  Hope. — Leave  to  come  to  town  for  2  or  3  days. 

2675.  [p.  316.]     14  Dec.     S.  P.   to   Colonel  Piper?  at 
Plymouth. — Desires  his  care  of  the  enclosed  to  the  com- 

1  See  note  to  No.  2379. 

2  A  point  on  the  Spanish  coast  east  of  Cape  St.  Vincent  and  west 
of  Cadiz. 

3  In  1686,  James  I  I's  'establishment  about  plate  carnage 'pro- 
hibited the  carrying  of  money   in   the  king's   ships   without   royal 
warrant  upon  any  pretext  whatever  (i.  21 1,  supra). 

4  Victualler  for  the  Mediterranean.     See  ii.  236  n.  supra. 

3  See  note  to  No.  2387.  6  See  note  to  No.  2181. 

7  Deputy-governor  of  Plymouth  [2667]. 
VOL.   III.  L 


146  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS         Dec. 

manders  of  the  Newcastle  and  Roebuck,  when  they  shall 
arrive  at  his  port. 

2676.  [p.  316.]     14  Dec.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Shish?  ship- 
wright, at  Sheerness. — Thanks  for  his  of  the  nth.     The 
Garland   is   arrived   in  the  Hope,  and  the  writer  doubts 
not  he  will  soon  hear  of  the  Greyhound's  being  in  the 
Downs. 

2677.  [p.  317.]     14  Dec.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Pett?  muster- 
master  at   Gravesend. — '  Knowing  very   well    how    little 
my  lords  of  the  admiralty  will  give  countenance  to   any 
of  the  king's  officers  in  the  navy  in  their  sheltering  them- 
selves from  doing  right  to  others  by  their  relation  to  the 
king's  service,'  the  writer   acquaints  him  of  the  demand 
which  is  made  of  I3/.  i6s.  by  Mrs.  Finch  in  right  of  the 
late  Captain  William  Finch,3  of  whom  about  3  years  since 
he  appears  by  a  note  under  his  hand  to  have  borrowed 
that  sum,  which  the  distress  he  hath  left  his  family  in  can 
very  uneasily  bear  any  longer  delay  of  satisfaction  for  from 
him.     Desires  him  to  enable  the  writer  by  a  line  or  two  of 
answer  to  let  Mrs.  Finch  know  what  she  is  to  expect  of 
him,  and  inform  the  lords  in  case  she  should  be  driven  to 
address  herself  to  them. 

2678.  [p.  317.]     15  Dec.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Coppoiv?  sent 
to  Gravesend. — To  stop  at  Gravesend  and  give  notice  of 
his  arrival  there,  that  he  may  receive  his  Majesty's  further 
directions  touching  the  disposal  he  is  there  to   make  of 
the  horses  brought  by  him  from  Cadiz  for  the  king's  par- 
ticular use. 

2679.  [p.  318.]     1 6  Dec.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Boyce,  master  of 
the  Half  Moon,  a  merchant  ship. — To  attend  the  lords  at 
10  on  Saturday  morning  next  to  answer  for  his  refusing 
the  payment  of  the  respect  due  to  his  Majesty's  flag  in 
his  passing  by  one  of  his  yachts  in  the  River,  '  in  contempt 
of  his  Majesty  and  contrary  to  the  known  practice  of  the 
sea,  time  out  of  mind.' 

2680.  [p.  318.]     1 6  Dec.     S.  P.  to  Mr.    St.  Michel;' 
Deal. — To  be  very  watchful  that  the  Katharine  pass  him 

1  See  ii.  339  n.  supra.  2  See  ii.  92  n.  supra. 

3  Captain  William  Finch,  at  that  time  commander  of  the  York,  had 
been  killed  in  the  action  of  28  May,  1673  (i.  350,  supra). 

4  Commander  of  the  Mary  Rose.     See  No.  2361. 

5  See  note  to  No.  2387. 


i675  FOURTH  VOLUME  147 

not  by  without  those  letters,  they  being  of  great  moment 
to  his  Majesty's  service  [2672]. 

2681.  [p.   318.]      1 6  Dec.     S.   P.   to   Captain  Smith,1 
commander   of  the   Navy  yacht. — Desires  to  know  how 
Captain  Crowe 2  came  to  have  command  of  the  yacht  during 
this  last  voyage  [2694]. 

2682.  [p.  319.]     1 6  Dec.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Stout?  of 
the  Success,  at  Deptford. — To  send  up  his  journal. 

Underwritten:  The  like  to  Captain  Coppow,4  of  the  Mary  Rose, 
at  Gravesend. 

2683.  [p.  319.]     1 6  Dec.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Thomas  Allin* 
'  How  it    is    come    to    pass  I  know  not,  but  by  several 
instances  that  have  happened  since  my  coming  to  serve 
his  Majesty  in  the  secretaryship  of  the  admiralty  (and  one 
of  them  but  a  few  days  since  between  Captain  Dickenson, 
of  the  Hunter,  and  Captain  Jenifer,  of  the  Saudados  [2658]) 
I  find  that  there  hath  been  wanting  to  this  day  a  clear 
determination  how  commanders  are  to  behave  themselves 
in  reference  to  precedence,  and  giving  command  one  to 
the  other  where  they  chance  to  fall  in  company   (as   it 
often  happens)  without  any  warrant  from  the  lord  admiral 
giving  the  command  to  some  one  of  them,  the  want  whereof 
hath  three  or  four  times  within  my  knowledge  begot  very 
much  ill-blood  and  some  disorder  to  the  king's  service, 
which  renders  it  necessary  for  me  to  inform  myself  as  well 
as  I  can  by  such  as  have  long  been  employed  in  the  navy, 
what  the  practice  of  the  navy  hath  or  ought  to  have  been  ; 
and  among  the  rest  from  whom  I  desire  particularly  to  be 
instructed  in  this  point,  I    take    the   liberty   to  address 
myself  to  you,  it  being  a  point  wherein  the  king's  service 
seems  very  much  concerned  in  the  consequence  of  it  in 
case  of  any  occasion  of  action  happening  where  one  or 
more  of  the  king's  ships  may  be  present  without  any  com- 
mission from  the  lord  admiral  to  determine  who  shall  com- 
mand.'   Therefore  desires  his  answer  to  the  enclosed  queries. 

Underwritten:  The  like  to  Sir  John  Kempthorne6  and  Sir 
Richard  Haddock.7 

1  See  note  to  No.  2125. 

a  See  note  to  No.  2694.  3  See  note  to  No.  2374. 

4  Captain  Coppow  had  been  appointed  to  command  the  Mary  Rose 
in  succession  to  Captain  Hamilton  [2440]  on  18  June,  1675  (i.  338, 
supra}.  5  Comptroller  of  the  navy.  D.  N.  B.  \.  332. 

*  Ibid.  xxx.  397.  See  note  to  No.  2734.  7  See  ii.  36  n.  supra. 

L  2 


148  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS         Dec. 

Margin :  '  None  of  these  letters  were  sent,  Mr.  Pepys  having 
satisfied  himself  in  the  matter  of  them  by  discourse  with  the 
gentlemen.' 

The  Queries  mentioned  in  and  which  accompanied  the  above 
letters :  (i)  'When  any  number  of  his  Majesty's  ships  are  to  be 
in  a  station  or  to  go  upon  service  together,  whether  is  the  lord 
high  admiral  at  liberty  to  appoint  either  of  the  captains  of  the  said 
ships  whom  he  shall  think  fitting  to  command  in  chief,  or  hath 
the  constant  practice  of  the  navy  been  that  the  eldest  captain  or 
the  captain  of  the  ship  of  the  highest  rate  should  have  the  chief 
command  ?  (2)  Whether  a  captain  that  hath  formerly  worn  a  flag 
shall  command  a  captain  that  hath  never  had  that  honour, 
although  the  latter  be  the  eldest  captain  or  is  then  in  a  ship  of  a 
higher  rate  ?  (3)  When  several  of  his  Majesty's  ships  happen  to 
be  together  in  any  of  his  Majesty's  ports  or  chambers,  and  neither 
of  the  captains  hath  warrant  from  the  lord  admiral  to  command 
in  chief  there,  shall  the  eldest  captain  or  the  captain  of  the  ship 
of  the  highest  rate  set  the  watch  and  answer  the  salutes  of  any 
foreign  or  other  ships  that  shall  happen  to  come  in  there? 

(4)  When  there  shall  be  a  commander-in-chief  in  the  Downs  or 
any  other  of  his  Majesty's  ports  or  chambers  by  warrant  from  the 
lord  admiral  wearing  a  pennant  or  other  distinction  proper  for 
such  commander-in-chief,  in  case  it  shall  happen  that  any  other 
of  his  Majesty's  ships  (not  wearing  a  flag)  shall,  in  their  voyage 
outwards  or  homewards  bound,  happen  to  put  into  such  port  and 
wait  there  either  for  orders  or  a  wind,  whether  in  such  case  the 
said  commander-in-chief  shall  continue  to  set  the  watch,  answer 
the  salutes,  and  command  such  ships  as  shall  so  accidentally 
come  in  upon  any  sudden  occasion  of  service  that  may  happen  ? 

(5)  When  any   number  of  his  Majesty's  ships   (none  of  them 
wearing  a  flag)  being  abroad  upon  different  services  shall  happen 
to  meet,  and  his  Majesty's  service  require  their  keeping  company, 
which   captain    shall    command    in    chief   during    their    being 
together,  whether  the  eldest  captain  or  he  that  commands  the 
ship  of  the  highest  rate  ?    (6)  Whether  it  be  not  necessary  to  be 
ordered  that  when  any  ships  are  together  where  there  is  not  a 
flag,  no  captain  do  wear  a  pennant  at  the  maintop-masthead  but 
he  who  is  of  right  to  command  in  chief,  that  foreign  ships  may 
the  better  know  where  to  pay  their  respects  ? ' 

2684.  [p.  322.]  1 6  Dec.  S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— 
Application  having  been  made  hither  by  one  Robert  Ash- 
worth  showing  his  pretences  to  the  employment  of  locksmith 
of  the  yards  at  Deptford  and  Woolwich  by  virtue  of  a  warrant 
heretofore  granted  him  by  his  Royal  Highness,  but  sus- 
pended upon  the  motion  of  their  board  on  behalf  of  the 


i675  FOURTH   VOLUME  149 

widow  of  Mr.  Beaman,  who  is  said  to  have  continued  in 
the  execution  of  the  said  place  by  the  assistance  of  another 
man  who  is  reported  also  to  be  lately  deceased,  from  whence 
the  said  Ashworth  thinks  himself  now  rightly  instituted  to 
an  admission  to  the  benefit  of  the  said  warrant ;  the  writer 
notifies  this  to  them  in  case  they  should  think  fit  to 
interpose  further. 

2685.  [p.  322.]     1 8  Dec.     S.  P.  to  the  Collector  or  other 
chief  officer  of  the  Customs  at  Plymouth. — Though  the  lords 
have  signed  a   pass   for  the   ship    Sampson,  of  London, 
240  tons  burden,  James  Winsor,  master,  now  said  to  be  at 
Plymouth,  in  pursuance  of  an  Order  in  Council  of  yesterday's 
date,  yet  as  she  has  not  been  surveyed  by  the  officers  of 
the  customs  he   is   to   deliver   the   pass   enclosed  to  her 
master,  in  case  she  appears  to  him  to  be  English-built  and 
otherwise  qualified  according  to  the  rules  prescribed  [2702]. 
The  master's  oath,  and   the  certificates  from  the   proper 
officer  appointed  for  surveying  ships  in  his  port,  are  to  be 
sent  up  to  the  writer  by  the  next  post. 

2686.  [p.  323.]     18  Dec.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Pett}  master- 
shipwright  at  Chatham. — He  may  employ  the  Little  London 
smack  for  transporting  to  Woodbridge  the  10  shipwrights 
which  the  officers  of  the  navy  have  given  leave  for  him  to 
employ  in  the  despatch  of  the  flyboat  now  building  by  him 
there,  and  3  or  4  hands  out  of  the  ordinary  may  be  spared 
to  sail  her  thither  and  back  again. 

2687.  [p.  323.]     20  Dec.     S.  P.  to   Sir  Martin   Wes- 
combe? — Desires  him  to   send  the  enclosed  [2688]  to  the 
commander  of  the  Drake  at  Tangier,  in  case  he  shall  not 
happen  to  be  at  Cadiz. 

2688.  [p.  323.]      20   Dec.     S.   P.  to  Captain  Stepney, 
Drake,  at  Tangier. — Encloses  orders  for  his  coming  home. 

2689.  [p.  324.]     23  Dec.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Finn?  of 
the    Cleveland  yacht. — Desires  him  to  give  Mr.  Edward 
Wyborne  passage  to  Dieppe. 

2690.  [p.    324.]     23    Dec.     S.   P.   to  Richard  Beach? 
Esq.,  at  Chatham. — Will  inform  himself '  from  our  brethren 
of  the  navy'  how  far  the  purser  of  the    Unicorn  [2633, 
2698]  can  excuse  his  absence  by  any  leave  from  them. 

1  See  ii.  92  n.  supra.  -  Consul  at  Cadiz  [1553]. 

3  See  note  to  No.  2561. 

4  Resident  Commissioner  of  the  navy  at  Chatham. 


ISO  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          Dec. 

2691.  [p.    324.]     23    Dec.      S.    P.    to    the    Mayor    of 
Bristol. — Thanks   for  his  care  in   transporting  the  letters 
taken  out  of  the  unfortunate  ship  Port  Morant.1 

2692.  [p.  325.]     23    Dec.     S.   P.  to  Colonel  Rooke,  at 
St.  Lawrence,  near  Canterbury. — Will  do  all  the  service  he 
can  for  Captain  Rooke,2  but  there  is  a  want  of  opportunity 
for  it,  '  through  the  little  employment  the  king's  service 
n:»w  carries  with  it,  and  the  multitudes  of  them  that  are 
waiting  upon  it,  and  pleading  (besides  other  merits)  the 
length  of  the  time  of  their  having  lain  unemployed,  by 
which  last  consideration  his  Majesty  is  pleased  in  a  very 
great  measure  to  guide  himself  in  the  disposal  of  the  little 
work  that  hath  for  some  time  been  stirring.' 

2693.  [p.  325.]    24  Dec.    S.  P.  to  Captain  Booth,3  Eagle, 
at  Sheerness. — Leave  to  come  to  town  for  4  or  5  days. 

2694.  [p.    326.]     24  Dec.     S.  P.   to    Captain  Smith? 
Navy  yacht,  at  Greenwich. — '  I  am  so  much  your  friend 
for  Sir  Jeremy  Smyth's5  sake  and  your  own  as  to  give 
you  my  advice  that  you  will  no  more  take  upon  you  to 
commit  the  care  of  his  Majesty's  yacht  to  a  hand  which 
was  so  far  at  that  time  from  being  your  mate  or  chief  officer 
under  you,  that  you  not  only  entertained  Captain  Crowe 
[2681]  on  purpose  for  this  voyage  without  any  commission 
to  justify  the  same,  but  assumed  to  yourself  the  putting 
this   charge   into  his  hand   whom   his    Majesty  .  .  .  had 
thought  fit  to  put  out  of  an  employment  he  had  before,6 
which  in  case  of  miscarriage  would  have  been  judged  very 
uneasy  for  you  to  have  justified,  and  (but  that  your  present 
sickness  stands  in  the  way)  you  would  at  present  have 

1  The  Port  Morant  Merchant  from  Jamaica  had  been  cast  away 
near  Bristol,  with  a  loss  of  14  hands  (Cat.  S.  P.  Dom.  1675-6, 
p.  452).  Port  Morant  is  on  the  south-east  coast  of  the  island. 

a  See  note  to  No.  2569,  supra.  Captain  Rpoke  did  not  receive 
fresh  employment  until  1677,  when  he  was  appointed  to  the  command 
of  the  Nonsuch  (i.  399,  supra). 

3  Captain  William   Booth  had  formerly  commanded   the   Pearl 
fireship,  and  had  been  appointed  to  the  Eagle  fireship  by  a  commission 
dated  30  June,  1675  (*•  327>  supra}.     He  should  not  be  confused  with 
Captain  Thomas  Booth,  commander  of  the  Pearl  (see  ii.  218  n.  supra}. 

4  See  note  to  No.  2125. 

5  Late  comptroller  of  victualling  [2734  n.].     D.  N.  B.  liii.  65. 

6  Captain  Thomas  Crowe  had  been  turned  out  of  the  command  of 
the  Merlin  yacht  (i.  341,  supra}.     Two  other  officers  of  the   same 
surname  are  given  in  Pepys's  Register  (ibid.}. 


i6;5  FOURTH    VOLUME  151 

hardly  escaped  being  called  to  an  account  for  ;  and  that 
which  yet  makes  it  the  more  unfit  to  be  passed  by,  is  that 
either  you  did  not  communicate  to  him  the  instructions 
sent  you  from  his  Majesty,  or  he  very  little  considered 
them,  forasmuch  as  they  expressly  commanded  that  the 
yacht  should  stay  at  Dieppe  4  days  from  the  Qth  inst,  in 
expectation  of  the  gentleman's  coming  whom  she  was  sent 
for,  whereas  he,  at  the  private  solicitation  of  one  of  them 
that  came  first,  comes  away,  not  only  putting  the  other 
person,  Mr.  Sidney,  to  the  charge  of  lying  all  this  while 
at  Dieppe  .  .  .  but  obliged  the  king  to  send  another  yacht 
now  on  purpose  to  fetch  Mr.  Sidney  l  over.'  Desires  to 
know  whether  Captain  Crowe  was  entertained  only  for  the 
voyage  or  remains  still  upon  the  yacht,  that  he  may  satisfy 
his  Majesty  therein  [2703]. 

2695.  [p.  327.]     24  Dec.    '  Sent  by  the  [St.]  Thomas 
merchantman.'  5.  P.  to  Captain  Davies?  of  the  Foresight,  at 
Jamaica. — Is  glad  to  find  that  he  escaped  so  well  the  hur- 
ricane  at   Barbados,  which  did  so  much  damage  to  the 
merchant  ships  riding  there.     The  first  letters  from  Lord 
Vaughan 3  after  his  arrival  at  Jamaica  '  signifying  his  inten- 
tions of  keeping  you  in  those  parts  for  some  time  longer 
than  was  at  first  designed,'  the  lords  ordered  '  the  sending 
you  a  supply  of  victuals  and  stores  to  enable  you  to  con- 
tinue abroad.'     Hopes  part  are  arrived,  and  the  remainder 
will  come  seasonably  for  enabling  him  to  return  to  England 
in  pursuance  of  the  orders  enclosed. 

2696.  [p.    327.]     24    Dec.     S.    P.   to  Mr.   Knapman, 
master  of  the  St.  Thomas,  merchantman,  in  the   Downs, 
bound  to  Jamaica. — Prays  his  care  of  a  packet  to  Captain 
Davies  [2695]. 

2697.  [p.  327.]     24  Dec.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  St.  Michel?  at 
Deal. — Desires  him  to  deliver  the  enclosed  to  Mr.  Knap- 
man  [2696]. 

2698.  [p.  328.]     24  Dec.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— 
Having  received  answer  from  Commissioner  Beach  [2633] 

1  Henry  Sidney,  the  brother  of  Algernon  Sidney,  and  afterwards 
Earl  of  Romney.     (See  D^N.B.  Hi.  217.)     He  had  gone  over  into 
France  in  the  preceding  April  (Cat.  S.  P.  Dom.  1675-6,  p.  67). 

2  See  ii.  399  n.  supra. 

3  John,  Lord  Vaughan,  afterwards  Earl  of  Carbery,  was  governor 
of  Jamaica.    D.  N.  B.  Iviii.  173-4.  4  See  note  to  No.  2387. 


1 52  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          Dec. 

that  the  purser  of  the  Unicorn  'doth,  notwithstanding  the 
clemency  formerly  shown  him,  remain  as  little  obedient  to 
orders  as  ever,  taking  leave  to  absent  himself  from  his 
charge  without  the  knowledge  of  the  commissioner,  or  any 
license  for  it  either  from  his  Majesty  or  my  lords  of  the 
admiralty,  I  desire  that  you  will  please  to  let  me  know 
whether  he  hath  any  dispensation  from  your  board  (which 
in  some  cases  hath  been  found  reasonable  to  be  given)  that 
in  case  his  absence  be  no  more  warranted  from  you  than  it 
is  from  elsewhere,  I  may  make  his  neglect  of  duty  known 
to  his  Majesty  and  my  lords '  [2690]. 

2699.  [p.  328.]     24  Dec.     S.  P.  to  Lieutenant  Butcher, 
late  lieutenant  of  the  Success. — The  lords  have  given  order 
for  a  stop  to  be  put  to  the  wages  of  his  late  commander, 
Captain  Stout,1  till  he  shall  have  cleared  himself  in  what  he 
charges  upon  him.     The  ship  being  now   paid,  and   the 
captain's  wages  accordingly  kept  out  of  his  hands,  he  is 
desired  to  deliver  a  particular  of  his  charges  in  writing 
within  few  days. 

2700.  [p.   329.]     27  Dec.     Sent  under    cover   to    Sir 
Thomas  Clutterbuck  2  at  Livorne.     S.  P.  to  Sir  John  Nar- 
brough? — '  The  apprehensions  his  Majesty  hath  had  of  the 
inconveniences    which   a    rupture   with   Argeir  would  be 
attended  with,  and  the  consideration  of  the  little  security 
we  can  long  expect  to  have  with  that  government  under 
the  provocations  daily  given  them  by  the  king's  subjects 
abroad  in  sailing  and  protecting  of  foreign  ships,  and  either 
counterfeiting,  or  selling  of  their  true  passes  to  ships  of  foreign 
property,  have  moved  his  Majesty  to  the  setting  forth  of 
two  proclamations 4  upon  that  subject  [2803]  f°r  preventing 
those  practices  if  possible.'     Sends  copies  herewith  [2737]. 

2701.  [p.  329.]     27  Dec.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Thomas  Clut- 
terbuck? Livorne. — Prays  his  care  of  the  enclosed  packets 
[2700]. 

2702.  [p.  330.]     28  Dec.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Coleman?  at 
Plymouth. — Thanks  for  the  survey  of  the  ship  Sampson. 

1  See  note  to  No.  2374. 

3  Victualler  for  the  Mediterranean.     See  ii.  236  n.  supra. 

3  D.  N.  B.  xl.  89. 

4  See  Introduction,  p.  xxi,  n.  supra. 

6  Captain  William  Coleman  was  collector  of  customs  at  Plymouth 
[2948]. 


1675  FOURTH   VOLUME  153 

[2685].  Prays  some  light  in  the  business  of  the  officers  of 
the  Mary  Rose  bringing  goods  ashore  in  defiance  of  the 
officers  of  the  customs,  as  this  is  fit  for  the  king  and  lords 
to  know  'in  order  to  their  seeing  more  fully  into  these 
(among  other  the  many)  ill  consequences  of  the  king's 
ships  carrying  of  merchants'  goods '  [2709]. 

2703.  [p.    330.]     28   Dec.     S.   P.   to  Captain   Smith, 
Navy  yacht. — The  king  remits  his  failure  [2694]  to  him 
because  of  his  sickness  and  his  having  put  the  instructions 
into   Captain  Crowe's  hands,  but  his  next  mistake  of  this 
kind  will  by  no  means  be  held  justifiable,  and  the  less  for 
that  his  entertaining  of  one  that  is  not  in  his  Majesty's  pay 
puts  his  breach  of  instructions  out  of  the  reach  of  a  court- 
martial  to  punish. 

2704.  [p.  330.]     28  Dec.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  St.  Michel?— 
Thanks  for  his  letters  and  care. 

2705.  [p.    331.]     28   Dec.     S.    P.   to    Captain   Booth? 
Westchester.3 — Will  be  glad  to  do  him  any  good  offices, 
but  does  not  see  it  possible  at  present  by  any  ships  yet 
likely  to  be  ordered  forth. 

2706.  [p.    331.]      28   Dec.     S.   P.  to  Captain    Crabb? 
Portsmouth. — Will  receive  the  lords'  pleasure   about   his 
coming  to  town  for  a  month. 

2707.  [p.  331.]     31  Dec.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— 
Acknowledges  theirs  of  the  22nd  recommending  Thomas 
Skevington  for  the  employment  of  purser,  and  shall  not 
fail  to  employ  it  to  his  benefit. 

2708.  [p.  332.]     3  Jan.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Hayter*  at  the 
navy  office. — Desires  a  meeting  of  the  navy  board  with 
Captain   Trelawny  and  the  master  of   the  merchantman 
about  the  recruits  for  Tangier  [2711]. 

2709.  [p.  332.]      6  Jan.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Richard  Temple? 
at    the     custom     house. — Has    communicated     to     the 
king  and   lords   the  letter  from  Mr.  Blackborne,  of  Ply- 

1  See  note  to  No.  2387. 

-  Captain  Thomas  Booth,  late  commander  of  the  Pearl,  now  under 
repair  [2583]. 

3  Westchester  is    the  older  name  of   Chester.      See   Camden, 
Britannia^  i.  667  [edition  of  1772]. 

4  See  note  to  No.  3614. 

5  See  note  to  No.  2102. 

6  Sir    Richard    Temple    was    senior    commissioner   of  customs 
(D.  N.  B.  Ivi.  37). 


i54  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          Jan. 

mouth,  touching  the  misbehaviour  of  the  officers  of  the 
Mary  Rose  [2702],  and  thereupon  obtained  an  order  from 
the  lords  for  a  stop  to  be  put  to  the  payment  of  their 
wages  till  they  had  acquitted  themselves  in  that  matter. 
As  this  stop  continues,  the  writer  desires  to  know  how  far 
he  and  his  fellow  commissioners  continue  to  hold  them 
guilty,  in  order  to  their  punishment  or  acquittal. 

Margin :  '  Memorandum  :  That  Sir  Richard  Temple  being 
(upon  inquiry)  found  gone  into  the  country,  and  Mr.  Pepys 
having  received  full  information  touching  this  matter  from  Captain 
Coleman,  an  officer  of  the  customs  at  Plymouth  [2702],  acquit- 
ting the  officers  of  the  Mary  Rose,  this  letter  was  held  useless,  and 
so  not  sent  after  him  '  [2711]. 

2710.  [p.  333.]     6  Jan.     S.    P.   to  Colonel  Piper ?   at 
Plymouth. — Thanks  for  his  care  in  delivering  orders  to  the 
Roebuck. 

2711.  [p.   333.]     6  Jan.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board— 
Has  received  a  letter  of  13  Dec.  from  Sir  John  Berry,2  from 
Livorne,  wherein  he  takes  notice  again  of  the  rottenness  of 
his  sails  [2725].     Will  communicate   to  them    the  king's 
pleasure  touching  the  Deptford  ketch,  the  king  being  come 
to   town   last  night ;    and  for  the  declaration  of  the  sea 
victualling  for  the  following  year,  their  estimate  of  it  hath 
not  been  yet  with  the  lords,  whose  signing  thereof  is  the 
next   necessary   step  towards  having  an   order  from  the 
council  for  providing  the  victuals.     Entreats  them  to  send 
it  as  soon  as  may  be,  and  for  saving  of  time  encloses  a 
copy  of  the  project  by  which  the  number  of  men  proposed 
in  that  estimate  is  calculated  with  respect  to  the  various 
services  of  the  year,  by  which  they  will  have  all  the  neces- 
sary light  given  them  of  the  distribution  to  be  made  of 
those  victuals  among  the  respective  victualling  ports,  that 
they  may  come  prepared  on  Saturday  next  to  give  their 
opinion  touching  that  distribution. 

At  Captain  Trelawny's  [2723]  desire  a  yacht  is  to  be 
at  the  Tower  on  Saturday  morning  next  to  carry  down  his 
soldiers  to  the  Garland,  there  to  be  kept  on  board  till  Mr. 
Hazelwood's  ship  shall  be  in  a  condition  at  Gravesend  to 
receive  them  [2708]  ;  the  writer  acquaints  them  with  this 
that  they  may  send  down  by  her  the  hammaccoes  or  other 

1  Deputy-governor  of  Plymouth  [2667].        2  See  note  to  No.  2274. 


1675-6  FOURTH   VOLUME  155 

conveniences  for  lodging  the  said  soldiers  on  board  the 
George  [2728]. 

The  Roebuck  is  arrived  as  far  as  Plymouth,  and  has 
received  her  orders  td  come  up  to  Deptford  to  be  dis- 
charged. They  may  expect  an  order  from  the  lords  to 
remove  the  stop  lately  put  to  the  payment  of  the  wages  of 
the  officers  of  the  Mary  Rose  [2709],  Desires  them  to  con- 
sider and  report  how  it  was  that,  after  receiving  so  great  and 
late  a  supply  of  victuals  as  was  reported  at  Livorne,  she 
was  driven  to  take  in  14  days'  provisions  at  Plymouth  to 
bring  her  about  into  the  River. 

2712.  [p.   335.]     6  Jan.     S.  P.  to    Captain  Clements, 
Greyhound,  Downs. — Has  received  a  letter  from  his  boat- 
swain, Mr.  Reed,  desiring  leave  to  be  absent  from  the  ship 
3  or  4  days,  in  which  having  moved  his  Majesty,  he  is 
pleased  to  command  that  in  case  his  absence  may  be  dis- 
pensed with  without  prejudice  to  the  ship,  he  may  give 
him  the  liberty  he  desires. 

2713.  [p.  335.]     6   Jan.     S.    P.   to  Captain  Lassells} 
Garland,  in  the  Hope. — He  is  to  continue  in  the  Hope  to 
receive  soldiers  till  the  merchant  ship  be  ready  [2711]. 

2714.  [p.  336.]    6  Jan.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Country?  Roe- 
buck, in  the  Downs. — Has  received  his  of  31  Dec.  from 
Plymouth,  and  is  very  glad  of  his  being  so  far  arrived 
homewards.     Prays  him  to  hasten  up  to  Deptford,  where 
application  will  doubtless  be  made  him  about  the  body  of 
Sir  John  Dorman.     The  writer  can  give  no  light  in  it,  as 
not  having  ever  heard  of  any  person  of  that  name.3  Advises 
him  to  get  his  books   ready  for   payment  of  his   ship's 
company  as  soon  as  she  comes  to  Deptford. 

2715.  [p.  336.]     [6  Jan.]     S.   P.  to  Captain   Harris* 
captain  [of  the]  Quaker  ketch,at  Falmouth. — Heis  to  forbear 
proceeding  on  his  voyage  back  to  Tangier  till  further  orders. 
The  writer  congratulates  his  great  escape  from  the  danger  of 
the  late  storms.   The  king  and  lords  do  much  wonder  at  the 
occasion  of  his  voyage  to  Rochelle ;  desires  particulars. 

2716.  [p.  337-]     8  Jan.     The  same  to  the  same. — Since 

1  See  note  to  No.  2181.  2  See  ii.  256  n.  supra. 

3  The  reference  may  possibly  be  to  Sir  John  Dormer,  who  died 
7  November,  1675  (Burke,  Extinct  Baronetcies^  p.  163). 

4  Captain  Joseph  Harris,  formerly  in  command  of  the  Constant 
Warwick  [1622],  had  been  appointed  to  the  Quaker  ketch,  by  a  com- 
mission dated  22  April,  1675  (i.  361,  su-bra).     See  also  ii.  65  //.  supra. 


156  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS         Jan. 

his  last  [2715]  an  information  has  been  exhibited  to  the 
king  and  lords  of  a  misbehaviour  of  his  of  very  great 
importance  in  his  submitting  to  an  Ostend  vessel  since 
leaving  Tangier,  of  which  he  omits  to  make  mention  in  his 
late  letter  from  Falmouth.  The  examination  of  the  matter 
is  referred  to  the  mayor  of  that  place  [2720],  and  orders  are 
enclosed  for  him  not  to  proceed  on  his  voyage  to  Tangier 
until  further  orders. 

2717.  [p.  337-]     8  Jan.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Coleman,  at 
Plymouth. — Is  glad  to  understand  the  umblameableness  of 
the   officers  of  the  Mary  Rose  [2709].      Thanks   for   his 
advertisements  of  the  late  great  losses  upon  his  coast. 

2718.  [p.  338.]     8  Jan.  S.  P.  to  Sir  William  Warren? 
Can  meet  Dr.  Chamberlen 3  at  the  exchequer  Friday  next 
For  what  he  desires  about  a  commission  for  Captain  Fisher, 
commander  of  the  Berkeley  Castle,  precedents  have  been 
of  that  kind  ;  but  the  ill  use  is  such  that  hath  been  made 
of  them  that  the  king  and  lords  have  come  to  a  resolution 
for  stopping  any  such  practice  for  the  future. 

2719.  [p.    338.]     8  Jan.     S.  P.  to  Mr.   Stockdale*— 
Though  passes  are  to  be  issued  by  the  writer's  hands  by 
virtue  of  the  late  proclamation,  yet  the  vessels  must  pass 
the  survey  either  of  the  officers  of  the  customs  or  the  officer 
appointed   thereto   by  the   lords,   according   to   the    late 
establishment  in  council. 

2720.  [p.  339.]    8  Jan.     S.  P.  to  the  Mayor  of  Falmouth. 
Sends  the  lords'  order  for  examining  the  officers  of  the 
Quaker  ketch  touching  the  late  misbehaviour  of  her  com- 
mander [2716,  2733]. 

2721.  [p.  339.]     8  Jan.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Dickenson? 
Hunter,  Downs. — To  convoy  a  vessel  with  some  horses  for 
Lord  Douglas's  6  particular  use. 

1  See  note  to  No.  2702. 

2  On  Sir  William  Warren,  the  timber  contractor,  see  Pepys's 
Diary,  passim. 

3  MS.  « Chamberlaine.'      Probably   Dr.  Peter   Chamberlen,   first 
physician  in  ordinary  to  the  king.     See  D.  N.  B.  x.  14. 

4  Collector  of  customs  at  Dover  [2749].          5  See  ii.  367  n.  supra. 
6  Possibly  Lord  George  Douglas  :  he  was  colonel  of  the  Douglas 

regiment,  hitherto  in  the  French  service,  and  his  departure  for  France 
is  recorded  under  date  14  Mar.  1675  (Cal.  S.  P.  Dom.  1675-6,  p.  22). 
The  warrant  for  letters  patent  creating  him  Earl  of  Dumbarton  and 
Lord  Douglas  of  Etrick  in  Scotland  is  dated  9  Mar.  1675  (ibid-  P-  l6)- 
See  D.  N.  B.  xv.  297. 


1675-6  FOURTH   VOLUME  157 

2722.  [p.  339.]     1 1  Jan.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Barton,  notary 
public,  at  the  Exchange. — Desires   him  to  swear  to  his 
information  against  Captain  Perriman  [2653]. 

2723.  [p.  340.]     1 1  Jan.     S.  P.  to  Captain    Trelawny, 
bound   for  Tangier  with   the   recruits. — Desires   him   to 
complete  his  number  of  men  by  the  I2th  as  agreed,  as  the 
writer  finds  from  the  captain  of  the  Garland  that  the  yacht 
carried  down  but  81  [2637,  2711].    To  let  him  know  when 
the  whole  is  ready,  that  another  yacht  may  be  ordered  for 
carrying  them  down,  so  that  the  king  may  not  be  put  to  the 
charge  of  demurrage  at  io/.  a  day  if  the   merchantman 
stays  for  them  after  the  i6th  [2727]. 

2724.  [p.  340.]    1 1  Jan.   S.  P.  to  Mr.  Sheerest — Desires 
he  will  despatch  the  business  of  the  galley. 

2725.  [p.  341.]     II  Jan.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board. — 
The  companies  of  the  7  yachts  named  in  the  margin  are 
left  to  their  disposal  to  be  employed  in  the  carrying  about 
of  the  Leopard,  which  falls  out  the  better  that  his  Majesty 
will  have  the  service  of  their   commanders  at  a  court- 
martial.     Thanks  for  their  answer  about  the  supply  of  sails 
for  Sir  John  Berry  [271 1].     Hopes  to  get  a  warrant  of  the 
lords  signed  to-morrow  for  the  year's  declaration  of  victuals 
[2711].     Thanks  them  for  their  hint  about  orders  to  the 
Garland  for  receiving  and  victualling  the  soldiers,  though 
he  had  done  it  before  the  soldiers  went  down  [2637].     It 
being  the  king's  purpose  to  retrench  the  charge  of  Jamaica 
from  keeping  a  4th  rate  there  to  a  5th  rate,  they  are  to 
consider  what  ship  of  that  rate  (either  sheathed  or  to  be 
sheathed)  is  fittest  to  be  sent  thither  in  the  room  of  the 
Foresight  [2728]. 

Margin  :  Charles,  Cleveland,  Merlin,  Anne,  Navy,  Bezan, 
Saudados. 

2726.  [p.  342.]  17  Jan.  S.  P.  to  John  Creed,  Esquire? 
The  resolutions  of  the  king  and  lords  in  the  case  of  the 
ship  Rooth,  of  Dartmouth,  taken  on  Saturday  last  were 
these:  (i)  'That  no  cause  did  appear  for  reversing  the 
sentence  of  the  court  of  admiralty  at  Tangier  by  which 
the  said  ship  was  condemned ; '  (2)  '  That  had  any  such 

1  Mr.  Henry  Sheeres  was  at  this  time  residing  at  Tangier  as  engineer 
in  charge  of  the  mole  (D.  N.  B.  lii.  io).  In  1685  he  was  knighted  for 
his  services  (ibid.). 

a  Ibid.  xiii.  68. 


158  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          Jan. 

cause  appeared  the  said  sentence  could  not  nevertheless 
be  reversed  otherwise  than  by  an  appeal  made  by  the 
parties  in  due  time  and  form,  which  has  not  been  done  ; ' 
(3)  'That  his  Majesty  out  of  his  royal  grace  and  bounty 
would  nevertheless  for  the  redemption  of  so  many  of  his 
subjects  taken  in  the  said  ship  as  remains  still  in  slavery, 
and  for  the  satisfying  the  price  paid  for  such  others  of 
them  as  shall  upon  inquiry  be  found  to  have  been  already 
bond  fide  redeemed,  so  much  of  the  proceed  of  the  said 
vessel  and  her  lading  as  the  value  of  the  said  several 
redemptions  shall  amount  to,  shall  be  applied  to  that  use, 
and  that  necessary  orders  for  the  same  be  accordingly 
forthwith  issued.'  The  issuing  of  which  orders  being  com- 
mitted to  the  lords  [commissioners]  of  Tangier,  the  writer 
thought  it  necessary  to  return  him  the  enclosed  order  of 
council  to  that  purpose. 

2727.  [p.  342.]     19  Jan.     S.P.  to  Captain  Trelawny.— 
Hastens  him  in  completing  his  number  of  men  [2723,  2728], 

2728.  [p.  343.]     19  Jan.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— 
Is  informed  from  Captain  Trelawny  that  the  soldiers  are 
all  actually  on  board  the  Garland  [2727,  2736],  ready  from 
thence  to  be  put  on  board  the  George  merchantman,  and 
that  being  so,  and  the  first  moiety  of  the  freight  paid,  the 
writer  hopes  there  will  be  no  danger  of  demurrage.     Offers 
it  to  them  that  such  a  certificate  be  taken  of  the  men's 
being  ready  as  may  entitle  the  king  to  satisfaction  for  their 
victuals  for  so  many  days  as  they  shall  be  so  ready  and 
remain  in  his  Majesty's  victualling  upon  the  Garland  after 
the  day  that  by  agreement  with  the  master  of  the  George 
she  ought  to  have  been  in  place  and  condition  to  have 
received  them. 

Understands  by  Captain  Wright,1  of  the  Kitchen  yacht, 
that  the  Mermaid  at  Portsmouth  is  sheathed  and  ready  for 
sea  [2725],  which,  if  so,  will  answer  the  objection  of  the 
charge  of  sheathing  the  Pearl,  and  she  will  be  as  soon 
ready  and  sailed  cheaper  than  the  Phoenix  ;  '2  to  which 
the  writer  entreats  Mr.  Surveyor  of  the  navy's 3  answer 
this  night  or  early  to-morrow  morning. 

2729.  [p.  343.]     19  Jan.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Dickenson* 
Is  glad  of  his  arrival  back  [2721]. 

1  See  ii.  12  n.  supra.  *  See  ii.  184  n.  snprn. 

s  Sir  John  Tippetts  [2755].  *  See  ii.  367  n.  supra. 


i6;s-6  FOURTH   VOLUME  159 

2730.  [p.  344.]      19  Jan.      S.   P.  to   Captain   Booth,1 
Sheerness. — Thanks  for  his  of  the  I2th. 

2731.  [p.  344.]     20  Jan.     S.  P.  to  Sir  G.  Downing? 
Prays    an    opportunity    of    waiting    on    him    to-morrow 
morning,  before  his  going  out  to  the  custom-house,  for  his 
advice  upon  the  draught  of  the  new  proclamation  about 
passes,  in  order  to  its  being  settled  at  the  council  board 
to-morrow. 

2732.  [p.    344.]     21  Jan.     S.  P.  to  the  Chief  Officer  of 
the  Customs  at  Dover. — Desires  him  to  survey  the  John  and 
Elizabeth,  John  Howell,  master,  for  a  pass  [2749]. 

2733.  [p.  344.]      22  Jan.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Fender,  mayor 
at  Falmouth. — Thanks  for  the  examinations  touching  the 
Quaker  ketch  [2720]. 

2734.  [p.  345.]     22  Jan.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Pmn,3  com- 
mander of  the  Cleveland  yacht. — Being  bound  for  Ports- 
mouth he  is  to  carry  Sir  John  Kempthorne's  4  goods. 

2735.  [p.  345.]      22  Jan.      S.  P.  to  Captain  Harris? 
Quaker  ketch,  at  Falmouth. — In  order  to  the  king's  fuller 
satisfaction    in   what    relates    to    his   dealings    with    the 
Ostender  [2716],  he  is  to  come  into  the  River  [2772].     His 
proceedings  with  the  Scotchman  at  St.  Martin's  are  very 
well  taken,  and  the  matter  will  be  referred  to  the  king's 
minister  in  Scotland  to  see  the  person  corrected  there  for 
the  indignity  offered  by  him  to  his  Majesty  in  a  foreign 
port. 

2736.  [p.  346.]     24  Jan.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— 
The  king  directs   them  to  send   their  orders   to  Captain 
Hazelwood  6  '  to  sail  forthwith,  without  staying  for   any 
further  number  of  soldiers,  to  prevent  demurrage  [2723], 
Captain  Trelawny  continues  to  assert  his  having  the  whole 

1  Probably  Captain  Thomas  Booth,  late  commander  of  the  Pearl 
[2583].     See  also  ii.  218  n.  supra. 

2  On  the  career  of  Sir  George  Downing,  see  D.N.B.  xv.  399. 
He  was  at  this  time  a  commissioner  of  the  customs. 

3  See  No.  2561. 

4  D.  N.  B.  xxx.  397.     Sir  John   Kempthorne  had   recently  been 
appointed   resident   commissioner  of   the    navy  at    Portsmouth    in 
succession  to  Sir  Anthony  Deane,  who  had  been  made  comptroller  of 
victualling  on  25  Nov.  1675  on  the  retirement  of  Sir  Jeremy  Smyth 
(i.  41,  supra). 

6  See  note  to  No.  2715. 

"  Commander  of  the  George,  merchantman,  bound  with  soldiers 
to  Tangier  [2711]. 


160  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          Jan. 

number  of  soldiers  listed,  and  in  readiness  to  send  down 
[2728,  2742],  but  he  did  not  send  more  to  the  ship  from  an 
apprehension  that  she  would  be  too  little  for  them  ;  but  as 
the  king  relies  on  the  judgment  of  the  board  in  that  par- 
ticular he  is  not  to  depend  thereon  for  his  justification  in 
not  having  his  whole  number  long  since  on  board. 

2737.  [p.  347.]     24  Jan.     '  Under  cover  to  Sir  Thomas 
Clutterbuck.' l     S.  P.  to  Sir  John  Narbrough?  at  Malta.— 
The  king  and  lords  are  well  satisfied  with  his  proceedings, 
but  not  a  little  dissatisfied  with  others  upon  whom  his 
want  of  provisions  and  stores  is  chargeable,  and  are  making 
inquiry  where  the  blame  is  properly  to  be  placed  [2741]. 
He  will  by  this  post  receive  some  fresh  instructions  from 
his  Majesty,  by  the  hands  of  Mr.  Secretary  Coventry,3  for 
his  future  proceeding  in  reference  to  his  treating  with  those 
of  Tripoli, '  grounded  upon  some  fresh  ad  vice  of  the  present 
pretended  inclination  of  the  Dey  and  government  to  an 
accommodation  with  us.'     Encloses  duplicates  of  the  pro- 
clamations sent  him  27  Dec.  [270x5],  with  the  form  of  the 
pass  mentioned  therein,  '  which  was  formerly  used  in  the 
time  of  his  Royal  Highness's  admiralship,  and  is  now  again 
enjoined  to  be  used,  and  no  other,  in  reference  to  our  safety 
against  the  Turks,  the  counterpart  of  the  indents  of  these 
passes  being  sent  to  the  consul  at  Argeir  [2738]  ...  in 
order    to    the    proving    of   any    pass    which    shall    be 
brought  in  thither,  whether  it  be  a  true  or  a  counterfeit 
one.' 

Underwritten:  Duplicate  sent  3  Apr.  1676. 

2738.  [p.  348.]     24  Jan.     '  Under  cover  to  Sir  Thomas 
Clutterbuck,  at  Livorne.'     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Martin,  consul  at 
Argeir. — Sends  him  a  form  of  the  new  indented  pass  and 
a  dozen  counterparts,  that  he  may  detect  any  counterfeit 
pass  that  may  be  tendered  by  any  ship  coming  or  brought 
into  his  port  [2737]. 

2739.  [p.  349.]     24  Jan.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Thomas  Clutter- 
buck*  at  Livorne. — Prays  his  care  in  the  dispatch  of  the 
enclosed  packets  to  Sir  John  Narbrough  [2737]  and  Mr. 
Consul  Martin  [2738]. 

1  Victualler  for  the  Mediterranean.     See  ii.  236  n.  supra. 
3  D.  N.  B.  xl.  89. 
s  Ibid.  xii.  357. 


1675-6  FOURTH   VOLUME  161 

2740.  [p.  349.]     25  Jan.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners 
for  the  Admiral's  Rights. — Transmits  Mr.  Idle's  [2606]  ex- 
ceptions  to   the   account   of  the   charges  upon   the  ship 
Bachelor,  and  prays  their  answer  to  the  lords  on  Saturday 
morning  next. 

2741.  [p.  350.]     25  Jan.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board. — 
'The  season  of  the  year  now  calling  for  the  putting  in 
execution  all  things  requisite  for  the  rendering  the  galley 
at  Tangier  capable  of  doing  his  Majesty  service  this  ap- 
proaching summer/  they  are  to  lay  before  the  lords  the 
particulars  needful   to  be  first  adjusted,  and  particularly 
the  value  of  the  arrears  of  pay  due  to  the   galley,  the 
number  of  slaves  wanting,  and  an  estimate  of  their  cost, 
and  the  like  for  the  bonavoglios *  necessary  to  be  provided 
with  the  charge  of  them  ;  as  also  an  estimate  of  the  charge 
of  sheathing  her  with  lead.2 

They  are  thoroughly  to  inform  themselves  of  the  state 
of  the  stores  sent  to  Malta  by  the  Harwich  and  the  two 
fireships  [2536],  and  by  what  failure  the  quantity  left  behind 
happened  to  be  so  [2737],  with  their  opinion  how  this  and 
what  further  quantities  upon  a  presumption  of  the  con- 
tinuance of  the  war  they  shall  judge  needful  may  be  with 
best  despatch  supplied  Sir  John  Narbrough.3  As  also 
touching  the  true  reason  of  Sir  Thomas  Clutterbuck's 4 
failure  to  have  the  proper  quantity  of  provisions  ready  at 
Malta. 

2742.  [p.  350.]     25  Jan.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Trelawny. — 
Desires  to  know  what  number  of  men,  if  any,  will  be  left 
behind  [2736]. 

2743.  [p.    351.]     25  Jan.      S.   P.  to  Mr.   Brouncker, 
purser  of  the   Unicorn,  at   Chatham. — Has   received  the 
certificate  touching  his   sickness ;   desires  him   to   hasten 
the  certificate  from  the  officers  of  the  yard,  and  what  else 
he  has  to  say  in  justification  of  his  long  failure  in  per- 
formance of  his  duty  on  board  his  ship  [2633,  2746,  2756]. 

2744.  [p.  351.]     25  Jan.     S.  P.  to  Thomas  Hayter? 
Esquire,  navy  office. — The  king's  commands  yesterday  were 
so  absolute  about  despatching  away  the  ship  that,  though 
a  certain  loss  is  likely  to  arise  from  her  departure  without 

1  Free  and  paid  members  of  a  galley's  crew. 
a  See  ii.  184  n.  supra.  *  D.  N.  B.  xl.  89. 

4  See  note  to  No.  2737.  8  See  note  to  No.  2102. 

VOL.  III.  M 


162  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS  Jan. 

the  full  number  of  soldiers,  the  writer  cannot  see  (in  the 
king's  absence)  how  his  stopping  her  would  be  justifiable 


2745.  [p.  352.]     26  Jan.     S.  P.  to  Sir  John  Knight  >— 
Desires  him  to  attend  the  lords  on  Saturday  morning  next 
for  a  final  determination  of  what  they  wrote  near  a  year 
since  to  the  Mayor  and  City  of  Bristol  'in  reference  to 
their  taking  to  themselves  the  exercise  of  admiral  juris- 
diction within  their  own  precincts.' 

2746.  [p.  352.]     27  Jan.     S.P.  to  Mr.  Brown,  [deputy] 
clerk  of  the  check  at  Chatham  [2669].  —  Thanks  him  for 
his  account  of  the  22nd  inst.  of  the  ships  in  harbour  at 
Chatham.     It   hath  been  complained   of  Mr.  Brouncker, 
purser  of  the  Unicorn,  that  even  since  his  suspension  he 
hath  given  no  better  attendance  at  his  duty  than  hereto- 
fore.    As  he  denies  it  to  be  true  in  fact,  the  writer  desires 
information  from  his  books  [2743,  2756]. 

2747.  [p.  353.]     27  Jan.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Pitt,  clerk  of 
the  control  at  Portsmouth.  —  Thanks  him  for   his  of  the 
22nd  inst.  and  the  enclosed  paper  containing  the  method 
by  him  very  substantially  proposed  towards  the  balancing 
the  ropemaker's  and  some  other  officers'  accounts  in  his 
Majesty's  yard,  besides  that  of  the  storekeeper,  which  he 
has  formerly  with  like  pains  and   perspicuity  provided  for 
[1707]. 

2748.  [p.  253.]     27  Jan.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— 
Application  being  sometimes  made  hither  by  officers  of 
ships  for  leave  of  executing  their  employments  while  in 
harbour  by  deputies,  upon  considerations  either  of  health, 
particular  business,  or   passing  their  accounts,  which  the 
lords  (as   his   Royal  Highness   heretofore)   do   ordinarily 
yield  to  upon  good  certificates  of  the  qualifications  of  the 
persons  they  propound  as  their  deputies,  the  writer  desires 
their  consideration  of  Sir  Richard   Beach's  late  letter  to 
their  board,  wherein  he  seems  to  be  of  opinion  that  the 
granting  of  deputations  is  accompanied  with  many  incon- 
veniences to  his  Majesty.     Does  not  know  what  to  offer 
better  than  what  they  discoursed  the  other  day  —  '  that  the 
warrants  that  come  from  hence  may  be  limited   in  their 
execution  to  such  persons  only  to  be  employed  as  deputies 

1  A  notable  merchant  of  Bristol.    D.  N.  B.  xxxi.  255. 


1675-6  FOURTH   VOLUME  163 

who  shall  be  approved  of  either  by  your  board  in  general, 
or  the  particular  commissioner  superintending  the  yard 
where  the  ships  to  which  the  said  officers  belong  do  lie ' ; 
which,  if  done,  the  same  means  must  be  as  effectual  for 
keeping  a  deputy  so  qualified  to  the  doing  his  duty  as 
would  be  thought  sufficient  to  oblige  his  principal.  But 
desires  to  be  advised  by  them. 

Desires  the  names  of  those  officers  who  stand  suspended 
by  warrant  of  the  board  for  being  in  the  boat  when  the 
carpenter  of  the  Oxford  was  killed  at  Portsmouth,  that 
the  writer  may  take  the  king's  pleasure  concerning  them, 
the  trial  of  that  matter  being  now  over  and  the  accused 
acquitted  [2659]. 

2749.  [p.  355.]     27  Jan.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Stockdale,  col- 
lector of  customs  at  Dover. — Cannot  accept  the  certificate 
from    himself  and    Mr.  Houseman,  the   surveyor   of  the 
customs  at  Dover,  touching  the  John  and  Elizabeth  [2732], 
it  being  not  so  perfect  as  by  his  Majesty's  rules  established 
in  council   it   ought  to  be,  with  an  endorsement  of  the 
consent  of  Mr.  Brading,  comptroller  of  the  customs,  upon 
it,  in  the  printed  form  appointed.     '  The  end  therefore  of 
my  present   writing   is   to   note   to   you   that  forasmuch 
as  nothing  less  suffices  for  a  ground  to  my  lords  of  the 
admiralty  for  their  granting  passes  against  the  Turks  [2737] 
(which  by  the  treaty  are  only  issuable  by  their  lordships) 
than  what  is  required  for  the  enabling  the  commissioners 
of  the  customs  or  chief  magistrates  of  the  out-ports  to 
grant  passes  of  other  kinds  by  the  treaties  with  Holland 
and  Spain,  wherein  the  evidences  of  the  propriety1  and 
declaration  of  their  being  free  or  not  free  are  most  essential 
parts,  but  wholly  left  out  in  this  certificate,  I  am  necessi- 
tated to  return  the  same  to  the  poor  man,  leaving  him  to 
you  and  the  rest  of  his   Majesty's  officers  with  you  to 
supply  its  defects.' 

2750.  [p.  355.]     29  Jan.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  St.  Michel?  at 
Deal. — Encloses  a  letter  to  the  Greyhound  to   transport 
him  over  to  Calais  [2754]. 

2751.  [p.  356.]     29  Jan.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Dickenson? 
Hunter,   in   the    Downs. — The   lords    have    ordered   him 
2  months'  victuals  from  Dover. 

1  I.e.  property.  2  See  note  to  No.  2387. 

3  See^ii.;367  n.  supra. 

M  2 


1 64  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          Jan. 

2752.  [p.  356.]     2g  Jan.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Perriman? 
Sheerness. — His  affidavit  concerning  the  galliot  hoy  [2639] 
is  wholly  silent  in  the  principal  point — '  whether  in  truth 
you  did  repair  (as  in  your  letter  to  me  of  26  Nov.  you  say 
you  did  in  company  with  Mr.  Williamson)  to  Mr.  Holmes, 
the   owner   of  the   said   galliot,  before   you   issued   your 
certificate,  all  that  you  did  besides  in  rowing  about   the 
vessel  without  going  on  board  her  or  conferring  with  any 
of  her  company  seeming  but  very  slight  expression  of  the 
care  needful  in  a  matter  of  that  moment,  forasmuch  as  if 
no  more  should  be  done  than  that  it  were  very  easy  to 
impose  any  ship  upon  you  or  any  man.'     Therefore  desires 
to  know  clearly  whether  he  repaired  to  the  pretended  owner, 
and  how  far  he  concurred  with  the  master  in  acknowledging 
his  ship  to  be  in  the  River,  and  that  that  was  she  which  he 
had  visited  at  Gravesend. 

2753.  [p.  357.]     29  Jan.     S.  P.  to   the  Navy  Board. 
— Finds  the  late  warrant  of  the  lords  about  the  cooks  of 
the  5th  rates  to  be  mistaken  in  drawing,  and  prays  them 
to  return  it  for  altering.     Desires   to  know   whether  Sir 
William  Doyley 2  has  given  in  his  account. 

2754.  [p.  357.]     29  Jan.     S.  P.  to    Captain  Clements, 
commander  of  the  Greyhound,  in  the  Downs. — To  carry 
'  my  brother  Mr.  St.  Michel ' 3  to  Calais,  and  bring  him  back 
again  in  case  his  stay  shall  not  exceed  3  days  [2750, 2761]. 

2755.  [p.  358.]     i  Feb.     S.  P.  to  Sir  John   Tippetts* 
surveyor  of  the  navy. — Desires  him  to  consider  what  5  or 
6  frigates  of  the  4th  or  5th  rates  might  be  soonest  ready 
in  case  the  war   with   Tripoli   should   continue ;   '  in  the 
choice   whereof  good   sailing   and   being    sheathed 8    are 
particularly  to  be  respected,  and  next  what  may  be  fitted 
with  the  least  charge  and  the  least  time.'     If  he  should 
think  the  new  ship  at  Woolwich6  to  be  one,  the  king's 
pleasure  should  be  suddenly  known  concerning  her  in  order 
to  her  being  sheathed  before  she  comes  out  of  dock. 

1  See  ii.  50  n.  supra.     Captain  John  Perriman,  master  attendant  at 
Sheerness,  had  been  specially  appointed  to  survey  merchant  ships  in 
the  Thames  applying  for  passes,  in  order  to  prevent  fraud  [2558].     See 
also  Introduction,  p.  xxi.,  supra. 

2  One  of  the  late  commissioners  for  the  care  of  sick  and  wounded 
seamen. 

3  See  note  to  No.  2387.  *  See  note  to  No.  2530. 
5  See  ii.  184  n.  supra.  8  See  note  to  No.  2467. 


1675-6  FOURTH   VOLUME  165 

2756.  [p.  358.]     I  Feb.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Richard  Beach,1 
commissioner  at  Chatham. — Has  received  his  of  29  Jan. 
giving  an  account  of  the  better  satisfaction  he  has  lately 
received  touching  the  attendance  of  Mr.  Brouncker  [2743]. 
Understands  the  same  from  Mr.  Brown,  the  deputy  clerk 
of  the  check  [2746].     Desires  to  know  if  he  wishes  him 
called  to  any  further  account  before  the  king  and  lords. 

2757.  [p.  359.]     i  Feb.     S.  P.  to  Colonel  Piper?  at  Ply- 
mouth.— Thanks  for  his  of  28  Jan. 

2758.  [p.  359.]     i  Feb.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  George  P ley?  at 
Weymouth. — Has  received  his  and  also  Mr.  Brett's  recom- 
mendation  of  Mr.  Coggan  as  marshal  of  the  vice-admi- 
ralty  of  Dorsetshire   in   the   room    of  Mr.    Bond,  lately 
deceased ;   but   as   a   civility   due  to  the  vice-admiral   of 
the   county,   the  writer  leaves  it  to  him  to  inform   Lord 
Ashley  4  in  what  he  desires  herein. 

2759.  [p.  360.]     2  Feb.     S.  P.  to  Sir  John  Kempthorne? 
commissioner  at  Portsmouth. — The  bearer,  Philip  Slader, 
cook  of  the  Oxford  (who  was  lately  suspended  by  his  order, 
together  with  the  boatswains  of  the  Oxford  and  Greenwich, 
on  account  of  the  death  of  the  carpenter  [2651,  2800]), 
having  brought  a  certificate  from  the  said  boatswains  that 
he  was  not  in  the  ship's  boat  when  that  accident  happened, 
having  been  left  on  shore  by  reason  of  the  darkness  of  the 
night,  the  bad  weather,  and  his  disability  by  the  loss  of  his 
arm,  the  king  and  lords  desire  him  to  cause  his  suspension 
to  be  taken  off. 

2760.  [p.  360.]     4  Feb.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— 
Desires  them  to  prepare  an  estimate  for  the  lords  against 
to-morrow  of  the  value  of  the  stores  they  report  needful 
for  Sir  John  Narbrough's  fleet,  and  the  freight  thereof  to 
Malta  [2741]. 

2761.  [p.  361.]     4  Feb.     S.  P.  to    Captain    Clements, 
Greyhound,  Downs. — To  bring  Mr.  St.  Michel  from  Calais 
to  Deal  [2754]. 

1  This  letter,  in  comparison  with  No.  2690,  fixes  the  date  of 
Beach's  knighthood  as  between  23  Dec.  1675  and  i  Feb.  1676.  The 
knighthood  is  not  given  in  Shaw,  The  Knights  of  England,  and  it  is 
assigned  by  Charnock  to  1683  (Biog.  Nav.  i.  52). 

3  Deputy-governor  of  Plymouth  [2667]. 

3  Presumably  Mr.  George  Pley,  senior.     See  ii.  107  n.  supra. 

4  See  ii.  132  n.  supra.  5  See  note  to  No.  2734. 


1 66  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          Feb. 

2762.  [p.  361.]     4  Feb.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  St.  Michel}  at 
Calais. — The  Greyhound  will  fetch  him  back,  with  orders 
to  stay  one  day  for  him  [2761]  ;  '  so  as  I  presume  you  will 
have  opportunity  to  see  the  close  of  the  carnival,  to  which 
I  have  nothing  to  add  but  my  blessing  to  my  godson  and 
service  to  my  sister,  with  wishes  of  a  safe  return  to  you,' 

2763.  [p.  361.]     4  Feb.     S.  P.  to  Sir  John  Tippetts?- 
The  king  (his  Royal  Highness  being  present)  hath  pitched 
upon  the  Speedwell  for  the  5th  rate,  but  desires  his  opinion 
once  more  touching  the  4th  rate  which  may  be  soonest  ready 
and  with  least  charge  to  be  employed  to  Newfoundland 
[2802],  wherein  regard  to  her  sailing  may  be  better  spared 
than  to  take  away  any  ships  which  by  that  quality  may  be 
more  serviceable  in  the  Straits.     The  king  doth  design,  if 
occasion  shall  call  for  more  ships  to  the  Straits,  to  send 
the  Kingfisher 3  for  one,  but  doth  not  conceive  it  expedient 
to  have  her  sheathed 4  before  she  come  about  into  the  River 
after  launching,  wherein  also  his  opinion  is  desired. 

2764.  [p.  362.]     4  Feb.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Shales,  at  the 
lord  treasurer's. — Sends  him  a  copy  of  a  letter  from  the 
duke's  servants  about  him  [2642]. 

2765.  [p.  362.]     S  Feb,     S.  P.  to  Sir  Richard  Beach,6  at 
Chatham. — The  king  excuses    Mr.  Brouncker's  fault  this 
time  on  his  intercession  [2756],     '  To  which  give  me  leave 
to  add  my  own  entreaty  on  behalf  of  his  Majesty's  service, 
that  you  will  not  let  your  charity,  which  you  seem  to 
make  use  of  in  the  present  case,  persuade  you  to  bear  with 
more  of  this  kind,  either  from  him  or  anybody  else,  than 
may  stand  with  the  preservation  of  that  discipline  without 
which  the  whole  service  must  go  to  ruin.' 

2766.  [p.   363.]     8   Feb.     S.   P.  to    Captain  Lassells? 
Garland,  in  the  Downs. — Encloses  orders  for  his  cruising  to 
and  again  for   10  days,  in  which  service  he  may  take  in 
his  company  from    Dover  to  Calais  a  vessel  with  some 
horses  belonging  to  the  Duke  of  Monmouth  7  [2767]. 

2767.  [p.  363.]     1 1  Feb.,  '  past   1 1   at  night ;  sent  by 
express.'     The    same  to  the  same. — The  king   hath  this 
night  pitched  upon  him  for  another  service — to  transport 

1  See  note  to  No.  2387.  a  See  note  to  No.  2530. 

1  A  4th  rate  of  663  tons  burden  now  building  at  Woodbridge  by 
Phineas  Pett  (i.  272  supra).  *  See  ii.  184  n.  supra. 

6  See  note  to  No.  2756.    6  See  note  to  No.  2181.    7  D.  N.  B.  \\.  28. 


1675-6  FOURTH   VOLUME  167 

a  Swedish  gentleman  to  Gottenburg  [2771,  2774,  2781]  ; 
he  is  therefore  to  deliver  his  other  orders  [2766]  to  Captain 
Dickenson  for  execution  [2768].  Desires  to  know  the  state 
of  his  victualling. 

2768.  [p.  364.]     1 1  Feb., '  1 1  at  night.'     5.  P.  to  Cap- 
tain Dickenson^  Hunter,  in  the  Downs. — To  execute  the 
orders  given  to  Captain  Lassells  [2766],  except  that  the 
10  days  is  shortened  to  5  or  6. 

Postscript. — If  Captain  Lassells  be  gone  and  he  thinks 
he  can  recover  him  off  Dover  [2775],  he  is  to  follow  him 
with  the  letter  that  accompanies  this  [2767]. 

2769.  [p.  364.]     1 1  Feb., '  past  1 1  at  night.'     S.  P.  to 
Mr.  Neale,  postmaster  at  Deal. — To  convey  the  enclosed 
to  Captain  Lassells  ;  and  if  he  be  not  in  the  Downs,  to 
Captain  Dickenson  [2767,  2768]. 

2770.  [p.  365.]     12  Feb.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— 
Very  heartily  concurs  in  what  they  propound  touching  the 
providing   such   a   boatswain    for   the  hulk  at  Plymouth 
'  as  by  his  being  a  ship-carpenter  may  be  no  less  able  to 
look  after  the  preserving  the  body  of  the  said  hulk  by  due 
caulking  it,  as  by  his  seamanship  to  execute  the  place  of 
boatswain.'     Will  therefore  find  another  employment  for 
the  present  boatswain,  that  Captain  Golding,  whom  they 
propound  for  it,  may  be  appointed  thereto. 

2771.  [p.  365.]     12  Feb.     S.  P.  to  Lord  Leyenbergh?— 
Will   communicate  to  him   the   answer  from  the  Downs 
when  he  receives  it,  'that  the  general  [2781]  may  with 
better  assurance  pitch  upon  the  day  of  his  departure  from 
hence '  [2767,  2774]. 

2772.  [p.  365.]     [12  Feb.}     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Secretary  Wil- 
liamson?— Sends  a  draught  of  the  writer's  conception  of 
the  warrant  needful  for  his  Majesty  to  sign  to  the  lords 
for  empowering  them  to  respite  the  execution  of  the  sen- 
tence of  death  upon  Captain  Harris  [2735,  2773]. 

2773.  [p.  366.]     14  Feb.     S.  P.  to    Captain  Gunman, 
commander  of  the  Anne  yacht,  at  Greenwich. — Doubts  not 
that  Mr.  Joynes,  the  marshal  of  the  admiralty,  hath  com- 
municated to  him  the  lords'  order  for  executing  Captain 

1  See  ii.  367  n.  supra.  2  See  note  to  No.  2209. 

8  D.  N.  B.  Ixii.  2.  Since  28  July,  1675,  Sir  Joseph  Williamson  had 
been  an  admiralty  commissioner  as  well  as  a  secretary  of  state  (i.  39, 
supra}. 


1 68  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS         Feb. 

Joseph  Harris  :  this  day  on  board  his  yacht,  and  his  supply- 
ing the  marshal  with  a  competent  number  of  small  shot 
out  of  his  company  for  the  doing  thereof ;  wherein  he  is  '  to 
cause  as  much  appearance  of  reality  to  be  expressed  in  this 
matter '  as  he  can,  though  one  of  the  writer's  servants  will 
just  before  the  act  of  the  execution  should  be  done,  pro- 
duce a  warrant  from  the  lords  for  the  forbearance  thereof. 

2774.  [p.  366.]     1 5  Feb.     S.  P.  to  Lord  Leyenbergh?— 
The  frigate  in  the  Downs  is  in  readiness  [2776]  ;  the  writer 
desires  a  memorial  of  what  she  is  to  do,  when  orders  will 
be  issued  accordingly  [2771], 

Margin:  refers  to  the  ship  'that  carries  the  Swedish  lord'  [2781]. 

2775.  [p.  367.]     1 5  Feb.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Dickenson, 
Hunter,  in  the  Downs. — Thanks  for  his  timely  overtaking 
the  Garland  [2768]. 

2776.  [p.  367.]      15    Feb.     S.  P.  to  Captain   Lassells, 
Garland,   in   the   Downs. — He   may  expect  the  Swedish 
gentleman  every  day  [2774,  2781]. 

2777.  [p.  367.]     15    Feb.     S.  P.    to    Captain   Roy  den, 
Guernsey,  Downs. — Has  received  his  of  the  lothfrom  Ply- 
mouth ;  he  is  to  hasten  up  to  Deptford.     The  properest 
place  for  trying  his  boatswain  will  be  in  the  River  [2785], 
there  not  being  commanders  enough  in  the  Downs  to  make 
up  a  court-martial.     Will  inform  him  whether  the  money 
belongs  to  his  Majesty  or  not  [2787]. 

2778.  [p.  368.]     1 5  Feb.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— 
The  lord  treasurer  having  yesterday  determined  '  that  the 
Phoenix,  Portland,  and  Speedwell,  already  ordered  forth, 
and  what  more  ships  shall  be  to  be  fitted  out  upon  account 
of  the  summer  guard,  are  as  to  the  charge  thereof  to  be 
done  out  of  the  moneys  arising  upon  the  estimate  for  the 
wear  and  tear  of  the  said  summer  and  winter  guard,'  they 
will  expect  no  further  answer  about  the  particular  case  of 
the  Phoenix.     Desires  to  know  whether  there  be  any  other 
consideration  of  guilt  chargeable  on  the  cook  of  the  Oxford, 
besides  his  having  been  in  the  boat  with  the  carpenter 
that  was  killed  [2759].     Pursuant  to  his  Majesty's  resolu- 
tions, the  writer  has  delivered  a  memorial  to  Mr.  Secretary 

1  See  note  to  No.  2715.  The  entry  opposite  his  name  in  Pepys's 
Register  is  '  Condemned  to  death  by  a  court-martial  for  suffering  dis- 
honour, but  pardoned,  and  since  deceased'  (i.  361,  supra). 

3  See  note  to  No.  2209. 


1675-6  FOURTH   VOLUME  169 

Coventry  l  for  the  letters  designed  to  be  sent  to  the  Vice- 
King  of  Sicily,  Naples,  and  Sardinia,  which,  upon  Sir 
Thomas  Clutterbuck's 2  attending  Mr.  Secretary,  will  doubt- 
less be  delivered  him.  '  As  to  the  preventions  offered 
against  any  future  non-compliance  on  his  part  in  the  pro- 
visions expected  from  him,  I  shall  desire  both  in  that  and 
in  the  general  case  of  the  victualling  that  you  will  give  me 
as  early  advertisement  as  may  be  ...  of  any  want  of 
supplemental  declarations,  .  .  .  and  for  what  concerns  the 
punctuality  of  Sir  Thomas  Clutterbuck's  payments,  my 
lord  treasurer  seemed  yesterday  so  fully  possessed  of  that 
matter  as  encourageth  me  to  hope  that  we  shall  not  meet 
with  any  disappointment  therefrom.' 

2779.  [p.    369.]     1 8   Feb.     S.  P.   to    Captain  Roy  den, 
Guernsey,  in  the  Downs. — Sends  orders  for  his  coming  up 
to  Deptford  to  be  paid  off. 

2780.  [p.  369.]     1 8   Feb.     S.  P.  to  Sir  John  Kemp- 
thorne. — Wishes  him  success  and  content  in  his  new  place.3 
Thanks  for  his  advice  about  the  embezzlements ;  doubts 
not  the  navy  board  will  obtain  right  for  his  Majesty  against 
the  offenders. 

2781.  [p.    369.]     1 8   Feb.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Lassells? 
Garland,  Dover. — Either  this  night  or  to-morrow  he  may 
hear  of  Lord  General  Hemsfeldt 5  [2776]. 

2782.  [p.  370.]     1 8  Feb.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— 
Will   speedily  receive   the   lords'   direction    touching  the 
Portland  and  Reserve. 

2783.  [p.    370.]     21   Feb.     S.  P.   to    Captain  Roy  den, 
Guernsey,  at  Deptford. — To  send  up  for  the  perusal  of  the 
lords  the  journal  of  his  last  voyage  [2787]. 

2784.  [p.  370.]     21  Feb.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Stout?  late 
commander  of  the  Success. — '  To  the  end  his  Majesty  may 
understand  the  fruits  of  his  bounty  and  the  extraordinary 
charge   attending   the   same   in    allowing  midshipmen['s] 
and  reformadoes' 7  pay  extraordinary  on  board  his  ships  to 
some  persons  specially  recommended  to  him,'  as  in  par- 
ticular to  Mr.  Charles  Dallison  on  board  the  Success, '  I  am 

1  D.  N.  B.  xii.  357. 

2  Victualler  for  the  Mediterranean.     See  ii.  236  n.  supra. 

3  See  note  to  No.  2734.  4  See  note  to  No.  2181. 

s  MS.   '  Hemlsfeldt.'      On    this    Swedish   general    see    Hoefer, 
Nouvelle  Biographie  Gtndrale,  xxiii.  851. 

6  See  note  to  No.  2374.  7  See  i.  190  n.  supra. 


1 70  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS         Feb. 

by  his  Majesty's  command  to  desire  that  you  will  forthwith 
give  me  a  particular  and  impartial  account  of  the  behaviour, 
sobriety,  diligence,  and  obedience  to  orders  of  the  said 
Mr.  Dallison  during  his  being  with  you,  and  the  service  he 
did  or  endeavoured  to  do  his  Majesty  therein,  in  order  to 
his  Majesty's  continuing  or  withholding  his  said  bounty  to 
him,  as  on  your  report  his  Majesty  shall  see  cause. 
Wherein  forasmuch  as  your  doing  right  to  his  Majesty  is  in 
so  great  a  degree  concerned,  his  Majesty  doth  expect  your 
discharging  yourself  with  that  sincerity  which  may  lead  his 
Majesty  to  put  his  reliance  upon  your  report  in  other  cases,  by 
leading  him  in  the  present  case  to  a  just  knowledge  of  what 
is  good  or  bad  in  this  gentleman? 

2785.  [p.  371.]      23  Feb.      S.  P.  to  Captain  Roy  den, 
Guernsey,  at  Deptford. — The  king  and  lords  purposing  to 
have  a  court-martial  held  in  a  few  days  on  board  the  Anne 
yacht  [2777],   he  is  to  put  on  board  her  his  boatswain, 
against  whom  he  has  made  some  complaints  [2786]. 

Margin  :  '  Not  sent.' 

2786.  [p.  371.]      23  Feb.      S.  P.  to  Captain  Gunman, 
Anne  yacht,  at  Deptford. — To  receive  and  keep  in   safe 
custody  Captain  Royden's  boatswain  [2785]. 

Margin :  '  Not  sent.' 

2787.  [p.    371.]     23   Feb.      S.  P.  to  Captain   Royden, 
Deptford. — Has  received  his  journal  [2783].     Prays  him 
to  give  a  particular  of  his  boatswain's  crimes.     The  money 
is  to  be  delivered  to  whom  it  is  consigned  [2777]. 

2788.  [p.   374.1]     23  Feb.     S.  P.  to  Captain   Wright? 
Phoenix,  at  Woolwich. — By  his  Majesty's  particular  com- 
mand he  is  to  entertain  Mr.  Samuel  Moody  as  his  chaplain 
in  his  present  voyage. 

1  This  letter  is  out  of  order  in  the  MS.  It  is  also  copied  in  again 
on  p.  380. 

*  According  to  Pepys's  Register,  Captain  Lawrence  Wright  had 
been  appointed  to  the  command  of  the  Nonsuch  in  1672  (i.  427,  supra), 
and  he  was  certainly  commanding  her  at  the  beginning  of  October 
1674  [!8i9].  His  commission  to  the  Phcenix  is  dated  28  Jan.  1675-6 
(i.  427,  supra).  Charnock  (Biog.  Nav.  i.  318)  speaks  of  him  as  having 
been  removed  from  the  Nonsuch  into  the  Antelope,  7  Jan.  1 672(^-3], 
but  this  is  clearly  impossible.  It  is  probable  that  1672^3]  is  a  wrong 
date  ;  and  that  this  may  be  the  case  is  suggested  by  the  Register, 
where  the  commission  of  1 672(^-3]  to  the  Antelope  follows  that  of 
1675-6  to  the  Phoenix.  He  is  not  to  be  confused  with  Captain  William 
Wright,  commander  of  the  Kitchen  yacht  (see  ii.  12  n.  supra]. 


1675-6  FOURTH   VOLUME  171 

2789.  [p.  372.]     24  Feb.    S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board— Puts 
them  in  mind  of  what  he  takes  to  be  a  standing  rule  in  the 
navy,  '  that  no  purser  be  permitted  to  go  to  sea  on  a  new 
voyage  before  he  hath  passed  an  account  of  the  former,  to 
the  end  that  the  pursers  of  the  ships  now  going  abroad, 
if  they  have  not  already,  may  be  called  upon  to  comply 
with  their  duty  therein.'     The  writer  is  more  particularly 
led  to  this  from  what  occurs  to  him  concerning  Mr.  Mills, 
purser  of  the  Reserve,  and  the  accusation  some  time  since 
brought  in  by  Mr.  Jones  [2574].     The  boatswain,  gunner, 
and  carpenter  of  the  Quaker  ketch,  charged  with  embezzle- 
ment of  stores  by  the  commander,  are  to  be  tried  at  a 
court-martial  [2785]. 

2790.  [p.  372.]     24  Feb.     S.  P.  to  Sir  John  Knight?  in 
London. — Will  move  the  lords  for  a  copy  of  the  order  he 
desires,  and  convey  it  to  him  without  any  charge, '  desiring 
that  if  in  all  that  hath  passed  between  my  lords  of  the 
admiralty  and  yourself  you  have  been  a  penny  in  disburse 
in  my  office  (which  I  firmly  believe  you  have  not),  you  will 
let  me  know  it  and  it  shall  be  repaid  you  double.' 

2791.  [p.  373.]     24  Feb.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Richard  Beach? 
at  Chatham. — Has  conferred   with  the  navy  board  about 
the  suspension  of  Mr.  Minors,  purser  of  the  Sovereign,  on 
account  of  some  dissatisfaction  of  his  in  his  absence  from  his 
duty  on  board  her.     It  appears  that  the  board  granted  him 
leave  for  some  certain  time  to  execute  his  place  by  deputy 
upon  the  score  of  his  incapacity  by  sickness,  certified  by 
Mr.  Conny,  the  chirurgeon  of  Chatham  Yard,  he  proposing 
one  Lucas  for  his  deputy,  whom  the  officers  of  the  yard  report 
to  have  very  carefully  and  constantly  performed  the  duty  of 
the  said  purser  since  his  deputation,  though  Mr.  Minors 
continued  his  said  deputy  beyond  the  time  granted  by  the 
warrant  from  the  navy  board,  and  the  officers  of  the  yard 
were  blameable  in  allowing  the  deputy  to  act  beyond  the 
time  he  was  warranted  for.     But  what  seems  of  principal 
importance  is,  whether  in  truth  Mr.  Minors's  sickness  hath 
disabled  him  from  doing  his  duty,  and  next  whether  in 
truth  Lucas  hath  well  performed  the  duty  of  purser  ;  con- 
cerning which  the  writer  desires  to  be  informed  from  him. 

2792.  [p.    374.]     24  Feb.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Dickenson? 

1  A  notable  merchant  of  Bristol.    D.  N.  B.  xxxi.  255. 

a  See  note  to  No.  2756.  3  See  ii.  3677*.  supra. 


i;2  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS         Feb. 

Hunter,  Downs. — Has  received   his   of   the  2Oth,   giving 
notice  of  his  return  to  the  Downs. 

2793.  [p.  374.]      24  Feb.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Denis  Gauden? 
Upon  the  writer's  moving  the  king  in  council  yesterday 
touching  that  clause  in  his  contract  about  the  king's  store- 
houses, &c.,  the  matter  was  agreed  to. 

2794.  [p.  375.]    24  Feb.    S.P.  to  Captain  Knyvett.—lv 
attend  the  lords  on  Saturday  morning  next,  to  answer  a 
complaint  by    one   John  Allin   of  his   being  wrongfully 
arrested  by  him. 

2795.  [p.  375.]     25  Feb.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board— 
The  king  and  lords  will  despatch  the  business  of  the  galley 
to-morrow  morning. 

2796.  [p.  375.]     28  Feb.     S.  P.  to  Sir  John  Bankes? 
1  Coming    to    move   his    Royal    Highness    this   morning 
about  the  business  of  our  meeting  with  Captain  Wood  and 
Captain  Proud  on  Thursday  next,  I  find  him  so  earnest 
in  the  despatch  of  what  is  to  be  done  therein  that  he  is 
unwilling  to  put  it  off  so  long,  and  therefore  hath  deter- 
mined that  it  shall  be  on  Wednesday  [2797]  at  the  king's 
rising  from  dinner.     To  which  end  I  give  you  this  notice 
of  it,  desiring  you  to  do  the  like  to  Captain  Proud.     You 
shall  find  me  attending  the  king  at  his  dinner,  and  a  piece 
of  ling  at  my  house  afterwards  for  yours.' 

2797.  [p.  376.]     28  Feb.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Wood3— Jo 
attend  his  Royal  Highness  on  Wednesday  to  discourse  with 
some  others  in  the  presence  of  his  Majesty  and  himself  the 
business  of  the  North-East  Passage  [2796]. 

2798.  [p.  376.]     2  Mar.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Gunman,  of 
the   Anne  yacht. — To  give  Monsieur  de  Vic  4  passage  to 
Ostend,  whither  his  yacht  is   bound  for  the  Countess  of 
Southesk.6     Also  to  receive  on  board   at  Ostend  a  pack 

1  See  note  to  No.  2518. 

2  See  note  to  No.  2825. 

3  Captain  John  Wood  had  formerly  commanded  the  Bonadventure 
[2048].     His  commission  to  the  Speedwell  is  dated  28  March,  1676 
(i.  426,  supra).     Pepys's  Register  mentions  six  other  officers  of  the  same 
surname.  On  the  object  of  this  voyage  see  Introduction,  p.  xxiv,  n.  supra. 

4  MS.  '  De  Vyk.'     Ignatius  White,  Baron  de  Vic,  Vique,  or  Viques, 
was  a  spy  in  the  pay  of  the  English  Government  (Cal.  S.  P.  Dom. 
1675-6,  p.  292). 

5  MS.  '  Southask.'     The  departure  of  the  Countess  of  Southesk 
for  Ostend  is  recorded  under  date  5  Oct.  1675  (ibid.  p.  335). 


1675-6  FOURTH   VOLUME  173 

containing  a  suit  of  hangings,  directed  to  the  ambassador 
of  Portugal. 

2799.  [p.  377.]     3  Mar.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— 
They  are  to  come  prepared  to-morrow  about  what  money 
will  be  necessary  to  build  another  galley-frigate  at  Wool- 
wich,1 over  and  above  the  timber  and  other  materials  re- 
maining in  the  king's  stores  applicable  to  this  work.  As  also 
touching  the  grounds  of  the  stoppage  of  Captain  Hamilton's2 
pay,  and  the  sum  that  the  wages  due  to  Captain  Tyrwhitt3 
and  his  servants  do  amount   to.     Desires  also  that   '  the 
bringing  the  business  of  manning  and  gunning '  the  king's 
ships  '  to  an  established  method  may  be  ripened  as  fast  as 
may  be,  and  this  the  rather  for  that  there  is  not  at  this  day 
one  vessel,  great  or  small,  ordered  forth,  that  the  king  is  not 
importuned  for  increase  of  her  men  or  guns  ;  nor  will  it 
probably  be  otherwise  till  the  numbers  thereof  are  settled 
and  confirmed  by  Order  of  Council,  so   as   no  room  for 
reasonable  objections  may  be  left  therein,  nor  power  of 
alteration  thereof  but  by  Order  of  Council.' 

2800.  [p.  378.]    4  Mar.    S.  P.  to  Sir  John  Kempthorne? 
commissioner  at  Portsmouth. — The  king  and  lords  '  have 
thought  it  absolutely  necessary  for  preserving  the  discipline 
of  the  navy '  that  the  boatswains  of  the  Oxford  and  Green- 
wich [2759]  should  be  turned  out  of  their  employments,  as 
having  been  equally  guilty  of  the  breach  of  orders,  though 
their   fortune    was    better    than    the    poor   carpenter   in 
escaping  the  shot.   The  king  grants  leave  for  Captain  Crabb 8 
to  come  to  town  for  a  month.     Will  make  fitting  use  of  his 
report  of  Mr.  Turner's  son  ;  this  and  his  father's  long  ser- 
vice in  the  navy  cannot  fail  of  making  some  provision  for 
him  as  opportunity  shall  present. 

2801.  [p.  378.]     6  Mar.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Theo[philus]  Bid- 
dulph? — To  know  why  he  has  arrested  Thomas  Urry,  master 
carpenter  of  the  Navy  yacht. 

1  See  i.  228,  supra,  and  note  to  No.  3240.      2  See  note  to  No.  2440. 
3  See  ii.  349  n.  supra.  4  See  note  to  No.  2734. 

5  See  note  to  No.  3614. 

6  Sir  Theophilus  Biddulph  was  probably  a  justice  at  Woolwich 
(Cat.  S.  P.  Dom.   1673,  P-  89).     He  had  been  one  of  the  commis- 
sioners from  the  City  of  London  chosen  to  present  an  address  to 
Charles  II  at  The  Hague  in  May  1660,  and  had  been  knighted  on 
that  occasion  (Shaw,  The  Knights  of  England,  ii.  226). 


174  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS         Mar. 

2802.  [p.  379.]    6  Mar.    S.  P.  to  Sir  Robert  Southwell.1 
The  king  and  lords  refer  Sir  John  Berry's  3  reports  upon 
the  instructions  given  him  last  year  to  the  committees  for 
trade  and  foreign  plantations,  to  know  if  the  same  or  dif- 
ferent  instructions   should   be  given  to  the  Reserve  and 
Speedwell,  designed  for  the  Newfoundland  convoy  of  the 
present  year. 

2803.  [p.  379.3]    7  Mar.     S.  P.  to  Sir  George  Downing.*' 
By   command   of    the   council  the   writer   sends    him    a 
form  established  by  the  proclamations  of  22  Dec.  and  28 
Jan.  for  the  passes  which  relate  to  our  treaties  with  Argeir, 
Tunis,  and  Tripoli  [27010]. 

2804.  [p.  380.]     8  Mar.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— 
Desires  to  know  when  the  Quaker  ketch  will  be  on  float,  in 
order   to  the  putting  in  execution  a  late   sentence   of  a 
court-martial  which  must  be  performed  thereon  [2789]. 

2805.  [p.  380.]     S  Mar.    S.  P.  to  Captain  Atkins?  com- 
mander of  the  Quaker  ketch. — The  bearer,  John  Eccles, 
being  appointed  by  the  master  of  the  ordnance  to  be  one 
of  the  gunners  of  the  garrison  at  Tangier,  he  is  to  give  him 
passage  thither. 

Postscript. — He  is  to  be  allowed  victuals  as  an  ordinary 
seaman. 

2806.  [p.  381.]     13  Mar.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Clements, 
Greyhound,  in  the  Downs. — Mr.  Knyvet's  6  horses  (not  ex- 
ceeding five)  that  he  is  to  give  convoy  to  from  Dover  to 
Calais  are  in  readiness  at  Dover. 

2807.  [p.  381.]     15  Mar.     S.  P.  to  the  Master  Atten- 
dant and  Clerk  of  the  Check  of  his  Majesty's  yard  at  Dept- 
ford. — Desires  them  to  enter  Edward  Beane  as  a  labourer 
in  the  yard  when  a  vacancy  shall  happen. 

2808.  [p.    381.]     15    Mar.     S.  P.  to    Charles  Bertie? 
Esquire,   at   the   lord   treasurer's. — At   the   desire   of  Sir 

1  See  ii.  63  n.  supra.  a  See  note  to  No.  2274. 

*  Out  of  order  in  the  MS. 

4  See  note  to  No.  2731. 

5  The  commission  of  Captain  Charles  Atkins  as  commander  of 
the  Quaker  ketch  is  dated  14  Feb.  1675-6  (i.  319,  supra}.     He  was  the 
son  of  Sir  Jonathan  Atkins,  the  governor  of  Barbados  [2272], 

8  MS.  '  Knyvitt.' 

7  Secretary  to  the  lord  treasurer  (Cal.  S.  P.  Dom.  1673,  index). 


1675-6  FOURTH   VOLUME  175 

Richard  Ford  1  this  comes  to  let  him  know  that  the  value  of 
the  piece  of  ground  wherein  Sir  R.  F.  is  interested,  adjoin- 
ing that  whereon  the  office  of  the  navy  lately  stood  and 
now  bought  for  the  enlargement  of  the  said  office,  amounts 
(together  with  some  bricks  and  other  materials  remaining 
on  the  ground) ,  as  agreed  on  between  the  officers  of  the 
navy  and  Mr.  Nicholas  Salter,  the  owner,  to  2,6oo/. 

2809.  [p.  382.]     1 6  Mar.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Wright? 
commander  of  the  Phcenix. — To  give  passage  to  Darby 
McCragh  to  Jamaica,  allowing  him  victuals  as  one  of  the 
ship's  company. 

2810.  [p.  382.]     1 8  Mar.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Laurence,  at 
the   exchequer. — In   pursuance  of  the   chancellor  of  the 
exchequer's  commands,  the  writer  has  bespoke  a  meeting 
of  Mr.  Evelyn 3  here  on  Tuesday  morning  next  at  8,  if  it 
will  suit  him  and  Mr.  Brewer. 

2811.  [p.  382.]     20  Mar.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board— 
The  king  desires  them  to  lose  no  time  in  despatching  the 
Speedwell  [2802],  and,  if  possible,  to  spare  a  few  hands 
from  Woolwich  to  that  purpose. 

2812.  [p.   383.]     21    Mar.     S.  P.   to  Monsieur  Blan- 
ckard* — In  order  to  answer  his  desire  touching  Monsieur 
the  Marquis  de  Be"thune,5  the  writer  must  be  informed  in 
the  following  particulars:  (i)  Whether  with   the  coaches 
any  horses  are  to  be  transported,  and  how  many,  and  where 
they  are  to  be  taken  in.     (2)  Whether  the  fly  boat  that  is  to 
be  hired  shall  be  discharged  at  Danzig,6  or  continued  there 
in  the  ambassador's  service.  (3)  Whether  the  whole  equipage 
will  be  expected  to  go  entirely  upon  the  man-of-war,  which 
cannot  commodiously  be  ;  and  therefore  whether  some,  and 
how  many,  may  not  take  their  passage  upon  the  fleet.     (4) 
Whether  by  victuals  is  meant  the  usual  provisions  made  at 
sea  for  the  ship's  company,  or  fresh  provisions.     (5)  About 
what  time  the  ambassador  will  be  ready  with  his  retinue 
and  meubles  to  embark. 

2813.  [p.  383.]     21  Mar.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners 

1  Sir  Richard  Ford,  now  an  alderman  of  the  City  of  London  (Cal. 
S.  P.  Dom.   1675-6,   index),  had  been  knighted  in   1660  under  the 
same  circumstances  as  Sir  Theophilus  Biddulph  (see  note  to  No.  2801). 

2  See  note  to  No.  2788.  s  D.  N.  B.  xviii.  79. 

4  MS.  « Blankard.' 

5  MS.  'Vethune.'  6  MS.  '  Dansique.' 


176  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          Mar. 

of  the  Customs^  London. — '  In  pursuance  of  the  6th  article 
of  the  rules  lately  established  by  his  Majesty  in  council 
touching  the  passes  to  be  issued  in  pursuance  of  the  treaties 
with  Argeir,  Tunis,  and  Tripoli,'  a  pass  is  demanded  for  the 
Lily,  of  Yarmouth,  Samuel  Callow,  master,  now  lying  at 
Yarmouth,  bound  for  the  Straits. 

2814.  [p.  384.]     21  Mar.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Dickenson? 
commander  of  the  Hunter,  in  the  Downs. — To  hasten  his 
ship  up  to  Sheerness. 

2815.  [p.  384.]     24  Mar.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Creed?  secretary 
for  Tangier. — The  king  directs  that  he  is  to  lose  no  time 
in  preparing  the  needful  orders  for  the  payment  of  the 
money  [2 8 2 8],  and  what  other  papers  the  speedy  despatching 
away  of  Mr.  Sheeres 3  will  call  for. 

2816.  [p.  384.]     24  Mar.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— 
Sends  a  copy  of  the  king's  order  to  the   master  of  the 
ordnance  for  furnishing  arms  and  ammunition  to  the  ships 
in  harbour. 

2817.  [p.  385.]     25   Mar.     The   same   to  the  same. — 
Sends  the  enclosed  paper  from  Captain  Trotter,4 '  in  answer 
to  what  is  objected  to  him  in  your  late  report  of  24  Feb., 
their  lordships  referring   to   you   the   doing  the  same  in 
reference  to  this  paper  which  by  their  letter  to  you  of  the 
22nd  inst  they  ordered  in  that  of  Captain  Harman's.' 

2818.  [p.  385.]     25  Mar.     S.  P.  to  the  master  of  the 
Jemmy  yacht. — He  is  to  carry  back  from  Woodbridge  10 
shipwrights  sent  from  the  king's  yard  at  Chatham  to  assist 
Mr.  Pett  in  building  the  Kingfisher.5 

Postscript. — This  is  not  to  interrupt  any  service  ap- 
pointed him  by  the  navy  board  or  Sir  Richard  Beach,6  but 
to  be  done  upon  his  coming  away  from  Woodbridge. 

2819.  [p.  385.]     28  Mar.     S.  P.  to  Sir  John  TippettsJ 
surveyor  of  the  navy. — Desires  to  know  what  4th  rate  and 
what  5th  rate  may  be  soonest  and  with  easiest  charge  set 
to  sea  for  home  service. 

1  See  ii.  367  n.  supra.  2  D.  N.  B.  xiii.  68. 

3  See  note  to  No.  2724. 

4  Late  commander  of  the  Speedwell.     See  note  to  No.  2181. 

5  See  note  to  No.  2763. 

8  Resident  commissioner  of  the  navy  at  Chatham.     See  note  to 
No.  2756. 

7  See  note  to  No.  2530. 


1676  FOURTH   VOLUME  177 

2820.  [p.  386.]     28  Mar.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Robert  South- 
well}— Finds  nothing  to  oppose  to  the  alteration  propounded 
to  the  5th  article  of  the  instructions  about  passes  in  pur- 
suance of  the  treaties  with  Argeir,  &c.,  but  it  ought  to  be 
declared  by  the  lords  whether,  though  the  passes  are  deter- 
minable  at  the  end  of  the  year,  the  bonds  to  be  entered 
into  for  delivering  them  up  ought  not  to  continue  according 
to  the  terms  of  the  present  article,  namely  at  the  end  of 
the  voyage  and  the  ship's  being  unladen,  '  it  being  not  to 
be  expected  that   any   merchant   or   master  will  become 
bound  to  any  peremptory  time  for  the  delivering  up  of  the 
pass.' 

2821.  [p.    386.]     28   Mar.     S.   P.  to   Mr.  Arundel.— 
Acquaints  him  of  two  yachts  bound  for  France,  of  which 
he  may  make  choice  for  his  service — one  on   Thursday 
for  Dieppe  to  transport  Lady  Craven  [2823],  and  the  other 
on  Saturday  for  Calais  to  fetch  over  Lord  Derby  [2834]. 

2822.  [p.  386.]     28  Mar.     S.   P.   to  Captain  Ridley? 
commander    of    the   Wivenhoe,   at    Portsmouth. — Hopes 
Northall,  his  mate,  will  now  suddenly  return  to  his  duty  on 
board  [2651].     Will  speak  to  Mr.  Pearse  3  about  his  sick 
men. 

2823.  [p.  387.]     28  Mar.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Sanderson, 
of  the  Portsmouth  yacht. — To   give    Monsieur  Fetteau  4 
passage  to  Dieppe  [2829]  when  he  goes  with  Lady  Craven 
[2821]. 

2824.  [p.  387.]     31  Mar.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— 
Entreats  them  to  consider  how  far  the  taking  any  of  the 
Phoenix's  company  for  carrying  the  Woolwich  to  Chatham 
may  either  impede  her  despatch  or  endanger  the  loss  of 
the  men,  both  which  Captain  Wright B  seems  greatly  to 
apprehend. 

2825.  [p.  387.]     31  Mar.     S.  P.  to  Sir  John  Bankes*— 
The  Hunter  being  come  about  from  the  Downs  to  Sheerness, 
it  will  be  needful  if  the  proposal  go  on  (which  it  were 

1  See  ii.  63  n.  supra.  2  See  note  to  No.  2418. 

3  Chirurgeon-general  of  the  fleet  [86  il 

4  MS.  '  Fetteo.' 

*  See  note  to  No.  2788. 

8  Sir  John  Bankes  appears  to  have  been  engaged  in  the  East 
India  trade  (Cal.  S.  P.  Dom.  1672,  p.  583)  ;  he  also  sold  cordage  to 
the  navy  (ib.  p.  181).  On  Aug.  15,  1672,  he  had  received  a  grant  of 
pardon  for  all  usurious  contracts  (ib.  p.  492). 

VOL.   III.  N 


1 78  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS         Mar. 

better  it  did  not)  that  some  persons  be  immediately 
despatched  down  to  survey  her,  and  take  an  account  of 
all  that  ought  to  be  done  to  her  for  enabling  her  to  go  the 
voyage,  to  the  end  the  same  may  be  ascertained  and  the 
charge  computed,  with  such  provision  made  by  the  Guinea 
Company  for  the  present  defraying  as  well  that  as  the 
future  charge  of  victuals  and  wages,  that  his  Majesty  (as  is 
.  promised)  may  be  effectually  secured  against  bearing  any 
part  of  it. 

2826.  [p.  387.]     31  Mar.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Dickenson^ 
Hunter,  in  the  port   of  Sheerness. — Will  suddenly  send 
him  further  orders. 

2827.  [p.   388.]      I  Apr.      S.   P.   to  Captain   London, 
Norwich,  at  Waterford. — As  soon  as  he  is  returned  from 
his   voyage   to    France  with  Count  Hamilton,2  the  king's 
pleasure  shall  be  taken  for  bringing  him  into  port  to  refit 
or  lay  up. 

2828.  [p.  388.]     i  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Fleetwood?  at 
Newmarket. — Desires  him  to  move  the  lord  treasurer  for 
the  quarter's  advance  of  4,87  5/.  to  be  made  to  Mr.  Sheeres 
[2815]  upon  his  present  undertaking  of  the  mole  at  Tangier. 

2829.  [p.  388.]     3  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Lovell?  of  the 
Katherine  yacht. — To  give  Monsieur  Fetteau  6  passage  to 
Dieppe  [2823]  when  he  goes  thither  with   Sir   Laurence 
Dibusty6[283i]. 

2830.  [p.  389.]     3  Apr.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board. — As 
the  manning   of  the   Speedwell  in  an  expedition  so  un- 
certain and  hazardous  as  this  is  [2842]  will  call  for  some 
time  more  than  usual  to  compass,  they  are  to  give  orders 
for  entering  men  on  her  as  fast  as  the  captain  can  procure 
them,  though  it  will  be  yet  a  few  days  before  she  will  be 
out  of  the  dock.     At  the  entreaty  of  Mr.    Griffith,   her 
present  purser,  his  Majesty  is  pleased  to  give  way  to  his 
surrendering  his  employment  for  the  present  voyage  unto 
Mr.  Mark  Wildboare,  upon  good  certificates  of  his  fitness. 


1  See  ii.  367  n.  supra. 

9  On  Count  Anthony  Hamilton,  the  author  of  the  memoirs  of  his 
brother-in-law,  the  Comte  de  Grammont,  see  D.  N.  B.  xxiv.  135. 

3  One  of  the  secretaries  to  the  lord  treasurer  [1890]. 

4  Charnock,  Biog.  Nav.  i.  347.  6  MS.  '  Fetteo.' 

6  MS.  '  Debustry.'     He  was  apparently  a  shipowner  (Cal.  S.  P. 
Dom.  1673-5,  pp.  197,  205,  344). 


1676  FOURTH   VOLUME  179 

2831.  [p.    389.]      3   Apr.      S.   P.  to   Captain  Lovell^ 
Katherine  yacht,  at  Greenwich. — After  landing  Sir  Lau- 
rence   Dibusty    at    Dieppe   [2829],   he   is   to   carry  Mr. 
Nicholas   Cook   to   Havre   de  Grace,  and  then  return  to 
Greenwich. 

2832.  [p.  390.]     3  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Sir  John  Narbrough? 
commander  of  the  Harwich,  and  admiral   in   the    Medi- 
terranean.— The  king  and  lords  '  have  commanded  me  to 
signify  to  you  the  extraordinary  content  they  take  in  the 
effects  of  that  action 3  of  yours,   and  what  they  observe  to 
your  utmost  advantage  in  reference  to  your  conduct  therein, 
perfected  with  all  the   acceptable  circumstances  that  can 
attend    any    attempt    of  that   kind — namely,   the   being 
effectual,  speedy,  and  not  chargeable  to  his  Majesty  in  his 
treasure   nor  to  his  subjects  in  their  lives — his  Majesty's 
esteem  of  which  service  to  your  particular  benefit  I  doubt 
not  but  you  will  live  to  understand  by  better  proofs  than 
my  bare  telling  it  you,  as  also  will  Lieutenant  Shovell 3 
(with  whose  management  his  Majesty  and  my  lords  are 
most  particularly  satisfied),  and  the  rest  of  the  officers  and 
boats'  companies  when  they  shall  return  home.' 

The  king  '  takes  notice  of  your  conjecture  touching  the 
reason  of  the  Harwich's  ironwork  being  found  so  much 
eaten  with  rust,4  by  imputing  it  to  her  being  sheathed  with 
lead  and  the  same  fastened  with  copper  nails,  but  suspends 
concurring  with  you  therein  till  he  shall  be  able  to  make 
his  own  observations  in  it  upon  the  ship's  coming  home,  as 
being  unapt  to  admit  that  that  which  never  becomes  rusty 
itself  (such  as  these  nails  are  said  to  be)  can  commu- 
nicate rust  to  any  other  matter.' 

The  king  and  lords  take  note  of  his  lesser  successes 
in  burning  the  enemy's  boats.  '  As  to  what  you  seem  to 
wish  of  your  having  a  power  to  attack  the  enemy's  ships 
wherever  you  meet  them,  and  particularly  in  the  Grand 
Signior's  ports,  his  Majesty  hath  resolved  upon  writing  to 

1  Charnock,  Biog.  Nav.  i.  347. 

3  D.  N.  B.  xl.  89. 

*  On  14  Jan.,  1675-6,  the  boats  of  Sir  John  Narbrough's  squadron, 
under  the  immediate  command  of  Lieutenant  Shovell,  of  the  flagship 
Harwich,  forced  their  way  into  the  harbour  of  Tripoli,  and  there  burnt 
four  men-of-war  (D.  N.  B.  xl.  90).  On  the  career  of  Sir  Clowdisley 
Shovell,  see  D.  N.  B.  lii.  159. 

4  See  p.  66,  supra. 

N  2 


180  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS         Apr. 

his  ambassador  at  Constantinople  to  see  what  can  be 
obtained  of  liberty  in  that  kind,  it  being  probable  what 
you  observe  that  your  last  action  will  discourage  them  from 
returning  home,  and  constrain  them  to  secure  themselves 
from  port  to  port,  doing  mischief  to  our  merchantmen.' 
'The  merchants  do  universally  acknowledge  your  great 
care  on  their  behalf  in  giving  of  convoy  to  their  ships.  .  .  .' 

The  king  and  lords  approve  his  keeping  the  Henrietta 
and  Sapphire  with  him  longer  than  they  expected.  Thanks 
for  his  account  of  the  good  condition  of  his  ships  ;  hopes 
his  supplies  of  provisions  have  been  better.  The  king 
hopes  for  a  happy  period  to  the  war,  and  takes  notice  of 
his  care  to  effect  it,  and  especially  his  thoughtful  ness  how 
to  remove  the  stores  from  Malta  with  best  advantage,  and 
his  forbidding  the  sending  of  boats  from  hence  out  of  his 
dependence  upon  supplying  himself  therewith  from  the 
enemy.  His  intention  of  attacking  some  of  the  enemy's 
forts  upon  the  sea-coast  is  approved  of. 

The  Success  was  no  sooner  come  home '  but  a  whole  bead- 
roll  of  complaints  were  exhibited  by  her  lieutenant,  Butcher, 
against  her  commander,  Stout,1  and  those  answered  by 
others  against  him ;  but  both  were  found  so  groundless  and 
full  of  private  animosity  as  that  they  were  both  acquitted 
by  sentence  of  a  court-martial,  but  so  as  that  a  brand  will 
remain  on  them 2  that  may  be  an  example  to  other  officers 
of  the  king's  for  the  preservation  of  a  better  decorum 
between  commanders  and  lieutenants.'  Will  not  forget 
what  he  says  of  the  insufficiency  of  the  lieutenant  for  that 
employment  in  case  of  any  future  pretences  of  his 

Will  give  him  no  further  trouble  concerning  the  Harwich, 
leaving  that  business  to  Captain  Killigrew's 3  coming  home, 
but  wishes  he  had  informed  him  what  account  Captain 
Harman  4  would  give  of  his  leaving  his  convoys  [2671], 
and  how  far  he  has  met  with  any  discourses  of  it  from  the 
merchantmen  at  Malta  and  elsewhere.  Will  likewise  leave 
the  shortness  of  victuals  upon  the  Portsmouth  and  Yarmouth, 

1  See  note  to  No.  2374. 

1  Neither  Lieutenant  John  Butcher  nor  Captain  Robert  Stout 
appears  again  in  any  other  capacity  upon  Pepys's  Register  (i.  331, 
409-10,  supra). 

3  D.  N.  B.  xxxi.  109.     See  note  to  No  2266. 

4  See  note  to  No.  2379. 


1676  FOURTH   VOLUME  181 

and  the  Diamond's  late  coming  to  him,  to  be  argued 
hereafter. 

The  king  and  lords  approve  of  what  he  urges  against 
putting  his  ships  to  short  allowance,  to  which  the  writer 
will  add  another  consideration  which  he  remembers  to 
have  been  of  old  urged  by  Sir  John  Lawson l  against  the 
common  practice  of  short  allowance  in  the  Straits — '  that 
the  money  given  the  seamen  upon  that  score  was  but  an 
occasion  of  the  seamen's  insisting  to  go  on  shore  for  the 
refreshing  themselves  therewith,  to  the  great  disappointment 
of  his  Majesty's  service  by  staying  of  his  ships  in  port,  and 
sometimes  by  occasioning  the  total  loss  of  the  men,  and 
putting  the  whole  into  a  course  of  debauchery.' 

The  king  takes  notice  of  the  care  he  promised  for  pre- 
serving his  stores  from  waste,  and  preventing  commanders 
lying  in  port  upon  pretence  of  want  thereof  or  otherwise  ; 
also  of  his  resolutions  to  prevent  his  subjects  covering 
strangers'  ships,  and  his  care  of  giving  convoy  to  his 
subjects  trading  in  those  seas.  He  also  approves  his 
choice  of  officers  in  the  room  of  persons  discharged  or  dead. 

His  disposal  of  the  slaves  the  king  and  lords  '  do  also 
like  well  of/  but  what  he  shall  hereafter  take  he  is  now  at 
liberty  to  dispose  of  in  what  other  manner  he  shall  judge 
most  advantageous  to  the  king,  as  the  galley  at  Tangier  is 
discharged.  '  One  thing  falls  out  which  makes  the  hastening 
of  the  peace  more  desirable  than  it  was  before,  namely, 
that  of  the  plague's  being  at  Malta,  which,  besides  the  ill 
effects  it  may  have  upon  your  ships  coming  into  that  port, 
hath  already  produced  one  of  great  inconvenience  to  us 
at  Livorne  by  giving  that,  government  a  pretence  to  the 
delaying  us  in  all  we  have  to  do  there '  [2279,  2839].  The 
officers  of  the  navy  will  send  him  a  particular  of  the  stores 
designed  to  be  sent  him. 

Recommends  to  him  to  put  the  captains  of  his  squadron 
in  mind  of  complying  with  every  part  of  their  instructions, 
'  and  particularly  in  those  directing  their  giving  frequent 
advice  of  their  proceedings,  their  not  staying  in  port  nor 
carrying  of  merchants'  goods,  and  sending  home  of  muster- 

1  Lawson  had  had  a  considerable  Mediterranean  experience,  first 
with  Penn  in  1650-2,  and  again  in  1661-4,  when  he  was  conducting 
operations  against  Algiers,  Tunis,  and  Tripoli  (D.  N.  JB.  xxxii.  292) 


1 82  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS         Apr. 

books  ;  for  their  failure  wherein  .  .  .  none  of  the  captains 
lately  come  home  have  received  any  part  of  their  wages 
without  much  more  difficulty  than  I  find  they  expected, 
and  some  of  them  entirely  lost  it' 

Underwritten  :  Duplicate  via  Livorne,  to  Sir  Thomas  Clutter- 
buck,1  10  Apr. 

2833.  [p.  394.]     3  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Thomas  Clutter- 
buck?  at  Livorne. — To  despatch  a  packet  for  Sir  John  Nar- 
brough  [2832]. 

2834.  [p.  394.]     4  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Gunman?  at 
Calais. — He   is  to  bring  over   Lord    Derby  from    Calais 
[2838]  instead  of  Captain  Fasby,  of  the  Charles  yacht,  who 
is  arrived  in  the  River,  having  missed  the  king's  orders  for 
staying  at  Calais. 

2835.  [p.  394.]     4  Apr.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners  of 
the  Customs. — A  pass  is  demanded  by  the  Unity,  of  London, 
John  Borrows,  master,  now  lying  at  Fowey,  bound  for  the 
Straits. 

2836.  [p.  395.]     5  Apr.    S.P.  to  Captain  Atkins?  com- 
mander of  the  Quaker  ketch,  at  Erith. — Is  glad  he  is  ready 
to  sail.     He  may  come  to  town  for  a  day  or  two  to  effect 
his  despatch  with  the  victualler. 

2837.  [p.  395.]      5   Apr.     S.  P.  to  Captain   Fasby,  of 
the  Charles  yacht. — To  sail  to  the  Brill  and  attend  there 
4  days  to  bring  over  Lady  Temple.4 

2838.  [p.  395.]     6  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Gunman,  of 
the  Anne  yacht,  at  Greenwich. — To  go  to  Calais  to  fetch 
Lord  Derby  [2834,  2845]. 

2839.  [p.  396.]     6  Apr.     S.   P.   to  Arthur  Herbert? 
Esquire,  at  Newmarket  [2850]. — '  Our  pink  6  is  now  very 
forward  in  her  sheathing ;  so  also  are  her  supplies  of  sails, 
cordage,  and  other  stores  in    providing,  and  the   like  in 
her    provisions.  ...  In   the   absence    of  all   our   fellow- 
adventurers,  who  have  been  generally   out  of  town  ever 
since  you  went,  I  have  for  saving  time  been  driven  to  give 

1  Victualler  for  the  Mediterranean.     See  ii.  236  n.  supra. 

2  Commander  of  the  Anne  yacht  [2838]. 

3  See  note  to  No.  2805.  4  D.  N.  B.  Ivi.  50. 
8  See  note  to  No.  2302. 

6  The  Prosperous  pink.     On  this  expedition   see  Introduction, 
p.  xxiv  n.  supra. 


1676  FOURTH   VOLUME  183 

my  single  direction  in  two  or  three  matters  relating  to  the 
vessel,  of  which  the  particular  of  greatest  charge  is  that  of 
lining  so  much  of  the  bread-room  with  the  thin  lead  we 
use  for  sheathing  as  may  preserve  that  part  of  the  bread 
which  will  be  longest  unspent,  the  safety  of  the  provisions 
seeming  to  require  more  than  ordinary  rosining,  and  this 
doing  it  with  lead  said  to  be  cheaper  than  that  of  tinning 
it.'  Captain  Golden,  being  dissatisfied  with  his  masters 
of  the  North- West,  is  willing  to  serve  his  Royal  Highness 
either  as  mate  or  pilot.  Were  the  command  vacant,  the 
writer  would  think  a  man  of  no  greater  sobriety  than  he  very 
unfit,  yet  since  he  is  contented  to  go  under  command  it 
would  be  of  good  use  that  a  man  of  his  experience  should 
be  entertained  by  his  Majesty  on  board  the  Speedwell, 
where  Captain  Wood  [2842]  will  easily  find  means  of 
keeping  him  sober.  They  at  Livorne  have  not  been  per- 
mitted to  carry  off  any  victuals  to  the  Henrietta  upon  the 
score  of  the  plague  at  Malta,  except  the  vessel  carrying 
them  be  burned  or  sunk  to  prevent  her  returning  into 
port  [2832]. 

2840.  [p.  396.*]      7  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Wyborne? 
commander  of  the  Pearl,  at  Deptford. — To  sail  to  Long 
Reach  to  take  in  guns,  provisions,  and  stores,  and  thence 
to  the  Hope  to  await  further  orders. 

2841.  [p.  397.]       10  Apr.      S.  P.  to  Captain  Jenifer, 
commander  of  the  Saudados.3 — To  give  Dominic  Perera 
passage  to  Lisbon. 

2842.  [p.  397.]     10  Apr.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board. — 
To  consider  what  sum  may  be  fit  for  contingent  money 
for  Captain  Wood  [2839]  in  his  voyage  for  the  discovery 
of  the  North-East  Passage  [2895]. 

1  Out  of  order  in  the  MS. 

•  Captain  John  Wyborne  had  formerly  commanded  the  Garland 
[1536].  He  had  been  appointed  to  command  the  Pearl  in  succession 
to  Captain  Thomas  Booth  [2583]. 

3  See  ii.  9  n.  supra. 


VOL.  V. 

ADMIRALTY 

FROM  APRIL  10,  1676,  TO  MAY  7,  1677. 

[Vellum  folio,  stamped  as  described  in  vol.  i.  p.  x,  supra,  but 
without  book-plates  ;  marbled  edges.  Press  mark  No.  2852. 
5  pp.  blank ;  ledger  index,  59  pp.  ;  404  written  pp.  The 
letters  in  this  volume  are  written  from  Derby  House,  unless 
otherwise  stated.] 

2843.  [p.  I.]     10  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Dickenson? 
Hunter,  at  Sheerness. — Desires  him  to  send  an  account 
of  the  state  of  his  ship  in  reference  to  her  being  sent 
abroad  again  to  the  southward  upon  an  8  months'  voyage, 
expressing  therein  what  she  will  require  to  have  done  to 
her  hull,  masts,  and  yards,  and  what  supply  of  furniture 
and  stores  will  be  needful  [2861]. 

2844.  [p.   i.]     10  Apr.     S.   P.  to  Captain    Clements, 
Greyhound,  Downs. — Has  received  his  of  yesterday  inti- 
mating his  having  received  into  his  charge  from  Captain 
Tyte,2  of  the  Deptford  ketch,  a  vessel  by  him  brought  in 
which  had  been  taken  by  a  Dunkirk  privateer  [2853].     In 
the  king's  absence  at  Newmarket  the  writer  cannot  signify 
his  pleasure,  but  hopes  in  a  day  or  two  to  give  him  some 
orders  from  the  lords  concerning  it,  so  soon  as  Captain 
Tyte  shall  come  up  into  the  River,  from  whom  we  are  to 
expect  more  particular  evidences  of  the  misbehaviour  of 

1  See  ii.  367  n.  supra. 

2  Captain  George  Tyte,  formerly  commander  of  the  Richmond 
yacht,  had  been  appointed  to  the  Deptford  ketch  18  Jan.  1675-6  (i. 
417,  supra).     He  appears,  however,  as  again   in   command   of  the 
Richmond  yacht  on  12  June,  1676  [2967],  and  23  June  [2990].     On 
the  spelling  of  his  name,  see  ii.  375  n.  supra. 


i6;6  FIFTH   VOLUME  185 

the  said  privateer,  the  master  whereof  and  five  more  of 
his  company  were  on  board  the  Holsteiner  when  Captain 
Tyte  took  her.  In  the  meantime  he  is  to  forbear  dis- 
charging her  till  further  orders. 

2845.  [p.  2.]     10  Apr.     S.   P.  to    Captain    Gunman, 
Anne  yacht,  at  Calais. — As  Lord  Derby  is  come,  he  is  to 
return  into  the  River  [2834]. 

2846.  [p.  2.]    10  Apr.  S.  P.  to  Arthur  Herbert}  Esquire, 
attending  his  Royal  Highness  at  the  court  at  Newmarket. 
The  pink  is  in  a  good  forwardness  [2839].     Begs  him  to 
present  the  enclosed  [2847]. 

2847.  [p.  3.]  10  Apr.     S.  P.  to  his  Royal  Highness* 
at  Newmarket. — Having  this  day  advice  of  the  death  of 
Mr.  Wilson,  late  storekeeper  at  Chatham  Yard,  the  writer 
humbly  desires  his  Royal  Highness  to  move  his  Majesty 
to  appoint  some  fit  person  to  succeed  to  that  office  '  and 
prevent  surprisal  from  applications  on  behalf  of  any  who 
may  not  be  so.'     '  I   have  not,  may  it  please  your  Royal 
Highness,  at  any  time  hitherto,  nor  shall  now  take  upon 
me  to  become  a  recommender  of  any  particular  person  to 
employment,  but  content  myself  with  the  doing  my  duty 
of  being  his   Majesty's  and  your  humble   remembrancer 
that  the  office  of  a  storekeeper  in  the  navy  is  an  employ- 
ment of  very  great  trust,  and  such  a  one  as,  whatever  it 
calls  for  of  integrity,  calls  for  no  less  experience  in  the 
business  and  methods  of  the  navy,  and  therefore  do  with 
all  humility  hope  on  his   Majesty's  behalf  that  with  the 
regard  which  his  Majesty  may  be  pleased  to  have  to  those 
who  by  many  years'  education  and  labour  in  his  service 
have   qualified   themselves   above    others   for   his   favour 
herein,  your  Royal  Highness  will  be  pleased  to  bring  to 
his  mind  that  article  which  (among  others)  was  at  your 
Highness's    motion    about  three   years   since   established 
by   his    Majesty   in   council    for   the  direction   of  future 
admirals,  declaring  that  utmost  circumspection  should  be 
used    in    the    choice   of   every   officer    according   to   the 
knowledge  which  should  be  had  of  each  man's  deserving 

1  Arthur  Herbert,  afterwards  Earl  of  Torrington  (D.  N.  B.  xxvi. 
169),  had  commanded  the  Cambridge  during  the  third  Dutch  war, 
but  from  the  close  of  the  war  until  November  1677  he  appears  to 
have  retired  from  active  service  (Charnock,  Biog.  Nav.  i.  261). 

3  The  Duke  of  York. 


1 86  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS         Apr. 

in  former  employment,  either  from  the  admiral's  own 
observation,  or  the  report  of  the  principal  officers  and 
commissioners  of  the  navy  in  relation  to  officers  account- 
able for  stores  &c.  within  their  inspections.' 

2848.  [p.  4.]     1 1  Apr.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— 
The  captain  of  the  Norwich  acquaints  him  that  she  is  so 
very  leaky  as  he  judges  she  cannot  be  repaired  without 
bringing  into  a  dock  ;  the  writer  desires  to  know  to  which 
yard  she  should  be  brought  to  be  repaired. 

2849.  [p.  4.]     ii   Apr.     S.   P.   to   Arthur  Fleetwood^ 
Esquire,   at  the  lord  treasurer's  lodgings  at  Newmarket. 
— Will  forbear  waiting  on  him  at  Newmarket,  his  Majesty's 
return  to  town  being  looked  for  in  a  few  days. 

2850.  [p.  4.]     13  Apr., '  sent  by  express  at  12  at  noon.' 
6".  P.  to  the  Duke  of  York,  at  Newmarket. — Sends  a  copy 
of  a  letter  just  now  received  from  Sir  Roger  Strickland  2 
of  1 1  March  from  Malta,  giving  an  account  of  a  disaster 
happening  to  the  hulk  there,  but  '  accompanied  with  the 
most  welcome  news '  of  such  a  peace  concluded  between 
Sir  John  Narbrough  3  and  the  government  of  Tripoli  as 
will  appear  more  satisfactory  and  honourable  '  not  only 
than  was  expected  now  but  what  was  ever  yet  obtained  by 
any  prince  from  that  nation.' 

Understands  from  Captain  Herbert4  that  his  Royal 
Highness  hath  missed  two  letters  of  the  writer's  relating 
to  the  navy.  One,  concerning  the  storekeeper  at  Chatham 
[2847],  is  enclosed  ;  the  other,  relating  to  the  North-East 
adventure  [2839],  the  writer,  in  hopes  of  his  Royal  Highness 
being  suddenly  here,  will  forbear  the  repetition  of. 

2851.  [p.  5.]     14  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Richard  Beach, 
commissioner  at  Chatham. — The  navy  board  have  let  the 
writer  know  the  information  they  have  lately  received  from 
him  touching  the  cook  of  the  Victory,  who  '  upon  a  large 
certificate  from  his  chirurgeon  of  the  ill  condition  he  was 
in  by  wounds  formerly  received  in  the  king's  service,  .  .  . 
prevailed  upon  the  charity  of  my  lords  of  the  admiralty 
to  give  warrant  for  a  dispensation  to  his  attendance  for  three 
months ;   since  which,  .  .  .  instead  of  being  solicitous  for 
his  cure,  he  spends  his  time  scandalously  in  drunkenness 

1  One  of  the  secretaries  to  the  lord  treasurer  [1890]. 

2  Commander  of  the  Dragon  [2058].     D.  N.  B.  Iv.  52. 

3  D.  N.  B.  xl.  89.  4  See  note  to  No.  2846. 


1 676  FIFTH   VOLUME  187 

and  gaming.'  Desires  him  to  send  for  him,  and  enable  the 
writer  to  inform  the  lords  with  his  answer,  that  they  may 
insist  upon  his  providing  a  deputy  or  withdraw  their  late 
warrant  of  dispensation  to  him. 

2852.  [p.  6.]     15  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Baker1  or  the 
chief  officer  on  board  the  Merlin  yacht,  at  Greenwich. — To 
receive  Lord  Burlington's  goods.2 

2853.  [p.    6.]     15    Apr.     S.  P.    to    Captain  Clements, 
Greyhound,  in  the  Downs. — Desires  him  to  send  up  what 
evidence  he  can  of  injuries  done  by  the  French  hoy  which 
took  the  said  Holsteiner  [2844],  and  in  the  meantime  to 
take  care  that  no  embezzlement  be  made  of  any  of  the 
goods  or  furniture  belonging  to  the  Holsteiner,  nor  that  she 
be  further  put  out  of  the  possession,  either  of  her  own 
company  or  such  of  the  hoy's  that  took  her,  than  may  be 
necessary  for  securing  her. 

2854.  [p.  6.]     15  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Dickenson? 
Hunter,  at  Sheerness. — Will  move  the  king  about  the  dis- 
posal of  his  ship  [2869]. 

2855.  [p.  6.]     15    Apr.     S.   P.    to    Captain    Wright? 
Phoenix,  at  [the]  Hope. — Encloses  orders  for  his  going  to 
sea. 

2856.  [p.  7.]     17  Apr.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— The 
king  and  lords  desire  their  advice  touching  the  stopping  of 
the  stores  and  provisions  going  for  Malta  upon  the  score  of 
the  peace  now  made  with  Tripoli,  whether  it  may  not  be 
husbandry  to  let  them  go  on  to  be  lodged  at  Tangier  for 
the  use  of  such  ships  as  may  occasionally  be  sent  into  the 
Straits  in  time  of  peace. 

2857.  [p.  7.]     1 8  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  John  Pepys?— 
Desires  him  to  take  care  that  an  able  pilot  may  be  speedily 
appointed  by  the  Trinity  House  to  take  charge  of  the 
Portsmouth  yacht  on  her  voyage  to  Danzig.6 

2858.  [p.  7.]     1 8  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Gunman,  of 
the  Anne  yacht,  at  Greenwich. — About  his  fetching  Mrs. 
Churchill7  and  the  Prince  of  Mecklenburg8  from  Calais. 

1  See  ii.  291  n.  supra. 

*  Richard  Boyle,  second  Earl  of  Cork,  had  been  created  Earl  of 
Burlington  in  1663.  SeeZ>.  N.  B.  vi.  116. 

3  See  ii.  367  n.  supra.  4  See  note  to  No.  2788. 

5  John  Pepys  shared  with  Thomas  Hayter  the  office  of  clerk  of 
the  acts.  D.  N.  B.  xliv.  363.  6  MS.  « Dantzicke.' 

7  See  note  to  No.  2602.  8  MS. '  Micklebourgh.' 


1 88  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          Apr. 

2859.  [p.  8.]     19  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Sir  John  Kempthorne? 
commissioner  at  Portsmouth. — Being  this  day  applied  to  by 
Richard  Barker,  cook  of  the  Greenwich,  who  by  Sir  J.  K.'s 
leave  is  dispensed  with  to  be  absent  from  his  ship  14  days, 
and  now  brings  a  certificate  of  this  day's  date  from  Mr. 
Pearse,  the  chirurgeon -general  of  the  fleet,  of  his  sickness 
continuing,  the  writer  intimates  to  him  his  having  received 
this  certificate,  that  if  he  please  he  may  extend  Barker's 
leave  [2876]. 

2860.  [p.  8.]     19  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Sanderson? 
commander  of  the  Portsmouth  yacht,  at  Greenwich. — Has 
spoken  with  his  Royal  Highness,3  Mr.  Secretary  Coventry 4 
and  Sir  John  Werden 5  attending,  the  latter  of  whom  was 
the  last  that  passed  by  Elsinore  in  any  of  his  Majesty's 
vessels,  but  has  not  yet  those  directions  which  he  shall 
send  him  touching  his  behaviour  when  he  comes  thither 
[2865]  in  expectation  of  speaking  with  Captain  Binning6 
and  Captain  Gunman,7  who  have  been  concerned  in  this 
matter  heretofore ;  wherefore  he  is  not  to  stay  for  them 
now  but   look   for   them  at  Havre  de  Grace.      Encloses 
orders  for  carrying  over  Mr.  Houblon,8  and  then  attending 
the  Marquis  de  B6thune  to  Dunkirk  [2812,  2863]. 

2861.  [p.  9.]     20  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Sir  John  Tippetts?— It 
being  in  proposition  before  his  Majesty  that  the  Hunter 
should  be  sent  upon  a  voyage   to  Guinea,   and  Captain 
Dickenson  having  furnished  the  enclosed  account  of  her 
state  [2843],  he  is  to  prepare  an  estimate  of  the  charge  of 
fitting  her  [2869],  and  say  whether  her  present  company 
of  70  will  be  reckoned  competent  for  this  voyage. 

Has  answered  his  desire  in  providing  the  Charles  yacht 
for  fetching  over  Mr.  Biddulph  10  and  his  lady. 

1  See  note  to  No.  2734. 

2  Captain  Ralph  Sanderson  had  been  appointed  to  command  the 
Portsmouth  yacht  on  30  July,  1674  (i.  403,  supra.} 

3  The  Duke  of  York.  *  D.  N.  B.  xii.  357. 

5  See  ii.  332  n.  supra.         6  Commander  of  the  Swan  prize  [1862]. 

7  Commander  of  the  Anne  yacht  [2858]. 

8  Probably  Mr.  James  Houblon  [3129].     See  note  to  No.  2498. 

9  See  note  to  No.  2530. 

10  On  6  Sept.  1675  a  Pass  had  been  issued  for  Lady  Goring  of 
Burton  and  her  son-in-law,  Richard  Biddulph,  and  Anne  his  wife,  to 
travel  to  France,  with  a  clause  that  none  of  them  shall  keep  company 
with  Jesuits  or  resort  to  any  of  their  seminaries,  and  that  they  shall 
return  when  recalled.     (Cat.  S.P.  Dom.  1675-6,  p.  286.) 


1676  FIFTH   VOLUME  189 

Postscript. — Prays  him  to  return  the  enclosed,  and  let 
not  its  contents  be  publicly  discoursed  till  he  has  further 
intimation  of  his  Majesty's  pleasure  about  it. 

2862.  [p.  9.]     20  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Mr.   Trelawny,  vice- 
admiral,1    at   Trelawne,2   in    Cornwall. — Thanks    for    his 
notice  of  a  vessel  wrecked  on  the  north  coast  of  Cornwall, 
within  the  jurisdiction  of  Sir  John  Godolphin.3 

2863.  [p.  10.]     20  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Ellis  Leighton? 
secretary  to  my  Lord  Ambassador  Berkeley,5  at  Paris  in 
France. — The  Portsmouth  yacht  is  ordered  for  the  Marquis 
de  Bethune  [2860]. 

2864.  [p.  10.]     2QApr.     S.P.toSirJohnKempthorne? 
commissioner   at   Portsmouth. — Has   received  his  of  the 
1 8th  giving  an  account  of  the  arrival  of  the  Norwich,  the 
commander  whereof  having  written  that  she  is  not  in  a 
condition  to  keep  the  sea  ;  the  writer  desires  him  to  cause  a 
survey  to  be  taken  of  her  condition. 

2865.  [p.  10.]  20  Apr.  Memorandum. — That  Mr.  Pepys 
being  this  day  on  board  the  Portsmouth  yacht  at  Green- 
wich, and  there  being  informed  by  Captain  Sanderson7  that 
he  had  fully  discoursed  with  Captain  Gunman  8  touching 
the   method   of  passing   by  Elsinore  Castle,  Mr.   Pepys 
added  this  postscript  to  his  letter  of  19  Apr.  [2860]  with 
his    own    hand    (being   then    also    uncertain   of    Captain 
Binning's 9  coming  to  town)  :  '  It  is  not  the  meaning  hereof 
that  you  should  lose  any  time  in  staying  at  the  Havre  for 
any  further  advice  in  this  point  .  .  .  in  case  I  should  not 
have  anything  material  time  enough  to  send  to  you  about  it.' 

2866.  [p.   ii.]     22  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Sir  John  Powell™ 

1  He  had  probably  succeeded  his  father,  Sir  Jonathan  Trelawny, 
as  vice-admiral  of  South  Cornwall  in  1675.     See  a  letter  from  the  latter 
to  Mr.  Secretary  Williamson  (Cal.  S.  P.  Dom.  1675-6,  p.  58). 

2  The  seat  of  the  Trelawny  family,  on  Trelawne  inlet,  two  miles 
north-west  of  West  Looe. 

3  Vice-admiral  of  North  Cornwall  [712]. 

4  See  D.  N.  B.  xxxiii.  2.     Leighton's  real  name  was  Elisha.     He 
is  described  in  Pepys's  Diary  as  'a  mad,  freaking  fellow '  (iv.  341). 

5  MS.  '  Hartley.'    See  note  to  No.  2604. 

6  See  note  to  No.  2734.  7  See  note  to  No.  2860. 

8  Commander  of  the  Anne  yacht  [2858]. 

9  Commander  of  the  Swan  prize  [1862]. 

10  Cf.  No.  712.     Mr.  John  Fowell  had  succeeded  to  his  father's 
baronetcy  in  October  1674  (Burke,  Extinct  Baronetcies,  p.  207*).    On 
10  Jan.   1676  he  had  been  approved  as  a  deputy-lieutenant  for  the 
county  of  Devon  (Cal.  S.  P.  Dom.  1675-6,  p.  506). 


190  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS         Apr. 

Vice-Admiral  of  Devon,  at  Exeter. — In  the  business  of  the 
Bachelor,  the  lords  desire  to  know  whether  besides  the  23/. 
charges  allowed  by  Mr.  Idle l  to  Sir  J.  F.'s  servant,  he  is  on 
his  own  account  in  disburse  for  the  further  sum  of  39/.  icw.  for 
charges.  The  ground  of  which  question  is  partly  the  lords 
observing  these  two  sums  together  seem  pretty  large  and 
greatly  excepted  against  as  such  by  Mr.  Idle,  and  partly 
because  it  is  not  expressed  how  much  of  the  39/.  los.  is  for 
charges  and  how  much  in  compensation  of  trouble  and 'pains. 

2867.  [p.  ii.]     22  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Atkins*  of 
the  Quaker  ketch,  in  the  Downs. — Hopes  to  send  him  the 
paper  he  is  waiting  for  before  Monday's  post ;  or  if  not, 
will  move  the  king  that  he  may  no  longer  stay  for  it,  but 
leave  it  to  be  done  by  the  Saudados,3  which  is  like  to  follow 
him  in  10  or  14  days  [2880]. 

2868.  [p.  12.]     22  Apr.    S.  P.  to  Captain  London*  Nor- 
wich, at  Spithead. — Sir  John  Kempthorne 5  will  survey  his 
ship,  when  he  may  expect  further  orders  [2864]. 

2869.  [p.  12.]     22  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Andrew  King? 
sub-governor,  or  in  his  absence  to  Mr.  Gabriel  Roberts, 
deputy-governor  of  the  Royal  African    Company. — The 
fitting  forth  of  the  Hunter  for  a  voyage  to  Guinea  will  call 
for  the   present   disbursement   in   ready  money  of  32O/. 
[2861].     To  this  must  be  added  for  victuals,  wages,  and 
wear  and  tear,  4/.  a  man  a  month  for  70  men,  as  the  king 
is  not  to  be  at  any  part  of  the  ship's  charge. 

2870.  [p.  13.]  2^  Apr.  S.  P.  to  Sir  Thomas  Clutterbuck.1 
— Though  the  news  of  the  peace  with  Tripoli  was  not  come 
to  Livorne  by  the  1 3th,  the  writer  does  not  doubt  it,  since 
Sir  Roger  Strickland  8  took  advantage  of  a  small  vessel 
bound  directly  from  Malta  to  Marseilles  to  send  his  packet. 
However,  lest  there  should  be  any  mistake  in  it,  the  king 

1  See  especially  No.  2606.  2  See  note  to  No.  2805. 

3  See  ii.  9  n.  supra. 

4  Captain  Richard  London  had  been  appointed  to  the  command 
of  the  Norwich  in  1672  (i.  379  supra).     According  to  Charnock,  he  is 
not  mentioned  after  April  1675  (Biog.  Nav.  i.  317). 

5  See  note  to  No.  2734. 

6  Sir  Andrew  King  was  an  alderman  of  the  City  of  London  (Cal. 
S.  P.  Dom.  1672,  index),  and  clerk  of  the  bills  in  the  custom-house 
(id.   1673-5,  P-  34^)-      He  had  been   knighted  at  the   Restoration 
9  June,  1660  (Shaw,  The  Knights  of  England,  ii.  228). 

7  See  note  to  No.  2350. 

8  Commander  of  the  Dragon  [2058].    D.  N.  B.  Iv.  52. 


1676  FIFTH   VOLUME  191 

and  lords  will  defer  doing  anything  except  to  stop  the 
going  away  of  stores  to  Malta  [2856].  Heartily  condoles 
his  late  want  of  health. 

2871.  [p.  14.]     24  Apr.     S.  Pepys  to  the  Navy  Board. 
— The  Phoenix  being  to  stop  at  Portsmouth  in  her  way  to 
Jamaica   for   the   taking   in   some   passengers   there,  the 
writer  desires  them  to  consider  whether  to  make  good  there 
the  sea-provisions  she  may  have  already  spent. 

2872.  [p.  14.]    24  Apr.    [S.  P.}  to  Sir  Robert  Robinson,1 
commander  of  the  Assurance. — The  king  and  lords  desire 
the  speedy  fitting  of  his  ship. 

2873.  [p.   14.]     24  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Captain    Clements, 
commander  of  the  Greyhound,  in  the  Downs. — Encloses  a 
copy  of  a  complaint  by  one  John  Fendall,  master  of  a 
ketch  called  the  John's  Endeavour,  of  London,  of  his  having 
a  piece  of  rope  taken  out  of  his  ketch  by  the  gunner  of  his 
ship  upon  pretence  of  payment  for  a  shot  made  at  him 
therefrom,  notwithstanding  his  having,  as  he  affirms,  paid 
the  respect  due   to   his    Majesty's   ship.     Desires   a   true 
account  of  the  matter  [2884]. 

2874.  [p.  15.]     24  Apr.     Sent  by  the  Phoenix,  bound 
to  Jamaica.     5.  P.  to  Captain  Davies?  commander  of  the 
Foresight. — Sends  copies  of  the  orders  for  his  return  to 
England,  in  case  the  original  should  have  miscarried. 

2875.  [p.  15.]     24  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Captain  London?  com- 
mander of  the  Norwich,  at  Portsmouth. — When  the  report 
of  the  officers   of  the   navy  shall    be   sent   to   the   lords 
touching  his  ship  [2864,  2876]  and  what  he  desires  therein 
about  some  pay  for  his  company,  he  will  hear  the  further 
pleasure  of  the  king  and  lords  concerning  her. 

2876.  [p.  1 5.]    24  Apr.    S.  P.  to  Sir  John  Kempthorne* 
commissioner  at  Portsmouth. — His  letter  about  the  refitting 
of  the  Norwich  is  referred  to  the  officers  of  the  navy  [2864, 
2875],  whether   in   the   condition  she   is  it  will  be  most 
advisable   that  she  be  fitted  out  again,  or  paid  off  and 
another  appointed  to  supply  her  station.     The  license  he 
encloses   for    16   days'  more  absence  to  the  cook  of  the 
Greenwich  shall  be  given  him  [2859]. 

1  See  ii.  275  n.  supra.     Sir  Robert  Robinson's  commission  to  the 
Assurance  is  dated  17  April,  1676  (i.  399  supra). 

*  See  ii.  399  n.  supra.  *  See  note  to  No.  2868. 

4  See  note  to  No.  2734. 


i92  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS         Apr. 

2877.  [p.    1 6.]     24  Apr.      S.   P.   to  Captain  Ridley? 
Wivenhoe,  at  Portsmouth. — Desires  him  to  hasten  up  the 
accounts  he  is  taking  (attested  and  sworn  to  before  the 
magistrates  of  Portsmouth)  of  the  wrongs  complained  of 
to  him  by  a  pink  and  a  hoy  of  Portsmouth  from  some 
Ostend  capers,  with  as  good  a  description  as  they  can  of 
the  vessels  which  injured  them   [2887].     Some  pay  will 
be  speedily  provided  for  his  men. 

2878.  [p.  1 6.]     25  Apr.     Sent  by  the  Phcenix.     5.  P. 
to  his  Excellency  Lord  Vaughan?  Governor  of  Jamaica. — 
The  Phcenix  is  sent  in  the  room  of  the  Foresight,  who 
some  time  since  was  ordered  home  to  save  the  charge  of 
having  both  in  pay  for  the.  same  service  longer  than  was 
necessary.     '  The  Foresight's  escape 3  from  the  hurricane  at 
the  Barbados  .  .  .  was  as  fortunate  as  the  Vulture's  mis- 
carriage 4  was  the  contrary,  the  loss  of  which  I  find  your 
lordship  designing  to  supply  to  the  island  by  bearing  her 
men   upon   another  vessel   to  be   provided    by   yourself; 
wherein  what  I  have  to  note  to  your  lordship  is  that  I  do 
not  find  that  his  Majesty  and  my  lords  of  the  admiralty 
are  willing  to  know  any  further  charge  of  shipping  for  the 
use  of  the  island  to  be  borne  on  the  navy  than  that  of  the 
Phcenix  only.'    Will  not  say  anything  touching  the  Surinam 
expense  [2071],  since  the  accounts  have  been  transmitted 
to  the  officers  of  the  navy,  whose  province  it  is. 

2879.  [p.   17.]     25    Apr.      S.  P.  to  Captain    Wright? 
commander  of  the  Phcenix,  at  Portsmouth. — Has  written 
to  the  navy  officers  about  his  victuals  [2871,  2882].     Lieu- 
tenant Sumpter 6  and  his  servant  are  to  be  borne  as  super- 
numeraries to  his  ship's  company,  as  the  other  volunteers 
are  also  to  be  for  whom  he  has  warrants  under  the  king's 
own  hand. 

2880.  [p.  17.]     25  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Atkins?  com- 

1  See  note  to  No.  2418.  3  D.  N.  B.  Iviii.  173. 

3  'The  Foresight  escaped  miraculously  by  the  experience  and 
dexterity  of  a  Jamaica  pilot'  (Cal.  S.  P.  Dom.  1675-6,  p.  394  ;  Letter 
from  Sir  Thomas  Lynch  to  Mr.  Secretary  Williamson,  9  Nov.  1675). 

4  The  entry  in  Pepys's  Register  of  Ships,  '  cast  away  in  a  hurri- 
cane at  Barbados,  1675,'  appears  to  have  been  made  in  error  against 
the  Woolwich  sloop  (i.  293,  supra). 

5  See  note  to  No.  2788. 

6  Robert  Sumpter  had  served  as  second  lieutenant  of  the   St. 
David  in  1672  (i.  411,  supra).  ">  See  note  to  No.  2805. 


1676  FIFTH   VOLUME  193 

mander  of  the  Quaker  ketch,  in  the  Downs. — Sends  him 
the  packets  for  Tangier,  the  rest  being  respited  until  the 
departure  of  the  Saudados  in  14  or  20  days  with  Mr. 
Sheeres  l  [2867]. 

2881.  [p.  1 8.]     26  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Kirk?  com- 
mander of  the  Kingfisher,  at  Sheerness. — The  king  very 
much  desires  to  have  a  view  of  his  ship  in  the  Hope 
before  he  carries  her  up  to  Chatham,  and  also  a  word  or 
two  of  her  qualities. 

2882.  [p.  1 8.]     27  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Wright?  at 
Portsmouth. — Is  very  sorry  the  state  of  the  victualling 
stores  at  Portsmouth  is  so  low  as  not  to  supply  him  [2879], 
but  since  it  is  so,  prays  him  to  hasten  to  sea,  the  service 
calling  for  his  despatch  to  Jamaica  to  prevent  the  islands 
being  without  a  frigate  [2878],  which  by  the  coming  away 
of  the  Foresight  the  writer  otherwise  doubts  it  may  too 
long  be. 

2883.  [p.  19.]     27  Apr.     S.P.toSirJohnKempthorne? 
at  Portsmouth. — This  comes  on  behalf  of  one  Anthony 
White,  who  hath  long  since  sued  the  lords  for  relief  against 
Richard  Cooke,  boatswain  of  the  York,  for  a  debt  which 
the  said  boatswain  did  by  a  letter  to  the  writer  of  24  Jan. 
acknowledge  and  promise  to  pay,  but  now  refuses.     That 
'  the   king's   service   may   not   be   dishonoured   by  being 
made  use  of  only  as  a  protection  to  his  officers  in  their 
denying  right  to  others  of  his  subjects,  whereby  the  ships 
being  in  harbour  unemployed  his  Majesty's  service  may 
without  inconveniency  bear  with  his  officers  answering  at 
law  to  any  of  their  creditors  who  desire  the  benefit  thereof 
from  my  lords  of  the  admiralty/  the  writer  desires  him  to 
send  for  the  said  boatswain  and  examine  the  matter,  letting 
him  know  that  if  he  makes  not  good  his  promise  he  is  not 
to  expect  any  further  protection  from  the  lords  [2889]. 

2884.  [p.  19.]     27  Apr.     S.  P.   to  Captain  Clements, 
Greyhound,  in  the  Downs. — Has  received  his  letter  and 
certificates,  which  will  enable  the  writer  to  give  a  satis- 
factory answer  in  case  he  hears  more  of  the   complaint 
against  his  gunner  [2873].     To  give  the  complainer  his 

1  See  note  to  No.  2724. 

2  Captain  John  Kirk's  commission  to  command  the   Kingfisher 
was  dated  16  Mar.  1675-6  (i.  375,  supra). 

3  See  note  to  No.  2788.  4  See  note  to  No.  2734. 
VOL.  III.  O 


i94  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS         Apr. 

due,  the  manner  of  his  complaint  was  very  moderate  and 
civil,  and  he  did  voluntarily  acknowledge  that  the  taking 
away  his  rope  was  done  without  any  other  ill-usage  or  an 
ill  word  to  him  from  the  officer  that  did  it.  '  And  I  doubt 
not  but  you  have  both  seamanship  and  humanity  enough 
to  know  when  a  vessel  may  without  inconvenience  lower 
her  topsail  in  respect  to  his  Majesty's  ships  without  danger 
to  herself.' 

As  soon  as  he  shall  be  informed  by  one  Mr.  Buchanan, 
from  Dover,  that  the  lord  marshal's  horses  going  over 
into  France  for  the  use  of  his  coach  there  [1944]  shall  be 
embarked,  he  is  to  convoy  them,  taking  notice  of  any  capers 
he  shall  meet  with  disturbing  any  of  his  Majesty's  subjects, 
whereof  several  complaints  have  of  late  been  made. 

2885.  [p.  20.]     27   Apr.     S.   P.   to  Captain   Wright^ 
commander  of  the  Phoenix,  at  Portsmouth. — To  receive 
on  board  from  the  officers  of  the  ordnance  a  quantity  of 
powder  designed  to  be  sent  by  him  to  Lord  Vaughan,2 
Governor  of  Jamaica,  for  the  king's  service  there. 

2886.  [p.  21.]     2  May.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Dickenson? 
commander  of  the  Hunter,  at  Sheerness. — Encloses  a  com- 
plaint from  one  Bedford  that  having  by  leave  of  the  lords 
arrested  John  Brome,  purser  of  the  Ruby,  he  was  rescued 
from  the  bailiffs  '  by  some  of  your  company,  and  yourself 
said  not  to  be  wholly  unconcerned  in  it,  which  I  should  be 
sorry  to  find  true  in  regard  of  the  offence  which  my  lords 
of  the  admiralty  would  have  just  cause  of  taking  thereat, 
who  will  very  unwillingly  suffer  their  orders  to  be  inter- 
rupted, especially  by  the  king's  own  officers,  and  in  a  case 
like  this  of  doing  right  to  other  of  his  subjects.'     Desires 
to  know  the  matter  of  fact. 

2887.  [p.  21.]     2  May.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Ridley?  com- 
mander of   the  Wivenhoe    guardship   at    Portsmouth. — 
Thanks  him  for  the  examinations  [2877]  being  sorry  that 
they  give  not  sufficient  description  of  the  caper  in  order 
to  her   seizure.      As   to  what  he  writes   concerning   the 
vessel  come  from  France  and  bound  for  Holland,  if  her 
former  pass  be  expired  the  master  will  think  himself  con- 
cerned to  get  another,  which  he  will  not  obtain  unless  two 
third  parts  of  her  company  at  least  are  the  king's  subjects  ; 

1  See  note  to  No.  2788.  2  D.  N.  B.  Iviii.  173. 

8  See  ii.  367  n.  supra.  *  See  note  to  No.  2418. 


1 676  FIFTH   VOL  UME  195 

but  the  writer  will  not  take  upon  him  to  give  an  opinion 
whether  he  may  stop  her. 

2888.  [p.  22.]     2  May.     S.  P.  to  Captain  London?  com- 
mander of  the  Norwich,  at  Portsmouth. — The  lords  have 
given  orders  for  his  speedy  refitting.     Leave  to  come  to 
town  for  10  days. 

2889.  [p.  22.]     2  May.     S.  P.to  Sir  John  Kempthorne? 
commissioner  at  Portsmouth. — -Has  received  his  of  30  Apr., 
and  presumes  what  the  boatswain  of  the  York  has  pro- 
mised will  be  satisfactory  to  his  creditor ;  desires  he  will 
see  he  make  it  good  at  the  next  pay  [2883].     Desires  him 
to  put  the  fitting  of  the  Norwich  in  hand. 

2890.  [p.  22.]     2  May.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  St.  Michel?  at 
Deal. — Has  taken  care  in  the  enclosed  to  Captain  Clements 
'  to  have  the  seeing  speedy  right  done '  to  the  French  prize 
lately  detained  in  the  Downs  and  committed  to  him  and 
Captain  Clements  4  upon  suggestions  first  made  by  Captain 
Tyte6  of  her  having  done  injury  to  his  Majesty's  subjects 

[2897]- 

2891.  [p.  23.]     4  May.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Perriman*— 
The  marshal  of  the  admiralty  hath  brought  up  the  vessel 
that  had  the  fraudulent  certificate  of  her  being  English- 
built  as  high   as   Deptford,   and   taken   her   master   into 
custody.     The   merchants   own  her  original  build  to  be 
foreign,  but  that  she  hath  had  so  much  English  work  done 
upon  her  as  that  she  is  reckoned  by  the  commissioners  of 
the  customs  as  English,  and  so  certified  to  be  by  Sir  John 
Shaw.7     As  the  lords  have  done  so  much  as  is  already  done 
in  the  stopping  of  her  upon  the  score  of  her  being  foreign- 
built,  and  undoubtedly  the  certificate  of  her  being  English- 
built  cannot  in  strictness  be  justified,  the  writer  prays  him 
to  attend  them  on  Saturday  morning  and  bring  what  proof 
he  can  of  the  truth  of  the  case. 

2892.  [p.  23.]     4  May.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Wyborne?— 
At  the  motion  of  the  lord  chancellor 9  and  lord  privy  seal,10 

1  See  note  to  No.  2868.  2  See  note  to  No.  2734. 

3  See  note  to  No.  2387. 

4  Commander  of  the  Greyhound  [2898]. 

5  See  note  to  No.  2844.  °  See  note  to  No.  2752. 

7  Collector  of  the  customs  for  the  Port  of  London  [2514]. 

8  Captain  John  Wyborne  was  commander  of  the  Pearl  [2840]. 

9  See  note  to  No.  3626. 

10  Arthur  Annesley,  first  Earl  of  Anglesey.    D.  N.  B.  ii.  i. 

O  2 


i96  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS         May 

the  king  has  ordered  Sir  Robert  Robinson,1  commander  of 
the  Assurance,  to  receive  on  board  him  Mr.  Killigrew  and 
Mr.  Sanders,  '  formerly  assigned  by  his  Majesty  to  your 
ship '  as  volunteers, '  it  being  his  Majesty's  purpose  that 
you  shall  be  charged  with  no  other  volunteers  during  your 
present  voyage '  than  Mr.  Annesley  and  Mr.  Deering. 

Margin  :  '  To  discharge  two  of  his  volunteers  to  make  room 
for  my  lord  privy  seal's  son,  &c.' 

2893.  [p.  24.]     6  May.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners  of 
the  Customs. — '  In  pursuance  of  the  6th  article  of  the  rules 
lately  established  by  his  Majesty  in  council  touching  the 
passes  to  be  issued  in  pursuance  of  the  treaties  with  Argeir, 
Tunis,  and  Tripoli,  these  are  to  inform  you  that  such  a  pass 
is  at  this  day  demanded  on  behalf  of  the  ship  called  the 
Parrot,  of  London,  John  Baest  master,  now  lying  in  the 
Downs  bound  for  the  Straits.' 

Underwritten :  The  like  for  the  Amity,  of  London,  Josiah 
Fidd  master,  in  the  Downs;  the  Dartmouth  Merchant,  John 
Roope  master,  now  lying  at  Dartmouth  ;  the  Dorothy,  of 
Weymouth,  Hugh  Percy  master,  now  lying  at  Weymouth. 

2894.  [p.  24.]    6  May.    S.  P.  to  Sir  Robert  Robinson^— 
Sends  orders  for  his  falling  down  to  the  Long  Reach,2  and 
so  to  the  Hope. 

2895.  [p.  24.]   9  May.    S.  P.  to  Edward  Seymour?  Esq. 
— 'These  are  by  his  Majesty's  special  command,  just  now 
given  me  in  the  presence  of  his  Royal  Highness,  to  let  you 
know  that  the  officers  of  the  navy  having  this  morning 
signified  to  my  lords  of  the  admiralty   their   incapacity 
to  answer  a  late  order  of  their   lordships  ...  for   their 
present  payment  of  the  value  of  two  months'  wages  to  be 
advanced  to  the  Speedwell's  company,  which  is  going  upon 
the  discovery  of  the  North-East  Passage,  for  want  of  a 
particular  estimate  or  fund  upon  which  to  charge  the  same 
and  moneys  applicable   thereto,  the   providing  all  which 
will  call  for  more  time  than  the  needful  despatching  away 
of  the  ship  will  admit,  the  manning  whereof  wholly  depends 

1  See  note  to  No.  2872. 

2  Between  Erith  and  Gravesend. 

3  Treasurer  of  the  navy.    D.  N.  B.  li.  312. 


1676  FIFTH   VOLUME  197 

upon  the  encouragement  given  by  this  advance,  it  is  his 
Majesty's  desire  that  you  will  find  some  expedient  for 
supplying  Captain  Wood  [2839]  with  the  sum  of  money 
needful  for  this  occasion  (which  by  computation  will  be 
between  8o/.  and  ioo/.),  taking  his  receipt  for  the  same, 
his  Majesty  commanding  me  to  give  you  his  assurance 
that  you  shall  have  a  regular  discharge  for  it  so  soon  as 
the  methods  of  the  navy  for  doing  thereof  will  admit' 

2896.  [p.  25.]     9  May.     S.  P.   to    Captain    Wy borne, 
commander  of  the  Pearl,  in  the    Hope. — Hopes   he   has 
received  his  sailing  orders. 

2897.  [p.  25.]     9  May.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  St.  Michel}-  in 
the  Downs. — The  intentions  of  the  lords  in  the  late  order 
about  the  Holstein's  vessel  [2890]  are  that  she  should  be  put 
in  the  possession  of  the  same  persons  who  had  her  when 
she  was  brought  in  by  Captain  Tyte,3  namely  the  French, 
so  as  to  leave  their  title  to  her  to  be  argued  between  them 
and  the  Holsteiners  as  they  please  [2906].     But  for  what 
he  proposes  of  giving  her  convoy  to  France,  it  seems  '  a 
thing  very  extraordinary  and  such  as  can  by  no  means  be 
expected,  there  seeming  to  have  been  too  much  ground, 
as  well  from  the  complaints  made  to  Captain  Tyte  by  his 
Majesty's  subjects  of  wrong   done  them   by  the  French 
caper    that   took   this    vessel,  -as    from    the   said    caper's 
omitting  to  strike  to  his  Majesty's  flag  and  deserting  his 
prize  when  pursued  by  the  Deptford   ketch,  for  Captain 
Tyte's  bringing  the  said  vessel  in,  and  therefore  it  cannot 
be  thought  very  hard  dealing  that  the  said  vessel  be  dis- 
charged by  his  Majesty  in  as  good  condition  as  she  was 
taken,  on  which  consideration  I  doubt  not  but  the  interested 
[parties]  will  be  satisfied  in  her  being  discharged  as  my  lords 
have  directed,  and  wait  an  opportunity  of  carrying  her  away 
without   expecting   any   such   interposal   of  his    Majesty 
between   them   and   the    Holsteiners   as   the  granting  of 
convoy  will  necessarily  be  interpreted  to  be.' 

Thanks  him  for  what  he  observes  touching  Captain 
Gunman,3  though  the  writer  believes  that  what  happened 
arose  rather  from  accident,  and  possibly  of  forwardness  in 
Mr.  Buchanan  [2884]  to  make  use  of  him,  than  any 
inclination  of  Captain  Gunman's  to  disappoint  Captain 

1  See  note  to  No.  2387.  2  See  note  to  No.  2844. 

\  Commander  of  the  Anne  yacht  [2858]. 


198  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS         May 

Clements  [2898].*  Moreover  the  Downs  must  have  been 
left  empty  in  case  the  Greyhound  on  this  occasion  had 
been  called  out  of  it. 

2898.  [p.  26.]     9  May.     S.   P.   to    Captain    Clements, 
commander  of  the   Greyhound,  in  the  Downs. — The  in- 
tention of  the  lords  in  their  late  order  was  to  place  the 
privateer  in  his  custody  in  the  hands  of  the  French  [2897, 
2906].     Hopes  Captain  Gunman's 2  preventing 3  him  in  the 
execution  of  the  orders  last  sent  him  was  rather  by  chance 
than  any  desire  of  doing  him  prejudice  [2897]. 

2899.  [p.  26.]     10  May.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Andrew  King? 
sub-governor,  or  in  his  absence  to   Mr.  Gabriel  Roberts, 
deputy-governor  of  the  Royal  African  Company. — Desires 
to  know  whether  they  accept  the  Hunter  upon  the  terms 
proposed  [2903]. 

2900.  [p.  27.]     1 1  May.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners  of 
the  Customs. — Desires  them  to  survey  for  passes  the  Pris- 
cilla,   of    Plymouth,   George    Matthews    master,   now    at 
Plymouth ;   the   Hawk,   of    Dartmouth,   Thomas   Fowles 
master,  now  at    Dartmouth  ;   the  Alicante  Merchant,  of 
Plymouth,  Richard  Mayne  master,  now  at  Plymouth. 

2901.  [p.    27.]     12   May.     The  same  to   the   same. — 
Desires  them  to  survey  for  passes  the  Olive  Branch,  of 
Falmouth,  Thomas  Dyer  master,  now  at  Falmouth ;  the 
Unity,   of   Falmouth,   John    Chapman    master,   now    at 
Falmouth. 

2902.  [p.  27.]     13  May.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Andrew  King? 
sub-governor  of  the  Royal  African  Company. — Sends  him 
the  substance  of  the  obligation  to  be  entered  into  by  the 
Company  about  the  Hunter  [2899]  to  be  passed  in  form 
under  the  seal  of  the  Company  [2903], 

2903.  [p.  28.]     13  May.      Memorandum   of  the   sub- 
stance of  the  obligation  to  be  entered  into  by  the  Royal 
Company  of  Adventurers  trading  into  Africa  touching  the 
ship  Hunter  [2902].     '  That  whereas  at  the  humble  request 
of  the  said  Company  his  Majesty  is  pleased  to  accom- 
modate them   with  the  said  ship  manned   with  70  men 
(officers  included)  to  be  by  them  employed  to  the  coast  of 

1  Commander  of  the  Greyhound  [2898]. 

2  Commander  of  the  Anne  yacht  [2858]. 

3  Probably  in  the  sense  of 'anticipate.' 
See  note  to  No.  2869. 


1676  FIFTH   VOLUME  199 

Guinea,  upon  the  particular  service  of  the  said  Company, 
with  condition  that  the  said  Company  shall  forthwith 
advance  to  his  Majesty  the  sum  of  32O/.  to  be  presently 
disbursed  in  the  fitting  forth  of  the  said  ship,  and  at  the 
end  of  the  voyage  effectively  paid  to  his  Majesty  in  satis- 
faction for  the  victuals,  wages,  wear  and  tear  of  the  said 
ship  after  the  rate  of  4/.  per  man  a  month  for  the  said 
number  of  70  men,  or  so  many  (not  exceeding  that  number) 
as  shall  be  actually  entertained  by  his  Majesty  on  board 
the  said  ship,  the  same  to  be  computed  from  the  day  of  the 
date  hereof  to  the  day  of  her  being  returned  into  custody 
and  charge  of  the  officers  of  his  Majesty's  navy  at  Woolwich 
or  Deptford  within  the  river  of  Thames.'  The  said 
Company  is  to  declare  under  seal  the  acceptance  of  the 
ship  upon  these  terms. 

2904.  [p.  28.]     13  May.     S.P.to  the  Navy  Board,— - 
Application  having  been  made  to  his  Majesty  by  a  person 
well  recommended  by  Mr.  Southwell1  to  succeed  Mr.  Penn, 
lately  deceased,  as  clerk  of  the  check  at  Kinsale,  the  writer 
desires  to  know   whether   or  no  it  be  their  opinion  that 
such  an  officer  be  continued  there  [2919]. 

2905.  [p.  29.]      1 6  May.     S.  P.  to  Captain   Wyborne? 
commander  of  the  Pearl,  in  the  Hope. — Will  advertise  the 
officers  of  the  navy  of  the  four  persons  he  mentions,  which 
are  sent  on  board  him  by  his  Majesty's  warrant  and  are 
to  be  borne  above  his  complement.     '  As   to  what  you 
mention  concerning  your  officers,  I  am  sorry  in  case  you 
have  already  had  sufficient  proofs  of  the  misbehaviour  of 
any  of  them  (and  particularly  in  what  you  mention  of  their 
being  addicted  to  drink)  you  should  delay  the  giving  me 
present  notice  of  it,  it  being  much  more  for  his  Majesty's 
service  and  suitable  to  his  royal  intentions  of  preserving 
sobriety  on  board  his  ships,  and  more  justifiable  to  you  in 
case  any  ill  accident  should  happen  for  want  of  it,  that 
the  faults  of  your  officers  (especially  of  this  kind)  should 
be  known  now,  and  persons  better  qualified  put  in  their 
rooms,  than  left  to  be  told  hereafter.' 

2906.  [p.  29.]     1 6  May.     S.  P.  to  Captain   Clements, 
commander  of  the  Greyhound,  in  the  Downs. — He  is  to 
continue  to  stop  the  French   privateer  till  further  orders 

1  D.  N.  B.  liii.  300.  2  See  note  to  No.  2840. 


200  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          May 

[2897,  2898],  and  to  send  up  a  particular  account  from  the 
master  of  the  flyboat  of  the  whole  matter  of  fact  relating 
to  his  being  taken  by  the  said  privateer,  and  how  far  he 
made  known  to  the  said  caper  his  having  his  Majesty's 
pass,  and  the  propriety  of  the  ship  and  goods  being  English 
[2923].  Will  advise  the  officers  of  the  navy  of  his  want  of 
stores,  who  will  doubtless  take  care  for  his  supply,  it  being 
very  unfit  for  his  ship  to  be  called  from  her  station  until 
some  other  be  in  readiness  to  supply  her  place,  which  the 
writer  hopes  will  shortly  be  by  the  coming  down  of  the 
Assurance. 

2907.  [p.  30.]     1 6  May.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Jenifer?  of 
the  Saudados,2  in  the  Downs. — Has  received  his  of  the 
1 3th,  and  hopes  this  will  find  him  arrived  in  the  Downs, 
where  he  must  remain  until  the  arrival  of  Mr.  Sheeres 3 
[2915].     If  it  be  intended  for  him  to  give  convoy  to  any 
vessel,  he  will   have   notice  of  it   by  an  order  from  his 
Majesty. 

2908.  [p.  30.]    1 6  May.    S.  P.  to  Sir  John  Kempthorne? 
at    Portsmouth. — Is   glad   the    Norwich   is  in   so  good  a 
readiness,  to  whose  company  the  lords  have  directed  the 
payment  of  some  of  their  wages  before  they  go  again  to 
sea. 

2909.  [p.  30.]     1 8  May.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Day?  com- 
mander of  the  Bezan. — To  carry  Sir  Robert  Robinson's 6 
things  into  the  Hope  to  the  Assurance,  and  this  done  to 
return  to  his  station  at  Greenwich. 

2910.  [p.  31.]     1 8  May.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners  of 
the  Customs,  London  [2913]. — A  pass  is  desired  for  the 
Rebecca,  of  Plymouth,  John  Evans  master,  now  in  that  port 
bound  for  the  Straits. 

2911.  [p.  31.]     1 8  May.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Pmn,7  com- 
mander of  the   Cleveland   yacht,  at   Greenwich. — To   fit 
himself  to  attend  'some  persons  of  good  quality'  down  the 
River. 

2912.  [p.  31.]     1 8  May.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Hide,9  com- 
mander of  the  ship  President,  merchantman,  bound  to  the 

1  See  ii.  409  n.  supra.  3  See  ii.  9  n.  supra. 

3  See  note  to  No.  2724.  4  See  note  to  No.  2734. 

5  See  ii.  21  n.  supra.  6  See  note  to  No.  2872. 

7  See  No.  2561. 

8  This  letter  is  addressed  to  'my  respected  friend,  Captain  Hide.' 


1676  FIFTH   VOLUME  201 

Indies. — His  Majesty  has  been  pleased  to  command  the 
writer,  '  at  the  instance  of  this  gentlewoman  the  bearer,' 
to  inquire  whether  he  is  at  present  disposed  to  take  an 
apprentice,  '  as  having  a  gracious  intention  of  putting  forth 
a  son  of  hers  at  his  charge  an  apprentice  to  some  worthy 
man  like  yourself,  in  order  to  his  being  bred  to  the  sea.' 

2913.  [p.  32.]     19  May.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners  of 
the  Customs. — '  In  answer  to  yours  of  this  day,  it  was  from 
the  irregularity  of  the  enclosed  certificate  (in  the  method 
of  its  procuring)  that  occasioned  you  the  trouble  of  mine 
of  the  1 8th  [2910]  wherein  you  may  please  to  observe  that 
I  take  no  notice  at  all  of  the  said  certificate,  but  barely 
intimate  to  you  the  desire  of  the  merchant  in  the  manner 
directed  me  by  the  late  orders  of  council  [2488],  according 
to  which  alone  (as  near  as  I  can)   I   shall  govern  myself, 
and  not  proceed  in  the  present  case  to  the  preparing  of 
any  pass  until  a  certificate  shall  come  regularly  to  the 
lords  of  the  admiralty  from  your  board  conformable  to 
the  said  orders.'     Passes  are  demanded  for  the  two  ships 
undernamed,  now  at  Plymouth,  bound  for  the  Straits. 

Margin  :  'About  their  certificates  coming  from  outports.' 
Underwritten  :   Salamander,    of    Plymouth,    Samuel     Petell 
master  ;  Pearl,  of  Plymouth,  John  Smith  master. 

2914.  [p.  32.]     20  May.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Jenifer}  com- 
mander of  the  Saudados,*  in  the  Downs. — Encloses  orders 
for  his  taking  in  some  money  consigned  to  Mr.  Phineas 
Bowles,  deputy-treasurer  to  the  garrison  of  Tangier  [2915]. 
It  is  put  up  in  3  boxes  of  i,ooo/.  each  and  I,OO9/.  Ss.  lod.  in 
the  fourth,  the  bags  all  sealed  with  their  contents  marked 
on  the  outside.     He  is  to  sign  three  receipts,  causing  the 
boxes,  after  his  being  satisfied  therein,  to  be  locked  up  and 
nailed  with  iron  squares  which  the  bearer  will  bring  him, 
taking  the  key  into  his  own  custody,  and  taking  three  like 
receipts  from  Mr.  Bowles  on  delivery,  two  of  which  are  to 
be  transmitted  to  the  writer  by  separate  conveyances  and 
the  other  to  be  kept  in  his  own  hands  till  his  return.     As 
soon  as  he  has  done  his  outward-bound  business  at  Lisbon, 
he  is  to  proceed  with  this  money  and  the  passengers  that 
shall  be  on  board  him  to  Tangier. 

1  See  ii.  409  n.  supra.  2  See  ii.  9  n.  supra. 


202  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS         May 

2915.  [p.  33.]    20  May.     The  same  to  the  same. — Sends 
the  king's  order  for  his  sailing  without  staying  longer  for 
Mr.  Sheeres1  [2907],  his  purpose  being  to  follow  him  to 
Lisbon  in  a  vessel  of  his  own  that  is  now  at  Gravesend 
ready  to  sail  for  Tangier  so  soon  as  she  shall  be  cleared  by 
the  custom-house.      He  is  not  to  let  any  expectation  of 
him  delay  his  departure   one   hour  longer,  his   despatch 
being  of  so   much   moment   in   reference  to  the   queen's 
satisfaction  [2927],  that  though  the  writer  is  putting  on 
board    this  morning  some    money  for  Tangier  upon  the 
Cleveland  yacht,  he  will  direct  Captain  Finn2  rather  to 
return  back  again  with  it  than  that  he  should  stay   one 
hour  for  it  [2928]. 

2916.  [p    33.]     20  May.     S.  P.  to  Captain   Wy borne? 
commander  of  the  Pearl,  at  Plymouth. — Is  sorry  he  is  so 
ill-manned.     Wishes  that  what  he  does  for  remedying  it 
may  be  done  '  so  gently  as  to  give  no  occasion  of  com- 
plaint.'    As  to  Mr.  Sanders,  the  writer  refers  him  to  his 
Majesty's  orders  in  relation  to  him  [2892]. 

2917.  [p.   34.]     20  May.      S.   P.   to  Captain  Russell? 
Reserve,  at  Plymouth. — Has  received  his  of  the  i6th  and 
1 8th  touching  an  addition  to  his  number  of  men,  and  has 
acquainted  the  king ;  '  But  so  much  his  Majesty  thinks  it 
of  importance  to  him  to  have  establishments  kept  to  (and 
particularly  that  of  the  numbers  of  men  to  be  borne  on 
his  ships),  that  he  will  by  no  means  yield  to  the  breach 
thereof  in  the  present  case,  commanding  me  to  let  you 
know  that  he  hath  expressly  declared  in  his  establishment 
about  volunteers  that  there  shall  be  no  servant  allowed  to 
any  of  them,  and  that  the  volunteers  themselves  be  borne 
as  supernumeraries  above  the  complement  of  the  ship,  as 
the  midshipmen  extraordinary  also  are  to  be,  saving  that 
they  are  allowed  each  of  them  a  servant  to  be  borne  also 
as  supernumerary — so  that  the  volunteers  ordered  on  board 
you  by  his  Majesty  being  but  three,  and  the  midshipmen 
extraordinary  two,  with  as  many  servants,  and  all  above 
the  complement  of  your  ship,  his  Majesty  doth  not  expect 

1  See  note  to  No.  2724. 

2  Commander  of  the  Cleveland  yacht  [2911]. 
s  See  note  to  No.  2840. 

4  Captain  Edward  Russell,  afterwards  admiral  and  Earl  of  Orford 
(D.  N.  B.  xlix.  429),  had  formerly  commanded  the  Swallow  [2099]. 
His  commission  to  the  Reserve  is  dated  15  Feb.  1675-6  (i.  401  supra). 


1676  FIFTH   VOLUME  203 

that  your  ship  should  be  at  all  the  less  or  worse  manned 
by  their  being  on  board  you.'  As  to  Mr.  Clarke's  not 
appearing,  '  I  enclose  the  order  from  his  Majesty  which 
you  desire  for  your  brother's  being  entertained  as  a  volunteer 
in  his  room.' 

2918.  [p.  34.]     20  May.     S.  P.  to  Colonel  Piper,  deputy  - 
governor  of  Plymouth. — Desires  his  care  of  the  enclosed 
letters  to  the  Reserve  and  Pearl  [2917,  2916],  now  going 
convoy  to  Newfoundland,  to  be  delivered  as  soon  as  they 
shall  arrive  at  Plymouth. 

2919.  [p.  35.]     20  May.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— 
Takes  theirs  of  the  1 2th  to  be  a  full  answer  to  his  of  the 
1 3th  [2904],   but   desires  their  opinion  of  Captain  John 
Martin,1  as  well  as  of  Mr.  Crispin  whom  they  recommend. 
Also  where  the  Foresight,  now  daily  expected  home  from 
Jamaica,  should  be  brought  to  be  laid  up. 

2920.  [p.  35.]     20  May.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Finn?  com- 
mander of  the  Cleveland  yacht,  at  Greenwich. — To  carry 
the  bearer,  Alexander  Harris,  with  money  to  be  sent  by  the 
Saudados  in  the  Downs  [2914,  2915],  bringing  him  back 
to  Greenwich. 

2921.  [p.  35-]     23  May.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners  of 
the  Customs. — About  a  pass  for  the  ship  Scanderbeg,  of 
Barnstaple,  Robert  Fishley  master. 

2922.  [p.  36.]     24  May.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Fasby,  com- 
mander of  the  Charles  yacht. — To  give  Mr.  Rumbold,3  to- 
gether with  Mademoiselle   Beaufort,   with   their  servants 
and  baggage,  passage  to  Havre  de  Grace  [2934]. 

2923.  [p.  36.]     24  May.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Clements,  of 
the   Greyhound,  in  the  Downs. — '  I    have   received  your 
letter  of  the  2ist,  giving  me  an  account  of  the  complaints 
made  to  you  by  many  of  his  Majesty's  subjects  sailing  in 
foreign-built  ships  who  have  passes,  and  desiring  to  be  dis- 
charged out  of  them.     I  must  confess  I  can  but  say  I  am 
very  well  contented  with  seamen's  unwillingness  to  serve  in 
foreign-built  ships,  and  wish  they  had  always  been  of  that 
mind  ;  if  they  had,  our  own  navigation  had  thriven  better 
and  his  Majesty  lost  fewer  of  his   men   by  their  being 

1  A  Captain  John  Martin  had  commanded  the  Hope  fireship  in 
1672  (i.  382  supra). 

2  See  note  to  No.  2561. 

3  See  D.  N.  B.  xlix.  399. 


204  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          May 

carried  away  in  foreigners,  besides  the  manifold  frauds 
which  have  been  occasioned  by  the  multiplying  of  passes 
grounded  thereon  ;  but  at  the  same  time  cannot  but  say 
that  I  wonder  what  the  ground  can  be  of  these  complaints 
of  the  seamen,  who  cannot  be  thought  to  have  been 
pressed  into  the  service  of  these  foreign  vessels,  and  going 
voluntarily  in  ships  to  which  passes  have  been  granted, 
their  masters  seem  to  have  much  more  reason  of  complain- 
ing than  they,  and  in  my  opinion  the  masters  do  more 
than  in  strictness  could  be  exacted  from  them,  in  giving 
them  any  part  of  their  wages.  But  in  this  I  only  give 
you  my  private  opinion,  as  having  no  proper  occasion  of 
saying  it  further  than  for  your  direction,  who  I  think  are 
in  no  degree  concerned  in  the  receiving  of  any  such  com- 
plaints or  doing  anything  upon  them,  a  foreign-built  ship 
being  by  no  means  to  be  interpreted  by  you  as  a  foreign 
ship  (with  reference  to  the  admiral's  instructions  you 
mention),  while  the  propriety  of  such  foreign-built  vessels  is 
become  English,  and  so  declared  to  be  by  her  having  a 
pass  granted  her,  either  from  his  Majesty,  my  lords  of  the 
admiralty,  the  commissioners  of  the  customs,  or  magistrates 
of  the  outports.' 

On  the  arrival  of  the  Assurance  in  the  Downs  in  a  few 
days  he  will  have  opportunity  of  being  called  to  some  place 
where  he  may  have  the  recruit  of  stores  he  desires.  Has 
communicated  to  the  king  and  lords  the  account  of  the 
master  of  the  flyboat  concerning  the  French  privateer 
[2906],  who  have  ordered  both  the  commander  and  vessel 
into  the  custody  of  the  marshal  of  the  admiralty  [2940]. 
Desires  him  to  cause  such  another  account  as  this,  or  one 
more  perfect,  to  be  signed  by  the  said  Mr.  Johnson  and 
his  company  and  sworn  to  before  a  magistrate,  together 
with  a  list  of  the  men  belonging  to  the  flyboat,  distinguish- 
ing therein  which  are  English  and  which  are  strangers  ; 
adding  in  particular  (if  he  finds  it  to  be  truth)  that  the 
French  privateer  tore  the  letters  of  naturalisation  of  the 
master  of  the  flyboat.  As  to  discharging  the  flyboat,  he 
shall  have  orders  by  the  next. 

2924.  [p.  37.]  24  May.  S  P.  to  Captain  Ashby?  com- 
mander of  the  Rose,  in  the  Downs. — Has  received  his  of 
the  1 9th  from  Plymouth.  He  is  to  stay  in  the  Downs 
1  See  ii.  398  n.  supra. 


1676  FIFTH   VOLUME  205 

until  further  orders,  sending  up  an  account  of  the  condition 
of  his  ship  and  what  victuals  he  has  on  board. 

2925.  [p.    37.]     24  May.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Lassells,1 
commander  of  the  Garland,  in  the  Downs. — Has  received 
his  of  the  2Oth  from  off  Harwich.     [  The  rest  as  in  the  pre- 
ceding letter.] 

2926.  [p.  37.]     24  May.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners  of 
the  Customs. — About  a  pass  for  the  St.  Jacob,  of  Waterford, 
Robert  Priestley  master,  now  in  the  Downs. 

2927.  [p.  38.]     24  May.    S.  P.  to  Mr.  Sheeres?  going  to 
Tangier. — Encloses  the  king's  warrant  to  the  commanders 
of  any  of  his  ships  for  the  carrying  of  his  packet  from 
Tangier  to  Tripoli.     Encloses   also   a   letter   to   Captain 
Jenifer  [2928],  who  sailed  out  of  the  Downs  the  day  before 
yesterday  '  after  very  severe  messages  and  letters  sent  him 
from  the  queen.' 3     Hopes  he  will  overtake  him  at  Lisbon, 
or  at  least  at  Tangier. 

2928.  [p.    38.]     24   May.     S.   P.   to  Captain  Jenifer? 
commander  of  the  Saudados,  gone  down  the  River. — Is 
extremely  sorry  for  the  uneasiness  he  has  suffered  from  his 
stay  in  the  Downs  by  the  king's  orders  [2907],  but  doubts 
not '  his  Majesty  will  in  his  justice  interest  himself  so  as  to 
remove  all  dissatisfaction  that  may  remain  in  her  Majesty 3 
towards  you  [2927,   2947]   before  you  return  home.'     Is 
very  sorry  Mr.  Sheeres 5  missed  his  passage  with  him,  but  the 
despatch  of  a  ship  of  his  own  hiring  bound  with  stores  and 
necessaries  for  the  king's  service  at  Tangier  is  the  only 
cause  of  it,  but  she  was  cleared  at  the  custom-house  on 
Monday,  and  will  be  very  few  days  behind  him  at  Lisbon. 
Thanks  for  his  care  in  getting  the  money  on  board  [2914] 
so  that  no  delay  happened   to  his  departure.     The  king 
desires  that  '  instead   of  that  one  pipe  of  the  pale  wine 
which  you  were  directed  to  provide  for  him,  you  make 
it   three,  the  price  and    charge  of  which    Mr.  Chiffinch6 
will  be  accountable  to  you  for.' 

2929.  [p.  39.]     24  May.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board— 

1  See  note  to  No.  2181. 

2  MS.  here  and  elsewhere  'Shere.'     See  note  to  No.  2724. 

3  The  Saudados  was  the  queen's  ship.     See  ii.  9  n.  supra. 

4  See  ii.  409  n.  supra.  5  See  note  to  No.  2724. 

6  MS.  'Chevinch.'    On  this  notorious  character  see  D.  N.  B.  x. 
238.     He  was  keeper  of  the  king's  closet. 


206  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          May 

Mr.  Jonas  Shish  *  prays  that  he  may  enjoy  the  use  of  the 
small  boat  that  was  heretofore  ordered  for  his  son,  telling 
the  writer  that  she  is  of  use  to  his  Majesty  at  Sheerness 
for  turning  into  the  creeks  and  fetching  of  reed  and  broom 
for  the  frigates  that  happen  to  be  trimmed  there,  and  that 
he  will  sail  her  with  no  more  charge  than  that  of  two  men 
[2983].  The  Deptford  ketch  is  to  be  laid  up. 

2930.  [p.    39.]     25  May.     S.  P.  to    Captain  Lassells? 
commander  of  the   Garland,  in  the  Downs. — Is  glad  of 
his  return  after   a   voyage  that  has  proved  much  longer 
than  was  expected  or  the  service  could  well  have  borne 
[2931,  2942].     Has   acquainted   the   king  with   the  good 
condition  his  ship  is  in,  whose  pleasure  it  is  that  he  con- 
tinue in  his  old  station  in  the  Downs,  under  the  direction 
of  Sir  Robert  Robinson  3  in  the  Assurance,  and  that  in  order 
thereto  he  do  demand  forthwith  a  supply  of  2  months' 
from  Dover. 

2931.  [p.  39.]     25  May.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Robert  Robinson? 
on  board  the  Assurance,  in  the  Downs. — Has  received  his 
of  the  23rd  and  24th  giving  notice  of  his  arrival  in  the 
Downs,  and  of  the  coming  in  of  Captain  Lassells a  from  Mai- 
stand  '  [2930].     He  will  speedily  receive  orders. 

2932.  [p.  40.]     26  May.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners  oj 
the  Customs. — About  a  pass  for  the  Dove,  of  Bristol,  Giles 
Tapley  master,  now  at  Bristol  bound  for  the  Straits. 

2933.  [p.  40.]     29  May.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  St.  Michel?  at 
Deal. — Desires  him  to  deliver  the  enclosed  to  the  captain 
of  the  Foresight G  as  he  shall  pass  through  the  Downs. 

2934.  [p.  40.]     29   May.     S.   P.  to  Captain    Wright? 
commander  of  the  Kitchen  yacht. — In  case  Mr.  Rumbold8 
and  Mademoiselle  Beaufort,  whom  he  will  find  on  board 
the  Charles  yacht  [2922],  shall  desire  to  be  received  on 

1  Jonas  Shish  was  master-shipwright  at  Deptford.  His  sons,  John 
Shish,  master-shipwright  at  Sheerness,  and  Jonas  Shish,  junior,  are 
referred  to  in  the  State  Papers  (Cal.  S.  P.  Dom.  1673,  index).  See 
also  index  to  vol.  ii.  supra. 

a  See  note  to  No.  2181.  3  See  note  to  No.  2872. 

4  Probably  '  Marstrand,'  near  Gottenburg.  The  voyage  was  to 
Sweden  [2942]. 

3  See  note  to  No.  2387. 

6  The  Foresight  was  commanded  by  Captain  William   Davies 


ee  ii.  12  n.  supra. 
8  MS.  here  «  Rumball.'     See  D.  N.  B.  xlix.  399. 


i6;6  FIFTH   VOLUME  207 

board  his  yacht  now  bound  to  Dieppe,  he  is  to  give  them 
passage  ;  as  also  Mr.  Ducane,  merchant. 

2935.  [p.  40.]     31  May.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Pitt,  clerk  of 
the  control  at  Portsmouth. — Shall  be  very  glad  of  con- 
tributing anything  in  his  power  towards  rendering  his  long 
experience  in  the  affairs  of  the  navy  beneficial  to  him  ; 
therefore  desires  a  list  of  the  papers  he  mentions  of  instruc- 
tions and  transactions  which  have  passed  his  notice  in  his 
former  employments. 

2936.  [p.  41.]     31  May.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  John  Pepys)- 
Desires  him  to  move  the  Trinity  House  to  appoint  an  able 
pilot  for  the  voyage  of  the  Cleveland   yacht   to   Jersey, 
neither  Captain  Finn  2  nor  his  mate  having  any  knowledge 
of  those  parts. 

2937.  [p.  41.]     31  May.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Harris,  at  my 
lord  chancellor's.3 — Will  wait  on  him  to-morrow  about  the 
Trinity  House  business. 

2938.  [p.  41.]     31  May.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners  of 
the  Customs. — About  a  pass  for  the  Jonathan,  of  Plymouth, 
John  Sanders  master,  now  in  that  port  bound  for  New- 
foundland and  the  Straits. 

2939.  [p.  41.]     31  May.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Robert  Robinson? 
commander   of  the   Assurance,   Downs. — Thanks  for  his 
papers   and  draught  about  Newfoundland.     Thanks  him 
also  for  his  advertisement  of  what  passed   between   the 
Drake  and  the  Dutch  East   Indiaman;  and  agrees  with 
what  he  observes  about  the  loss  of  time  which  may  be 
occasioned  by  his  Majesty's  orders  being  not  sent  from 
shore  so  soon  as  the  ships  are  in  sight.     The  Greyhound 
is  to  come  up  to  Deptford  to  refit  [2940],  and  the  Drake 
[2941]  and   Rose  [2944]  to  Sheerness.     The  two  former 
will  be  with  him  again  in  a  few  days,  but  his  Majesty  hath 
not  yet  declared  whether  the   Rose   shall  be  refitted  or 
laid  up. 

2940.  [p.  42.]     31  May.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Clements, 
commander  of  the  Greyhound,  in  the  Downs. — The  marshal 
of  the  admiralty  is  gone  down  in  the  Richmond  yacht  to 
bring  the  French  privateer  up  into  the  River  [2923].     One 
of  the  merchants  concerned  in  the  flyboat  which  was  taken 

1  See  note  to  No.  2857.  2  See  No.  2561. 

8  See  note  to  No  2892.  4  See  note  to  No.  2872. 


208  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          May 

by  her  will  send  for  two  or  three  of  her  company  up  hither 
to  give  their  testimony  in  the  admiralty  court  relating  to 
what  passed  between  the  privateer  and  her,  the  judge  of 
the  admiralty  declaring  their  personal  testimony  in  court 
to  be  indispensable  in  the  case  [2961].  Encloses  orders 
for  his  coming  up  to  Deptford  to  refit,  but  as  the  merchants 
have  made  no  application  he  cannot  have  the  orders  he 
desires  for  bringing  up  the  silver  which  is  come  home  in 
the  Rose  and  Drake. 

2941.  [p.  42.]      31  May.      S.  P.  to  Captain  Stepney, 
commander  of  the  Drake,  in  the  Downs. — Encloses  orders 
for  his  coming  up  to  Sheerness  to  be  refitted.     Desires  an 
account  of  the  dispute  he  had  with  the  Dutch  East  India- 
man  concerning  striking  in   his  passage  from  Plymouth 
[2939]  ;  and  he  is  to  send  up  his  journal  of  his  late  voyage 
according  to  the  lord  admiral's  instructions. 

2942.  [p.  43.]    31  May.    S.  P.  to  Captain  Lassells?  com- 
mander of  the  Garland,  in  the  Downs. — The  king  will  not 
impute  the  length  of  his  late  voyage  [2930]  to  any  delay 
of  his  for  such  time  as  he  stayed  by  orders  from  the  King 
of  Sweden,  but  the  writer  desires  copies  of  those  orders, 
and  also  a  copy  of  his  journal  for  the  voyage. 

2943.  [p.  43.]      31  May.     S.  P.  to  the  Commander  of 
the   Hunter?  at    Sheerness. — Desires   an   account   of  the 
forwardness  of  his  ship  in  her  fitting  for  her  voyage  to 
Guinea. 

2944.  [p.  43.]     3 1  May.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Ashby?  com- 
mander of  the  Rose,  in  the  Downs. — Sends  him  orders  to 
come  to  Sheerness.     The  lords  expect  his  journal  of  his 
late  voyage. 

2945.  [p.  43.]     31  May.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  St.  Michel?  at 
Deal. — Thanks  him  for  his  favour  to  Mr.  Sheeres.6 

2946.  [p.  44.]     3 1  May.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board— 
The  Norwich  is  ready  for    sea,  except   that   she   is   not 
paid,  which  they  should  hasten.     The  Drake  [2941],  Grey- 
hound [2940],  and  Hunter  [2943]  are  to  be  fitted  with  all 
despatch,  but  his  Majesty  has  not  determined  whether  the 
Rose  [2944]  shall  stay  abroad  or  no.     The  king  and  lords 

1  See  note  to  No.  2181. 

2  Captain  Richard  Dickenson  [2958]. 

*  See  ii.  398  n.  supra.  4  See  note  to  No.  2387. 

5  See  note  to  No.  2724. 


1676  FIFTH   VOLUME 

have  resolved  to  accommodate  the  Guinea  Company  with 
the  use  of  a  sloop  [2975]  ;  desires  them  to  consider  which 
may  be  fitted  for  accompanying  the  Hunter  to  Guinea 
with  least  charge  of  ready  money,  noting  what  sum  it  will 
call  for  [2962],  and  what  the  lowest  number  of  men  is 
which  they  will  think  safe  to  be  ventured  on  such  a  voyage 
with,  the  Company  proposing  to  man  the  said  sloop  out  of 
the  Hunter's  complement  of  70. 

2947.  [p.  44.]     i  June.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Jenifer?  of  the 
Saudados,  at  Plymouth. — Has  let  his  Majesty  understand 
the  industry  he  has  used  in  overtaking  at  Plymouth  the 
merchant  ships  gone  so  many  days  before  him  from  the 
Downs,  in  order  to  his  doing  him   right  therein  to  the 
queen  [2927,  2928].     Observes  the  reasonable  use  he  made 
of  his  putting   into  Plymouth  in   taking  in  a  supply  of 
victuals. 

2948.  [p.  45.]      i  June.      S.  P.  to  Captain   Coleman, 
collector  of  the  customs  at  Plymouth. — Directs   him   to 
stop  the  vessel  that  had  the  false  passes. 

2949.  [p.  45.]     i  June.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners  of 
the  Customs. — About  a  pass  for  the  St.  George,  of  London, 
George  Edgers   master,  now  at    Harwich  bound  for  the 
Straits. 

2950.  [p.  45.]     2  June.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  St.  Michel?  at 
Deal. — '  This  comes  upon  occasion  of  Sir  Robert  Robin- 
son's 3  taking  notice  lately  to  me  of  the  liberty  taken  by 
all  ships  coming  into  the  Downs  of  wearing  pennants,  so 
as  to  render  him  undistinguishable  in  his  command  there 
from  any  other  man-of-war,  and   it  is  to  inquire  of  you 
how  far  the  late  establishment  hath  been  conformed  to, 
by  which  the  officers  of  the  navy  were  directed  to  provide 
a  red  pennant  of  larger  size   than  ordinary  to  be  worn 
constantly  by  the   ship   that   commands  in  chief  in  the 
Downs  as  a   mark  of  distinction,  with  direction  that  as 
the  said  vessel  so  commanding  in  chief  shall  be  altered, 
the  said  pennant  shall  be  accordingly  shifted  from  ship  to 
ship,  and  when  no  ship  shall  be  commissioned  to  command 
in  chief  there,  the  pennant  to  be  lodged  on  shore  in  your 
hands,  to  be  safely  kept  and  delivered  by  you  to  the  next 
who  shall  succeed  to  the  said  command  :  the  seeing  of 

1  See  ii.  409  n.  supra.  *  See  note  to  No.  2387. 

3  See  note  to  No.  2872. 
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210  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS         June 

which  rule  strictly  complied  with  being  made  your  task, 
I  am  to  desire  that  you  will  carefully  for  the  time  to  come 
cause  the  same  to  be  done.  .  .  .' 

2951.  [p.  46.]  2  June.  S.  P.  to  Sir  Robert  Robinson} 
commander-in-chief  in  the  Downs. — Thanks  for  his  in- 
formation of  i  June  touching  the  hoy  and  the  caper ;  he 
is  to  continue  his  stop  upon  the  latter.  The  king's  orders 
being  lately  sent  him  for  commanding  in  chief  in  the 
Downs,  he  will  have  it  in  his  power  upon  any  occasions  of 
this  nature  to  employ  the  king's  ships  in  looking  out  for 
privateers  and  others  who  have  committed  any  violence 
upon  any  of  his  Majesty's  subjects,  and  finding  them  to 
bring  them  in,  upon  good  evidence  first  given  him  of  the 
truth  of  the  complaint.  '  As  to  what  concerns  other  ships 
pressing  to  wear  pennants,  I  am  to  note  to  you  that  his 
Majesty's  last  orders  authorised  you  to  wear  the  pennant 
of  distinction  which  was  some  time  since  established  upon 
occasion  of  the  like  complaint,  the  wearing  which  pennant 
I  fear  hath  been  for  some  time  neglected,  but  the  king's 
said  orders  will  remedy  it  by  your  calling  for  it  from  his 
agent  at  Deal  [2950]  and  putting  it  up  according  to  the 
establishment,  .  .  .  which  will  abundantly  I  hope  distin- 
guish you,  as  well  from  all  his  Majesty's  subjects  who  shall 
happen  to  have  pennants  abroad  (as  being  not  yet  publicly 
forbid  it)  as  from  foreign  men-of-war  who,  upon  a  debate 
some  time  since  had  on  that  particular  subject,  are  by  his 
Majesty  declared  to  be  at  liberty  to  wear  pennants  if  they 
think  fit,  and  are  not  to  be  interrupted  therein.  .  .  .' 

2952.  [p.  47.]     2  June.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Lassells?  com- 
mander of  the  Garland,  Downs. — Has  received  his  of  31 
May  giving  an  account  of  his  taking  on  board  his  pro- 
visions,  '  wherein  if  you  have  yielded  to  accept  of  any 
whose   goodness  is  not    such   as  his    Majesty's    contract 
requires,  or  may  be  convenient  for  the  health  of  yourself 
and  company,  both  his  Majesty  and  you  may  suffer  by  it 
without  any  thanks  given  you  for  the  wrong  you  take 
upon  yourself  therein,  though  the  end  of  your  doing  it 
(I  mean  despatch)  be  in  itself  very  laudable.' 

2953.  [p.  47.]     2  June.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Dickenson? 
Hunter,  Sheerness. — Presses  him  to  hasten  the  despatch 

1  See  note  to  No.  2872.  2  See  note  to  No.  2181. 

3  See  ii.  367  n.  supra. 


1676  FIFTH   VOLUME  211 

of  his  ship  ;   and  then  he  may  come  to  town  for  a   few 
days. 

2954.  [p.  47.]      3  June.      S.  P.  to  Captain   Wyborne? 
Pearl,  at  Plymouth. — Wishes  him  a  good  voyage. 

2955.  [p.  47.]     3  June.     S.  P.  to  the  Commander  of  the 
Reserve?  at  Plymouth. — Wishes  him  seasonable  weather 
for  his  voyage,  hoping  that  he  met  at  Plymouth  the  king's 
warrant  for  the  bearing  of  Mr.  Russell,3  his  brother,  as  a 
volunteer  [2917]. 

2956.  [p.  48.]     3  June.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners  of 
the  Customs. — About  passes  for  the  Katharine,  of  Poole, 
William  Cartridge  master,  at  Poole  ;  the  Dorothy,  of  Poole, 
William   Weston   master,   at   Poole ;    the   Young   Man's 
Endeavour,  of  Plymouth,  Richard  Tooker  [master],  at  Ply- 
mouth ;  the  Robert,  of  Plymouth,  Richard  Cooke  [master], 
at  Plymouth ;  and  the  Sarah,  Hawk,  and  Mary,  of  Dart- 
mouth, now  in  that  port. 

2957.  [p.  48.]     5  June.     The  same  to  the  same. — About 
passes  for  the  Endeavour,  of  Poole,  William  Lacy  master, 
and  the  James,  of  Poole,  Walter  White  master :  now  at 
Poole. 

2958.  [p.  48.]     5  June.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Dickenson? 
Hunter,  at  Sheerness. — Leave  to  come  to  town  for  a  few 
days. 

2959.  [p.  48.]     5  June.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners  of 
the  Customs. — About  a  pass  for  the  Sarum  Merchant,  of 
Poole,  William  Dolbury  master,  now  at  Poole  bound  for 
the  Straits. 

2960.  [p.  48.]     7  June.     The  same  to  the  same. — About 
a  pass  for  the  Hopewell,  of  Dartmouth,  George  Luscombe 
master,  now  in  that  port  bound  for  the  Straits. 

2961.  [p.  49.]     7  June.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Robert  Robinson? 
Downs. — The  Prosperous,  of  London,  need  no  longer  be 
stopped,  her  company  having  given  their  evidence  in  the 
admiralty  court  [2940,  2963,  3035]. 

2962.  [p.  49.]     7  June.    S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— -The 
Royal  Company  [2903]  design  to  keep  the  Hunter  upon 
the  coast  of  Guinea  until  April  next,  from  which  time  her 

1  See  note  to  No.  2840.  2  Captain  Russell. 

3  See  note  to  No.  2917.  4  See  ii.  367  n.  supra. 

5  Commander  of  the  Assurance  and  Commander-in-chief  in  the 
Downs  [2951],     See  note  to  No.  2872. 

p  2 


212  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS         June 

setting  out  back  from  thence  is  to  be  computed.  The 
lords  refer  to  their  board  the  calculating  and  giving  order 
for  what  quantity  of  provisions  they  shall  judge  needful, 
with  respect  had  to  such  a  proportion  thereof  as  may  be 
lessened  by  her  company's  being  put  to  short  allowance 
As  to  the  sloop  [2946],  both  the  fitting  and  keeping  her 
abroad  being  reported  by  their  board  as  matters  of  more 
charge  than  was  originally  expected,  some  answer  must 
be  received  from  the  Company  before  the  lords'  directions 
can  be  transmitted  to  them. 

2963.  [p  50.]     7  June.     S.  P.  to  Dr.  Lloyd,1  surrogate 
to  the  judge  of  the  admiralty. — For  the  satisfaction  of  the 
lords,  and  particularly  Mr.  Secretary  Coventry  *  (to  whom 
application  hath   been   made  by   a   foreign   minister  on 
behalf  of  the  privateer),  the   writer  desires   copies  of  the 
examinations  [2940,  2961]. 

2964.  [p.  48.3]     8  June.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners  of 
the  Customs. — About  a  pass  for  the  Hope,  of  Lyme,  Thomas 
Gill  master,  now  at  Lyme,  and  the  Anne,  of  Lyme,  John 
Davy  master,  now  at  Lyme. 

2965.  [p.  48.3]     8  June.     The  same  to  the  same. — About 
a  pass  for  the  Edward  and   Grace,  of  London,   William 
East  master,  now  in  the  Downs  bound  for  the  Straits. 

2966.  [p.  50.]     8  June.     S.  P.  to   Mr.  Duckworth?  a 
merchant. — Thanks  him  and  Mr.  Griffith  for  their  advices 
of 'the  practices  still  on  foot'  of  '  applying  passes  granted 
for  the  benefit  only  of  his  Majesty's  own  subjects  to  the 
colouring 5  of  foreign  ships  and  goods.'     Requests  him  to 
obtain  from  his  correspondent  at  Livorne  the  name  of  the 
ship  and  master,  together  with  the  name  of  '  the  English 
house  by  which  she  is  fathered,'  with  '  the  like  of  the  other 
ship  foreign-built  and  of  foreign  propriety  pretending  for 
Smyrna  and  expecting  a  passport  from  hence ' ;  these  cir- 
cumstances being  necessary  for  '  the  thorough  detecting 
of  the  said  frauds  and  convicting  the  persons  interested 
therein.'     The  matter  is  '  of  so   much  importance  to  us 
all  to  have  thoroughly  prosecuted,'  and  this  will  '  conduce 
more  towards  the  remedying  of  this  evil  than  all  the  rules 

1  See  ii.  306  n.  supra.  2  D.  N.  B.  xii.  357. 

8  Out  of  order  in  the  MS.  *  See  ii.  180  n.  supra. 

5  See  note  to  No.  2162. 


1 676  FIFTH   VOLUME  213 

that  any  invention  can  make  will  ever  obtain,  till  confirmed 
by  severity  upon  the  breachers  thereof.' 

2967.  [p.  51.]     12  June.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Lovell^  com- 
mander of  the  Katherine  yacht. — Desires  him  to  put  his 
yacht  in  readiness  to  attend  the  king  down  the  River  on 
Wednesday  morning  next. 

Underwritten :  The  like  to  Captain  Day,2  present  commander 
of  the  Merlin;  Captain  Gunman,  of  the  Anne  ;  Captain  Wright,3 
of  the  Kitchen;  Captain  Tyte,4  of  the  Richmond;  Captain  Day2 
or  chief  mate  on  board  the  Bezan. 

2968.  [p.  51.]     12  June.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners  of 
the  Customs. — About  a  pass  for  the  Friend,  of  London, 
Richard  Mathew  master,  now  at  Plymouth. 

2969.  [p.  52.5]     12  June.     'At  \  past  8  morn.'     S.  P. 
to   Sir    Thomas  Chtckeley* — Has  just   now   received    his 
Majesty's  commands  for  the  immediate  giving  notice  to 
all  the  yachts  in  the  River  to  fall  down  this  very  next  tide 
to  Gravesend,  there  to  attend  his  coming  and  wait  on  him 
down   to   Sheerness   [2972,    2978].      His   yacht,   the  old 
Katherine,7  is  ordered  to  attend  Prince  Rupert  down  the 
River  [2970]. 

2970.  [p.  51.]     13  June.     'Past  8  in  the  morn.'     6".  P. 
to  the  several  commanders  of  these  his  Majesty's  yachts : 8 
Anne,  Katherine,  Merlin  (or  in  his  absence  Captain  Day,2 
commander  of  the  Bezan),  Kitchen,  Richmond,  as  also  to 
the  commander  of  the  old  Katherine  yacht 7  appointed  to 
attend  Prince  Rupert  [2969]. — They  are  to  fall  down  this 
next  tide  to  Gravesend. 

2971.  [p.  52.]     1 3  June.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners  of 
the  Customs. — About   passes   for   the   Rachel,   of  South- 
ampton,  Edward   Petty 9  master,   now  at  Southampton  ; 
the  Katharine,  of  Southampton,  William  Burwood  master, 
now  in  that  port. 

Margin :  '  About  passes  for  ships  in  outports.' 

1  Charnock,  Biog.  Nav.  i.  347. 

2  Captain  Richard  Day  was  commander  of  the  Bezan  yacht  (i.  344 
supra).     His  appointment  to  the  Merlin  was  during  the  absence  of 
her  commander,  Captain  Jacob  Baker  [2970,  2987]. 

a  See  ii.  12  n.  supra.  *  See  note  to  No.  2844. 

5  Out  of  order  in  the  MS. 

*  Master- general  of  the  ordnance.    D.  N.  B.  x.  231. 
7  See  No.  1954  supra.    This  yacht  was  usually  assigned  to  the 
service  of  the  ordnance  [2980].      8  See  No.  2967.      9  MS.  '  Pelley.' 


214  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS         June 

2972.  [p.  52.]     13  June.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy.  Board. — 
His  Majesty  expecting  the  launching  of  the  Defiance l  on 
Friday, '  will  set  forth  hence  with  his   yachts  [2967]  on 
Thursday  towards  Chatham,  that  he  may  be  there  at  the 
launching.' 

2973.  [p.  52.]      13  June.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Stepney, 
Drake,  at  Sheerness. — Leave  to  come  to  town. 

2974.  [p.  53.]     13  June.     S.  P.   to  Captain  Clements, 
Greyhound,   at   Deptford. — His   ship   being  '  every  hour 
wanted  in  the  Downs  for  the  suppressing  the  privateers, 
concerning  whom  complaints  daily  come  of  violences  offered 
to  his  Majesty's  subjects,'  the  king  and  lords  press  him 
with  all  earnestness  to  despatch  in  getting  his  ship  refitted 
for  sea. 

Underwritten :  The  like  to  Captain  Ashby,2  of  the  Rose,  and 
Captain  Stepney,  of  the  Drake,  both  at  Sheerness. 

2975.  [p.  53.]     13  June.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board. — 
Desires  them  to  hasten   the  refitting  of  the  Greyhound, 
Rose,  and  Drake  [2974].     There  will  be  now  no  occasion 
for  fitting  out  a  sloop  for  Guinea,  the  Company  having 
altered  their  mind    [2946].     His    Majesty's   ships  in  the 
Straits   being  now  on  their  way  homewards,  the   writer 
desires  their  advice  at  which  yards  they  shall  be  laid  up. 

2976.  [p.  54.]     i  $  June.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Robert  Robinson? 
Downs. — Doubts  not  but  he  has  received  the  king's  orders 
of  the  7th  touching  his  taking  care  for  suppressing  the 
privateers :  presses  him  most  earnestly  to  do  all  he  can 
towards  it.     Cannot  advise  him  to  discharge  the  English- 
men who  desire  to  be  discharged  out  of  the  merchantman 
he  mentions,  for  though  the  ship  be  not  an  English  ship, 
yet  the  propriety  appears  to  be  English  from  the  pass  that 
was  formerly  granted  her,  so  she  calls  for  the  same  pro- 
tection that  an  English-built  ship  doth,  and  her  men  are 
as  much  obliged  to  do  their  duty  therein.     Will  send  him 
the  Bezan  as  soon  as  the  king  comes  back  [2972,  2995]. 

2977.  [p.  55.]     13  June.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board  — 
They  are  to  give  Mr.  Boatman  such  a  view  (in  the  presence 

1  The  Defiance  was  a  3rd-rate  of  890  tons  burden  and  64  guns, 
built  at  Chatham  by  Mr.  Phineas  Pett.     Pepys's  Register  gives  her 
date  wrongly  as  1675  (i-  268  supra}. 

2  See  ii.  398  n.  supra.  3  See  note  to  No.  2961. 


1676  FIFTH   VOLUME  215 

of  some  of  their  own  number)  of  the  books  of  the 
St.  George  [1528]  remaining  in  the  ticket-office,  as  may 
inform  him  in  anything  relating  to  the  business  of  clothes, 
for  enabling  him  and  others  to  justify  the  matters  by 
them  charged  upon  Major  Beckford  l  before  the  barons 
of  the  exchequer  '  without  exposing  his  Majesty  to  any 
inconvenience  from  the  said  Boatman's  perusal  of  any 
other  parts  of  the  said  books  than  what  particularly  relates 
to  the  business  of  clothes,  and  the  slopseller's  concern- 
ment therein.' 

2978.  [p.  55.]     1 4  June.     S.  P,  to  Sir  Richard  Beach? 
at  Chatham. — The  king  '  purposeth  to  set  forth  hence  for 
Gravesend  to-morrow  morning  early,  there  to  embark  on 
one  of  his  yachts  to  spend  the  time  about  Sheerness  for 
that  day,  and  so  up  to  Chatham  on  Friday '  to  the  launch 
[2972]. 

2979.  [p.  56.]     14  June.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners  of 
the  Customs. — About  a  pass  for  the  Success,  of  London, 
John  Harwood  master,  now  lying  in  the  Downs  bound  for 
the  Straits. 

Margin :  '  Letters  about  passes  for  ships  in  outports.'    This 
is  the  usual  marginal  description  of  these  letters. 

2980.  [p.  56.]     14  June.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Baker?  or  in 
absence^  Captain  Day?  commanding  the  Merlin  yacht  at 
Gravesend. — As  the  yacht  belonging  to  the  office  of  the 
ordnance  is  appointed  for  the  service  of  Prince  Rupert  in 
his  present  attendance  upon  his  Majesty  to  Chatham  [2972], 
and  as  Colonel  Legge  4  is  charged  with  a  particular  service 
in  his  intended  passage  down  the  River  in  company  with 
his  Majesty,  he  is  to  receive  Colonel  Legge  on  board  him 
and  follow  his  directions. 

2981.  [p.  56.]     14  June.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Robert  Robinson? 
Downs. — Prays  him  to  continue  his  care  concerning  priva- 
teers, '  taking  notice  that  caution  hath  for  a  great  while 
been  thought  necessary  to  be  used  in  the  giving  of  convoy 
for  the  transporting  of  horses,  so  that  it  hath  not  been 

'  See  note  to  No.  2264. 

2  Resident  commissioner  of  the  navy  at  Chatham  [2756]. 

3  See  note  to  No.  2967. 

4  Probably  George   Legge,   afterwards   Lord    Dartmouth.      See 
D.  N.  B.  xxxii.  408. 

3  See  note  to  No.  2961. 


216  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS         June 

done  that  I  remember  upon  any  occasion  without  his 
Majesty's  special  order  in  writing,  for  preventing  the  mis- 
applying the  same  to  the  transporting  of  horses  for  the 
use  of  the  armies  abroad.'  Thanks  for  his  advice  of  the 
departure  of  the  ships  to  the  southward,  and  particularly 
Mr.  Sheeres1  [2928]. 

2982.  [p.  57.]    15  June.      S.  P.  to  Sir  John  Kemp- 
thorne?  at  Portsmouth. — The  king  and  his  Royal  High- 
ness are  gone   this    morning   towards  Chatham  in  their 
yachts  to  be  present  at  the  launching  of  the  Defiance3 
to-morrow. 

2983.  [p.  57.]     1 5  June.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Shish?  master- 
shipwright  at  Sheerness. — The  lords  '  do  expect  that  no 
new  works  be  done  more  than  strictly  is  necessary '  for 
enabling  the  Hunter  to  go  to  sea,  '  matters  of  beauty  and 
convenience '  being  to  remain  the  same  as  now.     Prays 
him  to  make  despatch  in  the  fitting  of  the  ships  with  him, 
and  particularly  the   Rose   and  Drake,  whose  service   is 
very  much  wanted  in  the  Downs  [2974].     The  lords  have 
granted  his  desire  for  the  boat  to  attend  him  [2929],  for 
which  orders  will  be  sent  to  the  navy  office. 

2984.  [p.  56.*]     1 6  June.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners 
of  the  Customs. — About  a  pass  for  the  Advice,  of  Yarmouth, 
William  Spooner  master,  at  Yarmouth. 

2985.  [p.  57.]     21  June.     The  same  to  the  same. — About 
a  pass  for  the  Continuance  of  Yarmouth,  John  Francklyn 
master,  now  at  Yarmouth. 

2986.  [p.    57.]     22  June.      The  same  to  the  same. — 
About  a  pass  for  the  Hopewell,  John  Pearce 6  master,  at 
Plymouth. 

2987.  [p.  58.]     23  June.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Day,1  com- 
mander  of  the    Bezan. — Being   himself  bound   with   the 
Merlin  to  Dieppe  (in  the  absence  of  Captain  Baker  7),  he 
is  to  give  order  that  the  Bezan  is  to  carry  and  wait  upon 
Mr.  Webb  as  low  as  the  Isle  of  Sheppey,  to  get  fowl  for 
the  king. 

Postscript. — Mr.  Webb  and  his  company  [2988]  are  to 
be  victualled  by  the  yacht. 

1  See  note  to  No.  2724.  2  See  note  to  No.  2734. 

3  See  note  to  No.  2972.  *  See  ii.  339  n.  supra. 

5  Out  of  order  in  the  MS.  6  MS.  '  Pease.' 

7  See  note  to  No.  2967. 


1 676  FIFTH   VOLUME  217 

2988.  [p.  58.]     23  June.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Tinker? 
master  attendant  at  Deptford. — Desires  him  to  furnish  a 
boat  and  four  men  to  go  down  the  River  with  Mr.  Webb 
[2987]. 

2989.  [p.   59.]     23  June.     S.  P.   to  Captain  Day?  at 
present  commanding  the   Merlin   yacht   [2987]. — Desires 
him   to   receive  on   board  him  and   carefully   keep   such 
portmanteaus 3  as  shall  be  brought  him  by  the  bearer. 

2990.  [p.  59.]     23  June.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Tyte*  com- 
mander of  the  Richmond  yacht,  at  Deptford. — Directs  him 
to  carry  Mr.  Robert  Maddockes,5  paymaster  of  the  navy, 
down  the  River  as  he  shall  direct,  returning  with  him  up 
to  Deptford. 

2991.  [p.  59.]     24  June.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Day?  com- 
manding the  Merlin  yacht  [2987]. — It  is  the  king's  pleasure 
that  he  give  Monsieur  le  Chevalier  de  Lardeneire 6  passage 
to  Dieppe. 

2992.  [p.  59.]     24  June.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  S/iish?  master- 
shipwright  at  Sheerness. — Thanks  for  his  account  of  his 
proceedings   in    fitting  the   three  ships ;   presses   him   to 
hasten  their  despatch  all  that  may  be. 

2993.  [p.  60.]     24  June.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Stevens,  cashier 
of  the   navy. — Acquaints   him   (in    the   absence    of    Mr. 
Speaker8)  that  the  Foresight   is   returned  from  Jamaica 
and  on  her  way  between  Plymouth  and  the  Downs  to  be 
laid  up  at  Sheerness,  in  order   to  his  soliciting  the  lord 
treasurer 9  for  money  for  her. 

2994.  [p.  60.]     24  June.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Dickenson™ 

1  Captain  John  Tinker  (Cal.  S.  P.   Dom.   1672-3,   p.   284).      A 
Captain   Tinker,  whose   Christian   name   was  also    John,  appears 
as   commanding  the  St.  Andrew  in  1670  (i.  414  supra).     See  also 
No.  1673  supra. 

2  See  note  to  No.  2967. 

3  Text,  '  portmantues ' ;  Margin,  'portmantles.' 

4  See  note  to  No.  2844. 

5  Calendared  in  the  State  Papers  as  'Richard'  Maddocks  (Cal. 
S.  P.  Dom.  1672-3,  index),  but  in  another  volume  '  Robert'  is  correctly 
given  (Cal.  S.  P.  Dom.  1671-2,  p.  90).     See  also  ii.  263  n.  supra. 

6  Possibly  Monsieur  John  Lanier  (or  Laniere),  lieutenant-colonel 
of  the  Duke  of  Monmouth's  regiment  of  horse  in  the  French  service 
(Cal.   S.  P.  Dom.  1673-5,  PP-  3&2,  393,  and   1675-6,  p.  59).    See 
D.  N.£.  xxxii.  134. 

7  See  ii.  339  n  supra.  8  See  ii.  49  n.  supra. 

9  The  Earl  of  Danby.  10  See  ii.  367  n.  supra. 


218  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS         June 

commander  of  the  Hunter,  at  Sheerness. — Sends  him  a 
copy  of  a  complaint  made  against  him  by  his  boatswain, 
in  order  to  his  giving  such  answer  thereto  as  may  be 
satisfactory  to  the  lords, '  who,  though  they  will  above  all 
things  labour  to  preserve  the  obedience  due  from  inferior 
officers  to  superior,  yet  do  think  it  their  parts  also  to 
preserve  that  other  part  of  the  discipline  of  the  navy  which 
lies  in  the  seeing  right  done  to  inferiors  upon  any  just 
complaints  brought  against  their  superiors  .  .  . '  [3026]. 

2995.  [p.  6 1.]    24  June.    S.  P.  to  Sir  Robert  Robinson} 
in  the  Downs. — The  writer's  attendance  on  the   king  at 
Chatham  [2982],  and  his  long  stay  there  upon  occasions 
of  the  Chest,  have  prevented  his  answering  his  letters  of 
the  1 5th,  1 7th,  i8th,  and  2ist.     He  is  still  to  detain  the 
two  privateer  vessels  he  has  with  him  in  the  Downs  until 
further  order.     He  shall  have  directions  about  his  going 
out  himself  '  to  meet  with  those   privateers  of  Dunkirk ' 
who  are  said  to  '  threaten  their  looking  out  together  for 
the  Garland.' 3     '  I  am  very  glad  at  what  you  say  touching 
the  number  of  the  complaints  growing  less  than  they  have 
been  touching  the  outrages  committed  by  the  privateers, 
and  I  hope  the  course  his  Majesty  and  my  lords  of  the 
admiralty  are  taking  will  put  a  full  end  to  it ;  but  in  order 
to  the  doing  all  that  is  in  your  power  towards  it,  pray  let 
me  desire  you  to  remember  to  give  me  from  time  to  time 
an  account  of  any  complaints   that  shall   come  to  your 
notice  from   any  of  the   king's   subjects   injured  by  any 
privateers,'  and  a  description  of  the  vessels,  that  they  may 
be  published  '  so  as  that  they  may  be  known  and  laid  hold 
on  as  often  as  they  shall  come  into  any  of  his  Majesty's 
ports.'     The  work  he  designed  for  the  Bezan  will  be  done 
more  to  his  satisfaction  by  the  Greyhound  [2976]. 

2996.  [p.  62.]     24  June.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Robert  Southwell? 
— * ...  I  shall  not  fail  to  make  the  most  effectual  use  I 
can  of  the  list  you  have  already,  and  what  more  particulars 
you    may   hereafter   give   me   of  the  complaints  against 
privateers,  taking  leave  to  observe  to  you  that  if  you  can 
add  to  the  names  of  the  commanders  the  names  of  the 
privateer  vessels  also,  and  the  places  of  abode  of  the  com- 

1  See  note  to  No.  2961. 

2  Presumably  with  the  intention  of  combining  to  attack  her. 

3  See  ii.  63  n.  supra. 


1676  FIFTH   VOLUME  219 

plainers,  it  will  be  very  needful  that  I  have  them  from  you 
for  the  enabling  me  as  well  to  give  the  better  information 
thereof  to  the  commander-in-chief  in  the  Downs  [2995], 
and  officers  in  other  ports  where  any  privateers  may  be 
put  or  brought  in,  as  to  the  easing  you  of  the  trouble 
of  advertising  the  complainers  of  the  coming  or  bringing 
in  such  privateers ;  which  (as  an  instance)  I  am  forced  to 
offer  you  in  the  case  of  the  ship  Christiana,  of  Kirkcaldy,1  to 
whom  I  should  otherwise  give  advice  that  a  privateer  is 
brought  into  the  River  under  the  name  of  the  Revenge  (one 
Metefoux,  commander),  upon  view  of  whose  commission  I 
find  it  to  have  been  originally  granted  to  one  Brison  *  (the 
person  complained  of  for  the  injury  done  to  the  said 
Christiana),  and  made  over  since  the  date  of  that  injury  to 
this  Metefoux ;  so  as  probably  the  vessel  is  the  same 
though  the  captain  be  changed  that  did  the  wrong,  and 
the  complainants  may  have  right  of  her  though  not  of  him 
if  you  think  fit  to  communicate  to  them  the  seizure  of  the 
vessel  and  that  she  now  lies  in  the  river  of  Thames,  a 
trouble  which  I  shall  very  willingly  ease  you  of  for  the 
future,  and  by  keeping  constant  registers  both  of  the 
privateers  complained  of  and  such  as  shall  be  brought  in, 
make  myself  accountable  for  the  giving  due  and  timely 
notice  to  the  parties  aggrieved 3  whenever  I  find  a 
privateer  in  our  possession  of  whom  any  complaints  shall 
appear.' 

2997.  [p.  63.]     26  June.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Killigrew? 
of  the  Henrietta,  in  the  Downs, — He  is  to  carry  his  ship 
to  Portsmouth  to  be  paid  off. 

Underwritten :  '  The  like  to  Captain  Griffith,5  of  the  Diamond, 
to  come  to  Woolwich.' 

2998.  [p.  63.]     26  June.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  St.  Michel?  at 
Deal. — Desires  him  to  take  care  of  two  letters  [2997]. 

2999.  [p.  63.]     26  June.     S.  P.  to  Commissioner  Beach,1 
at  Chatham. — The  king  has  given  leave  to  Captain  Turner, 
gunner  of  the  St.  George,  to  continue  in  town  till  Wednes- 
day, he  '  undertaking  that  his  duty  should  continue  to  be 

1  MS.  '  Kilcardy.'  3  MS.  « Brisson,'  but  see  note  to  No.  3148. 

3  MS.  'agreed.'  *  D.N.B.  xxxi.  109. 

5  See  ii.  340  n.  supra.  6  See  note  to  No.  2387. 

7  Sir  Richard  Beach  was  resident  commissioner  of  the  navy  at 
Chatham  [2756]. 


220  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS         June 

performed  in  his  absence  by  one  of  the  officers  of  the  ships 
at  Chatham,  in  the  same  manner  as  he  had  undertaken 
before  to  yourself.' 

3000.  [p.  64.]  27  June.  S.  P.  to  Sir  Thomas  A  Urn, 
knight  and  baronet.1 — ' .  .  .  These  are  to  give  you  to  under- 
stand that  having  a  court  held  yesterday  at  Trinity  House 
in  order  to  the  receiving  from  Captain  Nicholls  and  the 
rest  of  the  Brethren  who  lately  attended  you  at  Lowestoft 2 
their  report  touching  the  condition  of  our  lights  there,  and 
the  removing  one  or  both  of  them  from  the  places  where 
they  now  stand,  I  was  very  much  surprised  to  find  so  great 
a  disagreement  of  opinion  therein  as  appeared  between 
Captain  Crisp  and  the  rest  of  the  Brethren,  the  latter  agree- 
ing unanimously  and  signing  to  the  report,  .  .  .  which 
they  allege  to  be  what  you  and  they,  together  with  Captain 
Crisp,  did  determine  upon,  whilst  on  the  other  hand  Captain 
Crisp  alone  denies  the  same,  and  proposes  the  setting  of 
the  candle-light  upon  the  same  ground,  at  a  convenient 
distance, on  which  the  fire-light  is  to  be  placed,  which  the  rest 
of  the  gentlemen  seem  ready  to  allow  to  be  the  much  more 
advisable  way  of  placing  them  were  it  possible  to  be  put  in 
practice,  but  do  deny  that  that  can  be  done  without  setting 
of  them  so  that  one  of  the  lights  will  be  shut  in  by  the 
town.  I  am  very  conscious  of  my  being  unfit  to  give  you 
any  perfect  account  of  the  matter  in  dispute  between  them, 
and  therefore  did  in  court  desire  Captain  Crisp  in  behalf  of 
himself  and  Captain  Till  in  behalf  of  the  rest  to  do  it 
themselves  by  this  night's  post,  which  I  hope  you  will 
have  from  them  ;  the  principal  end  of  my  troubling  you 
being  to  recommend  to  you  the  consideration  of  how  much 
moment  it  is  to  the  honour  of  our  Brotherhood  that  what 
is  to  be  done  herein  be  done  so  as  may  be  most  beneficial  to 
navigation,  and  so  judged  by  those  without-doors  who  are 
to  pay  for  it,  and  ought  therefore  to  be  satisfied  in  it,  and 
this,  too,  at  a  time  when  so  many  are  striving  whose 
interest  it  is  to  censure  and  deny  what  we  do,  in  order  to 
the  advancing  the  credit  of  their  own  proposals.'  Desires 
him  therefore  to  consider  over  again  the  business  of  those 

1  Sir  Thomas  Allin  was  comptroller  of  the  navy.  See  D.  N.  B.  \. 
332,  where,  however,  his  baronetcy  is  not  mentioned.  The  date  of  the 
creation  is  29  Nov.  1672  (Cal.  S.  P.  Dom.  1672-3,  p.  219). 

»  MS.  <  Lestoffe.1 


i6;6  FIFTH  VOLUME  221 

lights,  advising  with  such  masters  of  ships  and  others  as  he 
shall  have  near  him. 

3001.  [p.  65.]     27  June.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners  of 
the  Customs. — About  a  pass  for  the  Nevis    Merchant,  of 
Bristol,  William  Davis  master,  now  at  Bristol  bound  for 
the  Straits. 

Underwritten :  The  like  for  the  St.  George,  of  London,  George 
Moon  master,  in  the  Downs ;  the  Speedwell,  of  London, 
Laurence  Franck[l]in  master,  in  the  Downs  ;  the  Exeter  Merchant, 
of  Exeter,1  Derby  Hickey  master,  at  Exeter. 

3002.  [p.  65.]     27  June.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Daniell,  store- 
keeper at  Sheerness. — The  lords  having  by  his  Majesty's 
command  directed  the  bearer,  the  marshal  of  the  admiralty, 
to  take  into  his  custody  the  sails  of  the  several  Swedes' 
ships  now  lying  at  Sheerness,  for  preventing  their  departure 
thence,  he  is  ordered   to  take  care  of  the  said  sails,  the 
marshal  being  permitted  either  to  keep  the  key  of  the  place 
where  they  shall  be  put,  or  to  deliver  them  to  him  by  in- 
ventory in  writing,  to  be  returned  to  him   by  the   same 
inventory  when  he  shall  demand  them. 

3003.  [p.  65.]      27    June.       S.    P.    to    Mr.    Stevens, 
cashier  of  the  navy. — Acquaints  him  (in  the  absence  of 
Mr.  Speaker2)  that  the  Henrietta  and  Diamond  are  returned 
from  the  Straits  and  on  their  way  between  Plymouth  and 
the  Downs,  that  he  may  move  the  lord  treasurer  for  money 
to  pay  them  [2997]. 

3004.  [p.  66.]     27  June.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board. — 
Has  received  advice  of  the  Adventure  and  the  Lark '  leaving 
their  station  and  work  at  Sallee  at  this  the  most  proper 
time  for  doing  service  there,  to  go  to  Livorne  for  supplies  of 
victuals,  none  being  to  be  had  at  Tangier;  Sir  Richard 
Rooth 3  adding  in  the  case  of  the  former  that  her  leakiness 
also  drives  him  thither,'  though  he  had  at  no  time  intimated 
her  being  in  such  a  condition  as  he  would  now  have  her 
thought  to  be,  Lord  Inchiquin 4  (who  is  now  newly  come 
over)  telling  the  king  yesterday  in  the  writer's  hearing  that 
if  she  had  not  gone  to  Livorne  to  have  her  leaks  stopped 
she  must  certainly  have  foundered  in  the  sea.     Entreats 

1  MS.  '  London,'  but  this  seems  to  be  by  a  confusion  with  another 
vessel  of  the  same  name.  See  Nos.  3175  and  3861. 

8  See  ii.  49  n.  supra.  3  See  note  to  No.  3305. 

4  See  note  to  No.  3238. 


222  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS         June 

them  seriously  to  consider  how  far  this  in  the  case  of 
either  of  these  ships  may  be  thought  true,  the  writer  appre- 
hending '  that  the  whole  ariseth  from  no  other  than  a  small 
occasion,  improved  to  the  justifying  their  departure  from 
the  king's  work  to  look  after  their  own — a  practice  which, 
after  all  my  endeavours  with  his  Majesty  and  my  lords  of 
the  admiralty  of  breaking,  I  shall  never  hope  to  see  done 
so  long  as  they  have  this  pretence  to  lay  hold  on  of  want 
of  supplies  at  Tangier  and  the  necessity  consequently  of 
going  further  off  for  them.  .  .  .' 

3005.  [p.  66.]     27  June.     Certificate  from  S.   P.   that 
Captain   Tyte,1  commander  of  the  Richmond  yacht,  did 
supply  the  king  'with  a  butt  of  his  yacht's  cask  for  the 
bringing  up  some  salt  water  to  Whitehall,  to  be  by  his 
Majesty's  order  employed  upon  an  experiment  of  extracting 
fresh  water  out  of  salt' 

3006.  [p.  67.]     27  June.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board. — 
The  Foresight  and  Diamond  being  now  returned,  they  are 
to  consider  whether  either  of  them  may  be  fitted  for  a 
voyage  to  Virginia  with  a  less  charge  than  a  ship  of  that  rate 
fitted  on  purpose  [3010]  ;  and  failing  this,  which  of  the  4th 
rates  mentioned  in   the   margin,  shortly  expected   home 
through  the  close  of  the  war  with  Tripoli  [3033]. 

Margin:  Bristol,  Yarmouth,  Swallow,    Assistance,    Dragon, 
Portsmouth. 

3007.  [p.  67.]    27  June.    S.  P.  to  Captain  Davies?  com- 
mander of  the  Foresight,  at  Sheerness. — Is  glad  of  his  safe 
arrival  from  Jamaica.     The  officers  of  the  navy  will  take 
care  for  the  speedy  sending  down  of  money  to  pay  his  ship 
off.     Desires  an  account  of  her  present  condition  as  to  her 
hull,  and  how  far  reports  have  been  true  of  disagreements 
at  Jamaica  between  the  governor  and  himself  [3024].     He 
is  to  hasten  up  his  journal  for  the  lords. 

3008.  [p.  68.]     27  June.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Bedford,  registrar 
of  the  high    court  of  admiralty. — The   men  now  in  the 
custody  of  the  marshal  of  the  admiralty,  who  stole  Prince 
Rupert's  barge  and  robbed  Mr.  Smith  and  his  family  at 
Canvey  Island,  are  left  by  the  king  and  lords  to  be  prose- 
cuted in  Essex.     The  king  and  lords  agree  with  what  he 

1  See  note  to  No.  2844. 

2  See  ii.  399  n.  supra,  and  note  to  No.  2561. 


1676  FIFTH   VOLUME  223 

advised  that  the  session  of  the  admiralty  for  trying 
Metefoux  and  the  rest  now  in  custody  for  the  wrongs 
done  to  the  Prosperous,  of  London  [2996],  might  be  about 
a  fortnight  hence. 

3009.  [p.  68.]     27  June.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Robert  Robinson ,* 
in  the  Downs. — Hopes  he  has  received  the  letter  sent  from 
the  lords, '  wherein  you  will  find  full  answer  to  the  whole 
business  of  the  privateers  now  before  us,  adding  only  in 
reference  to  the  two  vessels  last  brought  in  (the  dogger 
and  sloop  of  Ostend),   concerning  which  amongst  other 
arguments  for  their  being  privateers  you  make  use  of  that 
of  their  orders  being  written  in  French  while  the  vessels 
seem  to  belong  to  the  King  of  Spain,  that  you  are  not  to 
infer   anything   from   thence    forasmuch   as   that   is    the 
language  most  used  in  all  public  acts  all  over  Flanders.' 

3010.  [p.  69.]     30  June.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board— 
As  money  is  in  present  readiness,  they  are  at  liberty  to  pay 
off  the  Foresight,  the  service  proposed  for  her  being  to  be 
answered  by  another  at  less  charge  [3006]. 

3011.  [p.  69.]     30  June.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners  of 
the  Customs. — About  a  pass  for  the  Bethesda,  of  Bristol, 
Robert  Norman  master,  now  at  Bristol. 

3012.  [p.  69.]     i  July.     The  same  to  the  same. — About 
a  pass  for  the  Four   Anns,  of  London,   Thomas   Scott 
master,  now  lying  in  the  Downs  bound  for  Cadiz. 

3013.  [p.  69.]     i  July.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Robert  Robinson} 
in  the  Downs. — The  king  and  lords  recommend  it  earnestly 
to  him  to  continue  his  industry  in  suppressing  privateers 
and   protecting  trade,  hoping  that   by  the  Greyhound's 
being  now  come  to  him,  and  the  Drake  likely  very  soon  to 
follow,  the  said  privateers  will  be  yet  further  kept  in  beyond 
what  he  tells  the  writer  they  already  begin  to  be.     Thanks 
him  for  his   information   concerning  the  wrongs  received 
by  the  Edward,  of  London,  at  sea,  and  the  right  done  her 
in  her  present  discharge  by  the  Governor  of  Calais  upon 
sight  of  her  pass.     Has  acquainted  the  king  and  lords,  who 
for  want  of  the  said   informations  being   signed  will   be 
disabled  from  obtaining  any  further  satisfaction  about  it 
than  what  is  to  be  hoped  from  his  sending  out  the  Grey- 
hound to  look  for  the  two  vessels  that  did  her  this  wrong, 
wherein  the  lords  take  notice  of  his  care.     '  As  to  what  you 

1  See  note  to  No.  2961. 


224  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          July 

write  of  the  desire  of  your  present  boatswain  in  case  he  at 
present  in  the  Hunter  shall  be  dismissed,  I  shall  take  care 
yours  receive  no  prejudice  by  it.' 

3014.  [p.  70.]     i  July.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board. — 
Desires  to  know  if  it  will  be  necessary  to  put  other  car- 
penters in  the  room  of  those  of  the  Victory,  Mountagu, 
and  Ruby  suspended   upon    information  of  their  having 
embezzled    stores  [3022].     Sends   the   lords'  warrant  for 
impressing  caulkers  for  the  yards  at  Chatham  and  Wool- 
wich. 

3015.  [p.  70.]     I  July.     S.  P.  to  Sir  John  Kempthorne? 
at  Portsmouth. — The  king  gives  leave  for  his  coming  to 
town. 

Underwritten :  The  like  to  Sir  Richard  Beach  2  at  Chatham. 

3016.  [p.  70.]     I  July.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  St.  Michel?  at 
Deal. — Thanks  for  his  of  29  June. 

3017.  [p.  71.]     3  July.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— 
The  Henrietta,  having  missed  her  orders  for  stopping  at 
Portsmouth,  is   come   into  the  Downs,  and   the  captain 
desires  as  a  matter  of  particular  convenience  to  himself 
that  she  may  be  brought  into  the  River  to  be  laid  up  at 
Chatham  or  elsewhere  here.     Desires  their  opinion  whether 
or  no  this  be  a  matter  of  indifference  to  the  king's  service 
[3022]. 

3018.  [p.  71.]     3  July.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Tyte*— The 
king  gives  leave  for  him  to  attend  the  Spanish  ambassador 
as  high  as  Bridges,  in  case  he  judges  the  same  may  be  done 
with  safety  to  his  yacht. 

3019.  [p.  71.]     ^July.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Thomas  Ailing— 
Desires  an  answer  to  his  former  letter  about  the  Lowestoft 
lights  [3000],  '  partly  that  we  may  the  sooner  be  in  condi- 
tion   to   deliver  in  our   last    report   concerning  Sir  John 
Clayton's  6  lights  we  are  now  designing  to  set  up,  [and  that 
they]  may  be  put  into  a  speedy  method  of  execution,  whilst 
by  your  presence  there  we  may  have  the  benefit  of  your 

1  See  note  to  No.  2734.  3  See  note  to  No.  2978. 

3  See  note  to  No.  2387. 

4  Probably  still  in  command  of  the  Richmond  yacht.     See  note  to 
No.  2844. 

3  See  note  to  No.  3000. 
6  See  note  to  No.  2294. 


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directing  the  same,  and  inspecting  the  performance.  Which 
trouble  our  Brotherhood  hope  you  will  bear  with  from  them, 
and  in  confidence  thereof  I  am  in  their  name  to  desire  that 
you  will  in  the  first  place  thoroughly  inform  yourself  and  us 
in  the  title  we  may  and  shall  have  to  the  ground  on  which 
the  said  lights  shall  respectively  stand.  Which  I  the 
rather  mention  from  our  Brethren's  telling  me  that  the  lord 
of  the  manor  is  willing  to  give  it  cost  free.  Which,  though 
we  are  obliged  to  him  for  his  kindness  in,  yet  if  it  fall  out 
to  be  upon  a  common,  I  have  known  in  my  own  case  where 
I  have  with  the  lord's  leave  planted  trees  for  my  conveni- 
ence upon  a  common,  which  the  commoners  have  ever 
been  at  their  pleasure  threatening  to  cut  down,  and  some- 
times not  spared  in  the  humour  to  do  so.  Which  I  would 
be  glad  we  should  in  our  case  prevent,  and  the  rather 
because  the  value  of  the  purchase  cannot  be  great,  and  we 
have  a  power  by  Act  of  Parliament l  to  compel  any  pro- 
prietor to  part  with  his  ground  upon  reasonable  considera- 
tion for  this  public  use.' 

'  Next,  I  am  to  entreat  that  you  will  do  us  the  kindness 
to  consider  on  our  behalf  what  may  be  the  most  husbandly 
and  efFectualmethod  for  having  the  work  well  done,  confer- 
ring with  some  workmen  about  it,  and  favouring  us  as  well 
with  the  dimensions  and  design  of  the  houses,  as  you  shall 
upon  advice  propose  to  have  them  built,  as  an  estimate,  as 
particular  and  low  as  may  be,  of  the  charge  of  their  building 
and  erecting.  For  which,  as  you  will  be  doing  a  good 
office,  both  for  the  public  and  us,  so,  if  your  health  will 
admit  it,  it  will  give  you  a  little  action  and  prevent  your 
growing  rusty,  which  for  many  good  reasons  I  would  have 
you  avoid'  [3051]. 

Postscript. — He  is  not  to  wait  for  the  letters  from 
Captain  Crisp  and  Captain  Till  [3000]. 

3020.  [p.  72.]  4/ufy.  S.  P.  to  Sir  Robert  Robinson? 
in  the  Downs. — Sends  him  open  a  letter  [3021]  for  him  to 
deliver  to  the  captain  of  the  Garland  so  soon  as  he  shall 
come  within  his  reach,  that  he  may  be  preparing  himself 
with  victuals  for  his  voyage  to  Sweden.  Doubts  not  but 

1  The  reference  is  possibly  to  8  Eliz.  c.  13,  'An  Act  touching  sea- 
marks and  mariners,'  which  empowered  the  Trinity  House  to  erect  sea- 
marks on  the  shore,  and  on  uplands  near  the  sea-coasts. 

2  See  note  to  No.  2961. 

VOL.111.  Q 


226  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          July 

that  the  Drake  will  be  in  the  Downs  to  supply  his  place 
by  the  time  he  is  fitted. 

3021.  [p.  73.]     ^July.     S.P.to  Captain  Lassells^  com- 
mander of  the  Garland,  at  the  Downs. — The  king  designs  him 
very  shortly  for  another  voyage  to  Gottenburg  to  transport 
some  things  thither  that  he  is  to  take  in  at  Havre  de  Grace. 

3022.  [p.  73.]     4  July.     S.  P.  to  tJu  Navy  Board— 
Will  take  care   that   directions   be   sent  to  Sir   Richard 
Beach,2  pursuant  to  what  they  offer  for  appointing  some 
person  to  watch  in  the  room  of  the  suspended  carpenters 
[3014].     Orders  are  given,  suitable  to  their  advice,  for  the 
Henrietta  to  proceed  directly  to  Portsmouth  in  case  the 
wind  be  fair,  or  otherwise  to  come   to  Chatham    [3017]. 
Thanks  for  theirs  about  the  Adventure  [3004]. 

3023.  [p.  73.]  ^July.  S.  P.  to  Mr.  St.  Michel?— Thanks 
for  his  care  in  what  relates  to  the  writer's  cousin  Houblon.4 
Has  sent  orders  to  Captain  Killigrew f  of  the  Henrietta  [3022]. 

3024.  [p.    74.]     4  July.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Davies?  at 
Sheerness. — Has  received  his  letter  and  journal.     Is  glad 
the   reports  of  differences   between  Lord  Vaughan  7  and 
himself  prove  not  true  [3007]. 

3025.  [p.  74.]     4  July.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Shish*  master- 
shipwright  at  Sheerness. — Desires  he  will  continue  his  care 
in  despatching  the  ships  at  Sheerness. 

3026.  [p.  74.]     4  July.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Dickenson? 
Hunter,  at  Sheerness. — The  king  and  lords  '  having  con- 
sidered your  late  report  touching  your  boatswain,  and  the 
complaint  of  the  boatswain  against  you  [2994],  find  reason 
enough — as  well  from  your  said  report  as  the  character 
given  of  him  by  your  lieutenant,  and  their  observation  of 
his   presuming  to  leave   the   ship  without  your   leave  or 
knowledge  at  a  time  when  his  attendance  was  in  a  special 
manner   requisite ' — to   order  the  officers   of  the  navy  to 
suspend  him  for  this  voyage,   and   appoint  John    Gibbs, 
his  mate,  in  his  room.     But  they  take  notice  in  the  mean- 

1  See  note  to  No.  2181.  2  See  note  to  No.  2978. 

3  See  note  to  No.  2387. 

4  Probably  Mr.  James  Houblon  [3129].     See  note  to  No.  2498. 

5  D.  N.  B.  xxxi.  109. 

6  Commander  of  the  Foresight  [3007]. 

7  Governor  of  Jamaica  [2878].     D.  N.  B.  Iviii.  173. 

8  See  ii.  339  n.  supra.  9  See  ii.  367  n.  supra. 


1 676  FIFTH   VOLUME  227 

time  '  of  one  thing  only  in  reference  to  yourself,  which  is 
that  the  beating  of  warrant  officers,  whether  in  public  or 
private,  is  a  thing  which  they  do  not  find  either  the  practice 
or  discipline  of  the  navy  doth  in  any  wise  warrant,  or  can 
in  any  degree  either  allow  or  be  thought  to  need,  while 
commanders  have  in  their  power  other  regular  ways  of 
punishing  them,  by  bilboes,  confinement,  or  suspension.' 
Desires  him  to  use  all  despatch  in  getting  his  ship  forth. 

3027.  [p.   75.]     5  July.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Andrew  King,1 
sub-governor,  or  in  his  absence  to  Mr.  Gabriel  Roberts, 
deputy-governor  of  the    Royal  African    Company. — The 
Hunter  is  now  within  few  days  of  being  ready.     Desires 
them  to  complete  the  obligation  to  be  entered  into  by  the 
Company   under  seal  [2903],   and   to   transmit   hither   a 
draught  of  the  instructions  they  expect  to  have  given  to 
the  commander  of  the  said  ship. 

3028.  [p.  75.]     6  July.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners  of 
the  Customs. — About  a  pass  for  the  Dolphin,  of  Topsham, 
Elias  Andrews  master,  in  the  Downs. 

3029.  [p.  75-]     6  July.     The  same  to  the  same. — About 
a  pass  for  the  James,  of  Dartmouth,  Rupert  Harris  master, 
at  Dartmouth. 

3030.  [p.  76.2]     6  July.     S.  P.  to    Colonel  Piper?  at 
Plymouth. — Desires  him  to  take  care  of  the  enclosed  letters 
for  Sir  John  Narbrough 4  and  other  commanders,  now  daily 
expected  from  the  Straits. 

3031.  [p.  75.]     7  July.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Booth?  com- 
mander of  the  Eagle,  at  Sheerness. — The  king  gives  him 
leave  to  come  to  town  for  5  or  6  days. 

3032.  [p.  75.]     8  July.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners  of 
the  Customs. — About  passes  for  the  Lion,  of  Bristol,  Walter 
Davis  master,  and  the  News'  Adventure,  of  Bristol,  John 
Lilliwhite  master  :  at  Bristol. 

3033.  [p.  76.]     10  July.      S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board— 
Desires  them  to  transmit  Sir  Anthony  Deane's 6  statement 
of  'the  expense  of  the  current  declaration  of  victuals  at 

1  See  note  to  No.  2869.  2  Out  of  order  in  the  MS. 

3  Deputy-governor  of  Plymouth  [2918]. 

4  D.  N.  B.  xl.  89.  *  See  note  to  No.  2693. 

6  On  25  Nov.  1675  Sir  Anthony  Deane,  the  famous  shipbuilder, 
had  been  appointed  comptroller  of  victualling  in  succession  to  Sir 
Jeremy  Smyth  (i.  41  supra].  See  D.  N.  B.  xiv.  251. 

Q2 


228  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          July 

Tangier,'  that  the  writer  may  move  the  king  and  lords  '  for 
what  supplies  shall  thereupon  be  found  needful  to  be 
made  to  that  place  upon  account  of  the  navy.'  The  king 
designs  one  of  Sir  John  Narbrough's1  fleet  for  Virginia 
[3006],  as  what  may  be  done  with  least  charge,  besides  saving 
the  present  issuing  of  money  to  pay  her  off.  The  writer  is 
commanded  to  desire  them  to  consider  how  far  these  ends 
may  be  obtained  by  employing  any  of  the  fourth  rates  now 
abroad  with  him,  and  which  (if  any)  they  think  fittest  to 
be  assigned  to  that  service  [3071]. 

3034.  [p.  76.]    10  July.    S.  P.  to  Sir  Richard  Beach?— 

Application  being  made   to   the   lords  by  Bedford 

concerning  John  Brome,  purser  of  the   Ruby,  whom  he 
lately  arrested  by  their  leave,  the  writer  desires  to  know 
what  passed  in  his  putting  into  execution  their  late  orders 
for  returning  the  said   Brome  to  the  officer  from  whose 
custody  he  escaped,  and  whether  he  absents  himself  from 
the  ship  or  attends  his  duty  there  as  he  ought  to  do. 

3035.  [p.  77.]     10  July.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Robert  Robinson? 
in  the  Downs. — Is  commanded  to  refer  to  him  the  exami- 
nation of '  the  enclosed  petition  of  Edward  Man  and  others 
of  the  ship's  company  lately  belonging  to  the  Prosperous, 
of  London  [3045],  which  was  some  time  since  taken  by  a 
French  privateer  in  her  return  from  Rochelle  [2923],  and 
retaken  and  set  at  liberty  by  a  Zeelander,'  with  particular 
reference  to  these  two  points  :  (i)  '  How  far  you  can  under- 
stand to  be  made  out  by  the  said  ship's  company  that  the 
propriety  of  the  said  ship  is  not  English  but  foreign,  to  the 
end  his  Majesty  may  know  how  to  proceed  for  satisfaction 
against  those  who,  upon  pretence  and  seeming  proof  of  her 
being  English  propriety,  induced  his  Majesty  to  grant  the 
pass  which  was  issued  to  the  said  vessel  from  Mr.  Secre- 
tary Williamson ; 4  (2)  What  you  can  understand   to  be 
the  truth  of  the  difference  between  the  master  of  the  said 
vessel  and  the  petitioners,  who  would  have  their  departure 
from  their  ship  to  be  thought  to  arise  only  from  their 
obedience  to  the  king's  proclamation  (which  calls  home  all 
his  subjects  out  of  foreign  service),  and  that  they  were 
voluntarily  put  on  shore  with  the  goodwill  of  the  master  ; 
whereas,  from  the  vessel's  having  his  Majesty's  pass,  and  the 

1  D.  N.  B.  xl.  89.  2  See  note  to  No.  2978. 

3  See  note  to  No.  2961.  *  D.  N.  B.  Ixii.  2. 


1676  FIFTH   VOLUME  229 

evidences  upon  which  the  same  was  granted,  I  have  much 
reason  to  believe  that,  if  the  ship  be  not  English-built,  she 
is  a  free  ship,  the  propriety  in  her  and  her  lading  English, 
and  her  master  indenizoned,  in  which  case  I  cannot  think 
her  company  concerned  in  the  proclamation,  but  that  they 
have  left  her  mutinously,  and  will  be  found  to  deserve  cor- 
rection for  the  same  instead  of  countenance.' 

Encloses   the   lords'   orders  about   the    Ostend    sloop 
[3009]  and  the  Abraham's  Offering. 

3036.  [p.  78.]     10  July, '  1 2  at  night.'     S.  P.  to  Sir  John 
Narbrough^  sent  to  Sir  Martin  Wescombe,2  at  Cadiz. — 
.  .  .  '  Upon  application  made  late  this  night  from   some 
merchants  of  good  quality  to  his  Majesty,  complaining  of 
a  rich  ship  of  theirs,  the  Leopard,  English-built,  of  English 
propriety   (as    belonging    entirely    to    your    friends   the 
Houblons),3  and  manned  wholly  with  his  Majesty's  subjects, 
is  carried  into  Algiers  upon  no  other  score  than  that  of 
her  not  having  a  pass,  to  the  manifest  violation  of  the 
treaty  between  his  Majesty  and  that  people  by  which  her 
being  manned  with  English  expressly  exempts  her  from 
the  necessity  of  having  any  passes ; 4  upon  which  his  Majesty 
is  pleased  so  far  to  take  into  his  present  consideration  the 
importance  of  this  their  proceeding  as,  with  the  advice  of 
his  Royal  Highness  (present  at  the  said  merchants'  attend- 
ing on  his  Majesty),  to  think  it  unfit  to  let  go  the  oppor- 
tunity of  this  night's  post  for  the  directing  you  (as  you  will 
find  by  his  enclosed  orders)  to  continue  with  your  ships  at 
Cadiz  till  you  shall  receive  further  orders  from  his  Majesty, 
which  you  may  expect  by  the  next  post,  in  case  at  your 
arrival  there  you  shall  meet  with  certain  information  that 
the  peace  is  broken  by  the  people  of  that  government, 
which  the  richness  of  the  said  ship  (as  being  supposed 
worth  in  money  and  other  lading  about  5o,ooo/.)  gives  us 
much  apprehension  they  may  be  tempted  to  do,  unless 
they  shall  be  prevented  therein  by  your  seasonable  arrival 
there.'  .  .  . 

Underwritten :  Duplicate  14  July  to  Cadiz. 

3037.  [p.  79.]     10  July.    S.  P.  to  Sir  Martin  Wescombe? 
at  Cadiz. — Desires  his  care  of  the  enclosed  [3036]  to  Sir 

1  D.  N.  B.  xl.  89.  2  Consul  at  Cadiz  [1553]. 

3  See  note  to  No.  2498.  4  See  Introduction,  p.  xvi,  supra. 


23o  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          July 

John  Narbrough,1  'the  contents  whereof  being  of  extra- 
ordinary importance.' 

Underwritten:  Duplicate  14  and  17  July. 

3038.  [p.  79.]     1 1  July.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners  o/ 
the  Customs. — About  a  pass  for  the  Prosperous,  of  London, 
Henry  Clerke  [master],  at  Portsmouth. 

3039.  [p.    79.]     12  July.      The  same  to   the  same. — 
About  a  pass  for  the  John  and  Sarah,  of  London,  John 
Eaton  master,  in  the  Downs. 

3040.  [p.    8o.2]       12  July.     Certificate  from   Samuel 
Pepys,  at  the  request  of  Mr.  James  Thierry,  of  London, 
merchant,  owner  of  the  Margaret,  of  London,  Witte  Lam- 
bert master,  that  on  25  March  a  pass  was  granted  her  by 
the  lords,  pursuant  to  the  marine  treaty  with  the  States 
General  of  the  United  Provinces. 

Underwritten  :  '  The  like,  mutatis  mutandis,  dated  2  Sept.,  for 
the  Peter,  of  London,  Peter  Mitchell  master,  and  the  Daniel, 
of  London,  George  Radich  master. 

3041.  [p.  79.]     1 3  July.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Day?  com- 
manding at  present  the  Merlin  in  the  absence  of  Captain 
Baker.3 — He  is  to  carry  Monsieur  Blanchard  4  and  another 
to  Dieppe. 

3042.  [p.  80.]     14  July, '  1 2  at  night'     S.  P.  to  Sir  John 
Narbrough^  at  Cadiz. — Sent   under  cover  to  Sir  Martin 
Wescombe,8  at  Cadiz.     Sends   a  copy  of  his  last  [3036]. 
The  king  has  been  pleased,  '  upon  debate  had  thereon  with 
my  lords  the  committee  for  foreign  affairs,  to  determine 
upon  having  satisfaction  demanded  for  the  breach  which 
is  made  by  the  Algerines 6  of  the  present  treaty  of  peace 
between  his  Majesty  and  that  government  [3036],  which 
resolution  of  his  Majesty's  you  will  by  this  post  receive  under 
his    Majesty's   own    hand  from  Mr.   Secretary  Coventry.7 
Whereto  for  your  more  particular  directions  I  refer  you, 
having  nothing  to  add  but  that  in  case  you  shall  find  yourself 
by  the  said  orders,  and  your  not  having  good  intelligence 
that  the  said  ship  Leopard  [3036]  is  discharged,  that  you 

1  D.  N.  B.  xl.  89.  2  Out  of  order  in  the  MS. 

3  See  note  to  No.  2967.  *  MS.  'Blankart.' 

3  Consul  at  Cadiz  [1553].  8  MS.  'Algeriens.' 
7  D.  N.  B.  xii.  357. 


1676  FIFTH   VOLUME  231 

are  obliged  to  return  to  Algiers  and  there  to  declare  war 
(which  God  avert),  his  Majesty  and  my  lords  do  depend  upon 
your  prudence  and  care  in  giving  the  speediest  and  most 
effectual  notice  thereof  you  can,  as  well  to  foreign  ports  for  the 
timely  information  and  security  of  our  merchants  as  hither, 
in  order  to  the  making  the  same  known  to  his  Majesty  and 
his  considering  what  will  be  fit  to  be  further  determined 
thereon,  hoping  and  desiring  that  you  will  at  the  same 
time  take  into  your  thoughts  and  give  an  account  hither 
of  all  that  will  be  needful  for  his  Majesty  to  know  in 
relation  to  the  present  state  of  his  ships  now  under  your 
command  in  the  Straits,  and  what  will  be  needful  to  be 
done  by  supplies  of  any  sorts  and  otherwise,  for  the  carry- 
ing on  of  the  war  in  case  a  war  must  be  entered  into, 
which  I  cannot  but  repeat  my  prayer  to  God  Almighty  to 
prevent.' 

Underwritten  :  Duplicate  to  Cadiz,  1 7  July. 

3043.  [p.  8 1.]     1 4  July.     S.P.  to  the  Commissioners  of 
the  Customs. — About  a  pass  for  the  Bristol  ketch,  of  Bristol, 
Gerard  Lane  master. 

3044.  [p.  8 1.]     15  July.     The  same  to  the  same. — About 
a  pass  for ketch, master. 

3045.  [p.  8 1.]     15  July.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Robert  Robinson? 
in  the  Downs. — The  king  and  lords  are  very  well  satisfied 
with  what  he  has  done  about  the  men  of  the  Prosperous 
[3035], 'who,  appearing  to  have  deserted  their  ship  in  a 
mutinous  manner,  will  have  no  countenance  given  them 
here.'     Has  presented  to  his  Majesty  the  petition  of  Jacob 
van    Pembrooke   [3057],    whose   pleasure   it   is    that    he 
forthwith  discharge  him  and  his  vessel.     He  is  to  detain 
the  Englishmen  found  on  board  one  of  the  privateers,  and 
any   others   serving   in    privateers ;    the    marshal    of  the 
admiralty  will  be  sent  down  to  bring  them  up  for  trial  for 
the  breach  of  his  Majesty's  commands  by  their  serving  on 
board  foreign  ships.     Encloses  copies  of  two  informations 
'  brought  hither  this  day  by  Mr.  Thierry  concerning  two  of 
his  ships  taken  by  privateers,  whereby  you  will  find  that 
one  of  the  privateers  by  him  complained  of  (commanded 
by  Aren  Johnson)  is  one  of  those  you  mention  to  have 
been  last  brought  into  the  Downs,  whom  his  Majesty  and 

1  See  note  to  No.  2967. 


232  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          July 

my  lords  would  have  you  detain  until  you  receive  further 
order  concerning  her,  recommending  it  also  to  you  to  give 
orders  to  the  frigates  you  send  out  to  look  carefully  out  for 
the  other  privateer  that  carried  his  other  ship  to  St.  Malo.' 
Understands  from  Sheerness  that  the  Rose  is  ready  to  sail 
and  will  shortly  be  with  him. 

3046.  [p.  82.]     15  July.     S.  P.   to   Captain  Lassells,1 
commander  of  the  Garland,  in  the  Downs. — The  officers 
of  the  navy  are  ordered  to  furnish  him  from  Dover  with  3 
months'  victuals  and  '  a  recruit  of  boatswain's  and  car- 
penter's stores'  for  his  voyage  to  Gottenburg,  for  which 
the  lords  expect  him  to  use  all  possible  diligence  to  get 
his  ship  in  a  readiness. 

3047.  [p.   83.]     15  July.     S.  P.   to  Captain    Griffith? 
commander  of  the  Diamond. — Desires  him  to  send  up  his 
journal  of  his  late  voyage. 

Underwritten :  The  like  to  Captain  Killigrew,3  commander  of 
the  Henrietta. 

3048.  [p.  83.]     15  July.     S.  P.   to  Colonel  Piper*  at 
Plymouth. — Thanks  for  his  news  from  Virginia. 

3049.  [p.  83.]     1 5  July.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Shisk,6  master- 
shipwright  at  Sheerness. — Hopes  the  Rose  is  sailed  for  the 
Downs,  where  her  service  is  much  wanted. 

3050.  [p.  83.]     15  July.     S.  P.  to  the  Commander  of 
the  Hunter*  at  Sheerness. — The  king  assents  to  his  coming 
to  town,  but  that  there  may  be  no  loss  of  time  orders  are 
enclosed  for  his  sending  the  ship  away  to  the  Downs  by 
his  lieutenant  [3074]. 

3051.  [p.  84.]     15  July.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Thomas  Allin? 
at   Somerley  Hall,8  near  Lowestoft. — The  Brethren  tho- 
roughly concur  in  his  opinion  about  the  placing  of  the 
lights  [3019],  their  fresh  inquiries  to  him  being  principally 
for  the  satisfaction  of  Captain  Crisp  [3000],  '  who  is  since 
dead,'  and  '  had  the  misfortune  while  living  to  be  too  often 
found  singular  in  his  judgments  different  from  the  sense 
of  the  whole  board.'    '  We   do   therefore   conclude  upon 

1  See  note  to  No.  2181.       "  See  ii.  340  n.  supra. 

a  D.  N.  B.  xxxi.  109.  4  Deputy-governor  of  Plymouth  [2918]. 

5  See  ii.  339  n.  supra.         "  Captain  Richard  Dickenson  [3026]. 

7  See  note  to  No.  3000. 

8  Sir  Thomas  Allin  had  purchased  a  country  seat  at  Somerleyton, 
in  the  neighbourhood  of  his  native  town  of  Lowestoft  (D.  N.  B.  i.  332). 


1676  FIFTH   VOLUME  233 

having  the  lights  set  according  to  that  advice  wherewith 
upon  this  re-examination  you  have  seen  reasonable  to 
agree,  but  forasmuch  as  we  are  very  unwilling  to  determine 
upon  anything  hastily  touching  the  shape  and  principal 
dimensions  of  the  new  lighthouse,  with  respect  either  to  the 
efficacy  or  charge  of  it,  without  some  further  advising  with 
men  of  skill  than  we  have  yet  had  opportunity  to  do,  we 
find  it  necessary  for  us  to  delay  the  giving  you  any  answer 
to  that  head  of  your  last  letter  until  the  next  post  .  .  . 
adding  only  in  the  mean  time  my  desire  on  behalf  of  the 
Corporation  l  that  you  will  be  pleased  with  what  speed 
you  may  to  obtain  good  information  touching  the  effect 
and  approbation  which  Sir  John  Clayton's  light 2  does 
meet  with  in  your  parts,  and  what  the  method  is,  good  or 
bad,  of  demanding  or  taking  of  any  contribution  or  profits 
for  use  of  the  said  lights,  and  to  represent  the  same  to  us 
in  any  case  wherein  the  knowledge  thereof  you  shall 
conceive  expedient  for  us  to  know — he  having  in  a  most 
indirect  and  (I  think)  untrue  method  taken  upon  him  the 
liberty  of  reproaching  our  Brotherhood  here  with  what  we 
are  now  doing  about  our  lights  at  Lowestoft,3  and  this 
done  by  petition  to  the  king  in  council,  which  has  begot 
an  order  from  the  council-table  to  us  for  our  giving  in  an 
answer  to  the  said  petition  ;  towards  which  if  you  can 
furnish  us  with  anything  that  may  be  justly  urged  in 
exception  to  his  proceeding  it  may  be  useful  for  us  to 
have  it '  [3080]. 

3052.  [p.  85.]  iZJufy.  S.  P.  to  Sir  Robert  Robinson* 
commander-in-chief  in  the  Downs. — Sends  him  a  copy  of 
an  information  brought  to  the  lords  concerning  injuries 
done  to  the  John  and  Sarah,  of  London,  by  a  Dunkirk 
man-of-war,  and  desires  him  if  the  former  be  still  in  the 
Downs  to  make  the  best  enquiry  he  can  among  her  company 
'  whether  by  any  marks  or  names  of  the  vessel,  her  com- 
mander, or  any  of  her  officers  which  they  can  remember ' 
she  may  be  known,  the  persons  that  brought  the  informa- 
tion being  able  to  say  nothing  therein  further  than  that  the 
lieutenant  of  the  Dunkirker  'had  but  one  eye,  with  his 
face  full  of  pock-holes.'  He  is  to  acquaint  the  com- 

1  Of  Trinity  House.  2  See  note  to  No.  2294. 

3  MS.  '  Lestoflfe.'  4  See  note  to  No.  2961. 


234  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          July 

manders  of  the  king's  ships  he  sends  abroad  with  this, 
directing  them  to  look  out  carefully  for  her. 

3053.  [p.  86.]     1 8  July.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Bullack,  Mayor 
of  Dover. — The  rules  established  by  his  Majesty  in  coun- 
cil of  10  March  last  direct  that  the  copies  of  registers  of 
passes  are  to  be  transmitted  to  the  lords  only  from  the 
commissioners  of  the  customs,  so  he  need  not  trouble  to 
send  copies  of  his  monthly  register  hither,  provided  that  he 
sends  them  to  the  commissioners. 

3054.  [p.  86.]     iSJufy.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Marlow,  one  of 
the   king's   messengers. — Acquaints   him    of  two    French 
sloops  of  Dunkirk  lately  brought  into  the  Downs  [3148] — 
one  called  the  Petit  Louis,  Aren  Johnson,  commander,  with 
2  guns,  20  men,  and  2  boys  ;  the  other  the  Petit  La  Force, 
Jacob   Doosche,  commander,  of  about   6   tons,  1 1    men. 
He  is  to  give  notice  of  this  to  the  merchants  by  the  Ex- 
change or  otherwise,  in  case  they  have  injured  any  of  his 
Majesty's  subjects. 

3055.  [p.  86.]     1 8  July.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners  of 
the  Customs. — About  a  pass  for  the  Dolphin,  of  Bristol, 
James  Turner  master,  now  at  Bristol  bound  for  the  Straits. 

3056.  [p.    86.]     19  July.     The  same  to  the    same. — 
About  a  pass  for   the  Thomas   and    Mary,   of  London, 
William  Adams  master,  now  at  the  Isle  of  Wight  bound 
for  the  Straits. 

3057.  [p.  87.]     19  July.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Robert  Robinson? 
Downs. — Thanks  for  his  account  of  the  i/th  of  the  pro- 
ceedings of  the  Greyhound  and  the  Drake.     Will  answer 
him  touching  the  commanders  of  privateers  being  taken 
out  of  his  hands  by  process  at  law  as  soon  as  the  writer  shall 
have  opportunity  of  receiving  orders  therein  "from  the  king 
and  lords  ;  adding  only  in  the  meantime  as  his  private 
opinion  that  where  the  privateers  are  taken  in  open  sea,  the 
king's  subjects  are  at  liberty  to  take  their  due  course  of  law, 
though  where  they  are  taken  at  sea  '  for  any  indignity  done 
to  his  Majesty's  flag,  or  upon  the  coast  so  near  as  to  do 
dishonour  to  his  Majesty's  chambers,'  his  Majesty  receiving 
the  wrong,  it  will  not  be  thought  fit  that  the  commander- 
in-chief  in  the  Downs  should  be  dispossessed  of  the  pri- 
vateers upon  any  private  man's  process  before  his  Majesty 

1  See  note  to  No.  2961. 


1676  FIFTH   VOLUME  235 

be  satisfied,  as  it  happened  the  other  day  in  the  case  of 
Captain  Van  Pembrooke  [3045], 

3058.  [p.    87.]     20  July.     S.   P.  to  Captain    Wright^ 
commander  of  the  Kitchen  yacht — To  carry  Mr.  Sotherne 2 
to  Harwich  and  stay  2  or  3  days,  returning  with  him  to 
Greenwich. 

3059.  [p.  88.]     22  July.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Marlow.— Sends 
him  a  copy  of  several  complaints  against  French  privateers, 
for  his  using  as  directed  by  the  lords'  order  [3057]. 

3060.  [p.  86.3]     22  July.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners  of 
the  Customs. — About   a   pass  for   the  Joan,  of  Falmouth, 
John  Pearce  master,  at  Falmouth  ;  and  for  the  Alexander, 
of  Bristol,  William  Jones  master,  at  Bristol. 

3061.  [p.  86. 3]     25  July.     The  same  to  the  same. — About 
a  pass  for  the  Mary,  of  Weymouth,  Peter  Andrews  master, 
at  Weymouth  ;  and  for  the  Katherine,  of  Bideford,  Chris- 
topher Browning  master,  at  Cowes,  in  the  Isle  of  Wight. 

3062.  [p.   88.]     26  July.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Day?  com- 
mander of  the  Bezan  yacht,  or  to  his  mate,  at  Greenwich. 
— To  carry  Captain  Richard  Dickenson,5  commander  of  the 
Hunter,  to  his  ship  in  the  Downs,  and  this  done  to  return 
to  his  station  at  Greenwich. 

3063.  [p.  88.]     26  July.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners  of 
the  Customs. — About  a  pass  for  the  Richmond,  of  London, 
Wolf[g]ang  Hensela[e]r  master,  now  in  the  Downs. 

3064.  [p.    88.]     27  July.     S.  P.  to  Lord  Leyenbergh? 
Swedish  Resident. — Desires  to  know  how  long  the  ship, 
which  is  now  ready  to  sail,  is  to  stay  at  Havre  de  Grace. 

3065.  [p.  89.]     27  July.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Andrew  King,1 
sub-governor,  or  Mr.  Gabriel  Roberts,  deputy-governor  of 
the  Royal  African  Company. — Transmits,  by  command  of 
his  Royal  Highness,8  a  copy  of  a  letter  received  yesterday 
from  Captain  Dickenson,9  commander  of  the  Hunter,  pray- 
ing an   explanation  of  two   or   three   particulars   in   his 
instructions  [3027,  3082]. 

1  See  ii.  12  n.  supra.  '*  See  ii.  113  ;/.  supra. 

3  Out  of  order  in  the  MS.  4  See  note  to  No.  2967. 

6  See-ii.  367  n.  supra.  6  MS.  '  Lyonbergh.' 

7  See  note  to  No.  2869. 

8  The  Duke  of  York  was  a  governor  of  the  Royal  African   Com- 
pany (D.  N.  B.  xxix.  183). 

'•'  See  ii.  367  n.  supra. 


236  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          July 

3066.  [p.  89.]     27  July.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners  of 
the  Customs. — About  a  pass  for  the  Loving  Friendship,  of 
Newcastle,  Anthony  White  master,  at  Newcastle   bound 
to  the  Straits. 

3067.  [p.  89.]     [27  July.]     The  same   to   the  same. — 
About  a   pass   for   the   John   and   Richard,   of  London, 
Jonathan  Stodleigh  master,  now  at  Dover  bound  to  the 
Straits. 

3068.  [p.  89.]     27  July.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Kempthorne^ 
commander  of  the  Monmouth  yacht  in  Ireland.2 — If  he  be 
not  otherwise  appointed  by  the  express  orders  of  the  lord 
lieutenant,  he  is  to  continue  at  Bristol  a  week  for  Lord 
Arran  [3078]. 

3069.  [p.  89.]     28  July.     S.  P.  to  Mr.   Welch,  a  mer- 
chant in  London. — Desires  his  attending  the  king  and  lords 
to-morrow  at  10  on  the  affairs  of  the  admiralty  [3091]. 

3070.  [p.  90.]     28  July.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Killigrew* 
late  commander  of  the  Henrietta. — Desires  him  to  send  in 
his  journal. 

3071.  [p.  90.]     28  July.     S.  P.  to  tJie  Navy  Board.— 
Thanks  for  their  late  information  of  the  boatswain  of  the 
Assurance  leaving  his  charge  without  the  licence  of  the  cap- 
tain ;  the  writer  desires  to  speak  with  him  [3072].     Possibly 
it  was  a  mistake  that  they  were  ordered  by  the  lords  to  make 
out  a  bill  for  the  61.  for  the  boat  they  mention,  and  Captain 
Halsall's  intention  was  only  that  the  bill  formerly  made  out 
might  be  paid  ;   desires  to  know  if  this  has  been  done. 
The  Bristol  being  now  come  back,  and  on  her  way  if  not 
arrived  at  Portsmouth,  they  are  not  to  lay  her  up,  she 
being  designed  for  Virginia  [3033,  3079], 

3072.  [p.  91.]    28  July.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Robert  Robinson,- 
commander-in-chief  of  the  fleet  in  the  Downs. — Will  make 
known  to  the  victuallers  '  the  complaint  made  against  the 
smallness  of  the   Garland's   beer.'     Thanks   him  for  his 
advice  of  some  capers   expected  abroad  from    Calais ;  is 
glad  to  understand  from  him  that  the  coast  is  at  present  so 
clear.     He  has  done  very  well  in  giving  copies  of  the  com- 
plaints against  the  Three  Friars  to  the  commanders  of  his 
Majesty's  ships,  by  which  means  the  writer  hopes  she  will 

1  See  ii.  113  n.  supra.  '*  See  note  to  No.  3078. 

3  D.  N.  B.  xxxi.  109.  4  See  note  to  No.  2961. 


1676  FIFTH   VOLUME  237 

be  met  with.  Presumes  the  officers  of  the  ordnance  will 
take  care  of  the  brass  gun  which  is  weighed  and  laid  on 
the  beach  at  Deal. 

Cannot  tell  what  can  be  more  done  to  remedy  English 
seamen  being  found  on  board  Dutch  men-of-war  than 
there  is,  both  by  his  Majesty's  proclamation  and  the  in- 
structions given  his  commanders  for  the  taking  them  out  of 
any  foreign  ships  they  shall  meet  with,  '  unless  it  be  that 
which  you  tell  me  of  the  ill-usage  they  are  said  to  receive 
aboard  the  foreign  ships,  which  may  have  some  good  effect 
upon  them,  especially  while  there  is  so  much  work  and 
better  usage  to  be  found  upon  our  own  merchant  ships.' 

Has  heard  nothing  of  his  boatswain  [3071]  since  he  came 
to  town,  but  will  speedily  inquire  after  him,  and  either 
receive  a  better  account  than  the  writer  fears  he  is  able  to 
give  of  his  leaving  his  duty  on  board,  or  move  the  king  to 
put  in  another.  As  to  what  he  writes  concerning  Aren 
Johnson  [3045],  and  the  purpose  of  the  merchants  arresting 
him  while  in  his  custody,  he  shall  speedily  have  directions 
therein  from  the  lords.  Prays  him  to  be  very  strict  in 
keeping  his  ships  to  looking  vigorously  and  watchfully 
after  the  capers,  '  otherwise  'tis  to  be  feared  they  will 
grow  upon  us ' ;  and  in  particular  to  look  out  for  the  French 
caper  who  lately  did  the  wrong  to  the  Hopeful  Adventure 
and  her  master.  Thanks  him  for  his  news  of  the  late 
passages  between  the  French  and  Genoese  in  the  Mediter- 
ranean, and  would  have  been  glad  of  more  particular 
information  touching  the  behaviour  of  the  ships  appointed 
to  cruise  off  Sallee,  what  he  writes  seeming  to  imply  their 
not  answering  what  might  be  expected  from  them,  there 
being  three  attending  that  service — the  Adventure,  Sap- 
phire, and  Lark. 

Puts  him  in  mind  of  the  rule  lately  signified  to  him  by 
the  lords — that  capers  detained  7  days  after  notice  given 
upon  the  Exchange  of  their  bringing  in,  and  no  complaint 
exhibited  against  them,  should  be  forthwith  discharged. 
He  shall  have  the  lords'  order  about  the  directions  he 
desires  for  sending  the  capers  in  to  Dover  Pier,  where  their 
men  do  desert  them. 

As  for  the  beef  and  pork  excepted  against  by  the 
Garland's  company,  the  writer  will  expect  an  account  of 
it  when  the  survey  is  taken,  and  will  then  see  the  victuallers 


238  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          July 

called  to  account ;  hoping  in  the  meantime  that  the  provi- 
sions will  not  be  found  so  bad  as  to  hinder  her  voyage. 
Prays  him  to  consider  whether  he  may  not  supply  her  with 
a  quantity  of  good  victuals  out  of  his  own  ship  [3092]. 

Will  communicate  to  the  lords  the  examinations  he 
sent  in  his  last  of  the  two  Englishmen  taken  on  board  the 
privateers. 

3073.  [p.  93.]     28  July.    S.  P.  to  Captain  Lassells,1  com- 
mander of  the  Garland,  in  the  Downs. — The  bad  provisions 
lately  put  on  board  him  from  Dover  should  not  hinder  his 
voyage  [3072]. 

3074.  [p.   93.]     28  Jtily.     S.  P.  to  Lieutenant  Mont- 
gomery? lieutenant  of  the  Hunter,  in   the  Downs. — Has 
received   his  of  the   22nd,  giving   notice   of   his   having 
carried  the  Hunter  into  the  Downs  [3050]. 

3075.  [p.  93.]     28  July.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Marlow,  one  of 
the  king's  messengers. — Acquaints  him  of  a  small  sloop  of 
Ostend,  lately  brought  into  the  Downs,  called  the  St.  Anne, 
William  van  Boyer  commander,  with  2  guns  and   1 5  men, 
of  which  he  is  to  give  notice  to  the  merchants,  in  case  she 
has  done  injury  [3072]. 

3076.  [p.  92.3]     29  July.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners  of 
the  Customs. — About  a  pass  for  the  Endeavour,  of  Plymouth, 
Thomas   Rouse   master,  at  Plymouth ;  and  the  Hopeful 
Adventure,  John  Bant  master,  in  the  Downs. 

3077.  [p.  94.]     29  July.     S.  P.  to  the  Principal  Officers 
of  the  Ordnance. — The  king  and  lords  having  determined 
that  the  gunner  of  the  Diamond  shall  answer  at  a  court- 
martial  the  charge  of  embezzlement  brought  against  him, 
and  well  knowing  that   a   principal  inquiry  of  the  said 
court  will  be  whether  he  has  passed  his  account  with  them 
for   the   last  voyage,  the  writer  recommends  the  speedy 
examination  of  his  account  accordingly. 

3078.  [p.  94.]     29  July.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Kempthorne? 
commander  of  the  Monmouth  yacht,  at  Bristol,  in  Ireland.5— 
To  acknowledge  his  of  the  22nd,  supposing  that  before  this 

1  See  note  to  No.  2181. 

2  Lieutenant  James   Montgomery  had    been    appointed  to   the 
Hunter  30  Nov.  1673  (i-  3^5  supra}. 

3  Out  of  order  in  the  MS.  4  See  ii.  113  n.  supra. 

5  The  words  'in  Ireland'  here  and  elsewhere  [2532,  3068]  do  not 
refer  to  the  place  where  the  Monmouth  yacht  was  stationed,  but  to  the 
fact  that  she  was  attached  to  the  service  of  the  Lord  Lieutenant  of 
Ireland. 


1676  FIFTH   VOLUME  239 

arrives  he  will  have  received  the  writer's  of  the  2/th  for  his 
staying  a  few  days  longer  at  Bristol  for  the  Earl  of  Arran 
[3068]. 

3079.  [p.  94.]     29  July.     S.  P.  to  Sir  John  Berry?  com- 
mander of  the    Bristol,   at    Portsmouth. — The   king   and 
lords  have  pitched  upon  the  Bristol  to  be  sent  to  Virginia 
[3071],  for  which  voyage  she  is  to  be  presently  refitted  and 
victualled  ;  and  his  Majesty  would  have  him    repair   up 
hither  in  order  to  his  advising  with  him  concerning  the 
service  upon  which  he  is  designed.     The  king  and  lords 
are  very  well  satisfied  in  his  bringing  in  the  Rocheller  who 
refused  to  strike,  and  have  resolved  to  have  the  master  of 
her  tried  by  the  commission  of  oyer  and  terminer  for  the 
admiralty  for  his  insolency  therein.     The  lords  desire  his 
journal  for  this  last  voyage. 

3080.  [p.  95.]     29  July.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Thomas  Allin?  at 
Somerley,3  near  Lowestoft.4 — Thanks  him  in  the  name  of 
the  whole  Brotherhood  for  his  letter  of  the  24th  relating  to 
their  lights  at  Lowestoft 5  [305 1], '  about  which  there  having 
been  no  opportunity  yet  of  giving  in  our  answer  to  his 
Majesty  at  the  council-table,  we  have  been  backward  in 
giving  you  any  fresh  solicitation  concerning  the  forwarding 
our   work   about   the    said    lights,    lest    we    might    offer 
unnecessarily  any  offence  to  my  lords  of  the  council,  to 
whom  Sir  John  Clayton 6  hath  petitioned  for  a  stop  in  our 
said  proceedings.     Not  but  that  we  might  very  justifiably 
proceed  therein  by  virtue  of  the  power  lodged  in  us  by 
Act  of  Parliament,  and  the  rather  for  that  my  lords  have 
not  given  any  absolute  direction  to  us  upon  the  petition 
for  the  stopping  us,  but  we  think  it  but  a  decency  due 
from  us  to  my  lords  upon  such  a  petition  presented.' 

Margin  :  ( About  the  lights  of  the  Trinity  House  at  Lowestoft, 
and  Sir  John  Clayton's  at  Yarmouth.' 

3081.  [p.  95.]     29  July.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Dickenson? 
commander  of  the  Hunter,  in  the  Downs. — Sends  him  a 
list  of  all  the  ships  now  abroad  and  going  out,  belonging 
to  the  Royal  African  and  the  Gambia  Companies.     '  For 
the  other  parts  of  your  inquiries,  his  Royal  Highness  having 

1  See  note  to  No.  2274.  8  See  note  to  No.  3000. 

3  See  note  to  No.  3051.  4  MS.  '  Lestoffe.' 

5  MS.  '  Lastoffe.'  °  See  note  to  No.  2294. 
7  See  ii.  367  n.  supra. 


24o  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          July 

been  attended  therewith  by  the  African  Company l  and 
received  their  opinion  therein,  was  pleased  this  day  (myself 
attending)  to  communicate  the  same  to  his  Majesty,  from 
whom  and  by  whose  command  I  herewith  enclose  his 
instructions  for  your  proceeding  in  your  intended  voyage 
[3027,  3065]  agreeable  to  those  propounded  by  the  Com- 
pany which  you  lately  perused  ;  and  in  explanation  of 
those  particulars  therein  about  which  you  desire  to  receive 
a  more  clear  information,  I  am  further  commanded  by  his 
Majesty  to  let  you  know  as  follows,  viz.  that  (to  the  first) 
forasmuch  as  no  ships  can  reasonably  be  expected  to  be 
found,  either  stopping  or  under  sail,  upon  the  coasts 
mentioned  in  the  first  paragraph  of  your  instructions  but 
such  as  are  expressly  led  thereto  with  purpose  of  trading 
upon  the  said  coasts  (excepting  only  ships  passing  towards 
or  returning  from  the  East  Indies),  all  ships  so  found 
(those  only  passing  to  or  from  the  East  Indies  excepted) 
are  to  be  esteemed  molesters  of  the  trade  of  the  said 
Company. 

'  To  that  part  of  your  second  query  which  is  not  answered 
by  the  enclosed  list,  you  are  to  understand  English  ships  only 
to  be  thereby  intended,  what  concerns  foreign  ships  being 
provided  for  in  the  3rd  article. 

'  Concerning  which  foreign  ships,  and  in  answer  to  your 
3rd  inquiry  relating  thereto,  it  is  to  be  understood  that 
upon  your  having  satisfactory  evidence  that  any  of  his 
Majesty's  subjects  are  concerned  either  in  part  or  in  whole 
upon  the  same,  the  said  ships  are  to  be  carried  to  Cape 
Coast  Castle,  to  be  judged  by  the  admiralty  there  for  so 
much  hereof  as  shall  be  duly  found  appertaining  to  such 
his  Majesty's  subjects. 

'  For  your  last  demand  touching  the  Company's  factor 
who  is  to  have  passage  on  board  you,  you  are  to  bear  him 
as  a  supernumerary  above  your  complement  in  case  your 
complement  be  full,  with  an  allowance  of  victuals  (if  he 
demand  it)  answerable  to  the  rest  of  the  company,  but 
without  wages.  .  .  .' 

Underwritten :  '  A  copy  of  the  aforegoing  letter  was  sent 
to  Sir  Andrew  King  (for  the  African  Company)'  with  another 
of  30  July  [3082]. 

1  See  note  to  No.  3065. 


1676  FIFTH    VOLUME  241 

3082.  [p.  97.]     30  July.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Andrew  King,1 
sub-governor,  or  (in  his  absence)  to  Mr.  Gabriel  Roberts, 
deputy-governor,  of  the  Royal  African  Company. — Sends  a 
copy  of  Captain  Dickenson's  instructions  and  the  letter  in 
explanation  of  them  [3081]. 

3083.  [p.  97.]     3 1  July.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners  of 
the  Customs. — About  a   pass  for  the   John  and  Thomas, 
Richard  Jones  master,  at  Falmouth.. 

3084.  [p.  97.]      31  July.      The  same  to   the  same. — 
About  a  pass  for  the  Charity,  of  London,  Nicholas  Linch 
[master],  at  Portsmouth. 

3085.  [p.  97.]     3 1  July.    S.  P.  to  Sir  Martin  Wescombe? 
at  Cadiz. — Prays  his  care  of  the  enclosed  to  Tangier  [3086, 

3087]. 

3086.  [p.  98.]     i\July.     S.P.toSirPalmesFairborne? 
at  Tangier. — '  We  have  so  many  matters  before  us  here, 
and  most  of  them  unwelcome  ones,  relating  to  the  affairs 
of  his  Majesty's  garrison  of  Tangier  and  the  troublesome 
circumstances  wherein  they  have  arisen  to  you  since  my 
Lord  Inchiquin's4  departure,'  that  the  writer  has  been  very 
unwilling  to   give   his   observations  thereon  until  he  has 
seen   some  further  examinations  taken  and  observations 
made  by  the   lords  commissioners  relating  thereto,  upon 
which  they  have  been  daily  conversant  for  some  weeks,  and 
will  in  a  little  time  bring  to  some  competent  issue.     Thanks 
him  in  the  meantime  for  his  of  10  June,  and  desires  him 
to  despatch  a  packet  of  importance  [3087]  to  the  king's 
consul  at  Argeir. 

Postscript. — '  Very  sorry  I  am  amongst  other  things 
for  the  necessitated  absence  of  Mr.  Bowles,5  during  which 
much  of  my  reliance  in  my  own  concerns  remains  upon 
your  friendship,  which  I  beg  you  to  bestow  on  me  at  this 
unlucky  juncture,  what  I  have  to  say  to  Mr.  Bowles  being 
directed  to  Cadiz  in  expectation  of  finding  him  there.' 

3087.  [p.  98.]     3 1  July.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Martin,  his  Ma- 
jesty's consul  at  Argeir. — The  king  and  lords  take  notice 
of  his  diligence  and  discretion  in  the  conduct  of  the  work 
his  place  brings  into  his  hands.     Fears  this  will  be  '  rather 

1  See  note  to  No.  2869.  3  Consul  at  Cadiz  [1553]. 

3  See  note  to  No.  2212.  4  See  note  to  No.  3238. 

5  Mr.  Phineas  Bowles  was  paymaster  of  the  garrison  at  Tangier 
[25871 

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242  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS         Aug. 

greatened  than  made  more  easy  by  the  liberty  which  we 
see  in  the  case  of  the  Leopard  [3036]  and  other  ships  the 
people  of  Argier  do  take  of  carrying  in  all  ships  that  have 
not  passes,  though  English-built,  all  English  effects,  and  the 
majorities  of  their  companies  English ' — which  is  a  violation 
of  our  treaty  of  peace  with  them  and  a  '  manifest  perverting 
his  Majesty's  gracious  purposes  in  his  late  proclamation 
and  rules  about  passes,1  from  the  being  a  prevention  to 
strangers  unduly  usurping  the  privileges  of  English  under 
the  pretence  of  being  so,  to  the  oppressing  those  his 
Majesty's  subjects  who  in  truth  are  so.'  But  it  becomes 
the  writer  to  leave  this  matter  to  the  secretary  of  state. 

Sends  him  3  dozen  counterparts  of  passes,  printed  on 
parchment  and  not  on  paper  as  the  others  were.  Desires 
an  early  account  of  his  receipt  of  them,  together  with  as 
particular  an  account  as  he  can  furnish  of  the  number, 
names,  and  force  of  the  ships  of  Argeir  as  they  stand  at 
this  day. 

Underwritten  :  '  Sent  to  Sir  Martin  Wescombe 2  to  convey  to 
Sir  P.  Fairborne  3  for  furtherance  by  him '  [3085,  3086]. 

3088.  [p.  100.]     I  Aug.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners  of 
the  Customs. — About  a  pass  for  the  Lady,  of  Yarmouth, 
John  Hartley  master,  in  that  port. 

3089.  [p.  ioo.]     i  Aug.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Moore,  master 
attendant  at  Portsmouth. — Thanks  for  his  of  30  July  giving 
notice  of  the  arrival  of  the  Bristol  at  Spithead. 

3090.  [p.  ioo.]     i  Aug.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Richard  Cooke, 
at  Dover. — Has  received  his  of  29  July,  with  a  copy  of  the 
deposition  of  William    Burton   concerning   some  injuries 
done  him  by  two  privateers  now  in  the  Downs.    The  lords 
on  Saturday  last  directed  Sir  Robert  Robinson 4  '  to  deliver 
over  to  the  law  any  privateers  or  their  commanders  who 
shall  be  prosecuted  by  any  of  his  Majesty's  subjects  for 
wrongs  done  them'  [3092]. 

3091.  [p.  i oi.]     \  Aug.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  William  Welch,  •SL 
merchant  in  London. — The  king  and  lords  desire  his  written 
answers  to  the  following  questions  touching  his  propriety 
in  the  ship  William,  of  London,  Cornelius  Alderson  master  : 
'  Whether  you  are  this  day  (bona  fide)  proprietor  singly 

1  See  Introduction,  p.  xx,  supra.          2  Consul  at  Cadiz  [1553]. 
3  See  note  to  No.  2212,  4  See  note  to  No.  2961, 


1676  FIFTH   VOLUME  243 

or  with  others  of  the  said  ship  ?  Who  (if  any)  are  part- 
owners  with  you  therein,  the  places  of  their  abode,  and 
your  and  their  respective  shares  ?  What  the  burden  of  the 
said  ship  is  and  the  price  at  which  you  bought  her  ?  And 
lastly,  whether  Mr.  Pedee  \sic\  of  Rotterdam,  or  any  other 
foreigner  have  any  interest  or  property  at  this  day  in  the 
said  ship  ? ' 

3092.  [p.  i or.]     I  Aug.    S.  P.  to  Sir  Robert  Robinson? 
commander  of  the  Assurance,  in  the  Downs.— Hopes  he 
has  received  the  lords'  order  of  the  29th  about  delivering 
up  privateers  to  the  law  [3090].    Thanks  him  for  his  advice 
of  the  despatch  of  the  Garland,  and  the  satisfaction  given 
that  ship's  company  in  the  business  of  her  victuals  [3072]. 
Very  well  it  were  that  those  privateers  of  whom  he  last  makes 
mention  (and  particularly  that  which  did  so  much  injury 
to  the  master  who  lies  ill  at  Deal)  were  laid  hold  on  ; 
therefore  entreats  him  to  keep  his  ships  '  to  their  diligent 
cruising  to  and  again  upon  the  coast'  as  hitherto.     Will 
send  the   lords'   order   about  the  wool  vessel  brought  in 
by  the  Greyhound  ;  meanwhile  he  is  to  see  her  and  her 
company  secured  to  answer  for  endeavouring  to  transport 
wool  contrary  to  the  law.     Hears  nothing  of  his  boatswain 
[3071,  3072,  3107]. 

3093.  [p.   I02.2]     2  Attg.     S,  P.  to  the  Commissioners 
of  the  Customs. — About   a   pass    for    the    Blackamoor,  of 
Bristol,  Thomas  Gammon  3  master,  now  at  Bristol. 

3094.  [p.   102.]      3  Aug.     S.  P.  to  Captain    Wright? 
Kitchen  yacht. — To  sail  to  Dieppe  and  apply  to  Monsieur 
Solomon  Deslandes,  merchant,  for  a  coach  belonging  to 
'  the  ambassador  of  Our  Good  Brother  the  most  Christian 
King,'  and  return  with  it  to  Greenwich. 

3095.  [p.  102.]    3  Aug.    S.  P.  to  Henry  Thynne?  Esquire. 
—The  Kitchen  yacht  is  going  to  Dieppe  this  evening  [3094] 

upon  an  occasion  of  Lady  Portsmouth's,6  and  will  stay 
there  about  3  days.  If  this  is  too  soon  for  Monsieur 
Sessac's 7  occasion,  a  yacht  may  be  sent  for  him  on  purpose, 
as  soon  as  he  shall  assign  a  day  when  he  will  be  at  Dieppe 
to  meet  her. 

1  See  note  to  No.  2961.  2  Out  of  order  in  the  MS. 

3  MS.  'Gannon,'  but  see  No.  3119. 

4  See  ii.  12  n.  supra.  5  MS.  'Thinn.' 
6  D.  N.B.  xxxi.  59.  7  MS.  'Sucac.' 

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244  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS         Aug. 

3096.  [p.  103.]     3  Aug.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Booth,1  com- 
mander of  the  Eagle  fireship,  at  Sheerness. — The   lords 
having  ordered  a  court-martial  in  the  River  on  one  of  the 
yachts  at  Greenwich  on  Monday  morning  next,  and  there 
not  being  a  sufficient  number  of  commanders  here  to  hold 
it,  he  is  to  come  up  to  town  to  attend  it. 

3097.  [p.  103.]     4  Aug.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  John  Swinton, 
Junior^  merchant,  in  Water  Lane,  London. — To  attend  the 
lords  to-morrow  morning  at  9. 

3098.  [p.  IO2.2]     5  Aug.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners  of 
the  Customs. — About  a  pass  for  the  Bachelor,  of  South- 
ampton, in  that  port  bound  to  the  Canaries. 

3099.  [p.  103.]     5  Aug.     S.P.  to  Mr.  Cane,  a.  midship- 
man   late   belonging   to    the    Diamond    frigate,   Captain 
Griffith,3  commander. — To  attend  a  court-martial  to  be  held 
on  board  the  Cleveland  yacht,  at  Greenwich,  on  Monday 
morning  next  at  8,  to  proceed  upon  the  charge  by  him 
given  in  against   Thomas    Finder,  master-gunner  of  the 
Diamond  [3229], 

3100.  [p.  104.]      5  Aug.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Killigrew? 
late  commander  of  the  Henrietta. — Desires  him  to  attend 
a  court-martial  to  be  held  by  Sir  John  Berry  6  on  board  the 
Cleveland  yacht  [3099]  for  trial  of  Mr.  Beckett,  late  master 
of  the  Henrietta,  for  running  her  on  ground  in  the  Bay  of 
Cadiz. 

3101.  [p.  104.]      5  Aug.     Summons  to  attend  a  court- 
martial  to   give   evidence  on   behalf  of  Thomas    Finder 
[3099].     Sent  to  the  persons  named  in  the  margin. 

Margin :  Captain  John  Kempthorne,6-  Robert  West,  Francis 
Furnis,  Thomas  Finn,  Stephen  Bostock,  Patrick  Cunningham, 
John  Clements. 

Underwritten :  '  By  command  of  my  lords. — S.  P.' 

3102.  [p.  104.]     5  Aug.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Robert  Robinson? 
in  the  Downs. — Thanks  for  his  of  31  July  and  I,  2,  and  3 
Aug.,  and  his  advice  of  the  coming  in  of  the  East  India- 
men,  though  the  loss  of  one  of  their  commanders,  with 

1  See  note  to  No.  2693.  *  Out  of  order  in  the  MS. 

1  See  ii.  340  n.  supra.  *  D.  N.  B.  xxxi.  109. 

5  Commander  of  the  Bristol  [3079].     See  note  to  No.  2274. 

8  Commander  of  the  Monmouth  yacht  [3068].    See  ii.  113  n.  supra. 

1  See  note  to  No.  2961. 


1676  FIFTH   VOLUME  245 

suspicion  of  his  being  poisoned,  is  '  very  surprising  and  un- 
welcome.' 

The  king  and  lords  are  very  well  satisfied  in  what  he 
has  done  in  delivering  Captain  Johnson,  the  privateer  [3054], 
to  be  prosecuted  according  to  law  by  those  who  have  been 
injured  by  him,  and  they  expect  the  like  to  be  done  in 
other  cases, '  not  thinking  it  a  work  fit  for  them  to  take 
upon  them  the  judging  so  far  of  any  particular  cause 
between  his  Majesty's  subjects  and  the  privateers  as  to 
order  the  payment  or  depositing  of  any  particular  sums 
in  satisfaction  for  wrongs  done,  the  whole  being  to  be 
determined  according  to  law  and  not  otherwise.'  Encloses 
a  list  of  privateers  against  whom  complaints  have  been 
brought  to  the  council,  that  he  may  inform  his  commanders 
that  it  is  expected  that  they  be  '  very  circumspect  and  dili- 
gent '  in  looking  out  for  and  bringing  them  in. 

3103.  [p.  105.]     7  Aug.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— 
His  Majesty  having — upon  debate  last  night  had  with  the 
lords  of  the   committee  for  foreign   affairs   touching   the 
present  posture  of  the  treaty  with  Argeir  and  of  his  ships 
coming  home  under  Sir  John  Narbrough  ' — been  pleased  to 
determine  upon  taking   the  Assurance  and  Drake  [3 134] 
from  their  present  work  in  the  Channel  and  sending  them 
with  all  speed  into  the  Mediterranean,  they  are  to  advise 
what  may  be  the  fittest  place  for  them  to  resort  to  for  their 
cleaning  and   taking   in  a  supply  of  victuals  with  most 
despatch. 

3104.  [p.  105.]     7  Aug.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners  of 
the  Customs. — About  a  pass  for   the    Lucy,  Henry  King 
master,  now  at  Falmouth. 

3105.  [p.  1 06.]     8  Aug.     The  same  to  the  same. — About 
passes  for  the  John,  of  Bristol,  John  Yeamans  master ;  the 
Charles,  of  Bristol,    Henry  Totterdale  master  ;   and  the 
Thomas  and  Francis,  of  Bristol,  Francis  Lawrence  master  : 
at  Bristol  bound  for  the  Straits. 

3106.  [p.  1 06.]     8  Aug.     The  same  to  the  same. — About 
passes  for  the  Delight,  of  Bridgwater,  John  Wilson  master, 
at  Lyme  bound  for  the  Canaries  ;    and  for  the  Adventure, 
of  Topsham,  John  Shewer  master,  at  Exeter. 

3107.  [p.  1 06.]     8  Aug.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Robert  Robinson? 
in  the  Downs,  on  board  the  Assurance. — Thanks  for  his  of 

1  D.N.D.y\.  89.  2  See  note  to  No.  2961. 


246  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS         Aug. 

the  4th  and  6th,  '  with  the  examination  of  the  captain  of 
the  privateer  last  brought  in,  whose  company  it  seems  run 
on  shore  and  escaped,  but  it  is  not  mentioned  whether  it 
was  on  the  English  or  French  shore.'  He  will  suddenly 
receive  directions  concerning  the  vessel  taken  stealing  of 
wool  [3092].  Will  move  his  Majesty  for  appointing  him 
a  new  boatswain,  wishing  that  we  could  take  the  former 
that  he  might  be  punished  for  deserting  his  charge  [3071, 
3072,  3092]. 

3108.  [p.   1 06.]     8  Aug.     S.   P.   to    Captain    Coleman, 
collector  at   Plymouth. — The  king   and  lords  have  com- 
manded a  copy  of  his  information  about  the  privateer  to  be 
put  into  the  hands  of  Mr.  Secretary  Coventry,1 '  in  order  to 
the  having  proper  notice  taken  thereof  to  his  Majesty's 
ambassador  in  France.' 

3109.  [p.  107.]     8  Aug.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— 
Encloses   the   writer's   opinion   touching  the  method    for 
passing  the  accounts  of  the  commissioners  and  treasurer 
for  the  affairs  of  sick  and  wounded  seamen  [3110],  con- 
cerning which  some  discourses  were  had  by  some  of  their 
board   and   himself  with   the  late  chancellor  of  the  ex- 
chequer at  the  instance  of  the  executors  of  Sir  Henry 
Osborne. 

3110.  [p.   107.]     \N.  d]     'Memorandum  touching  the 
method  of  passing  Sir  Henry  Osborne's  account,  late  trea- 
surer for  the  affairs  of  sick  and  wounded  seamen  [3109]. — 
'  That  there  being  nothing  in  the  case  of  this  account  but 
what  occurs  daily  to  the  officers  of  the  navy  in  other  like 
cases,  no  other  method  seems  needful  to  be  used  therein  than 
what  the  officers  of  the  navy  do  constantly  take,  as  seeming 
the  most  natural,  unperplexed,  speedy,  of  most  safety  to  the 
king,  and  ease  to  all  persons  concerned  therein.     Accord- 
ing to  which  the  several  steps  to  be  taken  in  passing  this 
account  will  be  these : — 

'  Sir  Henry  Osborne  having  by  warrants  from  the 
officers  of  the  navy  received  from  the  treasurer  thereof 
several  sums  of  money  for  this  service,  and  standing 
charged  with  the  same  by  several  acquittances  under  his 
hand  remaining  with  the  said  treasurer  of  the  navy,  he  is 
(by  his  executors),  according  to  the  loth  article  of  the 
instructions  from  his  Majesty  in  council  on  this  behalf,  to 
1  D.  N.  B.  xii.  357. 


1676  FIFTH   VOLUME  247 

present  an  account  of  his  said  receipts  and  payments  to  the 
body  of  the  commissioners  for  sick  and  wounded,  after 
whose  perusal  and  control  (as  the  first  check  thereto  on 
behalf  of  his  Majesty),  it  is  by  their  directions  to  be  trans- 
mitted to  the  officers  of  the  navy  for  a  second.  Upon  whose 
allowance  whereof  the  said  officers  of  the  navy  are  to  pro- 
ceed to  the  discharging  the  several  imprests  standing  out 
against  the  accountant  in  the  manner  following,  viz. : — 

*(i)  By  their  making  out  and  signing  bills  upon  the 
treasurer  of  his  Majesty's  navy  according  to  the  usual  form 
of  their  office,  by  which  every  of  the  said  commissioners, 
or  any  other  person  to  whom  any  payments  have  been 
made  by  the  accountant  for  this  service  by  way  of  imprest, 
may  be  duly  charged  therewith. 

*  (2)  By  making  out  perfect  bills  to  the  accountant  for 
what  other  payments  hath  been  made  by  him,  either  for 
disbursements,  salaries,  rewards,  or  any  other  charges  not 
by  way  of  imprest. 

'  (3)  Upon  the  treasurer  of  the  navy's  receipt  of  which 
bills,  so  made  out  and  signed  by  the  commissioners  of  the 
navy,  the  said  treasurer  is  to  deliver  up  imprest  bills  of  the 
accountant's  to  the  value  of  the  afore-mentioned  bills  so 
received  by  him. 

'  And  for  the  regular  bringing  to  account  and  discharging 
the  said  several  commissioners,  and  other  persons  upon 
whom  any  sums  of  money  shall  be  thus  transferred  from 
the  accountant  and  remain  as  imprests  upon  them,  the 
following  method  is  to  be  observed,  viz.  : — 

'  That  each  of  the  said  commissioners  having  called  to 
account  every  of  the  persons  chargeable  under  him  with 
the  receipt  oif  any  moneys  relating  to  this  service  within  his 
respective  district,  and  balanced  the  same  with  each  of  the 
said  persons,  do  tender  to  the  body  of  his  said  fellow-com- 
missioners one  entire  account  in  his  own  name  by  which 
he  is  to  expect  to  be  discharged  of  the  sum  he  stands 
chargeable  by  the  accountant,  Sir  Henry  Osborne. 

'  Which  several  accounts  of  the  said  commissioners,  being 
jointly  perused,  controlled,  and  finally  stated  and  ap- 
proved under  the  hands  of  the  said  body  of  the  said  com- 
missioners, and  transmitted  by  them  to  the  officers  of  the 
navy,  they  the  said  officers  shall,  after  the  same  shall 
have  been  examined  by  the  comptroller  of  the  navy  and 


248  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS         Aug. 

Mr.  Richard  Gibson,1  the  officer  especially  appointed  for 
that  service,  proceed  to  the  making  out  perfect  bills  on  the 
treasurer  of  the  navy  to  each  of  the  said  commissioners  for 
what  shall  thereby  be  declared  to  have  been  truly  disbursed 
by  them  in  their  respective  districts  ;  which  bills  the 
treasurer  of  the  navy  is  to  accept  of  from  them,  and  in  lieu 
thereof  deliver  them  up  the  imprest  bills  before  mentioned 
and  the  acquittances  formerly  given  by  them  to  the  ac- 
countant to  the  like  value. 

'  The  like  to  be  done  for  discharging  of  any  of  the  other 
persons  before  mentioned,  on  whom  imprests  shall  remain 
upon  the  discharging  of  the  said  Sir  Henry  Osborne.' 

3111.  [p.  io6.2]     9  Aug.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners  of 
the  Customs. — About  a  pass  for  the  Bristol  Merchant,  of 
Bristol,   William    Smith    master,    at    Bristol   bound    for 
Virginia  [3 1 1 9], 

3112.  [p.    io6.2]     10  Aug.      The  same  to  the  same.— 
About  passes  for  the  Stephen,  of  Bristol,  John  Read  master 
[3119];  and  for  the  John,  of  Bristol,  Peter  Wraxall  [master], 
both  in  that  port  [3119]. 

3113.  [p.    io6.2]     10  Aug.     Tlte  same  to   the  same. — 
About  a  pass  for  the  Friends'  Agreement,  of  Bristol,  Caleb 
Shuter  master,  now  in  that  port  [3119]. 

3114.  [p.   io6.2]     10  Aug.     The  same  to  the  same. — 
About  a  pass  for  the  Friendship,  of  Bristol,  John  Webb 
master,  at  Bristol  and  bound  for  the  West  Indies  [3119]. 

3115.  [p.  109.]    ii  Aug.    S.  P.  to  Sir  Robert  Robinson? 
Downs,  on  board  the  Assurance. — Desires  his  sending  up 
a  perfect  list  of  all  the  privateers  now   under  detention, 
with  their  commanders'  names  and  the  best  description  he 
can  give  of  them,  in  order  to  their  being  published  in  the 
'  Gazette '  on  Monday  next.  4 

3116.  [p.    109.]     12   Aug.     The  same  to  the  same.— 
Hopes  the  parties  interested  in  the  wrongs  done  by  the 
privateer  Bateou 4  will  have  opportunity  of  satisfaction  [3  3 1 6]. 
He  has  done  well  in  giving  notice  to  the  Rose  of  the  orders 
to  his  own  ship  and  the  Drake,  that  she  may  succeed  him  in 
his  present  station  and  take  into  her  charge  the  persons  he 
has  now  on  board  him  [3123], 

1  See  note  to  No.  3547.  2  Out  of  order  in  the  MS. 

s  See  note  to  No.  2961.  4  MS.  '  Battee.' 


1676  FIFTH    VOLUME  249 

3117.  [p.  109.]    12  Aug.    S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners  of 
tJie  Customs.— About  a  pass  for  the  Laurel,  of  Topsham,1 
Samuel  Hayman  master,  at  Exeter. 

3118.  [p.    1 10.]      13    Aug.      S.   P.   to    Captain   Day,9 
commander    of    the  Bezan,  or   to    his    mate. — To   carry 
Captain  Till,  one  of  the  Elder  Brethren  of  the  Trinity 
House,  to    Lowestoft,3  or   such   other  port  in  Suffolk  as 
he  shall  advise,  and  having  put  him  on  shore  to  return  to 
Greenwich. 

3119.  [p.  in.]     14  Aug.    S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners  of 
the   Customs.  —  About   passes   for  the   Bristol  Merchant, 
William  Smith   master   [3111];  the  Stephen,  John  Read 
master  [3112];  the  John,  Peter  Wraxall  master  [3112]; 
the  Richard  and  James,  Thomas  Opie  master  ;  the  Bachelor, 
John  Snow  [master]  ;  the    Maryland  Merchant,  William 
Trego  master ;  the  Nevis  Merchant,  Arthur  Grant  mas- 
ter ;    the  Abraham  and  Isaac,  John  Jones  master ;    the 
Friendship,  John  Webb  master  [3114];  the  Friends'  Agree- 
ment, Caleb  Shuter  master  [3113]  ;  and  the  Blackamoor, 
Thomas  Gammon  master,  now  at  Bristol  and  bound  for 
the  Straits. 

3120.  [p.  in.]    14  Aug.    The  same  to  the  same. — About 
a  pass  for  the  Friendship,  of  London,  Matthew  Fox  master, 
now  at  Dover  bound  for  the  Straits. 

3121.  [p.  113.]     14  Aug.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  William  ldle,in 
London. — Has  received  direction  for  signifying  the  pleasure 
of  the  king  and  lords  to  the  commissioners  for  the  admiral's 
rights  that  they  forthwith  proceed  to  the  paying  him  the 
full  I2O/.  directed  in  their  order  of  8  April,  as  also  the  I5/. 
remaining  unpaid  upon  a  former  order — being  the  full  of 
what  he  expects  from  his  Majesty's  bounty  in  relation  to  the 
business  of  the  ship  Bachelor  [2606].     Hopes  that  no  further 
order  will  be  needful,  as  for  the  goods  said  by  him  to  be 
remaining  in  the  hands  of  the  officers  of  Plymouth  he  has 
already  had  orders  from  the  said  commissioners  for  their 
delivery.     Will  move  the  king   and    lords   at  their  next 
meeting  touching  the  claim  he  has  yet  to  make  and  desires 
to  be  heard  in  at  the  council  board  against  the  said  com- 

1  MS.  '  Topshall. 

2  Captain  Richard  Day  ;  there  were  three  other  officers  of  the 
same  surname  (i.  344  supra}. 

3  MS.  <  Lestoffe.' 


25o  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS         Aug. 

missioners,  notwithstanding  his  Majesty's  bounty  in  giving 
him  the  whole  profit  of  the  said  ship. 

Another  draft  of  this  letter  is  cancelled  on  p.  no  of  the  MS. 
The  variations  are  not  important. 

3122.  [p.  112.]     14  Aug.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners 
for  the  Admiral's  Rights. — The  king  and  lords  have  con- 
sidered afresh  the  case  of  Captain  Idle  [3123],  late  master 
of  the  ship  Bachelor,  and  have  particularly  debated  the 
case  of  Sir  John  Fowell 1  and  the  pains  said  to  be  by  him 
taken  in  the  business  of  the  said  ship   (which  they  are 
more  inclined  to  the  gratifying  him  for  by  some  future 
kindness    rather    than    by   lessening   the   benefit   of  his 
Majesty's  bounty  to  Captain  Idle).     The  lords  command 
the  writer  to  return  them  their  original  order  of  8  April  in 
favour  of  Sir  John  Fowell,  and  desire  them  to  make  it 
good  to  Mr.  Idle. 

3123.  [p.  in.2]      15  Aug.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Ashby? 
commander  of  the  Rose,  in  the  Downs. — Encloses  orders 
for  him  to  command  the  ships  appointed  for  the  Downs 
and  the  Channel,  and  recommends  his  making  the  best  use 
he  can  thereof;  and  particularly  of  the   Greyhound  for 
cruising  to  and  again  with  all  diligence  for  the  bringing  in 
of  the  privateers  infesting  our  coasts,  in  such  method   as 
Sir  Robert  Robinson 4  lately  used.     Desires  him  to  hasten 
the  list  of  privateers  [3115]. 

3124.  [p.  113.]     15  Aug.     S.  P.  to  tJie  Navy  Board— 
Henry  Morgan,  late  boatswain  of  the  Antelope,  and  some 
time  since  appointed  boatswain  of  the  galley  building  at 
Blackwall,5  complains  that  his  successor  has  taken  posses- 
sion of  the  Antelope,  so  that  he  cannot  be  borne  anywhere 
until  the   galley  be  launched.     Desires  that   he  may  be 
kept  in  possession  of  the  Antelope  till  the  galley  can  bear 
him.     Supposes  the  reasonableness  of  his  case  is  so  obvious 
that  it  requires  but  one  word  of  direction  therein   from 
them  to  the  clerk  of  the  check. 

3125.  [p.  114.]     15  Aug.     S.  P.  to  the  Officers  of  the 
Ordnance,  at  the  Tower,  London. — Will  very  speedily  see 
the  king's  warrant  for  supplying  the  Bristol  sent  to  the 

1  See  note  to  No.  2866.  2  Out  of  order  in  the  MS. 

1  See  n.  398  n.  supra.  *  See  note  to  No.  2961. 

"  The  James  galley.     See  note  to  No.  3240. 


1676  FIFTH    VOLUME  251 

master  of  the  ordnance,  and  their  advice  observed  for  the 
future  in  letting  the  king's  warrants  in  the  business  of  the 
ordnance  '  keep  pace  with  those  of  the  officers  of  the  navy, 
as  any  ships  shall  come  in  to  be  refitted.' 

Margin  refers  to  supplying  the  Bristol  with  gunner's  stores. 

3126.  [p.    114.]     1 6   Aug.     S.   P.   to  Captain  Lovell} 
commander  of  the  Katherine  yacht. — He  is  desired  to  give 
the  bearers,  Mr.  Joseph  Burden,  William  Langhorn,  and 
John  Deverill,  passage  with  him  to  Dieppe,  at  the  request 
of  Sir  Edward  Hungerford.2 

3127.  [p.  114.]     1 6  Aug.     S.  P.  to  the  Officers  of  the 
Ordnance. — Sends  them  a  warrant  for  gunner's  stores  for 
the  Assurance  and  Drake,  as  the  Bristol  [3125],  for  their 
respective  intended  voyages. 

This  letter  is  preceded  by  a  cancelled  entry  of  the  warrant, 
with  the  note  '  Vide  King's  Book  :  Entered  here  by  mistake.' 

3128.  [p.  114.]     1 6  Aug.    S.  P.  to  Sir  Robert  Robinson? 
commander  of  the  Assurance,  at  Sheerness. — Is  glad  of 
the  arrival  of  the  Assurance  and  Drake  at  Sheerness. 

3129.  [p.    115.]     1 6   Aug.     S.   P.   to  Captain  Lovell? 
commander  of  the  Katherine  yacht,  at  Greenwich. — Besides 
the  Portuguese  gentlemen  he  is  fetching  from  Dieppe,  he  is 
to  wait  4  days  for  and  bring  over  Mr.  James  Houblon,4 
merchant,  his  lady  and  company. 

3130.  [p.  115.]     17  Aug.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners 
of  the  Customs. — About  a  pass  for  the  Expedition,  of  Top- 
sham,  Solomon  Andrews  master,  now  at  Topsham  bound 
for  the  Straits. 

3131.  [p.   115.]     17   Aug.     The  same   to   the  same. — 
About  a  pass  for  the  Two  Friends,  of  London,  John  Ban- 
turn  master,  now  at  Bristol  bound  for  the  Straits. 

3132.  [p.   115.]      1 8  Aug.     The  same  to   the  same. — 
About  passes  for  the  Jeremy,  of  Bristol,  John  Lilly  master, 
bound   to  the  Straits  ;  the  Agreement,  of  Bristol,  John 
Teag[u]e  master  ;  the  Unicorn,  of  Bristol,  Thomas  Cooper 
master ;  the  William  and  Anne,  of  Bristol,  bound  to  Vir- 
ginia :  all  at  Bristol. 

3133.  [p.   115.]     19  Aug.     The  same   to  the  same.— 

1  Charnock,  Biog.  Na-v.  i.  347.  s  D.  N.  B.  xxviii.  255. 

8  Late  commander-in-chief  in  the  Downs  [3052]. 
4  See  note  to  No.  2498. 


252  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS         Aug. 

About  a  pass  for  the  Vintage,  of  Plymouth,  Samuel  Foote 
master,  in  that  port  bound  for  the  Straits. 

3134.  [p.  115.]     19  Aug.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Shish}  master- 
shipwright  at  Sheerness.— The  king  and  lords,  having  con- 
sidered his  report  touching  the  incapacity  of  the  Drake  to 
proceed  upon  her  intended  voyage  into  the  Straits  without 
her  being  first  brought  into  a  dry  dock,  which  his  Majesty's 
service  will  not  admit  time  for,  have  ordered  her  to  return 
to  her  late  station  in  the  Downs  [3103]. 

3135.  [p.   115.]     19  Aug.     S.  P.  to  Colonel  Piper?  at 
Plymouth. — Acknowledges  his  of  the  I3th  to  the  lords, 
from  whom  he  will  speedily  receive  advice  touching  the 
further  disposal  of  the  master  of  the  French  vessel,  his 
prisoner. 

3136.  [p.  1 1 6.]     19  Aug.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners 
of  the  Customs. — About  a  pass  for  the  Marigold,  of  Ply- 
mouth, Edward  Mathews  master,  in  that  port  bound  for 
the  Straits. 

3137.  [p.  i IS-3]     21  Aug.     The  same  to   t/te  same. — 
About  a  pass  for  the   St.  Bernard,4  of  Bristol,  Richard 
Dempster  master,  now  at  Bristol. 

3138.  [p.  i  id]     23  Aug.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Lassells? 
commander  of  the  Garland,  in  the  Downs. — Has  received 
his  of  the  i/th  and  2ist  advising  his  being  arrived  in  the 
Downs  from  Havre  de  Grace.     He  is  to  remain  there  until 
further  order. 

3139.  [p.  1 1 6.]     23  Aug.    S.  P.  to  Sir  Robert  Robinson « 
commander  [of  the]  Assurance,  at  Sheerness. — Leave  to 
come  to  town  for  3  or  4  days. 

3140.  [p.  1 1 6.]     23  Aug.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners 
of  the  Customs. — About  a  pass  for  the  Samaritan,  of  Yar- 
mouth, James  Lutton  master,  now  in  that  port  bound  for 
the  Straits. 

3141.  [p.  1 1 6.]     23  Aug.     The  same  to   the  same. — 
About  a  pass  for  the  Lion,  of  Liverpool,  Thomas  Wallis 
master,  now  in  that  port  bound  for  the  Straits. 

3142.  [p.   1 1 6.]     23  Aug.     The  same  to   the  same.— 
About   a   pass  for  the   Expectation,  of  Bristol,  Edward 

1  See  ii.  339  n.  supra. 

*  Deputy-governor  of  Plymouth  [2918]. 

s  Out  of  order  in  the  MS.  «  MS.  '  St.  Barnett.' 

5  See  note  to  No.  2181.  °  See  note  to  No.  3128. 


1676  FIFTH   VOLUME  253 

Dover   master  ;   and   the  Peter,  of   Bristol,   John  Mason 
master  :  in  that  port  bound  for  the  Straits. 

3143.  [p.  1 1 6.]   24  Aug.    S.  P.  to  Mr.  Creed1— Desires 
warrant  for  sending  away  money  to  Tangier.     Would  not 
lose  the  opportunity  of  the  Assurance,  which  will  be  going 
away  in  a  week's  time. 

Postscript. — '  Since  my  writing  this  I  have  your  letter 
touching  money  for  the  sending  over  of  the  recruits  to 
Tangier,  wherein  also  a  warrant  of  the  lords  will  be 
necessary  for  the  informing  me  in  the  just  sum  to  be 
desired  of  my  lord  treasurer,  and  justifying  me  in  the 
payment  of  it.' 

3144.  [p.    117.]     24  Aug.      S.  P.  to  Captain  Ashby? 
Downs. — Prays  he  will  continue  to  give  him  an  account  of 
any  privateers  that  shall  be  brought  in.     He  has  done  well 
in    delivering  over  to  the  Serjeant  of  the  admiralty  the 
captain  and  lieutenant  of  the  Negotia  [3148].     Sends  him 
a  copy  of  the  lords'  directions  to  Sir  Robert  Robinson3  in 
reference  to  keeping  and  disposing  of  privateers. 

3145.  [p.  Ii8.4]     25  Aug.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners 
of  the  Customs. — About  a  pass  for  the  Virgin,  of  Limerick,' 
John  Flahy  master,  now  in  Cowes  Road  bound  for  the 
Straits. 

3146.  [p.    ii8.4]     25   Aug.     The  same  to  the  same. — 
About  a  pass  for  the  John  and  Elizabeth,  of  Plymouth,  in 
that  port  bound  for  the  Straits. 

3147.  [p.  117.]     26  Aug.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Joseph  William- 
son*— Pursuant  to  the  late  Order  in  Council  for  the  writer's 
transmitting  to  him  the  names  and  descriptions  of  such 
privateers  as  shall  be  brought  in  to  any  of  our  ports,  in 
order  to  their  being  published  in  the  '  Gazette,'  an  account 
of  4  vessels  so  brought  in  is  enclosed  [3148]. 

3148.  [p.   117.]     26  Aug.     An  Account  of  Privateers 
brought  into  and  now  remaining  in  his  Majesty's  ports 
[3147]. — At  Dover  :  Petit7  Louis,  of  Dunkirk,  Aren  Johnson 
commander,  burden  50  tons,  with  2  guns,  and  20  men  and 
2  boys  [3054] ;  Petit 7  La  Force,  of  Dunkirk,  Jacob  Doosche 

1  D.  N.  B.  xiii.  68. 

*  Commander  of  the  Rose,  and  now  commander-in-chief  in  the 
Downs  [3123]. 

s  See  note  to  No.  3128.  4  Out  of  order  in  the  MS. 

5  MS.  '  Lymbrick.' 

0  Secretary  of  state  [3035].     D.  N.  B.  Ixii.  2.          7  MS.  <  Peter.' 


254          ADMIRALTY  LETTERS  Aug. 

commander,  a  little  open  vessel  of  6  tons  in  burden,  formerly 
a  Greenland  shallop,  carrying  1 1  men  [3054]  ;  Negotia,  of 
Calais,  Nicholas  Bateou,1  commander,  with  19  men  and 
4  boys  [3116].  In  the  river  of  Thames:  Revenge,2  of 
Dunkirk,  Cornelius  Metefoux 3  commander  [2996],  (formerly 
commanded  by  David  Brison,  a  Scotchman).4 

3149.  [p.   1 1 8.]     26   Aug.     S.   P.   to  Captain  Ashby? 
commander  of  the  Rose,  in   the   Downs.— His  Majesty 
approves  of  the  orders  he  has  given  the  Drake  for  cruising 
between  Beachy  and  Dover  for  8  days ;  and  enclosed  are 
his  orders  to  her  commander  [3 1 50]. 

3150.  [p.    1 1 8.]     26  Aug.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Stepney, 
commander  of  the  Drake,  in  the  Downs. — To  follow  Cap- 
tain Ashby's5  orders  [3149]- 

3151.  [p.   1 1 8.]     26  Aug.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Lassells? 
commander  of  the  Garland,  in  the  Downs. — He  will  in  a 
day  or  two  receive  his  orders  for  going  to  Calmar ; 7  and 
the  officers  of  the  navy  are  directed  to  supply  him  with  one 
month's  provisions  from  Dover. 

3152.  [p.  1 1 8.]     26  Aug.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners 
of  the  Customs. — About  a  pass  for  the  Susanna,  of  Bristol, 
William  Neds   master,  at    Bristol   bound  to  the   Straits 

[3154]. 

3153.  [p.  1 19.]     26  Aug.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Skish*  master- 
shipwright  at  Sheerness. — Thanks  for  his  of  the  1 3th  and 
his  account  of  the  Drake's  sailing,  who  is  arrived  in  the 
Downs. 

3154.  [p.  1 19.]     26  Aug.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Dadelstone,  at 
Bristol. — If  he  will  employ  any  of  his  friends  in  town  to 
call  here,  a  letter  to  the  commissioners  of  the  customs  to 
cause  a  survey  to  be  made  of  the  Susanna,  of  Bristol,  and 
returned  to  the  lords  in  order  to  the  obtaining  a  pass  from 
them,  is  ready  [3152]. 

3155.  [p.  119.]     26  Aug.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— 
The  Deptford  ketch  is  ordered  to  transport  to  the  Neva 9 
the  minister  from  the  Emperor  of  Muscovy,  together  with 

1  MS.  'Battee.'  2  MS.  'La  Revenge.' 

3  MS.  'Mettifeu.' 

4  '  Brison '  might  be  the  French  rendering  of  the  Scotch  name 
« Bryson.' 

i  Commander-in-chief  in  the  Downs  [3123]. 
*  See  note  to  No.  2181. 

7  On  the  south-east  coast  of  Sweden. 

8  See  ii.  339  n.  supra.  9  MS.  '  Nerve.' 


1676  FIFTH   VOLUME  255 

another  intended  to  be  sent  by  his  Majesty  to  the  said 
emperor  ;  the  king's  purpose  in  pitching  upon  the  said  vessel 
being  to  save  charge  and  time,  she  being  but  lately  come 
in  from  a  voyage  to  France,  and  to  prevent  taking  any  of 
the  few  ships  now  abroad  near  home  from  their  more 
important  service  in  the  Channel,  besides  that  he  purposeth 
to  save  the  charge  of  manning  her  by  taking  the  com- 
mander and  company  of  one  of  the  yachts  for  the  navigation 
of  her  [3 1 69],  Having  occasion  of  despatching  away  forth- 
with some  small  vessel  to  Virginia,  the  king  hath  for  the 
like  reason  with  their  advice  pitched  upon  the  Young 
Spragge  [3169],  and  desires  them  immediately  to  order 
each  of  them  6  months'  victuals,  for  which  they  shall 
receive  forthwith  warrants  from  the  lords,  this  being  sent 
them  for  saving  of  time. 

3156.  [p.   120.]      28  Aug.      S.  P.  to  Captain  Lassells? 
Garland,  Downs. — Monsieur   Leyenbergh2   (the    King  of 
Sweden's  Resident)  being  ready  to  receive  the  goods  by 
him  taken  in  at  Havre  de  Grace  on  behalf  of  his   said 
Majesty  of  Sweden,  he  is  to  repair   to  Sheerness  to  be 
unladen  [3160]. 

3157.  [p.  120.]     28  A  ug.     S.  P.  to  Sir  John  Berry?  of 
the  Bristol. — Recommends  the  bearer,  Mr.  Edward  Barber, 
at  the  particular  desire  of  the  Duchess  of  Portsmouth,4  to 
some  of  whose  family  he  has  some  relation.     '  His  age,  as 
being  above  16,  renders  him  incapable  (by  the  rules  lately 
established)   of  his   being  recommended  to   you    by  his 
Majesty's  warrant ;  but  I  find  such  a  report  of  the  sobriety 
and  diligence  of  the  young  man,  and  have  received  from 
himself  such  assurances  of  his  resolution  to  apply  himself 
studiously  to  his  work  and  duty  of  seaman,  that  I  cannot 
decline  the  accompanying  him  to  you  with  this  letter  from 
myself  .  .  .  that  you  may  give  him  your  countenance  .  .  . 
recommending   him  to   the    kindness  of  your   master  or 
some  one  of  your  mates,  for  their  assisting  him  in  his  study 
of  navigation.  .  .  .' 

3158.  [p.  I2O.5]     29  Aug.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners 
of  the  Customs. — About  a  pass  for  the  Virgin,  of  Yarmouth, 
in  that  port  bound  for  the  Straits. 

1  See  note  to  No.  2181.  2  MS.  '  Lyonbergh.' 

3  See  note  to  No.  2274.  4  D.  N.B.  xxxi.  59. 

5  Out  of  order  in  the  MS. 


256  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS         Aug. 

3159.  [p.  121.]     30  Aug.     S.  P.  to  Sir  John  Bramston? 
Vice-Admiral  of  Essex,  at   his   house   at    Skreens,  near 
Chelmsford. — The  king  is  resolved  to  ease  him  entirely  of 
the  charges  of  the  court  of  vice-admiralty  he  is  going  to 
hold  at  Burnham,2  by  bearing  the  same  himself.     The  lords 
also  authorise  his  present  register  and  marshal  to  officiate 
in  this  court,  notwithstanding  their  not  having  renewed 
their  commissions,  his  Majesty's  service  not  allowing  time 
for  the  choice  of  new  ones ;  besides  the  writer  fears  that 
'  the  picking  out  of  officers  for  this  particular  occasion  may 
be   misconstrued,   as  if  it  were  done  on    purpose  out  of 
partiality  to  the  king  and  the  fishermen  to  the  prejudice 
of  my   Lord    Fitz-Walter.3  ...  As   for  the   judge,    Mr. 
Bramston,  your  kinsman,  has  long  since  had  a  warrant  from 
my  lords  for  his  succeeding  his  father  in  that  place.  .  .  .' 
Desires  him  to  send  up  a  copy  of  the  fishermen's  petition 
[3184]- 

Underwritten  :  '  Delivered  that  day  to  a  young  man,  said  to 
be  his  servant,  and  who  came  hither  for  it  in  Sir  John's  name, 
and  a  copy  of  it  (with  that  from  the  lords)  sent  by  the  post  the 
31  Aug.' [3162]. 

3160.  [p.   122.]     30  Aug.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Lassells, 
Garland,  in  the  Downs. — Doubts  not  that  he  has  received 
his  of  the  28th  [3 1 56]  wherein  he  acquaints  him  that  a  stop 
is  put  to  his  proceeding  to  Sweden,  and  that  he  is  therefore 
to  bring  his  ship  into  Sheerness,  there  to  be  discharged  of 
.the  goods  he  had  taken  in  for  his  transporting  to  Gotten- 
burg.6     He  is  to  respite  his  taking  in  the  intended  month's 
provisions  from  Dover  until  he  is  unladen  and  returned  to 
his  station  in  the  Downs,  where  the  service  '  greatly  calls 
for  more  ships  than  it  now  hath.' 

1  D.N.B.  vi.  210. 

2  There  are  six  Burnhams,  but  Burnham-on-Crouch  is  the  only 
one  in  Essex. 

3  Benjamin  Mildmay,  Lord  Fitz-Walter,  claimed  exclusive  rights 
in  Walfleet  river.     This  claim  was  being  contested  by  the  fishermen 
of  Burnham,  Barling,  and  elsewhere,  on  the  ground  that  it  was  a 
navigable  river,  « a  nursery  for  seamen,'  had  always  belonged  to  the 
king  and  his  predecessors,  and  was  always  free  (Cal.  S.  P.  Dom 
1675-6,  p.  376). 

4  See  note  to  No.  2181.  5  MS.  'Gottenbrough.' 


1676  FIFTH  VOLUME  257 

3161.  [p.  122.]     31  Aug.     S.P.to  Captain  John  Wood} 
late  commander  of  the  Speedwell. — The  king  and  lords,  'as 
well  to  their  own  present  satisfaction  as  for  the  transmitting 
to  posterity  a  true  and  distinct  account  of  your  late  proceed- 
ing in  your  voyage  with  his  Majesty's  ship  the  Speedwell 
for  the  discovery  of  a  passage  by  the  north-east  about  the 
coast  of  Tartary  to  China  and  the  East  Indies,'  desire  that 
— forasmuch  as  by  the  '  unfortunate  miscarriage  '  of  the 
Speedwell 2  upon  the  coast  of  Nova  Zembla  '  your  journal 
and  papers  .  .  .  are  .  .  .  lost '  except  that  '  the   journal 
kept  by  your  master  is  preserved  ' — '  you  do  cause  as  perfect 
an  account  to  be  faithfully  and  distinctly  drawn  up  ... 
as  by  the  help  of  your  master's  said  journal  and  your  own 
memory  and  notes  you  can  prepare '  .  .  .  [3177]. 

3162.  [p.  123.]     $i  Aug.     S.P.toSirJohnBramston? 
at  Skreens. — Understanding  that  his  servant  intends  not  to 
be   with   him   before   Saturday,  the   writer  sends   him    a 
copy  of  his  last  letter,  and  that  from  the  lords  [3 1 59]. 

3163.  [p.    123.]     31    Aug.     S.   P.   to    Captain    Fasby, 
Charles  yacht,  at  Rye. — Complaint  having  been  this  day 
made  to  his  Majesty  that,  whereas  his  intention  in  accom- 
modating Lady  Thornhill 4  with  a  yacht  was  that  she  might 
enjoy  her  passage  therein  privately,  he  received  on  board 
above  40  persons  for  passage  without  order,  '  to  her  great 
dissatisfaction  and  disturbance,'  his  Majesty  is  very  much 
displeased  therewith,  and  it  is  his  pleasure  that  no  such 
liberty  be  hereafter  taken. 

3164.  [p.  124.]     31  Aug.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Skinner?  mer- 
chant, to  be  left  at  Sir  Nathaniel  Herne's.6 — The  king  and 
lords  '  have  been  of  late  much  solicited  for  the  establishing 
some  rules  about  health  at  Tangier  suitable  to  what  are 
observed  in  other  places  within  the  Straits,  and  have  re- 

1  See  note  to  No.  2797. 

2  An  account  of  this  expedition  and  its  'miscarriage'  in  June  1676 
is  given  in  Charnock,  Biog.  Nav.  i.  378.     Pepys's  Register  of  Ships 
gives  in  error  the  date  1678  (i.  277  supra). 

3  Vice-admiral  of  Essex  [3159].     D.  N.  B.  vi.  210. 

4  Probably  Lady  Johanna  Thornhill,  the  widow  of  Colonel  Richard 
Thornhill.     As  a  daughter  of  Sir  Bevil  Grenville  she  had  received  in 
1675  the  precedence  of  an  earl's  daughter  (Cal.  S.  P.  Dom.  1675-6, 
p.  264). 

''  Mr.  Ephraim  Skinner  had  acted  as  consul  at  Leghorn  [1699]. 
6  See  ii.  382  «.  supra. 
VOL.  III.  S 


258  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS         Sept 

ceived  some  (undigested)  proposals  in  order  thereto.  Now 
forasmuch  as  his  Majesty,  being  satisfied  in  the  expediency 
of  having  some  such  establishment  settled,  does  think  it 
advisable  that  in  the  doing  thereof  regard  may  be  had  to 
the  methods  used  in  other  ports,  and  particularly  at 
Livorne,  I  am  commanded  to  apply  myself  to  you  in 
particular  in  this  affair,  as  one  whose  experience  is  most 
deservedly  to  be  relied  upon  therein,'  and  to  pray  advice 
upon  the  proposals  enclosed. 

3165.  [p.  1 23.']     I  Sept.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners  of 
the  Customs. — About  a  pass  for  the  Ann,  of  Bristol,  William 
Hammond  master,  at  Bristol. 

3166.  [p.  1 24.]     2  Sept.     The  same  to  the  same. — About 
a  pass  for  the  Olive  Tree,  of  Bristol,  Thomas  North  master, 
at  Bristol. 

3167.  [p.  1 24.]     2  Sept.    The  same  to  the  same. — About 
passes  for  the  Susanna,  of  Bristol,  and  the  Cork  Merchant, 
of  Bristol :  at  Bristol. 

3168.  [p.  1 24.]     2  Sept.     The  same  to  the  same. — About 
a   pass   for  the   William,  of    Plymouth,  George    Painter 
master,  now  in  that  port. 

3169.  [p.  1 25.]     2  Sept.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— The 
king  and  lords  approve  their  proposition  of  having  the 
Little  Francis  in  the  room  of  the  Little  Spragge,  since  she 
is  unfit  for  her  intended  voyage  to  Virginia  [3155]  ;  and 
that  she  be  employed  for  the  carrying  of  the  Muscovite  2 
into  the  Baltic  instead  of  the  Deptford  ketch,  and  the  ketch 
sent  to  Virginia  in  her  room,  who  is  to  be  manned  by  the 
commander  and  company  of  the  Richmond  yacht  [3155]. 

The  king  is  yet  unresolved  about  the  Bristol's  vic- 
tualling, so  there  are  no  further  directions  beyond  the 
orders  they  are  executing  for  supplying  her  with  8  months' 
victuals.  The  king  hath  this  day  resolved  that  she  ought 
not  to  hazard  the  loss  of  so  much  time  as  the  going  to  the 
Madeiras  for  beverage  wine  may  occasion,  and  that  there- 
fore what  she  shall  want  of  her  drink  be  supplied  here  in 
brandy. 

The  lords  agree  to  the  number  of  men  they  propose  for 
the  Little  Francis  ;  and  for  the  Deptford  ketch,  her  com- 

1  Out  of  order  in  the  MS. 

3  MS.  «  Muscoveta ' ;  but  the  reference  must  be  to  the  Muscovite 
envoy  mentioned  in  No.  3155. 


1676  FIFTH   VOLUME  259 

plement  will  be  the  number  of  the  Richmond  yacht's  com- 
pany, unless  they  shall  propose  any  other. 

3170.  [p.  126.]    2  Sept.     S.  P,  to  Captain  Ashby?  Rose, 
in  the  Downs. — The  king  and  lords  resolve  that  '  the  galliot 
brought  into  the  Downs  by  the  Drake  with  five  men  on 
board  her  belonging  to   the    French   privateer,  who  had 
boarded  her   but  were   prevented   in   plundering   her   by 
the  badness  of  the  weather,'  be   left  to  proceed   on   her 
voyage,  after  oath  made  by  her  master  and  some  of  her 
company  of  the  truth  of  fact  relating  to  the  privateer's 
boarding  her,  the  5  men  being  kept  in  custody  till  further 
order. 

3171.  [p.  126.]     2  Sept.     S.  P.  to  Lieutenant  Scroope. — 
Has   communicated    to    Sir    John    Berry  his    Majesty's 
direction  for  his  discharging  him  from  his  present  attend- 
ance on  the  Bristol,  as  also  for  his  giving  him  a  certificate 
touching  his  comportment  aboard,  according  to  which  he 
will  by  the  present  rules  of  the  navy  be  entitled  to  wages 
for  his  said  time  [3172]. 

3172.  [p.  126.]    2  Sept.    S.  P.  to  Sir  John  Berry?— He 
is   to   discharge   Lieutenant   Scroope  [3171],  now  extra- 
ordinary   midshipman    on    board    his   ship,  at    his  desire 
'upon  some   occasion   happening  to  him    relating  to  his 
estate  here,'  and  to  give  him  a  certificate. 

3173.  [p.  127.]     4  Sept.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners  of 
the  Customs. — About  [a  pass  for]  the  Lamb,  of  Plymouth, 
now  in  that  port  bound  for  the  Straits. 

3174.  [p.  127.]     4  Sept.     The  same  to  the  same. — About 
[a  pass   for]  the  Neptune,  of  Hull,  Matthew  Cracombe3 
master,  at  Hull  bound  for  the  Straits. 

3175.  [p.  1 27.]     4  Sept.     The  same  to  the  same. — About 
[a  pass  for]  the  Exeter  Merchant,  of  Exeter,  Derby  Hickey 
master,  now  at  Exeter  bound  for  the  Madeiras. 

3176.  [p.  127.]     4  Sept.     The  same  to  the  same. — About 
[a  pass  for]  the  Pearl,  of  Topsham,  William  Strong  master  ; 
[the]  Christopher,  of  Topsham,  William  Salter  master  ;  [the] 
Elizabeth,  of  Topsham,  William  Mann  master ;   and  the 
Sallow,  alias  Swallow,  of  Topsham  :  now  in  the  port  of 
Topsham  bound  to  the  Straits. 

3177.  [p.  127.]    4  Sept.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— 

1  Commander-in-chief  in  the  Downs  [3123]. 

2  See  note  to  No.  2274.  3  MS.  'Crakam.' 

S  2 


ADMIRALTY  LETTERS        Sept. 

Besides  the  general  charge  lately  given  him  by  the  king 
and  lords  of  providing  employment  for  the  officers  of  the 
Speedwell,  lost  upon  the  coast  of  Nova  Zembla,1  the  writer 
has  this  morning  received  his  Majesty's  particular  directions 
in  favour  of  Mr.  Collins,  her  master,  from  whom  and  his 
journal  of  her  late  voyage  his  Majesty  hath  received  so 
much  satisfaction  [3161]  that  instead  of  the  Assurance, 
where  Sir  Robert  Robinson 2  hath  desired  he  might  have 
him,  it  is  his  pleasure  that  he  be  appointed  to  the  mas- 
tership of  the  galley  frigate  now  going  forth  from 
Woolwich.3 

3178.  [p.  128.]     4  Sept.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners  of 
the  Customs.— About  [a  pass  for]  the  George,  of  Bristol, 
Samuel  Isaac  master,  now  in  that  port  bound  for  Virginia. 

3179.  [p.  128.]     4  Sept.     The  same  to  the  same. — About 
[a  pass  for]  the  St.  George,  Michael   Furlong  master,  at 
Dover  bound  for  the  Straits. 

3180.  [p.  128.]     5  Sept.     The  same  to  the  same. — About 
[a  pass  for]  the  Lion,  of  Liverpool,  Thomas  Watts  [master], 
at  Plymouth  bound  to  the  Straits. 

3181.  [p.  128.]     5  Sept.     The  same  to  the  same. — About 
[a  pass  for]  the  Patience,  at  Plymouth,  John  Davis  master, 
bound  for  Rochelle  and  Lisbon. 

3182.  [p   128.]     5  Sept.     The  same  to  the  same. — About 
[a   pass   for]   the   Benjamin,   of  Topsham,  Robert   Lyde 
master,  bound  for  Barbados. 

3183.  [p.  1 2/.4]     5  Sept.     The  same  to  the  same. — About 
a  pass  for  the  Arthur,  of  London,  Henry  Oak  master,  at 
Lancaster  bound  to  Jamaica. 

3184.  [p.  127.*]     5  Sept.     S.  P.  to   Mr.    Christian.— 
Sends  him  for  the  use  of  Lord  Fitz- Walter  a  copy  of  the 
petition  from  the  fishermen  of  the  river  of  Walfleet  [3 1 59].* 

3185.  [p.  128.]     5  Sept.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.- 
His  Majesty  being  informed  of  the  misfortune  lately  befallen 
the  carpenter  of  the  Katherine  yacht  in  endeavouring  to 
prevent  her   receiving  damage  by  a  custom-house  vessel 
running  on  board  her,  to  the  endangering  the  loss  of  the 
use  of  his  hand,  it  is  his  pleasure  that  his  place  be  supplied 
for  this  service  by  a  carpenter  from  Deptford  Yard,  which 

1  See  note  to  No.  3161.  a  See  note  to  No.  2872. 

3  See  note  to  No.  3240.  *  Out  of  order  in  the  MS. 

8  See  note  to  No.  3159. 


1676  FIFTH   VOLUME  261 

they  are  accordingly  desired  to  see  done  by  directing  the 
clerk  of  the  check  therein. 

3186.  [p.   128.]     5  Sept.     Certificate  from  S.  Pe.pys,  at 
the  request  of  Mr.  William  Milles  on  behalf  of  Abraham 
Stock,  owner  of  the  Abraham,  of  Dover,  John  Underdown 
master,  that  on  22  February  last  a  pass  to  continue  in  force 
for  one  year  was  granted  her  by  the  lords  of  the  admiralty, 
pursuant  to  the  treaties  with  Argeir,  Tunis,  and  Tripoli. 

3187.  [p.  I28.1]     7  Sept.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners  of 
the  Customs. — About  a  pass  for  the  Hannah  and  Elizabeth, 
of  Bristol,  Samuel  Cole  master,  at  Bristol  bound  for  the 
Straits. 

3188.  [p.  129.]     7  Sept.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Edmund  Paine, 
master  of  the  Joseph  and  Benjamin,  merchantman,  or  Mr. 
Jones,  master  of  the   George. — Having   understood  from 
this  gentlewoman,  the  bearer,  his  having  received  on  board 
him,  in  order  to  his  transporting  him  to  Virginia,  a  son  of 
hers,  one  Philip  Hanbury,  who  'is  neither  at  his  own  disposal 
nor  hath  any  reasonable  occasions  to  call  him  out  of  his  own 
country/  the  writer  advises  his  discharge  [3222]. 

3189.  [p.  129.]     7  Sept.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— By 
the  special  command   of  the    king   and    lords  the  writer 
accompanies  with  this  letter  the  enclosed  certificate  of  Sir 
John  Narbrough's 2  from  Tripoli  on  behalf  of  the  bearer, 
Captain    Augustus  Lhostein,3  that   some  means    may  be 
found  of  giving  him  the  benefit  of  their  order  of  25  July 
('  on  behalf  of  the  persons  employed  in  that  great  and  happy 
action  of  Sir  John  Narbrough's  against  Tripoli J) 4  with  as 
little  trouble  as  may  be. 

Margin:  'About  Captain    Lhostein's  bounty  money  for  his 
service  at  Tripoli.' 

3190.  [p.  1 29.]     7  Sept.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners  of 
the  Customs. — About  passes  for  the  Charles,  of  Plymouth, 
Richard  Davis    master,  and   the   Margaret  and   John,  of 
Plymouth,  John  Hutchins  master :  at  Plymouth,  bound  for 
the  Straits. 

3191.  [p.    129.]      7    Sept.     S.  P.   to   Mr.   Skinner?  a 
merchant,  London. — Thanks  for  his  of  the  5th. 

1  Out  of  order  in  the  MS.  *  D.  N.  B.  xl.  89. 

3  Commander  of  the  Antelope.     See  ii.  24  n.  supra. 

4  See  Introduction,  p.  xiv.  supra.          5  See  note  to  No.  3164. 


262  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS         Sept. 

3192.  [p.  130.]    7  Sept.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board. — 
Encloses  the  lords'  order  relating  to  their  despatch  of  the 
Little  Francis  and  Deptford  ketch  [3169],  and  will  take 
the  first  opportunity  of  giving  them  the  like  with  reference 
to  the  directions  the  king  and  lords  shall  think  fit  to  have 
sent  to  Captain  Beverly.     Either  to-morrow  or  Saturday 
the  board  will  have  to  provide  boats  for  the  carrying  down 
of  about  70  men  from  Tower  Wharf  to  one  or  two  of  the 
yachts  appointed  for  carrying  them  on  board  the  Assurance 
for  Tangier  [3204] ;  therefore  desires  them  to  provide  as 
many  hammaccoes,  on  the  writer's  promise  to  see  them 
paid  for  as  soon  as  the  true  number  used  shall  be  known. 
Encloses  also  the  lords'  orders  touching  the  cleaning  of 
the  Garland  at  Sheerness. 

3193.  [p.  130.]    7  Sept.    S.  P.  to  Captain  Lassells?  com- 
mander of  the  Garland,  at  Sheerness. — Prays  him  to  hasten 
his  getting  the  King  of  Sweden's  goods  on  shore  [3156, 
3160],  as  also  in  his  cleaning  and  caulking,  that  he  may 
lose  no  time  in  getting  back  to  his  station  in  the  Downs, 
where   the   service   in  general  and  the   insolence   of  the 
privateers  in  particular  does  greatly  call  for  him. 

3194.  [p.    131.]     7  Sept.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Shish?  master- 
shipwright    at    Sheerness. — Desires    he   will   hasten    the 
Garland. 

3195.  [p.  131.]     7  Sept.    S.  P.  to  Sir  Robert  Robinson,3 
commander  of  the  Assurance,  at  the  Nore. — He  is  to  receive 
on   board  him  from  the   Countess  of  Middleton  'one   or 
more  chests  containing  a  tomb  which  she  has  caused  to  be 
made  for  her  late  lord,  the  same  being  to  be  transported 
to  Tangier.' 4 

3196.  [p.  131.]     9  Sept.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners  of 
the  Customs.— [About  a  pass]  for  the  Friendship,  of  London, 
Matthew  Fox  master,  at  Dover. 

3197.  [p.  131.]     ii  Sept.     'Monday  morn.'     S.  P.  to 
Mr.   Pett?   master-shipwright    at    Woolwich. — '.  .  .  His 
Royal    Highness   having  some  occasion  of  going  out  of 
town  a  Thursday,  his  Majesty  was  pleased  to  determine 
that  you  proceed  '  to  the  launching  of  the  galley  frigate t; 
to-morrow,  '  choosing  rather  that  some  little  of  her  joinery 

1  See  note  to  No.  2181.  «  See  ii.  339  n.  supra. 

3  See  note  to  No.  2872.  "  See  ii.  346  n.  supra. 

See  n.  92  n.  supra.  «  See  note  to  No.  3240. 


1676  FIFTH   VOLUME  263 

and  carving  be  left  to  be  done  on  float,  rather  than  either 
defer  the  day,  or  have  it  done  the  duke  not  present,  who 
desires  to  be  at  it.  .  .  .' 

3198.  [p.  132.]     II  Sept.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners 
of  the  Customs. — About  a  pass  for  the  Charles,  of  London, 
John  Brewer  master,  at  Portsmouth  bound  for  the  Straits. 

3199.  [p.  132.]     II    Sept.     The  same  to   the  same. — 

About  a  pass  for  the  Lancaster,  of ,  Joseph  Tucker 

master,  at  Lancaster  bound . 

3200.  [p.  132.]     II   Sept.     The  same  to   the  same. — 
About  a  pass  for  the  St.  Martin,  of  London,  John  Pearce 
[master],  at  Cowes. 

3201.  [p.    132.]      II    Sept.      S.   P.  to   Mr.    Secretary 
Coventry}- — Puts  him  in  mind  (as  commanded  by  the  king 
and    lords   at   the   admiralty-table    on    Saturday  last)  of 
acquainting  the  government  of  Argeir 2  about  the  alteration 
in  the  passes,  wherein  by  the  rules  last  established  their 
force  is  made  to  continue  to  the  end  of  the  voyage,  instead 
of  for  a  year  only,  as  in  the  late  proclamation.3 

3202.  [p.   132.]     II    Sept.     S.  P.  to    Captain  Ashby? 
commander  of  the  Rose,  in  the  Downs. — Thanks  for  his 
advice  of  the  loth  of  the  Drake's  bringing  in  the  Ostend 
privateer.     Encloses  his  Majesty's  warrant  for  his  sending 
the  Greyhound  or  Drake  to  give  convoy  to  some  horses 
belonging  to  the  King  of  France,  now  going  over  from 
Dover  to  Calais. 

3203.  [p.  133.]     ii  Sept.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Sanderson;" 
commander  of  the  Portsmouth  yacht,  at  Greenwich. — To 
put  his  yacht  in  readiness   to   carry  Mr.  Montagu G  (his 
Majesty's  ambassador  to  the  French  king)  with  his  lady, 
family,  and  train  to  Dieppe,  having  regard  to  his  accommo- 
dation, '  that  no  complaint  be  brought  to  his  Majesty  (as 
hath  of  late  been  concerning  others  [3163])  of  the  want 
of  room  and  convenience  to  those  to  whom  his  Majesty 
grants  the  use   of  his  yachts,  by   their  taking  strangers 
on  board  without  order.' 

1  D.  N.  B.  xii.  357.  2  MS.  '  Algeir.' 

3  See  Introduction,  p.  xxi.  n.  supra. 

4  Commander-in-chief  in  the  Downs  [3123]. 

5  See  note  to  No.  2860. 

6  Ralph  Montagu  or  Mountagu,  afterwards  Duke  of  Montagu,  had 
been  appointed  ambassador  extraordinary  to  Louis  XIV.  on  i  Sept. 
1676  (D.  N.  £.  xxxviii.  263). 


264  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS        Sept. 

3204.  [p.  133.]     II  Sept.     S.  P.  to  Captain   Wright,1 
commander  of  the  Kitchen  yacht. — He  is  to  receive  so  many 
soldiers  and  officers  not  exceeding  52  to  be  sent  to  Tangier 
for  the  king's  service  there  as  shall  be  put  on  board  him 
by  order  of  Captain  Mackenny,2  and  carry  them  to  the 
Assurance  [3192],  and  to  victual  them  and  what  further 
number  of  soldiers  shall  be  sent  along  with   them  as  a 
guard  in  the  same  manner  as  his  ship's  company.     He  is 
to  carry  also  such  boxes  and  other  parcels  of  guns,  saddles, 
and  other  things  for  the  king's  service  as  Captain  Mackenny2 
shall  put  on  board  him,  as  also  what  hammaccoes  he  shall 
receive  from  the  navy  board  ;  and  this  done  to  return  to 
Deptford. 

3205.  [p.  1 34.]     1 1  Sept.    S.  P.  to  Sir  Robert  Robinson? 
commander  of  the  Assurance,  or  in   his  absence  to  the 
chief  officer  on  board. — To  receive   and   victual  in   their 
passage  the  soldiers  designed  for  Tangier  [3204,  3213]. 

3206.  [p.  134.]     13  Sept.     S.  P.  to  Captain   Wright} 
commander  of  the  Kitchen  yacht,  at  Woolwich. — He  is  not 
to  receive  any  more  men  on  board  him  for  Tangier  than 
were  actually  put  on   board   him  by  Captain  Mackenny 
from  the  Tower  on  Monday  last  [3204],  but  to  make  the 
best  of  his  way  down  to  the  Assurance  [3205].     He  is  to 
'  overhaul '  the  said  men  and  report  to  the  writer  in  refer- 
ence to  'their  age  and   ability  of  body,'  it  having  been 
reported  '  that  a  great  part  of  them  are  such  as  from  their 
defects  in  those  particulars  will  not  be  found  capable  of 
doing  his  Majesty  much  service.' 

3207.  [p.  135.]     13  Sept.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners 
of  the   Customs. — About   a   pass   for   the   Benjamin   and 
Elizabeth,    of   London,    Robert    Gildersleve    master,   at 
Harwich  bound  for  the  Straits. 

3208.  [p.    135.]     13  Sept.     The  same  to   the  same. — 
About  passes  for  the  Ewe  and  Lamb,  of  London,  Abraham 
Harman  master ;  and  for  the  Concord,  of  London,  Robert 
Knott  master :  at  Cowes  bound  for  the  Straits. 

3209.  [p.    135.]     13  Sept.     The  same  to  the  same.— 
About  a  pass  for  the  Prudence,  of  London,  John  Johnson 
master,  now  in  the  Downs  bound  for  the  Straits. 

3210.  [p.   135.]      13  Sept.     The  same  to   the  same.  - 

\  See  ii.  12  n.  supra.  3  MS.  '  Makenny.' 

3  See  note  to  No.  2872. 


1676  FIFTH   VOLUME  265 

About  a  pass  for  the  Hamburg l  Merchant,  of  Hull,  John 
Wakelin  2  [master],  in  the  Downs. 

3211.  [p.    135.]      13    Sept.     The  same  to  the  same. — 
About   a   pass   for   the   Providence,  of   Bristol,   William 
Jeffreys  master,  at  Bristol. 

3212.  [p.  135.]     14  Sept.     S.  P.  to  Mr.   Hopcgood— 
'Our  pink  the  Prosperous'  is  to  be  disposed  of  by  public 
sale,  his  Royal  Highness  designing  to  make  some  other 
provision  for  Captain  Flawes.3     Gives  him  notice  thereof 
by  desire  of  Sir  John  Bankes,4  that  he  may  give  orders  for 
the  sale  to  Mr.  Bowles  and  Captain  Flawes. 

3213.  [p.  135.]     14  Sept.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Day,5  or  his 
mate. — To  receive  on  board  the  Bezan  yacht  Sir  Robert 
Robinson,6  with  what  goods  either  of  his  own,  the  Lord 
Dungan,7  or  the  Portugal  envoy  he  shall  direct,  and  to 
carry  him  down  to  the  Assurance  at  the  buoy  of  the  Nore  ; 
and  this  done  to  return  to  Deptford. 

Postscript. — He  is  also  to  receive  anything  from  Lady 
Middleton  [3195]  ;  the  arms  contained  in  the  enclosed 
paper,  which  will  be  sent  on  board  him  by  Captain 
Mackenny  ;  and  the  20  persons  mentioned  in  the  enclosed 
list  as  troopers  for  the  garrison  of  Tangier. 

3214.  [p.   135.]     15  Sept.     S.P.to  the  Commissioners 
of   the    Customs. — [About    passes]    for   the   Antelope,   of 
Belfast,  Thomas  Hilman  master,  at  Bristol  bound  for  the 
Straits  ;  and  the  Tradegar,  of  Newport,  William  Wraxell 
master,  at  Bristol  bound  for  Barbados. 

3215.  [p.  136.]     i  $  Sept.    S.  P.  to  Sir  Robert  Robinson* 
— It  is  the  king's  pleasure  that  he  discharge  two  youths 
now  on  board  him  as  soldiers  for  Tangier,  '  neither  of  them 
above  16  years  of  age,  and  both  of  them  schoolboys  belong- 
ing to  the  Charterhouse,  one  of  them  named  John  King, 

1  MS.  '  Hambro.'  2  MS.  '  Waklin.' 

3  Captain  William  Flawes,  formerly  captain  of  the  Quaker  ketch, 
had  been  appointed  to  command  the  Prosperous  pink  by  a  commission 
dated  2  May,  1676  (i.  350  supra).  She  was  an  armed  merchant 
vessel  hired  by  the  Duke  of  York  and  others  to  accompany  the 
Speedwell  in  the  expedition  for  the  discovery  of  the  North-East 
Passage  (Charnock,  Biog.  Nav.  i.  164 ;  see  also  No.  3161  and  note, 
and  Introduction,  p.  xxiv.  supra). 

*  See  note  to  No.  2825.  Sir  John  Bankes  was  one  of  the  promoters 
of  the  expedition  for  the  North-East  Passage  (Charnock,  Biog.  Nav. 
i.  378).  5  See  note  to  No.  3118. 

6  See  note  to  No.  2872.  7  See  note  to  No.  3315. 


266  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS         Sept. 

son  of  Thomas  King,  Esquire,  a  member  of  the  House  of 
Commons,  and  the  other,  Charles  Yarroway — the  same 
being  seduced  from  Southwark  Fair,  and  shipped  against 
their  wills ' ;  and  to  cause  a  list  to  be  sent  up  hither  of  all 
the  persons  brought  on  board  him  for  this  service,  with  'their 
age,  ability  of  body,  and  quality  by  trade  or  otherwise.' 

3216.  [p.    136.]      1 6    Sept.      A    List    of  Privateers, 
brought  in  since  the  last  advertisement  [3148]. — Delivered 
to  Mr.  Secretary  Williamson,  16   Sept.     In  the  Downs : 
Ann,  of  Ostend,  16  tons,  William  Deswarle  commander,  a 
square-sterned  open  sloop,  with  2  guns  and  20  men  ;  St. 
Teresa,  of  Dunkirk,  20  tons,  Charles  Marshall  commander, 
a  square-sterned  sloop  with  a  deck,  a  small  head  and  the 
figure  of  a  cat  thereon,  her  foresail  and  fore-topsail  furling 
aloft,  38  men,  3  guns,  and  i  pederero.1    At  Falmouth  :  Viva 
Oranga,  of  St.  Malo,  50  tons,  Duval 2  Manage  \sic\  com- 
mander, frigate-built,  with   an   orange-tree   in   her   stern, 
3  masts,  and  a  small  white  lion  in  her  head,  6  guns,  and 
53  men. 

3217.  [p.  137.]    \6SepL    S.  P.  to  Captain  Ashby?  Rose, 
in  the  Downs. — To  detain  the  Ostend  privateer  brought 
in  by  the  Drake  and  the  French  privateer  sloop  by  the 
Greyhound  until  further  order. 

3218.  [p.  137.]     i6Sept.    S.  P.  to  Sir  John  Narbrough? 
commander  of  the  Harwich,  at  Plymouth. — His  Majesty 
and  Royal  Highness  '  receive  the  tidings  of  your  return 
home  with  perfect  satisfaction,  the  considerations  leading 
you  thereto  being  such  as  gives  them  full  content  in  your 
so  doing ;  which  that  you  may  receive  more  amply  from 
themselves,   I  am  by  their  further  directions  to  let  you 
know  that  so  soon  as  you  shall  be  arrived  at  Portsmouth  it 
is  his  Majesty's  pleasure  that  you  attend  him  here,  in  order 
as  well  to  the  informing  himself  more  fully  in  all  particulars 
relating  to  the  present  posture  of  his  affairs  with  Algeir,  as 
to  the  receiving  your  advice  in  what  may  be  fit  for  him  to 
dp  thereon  with  respect  to  his  honour  and  the  security  of 
his  subjects'  trade  concerned  in  the  same.' 

'  Which  having  said,  and  that  it  is  his  Majesty's  pleasure 
that  the  vessel  with  the  brimstone  be  according  to  your 
advice  ordered  about  into  the  river  of  Thames,  I  shall 

1  MS. 'patererp.'    See  note  to  No.  2068.  2  MS.  '  Duevall. 

J  Commander-in-chief  in  the  Downs  [3 123].         *  D.N  B.  xl.  89 


1676  FIFTH   VOLUME  267 

respite  my  own  enlargement  upon  any  particulars  till  I 
have  the  opportunity  (which  I  shortly  hope  for)  of  seeing 
you  here,  adding  only  that  I  do  most  joyfully  entertain 
the  news  of  your  arrival  in  England,  not  only  for  your 
sake  (though  that  be  a  great  deal  as  being  most  faithfully 
concerned  for  your  safety  and  good  success)  but  for  the 
king  our  master's,  to  whom  (among  other  good  reasons) 
your  presence  will  be  most  essentially  useful  in  the  right 
determining  of  the  method  most  fit  to  be  taken  in  the 
prosecution  of  that  chargeable  and  untimely  war  which 
the  late  proceedings  of  the  Algerines  will  I  doubt  inevitably 
plunge  us  into  [3223].  So  with  my  most  affectionate 
respects  and  congratulation  of  your  return  home  in  safety 
after  so  much  good  and  honourable  service  performed  for 
his  Majesty  abroad,  I  remain  .  .  .' 

Underwritten  :  A  duplicate  sent  to  Portsmouth. 

3219.  [p.   I38.1]     17  Sept.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Wright? 
commander   of  the   Kitchen    yacht,    at    Greenwich. — To 
carry  Lord  Dungan 3  to  the  Assurance  at  the  Nore,  and 
this  done  to  return  to  Greenwich. 

3220.  [p.  138.]     1 8  Sept.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Day?  com- 
mander of  the  Merlin,  at  Greenwich. — To  carry  Sir  Robert 
Robinson  to  the  Assurance  at  the  Nore  ;  as  also  the  bearer, 
Mr.  John  Walbanke,  with  10  wooden  chests  of  money  for 
the  garrison  at  Tangier. 

3221.  [p.  139.]     \%Sept.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Robert  Robinson? 
commander  of  the  Assurance,  at  the  Nore. — To  carry  Mr. 
Donovan  and  his  wife  to  Tangier,  whither  he  is  bound  by 
order  from  Lord  Inchiquin,6  to  be  entertained  as  a  sergeant 
in  the  service  of  that  garrison. 

3222.  [p.    139.]     19  Sept.     S.  P.  to  Sir  John  Berry? 
commander  of  the  Bristol,  at  Portsmouth. — To  discharge 
Philip  Hanbury,  who  is  lately  gone  from  his  friends,  and 
is  supposed  to  be  on  board  him  ;  his  mother  is  very  earnest 
to  have  him  home  again,  his  absence  being  likely  to  be 
very  prejudicial  to  her  [3188]. 

3223.  [p.  139.]     19  Sept.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Pett*  master- 

1  Out  of  order  in  the  MS.  3  See  ii.  12  n.  sttpra. 

3  See  note  to  No.  3315.  *  See  note  to  No.  2967. 

5  See  note  to  No.  2872. 

6  MS.  'Insiqueen.'     See  note  to  No.  3238. 

7  See  note  to  No.  2274.  8  See  ii.  92  n.  supra. 


268  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS        Sept. 

shipwright  at  Woolwich. — Encloses   him   a  note  written 
with  the  king's  own  hand. 

3224.  [p.  139.]     20  Sept,     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners 
of  the   Customs. — About   a   pass   for  the  Love   ketch,  of 
Topsham,1  Richard   Whithall  master,   now    in    that  port 
bound  for  Madeira  and  Nevis. 

3225.  [p.  139.]      20  Sept.      The  same  to  the  same. — 
About  a  pass  for  the  Frederick,  of  Plymouth,  John  Mat- 
thews master,  now  in  that  port  bound  for  the  Straits. 

3226.  [p.  140.]     20  Sept.     S.  P.  to  Sir  John  Tippetts, 
surveyor  of  the  navy. — He  is  to  consider  '  what  ships  of 
the  smallest  3rd   rates  and  what  4th  rates  may  be  with 
the  least  charge  and  in  shortest  time  fitted  forth  for  the 
service  of  the  Straits  against  the  Algerines.'     The  precise 
number  to  be  employed  the  king  cannot  determine  till  the 
coming  in  of  Sir  John  Narbrough  [3218],  but  it  may  be 
half  a  score  or  a  dozen. 

3227.  [p.  140.]    20  Sept.    S.  P.  to  Captain  Ashby?  com- 
mander of  the  Rose,  in  the  Downs. — He  is  to  detain  the 
5  Frenchmen  taken  on  board  the  galliot,  and  to  send  up 
to  the  king  and  lords  a  copy  of  the  examination  of  her 
master  and  one  of  his  men  [3256]. 

3228.  [p.  141.]     20  Sept.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— 
Has  moved  the  king  and  the  commissioners  for  Tangier  in 
what  they  mention  about  Sir  Palmes  Fairborne.3     As  to 
what  they  lately  wrote  upon  advice  from  Commissioner 
Beach 4  touching  the  purser  of  the  Royal  Oak,  the  writer 
must  needs  do  him  right  to  let  them  know  that  upon  the 
failure  of  his  deputy  to  do  the  duty  he  applied  himself  to 
the  lords  for  leave  to  nominate  another,  which,  being  not 
readily  granted  until  information  was  had  of  the  person 
whom  he  then  proposed,  was  not   given   until  29  Aug., 
when  they  signed  a  warrant   for  the  putting  in  of  one 
Francis  Quayle,5  upon  a  certificate  of  fitness  from  Captain 
Page  and  some  of  the  officers  of  Chatham  Yard  ;   since 
which  time,  if  any  failure  hath  been  in  the  performance  of 
his  duty  by  himself  or  deputy,  it  will  be  held  inexcusable 

1  MS.  'Topham.' 

2  Commander-in-chief  in  the  Downs  [3123]. 

3  See  note  to  No.  2212. 

*  Sir  Richard  Beach  was  resident  commissioner  of  the  navy  at 
Chatham  [2756]. 
8  MS. '  Quale.' 


1676  FIFTH  VOLUME  269 

by  the  lords.  As  to  the  pay  of  the  carpenter  they  sent  on 
board  the  Katherine  yacht  to  officiate  during  the  illness  of 
her  carpenter,  it  was  thought  that  the  continuing  him  upon 
the  books  in  Deptford  Yard  during  the  time  he  should  be 
so  employed  in  the  Katherine  would  be  sufficient  recom- 
pense, but  in  case  they  judge  it  not  so,  a  bill  may  be  made 
out  for  such  sum  as  they  shall  judge  him  to  deserve  over 
and  above  his  pay  as  a  carpenter  in  the  yard  ;  for  which 
upon  their  report  thereof  they  will  receive  the  orders  of 
the  lords. 

3229.  [p.  I40.1]     21  Sept.     S.  P.  to  the  Officers  of  the 
Ordnance. — This   is   to   acquaint   them    that    the   bearer, 
Mr.  Finder,  gunner  of  the  Diamond,  being  acquitted  of 
embezzlement  by  the  court-martial  [3099],  the  lords  have 
sent  to  the  navy  board  to  remove  the  stop  put  upon  his 
wages. 

3230.  [p.  142.]     21  Sept.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Long?  first 
lieutenant  of  the    Harwich,  at  Plymouth. — Thanks   him 
for  letters  while  he  was  in  the  Straits,  and  particularly  for 
his  account  of  '  the  proceedings   of  his  Majesty's  affairs 
under  Sir  John  Narbrough's  conduct.'     Will  mention  his 
service  to  the  king  and  his  Royal  Highness  when  they 
shall  come  to  the  appointment  of  any  commanders  for  the 
service  he  speaks  of. 

3231.  [p.  142.]    21  Sept.    S.  P.  to  Benjamin  Fender,  Esq., 
Mayor  of  Falmouth. — Has  received  the  letter  from  himself 
and  the  collector  of  customs  of  his  port,  intimating  their 
having  put  a  stop  to  a  privateer  of  St.  Malo,  lately  come  in 
thither  ;  the  writer  has  caused  it  to  be  put  in  the  '  Gazette.' 

3232.  [p.  143.]     23  Sept.    S.  P.  to  Sir  Robert  Robinson? 
commander  [of  the]  Assurance,  at  the  Nore. — Has  written 
to  the  officers  of  the  navy  to  hasten  down  the  beer  [3233]. 
Desires  him  to  make  all  despatch  he  can  to  get  his  ship 
into  the  Downs  and  in  a  readiness  to  proceed  on  his  voyage. 

3233.  [p.  143.]     23  Sept.      S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board. — 
Desires  them  to  hasten  down  Sir  Robert  Robinson's  beer 
[3232]. 

1  Out  of  order  in  the  MS. 

8  William  Long,  formerly  commander  of  the  Zante  frigate,  had 
been  appointed  first  lieutenant  of  the  Harwich  26  April,  1675  (i.  380 
supra). 

3  See  note  to  No.  2872. 


270  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS         Sept. 

3234.  [p.  143.]     23  Sept.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Tyte?  com- 
mander of  the  Deptford  ketch. — To  carry  6  tons  of  small 
shot  to  Virginia  for  the  use  of  the  plantation. 

3235.  [p.  144.]     23  Sept.     An  Account  of  a  Privateer 
brought  into   the   Downs   since    the    last    advertisement 
[3216]. — The  St.  Peter,  of  Ostend,  an  open  sloop,  with  a 
small  square  stern  all  black,  one  gun  and  24  men,  Captain 
Jacob  de  Wrimer  commander. 

Underwritten :  '  Delivered  to  Sir  Joseph  Williamson,2  24  Sept. 
1676.' 

3236.  [p.  144.]     23  Sept.     S.  P.  to  the  Earl  of  Danby, 
lord  high  treasurer  of  England,  at  Rycote.3 — Encloses  an 
account  of  the  present  state  of  Sir  John  Narbrough's  *  fleet 
[3237].     As  for  the  convoy  which  some  merchants  are  said 
to  have  made  application  to  him  about   and  to  be  now 
waiting  for,  the  only  convoy  this  day  demanded  within  the 
writer's  notice  is  that  relating  to  our  merchant  ships  bound 
for  Turkey,  who  are  offered  the  Assurance,  now  bound  for 
the  Straits ;  but  by  a  message  this  day  brought  from  the 
Turkey  Company  by  Mr.  Buckworth 5  and  some  other  of 
its  members,  they  choose  rather  to  stay  for  the  company  of 
what  ships  his  Majesty  shall  think  fit  to  send  next  thither, 
which  he  has  been  pleased  to  signify  his  purpose  of  coming 
to  some  speedy  resolution  about   after   he  has  conferred 
with  Sir  John  Narbrough  touching  the  same. 

Underwritten :  '  To  be  left  with  the  postmaster  at  Oxford.' 

3237.  [p.   145.]      23    Sept.     State  of  Sir  John  Nar- 
brough's  fleet. 

Harwich,  \    '  Came  to  Plymouth  9  days  since, 

Holmes,            \  fi                the  first  designed  for  Portsmouth, 
nre-    v        . « i  .. ..      •   .     ..i     T»?  __  « 


Ann  and 
Christopher, 

Dragon, 
Portsmouth, 


ships 


the  two  latter  into  the  River,  but 
none  of  them  yet  arrived. 
'  Left  by  Sir  John  Narbrough 
30  days  since  at  sea  near  Cape 
St.  Vincent,  bound  for  England 
in  convoy  of  merchantmen,  and 
may  daily  be  expected  in. 

1  See  note  to  No.  2844. 

3  Secretary  of  state  [3035].    D.  N.  B.  Ixii.  2. 

8  MS.  'Rycott.'  Rycote  was  the  Oxfordshire  seat  of  Lord 
Norreys  (afterwards  Earl  of  Abingdon),  whose  sister  Danby  had 
married  (D.  N.  B.  xlii.  303). 

4  D.  N.  B.  xl.  89.  •  See  ii.  180  n.  supra. 


1676  FIFTH   VOLUME  271 


Yarmouth, 
Swan, 


Swallow, 

Asssistance, 

Dartmouth, 


'  Left  by  him  to  convoy  some  Eng- 
lish ships  from  Cadiz  to  Livorne, 
where  he  reckons  they  may  be 
by  the  end  of  this  month,  with 
orders  from  thence  to  come  for 
England. 

'Sent  by  Sir  John  Narbrough, 
the  first  to  Smyrna,  the  two 
latter  to  Scanderoon,  for  the 
convoying  some  merchant  ships 
thence  unto  England,  where  the 


time    of   expecting    them    yet 
wholly  uncertain.' 
Underwritten :  Mem0  :  One  of  these  was  enclosed  to  the  lord 
treasurer  [3236] ;  the  other  to  the  lord  privy  seal  [3238]. 

3238.  [p.  1 45 .]  23  Sept.  S.  P.  to  the  Earl  of  A  nglesey} 
lord  privy  seal. — Thanks  him  for  his  addition  to  Sir 
Timothy  Ferrell's  late  letter,  and  is  sorry  that  Lady 
Russell,2  towards  whose  family  the  writer  owns  so  much 
obligation,  should  '  miss  in  any  degree  of  accommodation 
and  content '  which  she  expected  in  her  passage  from 
Captain  Wright 3 ;  '  not  that  either  the  perfection  of  court- 
ship is  to  be  looked  for  from  a  tarpauling,  or  the  fulness 
of  accommodation  from  so  small  a  ship  as  the  Phoenix, 
pestered  as  she  must  be  for  so  long  a  voyage  ; '  but  will  let 
Captain  Wright  understand  '  that  in  this  case  both  might 
have  been  bettered.' 

'  The  principal  (if  not  only)  matter  now  stirring  in  the 
navy,  is  that  of  providing  for  the  discharge  of  Sir  John 
Narbrough's  fleet  as  fast  as  it  comes  in  (the  present 
state  whereof  I  particularly  enclose  [3237]  and  for  which 
money  is,  thanks  be  to  God,  said  to  be  in  readiness),  and 
the  determining  upon  what  fresh  squadron  he  shall  be  sent 
back  with  for  demanding  reason  of  the  Algerines,  in  which 
his  Majesty  is  pleased  to  respite  his  coming  to  any  reso- 
lution till  he  shall  have  had  opportunity  of  conferring 
personally  '  with  Sir  J.  N.  [3218]. 

As  to  our  ships  of  late  carried  in  by  the  French,  '  they 
continue  obstinately  to  deny  their  having  either  carried 

1  D.  N.  B.  ii.  I.  2  The  margin  refers  to  Sir  James  Russell. 

3  Captain  Lawrence  Wright,  commander  of  the  Phoenix.  See 
note  to  No.  2788. 


ADMIRALTY  LETTERS        Sept. 

in  any  ship  without  good  suspicion,  or  condemned  them 
where  any  appearance  has  been  found  of  their  propriety 
being  English,  leaving  it  upon  us  to  prove  the  contrary  ; ' 
with  some  offers  said  to  be  made  by  Monsieur  Courtin  l 
towards  an  adjustment  of  matters  for  the  future.  But  all 
the  hopes  the  writer  has  of  any  good  issue  hereto  arises 
from  '  the  consideration  of  Mr.  Brisbane's 2  fitness  for  the 
service  he  is  now  going  over  to  Paris  upon,  for  the  soliciting 
that  court  in  the  particular  matters  relating  to  this  business 
[3267],  the  past  miscarriages  whereof  seem  universally  im- 
puted to  some  failures  in  Sir  Ellis  Leighton,3  who  is  this  day 
arrived  here  from  thence  in  order  to  his  justification  therein.' 
Lord  Inchiquin 4  '  has  lately  delivered  in  his  answer  to 
the  paper  of  charges  against  him,  the  substance  of  which 
answer  (saving  in  the  particular  of  false  musters  and  some 
one  point  more,  wherein  his  replies  are  less  satisfactory)  lies 
for  the  most  part  in  a  flat  denial  of  fact '  ;  upon  which  his 
Majesty  has  resolved  of  transmitting  both  papers  to 
Tangier,  with  power  lodged  in  some  hand  there  for  taking 
informations  upon  oath  on  either  side.  The  issue  whereof 
the  writer  cannot  so  well  foresee  as  he  is  at  this  day  con- 
vinced that  '  the  government  of  Tangier  is  in  a  much  more 
hopeful  condition  of  doing  well  under  the  hand  that  now 
manages  it ' 5  than  he  remembers  it  to  have  been  at  any 
other  time.  Wishes  the  best  effects  of  his  present  retire- 
ment in  reference  to  his  health. 

Underwritten :  'To  be  left  with  the  postmaster  at  Oxford.' 

3239.  [p.  I42.6]     24  Sept.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners 
of  the  Customs. — About  a  pass  for  the  Hope,  of  Teign- 
mouth,  Robert  Key  master,  at  Topsham. 

3240.  [p.  147.]     24  Sept.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— 
This  is  not  by  any  means  to  offer  at  the  introducing  any 

1  Courtin  was  Ruvigny's  successor  as  French  ambassador  (Ranke, 
History  of  England^  iv.  21). 

2  See  note  to  No.  3267.  »  See  note  to  No.  2863. 

4  See  D.  N.  B.  xli.  330.  William  O'Brien,  Earl  of  Inchiquin,  had 
been  appointed  governor  of  Tangier  in  1674,  and  on  5  March,  1675, 
he  had  received  a  commission  as  colonel  of  the  foot  regiment  '  raised 
or  to  be  raised '  in  Tangier,  and  captain  of  a  company  in  the  said 
regiment  (Cal.  S.  P.  Dom.  1675-6,  p.  8). 

0  Sir  Palmes  Fairborne  had  been  appointed  joint  deputy-governor, 
in  the  absence  of  the  Earl  of  Inchiquin,  in  May,  1676  (D.  N.  B.  xviii. 
I25)-  6  Out  of  order  in  the  MS. 


1676  FIFTH   VOLUME  273 

other  method  of  appointing  masters  than  that  of  its  being 
done  by  their  board  upon  examination  first  had  at  the 
Trinity  House  ;  but  the  bearer,  Mr.  William  Blagge,  late 
master  of  the  Diamond,  '  having  been  in  particular  recom- 
mended to  his  Majesty  and  his  Royal  Highness  (to  the 
latter  of  whom  he  is  personally  known)  not  only  for  his 
general  ability  as  a  seaman,  but  for  his  having  been  here- 
tofore employed  in  galleys  in  the  Venetian  service,  and 
having  been  already  assisting  to  Mr.  Pett  at  Woolwich  in 
the  placing  of  the  banks  and  other  things  relating  to  the 
galley-frigate  lately  by  him  built,'  the  writer  is  to  recom- 
mend him  to  the  board  for  the  mastership  of  the  other, 
building  by  Mr.  Deane  at  Blackwall.1 

3241.  [p.   I47-2]     25  Sept.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners 
of  the  Customs. — About  passes  for  the  Alicante  Merchant, 
of  Bristol,  William  Joye  master  ;  the  Baltimore,  of  Bristol, 
John   Codnes   master  ;    and    the  Star,  of  Bristol,  Robert 
Con[y]ers  master :  at  Bristol  bound  for  the  Straits. 

3242.  [p.    I47.2]      25   Sept.     The  same  to  the  same. — 
About  a  pass  for  the  Hopewell,  of  Boston,  James  Cade 
master,  in  Cowes  Road. 

3243.  [p.  148.]     25  Sept.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— 
They  are  to  have  a  conference  with  the  victuallers  about 
the  point  in  difference  of  the  interpretation  of  the  contract, 
before  the  victualling  declaration  can  be  properly  moved 
to  the  king  and  lords. 

3244.  [p.  148.]    26  Sept.    S.  P.  to  Sir  Roger  Strickland? 
of  the  Dragon,  at  Portsmouth. — Has  received  his  of  the 
22nd,  intimating  his  being  safe  returned  with  his  ship  to 
Portsmouth.     He  is  to  remain  there  until    further  order, 
sending  up  an  account  of  the  state  of  his  ship. 

3245.  [p.   149.]      26   Sept.     S.  P.   to    Captain    Story? 
commander  of  the  Portsmouth,  at  Plymouth.    Has  received 
his  of  the  22nd,  and  congratulates  him  on  his  safe  return  with 

1  On  the  origin  of  the  Charles  and  James  galley-frigates  see  i. 
228  supra.     The  Charles  galley,  built  at  Woolwich  by  Phineas  Pett, 
was  114  feet  in  length,  with  a  beam  of  28^  feet,  492  tons  burden,  and 
carried  32  guns  (i.  270  supra).     The  James  galley,  built  at  Black- 
wall  by  Anthony  Deane,  junior,  was  104  feet  in  length,  with  a  beam 
of  28  feet  i  inch,  436  tons  burden,  and  carried  30  guns  (ib.  p.  272). 
They  were  both  classed  as  4th-rates. 

2  Out  of  order  in  the  MS.  3  D.  N.  B.  Iv.  52. 

4  On  Captain  James  Story  see  Charnock,  Biog.  Nav.  i.  298. 
VOL.  III.  T 


274  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          Sept. 

his  ship,  being  sorry  for  the  great  difficulties  he  was  likely  to 
be  exposed  to  by  the  shortness  of  his  victuals.  Instead  of 
coming  to  Deptford  he  is  to  go  to  Portsmouth,  there  to  be 
refitted  for  the  sea,  and  to  send  up  an  account  of  the 
present  condition  of  his  ship. 

3246.  [p.   149.]     26  Sept.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Lassells^ 
Garland,  at  Sheerness. — Has  advice   from  the  officers  of 
the  navy  that  the  month's  victuals,  which  was  formerly 
ordered  for  him  from  Dover  and  was  prepared  there,  is 
now  coming  about  to  him  to  Sheerness,  which  with  what 
he  has  already  on  board  will  be  sufficient  to  carry  with  him 
into  the  Downs  ;  but  in  case  any  of  it  prove  bad,  upon 
his  acquainting  the  navy  board  with  it  they  will  take  care 
for  having  it  surveyed  and  changed. 

3247.  [p.  149.]     26  Sept.     S.P.  to  Captain  Coleman? — 
Expects  his  further  advice  concerning  the  privateer  whose 
commander  he  has  secured. 

3248.  [p.  1 50.]     26  Sept.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Mackenny. 
— '  Having  been  applied  to  by  a  poor  woman  complaining 
that  herself  and  some  small  children  will  be  liable  to  ruin 
in  case  her  husband,  Thomas  Batley,3  be  taken  away  from 
them  '  to  serve  as   a  soldier  at  Tangier,  and  '  she  being 
willing  not  only  to  repay  the  moneys  he  may  have  received 
of  his  Majesty,  but  to  provide  another  man  to  serve  the 
king  in  his  room  as  capable  of  service  as  he,'  the  writer 
conceives  it  would  be  '  judged  a  matter  of  great  severity  ' 
in  case  her  husband  be  not  upon  these  terms  exchanged. 

3249.  [p.  1 50.]     26    Sept.     S.  P.  to  Sir  John  Kemp- 
thorne?  Portsmouth. — To  see  the  Dragon  and  the  Ports- 
mouth forthwith  refitted  for  the  sea  [3244,  3245]. 

3250.  [p.  150.]     26  Sept.      S.  P.  to  Captain  Day,5  at 
present  commanding  the  Merlin  yacht. — He  is  to  receive 
on  board  him  here  in  the  river  of  Thames  the  goods  of  Mr. 
Arthur   Fleetwood,  and  then    to   sail  unto  Rye,  '  where, 
bringing  the  said  yacht  as  near  the  shore  as  [he]  con- 
veniently  may   for   the   greater   convenience  of  the  said 
Mr.    Fleetwood   (under  his   present   sickness),'   he   is   to 

1  See  note  to  No.  2872. 

2  Captain  William  Coleman  was  collector  of  customs  at  Plymouth 
[2948]. 

3  MS.  '  Battly.' 

4  See  note  to  No.  2734.  *>  See  note  to  No.  2967. 


1676  FIFTH   VOLUME  275 

transport  him  to  Dieppe  or  such  other  port  in  France  as 
he  shall  choose,  and  this  done  to  return  to  Greenwich. 

3251.  [p.  150.]     28  Sept.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners  of 
the  Customs. — About  a  pass  for  the  William  and  George, 
of  Bristol,  William    George  master,  at   Bristol  bound  to 
Barbados. 

3252.  [p.  151.]     28  Sept.    S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— 
1  I    have   received  so  pressing   a   letter   from    Sir  Robert 
Robinson,1  showing  me  the  inconvenience  of  his  continuing 
where  he  now  lies,  occasioned  only  by  the  want  of  his 
beer,  that  though  we  did  discourse  it  yesterday  with  the 
victuallers  at  your  board  and  had  their  answer  to  some 
seeming  satisfaction  about  it,  I  cannot  but  mention  it  to 
you  again  by  this  ;  the  soldiers  (among  other  evils)  begin- 
ning to  grow  sickly,  and  likely  to  grow  more  so  if  not 
despatched  away  ;  towards  which  he  having  proposed  to 
his  Majesty  that  his  ship  may  come  up  to  the  Hope,  as 
being  the  readier  place  for  beer  to  come  down  to  and  the 
easier  for  its  being  taken  on  board,  his  Majesty  is  pleased 
to  yield  thereto  '  [3257]. 

Sir  John  Berry 2  seems  to  be  '  in  great  strait  for  his  being 
timely  possessed  of  the  beef  which  the  victuallers  by  their 
discourse  yesterday  seemed  under  a  necessity  of  supplying 
from  this  town,  with  purpose  of  sending  it  round  by  the 
Deptford  ketch,  to  which  Sir  John  Berry  objects  the  want 
of  room '  in  her.  The  board  are  to  examine  this,  and  if 
true  to  consider  by  what  other  means  this  may  be  made 
up  to  him,  towards  which  he  proposeth  either  its  being 
sent  down  by  waggon  or  provided  at  Plymouth. 

3253.  [p.  152.]     2%  Sept.     S.  P.  to  Lieutenant  Dunbar? 
lieutenant  of  the  galley-frigate  the  Charles. — To  entertain 
Mr.  Francis  Robinson  as  his  chaplain,  '  who  hath  already 
served  as  chaplain  in  several  of  his  Majesty's  ships.' 

3254.  [p.  152.]     28    Sept.     S.  P.   to  Captain  Ridley* 
Wivenhoe  fireship,  at  Portsmouth. — There  is  no  orders  as 
yet  issued  for  the  fitting  out  of  any  ships  to  sea,  but  when 

1  Commander  of  the  Assurance  [3257].     See  note  to  No.  2872. 
3  Commander  of  the  Bristol  £3259].     See  note  to  No.  2274. 

3  James  Dunbar's    commission   to   the   Charles  galley   is   dated 
22  Sept.   1676  (i.   346  supra).     He   had  previously  served  as   first 
lieutenant  of  the  Newcastle  (#.). 

4  See  note  to  No.  2418. 

T  2 


276          ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          Sept. 

there  is,  and  he  shall  acquaint  the  writer  with  his  occasions 
for  coming  to  town,  he  will  move  his  Majesty  therein. 

3255.  [p.  152.]     28  Sept.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Roger  Strick- 
land,1 commander  of  the  Dragon,  at  Portsmouth. — Leave 
to  come  up  to  town. 

3256.  [p.  153.]     28  Sept.      S.  P.  to  Captain  Ashby? 
commander  of  the  Rose,  in  the  Downs. — Has  received  the 
examination  of  the  master  of  the  galliot  [3227],  and  will 
acquaint  the  lords  ;  in  the  meantime  he  is  still  to  detain 
the  Frenchmen.     Has  put  the  privateer  brought  in  by  the 
Greyhound  into  the  '  Gazette.' 

Postscript. — Prays  him  to  send  word  whether  any  com- 
plaints are  yet  come  against  the  privateer  called  the 
St.  Teresa,  of  Dunkirk,  Charles  Marshall  commander, 
which  hath  been  for  some  days  detained  in  the  Downs 
[3216] ;  also  to  inquire  what  countryman  Captain  Marshall 
is  [3258]. 

3257.  [p.  153.]    28  Sept.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Robert  Robinson? 
commander  of  the  Assurance,  at  the  Nore. — He  is  to  bring 
his  ship  into  the  Hope  to  take  in  beer  [3252].     As  to  his 
desire  for  having  a  press-warrant,  the  lords  '  have  not  used 
to  give  order  for  the  impresting  of  any  men  in  times  of 
peace.' 

3258.  [p.  154.]     30  Sept.     S.  P.  to  the  Bailiffs  of  Yar- 
mouth.— They  have  done  well  in  detaining  the  Dunkirk 
privateer,  advice  whereof  being  ordered  to  be  published  in 
the  Monday's  '  Gazette '  they  are  to  continue  to  detain  her 
and  her   company   until  further   order  from  the  king  or 
lords.     They  are  to  return  the  names  and  qualities  of  those 
who  (besides  her  commander)  are  his  Majesty's  born  sub- 
jects, and  to  secure  them  for  punishment. 

3259.  [p.  1 54.]     30   Sept.     S.   P.  to  Sir  John  Berry* 
commander  of  the  Bristol. — Desires  his  attending  the  king 
about   Virginia  at    Mr.   Secretary   Coventry's8   office   at 
Whitehall  at  3  to-morrow. 

Underwritten :  '  The  like  to  Captain  Anthony  Young.' 6 

3260.  [p.   135.]     30   Sept.     S.  P.   to  Captain  Ashby? 
commander   of  the   Rose,   in  the   Downs. — Encloses  the 

1  D.  N.  B.  lv.  52.          3  Commander-in-chief  in  the  Downs  [3123]. 
3  See  note  to  No.  2872.  *  See  note  to  No.  2274. 

»  D.  N.  B.  xii.  357.  •  See  ii.  56  n.  supra. 


1676  FIFTH   VOLUME  277 

king's  order  for  his  stopping  all  merchant  ships  bound  to 
Virginia  and  Maryland,  and  for  discharging  the  St.  Teresa, 
a  privateer  of  Dunkirk  [3256]. 

3261.  [p.  155.]     2  Oct,     Memorandum  for  the  Secre- 
taries of  State* — '  That  order  be  forthwith  sent  to  the  Lieu- 
tenant of  Dover  Castle  to  lay  an  embargo  until  further 
order   upon  all  ships  of  his  Majesty's  subjects  bound  to 
the  colonies  of  Virginia  or  Maryland  from  any  ports  within 
the  liberties  of  the  Cinque  Ports.' 

3262.  [p.   155.]     2    Oct.     Memorandum  for  the  Lord 
Treasurer. — '  That  order  be  given  to  the  commissioners  of 
the  customs  forthwith  to  send  directions  to  their  several 
officers  in  the  outports  throughout  England  to  put  a  stop 
to  the  departure  of  any  ships  of  his  Majesty's  subjects 
bound  for   the   colonies  of  Virginia   or   Maryland,  until 
further  order.' 

3263.  [p.   155.]     2  Oct.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Richard  Beach? 
Chatham. — To   give   leave   to    Captain   Francis    Turner, 
gunner  of  the  St.  George,  to  come  up  to  town. 

3264.  [p.  155.]     2  Oct.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners  of 
the   Customs. — About   a   pass   for   the  Constant  Ann,  of 
Brighthelmston,3  John  Joy  master,   at  Dartmouth  bound 
to  the  Straits. 

3265.  [p.  155.]     2  Oct.     The  same  to  the  same. — About 
a  pass  for  the  Ann  and  Mary,  of  Yarmouth,  in  that  port 
bound  to  the  Straits. 

3266.  [p.  156.]     2  Oct.     S.  P.  to  Captain  L/oj>d.—The 
enclosed  petition  of  Humphrey  Hanwell  is  referred  to  him 
by  the  king  and  lords,  Sir  Philip  Lloyd 4  '  declaring  that 
he  paid  unto  you  the  wages  mentioned  therein  to  have 
been  received  by  him.' 

3267.  [p.  156.]     3  Oct.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Sanderson? 
commander  of  the  Portsmouth  yacht. — The  king's  affairs 
'  pressing  more  and  more '  for  his  being  gone,  Mr.  Brisbane 6 
(who  is  going  in  the  quality  of  his  Majesty's  envoy  for 
France)  will  embark  in  the  River  for  Dieppe  instead  of  at 

1  See  ii.  381  n.  supra. 

s  Resident  commissioner  of  the  navy  at  Chatham  [2756]. 

s  Brighton. 

4  Lately  one  of  the  clerks  of  the  privy  council  (Cal.  S.  P.  Dom. 
1675-6,  p.  26). 

5  See  note  to  No.  2860. 

6  Probably  Mr    John  Brisbane,  judge-advocate  of  the  fleet.     He 


278  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          Oct. 

Rye  [3238].     He  is  to  send  some  careful  person  in  the 
yacht  if  he  cannot  go  himself. 

3268.  [p.  156.]     3  Oct.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Anthony  Deane> 
— Desires  his  bringing  Sir  Richard  Haddock  '2  along  with 
him  to-morrow  morning  to  the  Duke  of  Monmouth's  lodg- 
ings at  the  Cockpit,  by  9  o'clock,  where  he  will  be  met  by 
the  writer. 

3269.  [p.  157.]     4   Oct.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Sanderson? 
commander  of  the  Portsmouth  yacht,  or  in  his  absence  to 
the  chief  officer  on  board. — To  give  Mr.  Firebrace  passage 
to  Dieppe  [3267]. 

3270.  [p.  157.]    4  Oct.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners  of 
the   Customs. — About  passes  for  the  Centurion,  of   Yar- 
mouth, Robert  Smith  master  ;  the  Britain,  of  Yarmouth, 
Samuel  Loanes  master;  and  the  Concord,  of  Yarmouth, 
John  Parricke  master  :  in  that  port. 

3271.  [p.  157.]     4  Oct.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— 
Desires  that  they  will  appoint  a   meeting  extraordinary 
to-morrow  morning  at  their  board,  where  the  writer  will 
wait  on  them  to  advise  with  them  concerning  the  sending 
away  some  land  forces  to  Virginia. 

3272.  [p.  157.]     4  Oct.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Ashby*  Rose, 
Downs. — Desires  that  he  will  be  very  careful  not  to  neglect 
the  execution  of  his  Majesty's  late  warrant  sent  him  for  the 
embargo  on  the  ships  bound  to  Virginia  and   Maryland 
[3260]. 

3273.  [p.  157.]     4  Oct.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Richard  Beach.6 
— Will   lay  his  of  the   2nd  touching   the  purser  of  the 
Unicorn  before  his  Majesty,  who  will  put  it  out  of  Mr. 
Brouncker's  power  to  give  any  further  trouble  of  this  kind 

[3291]- 

3274.  [p.  158.]     $  Oct.     S.P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— The 
king  has  appointed  John  Deare,  late  boatswain  of  the  Spy 
sloop,   to   be  boatswain  of  the  Success   in  the  room  of 
Richard  Perkins,  who  was  lately  appointed  thereto  but  is 

had  already  discharged  diplomatic  functions  in  the  Mediterranean 
(Cal.  S.  P.  Dom.  1672-3,  p.  273,  and  ii.  390  n.  supra). 

1  Comptroller  of  the  victualling  [3033  ».].     D.  N.  B.  xiv.  251. 

a  A  commissioner  of  the  navy  [3294].     D.  N.  B.  xxiii.  427. 

3  See  note  to  No.  2860. 

*  Commander-in-chief  in  the  Downs  [3123] 

5  Resident  commissioner  of  the  navy  at  Chatham  [2851]. 


1676  FIFTH   VOLUME  279 

gone  in  the  Deptford  ketch.  The  board  are  desired  to  give 
their  order  to  the  clerk  of  the  check  at  Deptford  for  entering 
him  accordingly,  for  which  they  shall  have  his  Majesty's 
warrant  so  soon  as  he  return  from  'Newmarket. 

3275.  [p.    158.]      5   Oct.     S.  P.  to   the  Commissioners 
of  the  Customs. — About  a  pass   for  the  Griffin    ketch  at 
Plymouth. 

3276.  [p.  158.]     5  Oct.     S.P.to  Sir  Robert  Robinson? 
commander  of  the  Assurance,  at  the  Nore. — Is  extremely 
sorry  he  is  still  in  the  same  condition  of  unreadiness  for  his 
voyage,  but  hopes  he  will  soon  repair  to  the  Downs.    Desires 
that  by  no  means  he  let  any  more  time  be  lost  in  his  sailing 
away  upon  the  account  of  getting  more  men  here,  it  being 
a  thing  that  the  king  and  lords  '  would  justly  take  very 
great  notice  of  if,  after  so  long  time  as  his  ship  has  lain 
in  fitting,  she  should  be  found  to  stay  longer  on  that  score  ; 
'  besides  the  consideration  they  would  be  led  to  by  it  of  the 
difficulties   that  must  be  expected  in  the  manning  of  a 
squadron  of  ships  if  it  appears  so  uneasy  to  find  men  for 
one.' 

3277.  [p.  158.]     5  Oct.     S.  P.  to  the  Commander  of  any 
of  his  Majesty's  yachts  bound  for  England  which  shall  be  at 
Dieppe. — To  bring  over  the  Earl  of  Clarendon  2  unto  such 
port  in  England  as  he  shall  direct,  and  this  done  to  return 
to  Greenwich. 

3278.  [p.  159.]     5  Oct.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Fasby,  com- 
mander of  the   Charles  yacht. — In  case  of  his  being  at 
Dieppe  when  the  Earl  of  Clarendon 2  is  there,  he  is  to  bring 
him  over  unto  such  port  in  England  as  he  shall  direct,  and 
this  done  to  return  to  Greenwich  [3377]. 

3279.  [p.  159.]     5  Oct.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Smith?  Navy 
yacht,  at  Portsmouth. — To  hasten  '  all  that  may  be '  to 
Plymouth  in  prosecution  of  the  orders  sent  him  by  the 
last  post,  and  upon  his  arrival  there  to  apply  himself  unto 
the  chief  officer  of  the  garrison  for  78  soldiers,  and  return 
with  them  to  Portsmouth  ;  and  do  the  like  to  the  chief 
officer  there,  and  also  receive  from  thence  55  soldiers,  and 
bring  them  all  to  Gravesend  ;  the  soldiers  being  victualled 

1  See  note  to  No.  2872. 

2  D.  N.  B.  xxviii.  389.     Henry  Hyde  had  succeeded  to  his  father's 
earldom  in  1674. 

3  See  ii.  418  n.  supra. 


28o  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          Oct. 

in  their  passage  as  the  rest  of  his  yacht's  company.  He  is 
not  to  lose  one  hour's  time  in  bringing  them  about,  the 
whole  service  of  Virginia  (whither  they  are  designed) 
depending  on  it. 

3280.  [p.  1 60.]     5  Oct.     The  same  to  the  same,  at  Ply- 
mouth.— [To  the  same  effect  as  the  preceding^ 

3281.  [p.  1 60.]     5  Oct.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Wright—  To 
fetch  55  soldiers  from  Hull  and  7  from  Landguard  Fort.2 
\The  rest  of  the  Utter  the  same  as  No.  3279]. 

3282.  [p.  1 6 1.3]     5  Oct.     S.  P.  to  the  Duke  of  York. — 
Humbly  acquaints  him  with  an  extract  out  of  Mr.  Muddi- 
man's  weekly  paper  of  intelligence4  of  this  week,  '  as  con- 
taining matters  not  only  untrue  and  expressly  contradic- 
tory to  his  Majesty's  last  determination  of  respiting  both 
the  doing  and  debating  anything  that  might  on  his  part 
give  occasion  to  any  apprehensions  in  the  Algerines  of  his 
purposing  any  rupture  with  them  until  he  had  received  some 
fuller  information  of  the  truth  of  their  present  behaviour 
towards  him  ;  but  that  which  (to  the  great  disquiet  of  our 
merchants  here)  is  feared  may  give  too  just  a  provocation 
to  the  Algerines  of  betaking  themselves  to  such  acts  of 
hostility  as  from  their  late  civil  treatment  of  the  Venetian 
and  later  discharge  of  the  Guinea,  our  merchants  seem  at 
present  to  think   they  have  not  yet  any  inclination   to.' 
The  writer  offers  it  whether  it  may  not  be  expedient  '  by 
something  presently  to   be  wrote'   from   his  Majesty  to 
them  to  '  obviate  the  effects  which  these  papers,  and  the 
discourses  of  the  same  kind  now  current  among  us,  may 
otherwise  untimelily  draw  upon  us  .  .  .'  [3294]. 

3283.  [p.  1 6 1.]     6  Oct.5     S.  P.  to  the  Principal  Officers 
of  the  Ordnance. — This  comes  by  the  gunner  of  the  Ann 
and  Christopher  fireship,  which  is  now  come  up  into  the 
River,  and  having  a  quantity  of  brimstone  on  board  which 
was  taken  in  at  Tripoli,  it  will  be  necessary  that  her  fire- 

1  Captain  William  Wright,  commander  of  the  Kitchen  yacht.  See 
ii.  12  n.  supra. 

3  At  the  mouth  of  the  Orwell,  near  Harwich. 

3  Out  of  order  in  the  MS. 

4  The  State  Papers  contain  references  to  Mr.  Henry  Muddiman's 
Intelligence  (Cal.  S.  P.  Dom.   1672-3,  p.  505)  and  his  Written  News 
(ib.  585),  and  also  to  news-letters  with  which  he  was  concerned  (ib. 
1672,  p.  37). 

•  MS.  '6  Sept.' 


1676  FIFTH   VOLUME  281 

works  and  gunner's  stores  be  presently  taken  on  shore. 
For  this  they  shall  have  the  king's  warrant  at  his  return 
from  Newmarket. 

3284.  [p.  1 6 1.]     6  Oct.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners  of 
the   Customs. — About    a   pass  for  the   John    and    Henry, 
of    Bristol,   John    Cades    master,   at    Bristol    bound    for 
Jamaica. 

3285.  [p.  162.]     6  Oct.     The  same  to  the  same. — About 
passes   for    the   Success,   of   Yarmouth,   James    Davison 
master ;    the    Yarmouth    Merchant,   of   Yarmouth,   John 
Gunnell  master,  in  that  port ;  and  the  Elizabeth,  of  London, 
John    Fletcher   master,   at   Southampton    bound   for   the 
Straits ;    and   for   the    Negotia,  of  Yarmouth,    Nathaniel 
Wakeman  master,  at   Yarmouth   bound  for  the  Straits  ; 
and  for  the  George,  of  London,  Samuel  Edwards  master, 
at  Shoreham  bound  to  the  Straits. 

3286.  [p.  162.]     6  Oct.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Ashby}  com 
mander  of  the  Rose,  in  the  Downs. — Hopes  he  has  received 
the  lords'  order  of  the  4th    for   discharging   the   Ostend 
privateers,  and  that  he  has  in  pursuance  thereof  released 
Captain  Swaart  and   this  other   now  brought  in   by  the 
Drake.     Hopes  also  by  to-morrow's  post  to  send  him  the 
lords'  directions  for  discharging  the  5  Frenchmen. 

3287.  [p.  162.]     6  Oct.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Robert  Robinson? 
in  the  Downs. — He  is  to  convey  to  Tangier,  according  to 
Captain  Mackenny's  desire,  'some  guns  provided  at  the 
charge  of  his  Majesty  in  satisfaction  for  his  liberty  upon 
his  being  discharged  by  the  Moors,  together  with  some 
other  arms  and  equipage  for  the  horse  to  be  employed  in 
his  Majesty's  service  at  Tangier  .  .  .'  [3288]. 

3288.  [p.  162.]     6  Oct.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Mackenny?  in 
the  Downs,  bound  to  Tangier  with  Sir  Robert. — Is  very 
sorry  that  Sir  Robert  Robinson  hath  thus  long  been  de- 
tained in  the  River,  but  hopes  ere  this  arrives  he  will  be 
in  the  Downs.     Encloses  an  order  for  his  taking  the  arms 
[3287]. 

3289.  [p.  163.]     7   Oct.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— 
Will  take  the  pleasure  of  the  king  and  lords  '  touching  the 
report  of  the  repairs  necessary  to  be  done  to  the  watering 

1  Commander-in-chief  in  the  Downs  [3123]. 
J  See  note  to  No.  2872. 
3  MS.  '  Makenny.' 


282  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          Oct. 

place  at  Southwold.'1  As  his  Majesty  has  not  yet  ex- 
pressed any  purpose  of  removing  the  Rose  from  her  present 
station  in  the  Downs,  she  ought  to  be  supplied  with  a  pro- 
portion of  6  weeks'  or  2  months'  victuals.  They  shall 
'  timelily  receive '  the  lords'  orders  about  victualling  the 
remainder  of  the  galley's  company  during  their  quarantine 
at  Livorne ;  nor  shall  want  the  best  despatch  the  writer 
can  give  to  the  procuring  a  victualling  declaration  from  the 
king  and  lords  for  the  next  year's  service,  but  doubts  it 
must  attend  the  return  of  the  king  from  Newmarket.  The 
purpose  of  the  late  directions  of  the  lords  for  laying  up  the 
Richmond  yacht  until  the  return  of  the  Deptford  ketch, 
now  bound  with  her  company  unto  Virginia  [3169],  was 
'  her  being  laid  up  in  ordinary,  without  bearing  any  more 
of  her  standing  officers  upon  her  than  what  belongs 
of  course  to  be  so  borne  upon  a  vessel  of  her  rate,  the 
residue  of  her  officers  being  to  be  discharged  and  paid 
off.' 

3290.  [p.  -164.]     7  Oct.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Story,  com- 
mander of  the  Portsmouth,  at  Portsmouth. —  In  the  absence 
of  his  Majesty,  the  writer  has  spoken  to  some  of  the  lords 
for  leave  for  him  to  come  to  town  in  order  to  the  delivering 
in  his  journal  for  his  last  voyage,  and  giving  an  account  to 
the  officers  of  the  navy  of  the  present  state  of  his  ship  and 
company. 

3291.  [p.   164.]     7   Oct.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Richard  Beach, 
commissioner  at   Chatham. — Has   received   the   enclosed 
from  the  wife  of  the  purser  of  the  Unicorn  [3273],  to  the 
truth  of  which  though  the  writer  cannot  give  any  credit,  in 
that  it  contradicts   what   the   officers   of  the   navy   have 
informed  him  touching  his  pretence  of  his  being  employed 
in  attending  upon  the  passing  of  his  accounts  before  them, 
'  yet  at  her  request  I  could  not  think  it  fit  for  me  to  deny 
the  communicating  to  you  what  it  is  that  her  husband 
urgeth  in  his  defence,  leaving  it  to  you  to  give  me  what  (if 
anything)  you  shall  think  fit  to  say  to  me  upon  it  before 
I  give  his  Majesty  and  my  lords  that  account  of  his  new 
neglects,'  which  they  will  in  no  wise  think  fit  to  be  longer 
passed  by. 

1  MS.  'Sowld.'  Southwold  is  still  known  locally  as  'Sole'— 
perhaps  a  corruption  of  this  form.  Thus  '  Sole  Bay '  = '  Southwold 
Bay.' 


FIFTH   VOLUME  283 

3292.  [p.  165.]     7  Oct.     S.  P.  toMr.Pett?  master-ship- 
wright at  Woolwich. — Foreseeing  that  he  shall  suddenly 
have  much  occasion  of  going  upon  the  River  in  order  to  the 
despatch  of  the  business  of  Virginia,  the  writer  has  sent 
down  his  boat  to  him  to  be  cleaned. 

Postscript. — '  If  it  were  not  too  much  charge  or  trouble, 
I  would  recommend  it  to  you  to  consider  whether  it  would 
not  render  the  boat  more  commodious  and  give  her  better 
quality  (she  now  going  much  deeper  abaft  than  afore)  if  her 
state-room  were  brought  a  little  more  forward  ;  and  if  you 
do  judge  so,  pray  let  it  be  done.' 

3293.  [p.  165.]    7  Oct.    S.  P.  to  Mr.  Secretary  Coventry? 
at  the  court  at  Newmarket. — Pursuant  to  the  commands  of 
the  king  and  lords,  the  writer  has  applied  his  utmost  dili- 
gence to  the  despatch  of  those  parts  of  the  Virginia  pre- 
parations which  lie  within  the  charge  of  the  navy,  the  state 
of  which  at  this  day  is  as  follows  : — 

(1)  After  treating  with  several   masters  and  owners  of 
ships  concerning  the  transport  of  the  soldiers,  the  officers 
of  the  navy  do  find  no  method  so  '  expeditious,  effectual, 
and  cheap  '  as  that  of  employing  therein  the  merchant  ships 
now   bound   to   Virginia  (upon  whom  the  embargo   lies 
[3260,  3261,  3262]),  and  have  therefore  agreed  with  them  for 
the  carriage  and  victualling  of  the  whole  number  at  5/.  per 
head,  to  be  paid  one  moiety  presently  by  way  of  advance 
and  the  other  at  the  end  of  the  voyage  out  of  the  custom 
of  the  goods  they  shall  bring  home  ;  whereas  the  ordinary 
rate  for  passengers   is   known  to  be  6/.,  to   be  advanced 
entirely  in   ready  money  at  Gravesend  before  their  de- 
parture. 

(2)  A  '  provision  of  bedding '  has  been  secured  for  the 
use  of  the  soldiers  in  their  passage  and  afterwards. 

(3)  The  like  is  done  for  the  magazine  of  3  months' 
provisions  of  bread,  cheese,  and  brandy  (for  the    making 
beverage)  for  their  support  after  landing. 

(4)  Agreement  is  likewise  made  by  the  officers  of  the 
navy  with  the  masters  of  the  said  ships  for  the  freight  of  the 
said  magazine  of  victuals,  as  also  that  of  the  cloth,3  and 
the  stores  from  the  Tower. 

Encloses  an   estimate  from  the  officers  of  the  navy, 
'  showing  the  charge  of  the  whole,  and  particularising  what 
1  See  ii.  92  n.  supra.        *  D.  N.  B.  xii.  357.         3  MS.  '  cloath.' 


284  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          Oct. 

part  thereof  is  to  be  answered  by  ready  money,'  to  the  end 
that  if  the  same  receive  his  Majesty's  approval,  his  order 
may  be  issued  to  the  lords  authorising  them  to  cause  the 
same  to  be  put  in  present  execution  by  the  officers  of  the 
navy,  as  they  shall  be  assisted  by  the  lord  treasurer  in 
relation  to  the  ready  money  demanded  for  the  same. 

Desires  him  also  to  take  notice  of  the  said  officers'  advice 
for  the  soldiers  being  put  on  board  the  ships  in  Long  Reach,1 
signifying  his  Majesty's  approval  thereof,  or  his  directions 
for  their  embarking  elsewhere. 

The  yachts  are  gone  both  to  the  northward  and  west- 
ward for  bringing  about  the  soldiers  [3279-81]  according  to 
the  orders  of  the  Duke  of  Monmouth.2 

For  what  concerns  the  other  parts  of  this  service  within 
the  care  of  the  land  officers,  Lord  Craven,3  Colonel 4  Jeffreys, 
and  others  do  daily  meet  upon,  and  to  them  he  is  referred, 
there  being  '  no  cause  of  questioning  but  with  the  help  of 
the  money  demanded  the  officers  of  the  navy  will  have 
everything  ready  on  their  parts  as  fast  as  the  coming  in  of 
the  soldiers  can  require  it.  .  .  .' 

3294.  [p.  167.]     9  Oct.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Richard  Haddock? 
one  of  the  commissioners  of  the  navy. — His  Majesty  hath 
been  pleased '  so  far  to  resent'  Muddiman's6 '  vanity  and  pre- 
sumption' [3282]  as  to  direct  that  he  be  called  before  the 
council  on  Wednesday  next.     Has  heard  from  Mr.  Secre- 
tary Williamson  7  that  it  would  be  expedient  either  to  obtain 
'  the  original  paper  which  was  exposed  at  the  coffee-house,' 
or  that  somebody  attend  the  council  to  justify  the  extract 
in  case  Mr.  Muddiman  shall  think  fit  to  disclaim  it. 

3295.  [p.    1 68.]     9  Oct.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Hayter*  at  the 
navy   office.  —  Partly  in   compliance   with   his   Majesty's 
directions,  and  partly  to  inform  themselves  how  the  pre- 
parations for  Virginia  stand,  the  lords  design  to  be  at  his 
board  to-morrow  morning  at  9. 

3296.  [p.  1 68.]    9  Oct.    S.  P.  to  Captain  John  Temple? 
commander  of  the  Dartmouth,  in  the  Downs.— To  stay 

1  Between  Erith  and  Gravesend. 

3  D.  N.  B.  li.  28.  The  Duke  of  Monmouth  was  at  this  time 
captain-general  of  the  forces. 

3  See  note  to  No.  2642.  -  4  MS.  '  Captain.' 

5  D.N.B.  xxiii.  427.  «  See  note  to  No.  3282. 

7  D.  N.  B.  Ixii.  2.  8  See  ii.  392  n.  supra. 

'  See  note  to  No.  2281. 


1676  FIFTH   VOLUME  285 

where  he  is  till  further  order,  and  to  send  up  an  account  of 
the  condition  of  his  ship,  in  reference  to  her  capacity  of 
staying  a  while  longer  abroad  in  case  the  service  in  the 
Channel  shall  require  it. 

3297.  [p.  1 68.]     9  Oct.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Robert  Robinson? 
of  the  Assurance,  in  the  Downs. — Has  received  his  of  the 
7th  advertising  him  of  his  being  at  length  got  into  the 
Downs.     He  shall  speedily  receive  his  last  instructions. 

3298.  [p.  169.]     10  Oct.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners  of 
the  Customs. — About  a  pass  for  the  Margaret,  of  Exeter, 
John  Brown  master,  now  there. 

3299.  [p.  169.]     10  Oct.     The  same  to  the  same. — About 
passes  for   the   Genoa  Merchant,  of  Yarmouth,  Thomas 
Appleby  master  ;  and  the  Unity,  of  Yarmouth,  William 
Mason  master :  at  Yarmouth  bound  to  the  Straits. 

3300.  [p.  169.]     10  Oct.     S.P.toSirJohnNarbrough? 
commander  of  the   Harwich,  at  Portsmouth. — Desires  to 
know  how  far  he  would  judge  it  inconvenient  either  to  the 
service  or  to  himself  (with  reference  to  his  re-manning 
himself)  in  case  his  company  should  be  paid  off,  the  present 
uncertainty  of  his  Majesty's  resolutions  touching  his  sending 
more  or  less  ships  to  the  Straits  perhaps  rendering  it  un- 
reasonable to  keep  such  a  number  of  men  uselessly  in  pay. 
The  case  is  the  same  in  reference  to  the  Holmes  fireship. 

3301.  [p.  169.]    10  Oct.   S,  P.  to  Captain  Gunman,  Anne 
yacht,   at  Deptford. — To  carry  Lady   Throckmorton  3  to 
Dieppe,  and  this  done  to  return  to  Deptford. 

3302.  [p.  170.]     10  Oct.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Richard  Beach* 
at  Chatham. — As  for  that  wherein  he  has  so  often  desired 
advice,  about  '  the  duty  of  the  officers  in  ordinary,'  the  king 
and  lords '  being  willing  to  have  the  whole  matter  thoroughly 
digested  that  they  may  be  final  in  the  case  before  they  give 
any  more  imperfect  orders  about  it,'  have  referred  it  to  '  a 
little  further  considerations  with  the  officers  of  the  navy.  .  .' 

3303.  [p.    170.]     10  Oct.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Rooke?  at 
Lichfield.6 — Has  laid  his  name  before  the  king  for  employ- 
ment. 

3304.  [p.    171.]     10  Oct.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Denis  Gauden, 

1  See  note  to  No.  2872.  2  D.  N.  B.  xl.  89. 

s  MS.  '  Throgmorton.' 

4  Resident  commissioner  of  the  navy  at  Chatham  [3291]. 

5  See  note  to  No.  2569.  8  MS.  '  Leechfeild.' 


286  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          Oct. 

victualler  of  the  navy. — Has  moved  the  lords  about  next 
year's  victualling  declaration,  and  so  soon  as  the  king 
returns  to  town  he  will  be  moved  for  his  pleasure  in  it, 
that  it  may  be  despatched  at  the  council-table  (through 
which  it  must  pass)  with  the  least  loss  of  time. 

3305.  [p.  I72.1]     10  Oct.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Richard  Rooth? 
commander  of  the  Adventure. — His  Majesty,  thinking  it 
seasonable,  as  well  with  respect  to  his  own  service  as  the 
condition  of  his  ship,  to  relieve  him  by  sending  out  Sir 
Robert  Robinson3  in  the  Assurance,  the  writer  encloses 
orders  for  his  return  home,  hoping  that  before  this  arrives 
he  will  '  have  had  the  good  fortune  of  seeing  an  end  put  to 
that  chargeable  and  fruitless  war  with  Sallee  in  which  his 
Majesty  hath  been  so  long  concerned,  our  last  letters  from 
Tangier  having  given  us  notice  of  some  advance  made 
towards  a  peace  with  that  people  by  Sir  John  Narbrough,'1 
and  commissioners  designed  to  be  sent  with  you  to  Sallee 
in  order  to  a  consummation  of  it.' 

Desires  him  to  inform  Sir  Robert  Robinson  in  all 
matters  about  the  service,  and  particularly  in  the  condition 
of  the  ships  and  behaviour  of  the  captains  who  have  been 
hitherto  under  his  command,  and  between  whom,  to  the 
great  dissatisfaction  of  the  king  and  lords,  '  notice  hath 
been  given  of  the  difference  and  misunderstandings  that 
have  happened,  to  the  prejudiceand  dishonour '  of  the  service. 
Underwritten  :  Sent  by  Sir  Robert  Robinson  in  the  Assurance. 

3306.  [p.  171.]     II  Oct.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Lock,  secretary 
at  war. — As  to  the  additional  number  of  77  men  over  and 
above  the  1,000  provided  for  in  the  estimate,  it  will  be 
necessary  to  have  his  Majesty's  pleasure  therein  known  and 
signified  to  Mr.  Secretary  Coventry,5  in  order  to  his  sending 
to  the  lords   his   Majesty's  warrant  for  their  putting   in 
execution  the  like  estimate  in  every  particular  of  freight, 
victualling,  and  bedding,  with  respect  to  these  77  men  as 
the  lords  have  lately  received  from  him  touching  the  1,000; 
until  which  be  done,  neither  the  lords  nor  the  officers  of  the 
navy  can  proceed  to  the  making  any  provision  for  the  same. 

1  Out  of  order  in  the  MS. 

3  See  note  to   No.  2179.     Captain   Rooth   had    been    knighted 
14  April,  1675  (Shaw,  The  Knights  oj  England,  ii.  250). 
8  See  note  to  No.  2872.  «  D.  N.  B.  xl.  89. 

8  D.  N.  B.  xii.  357. 


1676  FIFTH   VOLUME  287 

3307.  [p.  171.]     II  Oct.    S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners  of 
the  Customs. — About  a  pass  for  the  Return,  of  Yarmouth, 
Richard  Myles  master,  in  that  port  bound  to  the  Straits. 

3308.  [p.  173.]     n  Oct.     S.  P.  to  Captain  A  tkins?  com- 
mander of  the  Quaker  ketch,  at  Tangier  or  elsewhere. — 
His  misbehaviour  with  the  two  Argeir  men-of-war  will  be 
brought  to  a  regular  examination,  wherein  it  will  be  very 
hard  for  him  wholly  to  free  himself  from  the  suspicion  of 
having  done  amiss,  in  that  his  adventure  hath  been  attended 
with  '  such  an  affront  done  to  his  Majesty's  flag '  under  his 
conduct  as  '  cannot,  I  think,  be  remembered  to  have  been 
ever  offered  to,  much  less  borne  by,  any  other.' 2     He  is 
called  home  to  make  his  defence  [3313]. 

Underwritten  :  Sent  by  Sir  Robert  Robinson  in  the  Assurance. 

3309.  [p.   174.]      ii   Oct.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Harman? 
commander   of  the   Sapphire  frigate,  upon    the   coast  of 
Sallee. — Observes  to  him,  out  of  particular  friendship  for 
him,  as  from   the  general  duty  of  his  place,  that  '  so  much 
hath  both  his  Majesty  and  my  lords  been  made  sensible  of 
the  dishonour  and  injury  his  Majesty's  service  suffers  from 
the  liberty  taken  by  commanders   when  abroad,  either  of 
overlooking  or  contemning  their  orders,  that  it  is  become 
very  uneasy  to  give  them  any  such  satisfaction  by  any 
particular  services  as  shall  make  amends  for  any  general 
failure  '  in  that  point.     The  writer  fears  that  some  of  his 
proceedings   may  administer  occasion  of  censure,  unless 
they  shall  receive  a  better  appearance  when  they  come  to 
be  inquired  into  than  yet  they  have. 

When  he  and  Captain  Preistman 4  return  home  he  will 
have  full  right  done  him  in  reference  to  the  matter  in 
difference  between  them  [331 1],  as  also  with  respect  to  the 
complaints  mutually  made  by  himself  and  the  masters  of 
the  merchantmen  upon  his  leaving  them  and  going  to 
Cadiz. 

He  is  to  discharge  Mr.  Russell,  who  serves  on  board 
his  ship  as  a  midshipman  extraordinary,  by  the  king's 
order,  he  desiring  to  come  home.  Thanks  him  for  his  care 

1  See  note  to  No.  2805. 

3  The  entry  opposite  this  name  in  Pepys's  Register  is  '  Turned  out 
for  submitting  himself  to  be  towed  in  by  the  Turks'  (i.  319  supra). 
See  also  Introduction,  p.  xxxviii.  supra. 

8  See  note  to  No.  2379.  4  See  No.  3311. 


288  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          Oct. 

in  delivery  of  the  money  at  Tangier  and  his  transmitting 
Mr.  Bowles's  l  receipt.  The  Adventure  is  to  be  recalled, 
'  your  being  under  whose  command  ought  to  be  reckoned 
very  unfortunate  if,  as  you  seem  to  imply  in  your  letter 
of  22  Mar.,  it  hath  indeed  prevented  your  attempting 
anything  advantageously  upon  those  of  Sallee.  .  .' 

Underwritten ;  Sent  by  Sir  Robert  Robinson  in  the  Assurance 

3310.  [p.  176.]  ii  Oct.  S.  P.  to  Captain  Hamilton? 
commander  of  the  Charles  galley-frigate,3  now  going  to  him 
to  Tangier. — The  king  and  lords  '  having  for  a  good  while 
been  eased  of  those  unsatisfactory  importunities  which 
attended  the  keeping  of  the  galley,'  the  writer  has  had 
no  occasion  of  troubling  him  with  letters  from  hence, 
having  already  acquainted  him  of  the  king's  kind  intention 
towards  him  of  designing  him  '  the  command  of  one  of  the 
two  galley-frigates  which  he  then  purposed  and  hath  since 
executed  the  building  of  for  his  service  in  the  Mediterranean. 
Makes  use  of  this  opportunity  by  Sir  Robert  Robinson  4  of 
letting  him  understand  that  '  the  larger,  and  that  which  is 
by  his  Majesty  and  Royal  Highness  supposed  the  better,  of 
the  two,  and  therefore  called  after  his  own  name,  the  Charles,' 
is  appointed  for  him,  and  '  the  care  of  her  being  fitted, 
manned,  and  navigated  to  Tangier,  committed  in  his 
absence  to  Lieutenant  Dunbar.' 5  His  Majesty  has,  out  of 
his  special  favour  to  him,  given  way  to  his  receipt  of  his 
pay  for  his  service  in  the  Mary  Rose  and  the  late  galley 
without  his  giving  that  account  of  his  compliance  with 
the  lord  high  admiral's  instructions  required  by  the  43rd 
article,  in  consideration  of  his  having  been  long  abroad  and 
still  continuing  so,  but  this  is  to  be  '  understood  only  as 
a  respiting,  and  not  a  total  exempting '  him  from  a  liable- 
ness  to  the  giving  that  account  to  the  satisfaction  of  the 
officers  of  the  navy,  and  from  them  to  the  lords. 

About  his  complaint  in  his  letter  of  13  Mar.  against 

1  Paymaster  of  the  garrison  at  Tangier  [2587]. 

3  Captain  Thomas  Hamilton  had  commanded  the  Margaret  galley 
since  18  June,  1675  5  his  commission  to  the  Charles  galley  is  dated 
ii  Jan.  1676-7  in  Pepys's  Register  (i.  359  supra).  Charnock  makes 
the  curious  mistake  of  regarding  the  two  galleys  as  identical  (Biog. 
Nav.  i.  311). 

3  See  note  to  No.  3240.  *  See  note  to  No.  2872. 

6  See  note  to  No.  3253. 


1676  FIFTH   VOLUME  289 

the  course  of  justice  taken  by  the  civil  magistrate  in 
Tangier  upon  one  of  the  soldiers  belonging  to  the  galley 
without  his  leave,  the  writer  is  to  inquire  whether  he  was 
apprehended  and  carried  away  while  he  was  doing  his 
duty  on  board  the  galley,  or  while  he  was  on  shore  with  a 
certificate  about  him  showing  his  being  employed  there  by 
his  express  orders  ;  '  forasmuch  as  in  such  case  his  Majesty's 
service  would  be  too  much  exposed  to  interruption,  and 
therefore  by  the  practice  of  the  navy  no  man  employed 
therein  can  be  taken  therefrom  without  the  knowledge  and 
leave  of  his  superior  officer  ;  but,  on  the  other  hand,  in  case 
he  were  on  shore,  and  that  without  any  testimony  of  his 
being  there  actually  in  his  Majesty's  service,  the  exempting 
him  from  justice  is  more  than  can  rightly  be  challenged 
or  seems  reasonable  that  it  should  be,  in  regard  of  the 
encouragement  which  it  might  give  to  any  others  of  mis- 
behaving themselves  there  and  breaking  the  peace,  that 
would  but  take  upon  them  the  pretence  of  belonging  to 
any  of  his  Majesty's  ships.  .  .  .' 

Underwritten :  Sent  by  Sir  Robert  Robinson  in  the  Assurance. 

3311.  [p.  177.]  ii  Oct.  S.  P.  to  Captain  Preistman? 
commander  of  the  Lark  frigate,  upon  the  coast  of  Sallee. 
—The  king  and  lords  do  not  take  his  having  been  under  Sir 
Richard  Rooth's 2  command  as  any  exemption  to  him  from 
the  practice  of  the  last  article  of  his  Majesty's  instructions, 
obliging  him  to  give  a  more  frequent  account  of  his  pro 
ceedings  than  by  the  letters  which  have  hitherto  come  to 
hand,  especially  during  the  times  of  Sir  Richard  Rooth's 
absence  from  the  station.  Is  glad  he  did  not  go  to 
Livorne,  but  found  some  other  means  of  supplying  his 
wants, '  the  evils  his  Majesty  hath  heretofore  suffered  upon 
that  pretext  having  been  so  great '  that  there  is  nothing 
wherein  his  commanders  can  give  him  greater  dissatis- 
faction. 

It  will  be  needful  for  him  to  justify  his  proceedings  in 
the  difference  between  him  and  Captain  Harman 3  [3309] 
about  '  your  interrupting  some  boats  of  Sallee  to  whom 

1  See  note  to  No.  2378. 

2  Commander  of  the  Adventure.     See  note  to  No.  3305. 

3  Commander  of  the  Sapphire.    See  note  to  No.  2379. 
VOL.  III.  U 


29o  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          Oct. 

he  had  given  a  seguro! l  The  king  is  calling  home  the 
Adventure  and  sending  the  Assurance  under  Sir  Robert 
Robinson  to  succeed  her,  to  whom  he  is  referred  for 
instructions. 

Undenvritten  :  '  Sent  by  Sir  Robert  Robinson.' 

3312.  [p.    179.]      ii    Oct.     S.   P.  to  Captain  Lassells? 
commander  of  the  Garland,  in  the  Downs. — To  order  one 
of  his  squadron  to  convoy  the  under-named  ships,  now 
in  the  Thames,  from  the  Downs  to  Ostend  and  Rotterdam. 

Underwritten :   For   Ostend  :   Friendship,  Thomas    Barber  ; 

John   and   Thomas,   John   Reynolds  ; 8  Anne,  William  Clock  ; 

— ,  John  Coliver.     For  Rotterdam  :  Hope,  of  London,  William 

Johnson  ; ,  Robert  Niblett ;  ,  Thomas  Sneedell ;  -  — , 

Richard   Reines  ;   ,   John   Marshall ;   ,    Ralph   Crow ; 

,  John  Stretton. 

3313.  [p.  179.]     1 1  Oct.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Robert  Robinson,4' 
commander   of  the   Assurance,   in  the   Downs. — Captain 
Mackenny  did  not  mention  his  not  taking  on  board  the 
guns  and  arms  by  way  of  complaint.     Is  sorry  his  ship  is 
'  so  pestered  with  passengers  and  goods  not  belonging  to 
his  Majesty,'  and  that  he  did  not  give  the  writer  earlier 
information  of  Lord  Dungan's  baggage,  that  he  might  have 
taken  the  same  care  for  the  limiting  it  outward  which  he 
has  done  for  the  number  of  horses  he  is  to  ship  homeward. 
Is  sure  he  will  improve  to  the  best  advantage  the  room  he 
has,  that  if  possible  these  arms  and  things  that  accompany 
Captain  Mackenny  may  not  be  exposed  to  hazard  out  of 
his  Majesty's  own  ship.     Encloses  his  Majesty's  orders  for 
his  sailing,  and  desires  frequent  advice  of  his  proceedings 
and  those  of  the  ships  under  his  command.     Sends  also  an 
order  to  send  home  the   Quaker  ketch,  after  appointing 
some  person  to  take  charge  of  her  in  the  room  of  Captain 
Atkins, '  who  is  to  come  along  with  her  as  a  prisoner  to 
answer  for  his  late  behaviour  upon  his  meeting  with  the 
two  Argeir  men-of-war,  and  suffering  himself  to  be  carried 
away  and  towed  by  him  into  that  port '  [3308].°     Encloses 
also  a  warrant  from  the  lords  for  his  calling  upon  the  com- 

1  I.e.  'safe-conduct'  (Spanish}.  2  See  note  to  No.  2181. 

3  MS.  'Renolls.'  4  See  note  to  No.  2872. 

•'•  See  note  to  No.  3308. 


1676  FIFTH   VOLUME  291 

manders  of  the  Sapphire  and  Lark  for  their  respective 
journals  to  the  time  of  his  arrival  with  them,  and  sending 
them  hither. 

Encloses  letters  of  importance,  to  be  delivered  to  the 
governor  at  Tangier,  to  Mr.  Sheeres,1  his  Majesty's  agent 
for  the  Mole,  Mr.  Shadwell,  his  judge,  Mr.  Bland,  comp- 
troller, and  Mr.  Bowles,  paymaster  there,  with  the  like  to 
each  of  the  two  commanders  before  mentioned  [3309, 
3311],  as  also  to  Sir  Richard  Rooth  [3305],  Captain 
Hamilton2  [3310],  and  Captain  Atkins  [3308]. 

Postscript. — To  deliver  the  10  chests  of  money  to  Mr. 
Phineas  Bowles  at  Tangier,  taking  3  receipts,  transmitting 
one  by  sea  and  another  by  way  of  Cadiz. 

3314.  [p.    1 80.]     II   Oct.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners 
of  the  Customs. — About  a  pass  for  the  Tiger,  of  London, 
Henry  Stuple  master,  now  at  Woodbridge  bound  to  the 
Straits. 

3315.  [p.  1 8 1.]      12  Oct.     S.  P.  to  Lord  Dungan?  on 
board  the  Assurance,  in  the  Downs. — Is  extremely  sorry 
for  any  personal  inconvenience  he  or  his  lady  hath  sus- 
tained by  the  ship's  unexpected  delay  in  her  despatch  [3313]. 

3316.  [p.   1 8 1.]       12   Oct.      S.  P.   to    Colonel    Strode, 
Governor  of  Dover  Castle. — Encloses  a  copy  of  a  letter 
from  the  lords  of  the  committee  of  trade,  under  the  hand 
of  Mr.  Blathwayt,  their  secretary,  and  confirmed  by  one 
of  them,  the  Earl  of  Craven  4  (now  present),  for  continuing 
the  arrest  upon  the  French  caper  Nicholas  Bateou  and  his 
vessel  [3116].  "' 

3317.  [p.  1 8 1.]     12  Oct.     S.  P.  to  the  Bailiffs  of  Yar- 
mouth.— They  are  to  discharge  the  privateer  and  her  com- 
pany if  they  have  no  complaints  against  her,  publication 
of  her  capture  having  been  now  made  in  the  '  Gazette ' 
for  10  days;  only  taking  care  for  the  continuing  in  custody 
the   commander   and   four   others   of  the  king's  subjects 
named  in  their  letter,  and  also  for  apprehending  the  other 
who  escaped,  sending  them   all  up  hither  to  answer  for 
their  disobedience  in  serving  under  foreign  commission. 

3318.  [p.  182.]     12  Oct.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Day?  com- 

1  D.N.B.  lii.  10.  3  MS.  « Hambleton.' 

3  Afterwards  Earl  of  Limerick  (Burke,  Dormant  and  Extinct 
Peerages,  p.  607). 

*  D.  N.  B.  xiii.  43.  5  See  note  to  No.  2967.' 

u  2 


292  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          Oct. 

mander  of  the  Merlin  yacht. — To  carry  Lady  Temple 1  to 
Rotterdam,  and  this  done  to  return  to  Greenwich. 

3319.  [p.  I58.2]     13  Oct.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners  of 
the  Customs. — About  a  pass  for  the  Sampson,3  of  London, 
James  Winsor  master,  at  Southampton. 

3320.  [p.  1 8o.2]    1 3  Oct.     The  same  to  the  same. — About 
passes  for  the  John,  of  Pittenweem,4  John  Atteson  master  ; 
the  Friendship,  of  Burntisland,5  James  Angus  master ;  the 
Crown,  of  Burntisland,5  Thomas  Dewar  master  ;  and  the 
John,  of  Queensferry,6  John  Allin  master  :  at  Cowes  Road 
bound  to  the  Straits.    As  also  for  the  Christian,  of  Queens- 
ferry,  James  Allin  master. 

3321.  [p.  182.]     13  Oct.    S.P.to  Captain  Temple?  com- 
mander of  the  Dartmouth,  in  the  Downs. — Will  very  sud- 
denly receive  and  communicate  his  Majesty's  directions  to 
him  touching  his  being  called  in  or  continuing  forth  at 
sea,  the  condition  of  his  ship  seeming  to  allow  it.    To  send 
up  a  copy  of  his  last  instructions  by  which  he  came  home 
[3347],  and  also  to  hasten  up  his  journal  of  his  last  voyage. 

3322.  [p.  183.]     13  Oct.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners  of 
the  Customs. — About  passes  for  the  Unity,  of  Yarmouth, 
Marmaduke  Scapes  master,  and  for  the  Mayflower  ketch, 
John  Morris  master :  at  Yarmouth  bound  for  the  Straits. 

3323.  [p.  183.]    13  Oct.     The  same  to  the  same. — About 
a  pass  for  the  Unicorn,  John  Ingram  8  master,  at  Yarmouth. 

3324.  [p.  183.]     13  Oct.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— 
The  lords  have  considered  the  board's  letter  of  the  3rd 
touching  the  condition  wherein  the  Dover  dogger,  lent  to 
the  Royal  Company,9  is  returned  to  the  king,  to  the  detri- 
ment of  the   said   vessel,   and  will   receive  his  Majesty's 
pleasure   concerning   it.      The   writer   will    also  send   his 
Majesty's  directions   from    Newmarket   touching  the  dis- 
posal of  the  brimstone  in  the  Ann  and  Christopher  [3283], 
and   the   like  concerning  the  Holmes  fireship  in  reference 
to  her  being  discharged  or  continued  in  pay. 

1  Sir  William  Temple  was  at  this  time  ambassador  at  the  Hague 
(D.  N.  B.  Ivi.  46). 

2  Out  of  order  in  the  MS.  3  Or  '  Samson.' 

4  MS.  « Pettenweemes.'  b  MS.  'Bunt  Island.' 

6  Pittenweem,  Burntisland,  and  Queensferry  are  all  in  the  Firth 
of  Forth. 

7  See  note  to  No.  2281.  8  MS.  '  Ingrum.' 
9  I.e.  the  Royal  African  Company  [2869,  3582]. 


1676  FIFTH   VOLUME  293 

3325.  [p.  183.]     13  Oct.    S.P.  to  Captain  Voteer?  com- 
mander of  the  Ann  and   Christopher. — To  send  up  his 
journal. 

Underwritten  :  The  like  to  Sir  Roger  Stricklan  \2  of  the 
Dragon;  Captain  Story,  of  the  Portsmouth ;  and  Captain  Williams,3 
of  the  Holmes  fireship. 

3326.  [p.  1 83.*]     14  Oct.    S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners  of 
the  Customs. — About  a  pass  for  the  Lamb,  of  Bristol,  Arthur 
Bible  master,  at  Bristol. 

3327.  [p.   184.]      14  Oct.      S.  P.  to  Captain  Lassells? 
commander   of  the  Garland,  in    the  Downs. — Acquaints 
him  with  the  name  of  the  master  of  a  caper  of  Dunkirk, 
just  now  communicated  by  the  lords  of  the  council,  '  against 
which  caper  complaints  of  such  a  degree  are  exhibited  as 
if  in  any  wise  he  could  be  brought  in  it  would  be  esteemed 
a  very  good  service  to  his   Majesty.'     Prays  him  to  let 
'  the  ships  that  shall  be  a  cruising '  have  knowledge  of 
him,  his  name  being  Jacob  de  Wynne,  so  as  no  opportunity 
may  be  lost  of  bringing  him  to  an  account  for  carrying 
into  Boulogne  the  Mary,  of  Londonderry,  and  murdering 
her  master,  Alexander  Fenny. 

3328.  [p.  1 85.]     14  Oct.     S.  P.  to  the  Commander  of  any 
of  his  Majesty's  ships  next  bound  for  England  from  Tangier. 
— To  receive  and  bring  to  England  the  accounts  and  papers 
of  the  late  Earl  of  Middleton,6  and  to  deliver  them  to 
Mr.  Luke. 

3329.  [p.   185.]     140*.     S.  P.  to  Mr.   Thomas  Cole, 
collector  7  at  Southampton. — The  masters  of  the  five  Scotch 
ships  now  in  Cowes  Road  not  having  acquaintance  in  or 
about  Southampton,  and  so  not  provided  of  the  security 
there  which  by  the  rules  of  his  Majesty  in  council  is  re- 
quired for  their  delivering  up  their  passes  at  the  end  of 
the  voyage,  the  lords  have  accepted  the  enclosed  bonds 
entered    into   on   their   behalf  by   some    merchants   here 

[3349J 

3330.  [p.  1 86.]     1 4  Oct.     S.P.to  Sir  John  Narbrough* 

1  See  ii.  361  n.  supra. 

2  D.N.B.  Iv.  52.  3  See  note  to  No.  2180. 
4  Out  of  order  in  the  MS.  5  See  note  to  No.  2181. 
'"'  Late  Governor  of  Tangier.  D.  N.B.  xxxvii.  352. 

7  I.e.  of  the  customs.  8  D.  N.  B.  xl.  89. 


294  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          Oct. 

commander  of  the  Harwich,  at  Portsmouth. — Has  this 
afternoon  received  advice  from  Tangier  '  of  the  confirma- 
tion of  the  marine  peace  with  Sallee,  signed  28  Aug. 
last,  conformable  to  the  articles  you  had  treated  with  them 
upon,  so  that  (thanks  be  to  God)  that  thorn  is  out  of  our 
foot ;  while  that  in  Virginia  grows  worse  by  Bacon's l  having 
got  the  mastery  of  all,  and  that  not  only  by  land  but  at 
sea  too,  by  his  having  seized  two  merchantmen  (as  he  had 
done  a  third  had  she  not  escaped  to  bring  this  news  to  us) 
and  converted  them  to  men-of-war,  which  will  draw  more 
charge  upon  his  Majesty  at  that  end  of  the  world,  however 
we  may  escape  in  the  Mediterranean,  from  whence  I  have 
heard  no  new  matter  since  your  going.'  The  duke  desires 
to  know  how  he  liked  the  Plymouth.3 

3331.  [p.  i84.2]     15  Oct.     S.P.  to  Captain  Tyte?  com- 
mander of  the  Deptford  ketch,  at  Portsmouth  bound  to 
Virginia. — Encloses  a  letter  and  petition  demanding  satisfac- 
tion from  him  touching  his  having  performed  no  more  than 
he  did  '  in  the  defence  and  rescuing '  of  the  Blessing,  of 
Topsham.     Desires  to  know  if  he  has  anything  to  add  to 
the  account  he  has  already  given  in  his  justification. 

3332.  [p.  1 86.]     1 6  Oct.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— 
Having  been  prevented  in  their  purpose  of  visiting  the 
board  last  Tuesday,  the  lords  intend  to  make  it  good  to- 
morrow, in  order  to  the  discoursing  with  them  upon  '  several 
general  matters  now  depending  relating  to  the  navy ' ;  and 
more  particularly  that  of  the  survey  and  state  of  his  Ma- 
jesty's ships  and  stores  recommended  to  their  despatch 
by  the  lords'  letter  of  10  July  last,  as  also  to  consider  with 
them  the  late  letter  to  the  board  from  the  lord  treasurer 
about  their  '  supplies  of  money  and  proceedings  upon  the 
said  repairs  of  his  Majesty's  ships.' 

3333.  [p.  187.*]     1 6  Oct.     S.P.  to  the  Commissioners  of 
the  Customs.— About  a  pass  for  the  Edgar  of  Yarmouth, 
Theo.  Downing  master. 

3334.  [p.  187.*]      1 6  Oct.      The  same  to  the  same.— 

About  a  pass   for  the  Concord,  of  Bristol, Adams 

master,  in  that  port. 

1  D-  W-  B.  ii.  365.     See  also  Introduction,  p.  xxv.  supra. 

2  Out  of  order  in  the  MS. 

3  See  No.  3870. 

4  See  note  to  No.  2844. 


1676  FIFTH   VOLUME  295 

3335.  [p.  187.]     17  Oct.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Sanderson} 
or    his    chief  mate. — To  carry  the  Count  de  Chavigny 2 
and  the  Count  de  Montforram  to  Dieppe,  and  this  done 
to  return  to  Greenwich. 

3336.  [p.  187.]     17  Oct.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Temple,  com- 
mander of  the  Dartmouth,  in  the  Downs. — To  bring  his 
ship  up  to  Sheerness  [3340]. 

3337.  [p.  187.]     17  Oct.      S.  P.  to   Captain  Stepney, 
Drake,  in   the  Downs. — The   lords   have   ordered  him   2 
months'  victuals.     Is  very  sorry  he  is  so  ill ;  will  move  the 
king  about  his  staying  on  shore. 

3338.  [p.  1 88.]     17  Oct.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Lassells? 
commander    of  the   Garland,   in   the  Downs. — It   is  the 
lords'  pleasure  that  in  regard  the  ships  bound  for  Rotter- 
dam [3312]  are  not  yet  arrived  in  the  Downs,  he  should 
send  away  the  Rose  with  those  bound  for  Ostend,  without 
making  them  stay  any  longer  for  the  others.     He  is  to  be 
very  careful  to  keep  the  ships  under  his  command  cruising 
abroad  in  the  Narrow  for  securing  trade  and  bringing  in 
French   privateers,  'complaints   arriving  almost   daily   of 
several  of  our  merchant  ships  carried  into  Calais  and  other 
ports  of  France.'     Desires  him  to   send  word  from  time 
to  time  what  ships  he  so  sends  abroad,  what  stations  he 
appoints  them  to,  and  when  they  return  into  the  Downs, 
the  lords  observing  by  the  daily  lists  that  all  the  ships 
have  been  continually  in  the  Downs  for  near  a  month  past, 
except  only  the  Drake's  being  absent  for  some  time,  whereas 
they  expected  all  but  the  commander-in-chief  should  have 
been  cruising  abroad. 

3339.  [p.  1 8  8.]     17  Oct.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Robert  Robinson? 
commander  of  the  Assurance,  in  the  Downs. — His  Majesty 
not  being  yet  returned  from  Newmarket,  the  writer  cannot 
obtain  him  an  order  under  his  own   hand,  but  it  is  his 
pleasure  that  the  soldiers  he  is  to  transport  to  Tangier,  and 
also  the  sergeant  and  his  wife,  should  be  victualled  as  his 
ship's  company  are.     Cannot  advise  him  concerning  the 
master  of  the  merchant  ship's  denying  to  part  with  the 
arms  that  are  to  go  to  Tangier,  which  are  committed  to  him 


1  Commander  of  the  Portsmouth  yacht  [3269]. 

2  MS.  '  Chauvigny.' 

3  See  note  to  No.  2181.  4  See  note  to  No.  2872. 


296  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          Oct. 

by  bill  of  lading,  so  refers  it  to  him,  who  is  more  conversant 
in  the  merchants'  affairs,  to  do  therein  as  he  shall  think  fit. 
The  enclosed  is  a  copy  of  a  letter  from  the  secretary  to  the 
lords  commissioners  for  Tangier  concerning  a  complaint 
made  of  the  soldiers  being  ill-used  that  are  on  board  him  ; 
the  lords  of  the  admiralty  desire  him  to  take  care  that  the 
soldiers  have  right  done  them. 

3340.  [p.  189.]    17  Oct.    S.  P.  to  Mr.  Secretary  Coventry  ^ 
at  Newmarket. — Has  received  (by  the  hands  of  Mr.  Cooke 2) 
his  Majesty's  warrant  to  the  lords  '  for  the  causing  a  supple- 
mental estimate  to  be  made  for  the  provisions  and  trans- 
portation of  the  77  men  added  to  the  former  1,000,  which 
my  lords  have  put  into  a  way  of  execution,  and  by  their 
personal  visit  this  day  made  to   the  office  of  the  navy 
[3332]   seen    (among   other  things)   the   despatch  of  the 
Virginia  preparations  so  far  advanced  as  that  250  of  the 
new-raised  men  will  be  actually  on  board  the  ships  by  to- 
morrow morning,  with  a  reasonable  expectation  of  having 
the  same  done  to  the  remainder  in  as  little  time  as  this 
hath  been.     Of  the  old  soldiers,  those  from  Plymouth  are 
embarked  and  on  their  way  hitherward,  and  [I]  doubt  not 
of  hearing  the  same  to-morrow  concerning  those  coming 
from  the  northward,  the  officers  of  the  navy  having  bor- 
rowed money  from  other  services  for  the  present  further- 
ance of  this,  which  my  lord  treasurer  will  be  pleased  to 
supply  to  them.'     Encloses  a  letter  from  the  lords  directed 
to  himself  and  the  rest  of  the  lords  now  with  the  king,  and 
also  a  paper  for  his  Majesty's  signing. 

Postscript. — Since  the  writing  of  the  enclosed  letter 
from  the  lords,  the  writer  has  by  his  Royal  Highness's 3 
direction  sent  for  the  Dartmouth  into  Sheerness  [3336], '  as 
being  the  readiest  to  be  refitted  forth  in  case  his  Majesty 
upon  the  present  state  of  matters  at  Virginia  shall  think 
fit  to  send  another  man-of-war  thither  along  with  the 
Bristol.' 

3341.  [p.  190.]     1 8  Oct.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Lock*— Desires 
advice  whether  any  soldiers  are  to  come  from  Portsmouth 
in  the  Navy  yacht,  as  she  ought  to  lose  no  time  in  her 

1  D.  N.  B.  xii.  357. 

2  Mr.  John  Cooke,  clerk  to  Mr.  Secretary  Coventry  (Cal.  S.  P.  Dom. 
1675-6,  index). 

3  James,  Duke  of  York.  4  Secretary  at  war  [3306]. 


1 676  FIFTH   VOLUME  297 

despatch  from  thence,  in  regard  she  has  the  number  ap- 
pointed from  Plymouth  on  board  her. 

3342.  [p.   190.]     1 8  Oct.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners  of 
the  Customs. — About  a  pass  for   the  Alethea,  of  Bristol, 
Edward  Watkins  master,  at  Bristol  bound  for  the  Straits. 

3343.  [p.  190.]     19  Oct.     The  same  to  the  same. — About 
a  pass  for  the  Bonadventure  Merchant,  of  London,  Peter 
Belbin  master,  at  Portsmouth  bound  to  the  Straits. 

3344.  [p.   190.]      19    Oct.      The  same  to   the  same. — 
About  a  pass  for  the  Golden  Lion,  of  Topsham,  now  at 
Minehead. 

3345.  [p.    191.]     19  Oct.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Lassells?- 
commander  of  the  Garland,  in  the  Downs. — Will  receive 
the  king's  directions  (whom  we  expect  in  town    to-day) 
touching  the  captain  of  the  Drake.     Doubts  not  ere  this 
he  has  received  his  of  the  i;th  [3338]. 

3346.  [p.    191.]     19  Oct.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Williams? 
commander   of  the    Holmes    fireship. — The    lords    have 
ordered  his  ship  to  be  paid  off. 

3347.  [p.    191.]     19    Oct.     S.  P.   to    Captain   Temple, 
commander  of  the  Dartmouth,  in  the  Downs. — Has  pe- 
rused  the   copy    of   Sir    John    Narbrough's 3  instructions 
[3321]   to  the  Assistance  and  him  in  her  company,  and 
in  case  he  had  no  others  either  from  Sir  John  or  Captain 
Houlding,4   the   writer  is   satisfied   in   the   ground  of  his 
not  stopping   at  Plymouth   but   coming   directly   for  the 
Downs. 

Margin :  '  The  letter  returned,  the  ship  being  come  out  of 
the  Downs.' 

3348.  [p.    192.]     19    Oct.      S.  P.   to    Captain  Smith? 
commander  of  the  Navy  yacht,  at  Portsmouth. — He  is  not 
to  attend  for  the  receipt  of  any  further  number  of  soldiers 
at  Portsmouth,  but  is  to  repair  into  the  river  of  Thames 
as  high  as  Long  Reach 6  for  further  orders. 

3349.  [p.  192.]     19  Oct.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Cole,  collector 
of  the  customs  at  Southampton. — Has  received  his  of  the 
1 7th  giving  notice  of  the  receipt  of  the  bonds    for  the 

1  Commander-in-chief  in  the  Downs  [3338].     See  ii.  236  n.  supra. 

2  See  note  to  No.  2180.  3  D.N.  B.  xl.  89. 

4  Commander  of  the  Assistance  [3387].     See  note  to  No.  2317. 

5  See  ii.  418  n.  supra.  °  Between  Erith  and  Gravesena. 


298  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          Oct. 

masters  of  the  Scotch  ships  at  Cowes  [3329].  Knows  not 
why  he  has  not  received  intimation  from  the  commissioners 
of  the  customs  concerning  them,  unless  it  may  be  for  want 
of  due  solicitation  in  those  who  are  concerned  for  the 
despatch  of  the  said  ships. 

3350.  [p.  192.]     19  Oct.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Tyte?  com- 
mander   of   the    Deptford    ketch,   at   Portsmouth. — Has 
received  his  of  the  i/th,  and  will  see  right  done  him  there- 
from to  his  Majesty  and  the  lords. 

3351.  [p.  193.]     19  Oct.     S.  P.  to  the  Bailiffs  of  Yar- 
mouth.— Will  take  care   that   the   first   of  his    Majesty's 
yachts  that  shall  come  into  the  River  shall  ease  them  of 
the  prisoners  which  by  the  lords'  direction  are  now  in  their 
gaol  [3317,  3415]. 

3352.  [p.  193.]     19  Oct.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— In 
answer  to  theirs  of  the  I7th,  'in  just  favour  to  the  long, 
diligent,  and  faithful  services '  of  Mr.  Pugh  in  the  capacity 
of  a  clerk  in  the  navy  office,  upon  the  death  of  the  purser 
of  the  Royal  Sovereign,  the  writer  acquaints  them  that 
his  Majesty  returning  from    Newmarket  this  day  he  has 
attended  him,  and  received  his  following  pleasure  touching 
that  matter,  namely :    That  being  desirous  of  rewarding 
the  good  deservings  of  the  said  Mr.  Pugh  so  as  not  to 
overlook  the  just  pretences  which   any  of  the  surviving 
pursers  who  have  well  discharged  their  duties  may  right- 
fully  have  to   advancement,   his    Majesty   is   pleased    to 
promote  Mr.  John  Steventon,  present  purser  of  the  London, 
to  the  pursership  of  the  Royal  Sovereign,  and  to  bestow 
that  of  the  London  upon  Mr.  Pugh. 

3353.  [p.  196.']     19  Oct.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Martin    Wes- 
combe,  consul  at  Cadiz. — Thanks  him  for  his  care  of  his 
letters. 

3354.  [p.  193.]     20  Oct.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners  of 
the  Customs. — About  a  pass  for  the  Phcenix,  of  London, 
John  Yeamans  master,  at  Bristol  bound  for  the  Straits. 

3355.  [p.  194.]     20  Oct.     'Ten   at   night.'     5.    P.   to 
Captain  Lassells?  Garland,  in    the  Downs. — In   case  the 
Rose  be  not  departed  with  her  convoys  to  Ostend  [3338], 
he  is  to  send  her  to  Sheerness  [3359],  and  go  to  Ostend 
himself;  but  if  she  be  departed  he  is  to  repair  to  Sheer- 

*  See  note  to  No.  2844.  »  Out  of  order  in  the  MS. 

Commander-in-chief  in  the  Downs  [3338].     See  ii.  236  n.  supra. 


1676  FIFTH   VOLUME  299 

ness.  The  commander  of  the  Drake  has  leave  for  looking 
after  his  health  ;  he  is  to  put  his  own  lieutenant  on  board 
her  to  take  care  of  her  in  the  absence  of  Captain  Stepney  ; 
she  is  to  remain  in  the  Downs  till  further  order  [3365]. 

3356.  [p.   195.]     21    Oct.      S.  P.  to  Captain    Stepney, 
commander  of  the  Drake,  Downs. — The  service  calling  for 
his  ship's  being  very  speedily  sent  abroad  to  remain  some 
time  to  the  westward,  the  writer  desires  to  know  if  his 
health  will  admit  his  going  to  sea.     Desires  to  know  also 
whether  the  2  months'  victuals  lately  ordered  him  be  yet 
brought  to  him. 

3357.  [p.  195.]     22  Oct.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Pett?  muster- 
master  at  Gravesend. — So  soon  as  the  Navy  yacht  shall 
come  to  Gravesend  with  some  soldiers  from  the  westward, 
he  is  to  direct  her  to  the  Tower,  where  her  commander  is 
to  put  them  ashore,  according  to  the  orders  of  the  Lieu- 
tenant, Sir  John  Robinson. 

3358.  [p.  195.]     22    Oct.     S.   P.   to  Captain    Wright? 
commander  of  the  Kitchen  yacht,  at  Gravesend. — To  come 
up  to  the  Tower  with  the  soldiers. 

3359.  [p.  195.]     22  Oct.     'Sent  by  express,  past  8  at 
night.'     5.  P.  to  Captain  A shby,  commander  of  the  Rose, 
in  the  Downs. — To  repair  with  his  ship  to  Portsmouth, 
notwithstanding  his  late  orders  [3355,  3362]. 

Margin  :   '  The  express  returned,  the  ship  being  gone  out  of 
the  Downs.' 

3360.  [p.  196.]     22  Oct.     S.  P.  to  Edward  Seymour? 
Esq. — Encloses   an  estimate  presented   yesterday   to   the 
lords  and  signed  for  the  repair  of  the  Royal  Katherine 4 ; 
and  prays  his  remembering  the  report  the  lord  treasurer 
expects  of  the  state  of  the  pay  due  to  the  ships  then  men- 
tioned, and  particularly  the  Harwich,  in  reference  to  the 
discharging  or  continuing  her  men  on  board  her  till  the 
Plymouth  be  ready  to  receive  them  ;  which  the  writer  fears 
is  not  to  be  expected  within  less  than  6  weeks. 

3361.  [p.  196.]     23  Oct.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners  of 
the  Customs. — About  a  pass  for   the   Neptune,    Nicholas 
Pa[r]ry  master,  at  Yarmouth. 

1  See  ii.  92  n.  supra.  *  See  ii.  12  n.  supra. 

3  Treasurer  of  the  navy.     D.  N.  B.  Ii.  312. 

4  A  2nd-rate  of  1,037  tons  burden  and  82  guns,  built  at  Woolwich 
by  Christopher  Pett  in  1664  (i.  266  supra}. 


300  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          Oct. 

3362.  [p.   196.]     23  Oct.     S.   P.    to    Captain    Ashby? 
commander  of  the  Rose,  in  the  Downs. — The  service  to 
which  his  Majesty  designs  his  ship  being  very  pressing,  he 
is  to  bring  her  either  to  Portsmouth  or  Sheerness,  as  the 
wind  shall  serve  best  [3355]- 

Margin:  'Returned  the  25th,  ship  gone.' 

3363.  [p.  197.]     24  Oct.    S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners  for 
the  Customs. — About  a  pass  for  the  New  Morlaix  Merchant, 
of  Plymouth,  bound  to  the  Canaries. 

3364.  [p.  197.]     24  Oct.     The  same  to  the  same. — About 
passes  for  the   Reformation,  of  Bristol,  Charles  Andrew 

master,  and  the  Comfort,  of  Bristol, Steevens  master : 

in  that  port  bound  to  the  Straits. 

3365.  [p.  197.]     24  Oct.     S.  P.  to  the  Commander  of 
the  Drake?  in  the  Downs. — Has  received  his  of  yesterday, 
and  with  it  no  little  content  in  the  tidings  he  gives  of  the 
state  of  his  health,  and  that  he  hopes  within  6  or  8  days 
to  be  in  condition  of  returning  on  board  his  ship  ;  though 
the    writer    fears   the  service  will   hardly  bear  with   her 
attendance   for   him  one  hour  after  her  having  taken   in 
her   provisions.     Wonders  how  Captain    Lassells3   comes 
to   give   her   order  to   go   a   cruising   for   6   or    8   days, 
when  the  writer's  letter  [3355]  directs  her  to  remain  in  the 
Downs. 

3366.  [p.   197.]     24    Oct.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Lassells? 
commander  of  the  Garland,  in  the  Downs. — Is  glad  the 
Rose  is  gone  towards  Sheerness.     Wonders  at  his  ordering 
the  Drake  to  sea  [3365]  ;  if  she  be  not  gone  he  is  to  recall 
that  order. 

3367.  [p.    198.]     24    Oct.     The  same    to   the  same.— 
Encloses   the   king's  orders  for  his  convoying  five  ships 
[3369]  over  to  Rotterdam,  so  soon  as  he  shall  have  disposed 
of  those  bound  for  Ostend  [3355]. 

3368.  [p.  198.]     24  Oct.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board— 
They  will  receive  the  directions  of  the  king  and  lords  about 
the  business  of  the  Foresight  at  Jamaica  [2878].     They  are 
to  change  the  number  of  men  designed  for  the  Bristol, 
Dartmouth,  and  Rose  for  their  intended  voyage  to  Virginia 
to  those  proposed  yesterday  by  themselves  at  their  board. 

1  See  ii.  398  ».  supra.  *  Captain  Stepney  [3356]. 

8  Commander-in-chief  in  the  Downs  [3338].     See  ii.  236  n.  supra. 


1676  FIFTH    VOLUME  301 

For  the  increase  of  the  magazine  of  provisions,  the  king's 
warrant  not  being  yet  come  to  the  lords,  they  cannot  issue 
theirs  to  the  board  ;  but  it  was  concluded  on  by  his 
Majesty  in  council  on  Sunday  night  last,  and  directions 
given  Mr.  Secretary  Coventry 1  for  his  providing  a  warrant 
on  that  behalf  [3375].  The  Rose  is  come  from  the  Downs 
towards  Sheerness  ;  prays  that  their  orders  for  her  refit- 
ting and  victualling  may  meet  her,  that  so  no  time  may  be 
lost  for  her,  no  more  than  for  the  Dartmouth's  despatch 
there,  his  Majesty  '  being  very  earnest  for  the  sending 
away  of  the  forces  to  Virginia  which  these  ships  are  to 
accompany.' 

3369.  [p.  199.]     25   Oct.      S.  P.   to  Captain  Lassells? 
commander  of  the  Garland,  in  the  Downs. — Will  acquaint 
the  king  and  lords  with  what  he  writes  concerning  the 
foulness   of  the  Greyhound.     Is  glad  to   hear   that   the 
Drake  has  her  victuals  on  board,  and  is  in  a  readiness  to 
proceed  on  the  service  she  is  designed  for ;  for  which  the 
king's  orders  will  be  suddenly  sent.     Will  send  the  lords' 
directions  concerning  the  disposal  of  the  two  Englishmen 
which  are  now  prisoners  with  him,  and  were  taken  out  of 
privateers.     Has  received  a  letter  from  Mr.  Bant,  master 
of  the  Hopeful  Adventure,  of  London,  desiring  convoy  for 
himself  and  a  vessel  whereof  William  Taylor  is  master 
now  in  the  Downs  bound  for  Rotterdam  ;  and  it  is  the 
king's  pleasure  that  he  convoy  these  also  [3367]. 

3370.  [p.  199.]     25  Oct.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board— 
Puts  them  in  mind  of  the  proposals  now  lying  before  them 
concerning  the  settling  the  guard-ships  and  boats  in  the 
river  of  Medway.     Desires  to  know  the  number  of  men 
that  the  officers  of  the  ordnance  are  sending  to  accompany 
the  stores  designed  to  be  sent  from  the  Tower  to  Virginia, 
that  the  writer  may  hasten  the  additional  estimate  which  is 
depending  for  that  service  [3376]. 

3371.  [p.  200.]     25  Oct.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Richard  Beach? 
at  Chatham. — It  hath  not  been  from  any  failure  on  the 
writer's  part  that  he  has  not  been  able  to  gratify  him  in 
his  late  request  on  behalf  of  his  lady's  brother,  for  '  the 
competitions  of  the  pursership  of  the  Sovereign  were  so 

1  D.N.B.x\\.  357. 

1  Commander-in-chief  in  the  Downs  [3338].     See  ii.  236  n.  supra. 

8  Resident  commissioner  of  the  navy  at  Chatham  [3291]. 


302  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          Oct. 

many,  and  from  persons  of  so  old  deservings  in  the  navy, 
that  his  Majesty  did  not  think  it  consistent  with  his  justice 
to  overlook  them  in  favour  of  younger  men — besides  the 
considerableness  of  the  trust  and  duty  of  a  purser  in  a 
royal  ship,  especially  in  time  of  action  '  [3352].  The  king 
being  come  to  town,  the  writer  doubts  not  in  a  very  little 
time  to  bring  the  business  of  the  ordinary  to  a  settlement ; 
and  shall  call  upon  the  officers  of  the  navy  for  what  he 
mentions  touching  the  guard  of  the  river  of  Medway 
[3370]. 

3372.  [p.  200.]     25  Oct.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Bant,  master  of 
the  Hopeful  Adventure,  a  merchant  ship  in  the  Downs.— 
Captain  Lassells l  will  give  him  and  Mr.  Taylor  convoy  to 
Rotterdam  [3369]. 

3373.  [p.  201.]     25    Oct.     S.  P.   to    Captain    Temple, 
commander  of  the  Dartmouth,  at  Sheerness. — Has  received 
his  of  the  22nd,  giving  an  account  of  his  arrival  at  Sheer- 
ness.     Desires  he  will  hasten  all  that  may  be  the  refitting 
of  his  ship,  '  his  Majesty's  service  requiring  that  all  possible 
despatch  be  used  therein.' 

3374.  [p.  201.]     25   Oct.     S.  P.  to  Lieutenant  Hodder? 
at  present  commanding  the  Drake,  in  the  Downs. — Encloses 
the  king's  orders  for  his  taking  charge  of  the  Drake  during 
the  absence  of  Captain  Stepney  [3355],  and  giving  convoy 
to  some  merchant  ships  of  Exeter  from  Topsham,  bound 
to  Ostend  and  Rotterdam  [3367].     His  having  his  victuals 
put  on  board  him  in  the  Downs  makes  it  no  longer  needful 
for  him  to  go  to  Portsmouth. 

3375.  [p.  201.]     25  Oct.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  John  Cooke?— 
Entreats  his  moving  Mr.  Secretary 4  for  a  warrant  from  his 
Majesty   for  the  additional  magazine   of  victuals   to   be 
provided  for  the  forces  going  to  Virginia  [3368]. 

3376.  [p.  202.]     26  Oct.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Hayter?  at  the 
navy  office. — Encloses  the  order  about  the  2  months'  sup- 
plement  to  the  magazine  of  victuals  going  to  Virginia 
[3375] »'  and  '  I  since  find  Mr.  Secretary  Coventry5  to  have 
omitted  the  taking  notice   in    this   order  of  any   further 

1  Commander  of  the  Garland  and   commander-in-chief  in    the 
Downs  [3417].     See  ii.  236  n.  supra. 

a  Richard  Hodder  was  first  lieutenant  of  tlie  Garland  (i.  365  supra}. 

1  See  note  to  No.  3340.  4  Coventry. 

5  See  note  to  No.  2857.  «  D.  N.  B.  xii.  357. 


1 676  FIFTH   VOLUME  303 

number  of  men  than  barely  the  1,000  and  the  77  men  for 
which  estimates  are  already  demanded,  I  am  of  opinion 
that  for  the  preventing  any  imputation  of  delay  you  do 
send  hither  your  estimate  for  the  77  without  staying  longer 
for  the  further  number,  which  I  tell  you  his  Majesty  has, 
upon  a  paper  lately  given  him  by  the  Duke  of  Mon  mouth,1 
resolved  to  have  provided  for  ;  which  number,  with  those  8 
which  you  advertised  me  of  from  the  Tower  [3370]  will 
amount  to  about  50  above  the  1,077  provided  for  in  the 
present  estimates.'  For  these  they  will  have  a  warrant, 
but  for  saving  of  time  the  board  should  be  preparing  every 
particular  for  the  said  50  in  proportion  of  freight,  victualling, 
bedding,  magazine,  &c. 

3377.  [p.  202.]     26  Oct.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Pett?  at  Chat- 
ham.— His  Majesty  having  some  thoughts  of  building  a 
new  yacht,  he  is  to  attend  him  with  '  that  draught  or  model 
of  one '  which  he  last  prepared  for  him. 

3378.  [p.  202.]    26  Oct.    S.  P.  to  Sir  Anthony  Deane? — 
The  lord  treasurer  put  the  enclosed  paper  yesterday  into 
the  writer's  hands,  containing  '  a  particular  of  the  prices  of 
the  several  species  of  provisions  therein  mentioned  as  the 
market  generally  goes  for  them  in  New  England,  to  which 
my  lord  treasurer   hath   desired    me   to   add   in  another 
column  the  common  medium  of  the  market  price  for  the 
like  respective  species  here  in  England.'     Desires  his  help. 

3379.  [p.  203.]     28    Oct.     S.   P.   to  Captain    Stepney, 
commander  of  the  Drake,  in   the  Downs. — Has  received 
his  of  the  26th,  and  is  glad  he  is  in  so  good  a  condition  of 
health  as  to  be  able  to  attend  his  duty  on  board  the  Drake. 
Sends   a  copy  of  the  late   orders  to  Lieutenant    Hodder 
[3374]  f°r  him  to  execute. 

3380.  [p.  203.]     28  Oct.     S.  P.  to    Captain  Lassells? 
commander  of  the   Garland,   in   the   Downs. — He   is   to 
recall  his  lieutenant  from  the  Drake  [3379].     Encloses  a 
copy  of  an  information  concerning  injuries  done  by  two 
French  privateers  which  was  given  in  to  the  committee  of 
the  council  for  trade.     Desires  him  to  acquaint  the  com- 

1  See  note  to  No.  3293. 

a  Mr.  Phineas  Pett,  master-shipwright  at  Chatham.     See  ii.  92  n. 
supra. 

3  See  note  to  No.  3033. 

4  Commander-in-chief  in  the  Downs  [3338].     See  ii.  236  n.  supra. 


304  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          Oct. 

manders  of  his  Majesty's  ships  cruising  abroad,  that  they 
may  look  out  for  them. 

3381.  [p.  204.]     28  Oct.     S.  P.  to  Lieutenant  Hodder, 
of  the  Garland. — Desires  him  to  deliver  to  Captain  Stepney 
the  orders  lately  sent  him  [3379],  and  himself  to  return  to 
the  Garland  [3380]. 

3382.  [p.  204]     31  Oct.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Henry  Low '.l 
— It  is  the  pleasure  of  the  lords '  that  from  henceforward  in 
all  certificates  which  you  shall  send '  them  '  of  the  surveys 
by  you  made  of  ships  made  free,  you  do  mention  '  '  as  well 
the  date  of  the  king's  order  for  making  the  ship  free  as 
the  date  of  the  certificate  of  the  surveyor  for  the  Act  of 
Navigation  that  she  is  so  made  free.' 

Underwritten :  '  The  like  to  Captain  John  Perriman.' 2 

3383.  [p.  204]    31  Oct.    S.P.toSirJohnKempthorne? 
the  commissioner  at  Portsmouth. — The  lieutenant  of  the 
Bristol's  receiving  the  soldiers  from  the  garrison  at  Ports- 
mouth was  wholly  without  order,  and  though  indeed  50 
of  them  was  once  designed  to  be  sent  by  her,  yet  that  design 
was  laid  aside  many  days  before.     The  Kitchen  yacht  will 
set  out  to-morrow  morning  to  fetch  them  hither  from  the 
Bristol  [3388],  to  be  put  on  board  the  ships  here  which 
shall  be  designed  to  carry  them  ;  but  she  having  but  a  small 
quantity  of  victuals  on  board,  he  is  desired  if  there  be 
occasion  to  order  her  a  supply  at  Portsmouth. 

3384.  [p.  205.]    31  Oct.    S.P.  to  Sir  John  Berry,''  com- 
mander of  the  Bristol,  at  Portsmouth. — The  king  having 
been  pleased  at  the  request  of  Sir  Charles  Wheeler  5  to  per- 
mit his  two  sons,  Mr.  Trevor  and  Mr.  Francis  Wheeler,  to 
proceed  in  the  Bristol  to  Virginia,  according  to  orders  for 
that  purpose  under  his  Majesty's  own  hand  which  will  be 
delivered  to  him,  he  is  to  receive  on  board  'the  several 
necessaries  following  which  the  said  gentlemen  design  to 
carry  for  their  accommodation  in  the  voyage  :  viz.  each  of 

1  Deputy-surveyor  of  the  Act  of  Navigation  [2507,  2514]. 

3  See  note  to  No.  2752. 

3  See  note  to  No.  2734.  4  See  note  to  No.  2274. 

5  Sir  Charles  Wheeler  had  been  governor  of  the  Leeward  Islands 
(Cal.  S.  P.  Dom.  1671-2,  index).  He  took  an  active  part  in  Lord 
Arlington's  impeachment  in  Jan.  1674  (ib.  1673-5,  P-  IO6)>  and  is 
described  by  one  of  Sir  Joseph  Williamson's  correspondents  as  '  your 
old  religious  friend'  (ib.  p.  108). 


1676  FIFTH   VOLUME  305 

them  a  seaman's  chest  and  mattress  to  lie  on,  one  runlet 
of  brandy,  one  hamper  of  wine,  one  firkin  of  butter,  one 
cask  of  cheese  and  biscuit,  and  one  hamper  of  arms  for 
their  particular  use.' 

3385.  [p.  205.]     31   Oct.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Hayter^  navy 
office. — The  lords  will  meet  to-morrow,  though  a  holy-day, 
which  was  not  foreseen. 

Postscript. — Lest  anything  should  prevent  Sir  Richard 
Haddock2  and  Sir  Anthony  Deane3  being  here,  the  writer 
desires  that  he  will  let  the  enclosed  state  of  the  Virginia 
ships  be  carried  on  to  this  day,  and  brought  along  with 
him. 

3386.  [p.  206.]     3 1  Oct.    S.  P.  to  Dr.  Lloyd?  surrogate 
to  the  judge  of  the  admiralty. — To  attend  the  lords  to- 
morrow at  9,  in  a  matter  referred  to  them  from  the  council - 
table. 

3387.  [p.  206.]     3 1  Oct.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Houlding,  of 
the  Assistance,  at  Falmouth. — His  of  the  25th  from  Fal- 
mouth,  intimating  his  arrival  there  from  Lisbon,  is  very 
welcome,  the  want  of  some  intelligence  from  him,  added 
to  reports  of  the  ill  condition  of  his  ship  when  he  was 
parted  from  the  Dartmouth,  having  begun  to  raise  some 
fears  for  his  safety.    Will  acquaint  the  king  and  lords  with 
the  occasion  of  his  long  stay  at  Lisbon  ;  thanks  him  for 
the  transcript    of  the   papers  which   passed  between  the 
consul  there  and  the  government  in  relation  to  the  three 
English  ships  brought  in  thither  after  being  rescued  from 
the  Turks.     Doubts  not   his   message  to    Plymouth   will 
have  brought  him  the  king's  orders,  some  time  since  lodged 
there,  for  his  coming  to  Sheerness.    If  his  provisions  should 
be  expended  too  far  he  should  come  to  Plymouth,  where 
there  is  greater  despatch  than  at  Falmouth. 

3388.  [p.  207.]     31    Oct.     S.  P.    to    Sir  John  Berry? 
commander  of  the  Bristol,  at  Portsmouth. — It  is  the  plea- 
sure  of  the  king  and    lords   that  since  (though  without 
order)  the  78  soldiers  and  2  officers  from  the  garrison  at 
Portsmouth  are  put  on  board  the  Bristol,  they  should  be 
there  kept  and  victualled  as  his  ship's  company  are  until 
received  either  by  some  of  the  ships  which  are  to  accom- 

1  See  note  to  No.  2857.  a  See  note  to  No.  3268. 

3  See  note  to  No.  3033.  4  See  ii.  306  n.  supra. 

5  See  note  to  No  2274. 
VOL.  III.  X 


306  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          Oct. 

pany  him  to  Virginia,  or  by  the  Kitchen  yacht  [3383]. 
Has  moved  the  king  and  will  move  the  lords  touching 
those  of  his  company  who  by  the  lateness  of  their  entry  on 
board  will  not  have  any  benefit  of  the  6  months'  pay  now 
ordered  to  his  ships.  So  soon  as  his  company  shall  be 
paid,  he  is  to  hasten  up  hither  to  receive  final  directions 
for  his  voyage  to  Virginia. 

3389.  [p.  208.]     31   Oct.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Baylie,  ship- 
wright, at  Bristol. — Is  '  extremely  afHicted  at  the  misfor- 
tunes '  drawn  upon  him  by  the  nonpayment  of  what  is  due 
to  him  from  the  king,  '  wishing  with  all  my  heart  that  any- 
thing were  in  my  power  that  could  be  justifiably  done  in 
my  place  towards  your  relief,  by  obtaining  the  means  you 
desire  of  being  protected  from  the  violence  of  your  credi- 
tors ;  but  do  assure  you  that  were  it  my  brother's  or  my 
own  case,  I  do  not  know  what  I  could  justifiably  do  towards 
it,  you  having  no  dependence  upon  or  relation  by  office  to 
the  navy  to  ground  any  protection  to  you  upon  ;  nor,  could 
you  have  it,  would  the  same  be  of  any  long  use  to  you,  his 
Majesty  and  my  lords  of  the  admiralty  having  made  it 
their   general  practice  to  deny  no  man  the  right  of  law 
against  anyone  in  his  Majesty's  service  where  leave  is  asked, 
and  his  Majesty's  service  .wherein  the  party  complained  of 
is  interested  will  not  suffer  immediate  prejudice  thereby.  .  .' 

3390.  [p.  209.]     31   Oct.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board— 
The  king  having  referred  to  the  lord  treasurer  '  the  con- 
sideration of  the  different  advantage  it  may  be  of  to  him 
either  presently  to  pay  off  the  Harwich,  or  to  continue  her 
in  pay  in  order  to  the  speedier  manning  of  another  ship  in 
proposition  to  be  forthwith  fitted  to  sea  for  transporting 
Sir  John   Narbrough  *  back  again  to  the  Straits,'  and  he 
having  upon  advising  with  Mr.    Speaker2  and    Sir  John 
Narbrough  determined  upon  paying  her  off  forthwith,  and 
that  in  order  thereto  Sir  John  Narbrough  is  repaired  down 
to  Portsmouth,  the  writer  desires   them   immediately   to 
issue  the  necessary  orders  while  Sir  Thomas  Allin  3  is  upon 
the  place,  he  taking  upon  himself  to  provide  an  order  from 
the  lords  forthwith. 

1  D.  N.  B.  xl.  89. 

2  Mr.  Edward  Seymour,  the  treasurer  of  the  navy,  was  also  Speaker 
of  the  House  of  Commons  (D.  N.B.  li.  312). 

3  Comptroller  of  the  navy.     D,  N.  B.  \.  332, 


1676  FIFTH   VOLUME  307 

Is  also  to  take  notice  to  them  (as  he  has  already  this 
day  done  to  Sir  Richard  Haddock x  and  Sir  Anthony 
Deane  2)  that  most  part  of  the  other  preparations  [are]  now 
'  drawing  to  a  full  ripening '  for  the  intended  expedition  to 
Virginia,  and  that  the  whole  is  in  some  danger  of  being 
stopped  in  its  execution  by  the  unreadiness  of  the  Dart- 
mouth and  Rose  ;  all  possible  diligence  should  be  used  in 
finishing  their  fitting. 

They  are  to  consider  what  quantity  of  salt  should  be 
sent  to  Virginia  for  enabling  the  king's  forces  now  going 
over  to  save  such  fresh  meat  as  they  may  have  opportunity 
of  furnishing  themselves  with  (out  of  the  country)  after 
their  arrival. 

3391.  [p.  210.]     31  Oct.     Memorial  for  Mr.  Secretary 
Coventry? — Since  the  date  of  his  Majesty's  warrant  for  a 
supplemental  estimate  for  77  men  to  be  added  to  the  1,000 
formerly  ordered  for  Virginia,  his  Majesty  upon  further 
information  from  the  Duke  of  Monmouth 4  has  directed  the 
like  provision  to  be  made  for  53  more.     For  doing  whereof 
his  Majesty's  warrant  is  desired  to  the  lords  of  the  admiralty 
with  respect  to  their  freight,  victuals,  bedding,  magazines, 
&c. 

Underwritten  :  '  By  command  of  my  lords. — S.  P.' 

3392.  [p.  2o8.5]     I  Nov.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners  of 
the    Customs. — About   a   pass  for   the   Bristol    frigate,  of 
London,  Henry  Greenhill  master,  now  at  Plymouth. 

3393.  [p.  210.]     i  Nov.     S.  P.  to  Sir  A.  Deane*  and 
Sir  Richard  Haddock? — Desires  information  for  the  king 
and  lords  how  far  the  masters  of  the  hired  ships  have  their 
provisions  on  board  for  the  victualling  of  the  men  in  their 
passage,   they  being  now  'very  intent  upon    winding  up 
all  their  ends  together'  relating  to  the  Virginia   service. 
Desires  to  know  also  the  readiness  of  the  victuallers  of 
the  navy  in  the  provisions  they  are  to  put  on  board  the 
Dartmouth  and  Rose.     Prays  them  to  consider  '  whether 
we  may  not  depend  upon  custom-house  smacks  or  other 
fitting  vessels  enough  at  24  hours'  warning  in  the  River 
for  the  carrying  down  between  400  and  500  soldiers  of 

1  See  note  to  No.  3268.  2  See  note  to  No.  3033. 

3  D.  N.  B.  xii.  357.  4  See  note  to  No.  3293. 

5  Out  of  order  in  the  MS. 

X  2 


3o8  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS         Nov. 

the  old  companies  after  it  shall  be  ordered,  with  the  help  of 
a  yacht  or  two  if  it  shall  be  necessary.' 

3394.  [p.  211.]     i  Nov.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Fownes,c\erk  of 
the  check  at  Deptford. — Desires  him  to  order  the  boat- 
swain, gunner,  and  carpenter  of  the  Richmond  yacht  to 
attend  the  lords  on  Saturday  morning  next  at  9. 

3395.  [p.  211.]    i  Nov.    S.  P.  to  Captain  Lassells,1  com- 
mander of  the  Garland,  in  the  Downs. — Has  received  his 
of  30  Oct.,  giving  an  account  of  his  being  returned  from 
Ostend,  and  being  in  a  readiness  to  convoy  the  ships  to 
Rotterdam  [3367]  so  soon  as  they  shall  arrive  in  Margate 
Roads.     The  lords  have  ordered  the  officers  of  the  navy 
to  supply  him  with  2  months'  victuals. 

3396.  [p.  2 1 1 .]     2  Nov.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners  of 
the  Customs. — About  a  pass  for  the  Warrior,  of  London, 
Robert  Porter  master,  in  the  Downs  bound  to  the  Straits. 

3397.  [p.    211.]     2   Nov.     S.   P.   to  Mr.  St.  Michel? 
Downs. — Encloses  him  a  warrant  from  the  king  to  Captain 
Clements 3  about  convoy  for  horses  [3402]. 

3398.  [p.  212.]     2  Nov.     S.  P.  to  Sir  John  Berry?  com- 
mander of  the  Bristol,  at  Portsmouth. — To  hasten  up  to 
town,  sending  his  ship  into  the  Downs  (in  company  with 
the  Deptford  ketch)  with  what  soldiers  are  now  on  board 
her  from  the  garrison  of  Portsmouth. 

3399.  [p.  212.]     2  Nov.     S.P.  to  Captain  Tyte,  com- 
mander of  the  Deptford  ketch,  at  Portsmouth. — To  come 
into  the  Downs  [3398], 

3400.  [p.  212.]     2  Nov.     S.  P.  to  Captain    Wright? 
commander  of  the  Kitchen  yacht,  in  the  Downs. — He  is  to 
proceed   to   Portsmouth  and    apply  himself  to  Sir  John 
Narbrough,6  commander  of  the  Harwich,  for  '  such  beasts 
and  other  things  for  his  Majesty '  and  baggage  of  Sir  John's 
own  as  he  shall  think  fit  to  send  by  him,  and  bring  the 
same  into  the  River. 

3401.  [p.  213.]     3  Nov.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Lock,  secretary 
at  war. — The  Duke  of  Monmouth,7  having  last  night  pro- 
posed to  the  king  and  lords  the  sending  a  quantity  of  rice 

1  Commander-in-chief  in  the  Downs  [3417].     See  ii.  236  n.  supra. 
3  See  note  to  No.  2387. 

3  Captain  John  Clements  was  commander  of  the  Greyhound  [3592]. 

4  See  note  to  No.  2274.  5  See  ii.  12  n.  supra. 

•  D.  N.  B.  xl.  89.  •>  See  note  to  No.  3293. 


1676  FIFTH   VOLUME  309 

along  with  the  soldiers  to  Virginia  'as  a  relief  to  such  of 
them  as  shall  be  sick  in  their  passage,'  the  writer  desires 
his  Grace's  instructions  as  to  the  quantity  to  be  provided 
by  the  officers  of  the  navy  [3409]. 

3402.  [p.  213.]     3  Nov.     S.  P.  to    Captain   Lassells?- 
Garland,  Downs. — He  is  designed  for  another  voyage  to 
Gottenburg,  so  is  to  hasten  with  the  convoys  to  Rotterdam 
[3395,  3451]  and  to  return  directly  to  Sheerness  to  take  on 
board  the  things  he  had   formerly  laden  on  him  for  the 
service  of  the  King  of  Sweden  [3433].     Orders  went  hence 
last  night  for  the  Greyhound's  convoying  over  some  horses 
to  Calais  belonging  to  the  King  of  France. 

3403.  [p.  213.]     3  Nov.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Houlding,  of 
the  Assistance,  in  the  Downs. — He  is  to  stay  in  the  Downs 
till  further  order,  sending  up  an  account  of  the  condition  of 
his  ship  in  reference  to  her  capacity  of  being  continued 
abroad  for  some  time  in  the  Downs. 

3404.  [p.  214.]    4  Nov.    S.P.toSir  John  Kempthorne? 
at  Portsmouth. — The  Bristol  is  ordered  into  the  Downs 
with   the   soldiers  for  Virginia  [3398],  and    the    Kitchen 
yacht  is  on  her  way  to  Portsmouth  [3400].     Is  sending 
orders  for  the  Dragon  and  Portsmouth  to  go  out  to  Spit- 
head. 

3405.  [p.  214.]     4  Nov.    S.P.toSirJohnNarbrough? 
at  Portsmouth. — Acquaints  him  that  the  Kitchen  yacht  is 
ordered  towards  him  [3400]. 

3406.  [p.   214.]     4  Nov.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  St.  Michel*— 
Encloses  orders  for  the  convoy  of  3  ships,  which  he  is  to 
deliver  to  whichever  of  his  Majesty's  small  ships  shall  be 
in  the  Downs  at  the  time  of  their  arrival  there. 

3407.  [p.  2 1 5 .]    4  Nov.    S.  P.  to  Sir  Richard  Haddock 5 
and  Sir  Anthony  Deane? — To  attend  a  meeting  of  all  the 
officers  concerned  in  the  Virginia  preparations,  to  be  had 
at  the  Duke  of  Monmouth's  lodgings  at  3  to-morrow. 

3408.  [p.  215.]     7  Nov.    S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners  oj 
the  Customs. — About  a  pass  for  the  Elizabeth,  of  London, 
Fletcher  master,  at  Southampton. 

3409.  [p.  215.]     7  Nov.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board. — 

1  Commander-in-chief  in  the  Downs  [3417].     See  ii.  236  n.  supra. 
3  See  note  to  No.  2734. 

3  Commander  of  the  Harwich  [3400].     D.  N.  B.  xl.  89. 

4  See  note  to  No.  2387.  '"  See  note  to  No.  3268. 


3io  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS         Nov. 

Though  he  has  already  signified  it  to  Sir  Thomas  Allin  l  at 
his  meeting  him  at  court,  yet  the  writer  thought  it  not 
amiss  by  these  two  words  to  note  to  them  his  Majesty's 
purpose  that  the  whole  number  of  soldiers  be  shipped  off 
to-morrow  that  are  in  readiness  to  go  down  hence  to  the 
Virginia  ships.  But  inquiring  yesterday  of  the  Duke  of 
Monmouth  2  at  a  meeting  in  this  affair  [3407]  touching  some 
little  parcels  of  men  to  be  fetched  from  Windsor,  Rochester, 
Dover,  Gravesend,  and  Sheerness,  the  writer '  found  that  no 
certain  care  had  been  committed  to  any  particular  hand 
for  the  seeing  of  that  work  timelily  adjusted  ' ;  but,  '  upon 
this  motion  of  mine,  notes  were  taken  by  his  Grace  and  the 
secretary  of  the  army,  so  as  I  hope  it  will  now  speedily  be 
done,  and  you  may  hear  of  some  demand  for  passage, 
especially  for  those  coming  from  Windsor  after  the  main 
bulk  of  them  shall  be  sent  away.' 

They  are  to  remember  that,  together  with  the  men,  the 
bedding  be  also  shipped  off  for  the  whole,  and  in  the  dis- 
posing of  the  men  among  the  ships  to  do  it  '  according  to 
the  distribution  which  Captain  Tong,3  who  is  entrusted 
therewith,  shall  make  of  them,  to  whom  it  has  been 
sufficiently  notified  by  my  Lord  Duke  of  Monmouth  that 
he  is  not  to  make  his  distributions  otherwise  than  may  be 
conformable  to  the  numbers  by  you  contracted  for  to  each 
ship  ;  for  the  preventing  any  error  on  his  part  wherein  I 
did  yesterday,  to  the  satisfaction  of  his  Grace  and  some 
other  of  my  lords  who  were  there,  score  him  out  a  method 
(in  a  tabular  way)  for  his  adjusting  his  said  distributions, 
so  as  that  the  same  may  at  one  view  enable  him  to  ascer- 
tain his  proceedings  therein.'  The  care  of  the  rice  is  taken 
off  them  [3401]  by  its  being  placed  upon  the  chirurgeon- 
general  of  the  forces, '  who  will  be  charged  with  providing 
the  rice  and  all  other  the  ordinary  medicinal  provisions  for 
sick  men,  according  to  the  allowance  usually  made  in  like 
cases  in  the  navy,  of  1 2d.  per  man  for  6  months,'  money  being 
demanded  by  the  duke  for  enabling  the  chirurgeon-general 
to  make  this  provision.  As  for  the  salt  [3390],  the  board 
is  to  provide  the  quantity  they  propose  of  4  weighs,  and  to 

1  Comptroller  of  the  navy.     D.  N.  B.  i.  332. 

2  See  note  to  No.  3293. 

3  Captain  John  Tong  was  a  land-officer  (CaL  S.  P.  Dom.  1672, 
P- 


1676  FIFTH   VOLUME  311 

present  an  estimate  thereof  to  the  lords,  upon  which  money 
will  be  demanded  [3425].  They  are  also  to  present  the 
lords  with  an  estimate  for  the  freight  of  an  additional 
quantity  of  stores  designed  to  be  sent  from  the  Tower,  to 
be  computed  according  to  the  tonnage  which  Sir  Thomas 
Chicheley  *  has  undertaken  to  give  them  an  account  of  from 
his  office  [3425]. 

3410.  [p.  217.]     7  Nov.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Lodge,  post- 
master at  Deal. — Has  observed  in  two  of  his  daily  certifi- 
cates of  the  ships  in  the  Downs, '  two  ships  listed  among 
the  king's  which  appertain  not  to  his  Majesty  ' — the  Prince 
Rupert  in  his  list  of  the  3rd,  and  the  Shaftesbury  in  that  of 
the  6th — a  mistake  arising,  as  the  writer  supposes,  from 
their  wearing  the  king's  jack,  contrary  to  the  discipline  of 
the  navy  and  the  letter  of  the  proclamation.     Desires  to 
know  if  this  is  so,  that  he  may  receive  the  king's  pleasure 

in  it  [34 1 7]- 

3411.  [p.  218.]    7  Nov.    S.  P.  to  Captain  Country r,  late 
commander  of  the   Roebuck,  at   Rochester. — A  vacancy 
having  happened  in  the  gunnership  of  the  Royal  Charles  by 
the  late  death  of  Alexander  Ramsey,  the  king,  remember- 
ing his  desire  of  being  '  provided  for  by  a  standing  employ- 
ment of  that  kind,'  hath  been  pleased  in  consideration  of 
his  long  and  faithful  services  to  confer  the  said  employment 
upon  him  [3414]. 

3412.  [p.  218.]     7  Nov.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Tyte,  com- 
mander of  the  Deptford  ketch,  at  Portsmouth. — Doubts 
not  but  upon  his  arrival  in  the  Downs  care  will  be  taken 
for    distributing    the    soldiers    put   on   board    him    from 
Portsmouth. 

3413.  [p.  218.]    7  Nov.     S.  P.  to  Lieutenant  Trelawny? 
lieutenant  of  the  Bristol,  at  Portsmouth. — Desires  that  in 
the  absence  of  Sir  John  Berry  he  will  lose  no  opportunity 
of  hastening  into  the  Downs  [3398]. 

3414.  [p.  219.]    7  Nov.    S.  P.  to  Sir  John  Kempt  home? 
commissioner  at  Portsmouth. — Thanks  him  for  his  advice 
of  the  4th  of  the  payment  of  the  Harwich  and  the  readiness 

1  Master-general  of  the  ordnance.     D.  N.  B.  x.  231. 

a  William  Trelawny  had  been  appointed  lieutenant  of  the  Bristol 
28  April,  1675.  Pepys's  Register  mentions  two  other  lieutenants  of 
the  same  surname  (i.  415  supra). 

3  See  note  to  No.  2734. 


3i2  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS         Nov. 

of  the  Dragon  and  Portsmouth.  Is  sending  the  sailing 
orders  of  these  two  ships  'upon  hopes  that  they  have 
received  the  pay  intended  them  by  Sir  Thomas  Allin.'1 
Has  acquainted  the  king  and  his  Royal  Highness  with  his 
desires  in  relation  to  Mr.  Adams,  gunner  of  the  Cambridge, 
for  his  advance  to  the  Royal  Charles,  c  and  by  the  grace 
of  God,  so  long  as  I  have  the  honour  of  serving  his  Majesty 
in  this  post,  no  man  shall  endeavour  more  his  Majesty's 
bestowal  of  employments  by  advancement  of  officers  well 
deserving  in  lesser  offices  to  greater  than  I  have,  and  shall 
do,  and  in  particular  favour  this  person  so  recommended 
by  you  ;  though  on  the  present  occasion  his  Majesty  hath 
in  justice  bestowed  this  vacancy  upon  one  who  hath  neither 
now  solicited  for,  nor  knows  anything  of  it — namely, 
Captain  Richard  Country  [3411],  who  hath  for  many  years 
served  his  Majesty  as  a  commander,2  with  an  extraordinary 
character  given  him  by  Sir  John  Narbrough 3  in  his  late 
service  under  him  within  the  Mediterranean.' 

3415.  [p.  219.]     7  Nov.     S.  P.  to  the  Bailiffs  of  Yar- 
mouth.— The  Cleveland  yacht  sailed  from  Deptford  yester- 
day to  ease  them  of  the  prisoners  mentioned  in  their  letter 
of  the  3rd  [33 5 1]. 

3416.  [p.  220.]     7  Nov.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board. — In 
answer  to  their  letter  recommending  Mr.  Betts  to  be  gunner 
of  the  Royal  Charles,  the  writer  would  most  willingly  have 
contributed  his  service  to  the  benefit  of  one  so  well  quali- 
fied, but  that  employment  is  bestowed  on  Captain  Country 
[3411,  3414].     Desires  they  will  despatch  the  Dartmouth 
and   Rose  for  Virginia  [3390],  '  lest  the  rest  of  the  pre- 
parations, which  seem  to  be  very  forward  for  that  voyage, 
be  put  to  any  halt  for  them.' 

3417.  [p.  220.]     7  Nov.      S.  P.  to  Captain   Lassells, 
commander  of  the  Garland,  in    the    Downs. — Desires  he 
will  lose  no  opportunities  of  proceeding  with  his  convoys  so 
soon  as  he  has  advice  of  their  arrival  in  Margate  Road 
[3451].     If  the  Prince  Rupert  and  the  Shaftesbury  have 
been  wearing  the  king's  jack  [3410],  it  may  be  imputed  as 
a  crime  upon  himself  as  commander-in-chief  in  the  Downs, 
who  with  the  rest  of  the  commanders  is  by  the  proclama- 

1  See  note  to  No.  3409. 

:  His  first  command  was  to  the  Hind  ketch  in  1661  (i.  "no  su6rd). 

3  D.  N.  B.  xl.  8g. 


1676  FIFTH   VOLUME  313 

tion  expressly  directed  to  prevent  that  irregularity  by 
demanding  an  account  of  the  warrant  such  ships  shall  have 
to  justify  their  wearing  it  [3469], 

3418.  [p.   221.]      7   Nov.      S.  P.  to    Captain    Temple, 
commander  of  the  Dartmouth,  at  Sheerness.- — Has  written 
to  the  officers  of  the  navy  to  hasten  his  ship  [3416],  '  who 
by  two  of  their  number  this  day  gone  down  on  that  behalf 
are  I  hope  very  thoughtful  thereon.' 

3419.  [p.  222.]     7  Nov.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Ashby,  com- 
mander of  the  Rose,  at  Sheerness. — The  king,  understanding 
the  forwardness  of  his  ship,  gives  him  leave  to  come  up  to 
town  for  a  day  or  two. 

3420.  [p.  222.]     7  Nov.     S.  P.  to  Lieutenant  Tyrrell^ 
lieutenant  of  the  Dragon,  at   Portsmouth. — Understands 
from  one  of  his  own  clerks  that  he  is  unsatisfied  with  his 
Majesty's  having,  at  the  motion  of  his  Royal  Highness, 
grounded  upon  the  importunity  of  Sir  Roger  Strickland, 
appointed  Mr.  Gifford  to  the  place  of  2nd  lieutenant  under 
him  in  the  Dragon.2  '  I  take  the  liberty  of  speaking  my  mind 
to  you  as  a  friend,  that  I  would  by  no  means  you  should  ex- 
press any  such  resentment  of  an  act  of  his  Majesty's  as  by  my 
clerk's  discourse  you  seemed  urged  to  by  this  proposal  of  Mr. 
Gifford's,  it  being  a  thing  that  I  fear  both  his  Majesty  and 
his  Royal  Highness  may  have  a  just  exception  to,  and  inter- 
pret to  the  prejudice  of  that  duty  which  I  dare  say  you  do 
design  and  always  will  endeavour  to  comply  with  to  his 
Majesty.    Nevertheless,  if  this  dissatisfaction  of  yours  be 
grounded  either  on  any  just  exception  to  the  proceedings 
of  Sir  Roger  Strickland  in  the  recommending  to,  or  to  Mr. 
Gifford's  qualifications  for  the  said  employment,  or  that  you 
do  imagine  as  I  seem  to  understand  it  that  this  may  turn 
to  any  discouragement,  wrong,  or  just  offence  to  you,  I 
shall  very  readily  receive  and  improve  any  informations 
you  shall  give  me  of  it.      .  .' 

3421.  [p.  222.]     7  Nov.    S.  P.  to  Sir  Roger  Strickland? 
commander  of  the  Dragon,  at  Portsmouth. — Encloses  the 

1  On  John  Tyrrell's  extraction  and  subsequent  career  see  Char- 
nock,  Biog.  Nav.  ii.  32. 

2  William  Gifford's  commission  is  dated  2  Nov.  1676  (i.  354  supra). 
He  was  commissioner  of  the  navy  at  Portsmouth  under  Queen  Anne, 
and  was  knighted  (Charnock,  Biog.  Nav.  ii.  93). 

3  D.  N.  B.  Iv.  52. 


3i4  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS         Nov. 

king's  orders  for  his  proceeding  on  his  voyage  to  the  Straits, 
which  he  doubts  not  but  his  ship  and  the  Portsmouth  will 
be  ready  for  so  soon  as  the  Turkey  ships  shall  arrive  with 
him.  Presumes  that  their  companies  have  already  received 
the  pay  intended  them  before  their  going  to  sea. 

3422.  [p.  223.]     7  Nov.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board. — In 
pursuance  of  his  Majesty's  directions  this  day  by  the  Bishop 
of  London,  this  comes  to  inform  them  that  the  bearer,  Mr. 
Doughty,  is  one  of  the  two  chaplains  to  be  sent  with  the 
fleet  to  Virginia.     They  are  to  direct  him  to  some  one  of 
the  ships,  either  his  Majesty's  or  merchantmen,  where  he 
may  be  best  accommodated,  and  have  the  charge  of  his 
passage  thither  free,  at  the  rate  given  by  the  king  for  the 
rest  of  his  forces  bound  thither, '  with  as  much  respect  to 
his  function  as  can  be  shown  without  increase  of  charge  to 
his  Majesty.' 

3423.  [p.  224.]     7  Nov.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Story \  com- 
mander  of   the   Portsmouth,    at    Portsmouth, — Encloses 
orders  for  his  voyage,  presuming  his  company  have  re- 
ceived the  pay  designed  them. 

3424.  [p.  224.]     7  Nov.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners  of 
the  Customs. — About  a  pass  for  the  Exchange,  of  Bristol, 
Robert  Morris  master,  at  Bristol. 

3425.  [p.  224.]     &  Nov.     Memorial  for  Mr.  Secretary 
Coventry)- — A  warrant  from  his  Majesty  is  desired  by  the 
lords,  authorising  them  to  provide  salt  for  Virginia  [3409]. 
The  like  warrant  is  also  wanting  for  empowering  them  to 
provide   freight  upon   the  merchant  ships  now  going  to 
Virginia  for  the  additional  quantity  of  stores  lately  ordered 
to  be  sent  out  of  the  office  of  the  ordnance  [3409]. 

3426.  [p.  225.]     8  Nov.     Memorial  for  his  Majesty  in 
Council — '  Whereas  his  Majesty  hath  been  pleased  to  order 
the  present  fitting  forth  and  manning  for  the  sea  his  two 
new  galley-frigates,2  the  Charles  and  James,  the  former  to 
be  manned  with  220  men  and  the  latter  with  200,  including 
80  watermen  to  each  for  the  use  of  the  oar.     And  whereas 
application  hath  been  made  to  my  lords  of  the  admiralty, 
as  well  from  the  chief  officers  of  the  said  frigates  as  the 
Rulers  of  the   Watermen's    Hall,   showing  that  the  said 
numbers  of  men  cannot  be  at  present   procured  without 

1  D.  N.  B.  xii.  357.  2  See  note  to  No.  3240. 


1676  FIFTH   VOLUME  315 

press-warrants  by  reason  of  the  scarcity  of  seamen  and  the 
high  wages  at  this  day  given  by  the  merchantmen,  it's 
humbly  offered  to  his  Majesty's  consideration  in  council  that 
press-warrants  may  accordingly  be  given  to  the  Rulers  of 
the  Watermen's  Company  for  the  empowering  them  to 
impress  80  able  watermen  for  each  of  the  said  frigates  for 
the  use  aforesaid,  and  to  the  chief  officer  of  each  of  the 
said  frigates  so  many  seamen  as  may  complete  their 
respective  complements  to  the  numbers  first  mentioned.' 

Underwritten :  '  By  command  of  the  lords. — S.  P.' 

3427.  [p.  225.]      8  Nov.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Houlding, 
commander  of  the  Assistance,  at  Sheerness. — To  bring  his 
ship  up  to  Deptford,  as  she  cannot  be  repaired  without  a 
dock. 

3428.  [p.  226.]     9  Nov.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Cooke,1  at  Mr. 
Secretary  Coventry's. — Has  received  his  of  to-day  enclosing 
his  Majesty's  two  warrants  about  Virginia  [3425].     There 
is  also  come  from  Mr.  Lock 2  a  proposition  from  the  Duke 
of  Monmouth 3  '  for  a  supply  of  brandy  for  the  use  of  the 
soldiers  in    their   passage  thither,  beyond  the   magazine 
already  provided  for  their  expense  after  their  landing  there.' 
This  the  writer  sends  him,  praying  that    Mr.    Secretary 
Coventry 4  may  be  moved  for  the  receiving  his  Majesty's 
pleasure  and  procuring  his  warrant  about  it  to  the  lords. 

3429.  [p.  226.]     9  Nov.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Lock,  secretary 
at  war. — Has  sent  the  contents  of  his  letter  to  Mr.  Secre- 
tary Coventry's  office  [3428].     Encloses  a  copy  of  a  paper 
from    Sir  Richard  Haddock  5   and  Sir  Anthony  Deane,6 
showing  what  they  have  done  as  to  the  accommodation  of 
the  officers  in  the  great  cabins  of  the  merchantmen  taken 
up  for  Virginia  [3448].     Leaves  him  to  communicate  it  to 
Colonel  Jeffreys  and  the  rest  of  the  commanders,  as  the 
writer  has  already  done  to  the  Duke  of  Monmouth.3 

3430.  [p.  227.]     9  Nov.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— 
Encloses  a  copy  of  a  letter  about  brandy  for  the  soldiers 
[3428],  grounded  upon  the  Duke  of  Monmouth's  desire 
of  having  them  provided  for  'in  as  good  and  the  same 

1  See  note  to  No.  3340.  2  Secretary  at  war  [3429]. 

3  See  note  to  No.  3293.  *  D.  N.  B.  xii.  357. 

5  See  note  to  No.  3268.  6  See  note  to  No.  3033. 


316  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS         Nov. 

manner  as  the  seamen  are  said  to  be.'     Desires  to  know 
what  the  provision  of  brandy  is  for  the  seamen. 

3431.  [p.    227.]     10  Nov.     The  same  to   the  same.— 
Desires  to  know  whether  they  have  occasion  of  a  warrant 
for  dispensing  with  the  embargo  [3262]  to  one  of  the  Virginia 
ships  in  the  Isle  of  Wight,  so  far  as  to  give  her  liberty  of 
removing  from  thence  to  the  Spithead  to  take  in  a  supply 
of  victuals   for   the  40   men  last  ordered  to  the  Bristol. 
Takes  notice  of  the  provision  they  have  made  for  the  salt 
[3409] ;  hopes  also  for   the  freight  for  the  Tower   stores 
[3409].     The  sending  the  60  soldiers  to  the  Dartmouth  and 
Rose  was  done  by  the  inadvertency  of  the  muster-master 
of  the  forces,  as  those  two  men-of-war  were  designed  to 
take  the  soldiers  out  of  the  Bristol  when  they  met  in  the 
Downs  ;  but  since  it  hath  so  fallen  out  they  have  done  very 
thoughtfully  in  ordering  the  clerk  of  the  check  at  Sheerness 
to  see   them   victualled.     Desires   to   know   from   whom, 
according   to   contract,   the    hired    merchantmen   are   to 
receive  their  sailing  instructions  ;  to  the  end  that  if  they  are 
to  expect  them  from  the  board  the  writer  may  provide  his 
Majesty's  orders  to  it,  or  if  from  the  king  (the  sum  of  which 
will  be  for  them  to  follow  Sir  John  Berry's  directions)  he 
may  see  them  despatched. 

3432.  [p.  2  3 1  y\    i  o  Nov.   Report  oftJie  Lords  of  the  A  d- 
miralty  about  a  petition. — The  lords  having  considered  the 
petition  of  Nathaniel  Lodington  2  and  Thomas  Onebye,2 
referred  to  them  by  an  Order  in  Council  dated  20  Oct.  1676, 
do  upon  conference  had  with  Dr.  Lloyd,3  surrogate  to  the 
judge  of  the  high  court  of  admiralty,  return  it  as  their  opinion 
that  the  boat  and  goods  be  ordered  to  be  delivered  up  to 
the  petitioners  upon  their  obliging  themselves  by  bond  in 
the  sum  of  i,ooo/.  to  his  Majesty  for  making  good  so  much 
of  their   value   as   shall  upon   any  future  evidence  from 
Captain  Preistman 4  within  1 2  months  appear  due  to  his 
Majesty  upon  the  capture  thereof  by  the   said  Captain 
Preistman  ;  and  that  the  Moors  taken  in  the  said  boat  be 
forthwith  discharged  [3475]. 

1  Out  of  order  in  the  MS. 

2  These  were  merchants  of  London  trading  with  Sallee  (Cal.  S.  P. 
Dom.  1673-5,  P-  352). 

3  See  ii.  306  n.  supra. 

4  Captain  Henry  Preistman  was  commander  of  the  Lark  [3311]. 


1676  FIFTH   VOLUME  317 

3433.  [p.  228.]     II  Nov.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Hayter.1— En- 
closes a  copy  of  the  particulars  of  the  goods  belonging  to 
the  King  of  Sweden  to  go  to  Gottenburg  [3402],  and  desires 
him  to  look  out  a  small  vessel  fit  for  it  in  the  River  [3451]. 

3434.  [p.  229.]     1 1    Nov.     S.  P.  to  Sir  John  Kemp- 
thorne?  at  Portsmouth. — Thanks  him  for  his  advice  of  the 
7th  of  the  Dragon  and  Portsmouth  sailing  to  the  Spithead 
[3421,3423]. 

3435.  [p.  229.]     1 1   Nov.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Roger  Strick- 
land? commander  of  the   Dragon,  at  Portsmouth. — Has 
moved  for  some  moneys  for  his  company  and  the  Ports- 
mouth's before  going  to  sea.     Sends  the  king's  orders  for 
his  disposal  of  the  Portsmouth  in  case  the   Scanderoon 
ships  should  be  come  away  before  he  arrives  at  Zante. 

3436.  [p.    229.]       II     Nov.       Certificate   for   Captain 
Ed^vard  Finn,    late  commander  of  the  Cleveland   yacht 
[2561]. — That  he  hath  delivered  into  this  office,  according 
to  the  order  of  the  lords,  monthly  journals  of  his  proceedings 
in  the  said  yacht  while  he  had  command  of  her. 

3437.  [p.  230.]     1 1  Nov.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Temple?  at 
Sheerness. — Thanks  him  for  his  account  of  the   loth  of 
his  ship's  being  out  of  the  dock  and  ready  to  receive  her 
ballast ;  desires  him  to  hasten  her  despatch,  the  service 
whereon  he  is  now  designed  admitting  of  no  delay.     Leave 
to  '  make  a  step  to  town '  for  24  hours. 

3438.  [p.  230.]      13  Nov.     Memorial  for  contingent 
money  for  Sir  John   Berry:1 — Pursuant   to  his  Majesty's 
resolutions  taken  yesterday,  12  Nov.    1676,  his  Majesty's 
warrant  is  desired  for  authorising  and  requiring  the  lords 
to  direct  the  officers  of  the  navy  to  imprest  5oo/.  unto  Sir 
John    Berry  as  contingent   money  for   the  expedition  to 
Virginia  [3450]. 

Underwritten :  '  By  command  of  the  lords. — S.  P.' 

3439.  [p.  230.]     [13  Nov.6]     Memorial  about  a  power  to 
Sir  John  Berry  ^  to  imprest  ships. — '  His  Majesty's  warrant 

1  See  note  to  No.  2857.  2  See  note  to  No.  2734. 

3  D.N.B.  Iv.  52. 

4  Captain  John  Temple  was  commander  of  the  Dartmouth  [3418]. 
6  Commander  of  the  Bristol  [3398].     D.  N.  B.  iv.  398.     Charnock 

refers  to  his  expedition  to  suppress  the  rebellion  in  Virginia  (Bwg.  Nav. 
i.  151),  but  assigns  it  to  January  1676-7.  It  is  clear  from  Nos.  3455, 
3465,  3468,  and  3553  that  Sir  John  Berry  himself  sailed  in  November, 
1676.  6  MS.  <  12  Nov.' 


3i8  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS         Nov. 

to  be  provided  for  enabling  the  lords  commissioners  of  the 
admiralty  to  authorise  and  require  Sir  John  Berry  to  hire 
or  otherwise  imprest  or  take  up  in  Virginia  one  or  more 
ships,  vessels,  or  boats,  and  what  seamen  shall  be  needful 
for  the  manning  of  the  same  for  the  performance  of  any 

service  which  shall  be  by  judged   requisite   on  his 

Majesty's  behalf  for  the  suppressing  of  the  present  rebellion 
there,  paying  for  the  same  upon  the  place  out  of  the  con- 
tingent money  to  be  appointed  for  that  service'  [3438]- 

3440.  [p.  231.]     13  Nov.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners  of 
the  Customs. — About  passes  for  the  Sarah  and  Elizabeth,  of 
Bristol,  Richard  White  master,  in  that  port  bound  to  the 
Straits ;   and  for  the  Heart,  of  Bristol,   William  Hooper 
master,  in  that  port  bound  to  Barbados. 

3441.  [p.  231.]     13  Nov.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Lassells? 
commander  of  the  Garland,  in  the   Downs. — Yesterday's 
list  from  Deal  mentioning  a  merchant  ship  to  be  in  the 
Downs  called   the  Amity,   Mr.  Grove  master,  bound  for 
Virginia,  and  '  there  having  been  an  embargo  some  time 
since  [3260-2]  laid  upon  all  ships  bound  out  to  Virginia 
or  Maryland,'  the  writer  desires  him  to  make  inquiry  and 
stop  her  and  others  if  necessary  [3469]. 

3442.  [p.    232.2]     14  Nov.     S.  P.   to   Captain   Story, 
commander  of  the  Portsmouth,  at  Portsmouth. — '  Having 
been  applied  to  by  Benjamin  Jones,  master  of  his  Grace 
the  Duke  of  Ormonde's 3  barge,  complaining  that  Edward 
Taylor,  one  of  your  ship's  company,  who  appears  to  be  his 
servant  by  indenture,  does  (as  he  has  been  informed)  take 
very  ill  courses,  and  thereby  contract  debts  upon  himself 
on  shore  as  often  as  he  has  opportunity  of  coming  there 
(which  your  ship's  being  in  port  has  of  late  given  him), 
with  design  of  bereaving  his  said  master  of  his  wages,  I  do 
at  the  instance  of  his  said  master  desire  that  for  the  pre- 
venting any  such  injury  you  will  cause  a  ticket  to  be  made 
out  to  the  said  Edward  Taylor  for  the  time  he  has  served 
on  board  your  ship,  and  sent  up  to  me  on  behalf  of  his 
master,  who  will  wait  for  its  payment  until  the  ship  shall 
come  to  be  paid  for  the  same  time  ;  this  being  only  for  his 

1  Commander-in-chief  in  the  Downs  [3417].     See  ii.  236  n.  supra. 

2  Out  of  order  in  the  MS. 

3  The  Duke  of  Ormonde  was  one  of  the  lords  of  the  admiralty 
(i.  38  supra}.     D.  N.  B.  viii.  52. 


1676  FIFTH   VOLUME  319 

present  security  against  the  wrong  he  is  fearful  of  receiving 
from  his  servant,  who  being  within  few  months  of  the 
expiration  of  his  service  is  become  (as  I  understand)  very 
careless  of  discharging  his  duty  to  his  master,  who  is  a  very 
painful  and  poor  man '  [3484]. 

3443.  [p.  233. l]     Navy  Office,   14  Nov.,  '9  at  night.' 
6".  P.  to  Sir  John  Berry? — ' .  .  .  Upon   the   intelligence 
which  is  newly  come  from  Virginia,  his  Majesty  was  pleased 
to  call  my  lords  of  the  committee  of  foreign  affairs  this 
evening  to  debate  afresh  what  was  fit  to  be  presently  done 
towards  the  despatch  and  disposal  of  the  ships  and  forces 
now  going  ...  to  that  colony,  the  result  of  which  being 
that  the   Bristol   and   Deptford    ketch  should   be  imme- 
diately sent  away  without  staying  for  any  other  part  of  the 
fleet '  ;  he  is  therefore  to  take  leave  of  his  Majesty  and 
Royal  Highness  and  set  out  some  time  to-morrow,  when 
he   shall  have  his  instructions   ready   for   him.     Colonel 
Morrison  goes  along  in  the  ship  with  him,  Colonel 3  Jeffreys 
staying  to  accompany  the  rest  of  the  fleet,  which  will  not 
be  many  days  after  him,  as  the  writer  is  just  now  advising 
with   Sir   Richard  Haddock4   and    Sir  Anthony  Deane4 
'  about  their  going  down  to-morrow  morning  tide  person- 
ally to  take  care  of  the  immediate  departure  of  every  one 
of  the  merchant  ships  out  of  the  river  of  Thames  ;  his 
Majesty  having  also  set  Friday  morning  next  for  every- 
one of  the  land  commanders  and  officers  at  their  peril  to 
take  their  final  leave  of  this  town  and  be  gone  after  their 
ships  by  a  yacht  appointed  on  purpose  to  carry  them  down.' 
The  70  odd  soldiers  now  on  board  him  are  to  go  along 
with   him    and   an    officer   of  theirs   to   be    immediately 
despatched  down  hence  to  Portsmouth  to  command  them. 

3444.  [p.  235. ]]     Navy  Office,  14  Nov.,  'nine  at  night, 
sent  by  express.'     S.  P.  to  Lieutenant  Trelawny?  lieutenant 
of  the  Bristol,  at  Portsmouth. — To  forbear  his  intended 
proceeding  to  the  Downs,  and  remain  at  Portsmouth  until 
Sir  John  Berry's  arrival  [3443,  3445]- 

3445.  [p.  235.1]     Navy  Office,  14  Nov.,  'sent  into  the 
Downs '  :  '  9  at  night,  by  express.'     The  same  to  the  same. 

—If  this  meets  him  in  the  Downs  he  is  to  return  to  Ports- 
mouth [3444]. 

1  Out  of  order  in  the  MS.  2  See  note  to  No.  3438. 

3  M.S.  '  Captain.'  4  See  notes  to  No.  3268. 

5  See  note  to  No.  3413. 


320  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS         Nov. 

3446. x  [p.  236.]  Navy  Office,  14  Nov.,  '9  at  night.1 
5.  P.  to  Captain  Tyte,  commander  of  the  Deptford  ketch.— 
To  stay  at  Portsmouth  till  Sir  John  Berry's  arrival  [3443, 
3447]. 

3447.  [p.  236.1]     Navy  Office,  14   Nov.,  '  9  at  night.' 
The  same  to  the  same. — If  this  meets  him  in  the  Downs  he 
is  to  return  to  Portsmouth  [3446]. 

3448.  [p.  239.1]     Whitehall,  14  Nov.,  'at  11  at  night.' 
Order  to   Evan    Russell,   waterman.  —  By   his    Majesty's 
special  command  to  authorise  and  require  him  forthwith 
to  repair  on  board  the  merchant  ships  named  in  the  margin 
now  in  the  River,  and  hired  for  transporting  the  forces 
to  Virginia,  notifying  to  the  captain  and  every  other  land- 
officer  of  the  said  forces  that  they  are  not  upon  any  pre- 
tence whatsoever  to  be  found  either  in  London  or  elsewhere, 
otherwise  than  on  board  the  ships  whereon  they  are  to 
have  their  passage,  after  Friday  next,  and  that   to  that 
purpose  the  Portsmouth  yacht  is  appointed  to  receive  them 
all  on  board  upon  Friday  morning  next  at  high  water  at 
Greenwich. 

Margin :  Francis,  William  and  Robert,  Merchant's  Consent, 
Constant,  Henry  and  Ann,  Golden  Lion,  Recovery,  Barnaby. 
Underwritten :  '  By  his  Majesty's  command. — S.  P.' 

3449.  [p.  231.]     15  Nov.     S.P.to  the  Commissioners 
of  the  Customs. — About  a  pass  for  the  Swan,  of  Topsham, 
William  How  master,  in  that  port  bound  to  the  Straits. 

3450.  [p.  232.]     15  Nov.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board  — 
They  are  to  find  some  expedient  for  the  supply  of  Sir 
John  Berry  (who  is  ordered  to  set  forth  from  hence  towards 
Portsmouth  this  very  day  [3443])  at  Portsmouth  with  the 
SOQ/.  contingent  money  lately  ordered  him  [3438]  ;  but  if 
credit  cannot  be  found  there,  they  are  to  direct  their  '  bills 
to  the  treasurer  of  the  navy  for  the  payment  of  the  said 
sum  to  Captain  Ashby,  commander  of  the  Rose,  to  be  by 
him  received  upon  account  to  be  entirely  delivered  over 
by  him  to  Sir  John  Berry  at  their  meeting  in  Virginia  or 
elsewhere,   for  answering  all  contingent  expenses  of  his 
Majesty's  ships  under  his  charge.'     They  are  to  make  some 
provision  of  victuals  for  the  70  odd  soldiers  which  Sir  John 
Berry  will   have   on  board  him,  '  eating   upon   his  ship's 

1  Out  of  order  in  the  MS. 


1676  FIFTH   VOLUME  321 

victuals  until  the  same  can  be  made  good  to  him  out  of 
some  of  the  ships  that  are  to  follow.' 

3451.  [p.  237.]     1 6  Nov.,  '  sent  by  express  at  i  o'clock 
at   noon.'      S.   P.  to    Captain   Lassells^-   Garland,  in   the 
Downs. — Notwithstanding  his  late  orders  to  the  contrary, 
he  is  to  repair  to  Sheerness  to  take  in  the  King  of  Sweden's 
goods  [3402,   3433,  3454] ;  this  resolution  being  grounded 
upon  several  considerations,  and  particularly  that  of  his 
being  discharged  from  any  occasion   of  attending  longer 
for  the  convoys  to  Rotterdam  [3402],  who  seem  to  be  gone 
away  without  him. 

3452.  [p.  237.]     1 6  Nov.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Sanderson, 
commander  of  the  Portsmouth  yacht,  at  Greenwich. — To 
carry    the    land-officers    on    board   the   ships    going   to 
Virginia  [3448]. 

3453.  [p.   238.]     1 6  Nov.     S.  P.  to    Captain  Jenifer, 
commander  of  the  Saudados,  at  Deptford. — His  Majesty 
being  at  this  time  in  great  want  of  his  ship  in  the  Downs, 
he  is  to  hasten  her  fitting  [3454]. 

3454.  [p.  238.]     1 6  Nov.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— 
The  writer  was  the  author  of  the  proposition  to  the  king 
and  lords  of  hiring  a  merchant  vessel  [3433],  rather  than 
to  send  away  the  Garland  [3451],  'the  only  man-of-war  we 
of  late  have  had  in  the  Downs,'  to  '  carry  40  ton  of  goods 
for  the  use  of  a  foreign  prince  to  Gottenburg' ;  but  in  con- 
sideration of  the  difficulties  they  mention  in  procuring,  and 
the  small  value  of  what  would  be  saved  in  the  employing  of 
a  merchant  vessel,  the  king  has  returned  to  his  first  purpose 
of  sending  a  ship  of  war  of  his  own  ;  but  as  he  does  not 
think  the  Saudados  a  fit  vessel  to  be  sent  upon  this  occasion 
at  this  time  of  the  year,  he  has  resolved  to  employ  the 
Garland  (which  he  first  designed).     They  are  to  hasten  the 
fitting  of  the  Saudados  to  attend  the  service  in  the  Downs 
as  soon  as  may  be  after  the  departure  thence  of  the  Garland. 

3455.  [p.  239.]     1 6  Nov.     S.  P.  to  Sir  John  Berry? 
commander  of  the  Bristol,  at  Portsmouth. — Acquaints  him 
that  sailing  instructions  for  himself  and  for  Captain  Tyte 
in  the  Deptford  ketch  were  sent  away  this  morning  by 
express,  as  well  as  the  warrant  from  the  lords  empowering 

1  Commander-in-chief  in  the  Downs  [3417].     See  ii.  236  n.  supra. 
3  See  note  to  No.  3438 
VOL.  III.  Y 


322  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS         Nov. 

him  to  take  up  ships,  boats,  and  men,  as  the  state  of  the 
king's  affairs  in  Virginia  shall  make  it  necessary  [3439]- 

3456.  [p.  240.]     1 6  Nov.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Roger  Strick- 
land,1 commander  of  the  Dragon,  at  Portsmouth. — His  being 
directed  to  Tangier  for  orders  is  out  of  no  disrespect  to  him, 
but '  from  his  Majesty's  reflecting  upon  Tangier  as  a  place 
of  action  for  his  own  affairs,  whereas  Cadiz  is  not  so,  nor 
seems  to  render  his  ships  calling  there  in  any  wise  neces- 
sary to  his  service,  other  than  for  such  ships  as  are  home- 
ward bound   for  the  taking  under  their   protection  what 
merchant  ships  of  his  subjects  may  be  there  in  a  readiness 
to  come  under  their  convoy ;  whereas  his  Majesty  does  not 
yet  foresee  that  your  next  orders  will  be  to  come  home,  but 
may  possibly  be  to  continue  longer  in  the  Straits '  upon 
some  particular  service.      Hopes   he   has   received   some 
money  for  his  men. 

3457.  [p.  240.]     1 6  Nov.     S.  P.  to  Sir  John  Kemp- 
thorne?  at  Portsmouth. — Hopes  the  Dragon  and  Portsmouth 
have  received  their  expected  moneys,  and  are  thereby  in  a 
readiness  to  proceed  with  the  merchantmen. 

3458.  [p.  241.]     1 6  Nov.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Coleman, 
collector  [of]  customs  at  Plymouth. — Knows  nothing   of 
Mr.  Dell,  their  late  mayor,  being  cleared  of  the  business  of 
the  passes  as  he  asserts,  he  never  having  appeared  before 
the  lords,  nor  could  he  have  been  called  to  the  council- 
table  about  this  matter  without  the  writer  having  heard  of  it. 

3459.  [p.  241.]    1 6  Nov.    S.  P.  to  Sir  John  Narbrough? 
— To  send  copies  of  the  proceedings  and  sentences  of  the 
courts-martial  held  by  him  in  his  last  expedition  in  the 
Mediterranean  for  the  use  of  the  lords. 

3460.  [p.  241.]     1 6  Nov.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners 
of  the  Customs. — About  a  pass  for  the  Dort  frigate,  of  Yar- 
mouth, in  that  port  bound  to  the  Straits. 

3461.  [p.  242.]     1 6  Nov.     S.  P.  to  Sir  John  Bramston* 
Vice-Admiral  of  the  county  of  Essex. — To  send  the  lords  a 
copy  of  the  articles  to  which  the  late  presentment  made  by 
the  jury  at  the  court  of  vice-admiralty  held  at  Burnham 
[3IS9]  had  reference. 

3462.  [p.  242.]     1 6  Nov.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— 
In  answer  to  theirs  of  the  I3th  'touching  the  new  iron 

1  D.  N.  B.  lv.  52.  2  See  note  to  No.  2734. 

3  D.  N.  B.  xl.  89.  *  D.  N.  B.  vi.  210. 


1676  FIFTH   VOLUME  323 

ranges  instead  of  hearths,  lately  invented  for  the  service  of 
ships,  two  of  which  it  seems  have  been  provided  by  his 
Majesty's  verbal  order  by  the  inventor  for  the  two  galley- 
frigates,  the  Charles  and  James, ' l  the  king  is  pleased  to 
direct '  that  they  be  forthwith  received  and  set  up  in  his 
frigates ' ;  but  in  reference  to  the  price  of  these,  and  the 
giving  any  orders  for  the  further  use  of  the  said  invention, 
it  is  to  be  proposed  to  him  when  the  lords  shall  be  attend- 
ing and  the  board  present — which  may  be  on  Saturday 
next.  Will  take  the  king's  pleasure  in  what  they  propose 
touching  the  writer's  going  down  with  Sir  Samuel  Mor- 
land 2  and  Mr.  Surveyor  of  the  Navy  3  to  Chatham,  for 
bringing  to  a  final  trial  the  former's  pump-engine  there. 
The  Adventure  and  Quaker  ketch  being  shortly  expected 
home  from  Tangier,  the  writer  desires  to  know  to  which 
yard  they  judge  it  will  be  best  that  they  be  brought  to  be 
laid  up.  Adds  only  the  taking  notice  to  them  that  in  their 
late  weekly  certificates  '  the  mentioning  of  the  times  of 
ships  being  paid  off  hath  been  for  a  while  forborne,  which 
being  a  note  in  several  respects  of  use '  to  the  lords,  the 
writer  desires  that  they  will  resume  it. 

3463.  [p.  243.]  1 6  Nov.  Memorial  about  a  pass. — 
'The  ship  Elizabeth,  of  London,  John  Rainger  master, 
English-built  and  sailed  with  Englishmen,  and  wholly 
belonging  to  Abraham  Chapman,  of  London,  merchant 
and  denizen  of  England,  having  been  lately  in  her  voyage 
from  Terceiras4  to  Amsterdam  carried  in  by  a  French 
privateer  to  Cherbourg  and  there  since  cleared  ;  a  pass  is 
desired  by  the  said  Mr.  Chapman  for  securing  her  in  her 
voyage  to  Amsterdam,  whither  she  is  by  charter-party 
directly  to  proceed  from  Terceiras,4  and  cannot  without 
breach  of  the  said  charter-party  come  into  any  port  in 
England.  The  lords  of  the  admiralty  nevertheless  not 
being  in  a  capacity  (though  they  judge  the  request  reason- 
able) to  grant  her  a  pass  by  reason  of  her  not  being  in 
some  port  of  England,  do  humbly  submit  it  to  his  Majesty 
in  council  in  order  to  their  being  authorised  to  grant  the 
same.' 

Underwritten :  '  By  command  of  the  lords. — S.  P.' 

1  See  note  to  No.  3240.  2  D.  N.  B.  xxxix.  68. 

»  Sir  John  Tippetts.  *  MS.  '  Terceras.'  . 

Y  2 


324  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS         Nov. 

3464.  [p.  243.]  1 6  Nov.  Memorial  about  a  pass — 
'  The  Jerusalem,  an  English-built  ship,  Thomas  Willshaw 
master,  having  had  an  Argeir  pass  from  the  lords  of  the 
admiralty  in  January  last,  whose  year  will  be  expired 
before  she  can  return  home,  she  being  now  at  Livorne 
bound  to  Naples,  Palermo,  and  other  ports  in  the  Straits, 
a  further  pass  is  desired  by  her  owners  to  take  place  from 
the  expiration  of  the  former  ;  which  their  lordships  do  con- 
ceive reasonable  to  be  granted,  provided  the  said  new  pass 
do  not  bear  date  till  the  day  after  the  other's  expiration, 
and  that  bond  be  given  in  usual  form  for  the  delivering  up 
both  the  said  passes,  with  a  fresh  oath  taken  that  the  pro- 
priety of  the  said  ship  remains  the  same  with  what  it  was 
at  the  granting  of  the  former  pass.  But  forasmuch  as  the 
said  ship  not  being  at  present  in  any  port  of  England, 
their  lordships  cannot  grant  the  same  without  special 
power  given  them  thereto  by  his  Majesty  in  council,  they 
humbly  submit  the  same  to  his  Majesty  for  his  direction, 
not  only  on  behalf  of  this  particular  ship,  but  with  respect 
to  the  general  case  daily  arising  of  supplemental  passes 
demanded  for  ships  whose  voyages  shall  happen  not  to 
determine  within  the  year  limited  to  the  first.' 

Underwritten  :  '  By  command  of  the  lords. — S.  P.* 

3465.  [p.   244.]     1 6  Nov.     Memorial  about   removing 
the  embargo  from  the  Virginia  and  Maryland  ships. — 'The 
consideration  of  a  general  removal  of  the  embargo  from 
the  Virginia  and  Maryland  ships  is  now  humbly  submitted 
to  his  Majesty  in  council,  to  be  considered  after  his  own 
ships,  with  the  merchantmen  hired  for  the  transporting  his 
forces  to  Virginia  [3448],  shall  be  put  to  sea.' 

Underwritten  :  '  By  command  of  the  lords. — S.  P.' 

3466.  [p.  244.]     1 8  Nov.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Day,  com- 
mander of  the  Merlin  yacht,  at  Greenwich. — To  receive  on 
board   him    Colonel   Jeffreys,  commander-in-chief  of  the 
forces  going  to  Virginia  [3448],  and  to  proceed  down  the 
River  until  he  shall  overtake  the  ships  bound  thither,  and 
then  put  him  on  board  such  ship  as  he  shall  direct ;  and 
this  done  to  return  to  Deptford. 

3467.  [p.  244.]     [18  Nov.]     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners 
oj  the   Customs. — About   passes   for   the   St.    George,   of 


1676  FIFTH   VOLUME  325 

London,  John  Wild  master,  at  Cowes  ;  the  Planter,  of 
Bristol,  Robert  Mailings  master,  and  the  Angel,1  of  Bristol, 

Roach  master,  both   at   Bristol ;    the    Hopewell,  of 

London,  William  North  master,  at  Sandwich  ;  the  Oak, 
of  Yarmouth,  William  Roberts  master,  at  Yarmouth  ;  and 
the  Speedwell,  of  Dartmouth,  Joseph  Stocker  master,  at 
Dartmouth. 

3468.  [p.  244.]     19  Nov.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board— 
Puts  them  in  mind  of  providing  jacks,  not  only  for  the 
merchantmen  now  bound  out  to  Virginia  [3448],  but  some 
little  stock  for  furnishing  such  vessels  as  Sir  John  Berry 
may  take  up  there,  which  he  has  a  special  power  given 
him  to  do  [3455],  with  order  for  the  permitting  them  to 
wear  jacks.    Sir  John  Berry  being  gone,  the  masters  of  the 
said  merchantmen  are  to  take  their  orders  from  Captain 
Ashby,  in  the  Rose,  who  is  to  act  as  commander-in-chief 
over  them  until  he  shall  have  overtaken  Sir  John  Berry. 

3469.  [p.  245.]     20  Nov.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Lassells? 
Garland,  at  Sheerness. — The  lords  are  satisfied  with  what 
he  writes  touching  the  liberty  taken  by  the  two  vessels  of 
wearing  the  king's  jack  though  not  in  his  service  [3417]  ; 
but  they  will  take  some  further  course  of  demanding  satis- 
faction   from   them.      'For  that   of  the  different  colours 
assumed  by  the  East  India  Company  and  ordinarily  worn 
in  their  ships,  I  am  very  glad  you  take  notice  of  it,  though 
it  be  not  of  any  so  near  resemblance  to  the  king's  as  to 
create  any  mistake,  which  some  have  heretofore  offered  at, 
yet  it  being  contrary  to  the  letter  of  the  proclamation,  it 
will  be  fit   that  his   Majesty's  pleasure  be  known  in   it' 
[3531].     Will  inquire  of  the  postmaster  '  the  ground  of  his 
putting  into  his  list  of  the  1 5th  the  Amity  bound  to  Virginia, 
which  you  seem  to  know  nothing  of  [3441].    The  marshal 
of  the  admiralty  will  be  ordered  to  fetch  up  hither  the  two 
Englishmen  which  are  prisoners  on  board  him,  as  being 
taken  out  of  a  privateer,  that  they  may  answer  for  their 
disobedience  to  the  proclamation  '  by  serving  in  foreigners.' 
The  lords  have  ordered  the  officers  of  the  navy  to  supply 
him  with  such  stores  as  he  wants  for  his  intended  voyage 
and  to  complete   his  victuals   to  3  months,  and  also  to 
furnish  him  with  an  able  pilot. 

1  MS. 'Angle.' 

2  Commander-in-chief  in  the  Downs  [3417].     See  ii.  236  n. 


326  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS         Nov. 

3470.  [p.   246.]     21    Nov.   by   express,   at   9   in   the 
morning.     5.  P.  to  Mr.  St.  Michel?  at  Deal. — Sending  him 
a  packet  for   Captain    Ashby,   commander  of  the    Rose 
[3488]. 

3471.  [p.  246.]     21  Nov.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners 
for  the  Customs. — About  a  pass  for  the  Dolphin,  of  New 
England,  Thomas  Cowell  master,  at  Dartmouth. 

3472.  [p.   246.]     2 1    Nov.     The  same  to  the  same. — 
About  a  pass  for  the  Patience,  of  Bristol,  Matthew  Nicholas 
master,  in  that  port  bound  to  the  Straits. 

3473.  [p.  246.]     21  Nov.     S.  P.  to  Lieutenant  H odder? 
at  present  commanding  the  Drake,  at  Dover. — His  of  the 
2Oth  is  come  to  hand,  giving  an  account  of  his  arrival  with 
his  convoys   at   Dover.     He   is   to   use   all   diligence   in 
despatching  the  service  he  is  now  upon  and    hastening 
back  to  his  station  in  the  Downs,  where  there  is  a  want  of 
vessels  to  attend  the  usual  services. 

3474.  [p.  246.]     21  Nov.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Jenifer,  of 
the  Saudados. — To  sail  immediately  to  the  Downs. 

3475.  [p.  247.]      22  Nov.     Certificate  from  S.  P.  that 
Mr.  Nathaniel  Lodington,3  merchant,  has  by  the  several 
advices  of  Sir  John   Werden,4  Sir  Edward  Walker,6  and 
Dr.  Lloyd,6  surrogate  to  the  judge  of  the  admiralty,  this 
day  '  put  into  my  hands  to  be  kept  among  the  rest  of  the 
papers  of  the  admiralty  remaining  in  my  custody '  an  ori- 
ginal bond  entered  into  by  him  and  Mr.  Thomas  Onebye,3 
pursuant  to  an  Order  in  Council  dated  10  Nov.,  and  relat- 
ing to  a  certain  boat  and  goods  lately  taken  by  Captain 
Preistman,  commander  of  the  Lark  [3432]. 

Memorandum  :  '  The  bond  is  endorsed  and  laid  up  among  the 
miscellaneous  papers.' 

3476.  [p.    247.]     22  Nov.    S.  P.   to   the  Lord  Privy 
Seal.1 — Finished  yesterday  the  draft  of  the  representation 

1  See  note  to  No.  2387. 

2  Richard  Hodder,  the  first  lieutenant  of  the  Garland  [3381],  seems 
to  have  been  a  second  time  in  command  of  the  Drake  through  the 
illness  of  Captain  Stepney  [3374,  3379]. 

3  See  note  to  No.  3432. 

4  Secretary  to  the  Duke  of  York  and  a  commissioner  of  the  navy 
(i.  40  supra).    D.  N.  B.  lx.  295. 

5  On  Sir  Edward  Walker,  the  herald,  see  D.  N.  B.  lix.  48. 

6  See  ii.  306  n.  supra.         »  The  Earl  of  Anglesey.     D.  N.  B.  \\.  \. 


1676  FIFTH   VOLUME  327 

of  the  state  of  the  navy,  but  could  not  find  the  king 
last  night  '  enough  disengaged  from  other  business  or 
company'  for  showing  it  to  him.  Hopes  to  do  so  to- 
day. 

3477.  [p.  247.]      22  Nov.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Lovell?  at 
Dover. — Has  received  his  of  the  1 8th,  intimating  his  return 
to  Dover  after  having  landed  Colonel  McCarty  *  at  Dieppe. 
He  may  daily  expect  Monsieur  Sessac. 

3478.  [p.  247.]     22  Nov.     S.  P.   to    Captain  Temple, 
Downs,  in  the  Dartmouth. — Will  move  the  king  and  lords 
in  what  he  desires  about  the  payment  of  his  wages,  though 
shall  not  undertake  for  the  success  of  it. 

3479.  [p.  248.]      22  Nov.     S.  P.  to   Mr.  St.  Michel? 
at  Deal. — Takes   notice  of  his   care   about   the    3    ships 
[3406]. 

3480.  [p.  248.]     22  Nov.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Richard  Beach* 
at  Chatham. — Thanks  him  for  his  of  the  Qth,  '  concerning 
the  state  of  the  river  of  Medway  and  the  safety  of  his 
Majesty's  ships  there,  in  reference  to  the  present  condition 
of  the  forts  and  fortifications  upon  which  the  same  de- 
pends.'    The  king  and  lords  direct  the  communication  of 
the  substance  thereof  to  the  master  of  the  ordnance  [3483], 
though  without  exposing  his  name.     Has  received  nothing 
yet  from  'our  fellow-officers  of  the  navy'  touching  the 
business  of  the  guard-ships,  nor  'by  the  late  misfortune 
that  befell  his  Royal  Highness  '  has  the  writer  had  oppor- 
tunity of  bringing  to  an  issue  the  business  of  the  ordinary, 
but  '  the  effects  of  that  his  misfortune  being  now  by  God's 
blessing  in  a  good  forwardness  of  amendment,'  he  '  hopes 
very  suddenly  to  be  able  to  compass  it.' 

3481.  [p.  248.]     22  Nov.    S.  P.  to  Sir  Roger  Strickland;1 
at  Portsmouth. — Thanks  him  for  his  of  the  iQth,  intimating 
his  ship's  being  paid  and  in  readiness  to  sail. 

3482.  [p.  249.]     22  Nov.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board. — 
The  king  approves  of  their  advice  touching  the  place  of 
laying  up  the  Adventure  and  Quaker  ketch  at  their  return, 
as  also  their  ordering  a  supply  of  2  months'  victuals  to  the 

1  Commander  of  the  Katharine  yacht  [3620]. 

2  MS.  '  Mackarty.' 

s  See  note  to  No.  2387. 

4  Resident  commissioner  of  the  navy  at  Chatham  [3291]. 

5  D.  N.  B.  Iv.  52. 


328  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS         Nov. 

Garland  going  to  Gottenburg.     Will  speedily  give  them  an 
account  of  his  having  spoken  with  Sir  Samuel  Morland.1 

3483.  [p.  249.]   22  Nov.    S.P.toSirTkomasCkicktUy.* 
— Encloses  a  copy  of  some  advice  he  has  lately  had  about 
the  forts  in  the  river  of  Medway  [3480]. 

3484.  [p.  249.]     22  Nov.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Story?  at 
Portsmouth. — Has  received  his  of  the  1 8th,  with  the  ticket 
for  Edward  Taylor  [3442]. 

3485.  [p.  250.]    22  Nov.    S.P.toSirJohnKempthorne* 
Portsmouth. — Thanks  for  his  of  the  I9th  and  2ist,  with 
advice  concerning  the  ships  bound  out  from  Portsmouth. 
Is  very  glad  the  Bristol  is  sailed. 

3486.  [p.  249."]     23  Nov.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners 
for  the  Customs. — About  a  pass  for  the  Fellowship,  of  Bristol, 
Thomas  Pynn  master,  at  Bristol  bound  to  the  Straits. 

3487.  [p.  249.']     23  Nov.     The  same  to  the  same.— 
About  a  pass  for  the  Love's    Increase,  of  Bristol,  John 
Ncedes  master. 

3488.  [p.  250.]     23  Nov.  'at  I  o'clock.'     5.  P.  to  Mr. 
St.  Michel?  at  Deal. — Thanks  him  for  his  of  the  22nd, 
giving  advice  of  the  misfortune  of  the  Rose  [3491].     He 
is  to  deliver  the  packet  for  Captain  Ashby  [3470],  together 
with  the  enclosed  from  his  Majesty,  to  Captain  Temple, 
commander  of  the  Dartmouth  [3489]. 

3489.  [p.  250.]     23  Nov.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Temple,1  in 
the  Downs. — Encloses  a  copy  of  an  order  of  his  Majesty 
concerning  the  receiving  two  sons  of  Sir  Charles  Wheeler's 
on  board  his  ship  [3384]. 

3490.  [p.  251.]      23  Nov.     The  same  to  the  same.— 
The  king  empowers  him   to  receive,  open,  and  execute 
Captain  Ashby's  instructions  [3488].     He  is  to  lose  no 
opportunity  of  sailing,  so  soon  as  the  merchantmen  with 
the  soldiers  are  all  come  to  him. 

3491.  [p.  251.]     23  Nov.    '  Sent  by  the  Charles  yacht.' 
5.  P.  to  Captain  Ashby,  commander  of  the  Rose,  at  the 
Gore. — It  will  behove  him  to  send  up  '  a  very  strict  account ' 

1  D.  N.  B.  xxxix.  68. 

"  Master-general  of  the  ordnance.    D.  N.  B.  x.  231. 

Commander  of  the  Portsmouth  [3442]. 

See  note  to  No.  2734.  *  Out  of  order  in  the  MS. 

'  See  note  to  No.  2387. 
7  Commander  of  the  Dartmouth  [3488]. 


1676  FIFTH   VOLUME  329 

to  whom,  and  what,  his  error  in  striking  aground  is  to  be 
imputed,  '  forasmuch  as  upon  a  service  of  this  moment  his 
Majesty  and  my  lords  of  the  admiralty  will  not  think  fit 
to  let  a  miscarriage  of  this  kind  pass  without  a  due  inquiry 
and  censure.'  In  the  meantime  he  is  to  hasten  into  Sheer- 
ness  to  refit  his  rudder,1  and  rectify  what  other  damages 
he  may  have  sustained  [3492],  keeping  his  men  on  board, 
that  he  may  the  sooner  be  in  condition  to  resume  his 
voyage  and  overtake  the  Dartmouth. 

3492.  [p.  252.]     23  Nov.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Shish,  master- 
shipwright  at  Sheerness. — The  Rose  '  having  come  to  an 
untimely  disaster  by  breaking  of  her  rudder2  in  striking 
aground  as  she  was  going  through  the  Narrow'   [3491], 
he  is  to  refit  her  with  all  possible  speed. 

3493.  [p.  253.]     23  Nov.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Fasby,  of 
the  Charles  yacht,  at  Greenwich. — He  is  to  carry  the  en- 
closed   orders    [3491]    to   Captain    Ashby   at   the   Gore, 
taking  on  board  any  persons  or  things  he  may  have  neces- 
sary to  be  sent  to  the  Downs  to  the  fleet  there. 

3494.  [p.  253.]     23  Nov.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board. — 
Desires  their  orders  to  hasten  the  refitting  of  the  Rose  at 
Sheerness. 

3495.  [p.  254.]    24  Nov.    S.P.  to  Sir  Samuel  M or  land* 
— Upon  a  motion  from  the  officers  of  the  navy,  the  king 
will  have  his  engine  at  Chatham  tried  ;  and  the  writer  has 
by  his  command  acquainted  Sir  Richard  Beach 4  therewith, 
who  adviseth  that  some  person  may  be  sent  down  by  him 
to  put  the  engine  forthwith  into  a  condition  of  service. 
'  I  do  myself  purpose  to  wait  on  you  down  to  Chatham  to 
see  the  proof  made,  in  company  with  the  surveyor  of  the 
navy/'  that  so  the  matter  may  be  equally  determined,  and 
you,  as  well  as  the  king,  discharged  of  any  further  disputes 
about  it.  .  .  .' 

Margin  :  '  About  his  engine  at  Chatham  for  freeing  the  dock 
there  of  water.' 

3496.  [p.   254.]      24  Nov.      Summons  to  attend  the 
lords  to-morrow  morning  at  9,  to  the  masters  of  the  ships 

1  MS.  'ruther.  *  MS.  'rother.' 

3  D.  N.  B.  xxxix.  68. 

4  Resident  commissioner  at  Chatham  [3291]. 

5  Sir  John  Tippetts. 


330  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS         Nov. 

Prince  Rupert  and  Shaftesbury,  lately  come  into  the  river 
of  Thames  [3410]. 

Underwritten  :  '  By  their  lordships'  command. — S.  P.' 

3497.  [p.  254.]     24  Nov.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners 
for  the  Customs. — About  a  pass  for  the  Lily,  of  Yarmouth, 
Norman  Cluneis  master,  in  that  port  bound  to  the  Straits. 

3498.  [p.  254.]      24  Nov.     The  same  to  the  same. — 
About  a  pass  for  the  Providence,  of  Bristol,  now  at  Bristol. 

3499.  [p.  255.]     24  Nov.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  St.  Michel,1  at 
Deal. — Suspects  that  too    much   liberty  is  taken  by  the 
commanders  of  his  Majesty's  ships  employed  in  the  Downs, 
and  possibly  their  under-officers  and  companies,  of  spend- 
ing their   time   on   shore.     Desires   him   to   report   such 
neglects  ;  '  not  that  I  have  any  purpose  of  exposing  the 
good  office  you  shall  do  his  Majesty  therein  so  as  to  make 
it  liable  to  the  occasioning  you  any  prejudice,  but  to  im- 
prove it  silently  to  such  use  as  may  serve  for  the  providing 
timely  cautions  and  admonitions  to  our  commanders  for 
the  remedying  of  the  evils  which  must  attend  any  such 
liberties,  should  they  remain  unobserved'  [3500,  3528]. 

3500.  [p.  255.]    24  Nov.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Lodge,  post- 
master at  Deal. — The  report  which  Captain  Lassells  2  and 
other  commanders  in  the  Downs  had  got  among  them 
touching  his  informing  the  writer  of  their  misbehaviours, 
and  particularly  of  their  lying  on  shore,  is  wholly  untrue  ; 
but  the  king  and  lords  would  have  esteemed  it  a  very  good 
office  of  his — not  that  the  same  can  out  of  any  particular 
duty  of  his  be  challenged  from  him.     The  writer  hopes 
that  he  will  privately  do  it,  and  '  will  order  it  so  as  instead 
of  any  prejudice  to  you,  the  good  service  you  shall  do 
therein  to  the  king  shall  be  well  represented  to  him  and 
my  lords  to  your  advantage  '  [3499,  3528]. 

3501.  [p.  256.]     24  Nov.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— 
Encloses  them  a  letter  [3502]  to  the  captains  of  either  of 
the  yachts  they  mention,  in  order  to  Captain  Tinker  and 
Mr.  Shish's 3  going  down  this  next  tide,  with  directions  of 

1  See  note  to  No.  2387. 

2  Commander  of  the  Garland,  and  hitherto  commander-in-chief  in 
the  Downs  [3417].     See  ii.  236  n.  supra. 

3  Presumably    Captain    John    Tinker,   the   master  attendant   at 
Deptford  [2988],  and  Jonas  Shish,  senior,  the  master-shipwright  there 
[2929]- 


1676  FIFTH   VOLUME  331 

sending  up  advice  by  express  of  their  opinion  which  way 
it  would  be  best  to  have  the  Rose  ordered,  in  case  she 
cannot  be  put  to  rights  where  she  now  is.  Sends  also  a 
word  to  Captain  Ashby  for  his  staying  where  he  is  [3503]. 

3502.  [p.  257.]     24  Nov.     S.  P.  to  the  Commander  of 
either  of  his  Majesty's  yachts,  the  Anne  or  Portsmouth. — To 
carry  Captain  Tinker  and   Mr.  Shish  down   to  the  Gore 

[350i]. 

3503.  [p.  257.]     24  Nov.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Ashby,  com- 
mander of  the  Rose,  at  the  Gore. — To  follow  the  advice  of 
Captain  Tinker  and  Mr.  Shish  as  to  remaining  where  he 
is  or  departure  thence  [3501]. 

3504.  [p.  257.]     25  Nov.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners  of 
the  Customs. — About  a  pass  for  the  Elizabeth,  of  Topsham, 
John  Stafford  master,  in  that  port  bound  to  the  Straits. 

3505.  [p.  257.]     25  Nov.      The  same  to  the  same. — 
About  a  pass  for  the  Gabriel,  of  Bristol,  now  there. 

3506.  [p.  258.]     25  Nov.     S.  P.  to  Colonel  Jeffreys?  on 
board  the  Dartmouth,  in  the  Downs. — Is  exceeding  glad 
he  is  safe  got  to  the  fleet ;  but  his  Majesty  will,  he  doubts, 
be  angry  at  his  officers  being  not  yet  on  board  [3527]- 
The  misfortune  of  the  Rose  [3492]  happens  very  unluckily, 
but  the  Dartmouth  is  ordered  to  proceed  without  her. 

3507.  [p.  258.]      25  Nov.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Lassells? 
Sheerness. — Presses  him  to  the  despatch  of  his  ship.     His 
sailing  orders  are  this  day  delivered  to  the  Minister  of  the 
King  of  Sweden  (Monsieur  Leyenbergh).3 

3508.  [p.  258.]     25  Nov.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Clements? 
Downs. — To  stay  in  the  Downs  till  further  orders. 

3509.  [p.  259.]     25  Nov.     S.P.  to  Sir  Richard  Beach? 
at  Chatham. — Leave  to  come  to  town. 

3510.  [p.  259.]     25  Nov.     S.  P.  to  Lieutenant  H odder? 
on  board   the  Drake,  at  Rye. — To  lose  no  time  in  pro- 
ceeding on  his  voyage. 

3511.  [p.   259.]     27  Nov.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners 
of  the  Customs. — About  a  pass  for  the  Truelove,  of  Top- 
sham,  John  Parker  master,  now  at  Topsham. 

1  Commander  of  the  land  forces  for  Virginia  [3527].     See  Winsor, 
History  of  America,  iii.  152  2  See  note  to  No.  3500. 

3  MS.  '  Loyonbergh.'      4  Commander  of  the  Greyhound  [3592]. 
5  Resident  commissioner  of  the  navy  at  Chatham  [3291]. 
e  See  note  to  No.  3473. 


332  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS         Nov. 

3512.  [p.  259.]      28  Nov.      The  same  to  the  same. — 
About  a  pass  for  the  John  and  Mary,  of  Shoreham,  John 
Buckshaw  master,  in  that  port. 

3513.  [p.  259.]     28  Nov.     S.  P.  to  two  Mr.  Shistis,\  at 
Sheerness. —  Understands  from  theirs  of  the  2/th  that  the 
Rose  is  come  to  Sheerness.     To  lose  no  time  in  fitting 
her  [3492]. 

3514.  [p.  260.]     28  Nov.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  St.  Michel?  in 
the  Downs. — Encloses  the  king's  warrant  for  his  mustering 
the  land  forces  going  to  Virginia  [3535].     He  is  to  do  it 
with  as  much  respect  to  Colonel  Jeffreys  and  the  rest  of 
the  land-officers  as  he  can. 

3515.  [p.  260.]     28  Nov.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board— 
Has  sent  the  warrant  to  Mr.  St.  Michel,  the  king's  agent 
and  muster-master  at  Deal  [3514]. 

3516.  [p.  260.]    29  Nov.    Memorial  about  privateers.— 
'  Memorial,  that  his  Majesty's  pleasure  may  be  known  at 
the  council-table  (from  whence  the  late  orders  for  bringing 
in  of  French  privateers  proceeded)  whether  the  execution 
of  the  said  warrant  be  to  be  continued,  or  forborne  [3535] 
in  consideration  of  the  King  of  France's  late  ordinance, 
advice  being  newly  come  of  a  privateer  so  sent  into  Dover 
by  his  Majesty's  ship  the  Drake.' 

Underwritten  :  '  By  his  Majesty's  command.— S.  P.' 

3517.  [p.  260.]     29  Nov.     Memorial  about  the  number 
of  men  to  be  declared  for  for  the  year  1677. — 'Memorial, 
that  his  Majesty  may  be  moved  to  signify  his  pleasure  this 
day  at  the  council-board  touching  the  number  of  men  to  be 
declared  for  for  his  service  at  the  seas  within  the  ensuing 
year,  commencing  r  Jan.  1676-7,  and  determining  the  last 
of  Feb.  i677[-8],  viz.  3,265  men  for  13  lunary  months  ;  and 
that  the  lords  of  the  admiralty  may  be  directed  to  cause 
an  estimate  to  be  in  due  and  usual  form  prepared  in  order 
to  a  privy  seal  to  be  thereupon  issued  for  defraying  the 
charge  thereof.' 

3518.  [p.  260.]     29  Nov.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners 
for  the  Customs. — About  a  pass  for  the  Recovery,  of  London, 

Richard  Croxford  master,  in  the  Downs. 

1  Mr.  John  Shish   was  master-shipwright  at   Sheerness   [3523]. 
The  other  Mr.  Shish  is  probably  the  one  referred  to  in  No.  3501. 
1  See  note  to  No.  2387. 


1676  FIFTH   VOLUME  333 

3519.  [p.  261.]     [29  Nov.]     The  same  to  the  same. — 
About   a  pass    for  the  Good  Intent,  of  Plymouth,  John 
Wheaton  master,  at  Plymouth  bound  for  the  Straits. 

3520.  [p.  261.]     i  Dec.     The  same  to  the  same. — About 
a  pass  for  the  Bonadventure  ketch,  of  Topsham,  Michael 
Hooker  master,  at  Topsham  bound  to  the  Madeiras. 

3521.  [p.  261.]     i  Dec.     The  same  to  the  same. — About 
a   pass   for  the  Bonadventure,  of  Southampton,  Thomas 
Clotworthy  master,  at  Southampton. 

3522.  [p.  261.]    i  Dec.    S.P.to  Henry  Slingesby?  Esq. — 
'  His   Majesty  having  it  in  his  purpose  to  reward  some 
officers  in  a  particular  manner  for  a  special  service  lately 
done  him  at  sea   by  bestowing   upon  them  medals  and 
chains,  I  am  by  his  command  to  desire  that  you  will  please 
to  let  me  know  .  .  .  what  the  ordinary  value  of  his  medals 
and  chains  heretofore  on  like  occasions  given  hath  amounted 
to,  distinguishing  (if  you  can)  what  the  largest  and  what 
the  least.' 

3523.  [p.  261.]     i   Dec.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Shish?  master- 
shipwright  at  Sheerness. — His  Majesty  takes  notice  of  his 
care  in  the  despatch  given  to  the  Rose  [3513]. 

3524.  [p.  261.]     [i  Dec.]     S.  P.  to  Lieutenant  Hodder? 
Downs,  on  board  the  Drake. — Desires  an  account  how  it 
came  to  pass  that  the  Elizabeth  only  of  all  his  convoys 
should  happen  to  be  left  behind  him  at  Dover  when  the 
rest  and  he  parted  thence  for  Rye ;  as  also  upon   what 
inducements  he  preferred  staying  for  her  alone  to  accom- 
panying the  whole  body  of  his  convoys  ;  and,  lastly,  how 
far  he  will  justify  the  same  by  his  not  having  a  pilot  when, 
had  he  not  been  forced  into  Dover  by  contrary  wind,  he 
had  had  it  then  in  his  purpose  to  have  proceeded  with 
them  to  Ostend  without  any  pilot,   and   as   an  evidence 
thereof  had  never  till  now  mentioned  his  want  or  expecta- 
tion of  any  [3597].     One  ill  consequence  at  least  probably 
may  attend  his  delay  in  this  matter,  namely  the  appointing 
another  person  to  supply  his  place  as  lieutenant  in  the 
Garland  in  her  present  voyage  to  Gottenburg. 

3525.  [p.  262.]     i  Dec.     [S.  P.]  to  Mr.  John  Pepys.*— 

1  Mr.  Henry  Slingesby  was  master  of  the  mint  (Cal.  S.  P.  Dom. 
1673,  p.  263). 

•  See  ii.  339  n.  supra.  3  See  note  to  No.  3473. 

*  See  note  to  No.  2857. 


334 


ADMIRALTY  LETTERS         Dec. 


Desires  him  to  get  a  pilot  for  the  Garland  :  this  is  all  she 
stays  for. 

3526.  [p.   262.]     i    Dec.     [S.  P.]   to   Captain  Ashby, 
commander  of  the  Rose,  Downs. — To  call  upon  Captain 
Temple  *  for  his  instructions  [3490].    Will  send  him  others 
if  the  fleet  should  be  gone  [3553]. 

3527.  [p.    263.]     i   Dec.     [S.  P.]   to    Colonel  Jeffnys, 
commander  of  the   land  forces  going  to  Virginia. — The 
writer  is  sorry  he  misunderstood  his  letter  to  mean  that  his 
officers   were   then   all  behind  him ;   he  now  collects   his 
intention  only  to  have  been  that  they  were  not  then  any 
of  them  come  on  board  his  yacht  [3506]. 

3528.  [p.  263.]     i  Dec.     [S.  P.]  to  Mr.  St.  Michel?  at 
Deal. — Is  glad  to  find  by  him  the  little  cause  there  is  of 
any  suspicion  that  the  commanders  in  the  Downs  resort  to 
and  lie  on  shore  [3499]. 

3529.  [p.    263.]     i    Dec.     [S.   P.~\   to    Captain  Ashby, 
commander  of  the  Rose,  Sheerness. — If  still  there  he  is  to 
sail  into  the  Downs  till  further  orders  [3526]. 

3530.  [p.  264.]     i  Dec.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Temple,  com- 
mander of  the  Dartmouth,  in  the  Downs. — Wonders  that 
he  has  not  heard  from  him.     Desires  him  to  report  at  once 
by  express  the  condition  of  his  ships  and  their  readiness  to 
sail. 

3531.  [p.  264.]     2  Dec.     S.  P.  to  Sir  John  Bankes?- 

'  I  have  fresh  occasion  of  repeating  what  I  lately  mentioned 
to  you  about  colours  worn  by  the  ships  belonging  to  the 
East  India  Company  different  from  what  the  merchant 
ships  of  other  his  Majesty's  subjects  generally  do,  and  by 
his  Majesty's  proclamation  of  1 8  Sept.  1674  •  •  •  arc  bound 
to  use,  without  any  provisional  exception  made  therein  on 
behalf  of  the  said  Company  ;  for  want  whereof,  not  only 
his  Majesty's  commander-in-chief  in  the  Downs  but  others 
of  his  captains  and  officers  are  under  an  obligation  of  inter- 
rupting your  ships  in  the  wearing  your  said  colours,  and 
have  several  of  them  applied  themselves  to  me  at  sundry 
times  (and  now  lately)  for  direction  therein,  with  answer 
still  given  them  by  me  in  favour  of  the  Company  [3469], 
as  knowing  their  and  their  predecessors'  usage  in  that 
matter,  and  the  moment  it  may  be  of  to  them  that  the 

1  Commander  of  the  Dartmouth  [3530]. 

2  See  note  to  No.  2387.  »  See  note  to  No.  2825. 


1676  FIFTH   VOLUME  335 

same  should  be  continued  ;  but,  forasmuch  as  it  cannot  be 
thought  fit  for  me  to  remain  under  a  constant  accountable- 
ness  for  any  behaviour  of  his  Majesty's  officers  different 
from  his  pleasure  signified  by  a  proclamation,  I  desire  you 
will  please  to  take  an  opportunity  of  mentioning  this  thing 
to  my  honoured  friends  of  your  Company,  to  the  end  that 
(in  case  their  service  be  indeed  concerned  in  the  continuance 
of  this  their  usage)  they  may  take  some  way  of  making 
their  desires  therein  known  to  his  Majesty,  that  so  what 
he  shall  think  fit  to  indulge  to  them  upon  it  may  be  done 
by  an  order  pursuant  to  the  said  proclamation,  and  his 
officers  thereby  indemnified  in  their  obedience  to  it.' 

3532.  [p.  265.]     2  Dec.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Roger  Strickland} 
commander  of  the  Dragon,  at  Portsmouth. — Has  received 
his  of  27  Nov.  and  is  very  sorry  the  winds  '  have  fallen  out 
so  cross '  for  his  and  the  Turkey  ships'  departure.    As  to  Mr. 
Crofts,  he  comes  not  within  the  establishment, '  which  limits 
the  allowance  of  midshipmen  extraordinary  to  such  only 
who  have  been  commanders  or  lieutenants ' ;  and  his  num- 
ber of  volunteers,  which  by  the  said  establishment  is  limited 
to  three,  is  full  by  the  king's  late  warrant  to  him  on  behalf 
of  Mr.  Wharton.     The  writer  therefore  does  not  see  how 
Mr.  Crofts  can  be  provided  for  this  voyage  upon  his  ship, 
unless  he  should  have  a  vacancy  in  his  number  of  volun- 
teers. 

3533.  [p.  266.]     2  Dec.     S.  P.  to  Sir  John  Kempthorne? 
commissioner  at  Portsmouth. — Thanks  him  for  his  advice 
of  the  25th  touching  the  proceedings  of  the  Dragon    and 
Portsmouth.     Will  move  the  king  for  leave  for  his  son, 
Captain  Kempthorne,3  to  come  to  town  for  a  month,  so  that 
the   warrant  may  be  ready  to  meet  him  upon  his  next 
coming  upon  the  English  coast  [3571]. 

3534.  [p.  266.]     2  Dec.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners  for 
the  Customs. — About  a  pass  for  the  America  Merchant,  of 
Bristol,  William  Martin  master,  at  Bristol  bound  to  the 
Straits. 

3535.  [p.  266.]     2  Dec.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  St.  Michel?  at 
Deal. — Hopes  his  list  will  suffice,  though  not  signed  by  the 
land-officers  [3514].     He  is  to  show  to  the  commander  of 
each  of  his  Majesty's  ships  which  now  are,  and  for  some 

1  D.  N.  B.  lv.  52.  z  See  note  to  No.  2734. 

3  See  ii.  113  n.  supra.  *  See  note  to  No.  2387. 


336  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS         Dec. 

time  shall  come  into,  the  Downs,  the  enclosed  order  of  the 
lords  revoking  their  former  order  for  bringing  in  the  French 
privateers  [3516],  that  of  forbidding  their  doing  the  like  to 
the  Spanish  having  been  signified  to  them  some  time 
since. 

3536.  [p.  267.]     4  Dec.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— It 
is  the  king's  pleasure  that  they  examine  the  three  gentle- 
men named  in  the  margin,  who  appear  to  have  served  some 
time  as  reformadoes,1  and  report  to  him  their  proficiency  in 
the  study  and  practice  of  navigation,  pursuant  to  the  lords' 
order  of  the  2nd  inst. 

Margin:  Mr.  Francis  Robinson,   Mr.    Denny,   Mr.  Thomas 
Davis. 

3537.  [p.  267.]     4  Dec.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners  for 
the  Customs. — About  a  pass  for  the  Golden  Lion,  of  Bristol, 
Nathaniel    Sanders    master,   in    that   port  bound  to   the 
Straits. 

3538.  [p.    269.*]     4   Dec.     The  same  to  the  same. — 
About  a  pass  for  the  Golden  Fleece,  of  Exeter,  in  that 
port. 

3539.  [p.  267.]     5  Dec.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Jenifer,  com- 
mander  of  the    Saudados,  in  the  Downs. — Encloses  his 
Majesty's  orders  for  his  commanding  in  chief  there.3 

3540.  [p.  267.]     5  Dec.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Lock,  secretary  at 
war. — Understands  from  Colonel  Jeffreys  4  that  there  have 
been  2  soldiers  put  on  shore  at  Deal  of  Captain  Pickes's  com- 
pany, one  being  disabled  by  sickness  and  the  other  by  an 
accidental  wound  in  his  leg.     Fears  they  may  be  ill  looked 
after,   the   commission    providing   for  sick    and   wounded 
seamen  being  at  an  end,  so  leaves  it  to  him  to  consider  what 
may  be  done  by  the  practice  of  the  army  in  such  cases. 

3541.  [p.  268.]     5  Dec.     S.  P.  to  Colonel  Piper?  at  Ply- 
mouth.— Thanks  him  for  his  of  23  Nov.  with  the  news  that 
was  brought  by  the  master  of  the  St.  Mark,  of  London. 
Desires  his  care  of  the  enclosed  letters  to  the  commanders 
of  the  Adventure  and  Quaker  ketch  when  they  arrive. 

1  See  i.  190  n.  supra.  *  Out  of  order  in  the  MS. 

3  In  succession  to  Captain  Lassells,  commander  of  the  Garland 
[3417]. 

4  Commander  of  the  land  forces  for  Virginia  [3527]. 

5  Deputy-governor  of  Plymouth  [2918]. 


1676  FIFTH   VOLUME  337 

3542.  [p.  268.]   6  Dec.   S.  P.  to  Captain  Day.1—  Encloses 
orders  for  his  going  to  Deal. 

3543.  [p.  268.]     6  Dec.     S.   P.  to  Mr.  Blathwayt?— 
Sends  him  the  original  papers  of  Captain  Russell  3  and 
Captain  Wyborne  4  touching  the  affairs  of  Newfoundland. 

Underwritten  :  '  From  Captain  Russell  :  — 

'  An  account  of  what  ships  have  made  fishing  voyages  this  year 
at  Newfoundland. 

'  An  account  of  such  ships  as  came  this  year  ('76)  for  sacks  to 
Newfoundland,  with  their  number  of  men,  guns,  and  tons. 

'  The  names  of  the  English  inhabitants,  with  the  number  of 
boats  and  men,  and  their  wives  and  children. 

'  An  account  of  the  French  trade  in  Newfoundland. 

'  An  account  of  the  King  of  England's  subjects  in  Newfound- 
land. 

'  From  Captain  Wyborne,  compared  with  Captain  Russell  :  — 

'An  account  of  the  English  inhabitants  in  Newfoundland 
between  Bonaventure  5  and  Petty  Harbour.6 

'  An  account  of  such  ships  as  came  this  year  for  sacks  to  New- 
foundland between  Bonavista  7  and  St.  John's. 

'  An  account  of  what  ships  have  made  fishing  voyages  this  year 
at  Newfoundland. 

'French  ships  in  Newfoundland  ('76). 

'  A  total  account  of  their  inhabitants,  their  boats,  fish,  frame, 
&c.,  from  Trepassy  8  to  the  Bay  of  Bulls  9  ('76).' 

3544.  [p.  269.]     7  Dec.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.  — 
[As  in  No.  3536.] 

Margin:  Mr.  St.  Loe,  Mr.  Button. 

3545.  [p.  269.]     7  Dec.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Bridgeman™  — 

1  Commanding  the  Merlin  yacht  [3624].     See  note  to  No.  3967. 

2  MS.  '  Blathwaite.'     He  was  secretary  to  the  committee  of  trade 


ee  note  to  No.  2917.  4  Commander  of  the  Pearl  [2896]. 

5  MS.    '  Boniventura.'     Bonaventure   is   on    the    coast    south   of 
Bonavista  and  west  of  Trinity  Bay. 

6  On  the  east  coast  of  Newfoundland,  south  of  St.  John's. 

7  MS.  '  Benevist.'     Bonavista  is  north  of  St.  John's,  on  the  east 
side  of  Bonavista  Bay. 

8  MS.  'Trepassa.'    Trepassy  Bay  is  on  the  south  coast  of  New- 
foundland, at  the  most  southerly  point. 

9  MS.  'Bay  of  Bull.'     On  the  east  coast  of  Newfoundland,  south 
of  St.  John's  and  Petty  Harbour. 

'"  Mr.  William  Bridgeman,  formerly  clerk  or  secretary  to  Lord 
Arlington  (Cal.  S.  P.  Dom.   1673-5,  index),  was  now  occupying  the 
same  position  in  relation  to  Sir  Joseph  Williamson  (ib.  1675-6,  index). 
VOL.  III.  Z 


338  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          Dec. 

Encloses  the  papers  on  which  passes  were  granted  to  the 
City  of  London  and  Turkey  Merchant.  As  for  the  Mar- 
quis, of  London,  no  such  ship  has  had  a  pass  from  the  lords. 

3546.  [p.  269.]     7  Dec.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners  for 
the  Customs. — About  a  pass  for  the  Rebecca,  of  New  York, 
at  Falmouth  bound  to  Amsterdam. 

3547.  [p.  269.]    7  Dec.    S.  P.  to  Mr.  GMson.l-*-Sends 
him  a  copy  of  a  letter  from  Sir  William  Doyley  *  relating  to 
the  business  of  the  sick  and  wounded.     Desires  so  much 
in  answer  to  it  as  he  shall  think  needful  to  be  presently  said, 
either  to  the  lord  treasurer  or  the  lords  of  the  admiralty. 

3548.  [p.  270.]     7  Dec.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners  for 
the  Customs. — About  a  pass  for  the  Hopewell,  of  Yarmouth, 
Roame  master,  in  that  port  bound  to  the  Straits. 

3549.  [p.  270.]      8  Dec.      S.  P.  to  Mr.  Bridgeman*— 
Finding  passes  to  have  been  granted  within  the  months  of 
March,  May,  June,  and  July  last  to  four  several  Margarets 
of  London  [see  also  3550],  distinguished  by  the  names  of 
their   masters   in    the   margin,   the   writer   desires   to   be 
directed   which   of  them  it  is  Mr.  Secretary4  means,  or 
whether  he  shall  send  him  the  papers  of  all  four. 

Margin :  Witte  Lambert,5  Ralph  Crow,  John  Keeble,  Thomas 
Hurlocke. 

3550.  [p.  270.]     8  Dec.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners  for 
the  Customs. — About  a  pass  for  the  Margaret,  of  London, 
James   Andrews  [master],  in   the  Downs    bound  to   the 
Straits. 

3551.  [p.  270.]     8  Dec.     The  same  to  the  same. — About 
a  pass  for  the  Nicholas,  of  Plymouth,  Nicholas  Low  master, 
in  that  port  bound  to  the  Straits. 

3552.  [p.  270.]   9  Dec.    S.  P.  to  the  Mayor  of  Bristol — 
Encloses  some  orders  from  the  lords  to  Sir  John  Berry, 
which  they  desire  may  be  sent  to  him  by  the  first  ship  that 
shall  depart  from  his  ports  to  Virginia  [3553]. 

Underwritten:  'The  like  to  Mr.  St.  Michel,6  in  the  Downs.' 

1  Mr.  Richard  Gibson  had  been  engaged  in  1673  in  arranging  the 
accounts  of  the  commissioners  for  sick  and  wounded  seamen  (ii.  62 
supra). 

2  Late  commissioner  for  the  sick  and  wounded. 

5  See  note  to  No.  3545.  4  Williamson. 

M.S.  'Lambeth.'  •  See  note  to  No.  2387. 


1676  FIFTH   VOLUME  339 

3553.  [p.  272.1]     9  Dec.     S.   P.   to   Sir  John  Berry? 
commander  of  the  Bristol,  on  the  coast  of  Virginia. — Has 
received  his  of  25  Nov.  from  sea,  80  leagues  beyond  the 
Lizard.     The  Dartmouth  and  the  merchant  ships  with  the 
soldiers  sailed  from  the  Downs  on  Sunday  last,  and  the  Rose 
the  day  following.     Encloses  an  order  from  the  lords,  pur- 
suant to  another  from  his  Majesty  in  council,  relating  to  the 
caution  he  is  to  use  upon  the  arrival  of  any  of  the  merchant 
vessels  which  by  the  removal  of  the  embargo  [3465]  are 
now  at  liberty  to  set  forth  towards  Virginia,   '  for   better 
preventing  their  giving  any  succours  to  the  enemy.  .  .  .' 

3554.  [p.  271.]     9  Dec.      S.  P.  to  Captain  Booth?  com- 
mander of  the    Eagle   fireship,   at   Sheerness. — Leave   to 
come  to  town  for  3  or  4  days. 

3555.  [p.    271.]     9   Dec.      S.   P.  to  Captain  Jenifer* 
commander    of    the     Saudados,    in    the    Downs. — Shall 
acquaint   the   officers   of  the   navy  with  what  he  writes 
concerning   his   mainsail   left   behind    him    at    Deptford 

[3557]. 

3556.  [p.    271.]     9   Dec.     S.   P.   to  Captain  Lassells? 
commander  of  the  Garland,  at  Sheerness. —  Has  received 
his  of  the  7th,  giving  notice  of  his  being  still  detained  by 
contrary  winds.     Is  very  sorry  that  now  when  he  is  just 
ready  to  sail  he  should  complain  for  want  of  men.    Knows 
no  other  remedy  at  present  than  his  using  his  endeavours 
for  making  up  his  complement  with  as  good  men  as  he 
can. 

3557.  [p.  271.]     9  Dec.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board. — 
Captain  Jenifer4  desires  that  the  mainsail  which  he  left 
behind  him  at  Deptford  unfinished  may  be  hastened  down 
to  him  [3555]. 

3558.  [p.  278.6]     9  Dec.     S.  P.  to  the   Commissioners 
Jor  the  Customs. — About  a  pass  for  the  Eagle,  of  Bideford, 

1  There  is  another  version  of  this  letter  on  p.  270,  described  as  '  sent 
by  a  merchant  ship  after '  Sir  John  Berry.     The  one  abstracted  in  the 
text  is  the  fuller  of  the  two,  and  is  the  one  referred  to  in  No.  3552. 
The  other  speaks  of  his  '  giving  orders  to  the  merchant  ships  now 
going  to  Virginia  and  Maryland  upon  their  arrival  at  James  River, 
whither  they  are  directed  to  repair.' 

2  See  note  to  No.  3438.  8  See  note  to  No.  2693. 

4  Commander-in-chief  in  the  Downs  [3539]. 

5  See  note  to  No.  2181. 

6  Out  of  order  in  the  MS. 

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340  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          Dec. 

Robert    Hoxland    master,   in    that    port    bound    to   the 
Straits. 

3559.  [p.  273.]     1 1  Dec.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— 
'  This  comes  in  pursuance  of  what  was  proposed  by  some  of 
your  number  on  Saturday  last  to  his  Majesty  and  agreed 
to  touching  the  appointment '  of  a  second  boatswain  '  to 
each  of  the  galley-frigates,' l  for  '  the  better  exercising,  in- 
structing, and  commanding  the  gangs  of  men  which  shall 
be  appointed  to  the  oars.'     In  which,  '  because  the  matter 
is  wholly  new,'  the  writer  desires  to  know  what  they  shall 
'  think  requisite  to  be  established,  either  by  way  of  charge, 
instructions,  or  otherwise  to  the  said  officer  or  his  com- 
mander or  company,'  with  their  opinion   '  what   may  be 
a  fitting  salary  to  be  settled  for  him,  together  with  the 
names  of  such   two   particular   persons '  as  they  '  would 
recommend  to  the  said  employment,  or  the  qualifications 
of  persons  in  general  requisite  for  the  fitting  them  for  the 
same.'     Prays  that  no  time  be  lost,  the  ships  being  in  all 
respects  ready  to  sail  so  soon  as  they  shall  have  taken 
some  requisites  on  board  for  Tangier. 

3560.  [p.   273.]     1 1    Dec.     The  same  to  the  same. — 
Application  having  been  made  to  his  Majesty  by  Captain 
Canning  '2  for  altering  his  hearth,  '  which  by  the  want  of 
room  in  the  forecastle  is  not  capable  of  the  conveniency 
of  a  baking-place  said  to  be  commonly  allowed  to  all  his 
Majesty's  ships,  by  which  it  is  become  necessary  that  the 
said  baking-place  be  made  apart  from  the  hearth,'  it  is  the 
king's  pleasure  that  the  want  of  the  said  conveniency  be 
supplied  in  such  manner  as  the  board  shall  'judge  most 
proper  to  answer  the  accommodation  of  that  kind  generally 
provided  on  board  other  ships.'     They  are  to  remember 
to  give  such  orders  about  his  Majesty's  ships  in  the  River, 
for  the  bringing  them  on  ground  or  otherwise,  as  they  shall 
judge  most  proper  for  securing  them  against  the  ice  [3562]. 
Mr.  Murray,  who  hath  solicited  them  on  behalf  of  Captain 
Hamilton,3  telling  the  writer  that  they  seem  to  want  the 

1  See  note  to  No.  3240. 

-  Captain  George  Canning,  formerly  commander  of  the  Portland, 
had  been  appointed  to  command  the  James  galley-frigate  by  a  com- 
mission dated  20  Oct.  1676  (i.  332  supra).  Charnock  says  in  error 
that  the  appointment  was  made  '  in  the  year  1677 '  (Biog.  New.  i.  330). 

3  See  note  to  No.  3310. 


1676  FIFTH    VOLUME  341 

lords'  order  for  dispensing  with  the  admiral's  instructions 
in  the  present  payment  of  his  wages  for  his  service  in  the 
galley,  this  is  to  note  to  them  that  it  is  already  given  in  a 
clause  of  their  lordships'  letter  to  the  board  of  14  Sept 

3561.  [p.    274.]     II    Dec.     S.  P.  to    Captain  Jenifer^ 
commander  of  the  Saudados,  in  the  Downs. — Will  send 
orders  concerning  the  Drake,  for  bringing  her  in  either  to 
be  laid  up  or  to  have  her  leaks  stopped  [3564]. 

3562.  [p.  274.]     ii  Dec.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Pett?  master- 
shipwright    at    Woolwich. — Has    moved    the    king    and 
lords  (in  the  presence  of  the  principal  officers  of  the  navy) 
in  the  business  he  proposed  of  bringing  his  Majesty's  ships 
on  ground  for  securing  them  against  the  ice  [3560].    Doubts 
not   he   will   very   speedily  receive  orders  from  the  said 
principal  officers,  to  whom  the  care  thereof  is  referred. 

3563.  [p.  274.]     1 1  Dec.    S.  P.  to  Mr.  Bertie?  secretary 
to  the  lord  treasurer. — Encloses  a  copy  of  a  letter  from 
Sir  William  Doyley 4  relating  to  the  business  of  the  arrears 
due  to  the  account  of  sick  and  wounded,  as  the  same  is 
by   the   lord  treasurer  committed  to  the  examination  of 
Mr.  Gibson,4  in  order  to  his  lordship's  making  such  use 
thereof  for  preventing  the  evils  suggested  by  Sir  William 
Doyley  (of  the  double  payment  of  the  said  arrears)  as  to 
him  shall  seem  fit. 

3564.  [p.  275.]     1 1  Dec.    S.  P.  to  Lieutenant  Hodder?  at 
present  commanding  the  Drake  in  the  Downs. — To  bring 
the  Drake  into  Sheerness  [3561],  making  all  the  haste  he 
can,  that   he  may  return  to  his  office  upon  the  Garland 
before  her  setting  forth  for  Gottenburg. 

3565.  [p.  275.]     12  Dec.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners 
for  the  Customs. — About  a  pass  for  the  Pearl,  of  Yarmouth, 
Edward  Watson  master,  now  at  Yarmouth   bound  to  the 
Straits. 

3566.  [p.  275.]     12  Dec.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Canning? 
commander  of  the  James  frigate. — '  I  am  mightily  surprised 
this   morning   at   an    application    made   to   me  by  three 
watermen,  complaining  that  after  they  had  by  order  of  their 
Hall  put  themselves  to  the  charge  of  fitting  each  of  them 

1  Commander-in-chief  in  the  Downs  [3539].      2  See  ii.  92  n.  supra. 

3  MS.  '  Bartie '  as  in  No.  1787  ;  cf.  '  Bartue'  in  No.  452. 

4  See  note  to  No.  3547.  5  See  note  to  No.  3473. 
6  See  note  to  No.  3560. 


342  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          Dec. 

a  man  to  serve  his  Majesty  on  board  your  ship,  each  of 
which  hath  not  only  passed  the  examination  of  the  officers 
of  the  navy,  and  as  I  thought  your  own,  but  upon  their 
being  brought  up  hither  appear  to  be  very  able  young  men 
[3569],  of  from  24  to  26  years  of  age,  near  out  of  their  time, 
and  desirous  to  go  into  his  Majesty's  service,  your  lieutenant 
should  in  your  absence  discharge  them — a  practice  which 
without  very  good  reason  shown  for  it  by  him  will  give 
just  matter  of  offence '  to  the  king  and  lords,  '  when  it 
shall  be  remembered  what  complaints  you  lately  found 
cause  to  make  of  want  of  men,  and  the  ill  choice  made  of 
the  watermen  first  sent  from  the  Hall,  to  the  occasioning 
a  trouble  not  only  to  the  officers  of  the  navy  and  yourself 
to  take  a  review  of  them  and  come  to  a  new  choice,  but  to 
the  king  also  and  the  council  board  by  the  granting  press- 
warrants  both  for  watermen  and  seamen  in  time  of  peace ' 
[3578].  The  writer  takes  this  notice  of  it  to  him  before  he 
mentions  it  to  the  king  and  lords,  that  he  may  have  oppor- 
tunity of  rectifying  it  by  directing  the  young  men  to  be 
continued  in  his  Majesty's  service,  or  of  offering  some 
justification  of  their  being  discharged  [3658,  3660]. 

3567.  [p.  276.]    12  Dec.    S.  P.  to  Sir  William  Doy ley}— 
Has  communicated  his  letter  to  the  king  and  lords,  and 
by  their  order  has  given  a  copy  of  it  to  Mr.  Bertie  [3563]. 

3568.  [p.  276.]     \2Dec.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Kempthorne? 
Monmouth   yacht,    Holyhead. — Encloses   a   copy   of  the 
king's  orders  for  leave  for  his  coming  to  town  for  a  month, 
the  original  whereof  is  sent  to  Chester  [3570]. 

3569.  [p.  277.]     12  Dec.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Pett?  muster- 
master  at  Gravesend. — Thanks  him  for  his  account  of  the 
loth  of  the   condition   of  the  watermen  in  the  Charles 
galley.4     Prays  him  to  take  no  less  care  in  mustering  the 
James 4  when  she  shall  come  within  his  reach ;  and  par- 
ticularly to  observe  whether  the  three  watermen  named  in 
the  margin  be  on  board  her  [3566],  and  if  so  to  let  the 
writer  have  private  advice  'whether  there  be  no  watermen  or 
other  men  (either  pressed  or  volunteers),  of  less  growth  and 
likeliness  of  person  and  age  entered  on  board  that  ship  than 
those  three'  [3578].     Finds  by  his  muster  of  the  6th  that 
there  was  then  230  men  on  board  the  Charles,  which  is 

1  See  note  to  No.  3547.  9  See  ii.  113  n.  supra. 

3  See  ii.  92  n.  supra.  4  See  note  to  No.  3240. 


1 676  FIFTH   VOLUME  343 

10  more  than  her  complement,  and  that  he  went  still  on  in 
mustering  of  more  by  the  addition  of  2  by  his  muster  on 
the  pth.  It  therefore  appears  that  he  either  has  not  the 
complements  of  each  ship  notified  to  him  from  the  navy 
board  (which  the  writer  cannot  easily  believe),  or  that  he 
has  no  regard  to  the  said  complements  but  takes  upon  him 
the  liberty  of  entertaining  into  his  Majesty's  charge  what- 
ever number  either  '  the  indiscretion,  oversight,  or  lavish- 
ness  of  a  commander '  shall  think  fit  to  bring  on  board,  to 
the  preventing  his  Majesty  of  one  of  the  greatest  benefits 
expected  from  a  clerk  of  the  check.  Expects  his  answer 
to  this,  in  order  to  his  laying  the  same  before  the  king  and 
lords  for  preventing  that  '  irregularity  and  exorbitance '  for 
the  time  to  come. 

Margin:    Nicholas   Backwell,   William   Clare,   Bartholomew 
Davis. 

3570.  [p.  277.]     12  Dec.    S.  P.  to  Captain  Kempthorne?- 
commander  of  the  Monmouth  yacht,  at  Westchester.2 — 
Leave  to  come  to  town  for  a  month  [3568], 

3571.  [p.  278.]    12  Dec.    S.  P.  to  Sir  John  Kempthorne? 
at  Portsmouth. — Has  received  his  of  the  9th,  and  leave  is 
sent  to  Captain  Kempthorne1  [3568,  3570].     Thanks  him 
for  his  advice  of  the  Dutch  men-of-war  at  St.  Helen's,  and 
the  Frenchmen  in  the  harbour. 

3572.  [p.  278.]     12  Dec.     S.  P.  to  John  Trelawny,  Esq.? 
Vice- Admiral  of  the  south 5  parts  of  Cornwall. — Has  re- 
ceived his  of  the  4th,  and  will  take  the  direction  of  the 
king  and   lords   in   the  matter  of  the   French   privateer 
mentioned  therein. 

3573.  [p.  278.]      12  Dec.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Pett?  master- 
shipwright  at  Woolwich. — Cannot  presently  give  him  an 
account  of  what   the   king  will  do  touching  the  present 
putting  into  his  hands  the  building  of  a  yacht,  though  he 
doth  express   'his   great   well-liking'  of  the   models   he 
presented  him  with. 

3574.  [p.  278.]     13  Dec.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Anthony  Deane? 
— Desires  an  account,  before  the  council  rises  this  day, 

1  See  ii.  113  n.  supra.  a  See  note  to  No.  2705. 

3  See  note  to  No.  2734.  4  See  note  to  No.  2862. 

5  M.S.  'north.'        i;  See  ii.  92  n.  supra.        7  See  note  to  No.  3033. 


344  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          Dec. 

of  how  the  declaration  for  the  present  year  for  Tangier 
stands,  viz.  how  much  remains  unissued,  and  what  victuals 
remain  in  store  there  for  the  use  of  the  king's  ships. 

3575.  [p.  279.]     13  Dec.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board  - 
Encloses  a  paper  noting  the  respective  times  by  which 
the  victualling  of  each  ship  mentioned  in  the  writer's  last 
is   to  be   computed.     Desires   that   they  will  hasten  the 
distribution  of  the  victualling  all  they  can. 

3576.  [p.  279.]     13  Dec.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners 
for  the  Customs. — About  a  pass  for  the  Mary,  of  Topsham, 
in  that  port  bound  to  the  Straits. 

3577.  [p.  279.]      13  Dec.      S.  P.   to  the  Lord  Privy 
Seal.1 — Desires   him   to   take   the  king's  pleasure  at  the 
council -table   on  the   two  enclosed  memorials,  the  lords 
being  by  the  late  Order  of  Council  left  without  any  rule 
before   them   how    to    proceed    in    the    case   of  French 
privateers. 

3578.  [p.  279.]     13  Dec.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board. — 
Desires   their   perusal    of  a  copy  of  a  letter  to  Captain 
Canning2  [3566],  and  that  they  will  inform  the  writer: 
Whether  the  three  watermen's  servants  mentioned  therein 
were  not  approved  on  by  the  members  of  their  board  who 
had  the  inspection  of  the  watermen  chosen  at  the  Hall  for 
the  service  of  the  said  frigate  ?     Whether  upon  another 
view  of  them  they  will  not  still  think  them  fit  for  that 
service  ?     Whether  they  conceive  the  discharging  of  such 
able  young  men,  the  disappointing  of  their  masters,  the 
imposing  upon  the  Hall,  and  (which  is  more)  upon  them- 
selves and  the  lords,  and  lastly  the  multiplying  of  entries 
upon  a  ship's  book  by  unnecessary  changings  of  men,  be  to 
be  admitted  (with  so  much  contempt  as  the  writer  is  told 
it  is  done  by  Captain  Canning  to  the  lords  and  them),  upon 
no  other  consideration  than  that  of  their  never  having  been 
at  sea  ? 

Proposes  their  sending  some  particular  person  to 
muster  the  ship's  company  [3569,  3585],  and  'in  so  doing 
particularly  to  take  notice  whether  he  finds  no  persons  on 
board  but  such  as  have  been  at  sea  ;  and  if  any,  whether 
none  of  them  be  less  likely  by  strength  of  body,  age,  and 
education  upon  the  water  .  .  .  than  those  three  ;  and  the 

1  The  Earl  of  Anglesey.     D.  N.  B.  ii.  i. 

2  See  note  to  No.  3560. 


1676  FIFTH   VOLUME  345 

number  and  names  of  such  (if  any)  as  he  shall  judge  less 
qualified  than  they  with  respect  to  the  wages  one  or 
t'other  are  to  receive  from  the  king  ;  and,  lastly,  the 
abilities  of  the  three  particular  men  which  he  shall  under- 
stand these  three  to  have  been  discharged  to  make  room 
for.'  In  this  the  writer  is  much  the  more  urgent  from  a 
consideration  which  they  will  think  '  no  trivial  one ' :  '  That 
after  all  the  tenderness  at  all  times  expressed  by  his 
Majesty,  my  lords  of  the  council,  my  lord  admiral,  and 
my  present  lords  of  granting,  and  ourselves  in  executing, 
warrants  for  pressing  of  men,  especially  in  time  of  peace, 
so  just  an  occasion  of  complaint  should  be  given  as  is  now 
offered,  both  to  the  Watermen's  Company  in  general  and  the 
masters  of  these  three  persons  in  particular,  of  the  trouble 
and  charge  they  have  been  put  to  for  the  pressing  of  men 
for  these  two  little  frigates,  to  be  turned  off  again  as  soon 
as  they  are  pressed,  though  able  and  inclined  to  serve.  .  .  .' 

3579.  [p.  281.]     13  Dec.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Hayter?  at  the 
navy  office. — Desires  to  know  Sir  John  Tippetts's 2  answer 
to  the  writer's  question  touching  what  4th  and  5th  rates  and 
one  3rd  rate  may  be  with  least  expense  and  in  shortest 
time  fitted  for  the  next  year's  services  [3585]. 

3580.  [p.    281.]     13    Dec.     S.  P.  to   Captain  Jenifer? 
commander   of   the    Saudados,   in   the   Downs. — Thanks 
him  for  his  of  the  i  ith,  and  his  account  of  the  condition  of 
the  Greyhound. 

3581.  [p.  281.]     13  Dec.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  St.  Michel,  at 
Deal. — In    his    inquiries   after   the   reason   why   Captain 
Temple    in    the    Dartmouth   did    not   with   his   fleet    to 
Virginia  get   out   of  the   Downs   the   same   day   as   the 
merchant  ships   bound  to  the  Straits,  the  writer  under- 
stands  that   though  Captain   Temple   excuses  it  by  one 
reason,  namely  that  the  merchantmen  could  not  all  get 
under  sail  before  night  so  that  he  was  forced  to  anchor 
again,  some  masters  of  merchantmen  '  have  given  it  out  by 
way  of  complaint  that  it  arose  from  his  not  being  to  be 
got  timelily  from  the  shore.'     Desires  to  know  the  truth. 
The  day  upon  which  the  Straits  ships  sailed  was  the  2nd  ; 
when  the  writer  understands  (on  Sir  Richard  Haddock's 4 

1  See  note  to  No.  2857.  2  See  note  to  No.  2530. 

3  Commander-in-chief  in  the  Downs  [3539]. 

4  See  note  to  No.  3268. 


ADMIRALTY  LETTERS         Dec. 

authority)  they  were  got  clear  of  the  Foreland  by  2  in  the 
afternoon. 

3582.  [p.  282.]     13  Dec.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Dickenson^ 
commander  of  the  Hunter,  on  the  coast  of  Guinea. — Has 
received  his  of  the  i/th  from  the  Madeiras,  giving  notice 
of  the  governor  of  that  island's  denying   him   pratique,2 
and   has  communicated  it  to  the  king  and  lords.     The 
Royal   Company   having   made   it   their   request    to    his 
Majesty  that  the  Hunter  may  be  ordered  home  to  England, 
their   service   not   requiring   her   further   attendance,  the 
king's  orders  for  his  return  are  enclosed  [3589]. 

3583.  [p.  282.]     1 3  Dec.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— 
The  Greyhound  being  unfit  to  stay  abroad  by  reason  of 
her  present  leakiness,  the  writer  desires  their  advice  whether 
it  will  be  most  convenient  to  fit  her  at  Sheerness,  or  at 
Dover  as  Captain  Clements  proposes,   as   a   place  where 
she  may  be  done  with  most  ease  and  despatch,  which  is  of 
importance  at  this  time  to  the  king  by  reason  that  the 
Drake  is  also  driven  to  come  into  Sheerness  for  stopping 
of  her  leaks  [3592]. 

3584.  [p.  283.]     13  Dec.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Pett?  muster- 
master  at  Gravesend. — To  cause  the  enclosed  letter  to  be 
given   to   the  captain   of  the  Katherine  yacht  upon  her 
arrival  at  Gravesend. 

3585.  [p.  283.]     14  Dec.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Hayter*— Finds 
that  'the  condition   of  the  River  by  ice  so  scatters  the 
watermen '  that  the  writer  cannot  reach  the  three  who  were 
to  have  shown  themselves  to  the  person  the  board  shall  send 
down  to  muster  the  James  frigate  [3578]  ;  but  if  the  board 
agree  to  what  the  writer  proposes,  the  same  thing  may  be 
done  by  a  view  of  them  after  the  muster ;  '  and  therefore 
having  the  further  reason  you   give  for   prosecuting   this 
inquiry,  by  Captain  Canning's K  purpose  of  discharging  many 
more  besides  these  three,  I  am  the  more  convinced  of  the 
expediency  of  having  of  a   perfect  muster  taken,  and  a 
book  of  entries  brought  to  you,  with  care  committed  to  the 
person  the  board  shall  employ  in  it  to  take  special  notice 
of  the  abilities,  age,  and  seamanship  of  the  said  company, 
and  particularly  of  such  as  he  shall  find  entered  after  your 

1  See  ii.  367  n.  supra.  2  MS.  'prattick.' 

3  See  ii.  92  n.  supra.  *  See  note  to  No.  2857. 

5  See  note  to  No.  3560. 


1676  FIFTH   VOLUME  347 

providing  of  the  watermen,  and  especially  those  for  whom 
your  watermen  were  discharged  to  make  room.'  Thanks 
him  for  his  list  of  4th  and  5th  rates,  but  desires  a  word  or 
two  of  the  3rd  rates  [3579]. 

Postscript. — To  remember  the  despatch  of  his  distribu- 
tion of  the  victualling  ports  for  the  next  year. 

3586.  [p.  283.]     [14  Dec.~\     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners 
for  the  Customs. — About  a  pass  for  the  Nonsuch,  of  Topsham, 
John  Venner   master,  now   in   that   port   bound   for   the 
Straits. 

3587.  [p.  284.]     14  Dec.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Secretary  Bertiel 
— Desires  he  will  move  the  lord  treasurer  for  his  pleasure 
about  disposing  the  brimstone  on  board  the  Ann  and  Chris- 
topher fireship  [3755],  brought  home  from  Tripoli  'in  part 
of  the  satisfaction  given  his  Majesty  by  that  government'; 
the  officers  of  the  navy  having  made  it  their  desire  on  his 
Majesty's  behalf  that  care  may  be  taken  for  its  speedy 
removal  out  of  the  said  ship,  and  that  only  50  tons  thereof 
may  be  appointed  to  the  navy  for  the  use  of  his  Majesty's 
ships  when  the  same  shall  come  to  be  disposed  of,  which 
the  lord  treasurer  'hath  the  only  right  of  directing'  [3641]. 

3588.  [p.  284.]     14  Dec.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Sherburne,  one 
of  the  principal  officers  of  the  ordnance,  Tower. — The  king 
and  lords  are  well  satisfied  with  the  result  of  the  report 
lately   presented   to   his    Majesty   from  the  office  of  the 
ordnance  in  discharge  of  that  office  '  from  being  burdened 
with  the   providing  of  boats   for  the  maritime  forts  and 
castles,  and  that  as  far  as  the  same  must  nevertheless  in 
some  proportion  be  done,  the  office  of  the  navy  is  most 
properly  chargeable  with  the  doing  thereof.'     In  order  to 
enable  him  to  lay  before  the  king  and  lords  at  once  '  the 
consideration  of  that  whole  matter,  and  that  one  general 
resolution  may  be  maturely  taken  which  of  the  said  forts 
and  castles  and  which  alone,  shall  have  this  provision  made 
for  them,  and  to  what  degree  to  each  respectively,  to  be 
hereafter  reckoned  as  a  standing  branch  of  the  ordinary 
charge  of  the  navy,'  the  writer  requests  of  him  one  list  of 
all  the  maritime  forts  and  castles,  great  and  small,  within 
the  kingdom. 

3589.  [p.  285.]     14  Dec.     S.  P.  to  Sir  John  Bankes?— 

1  Secretary  to  the  lord  treasurer  [3563]. 
a  See  note  to  No.  2825. 


348  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS         Dec. 

Encloses   orders   for  the    Hunter's   return   home  without 
staying  the  full  time  first  designed  her  [3582.] 

3590.  [p.  285.]     [15  Dec.~\     A    Memorial  touching  the 
slaves  lately  belonging  to  the  galley  at   Tangier. — '  That  as 
well  for  easing  his  Majesty's  garrison  at  Tangier  as  the 
stores  appointed  for  the  service  of  the  navy  there,  of  the 
charge  of  victualling   the  slaves  lately  belonging  to  and 
employed  in  his  Majesty's  galley  the  Margaret,  now  dis- 
charged, his  Majesty  will  be  pleased  by  his  order  to  my 
lords  of  the  admiralty  to  authorise  and  direct  them  to  issue 
their  warrant  to  the  principal  officers  and  commissioners  of 
the  navy  for  the  transferring  all  the  slaves  belonging  to  his 
Majesty,  and  lately  serving  at  Tangier  in  his  said  galley, 
unto    Henry  Sheeres,1    Esq.,   present   undertaker  for   the 
building  of  his  Majesty's  mole  there,  to  be  by  him  main- 
tained, commanded,  and  employed  in  the  work  of  the  said 
mole,  with  the  same  place  to  be  continued  to  him  for  their 
lodging  wherein  they  have  been  hitherto  kept,  and  now  are ' 
[3610]. 

Underwritten :  '  By  his  Majesty's  command. — S.  P.' 

3591.  [p.    285.]     15    Dec.     Memorial  for  the   Council 
about  Captain  Pibus? — Whereas  his  Majesty  by  his  establish- 
ment  made   at  the  council  table  19  May,  1675,  granted 
'  half-pay  during  peace  and  want  of  employment '  to  such 
as  had  served  as  masters  of  ist  and  2nd  rates  during  the 
last  war ;  by  which  limitation    Captain   John  Pibus,  who 
served  as  master  of  the  Royal  Sovereign  in  the  former  war, 
is  excluded  without  a  special  Order  in  Council ;  and  whereas 
he  is  the  only  surviving  master  of  the  ist  and  2nd  rates 
unprovided  for  of  all  that  served  in  the  former  war,  and 
appears  to  have  faithfully  served  as  commander  in  the  latter 
war,  his  Majesty  is  humbly  moved  by  the  lords  that  he 
may  have  the  benefit  of  the  said  establishment. 

Underwritten :  '  By  command  of  the  lords.— S.  P.' 

3592.  [p.  286.]     15  Dec.     S.  P.  to  Captain   Clements, 
commander  of  the  Greyhound,  Downs. — To  sail  to  Sheerness 
to  be  refitted  and  supplied  with  stores  [3583]. 

1  D.  N.  B.  lii.  10. 

9  Late  commander  of  the  Fanfan  yacht  [245]. 


1676  FIFTH   VOLUME  349 

3593.  [p.  286.]     1 6  Dec.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— 
The  Greyhound  is  according  to  their  advice  [3583]  ordered 
to  Sheerness,  as  also  the  Drake,  of  whose  condition  they 
are  to  order  a  survey  to  be  made  there  and  sent  to  the 
lords,  together   with   their   opinion   whether  she  may  be 
speedily  refitted  out  to  sea,  or  whether  it  would  be  better 
husbandry  to  have  her  paid  off  and  another  ship  fitted  out 
to  supply  her  place  in  the  Downs. 

3594.  [p.  286.]     1 6  Dec.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners 
for  the  Customs. — About  a  pass  for  the  Success,  of  Bideford, 
at   Barnstaple,  Christopher   Yeo,1    master,  bound  for  the 
Canaries  [3599]. 

3595.  [p.  286.]     1 8  Dec.     The  same  to  the  same.— About 
a  pass  for  the  Hannah,  of  Topsham,  Stephen    Whithall 
master,  now  in  that  port  bound  to  Lisbon. 

3596.  [p.  287.]       1 8   Dec.      Memorandum. — 'Captain 
Day 2  had  general  instructions  delivered  him  as  commander 
of  the  Bezan  yacht.' 

3597.  [p.  287.]     1 8  Dec.     S.  P.  to  Lieutenant  Hodder? 
on  board  the  Drake,  at  Sheerness. — Has  received  his  of 
the  4th,  giving  an  account  of  the  reason  of  the  time  spent 
in  convoying  the  Exeter  ships  to  Holland  [3524].     Will 
be  ready  to  do  him  right,  and  will  let  the  king  and  lords 
know  'the  little   regard  the  merchantmen  showed  to  his 
Majesty's  care  of  them  in  the  providing  them  convoy  by 
their  so  slightly  leaving  it ;  but  it  is  not  the  first  time  his 
and  his  commanders'  care  have  been  so  treated.'     He  is  to 
hasten  the  survey  of  his  ship  and  reporting  up  hither  the 
condition  she  is  in. 

3598.  [p.  287.]     1 8  Dec.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Sandford,  clerk 
of  the    control    at    Woolwich. — Fears  the  leave  he  asks 
without  limitation  of  time  for  the  executing  his  place  by  a 
deputy  is  calculated  principally  (if  not  wholly)  for  evading 
his  creditors,  thus  drawing  '  the  general  reproach  upon  his 
Majesty's  service  of  being  made  a  shelter  for  persons  of 
broken    credits   and    fortunes,   besides   the  introducing  a 
precedent  to  others  ...  to  demand  the  same  favour,  and 
perhaps  tempting  them  to  the  taking  of  such  courses  as  shall 
reduce  them  to  the  needing  it.'    The  writer  can  by  no  means 

1  MS.  'Yea.'  2  See  note  to  No.  2967. 

3  See  note  to  No.  3473. 


350  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS         Dec. 

concur  with  it,  though  if  he  presses  it  he  will  present  his 
petition  to  the  lords. 

3599.  [p.  288.]     ig  Dec.     S.P.  to  the  Commissioners  for 
the  Customs. — About  passes  for  the  Eagle,  of  Bideford,  and 
the  Success,  of  Bideford,  in  that  port  bound  to  the  Straits 

[3594]- 

3600.  [p.  288.]     19  Dec.     S.  P.  to  Governor  Legge^  at 
Portsmouth. — Acknowledges   his  very  obliging  and  most 
welcome  letter  of  the  1 7th,  giving  an  account  of  the  great 
despatch  he  has  in  so  little  time  made  towards  the  putting 
both  his  port  and  his  Majesty's  ships  lying  therein  '  in  so 
good  a  condition  of  safety,'  with  which  the  king,  his  Royal 
Highness,  and  the  lords  are  very  well  satisfied.     The  king's 
orders  will  be  speedily  issued  to  the  master  of  the  ordnance 
'  in  confirmation  of  what  you  have  done  in  issuing  of  arms 
to  the  boats,  and  in  mounting  the  guns  you  mention  as 
well  on  board  his  ships  as  elsewhere,  the  occasions  which 
are  now  before  us  not  being  in  view  when  the  preventing 
the  embezzlements  of  a  few  aprons,  quoins,  tarred  lines, 
and  such  like  trivial  matters  was  thought  reason  sufficient 
to  beget  that  method  by  which  his  Majesty's  ships  become 
totally  stripped  of  their  ordnance  as  soon  as  they  come  to 
be  laid  up  in  harbour.'     His  causing  the  master  attendant 
to  lie  on  board  hath  been  already  some  days  since  con- 
firmed by  the  king's  warrant  to  Sir  John  Kempthorne.2 

The  king  and  lords  receive  great  satisfaction  from  the 
voluntary  offer  of  the  Heer  Almonde  3  for  his  smaller  ships 
to  lie  at  Cowes  and  greater  at  the  S  pithead,  it  at  the  same 
time  preventing  complaint  on  their  side  and  removing 
apprehensions  on  ours. 

'  Your  observation  of  the  shortness  of  the  number  of 
workmen  to  be  had  for  supplying  of  night  watches,  together 
with  the  difference  of  charge  it  would  be  of  to  his  Majesty, 
and  the  further  consideration  of  how  much  less  service  their 
watchings  must  be  thought  to  be  to  the  king  who  are 
wearied  with  day  labour  than  of  those  who  shall  be 
purposely  entertained  for  that  use,  hath  led  his  Majesty  and 

1  Colonel  George  Legge,  afterwards  Lord  Dartmouth,  was  at  this 
time  lieutenant-governor  of  Portsmouth  (D.  N.  B.  xxxii.  408). 

2  See  note  to  No.  2734. 

'MS.  'Alemond.'    On  Philip  van  Almonde,  the  Dutch  admiral, 
see  Michaud,  Biog.  Univ.,  i.  512. 


1676  FIFTH    VOLUME  351 

my  lords  to  determine  upon  having  seamen  entered  for  that 
work.'  Desires  his  opinion  touching  the  number  necessary, 
and  the  readiest  means  of  obtaining  them. 

The  officers  of  the  navy  have  directions  to  furnish  the 
Heer  Almonde  with  'the  two  anchors  and  stocks  and  4 
cables  mentioned  in  his  particular,'  or  with '  others  of  dimen- 
sions so  near  them  as  that  our  nakedness  therein  may  not 
be  discovered  [3615].  In  pursuance  of  which  Sir  John 
Kempthorne  l  will  by  this  night's  post  receive  their  orders 
'  to  issue  the  said  stores  upon  such  terms  in  reference  to 
price  and  payment  ...  as  may  secure  his  Majesty's  pay- 
ment here  if  it  be  indifferent  to  them,  and  at  such  rates  as 
may  prevent  his  Majesty  being  a  loser,  without  giving 
them  just  cause  of  any  complaint  of  the  prices  we  impose 
upon  them'  [3614,  3615]. 

Has  promoted  the  use  which  he  so  very  advisedly 
makes  of  this  occasion  '  for  pressing  for  something  to  be 
done  on  Gosport  side  for  the  security  of  the  harbour,  and 
with  this  success  (his  Royal  Highness  being  pleased  to 
improve  it  by  his  furtherance)  that  his  Majesty  hath  de- 
clared, with  the  concurrence  of  all  my  lords,  that  something 
shall  be  speedily  and  effectually  done  in  it.' 

3601.  [p.  290.]    20  Dec.    S.  P.  to  Sir  Richard  Haddock? 
for  Mrs.  Fitzharris. — Desires  his  kindness  to  the  bearer, 
(whose  father  was  slain  in  his  Majesty's  service,  and  has 
left  a  family  in  need  enough  of  any  just  favour),  in  getting 
a  ticket  paid  wherein  she  is  concerned. 

Margin :  '  Desires  his  kindness  to  Mrs,  finch.'1 

3602.  [p.  290.]     20  Dec.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  St.  Michel,  at 
Deal. — Thanks  for  his  of  the  i$th  about  Captain  Temple 
[358i]. 

3603.  [p.  290.]     20  Dec.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board. — 
The  king  is  inclined  to  give  Captain  Betts,3  late  commander 
of  the  Europa  hulk,   '  some  gratification  for   his   extra- 
ordinary services  and  merits,  .  .  .  but  so  as  that  the  same 
may  in  no  wise  beget  a  precedent  of  continuing  wages  to  a 
commander  upon  any  consideration  after  the  ship  is  lost, 

1  See  note  to  No.  2734.  3  See  note  to  No.  3268. 

3  Captain  William  Betts,  the  master  attendant  at  Tangier  [1613], 
had  been  appointed  to  command  the  Europa  hulk  in  1674  (i«  325 
supra}.  He  is  indexed  by  Charnock  (Stag.  Nav.  ii.  3)  under  the 
surname  '  Best.'  He  is  not  to  be  confused  with  Mr.  Isaac  Betts,  the 
master-shipwright  at  Portsmouth  (i.  77  supra). 


352  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          Dec. 

nor  for  making  allowance  for  loss  of  clothes  in  any  case 
but  that  of  ships  lost  in  fight  (notwithstanding  the  con- 
sideration that  was  had  of  the  extraordinariness  of  the 
present  case  of  Captain  Betts,  where  the  ship  was  lost  by 
treachery l  and  the  malefactors  executed  for  the  same)' :  the 
writer  desires  that  they  will  compute  what  sum  his  wages 
would  have  amounted  to  from  the  time  of  the  loss  of  the 
Europa  to  the  return  and  paying  off  of  the  Harwich. 

3604.  [p.  291.]    21  Dec.    S.  P.  to  Sir  John  Kempthorne? 
at  Portsmouth. — Thanks  him  for   his   of  the   ipth,  with 
advice  of  the  care  he  has  taken  in  the  execution  of  his 
Majesty's  late  orders  for  '  putting  all  things  in  an  order  of 
safety '  within  his  harbour  of  Portsmouth,  which  the  king 
and  lords  take  in  very  good  part.     Hopes  to-morrow  to 
receive  their  pleasure  about  putting  some  more  guns  upon 
the  Charles  and  Plymouth. 

3605.  [p.  292.]     21  Dec.     S.  P.  to  Colonel  Legge?  at 
Portsmouth. — Thanks  him  for  his  of  the  I9th,  with  the 
additional  caution  he  now  adds  of  having  a  further  number 
of  guns  placed  upon  the  Charles  and    Plymouth  [3604, 

3614]- 

3606.  [p.  29 1.4]     22  Dec.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners 
for  the  Customs. — About  a  pass  for  the  Hopewell,  of  Exeter, 
now  in  that  port  bound  for  the  Straits. 

3607.  [p.  292.]      22  Dec.     S.  P.   to  Captain  Jenifer* 
commander  of  the  Saudados,  in  the  Downs. — Thanks  him 
for  his  of  the  2ist,  with  advice  of  the  proceedings  of  the 
armies  in  Sweden  and  Denmark,  and  his  care  in  looking 
out  for  the  French  privateer. 

3608.  [p.  293.]     22  Dec.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Carverth? 
commander  of  the  Francis,  in  the  Downs. — Is  glad  of  his 
safe  return  after  the  hazards  he  was  exposed   to  in  the 
voyage.     He   is  to  continue  in  the   Downs  and  send  up 
notice  of  the  condition  of  his  ship  for  continuing  abroad. 

3609.  [p.  293.]     22  Dec.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  St.  Michel,1  at 
Deal. — Thanks  for  his  care  of  the  Virginia  packet.     Finds 

1  The  entry  in  Pepys's  Register  concerning  the  Europa  is  '  burnt 
at  Malta,  1675  '  (i-  291  supra).  *  See  note  to  No.  2734. 

3  See  note  to  No.  3600.  •»  Out  of  order  in  the  MS. 

5  Commander-in-chief  in  the  Downs  [3539]. 

c  Captain  Henry  Carverth,  formerly  commander  of  the  Young 
Spragge  [2542],  had  been  appointed  to  the  Francis  by  a  commission 
dated  10  Sept.  1676  (i.  333  supra}.  '  See  note  to  No.  2387. 


1676  FIFTH   VOLUME  353 

by  the  list  this  day  that  the  same  ship  is  yet  in  the  Downs, 
so  encloses  a  letter  of  Sir  Charles  Wheeler's1  to  Lady 
Berkeley 2  for  conveyance  to  the  master  of  this  vessel. 

3610.  [p.  294.]     23  Dec.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— 
In  answer  to  theirs  of  the  2Oth  touching  the  disposal  of 
the  slaves  at  Tangier,  the  writer's  judgment  is  that  Sir 
Palmes  Fairborne,3  the  present  governor  there,  having  de- 
sired to  be  rid  of  them,  and  Mr.  Sheeres 4  desiring  to  have 
them,  and  his  Majesty  ordered  as  they  see  by  the  lords 
letter  to  them  of  the  iQth  [see  3590],  Mr.  Sheeres  should 
have  them  for  the  mole ;  and  all  this  being  no  more  than 
a  confirmation  of  a  former  order,  there  needs  not  any  new 
trouble  to  be  given  either  to  the  king  or  lords.     Will  move 
the  lords  commissioners  of  Tangier  about  repairing  the 
Banian,  '  it  being  not  to  be  thought  that  the  navy  should 
be  troubled  with  it.' 

3611.  [p.  295.]    23  Dec.    S.  P.  to  Sir  William  Thompson? 
— His    Royal    Highness  desires    him   to   give   Sir  John 
Bankes G  and  Sir  John  Narbrough 7  a  meeting  at  his  High- 
ness's  lodgings  on  Monday  morning  next. 

3612.  [p.  295.]      23  Dec.     S.  P.  to  Colonel  Piper,6  at 
Plymouth. — Encloses  the  king's  orders  for  his  bringing  up 
Peter  Geraudeau,9  the  commander  of  the  French  merchant- 
man, who  was  left  in  his  custody  by  Sir  John  Berry 10  for 
refusing  to  strike  to  the  Bristol  at  his  return  from  the 
Straits,  to  be  tried  at  a  general  sessions  of  the  admiralty 
on  10  Jan.  next,  at  the  new  Sessions  Hall  in  South wark  ; 
he  being  brought  to  the  Marshalsea  in  Southwark,  there 

1  See  note  to  No.  3384. 

2  Sir  William  Berkeley  had  just  resigned  the  governorship  of 
Virginia.   D.  N.  B.  iv.  368. 

3  See  note  to  No.  2212.  4  See  note  to  No.  2724. 

°  Sir  William  Thompson,  an  alderman  of  London,  had  been  one 
of  the  commissioners  from  the  City  to  present  the  Restoral:  *>n  address 
to  Charles  II.  at  the  Hague,  and  had  been  knighted  en  tlis«.t  occasion 
(Shaw,  The  Knights  of  England,  ii.  225).  In  1672  he  appears  to  have 
been  acting  as  a  commissioner  of  customs  (Cal.  S.  P.  Dom.  1671-2, 
p.  62  ;  ib.  1672,  p.  30),  and  in  1674  he  was  appointed  one  of  the  com- 
missioners to  negotiate  a  new  '  marine  treaty '  regulating  the  trade 
with  the  Dutch  (ib.  1673-5,  P-  287)- 

0  See  note  to  No.  2825. 

7  D.  N.  B.  xl.  89.  *  Deputy-governor  of  Plymouth  [2918]. 

9  Text,  '  Gieaudeau  '  ;  margin,  '  Geraudeau.' 

10  See  note  to  No.  3438. 

VOL.    III.  A  A 


354  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          Dec. 

to  be  delivered  into  the  custody  of  Mr.  Joynes,  marshal  of 
the  admiralty  [3633,  3650]. 

3613.  [p.  296.]     23  Dec.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Cyrtl  Wyche?  and 
Richard  Aldworth,  Esq.,  chief  secretary   to   the  Earl   of 
Essex,  Lord  Lieutenant  of  Ireland,  at  Dublin  Castle.— 
Sends  them  perfect  instructions,  digested  upon  advice  with 
the  officers  of  the  customs  and  the  lords  of  the  committee 
for  trade,  with  the  approbation  of  his  Majesty  in  council, 
in  '  every  of  the  essentials  relating  to  the  issuing  of  passes, 
and  the  preventing  of  the  mistakes  the  same  are  incident  to.' 
Observes  a  particular  or  two   wherein  their   proceed- 
ings in  granting  passes  differ  from  the  rules  observed  here 
by  the  lords,     (i)  '  Passes  appear  granted  by  my  lord  lieu- 
tenant to  ships  upon  common  employments  in  the  terms 
of  the   passes   designed  only  in   relation   to   the  Turks, 
whereas  the  passes  of  that  form  are  in  their  use  restrained 
only  to   ships   bound  to  the   Straits,  vessels  upon  other 
employments  being  served  with  passes  in  the  terms  ap- 
pointed by  the  treaty  of  commerce  with  the  States  of  the 
United  Provinces.'   (2)  '  I  observe  passes  granted  at  Dublin 
to  ships  not  only  in  outports  of  Ireland  but  in  foreign  ports, 
whereas  my  lords  here  are  forbid,  without  special  order  of 
dispensation  from  his  Majesty  in  council,  to  grant  ordinary 
passes  to  any  ship  that  is  not  in  the  Port  of  London,  or 
Turks'  passes  to  any  but  what  are  in  some  port  of  England, 
and  this  not  without  the   oath  of  the  master  first  had, 
whereas  the  oath  of  an  owner  only,  without  that  of  the 
master,  hath  been  thought  sufficient  ground  for  your  issuing 
of  passes  in  Ireland.'     (3)  '  I  find  passes  applied  to  English 
and  Scotch  ships  in  Ireland,  whereas  the  rules  given  my  lords 
of  the  admiralty  confine  them  to  ships  belonging  to  Eng- 
land, Wales,  and  the  town  of  Berwick,  exclusive  to  such  as 
appertain  to  any  other  of  his  Majesty's  kingdoms  or  colonies.' 
Doubts  not  that  the  rules  which  they  will  now  receive  will 
be  in  every  respect  sufficient  for  their  future  guidance. 

The  20  blank  passes  last  sent  them  from  the  admiralty 
by  the  hand  of  Mr.  Secretary  Coventry 2  will  be  followed  by 
more,  so  soon  as  they  shall  have  occasion  of  desiring  them. 

1  MS.  '  Wiche.'  Sir  Cyril  Wych,  of  Hockwold,  Norfolk,  had  been 
knighted  at  the  Hague  in  May  1660  (Shaw,  The  Knights  of  England, 
ii.  226).  At  this  time  he  was  M.P.  for  Callington,  Cornwall.  His  later 
connexion  with  Ireland  appears  to  have  been  a  close  one.  See 
/:  N  B.  Ixiii.  192.  »  D.  N.  B.  xii.  357. 


1676  FIFTH   VOLUME  355 

The  king  and  lords  are  greatly  satisfied  with  the  punctu- 
ality of  the  register  they  have  kept  and  transmitted  copies 
of  hither  to  Michaelmas  last ;  which  they  will  be  pleased  to 
continue  and  require  from  their  outports,  to  the  end  that 
the  general  register  designed  here  may  be  kept  complete. 

Mr.  Secretary  Coventry  has  lately  put  into  the  writer's 
hands  the  account  they  have  sent  him  of  the  ships  apper- 
taining to  each  port  of  Ireland — 'a  work  very  desirable 
could  it  be  perfected,  and  worthy  any  care  that  may  render 
it  so,  it  being  what  his  Majesty  hath  long,  and  is  at  this 
day  labouring  for  in  England,  and  hath  many  times 
.  .  .  suffered  no  small  disadvantages  from  the  want  of.  .  .  .' 

3614.  [p.  298.]  23  Dec.  S.  P.  to  Colonel  Legge?  at  Ports- 
mouth.— ' ...  I  did  yesterday  bring  the  master  of  the 
ordnance  to  his  Majesty,  who  was  pleased  upon  my 
acquainting  him  with  what  you  had  proposed  about  having 
guns  mounted  upon  the  Charles  and  Plymouth  [3605]  to 
give  him  order  to  see  the  same  effectually  done ' ;  who 
answered  that  '  he  had  already  sent  general  orders  to  all 
his  officers  at  Portsmouth  to  perform  any  directions  that 
you  should  think  fit  to  give  them  as  to  the  mounting  of 
guns,  issuing  of  stores,  or  aught  else  relating  to  his  Majesty's 
service.'  Is  extremely  glad  that  the  prices  set  by  the 
officers  of  the  navy  for  the  stores  to  be  supplied  to  the 
Dutch  ships  are  thought  so  reasonable.  Will  speedily  send 
orders  '  for  entering  the  number  of  seamen  extraordinary 
which  you  propose,  wherein  the  cautions  you  mention  shall 
be  observed  in  enjoining  the  entering  of  able  seamen  only, 
it  being  matter  no  less  painful  to  me  than  I  believe  it 
true  what  you  observe  touching  the  present  inability  of  the 
generality  of  the  ordinary,  after  his  Majesty's  having  been 
lately  pleased  to  raise  their  wages  in  harbour  to  be  equal 
to  that  which  is  allowed  to  them  at  sea,  upon  the  single 
consideration  of  bettering  the  choice  of  his  shipkeepers  in 
harbour  beyond  what  it  was  generally  found  to  be  while 
their  wages  there  fell  so  much  short  of  what  they  received 
when  abroad.'  Captain  Crabb  2  also  shall  receive  orders 
for  his  lodging  on  board  the  Plymouth. 

1  See  note  to  No.  3600. 

2  Captain  John  Crabb  is  described  in  Pepys's  Register  as  '  com- 
mander of  the  boats  at  Portsmouth,'  but  the  date  of  his  appointment 
is  not  given  (i.  340  supra). 

A  A  2 


356  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS         Dec. 

3615.  [p.  299.]     26  Dec.      The  same  to  the  same. — Is 
glad  '  the  business  of  the  stores  desired  by  the  Dutch  rear- 
admiral  is  so  well  over  without  any  dispute  either  as  to  the 
value  or  manner  of  payment,  which  latter  might  have  been 
a  very  necessary  difficulty  had  the  Heer  Almonde  made 
any  of  it '  [3600].     He  may  very  soon  expect  his  Majesty's 
orders  about  entering  the  seamen  upon  the  Charles,  Ply- 
mouth, and  fireship  [3614],  the  lord  treasurer  being  to  be 
first  spoken  with  in  it. 

3616.  [p.  299.]    26  Dec.    S.  P.  to  Sir  John  Kempthorne? 
Portsmouth. — Is  glad  the  supplying  of  the  Heer  Alemond  * 
is  well  over  [36 1 5].     The  king  greatly  approves  the  mount- 
ing of  the  guns  [3614],  and  a  warrant  will  be  speedily  sent 
down  for  entering  some  men  extraordinary  [3614].    Hopes 
there  will  be  '  no  occasion  of  apprehending  any  evil  from 
the  Dutch  and  French  ships  lying  so  near  us '  [3600]. 

3617.  [p.  299.]     26  Dec.     S.  P.   to    Colonel  Piper?  at 
Plymouth. — Thanks  for  his  of  the  22nd,  giving  notice  of 
the  arrival  of  the  Swallow  and  his  delivering  the  king's 
orders  to  her  commander. 

3618.  [p.  299.]     27  Dec.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners 
for  the  Customs. — About  a  pass  for  the  Abraham  and  Sarah, 
of  Plymouth,  in  that  port  bound  to  the  Straits. 

3619.  [p.  300.]     27  Dec.     S.  P.  to  Lord  Brouncker? — 
Taking  it  for  granted  that  no  furtherance  can  be  expected 
to  the  matter   to  be  debated  to-morrow  at   our  Christ's 
Hospital5  committee  from  any  other  of  the  governors  than 
such  as  are  mathematically  qualified,  the  writer  has  sum- 
moned only  Sir  Christopher  Wren,6  Sir  Jonas  Moore,7  Mr. 

1  See  note  to  No.  2734.  3  MS.  'Almond.' 

'  Deputy-governor  of  Plymouth  [2918]. 

4  D.  N.  B.  vi.  469.  Lord  Brouncker  was  the  first  president  of  the 
Royal  Society. 

4  MS.  '  Christchurch.'  On  19  December  a  committee  had  been 
appointed,  consisting  of  Lord  Brouncker,  Mr.  Samuel  Pepys,  Sir  Chris- 
topher Wren,  Sir  Jonas  Moore,  '  Esquire  Colwell,'  and  Mr.  Hooke,  to 
consider  '  what  certificate  for  the  future  will  be  requisite  for  the  said 
children,  and  how  the  children  in  the  Mathematical  School  may  be 
for  the  future  so  instructed  and  governed  that  his  Gracious  Majesty 
may  receive  satisfaction  therein'  (Pepysian  MSS.  No.  2612,  A  Collection 
of  Matters  relating  to  Chris  fs  Hospital^  p.  229.  See  also  Introduc- 
tion, p.  li,  supra. 

6  D.  N.  B.  Ixiii.  80. 

7  The  influence  of  Sir  Jonas  Moore,  the  mathematician,  with  the 


1676  FIFTH   VOLUME  357 

Hooke,1  and  Mr.  Colwell.  Encloses  copies  of  Mr.  Leake's 3 
two  papers — 'one  containing  the  points  wherein  he  at  pre- 
sent applies  himself  to  the  instructing  his  boys,  the  other  the 
method  he  proposes  to  be  followed  for  the  future ' ;  and 
will  direct  Mr.  Leake  himself  to  be  in  the  way  of  being 
discoursed  with  if  required. 

Margin  refers  to  '  Mr.  Leake's  papers  about  the  children  in  the 
Hospital.' 

3620.  [p.  300.]     28  Dec.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Lovell,  com- 
mander of  the  Katherine  yacht,  at  Gravesend. — The  king 
desires  him  to  stay  for  the  trial  of  the  two  galley-frigates 
in  their  sailing  down  the  River,  that  he  may  make  the  best 
proof  he  can  of  their  speed  with  respect  as  well  to  his 
yacht  as  to  one  another,  and  then  to  proceed  to  Ports- 
mouth [3658]. 

3621.  [p.  301.]     28    Dec.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Carverth? 
commander   of  the   Francis,   in  the  Downs. — Hopes   the 
condition  of  his  vessel  is  such  that,  with  the  help  of  his 
own  company  in  caulking  her  upper  works,  she  may  stay 
abroad  without  coming  in  to  be  refitted,  at  least  for  some 
time  [3635].     Will  move  the  king  and  lords  about  increas- 
ing his  number  of  men,  his  present  number  being  somewhat 
scanty. 

3622.  [p.  301.]     28  Dec.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Canning? 
commander  of  the  James  galley,  in  the  Downs. — Has  given 
Mr.  Lloyd  the  best  furtherance   he  could  about  his  bill. 
He  will  speedily  receive  orders  for  his  further  proceedings. 

3623.  [p.  3<D2.5]     28  Dec.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners 
of  the  Customs. — About  passes  for  the  Abraham,  of  London, 
John  Babb  master,  now  at   Harwich  ;  the  James  dogger, 
of  Yarmouth,  William  Dickins  master,  now  at  Yarmouth  ; 
the   Society,   of  Bristol,    Edmund    Dilly   master,   now  at 
Bristol  ;  and  the  Constance,  of  Plymouth,  in  that  port. 

king  had  led  to  the  foundation  of  the  Christ's  Hospital  Mathematical 
School  (D.  N.  B.  xxxviii.  373). 

1  Robert    Hooke,    the    famous    experimental    philosopher.     See 
D.  N.  B.  xxvii.  283. 

2  Mr.  Leake  had  been  appointed  'mathematical  schoolmaster'  on 
18  November,  1673,  with  a  stipend  of  5o/.  a  year  (Pepysian  MSS. 
No.    2612,  A    Collection  of  Matters  relating  to   Chris fs  Hospital, 
pp.  135-6). 

3  See  note  to  No.  3608.  '  See  note  to  No.  3560. 

5  Out  of  order  in  the  MS. 


358  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          Jan. 

3624.  [p.  302.]     29  Dec.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Day,  com- 
mander of  the  Merlin,  or  to  the  commander  of  any  other 
of  his  Majesty's  yachts  in  present  condition  of  sailing.— 
To  receive  such  persons  as  shall  be   sent   by  the   navy 
board,  and  convey  them  to  the  galley-frigates,  the  Charles 
and  James,1  which  he  will  find  in  or  on  this  side  the  Downs. 

3625.  [p.  302.]     30  Dec.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners 
of  the  Customs. — About  a  pass  for  the  Francis,  of  Exeter, 
Thomas  Bushell  master,  in  that  port. 

3626.  [p.  302.]     i  Jan.     S.  P.  to  Dr.  Lloyd?  surrogate 
of  the  admiralty. — The  lord  chancellor 3  and  the  lords  have 
agreed  upon  to-morrow  morning  for  conferring  with  the 
council   upon   matters    preparative    to   the    approaching 
session.     Desires  him  to  invite  such  of  his  court  to  attend 
as  he  shall  judge  expedient  [3627]. 

3627.  [p.    303.]     i  Jan.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Nicoll?  at  the 
lord  chancellor's. — Thanks  for  his  advice  about  the  meet- 
ing [3626].     Desires  him  to  be  his  lordship's  remembrancer 
that  such  of  the  judges  (with  Mr.  Attorney  and  Mr.  Soli- 
citor General)  as  his  lordship  shall  think  fit  may  be  bespoke 
to  be  there  ;  the   bringing   of  some  of  the   lords  of  the 
admiralty  and  the  king's  counsel  of  that  court  being  taken 
care  for  by  the  writer. 

3628.  [p.  303.]     i  Jan.     S.  P.  to  John  Brisbane,  Esq.? 
at  Paris. — To  recommend  to  his  pity  the  case  of  the  bearer, 
Captain  Ward,  who  '  hath  served  the  king  long  under  the 
particular  command  and  favour  of  my  noble  Lord  of  Sand- 
wich ' 6  [3629]. 

3629.  [p.  304.]     i  Jan.     S.  P.  to  the  English  Ambas- 
sador.— To  recommend  the  bearer,  Captain  Ward  [3628]. 

3630.  [p.  304.]     2  Jan.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Fowler]  com- 
mander of  the  Swallow,  at  Plymouth. — To  lose  no  time  in 
coming  to  Sheerness,  and  to  have  his  books  ready  to  be 
paid  off. 

3631.  [p.  304.]     2  Jan.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Jenifer?  com- 

1  See  note  to  No.  3240.  •  See  ii.  306  n.  supra. 

3  Heneage  Finch,  Baron  Finch,  and  afterwards  Earl  of  Notting- 
ham.    See  D.  N.  B.  xix.  8. 

4  MS.  'Nicholl.'    John  Nicoll  was  servant  to  the  lord  chancellor 
(Cal.  S.  P.  Dom.  1675-6,  p.  576). 

*  See  note  to  No.  3267.  6  D.  N.  B.  xxxviii.  232. 

7  See  note  to  No.  2274. 

8  Commander-in-chief  in  the  Downs  [3539]. 


1676-7  FIFTH   VOLUME  359 

mander  of  the  Saudados,  in  the  Downs. — Thanks  for  his 
advice  of  3 1  Dec.  of  what  passes  in  the  Downs. 

3632.  [p.  305.]     2  Jan.    S.  P.to  Sir  John  Kempthorne^ 
at  Portsmouth. — Has  received  a  letter  of  23  Dec.  from  his 
son,  Captain  Kempthorne,2  from  Dublin,  acknowledging  his 
leave  of  absence  for  a  month  from  his  command  [3570]. 

3633.  [p.  305.]     2  Jan.     S.  P.  to    Colonel  Piper?  at 
Plymouth. — Is  glad  Peter  Geraudeau4  is  like  to  be  here 
time  enough  before  the  sessions  of  the  admiralty  [3612], 
Will  acquaint  the  lords  with  the  deposition  he  sent  him  of 
Thomas    Lampier  concerning   the   injuries  done  him  by 
some  privateers,  and  will  send  their  orders  concerning  the 
commanders  of  two  of  them  whom  he  has  secured  ;  but 
desires  fuller  information. 

3634.  [p.  305.]    2  Jan.    S.  P.  to  the  Master- Shipwright* 
or  Master  Attendant*  at  Sheerness. — To  hasten  the  fitting 
of  the  Greyhound. 

3635.  [p.  306.]    2  Jan.    S.  P.  to  Captain  Carverth?  com- 
mander of  the  Francis,  in  the  Downs. — Has  received  his 
of  12  Dec.,  as  also  that  which  he  sent  him  from  Captain 
White.     Is  very  glad  that  his  ship  is  made  in  condition  to 
stay  abroad  by  employing  his  carpenter  and  company  in 
caulking  her  upper  work  and  sides  [3621]. 

3636.  [p.  306.]     2  Jan.     S.  P.  to    Captain    Clements^ 
commander  of  the  Greyhound,  at  Sheerness. — Has  written 
to  the  officers  at  Sheerness  to  hasten  the  fitting  his  ship. 

3637.  [p.    306.]     2  Jan.     S.  P.   to    Colonel  Legged— 
1  Matters  (though  never  so  small)  being  of  very  slow  ad- 
vance here  in  which  any  increase  of  charge  is  concerned,' 
the  writer  could  not  till  now  give  him  an  account  that  an 
order  is  issued  from  the  lords  to  the  principal  officers  of 
the  navy  for  their  giving  their  warrants  for  the  entertaining 
of  60  men  extraordinary,  to  be  employed  upon  the  ships  he 
proposes  for  the  better  securing  of  his  harbour  [3614,  3616]. 

3638.  [p.  307.]     3  Jan.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners  of 
the  Customs. — About  a  pass  for  the  Hopewell,  of  Topsham, 
John  Corney  master,  now  at  Topsham  bound  for  Bilbao. 

1  See  note  to  No.  2734. 

2  Commander  of  the  Monmouth  yacht  [3078].    See  ii.  1 13  n.  supra. 
'  Deputy-governor  of  Plymouth  [2918].       4  MS.  '  Gereadeau.' 

5  Mr.  John  Shish  [3492].  6  Captain  John  Perriman. 

7  See  note  to  No.  3608.  *  See  note  to  No.  3600. 


360  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          Jan. 

3639.  [9.307.]     3  Jan.     The  same  to  the  same. — About 
a  pass  for  the   Hope  well,  of  Yarmouth,  Joseph  Howard 
master,  at  Yarmouth  bound  to  the  Straits. 

3640.  [p.  307.]     3  Jan.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Hayterl — He  or 
some  of  his  board  taking  notice  the  other  day  that  the 
chirurgeon  and  his  man,  or  some  others  of  the  company 
of  the  Bristol,  are  to  be  found  in  town  not  gone  to  sea 
again  in  her,  of  whose  oral  testimony  there  will  be  great 
use  made  by  his  Majesty  in  examining  the  business  of  the 
affront  done  to  her  by  the  master  of  the  French  merchant 
ship  [3612],  who  is  designed  to  be  tried  for  the  same  at 
the  approaching  sessions  of  the  admiralty  to  be  held  on 
Wednesday,  10  Jan.,  he  is  to  discover  them  and  send  them 
to  the  writer  [3643]. 

3641.  [p.  307.]     3  Jan.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Bertie?— Desires 
he  will  move  the  lord  treasurer  about  disposing  of  the 
brimstone  [3587,  3755],  the  officers  of  the  navy  'seeming 
apprehensive   lest   any  inconvenience  may  arise  from  its 
remaining  on  board  here." 

3642.  [p.  307.]     3/tfw.    S.  P.  to  Dr.  Lloyd?— -To  hasten 
his  report  upon  the  business  of  the  Walfleet  fishery  [3159]. 

3643.  [p.  308.]     4  Jan.     S.  P.  to  Sir  John  Kempthorne? 
at  Portsmouth. — Has  lately  received  a  letter  from  Mr.  May, 
the  recorder  of  Chichester,  '  giving  notice  of  a  misfortune 
lately  happened  to  the  harbour  there  by  the  coming  on 
ground  of  one  of  the  French  ships  lately  cast  away  upon 
that  coast,  and  this  one's  driving  and  sinking  in  the  very 
chops  of  the  said  harbour,  upon  which  application  is  desired 
to  be  made  to  his  Majesty  on  the  behalf  of  that  city  for 
the  loan  of  some  of  his  vessels  and  cables '  for  weighing 
and  removing  her.     Before  giving  any  answer  thereto,  the 
king  '  would  have  you  appoint  some  understanding  person 
to  go  over  to  view  the  said  wreck,  in  order  as  well  to  his 
reporting  to  you  at  his  return  the  truth  of  the  prejudice 
which  the  lying  of  the  same  may  be  of  to  the  place,  as  the 
means  and  charge  of  weighing  and    removing   it.'     The 
Bristol  being  gone  to  Virginia,  he  is  to  direct  Mr.  Jelley, 
her  late  purser,  now  belonging  to  the  Oxford,  to  come 

1  See  note  to  No.  2857. 

1  Secretary  to  the  lord  treasurer.     See  note  to  No. 

•  Surrogate  of  the  admiralty  [3626].     See  D.  N.  B.  xxxiii.  430. 

4  See  note  to  No.  2734. 


1676-7  FIFTH   VOLUME  361 

up  to  give  evidence  against  the  master  of  the  French 
merchant  ship  [3612,  3650],  and  to  bring  with  him  his 
steward  or  servant,  if  he  have  any  that  was  then  on  board 
with  him  [3640]. 

3644.  [p.  309.]   6  Jan.     The  same  to  the  same. — Thanks 
for  his  of  the  4th,  being  very  glad  things  are  in  so  good 
order  at  Portsmouth  as  requiring  no  long  attendance  of 
Colonel  Legge.1 

3645.  [p.  309.]     6  Jan.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Philip  Lloyd?— 
The   whole  evidence    against    Peter   Geraudeau  3  [3612] 
being  Sir  John  Berry's 4  narrative,  the  writer  desires  to  have 
it,  as  also  Monsieur  Courtin's  memorial  in  Geraudeau's 
behalf. 

3646.  [p.  310.]      6  Jan.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Blathwayt?— 
Returns  him  Sir  Jonathan  Atkins's 6  papers  relating  to  the 
Barbados. 

3647.  [p.  310.]     8  Jan.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners  of 
the  Customs. — About  a  pass  for  the  Industry,  of  Yarmouth, 
Thomas  Gidney  master,  at  Yarmouth. 

3648.  [p.    310.]     10  Jan.     The  same  to   the  same. — 
About  passes  for  the  Speedwell,  of  Plymouth,  bound  to 
the  Straits,  in  that  port ;  the  Happy  Entrance,  of  Mine- 
head,  Robert  Isaac  master  ;  and  the  Dolphin,  of  London, 
John  Welbourne  master,  at  Harwich. 

3649.  [p.  310.]     ii  Jan.     Certificate  from  S.  P.,  that 
Captain  Williams,7  late  commander  of  the  Holmes  fireship, 
delivered  in  a  journal  of  his  proceedings  in  that  ship  the 
2oth  of  October  last. 

3650.  [p.    310.]     ii    Jan.     S.   P.    to    Colonel   Piper \ 
governor   at  Plymouth. — Peter  Geraudeau,  'for  the  con- 
tempt and  affront  he  offered  to  his  Majesty's  flag  (which 
was  attended  with  circumstances  of  highest  aggravation), 
.  .  .  was  fined  5oo/.  to  the  king,  and  condemned  to  lie  in 
prison  till  he  paid  the  same  '  [3612].     Has  given  3/.  to  the 
men  that  brought   him  up,  'with  promise  when  at  their 
return  to  Plymouth,  and  giving  ...  a  satisfactory  account 
of  the  charge  of  their  journey  forwards  and  backwards,  and 
that  they  have  well  acquitted  themselves  to  the  prisoner 

1  See  note  to  No.  360x3.  3  See  note  to  No.  3266. 

3  MS.  'Gereadeau.'  4  See  note  to  No.  3438. 

5  See  note  to  No.  3543.  6  Governor  of  Barbados  [2470] 

7  See  note  to  No.  2180. 


362  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          Jan. 

by  giving  him  no  cause  of  complaint  of  ill-usage '  (which 
they  undertake  to  do  by  a  letter  from  the  Frenchman  him- 
self acknowledging  the  same),  the  writer  will  move  the 
king  and  lords  for  such  reward  for  their  pains  above  their 
charges  as  shall  be  thought  reasonable,  wherein  he  desires 
his  advice  what  may  be  a  fitting  reward  for  them  [3706]. 

3651.  [p.   311.]     II  Jan.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Canning? 
commander  of  the  James  galley,  Downs. — Such  volunteers 
and  midshipmen  extraordinary  (with  the  servants  of  the 
midshipmen)  which  are  sent  on  board  him  by  particular 
order  under  his  Majesty's  hand,  are  to  be  borne  as  super- 
numeraries to  his  ship's   company.     Encloses   orders   for 
his  sailing  to  Tangier  in  company  with  the  Charles  [3658]. 

3652.  [p.  3 1 1.]    ii  Jan.    S.  P.  to  Sir  John  Kempthorne? 
at  Portsmouth. — Mr.  Jelley  came  up  in  time  to  give  evi- 
dence [3643].     Hopes  by  his  next  to  receive  an  account 
of  the  wreck  at  Chichester  [3643], 

3653.  [p.  311.]     12  Jan.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners  of 
the  Customs. — About  passes  for  the  George  and  Martha,  of 
London,   Thomas   Baker  master,  at    Poole ;    and  for  the 
Submission,  of  Bristol,  Anthony  Barrow  master,  at  Bristol 
bound  for  the  Madeiras. 

3654.  [p.  311.]     12  Jan.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Finch,  merchant. 
— To   attend   the   lords   at  their   meeting   at  the  Robes 
Chamber  at  Whitehall  at  10  to-morrow  morning. 

3655.  [p.  312.]     13  Jan.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners 
Jor  the  Customs. — About  a  pass  for  the  Mary,  of  Plymouth, 
John  Dotting  master,  at  Plymouth. 

3656.  [p.    312.]      15  Jan.      The  same  to  the  same. — 
About  a  pass  for  the  Olive  Branch,  of  Plymouth,  Stephen 
Culliford  master,  now  at  Plymouth  bound  to  the  Straits. 

3657.  [p.  312.]     15  Jan.     The  same  to  the  same. — About 
passes  for  the  John,  of  Topsham,  John  Bawdon  master, 
bound  to  Oporto  ;  and  for  the  Olive  Branch,  of  Topsham, 
John    Frankmore    master,   at   that   port    bound    to    the 
Straits. 

3658.  [p.   312.]     15  Jan.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Canning? 
commander  of  the  James   frigate,  in   the   Downs. — The 
consideration  of  the  time   needful   for   his  taking  in  his 
provisions,  and  the  writer's  hopes  of  being  enabled  from 
the  exchequer  to  have  sent  some  moneys  with  him  for  the 

1  See  note  to  No.  3578.  2  See  note  to  No.  2734. 


1676-7  FIFTH   VOLUME  363 

service  of  his  Majesty  at  Tangier,  hath  been  the  ground  of 
his  no  sooner  receiving  his  sailing  orders  ;  but  the  expecta- 
tion of  sending  money  being  over,  this  comes  to  bring  him 
the  said  orders  [3651].  'The  victory  between  your  frigate 
and  the  Charles  seems  hitherto  to  remain  doubtful,  but  his 
Majesty  wants  not  the  greater  satisfaction  of  having  it 
owned  by  Captain  Lovell l  himself  that  they  are  both 
extraordinary  sailers,  even  to  the  coming  up  to  the 
Katherine  yacht  when  sailing  large,  upon  which  great  con- 
fidence is  grounded  that  they  will  prove  to  answer  the 
utmost  use  expected  from  their  service  against  the  Turks  ' 
[3620,  3704,  3705].  The  midshipmen  extraordinary  and 
volunteers  sent  him  by  warrant  from  his  Majesty  are  to 
be  esteemed  supernumeraries  to  his  complement,  and  to 
be  paid  and  victualled  accordingly.  The  writer  justifies 
his  proceedings  in  the  matter  about  the  watermen  [3566] 
he  so  much  complains  of  his  unkindness  in,  as  having  done 
therein  but  his  duty.  This  charge  '  I  will  never  regret  the 
bearing,  either  from  you  or  any  other,  while  it  hath  no 
other  ground  than  that  of  my  insisting  upon  the  preserva- 
tion of  good  discipline  in  his  Majesty's  navy,  for  the  sake 
of  which  only  what  either  my  lords  or  myself  have  done 
hath  been  calculated.'  Assures  him  of  his  friendship  and 
respect. 

Postscript. — Will  follow  this  with  other  letters  for  his 
carrying  to  Tangier. 

3659.  [p.  314.]     15  Jan.     S.  P.   to    Captain    Thomas 
Hamilton?  at  Tangier. — Encloses  his  commission  for  com- 
manding his  Majesty's  galley-frigate  the  Charles,  with  in- 
structions for  his  future  proceedings  with  her.     She  will 
be  brought  to  him  by  Lieutenant  Dunbar  [3660]. 

3660.  [p.  314.]     15  Jan.     S.  P.  to  Lieutenant  Dunbar? 
lieutenant  of  the  Charles  galley,  in  the  Downs. — Brings 
his   sailing  orders,  and   a   packet   for  Captain  Hamilton 
[3659].     As  to  the  controversy  about  the  men  which  were 
sent   him   back   from   hence   [3566],   the   lords   are   well 
satisfied   with    Captain   Canning   and    himself,  and    their 
'  ready  conformity '  to  their   orders.     There  was  nothing 
done  in  that  matter  but  what  the  lords  '  thought  the  dis- 
cipline of  the  navy  made  it  necessary  for  them  to  say  and 

1  Commander  of  the  Katherine  yacht  [3620]. 

*  See  note  to  No.  3310.  J  See  note  to  No.  3253. 


364  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          Jan. 

do.'  '  The  crack  runs  variously  touching  the  two  frigates' 
sailing,'  but  both  are  confessed  to  have  acquitted  them- 
selves very  well  [3658]. 

3661.  [p.  316.]     17  Jan.      Certificate  from  S.  P.  that 
Captain  John  Temple  received  a  commission  to  command 
the  Dartmouth,  dated  22  Apr.  1676.  and  that  he  has  ever 
since  continued  in  that  command,  and  is  at  this  day  actually 
exercising  the  same  at  sea  in  transporting  land  forces  to 
Virginia  for  suppressing  of  the  rebellion  there. 

3662.  [p.  316.]     17  Jan.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  St.  Michel.1- 
Desires  his  care  of  the  enclosed  letters  to  the  commanders 
of  the  Swallow  and  Adventure,  to  be  sent  on  board  them 
as  soon  as  they  shall  appear  in  the  Downs,  where  they 
may  be  daily  expected   from   Cadiz.     Also  to  send   the 
enclosed  [3663-5]  to  Captain  Canning 2  for  delivery  to  Sir 
Robert  Robinson 3  upon  his  meeting  with  him. 

3663.  [p.  316.]     17  Jan.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Robert  Robinson, 
commander  of  the  Assurance,  at  Tangier  [3665]. — Encloses 
orders  for  the  employing  of  the  James  and  Charles  galley- 
frigates  that  are  to  join  him,  together  with  the  other  ships 
already   under   his   command.      Acknowledges   his   of  6 
and    15  Nov.  from   Portugal,  and    18  and  21   Nov.  from 
Cadiz. 

3664.  [p.    317.]      1 8  Jan.      The  same  to  the  same. — 
Doubts  not  this  by  Captain  Canning's  2  conveyance  [3662, 
3665]  will  find  him  well   arrived  and  discharged   of  his 
money  at  Tangier.     Has  acquainted  the  king  and  lords  of 
his  care  of  the  soldiers  in  their  passage,  and  the  trouble 
they  have  been  to  him,  '  with  the  little  that  is  due  to  their 
own  land-officer,  Captain   Mackenny,  for  them.'     Is  glad 
he  has  received  the  writer's  letter,  which  gives  him  satis- 
faction  about   his   purser's  allowance    for  victualling  the 
soldiers  and  his  other  passengers.     Is  very  glad  also  for 
the  hopes  he  has  of  his  son's  recovery  '  after  the  sickness 
he  had  contracted  from  the  soldiers  being  on  board.'     The 
Swallow  arrived  at  Plymouth  about  14  days  since  and  the 
Adventure  is  expected,  whose  commander's  orders  left  him 
no  such  liberty  of  staying  after  the  Swallow  as  he  seems 
to  have  taken.     Desires  an  account  of  the  number  of  the 

1  See  note  to  No.  2387. 

1  MS.  'Kenning.'    See  note  to  No.  3578. 

8  See  note  to  No.  2872. 


1676-7  FIFTH   VOLUME  365 

Newfoundland  ships  that  went  with  the  Reserve  into  Cadiz, 
and  also  of  those  which  proceeded  with  her  from  thence 
into  the  Straits.  The  king  expects  that  the  Quaker  ketch 
should  not  be  kept  any  time  unnecessarily  at  Tangier  after 
his  arrival  there,  but  that  he  proceed  to  the  sending  her 
home  according  to  the  king's  instructions.  Hopes  by  his 
next  to  receive  the  journals  of  the  Sapphire  and  Lark. 
Desires  frequent  advice  of  his  proceedings. 

3665.  [p.  318.]     1 8  Jan.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Canning? 
commander  of  the  James  galley-frigate,  at  the  Downs. — To 
take  care  of  several  packets  to  Tangier  [3663,  3664]. 

3666.  [p.  318.]     1 8  Jan.     S.  P.  to  Lieutenant  Dunbar? 
on  board  the  Charles  galley,  Downs. — Is  glad  to  find  that 
his   ship   '  rode   so  well    in   the   Downs   in   the  late  bad 
weather.'     Hopes  he  is  now  in  condition  to  sail. 

3867.  [p.  319.]  1 8  Jan.  S.  P.  to  Captain  Ridley, 
commander  of  the  Wivenhoe  fireship,  at  Portsmouth. — Has 
received  his  of  the  I4th  mentioning  the  desires  of  two 
Englishmen  to  be  discharged  out  of  one  of  the  Dutch  ships 
at  Portsmouth ;  concerning  which  the  writer  is  to  inquire 
whether  he  has  demanded  the  men  from  the  captain  of  the 
Dutch  ship  according  to  the  article  of  his  instructions 
which  he  mentions,  and,  if  so,  how  he  comes  to  fail  of 
obtaining  the  same  right  from  him  as  to  those  two  men, 
which  he  had  in  relation  to  the  other  four  [3730]. 

3668.  [p.  319.]     1 8  Jan.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Shish?  master- 
shipwright   at   Sheerness. — Is    glad    his    care   proved   so 
successful  for  the  safety  of  the  Greyhound  in  the  late  bad 
weather.     Will  remember  the  good  character  he  gives  of 
her  boatswain. 

3669.  [p.    319.]     1 8  Jan.     S.  P.  to    Captain  Jenifer,"1 
commander  of  the  Saudados,  in  the  Downs. — Is  very  glad 
'  the  late  foul  weather  had  no  worse  effects  upon  our  ships 
in  the  Downs.'     The  officers  of  the  navy  will  supply  him 
with  another  best  bower  cable  in  the  room  of  that  he  has 
strangled.     Has  a  letter  of  the  loth  from  the  commander 
of  the  Katherine  yacht,  and  she  was  then  in  safety  at  Rye. 
Thanks  for  his  news  of  the  late  dealings  of  the  Algerines  6 

1  See  note  to  No.  3578.  2  See  note  to  No.  3253. 

3  See  ii.  339  n.  supra. 

*  Commander-in-chief  in  the  Downs  [3539]. 

5  MS.  'Argierines.' 


366  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          Jan. 

with  some  of  our  ships, '  the  posture  of  whose  affairs  with 
us  seems  by  later  letters  from  Argeir  to  be  at  present 
better.' 

3670.  [p.  320.]     1 8  Jan.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners 
for  the  Customs. — About  a  pass  for  the  Susanna,  of  Scar- 
borough, John  Pate  master,  at  Hull  bound  to  the  Straits. 

3671.  [p.    320.]     20  Jan.      The  same  to  the  same. — 
About  a  pass  for  the  William  and  James,  of  London,  James 
Mohun  master,  at  Dover. 

3672.  [p.  320.]     20  Jan.     S.P.to  Lieutenant  Dunbar.1 
— Encloses  a  copy  of  the  lord  admiral's  printed  general 
instructions  for  his  guidance  as  to  striking  and  salutes,  &c. 

[3659]. 

3673.  [p.   320.]     20  Jan.     S.  P.  to   Colonel  Piper?— 
Thanks  for  his  advice  of  the  i6th,  of  the  arrival  of  the 
Adventure  and  coming  away  of  the  Swallow. 

3674.  [p.  320.]     21  Jan.     S.  P.   to  Captain  Day?  at 
present  commanding  the  Merlin,  at  Greenwich. — To  trans- 
port Mr.  Bartlett,  Mr.  Cooke,  Mr.  Hornby,  and  Mr.  Temple, 
goldsmiths,  to  the  Downs  ;  and  there  receive  such  money 
and  plate  as  shall  be  put  on  board  him  from  the  Swallow, 
lately  arrived  from  Cadiz,  and  bring  it  up  into  the  River 
and  deliver  it  as  the  said  persons  shall  direct  [3679,  3683]. 

3675.  [p.  321.]     22  Jan.     S.  P.  1o  Lord  Duras.4—  If  he 
will  appoint  a  day  to  the  commander-in-chief  in  the  Downs, 
the  writer  will  take  care  by  the  direction  of  his  Majesty 
that  one  of  his  ships  shall  be  ready  at  Dover  to  see  the 
vessel  with  his  horses  safe  over  to  Calais. 

3676.  [p.  321.]     22  Jan.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners 
for  the  Customs. — About  a  pass  for  the  Sarah,  of  Plymouth, 
William   Salmon 6   master,   in    that   port   bound    to    the 
Straits. 

3677.  [p.  321.]     22  Jan.     'By  express  at  12  at  night.' 
S.  P.  to  Sir  Richard  Rooth?  in  the  Hope. — Congratulates 
him  on  his  safe  arrival.     The  service  will  require  his  con- 
tinuance  in   the   Downs   for   some   time,  and  orders  are 

1  In  temporary  command  of  the  Charles  galley-frigate  [3310].  See 
note  to  No.  3253. 

2  Deputy-governor  of  Plymouth  [2918]. 

s  See  note  to  No.  2967.  4  See  ii.  287  n.  supra. 

5  MS.  'Samon.' 

6  Commander  of  the  Adventure  [3690].     See  note  to  No.  2222. 


1676-7  FIFTH    VOLUME  367 

enclosed  for  him  to  return  thither.  To  send  word  of  the 
condition  of  his  ship  and  what  victuals  he  has,  and  also 
his  journal. 

3678.  [p.  322.]     22  Jan.    'Sent  by  express  at  12    at 
night.'     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Pett^  muster-master  at  Gravesend. — 
To  send  the  enclosed  [3677]  on  board  the  Adventure  as 
soon  as  she  shall  come  to  the  Hope  ;  which  will  be  very 
suddenly,  as  she  sailed  through  the  Downs  yesterday. 

3679.  [p.    322.]     22  Jan.     S.  P.    to    Captain  Fowler? 
commander  of  the  Swallow,  in  the  Downs. — Is  glad  the 
condition  of  his  ship  will  admit  his  spending  some  time 
where  he  is  ;  he  is  to  send  up  an  account  of  his  '  necessary 
wants  '  to  the  officers  of  the  navy.     As  he  has  money  on 
board  him  for  the  merchants,  a  yacht  is  to  be  sent  down 
at  the  desire  of  the  persons  interested  therein  for  bringing 
it  up  to  London  [3674].    He  is  to  hasten  up  his  journal  for 
the  last  voyage. 

3680.  [p.  323.]     22  Jan.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  St.  Michel?  at 
Deal.— His  character  of  Captain  Carverth  4  is  just,  but  the 
writer  desires  to  know  whether  '  the  great  ground  of  his 
complaint  for  want  of  men  '  arises  '  not  so  much  from  the 
lowness  of  his  complement  (which  is  the  same  which  was 
allotted  by  the  officers  of  the  navy,  and  accepted  of  by 
him  for  the  carrying  her  to  the  furthermost  part  of  the 
Baltic),  but  from  the  weakness  of  that  number  by  the 
sickness  that  is  among  them.'     If  that  is  so,  '  it  seems  not 
to  be  the  adding  of  more  men  that   he   wants,  but  the 
changing  of  those  he  hath   for   better.'      Acknowledges, 
however,  that  the  number  he  has  is  less  than  her  comple- 
ment used  to  be,  but  yet  is  more  than  will  be  needed  for 
the  manning  of  the  Spragge,  in  case  he  expects  to  return 
with  her  to  his  old  station  at  Guernsey  and  Jersey  [3697]. 

3681.  [p.  324.6]     22  Jan.     Certificate  from  S.  P.  that 
John  Every  has  returned  into  the  office  of  the  admiralty  a 
pass  dated  5  Apr.    1676  for  the  Rebecca,  of  Plymouth, 
whereof  he  was  then  master. 

3682.  [p.  323.]     23  Jan.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners  for 
the  Customs. — About  a  pass  for  the  David,  of  Plymouth, 
Amos  Ford  master,  in  that  port  bound  to  the  Straits. 

1  See  ii.  92  n.  supra.  *  See  note  to  No.  2274. 

8  See  note  to  No.  2387.  4  See  note  to  No.  3608. 

*  Out  of  order  in  the  MS. 


368  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS  Jan. 

3683.  [p.  323.]     23  Jan.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Sanderson} 
commander  of  the  Portsmouth  yacht. — To  transport  Mr. 
Roe,  Mr.  Cooke,  and  Mr.  Wade,  goldsmiths,  to  the  Downs  ; 
and  there  receive  such  money  and  plate  as  shall  be  put 
on   board   him  from  the  Swallow  and  Adventure,  lately 
arrived  from  Cadiz,  and  bring  it  up  into  the  River  and 
deliver  it  as  the  said  persons  shall  direct  [3674]. 

3684.  [p.   324.]     23  Jan.      S.  P.  to  Captain  Lloyd. — 
The  lords  desire  to  speak  with  him  on  Saturday  morning 
next  at  10. 

3685.  [p.  324.]     23  Jan.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Canning? 
commander   of  the   James   frigate,  Downs. — Hopes  that 
the  despatch  of  his  provisions  will  now  suddenly  give  him 
opportunity  of  proceeding  on  his  voyage. 

3686.  [p.   324.]      23  Jan.      S.  P.  to  Captain  Jenifer? 
commander  of  the  Saudados,  in  the  Downs. — Thanks  for 
his  advices  of  the  2ist,  of  the  Adventure's  passing  through 
the  Downs.     Captain  Carverth's  complaint  of  want  of  men 
[3680]   will   be   considered   against   her   return   into   the 
Downs.    The  Anne  yacht  is  safe  in  the  River,  and  nothing 
is  said  about  the  miscarriage  of  her  boat,  so  the  writer  is 
at  a  loss  what  boat  it  should  be  which  he  mentions  to 
have  been  taken  up  by  a  fisherman. 

3687.  [p.  325.]   23  Jan.    S.P.  to  Sir  John  Kempthorne? 
at  Portsmouth. — Thanks  for  his  letter. 

3688.  [p.  325.]     2^  Jan.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Lovell,com- 
mander  of  the   Katherine   yacht,   at    Portsmouth. — Has 
received  his  of  the  2Oth,  intimating  his  arrival  at  Ports- 
mouth.    Will  speedily  send  him  his  orders. 

3689.  [p.  325.]     23  Jan.     S.  P.  to  the  Contractors  for 
Victualling  the  Navy. — The   king  having   received  '  pro- 
posals offered  him  by  others  tending  to  his  being  served 
.  .  .  with  all  the  circumstances  of  advantage,  both  in  price 
and  otherwise,  which  your  contract  contains,  and  yet  with 
an  appearance  of  better  security  for  its  due  performance, 
and  more  ease  to  his  Majesty  in  the  method  of  payments,' 
it  is  his  pleasure  that  they  attend  him  and  the  lords  at 
the  Robes  Chamber  in  Whitehall   on  Saturday  morning 
next. 

1  See  note  to  No.  2860.  »  See  note  to  No.  3578. 

3  Commander-in-chief  in  the  Downs 

A       rt  .  XT 

*  See  note  to  No.  2734. 


1676-7  FIFTH   VOLUME  369 

Underwritten :  The  like  to  Sir  Denis  Gauden l  for  victual- 
ling the  garrison  at  Tangier.  The  like  to  Sir  Thomas  Clutterbuck 
for  victualling  ships  in  the  Mediterranean,2  with  an  alteration  giving 
the  sense  (in  the  2nd  line)  of  '  being  served  at  a  lower  price? 

3690.  [p.  326.]     23  Jan.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Richard  Rooth? 
Adventure,  in  the  Downs. — Has  received  his  of  yesterday, 
intimating  his  Majesty's  orders  having  overtaken  him  and 
his  return  to  the  Downs,  where  he  is  to  remain  some  little 
time,  as  also  the  Swallow.     Desires   an    account   of  the 
condition  of  his  ship  [3698]. 

3691.  [p.   326.]     23  Jan.     S.   P.   to   Captain  Jenifer? 
Saudados,  in  the  Downs. — Is  glad  the  Adventure  is  back 
in  the  Downs  [3690].     '  As  to  what  you  observe  concern- 
ing the  good  fortune  of  the  commander  of  the  Swallow  in 
having  so  good  a  hit  in  his  voyage  home  from  Cadiz,  you 
do  prudently  as  well  as  justly  in  not  repining  at  it,  especially 
when  you  consider  that  he  no  less  than  you  hath  declined 
the  presumption   of  carrying   money   without   orders   to 
France,  and  would  the  merchants   at   your   being   there 
have  been  contented  with   your   bringing  it  to  England, 
I  suppose  you  would  no  more  than  he  have   made   any 
difficulty  of  doing  it ;  so  that  to  do  every  man  right,  I  do 
not  see  the  proverb  you  mention  applicable  to  this  case, 
but  do  heartily  wish  that  you  had  had,  or  may  hereafter 
meet  with,  an  opportunity  of  doing  what  it  hath  been  now 
his  turn  of  fortune  to  do,  since  it  is  his  Majesty's  pleasure 
to  bear  on  his  part  the  inconveniencies  which  this  trade  of 
carrying  plate  draws  upon  his  service,  it  seeming  to  me 
that  for  every  penny  that  a  poor  commander  gains  this 
way  it  were  better  husbandry  for  his  Majesty  out  of  his 
own  purse  to  give  him  twopence,  and  this  should  be  my 
advice  to  him  were  it  demanded,  in  justice  both  to  the 
king  and  his  captains.' 

3692.  [p.  327.]     23  Jan.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  St.  Michel? — 
Takes  notice  of  his  great  care  in  delivering  the  Adventure's 
orders  to  her  commander  [3690]. 

1  One  of  the  victuallers  of  the  navy  under  the  contract  of  1673 
(i.  164  supra). 

2  See  i.  165  supra.  3  See  note  to  No.  2222. 

4  Commander-in-chief  in  the  Downs  [3539]. 

5  See  note  to  No.  2387. 

VOL.  Ill  B  B 


370  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS  Jan. 

3693.  [p.  327.]     25  Jan.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners 
for  the  Customs. — About  passes  for  the  True   Intent,  of 
Topsham,  John  Bauden  master  ;  the  Mary,  of  Topsham, 
Christopher   Edgar   master  ;    and  the   Elizabeth,  of  Ply- 
mouth,  John  Potts  master. 

3694.  [p.   327.]      27  Jan.      The  same  to  the  same. — 
About  passes  for  the  James,  of  Plymouth,  Edward  Blagg 
master,  now  in  that  port ;  and  for  the  Samuel  and  Mary, 
of  Bristol,  James  Harris  master. 

3695.  [p.  327.]     29  Jan.     Certificate  from  S.  P.,  that 
Captain  John  Voteer 1  has  delivered  in  to  him,  for  the  use 
of  the  lords,  a  copy  of  his  journal  for  his  late  voyage  to 
the  Mediterranean. 

3696.  [p.  327.]     29  Jan.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners 
for  the   Customs. — About   passes   for    the    Diligence,    of 
Minehead,  Isaac  Davis  master ;   the  Rebecca  and  Eliza- 
beth,  of  Yarmouth,  Robert  Downing  [master] ;  and  the 
Industry,  of  Plymouth,  Joseph  Fuge  master. 

3697.  [p.  328.]     31  Jan.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  St.  Michel?  at 
Deal. — If  the  king  shall  think  fit  to  increase  his  charge  for 
the  service  of  Jersey  and  Guernsey,  the  writer  will  move 
that  the  complement  of  the  Francis  may  be  increased  ; 
but  if  his  Majesty  shall  judge  the  charge  of  the  Spragge 
as  much  as  is  advisable  for   him  to  bear  for  that  work, 
Captain  Carverth  3 '  will  not  appear  so  discreet  in  repining 
to  return  to  that  command  .  .  .'  [3680]. 

3698.  [p.  328.]     31  Jan.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Richard  Rooth* 
— Is   sorry  to   find   his  stay  abroad,  and   particularly  at 
Cadiz,  after  the  receipt   of  orders  for  his  coming  home, 
to  have  been  so  long    [3702]   that  now  his   ship  cannot 
be  kept  abroad  10  or  20  days  longer  (only  at  an  anchor 
in    the    Downs).      He   is   to   bring  her  up  to    Deptford, 
where    her    condition    may    be  better    understood,    and 
she     discharged     [3710].       Desires    his    journal    of    his 
voyage. 

3699.  [p.  328.]     31  Jan.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners 

1  The  Ann   and   Christopher  fireship,   of  which    Captain    John 
Voteer    was  commander  (i.    418    supra\    had    followed    Sir    John 
Narbrough  to  Tripoli  [2402]. 

2  See  note  to  No.  2387. 

3  See  note  to  No.  3608. 

4  Commander  of  the  Adventure  [3690].     See  note  to  No.  2222. 


1676-7  FIFTH   VOLUME  371 

for  the  Customs. — About  a  pass  for  the  Benjamin,  of  Wey- 
mouth,  John  Abbott  master,  in  that  port. 

3700.  [p.  329.]     31  Jan.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Fowler?  in 
the  Downs. — Leave  to  come  to  town  for  4  or  5  days. 

3701.  [p.  329.]     3 1  Jan.    S.  P.  to  Sir  Robert  Holmes?— 
Desires  his  kindness  in  reference  to  the  salvage  of  a  ship 
of  Mr.  Martin's,  the  consul  at  Algiers,  cast  away  on  the 
south  part  of  the  Isle  of  Wight.3 

3702.  [p.  329.]     31  Jan.     S.  P.to Mr.  James Houblon* 
— Will  esteem  it  a  favour  if  in  his   next   to   his   corre- 
spondent at  Cadiz  he  will  inform  himself  strictly  in  the 
particulars  following:  (i)  'The  day  of  his  Majesty's  ship 
the  Reserve's  coming   in   thither   with   some  of  her   fish 
convoys  from  Newfoundland.     (2)  '  How  many  those  con- 
voys were,  and  whether  in  truth   (as   is   pretended)  the 
captain  came  in  for  the  sake  and  at  the  request  of  the  said 
convoys  or  for  reasons  of  the  captain's  own.'     (3)  '  How 
long  she  stayed  there,  the  day  of  her  departure,  what  money 
she  carried  thence,  whither  bound,  and  what  convoys,  either 
fish-ships  or  others,  went  in  her  company  ?     (4)  '  Whether 
any  of  the   convoys  that  came  in  with  her   went   away 
before  her,  and  whether  such  of  them  (if  any)  that  went 
with  her  stayed  willingly  on  purpose  for  her? '     (5)  '  How 
long  the  Adventure  lay  in  that  port  at  her  last  being  there, 
and  what  day  she  departed  thence  for  England  ?'  [3698] 

Is  now  qualified  for  speaking  with  him  further  about 
the  king's  wine  at  Nissa. 

3703.  [p.  330.]  $i.Jan.  S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board. — 
Will  seasonably  lay  before  the  king  and  lords  the  intima- 
tion they  have  received  from  Captain  Wy borne,  commander 
of  the  Pearl.  Desires  to  know  whether  the  victuals  for 
the  Phoenix  be  sent  to  Jamaica,  being  informed  by  a  late 
letter  from  Lord  Vaughan  that  her  present  stock  will  be 
out  in  April  next.  Lieutenant  Dunbar,5  of  the  Charles  galley, 
acquaints  the  writer  in  his  letter  from  Plymouth  that 
George  Cooke,  one  of  the  watermen  who  was  returned  to 
that  ship  by  order  of  the  lords,  took  an  opportunity  of 
running  away  when  his  boat  was  on  shore  at  Deal, 

1  Commander  of  the  Swallow  [2679].     See  note  to  No.  2274. 

2  See  note  to  No.  2401. 

3  MS.  'Weight.' 

4  See  note  to  No.  2498.  5  See  note  to  No.  3672. 

B  B  2 


372  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS         Feb. 

which  the  writer  thought  fit  to  acquaint  them  with  lest 
either  he  or  his  master  may  pretend  anything  falsely  to 
them  touching  his  being  discharged  from  the  ship.  Desires 
to  know  the  occasion  of  the  Greyhound's  having  spent  so 
long  a  time  (at  least  a  month)  in  her  late  refitting  at 
Sheerness. 

3704.  [p.  330.]     i  Feb.     S.  P.  to  Lieutenant  Dunbar.1 
— Desires  to  hear  from  him  as  often  as  he  can  for  his 
Majesty's  satisfaction  in  the  proof  of  his  ship  [3658,  3660]. 
Will  take  care  about  the  waterman  that  ran  away  [3703]. 

3705.  [p.  331.]     I  Feb.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Canning?  at 
Plymouth. — Desires   he   will   continue    to    give    him    as 
frequent  advice   as  he  shall  have  opportunity  for  of  the 
proof  of  his  ship,  '  concerning  which  his  Majesty  is  very 
solicitous'  [3658,  3660]. 

3706.  [p.  331.]     I  Feb.     S.  P.  to  Colonel  Piper?— Will 
move  the  king  and  lords  for  a  further  gratuity  for  the  men 
he  sent  up  with  Geraudeau 4  [3650,  3738]. 

3707.  [p.  331.]     i  Feb.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Ridley?  at 
Portsmouth. — Thanks  for  his  of  23,  24,  and  28  Jan.,  and 
the  account  therein  of  affairs  at  Portsmouth. 

3708.  [p.  331.]     i  Feb.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Lovell?  at 
Portsmouth. — To  bring  his  yacht  to  Greenwich. 

3709.  [p.  3  3 1.7]     2  Feb.    S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners  for 
the  Customs. — About  passes  for  the  Paragon,  of  Teign- 
mouth,8  Richard  Beard  master,  and  the  Elizabeth,  of  Teign- 
mouth,  John  Martin  master :  at  Topsham  bound   to  the 
Straits. 

3710.  [p.  332.]     2  Feb.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Richard  Rooth? 
Downs. — Has    this    day    spoken    with     his     lieutenant, 
Wilford,10  who, (  upon  my  discoursing  him  in  company  with 

1  See  note  to  No.  3672. 

8  Commander  of  the  James  galley-frigate  [3685].     See   note  to 
No.  3578. 

3  Deputy-governor  of  Plymouth  [2018! 

4  MS.  '  Giraudeau.' 

5  Commander  of  the  Wivenhoe  fireship  [3667]. 

6  Commander  of  the  Katherine  yacht  [3688! 

7  Out  of  order  in  the  MS. 

8  MS.  '  Tinm0.'    This  is  the  usual  contraction  for  Tynemouth,  but 
the  context  suggests  a  western  port. 

9  Commander  of  the  Adventure  [3690].     See  note  to  No.  2222. 

0  Robert  Wilford  had  been  appointed  lieutenant  of  the  Adventure 
by  a  commission  dated  9  March,  1674-5  ('•  423  supra). 


r6;6-7  FIFTH   VOLUME  373 

Sir  John  Werden  l  touching  the  state  of  your  ship,  he  gave 
us  an  account  of  its  being  very  bad  in  reference  to  her 
leakiness,  but  told  us  also  that  it  is  no  other  than  it  was 
when  she  lay  in  the  Bay  of  Cadiz  and  has  been  ever  since, 
and  that  you  as  well  as  he  were  of  opinion  that  if  it  was 
only  expected  by  his  Majesty  that  she  should  lie  at  anchor 
in  the  Downs,  .  .  .  she  might  be  able  to  do  that.'  As  at 
this  time  this  is  of  as  much  importance  to  his  Majesty  as 
any  part  of  her  former  service,  the  writer  recommends  him 
to  consider  this  [3698]. 

3711.  [p.   332.]     3  Feb.     S.  P.  to  the  Mayor  of  Ports- 
mouth.— The  king  and  lords  take  in  very  good  part  the 
respect  he  has  shown  them  in  his  letter  of  18  Jan.,  by  his 
taking  this  way  of  intimating  the  neglect  or  refusal  of  the 
officers  of  the  yard  '  to  do  and  pay  what  may  rightfully  be 
demanded  from  them  by  the  parishes  to  which  by  their 
abode  in  his   Majesty's  yard  they  belong,'  and  the  lords 
have  referred  the  examination  of  the  matter  of  fact  to  the 
navy  board,  under  whose  direction  the  officers  of  the  yard 
do  immediately  lie  ;  after  which  the  board  is  to  give  such 
order  to  those  of  the  yard  as  that  [neither]  they  nor  any 
by  their  example  may  any  more  withhold  what  of  right 
they  are  liable  to  [3751]. 

3712.  [p.  333.]     3  Feb.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Richard  Rooth? 
Downs. — Thanks  for  his  of  29  Jan.,  with  the  box  accom- 
panying it. 

3713.  [p.  333.]     3  Feb.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Jenifer?  Sau- 
dados,  in  the  Downs. — Thanks  for  his  of  31  Jan.,  and  the 
copy  of  his  journal  for  that  month. 

Postscript. — Since  writing,  has  his  of  yesterday  with  his 
account  of '  the  rencounter  between  the  Dutch  and  French 
men-of-war.'  Advises  him  to  forbear  to  send  the  Grey- 
hound a-cruising,  as  she  may  be  called  for  to  see  some 
horses  of  the  Duke  of  Monmouth's  over  to  Calais. 

3714.  [p.  333.]     3  Feb.    S.  P.  to  Sir  John  Kempthorne.^ 
— Thanks  for  his  advice  of  'the  return  of  the  Dutch  ships, 
after  their  unsuccessful  attempt  of  getting  home.'  Presumes 
that  '  upon  the  application  of  their  ambassador  here  orders 
will  be  given  for  their  further  supply  of  such  necessaries  as 

1  See  note  to  No.  2636.  2  See  note  to  No.  3710. 

3  Commander-in-chief  in  the  Downs  [3539]. 

4  See  note  to  No.  2734. 


374  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          Feb. 

they  shall  want'  Takes  notice  of  his  having  received  '  the 
orders  for  reducing  the  officers  of  the  ordinary  to  single 
duty ' ;  and  will  send  the  lords'  order  touching  the  business 
of  the  wreck  at  Chichester  [3643]. 

3715.  [p.    333.]     3    Feb.      S.   P.   to  Colonel  Piper. ^- 
Thanks  for  his  advertisements  of  30  Jan.  touching  '  the 
rencounter  between  the  Dutch  and  French  ships'  [3713]. 
As  for  his  demand  of  boats,  the  writer  desires  an  account 
how  the  garrison  of  Plymouth  hath  been  hitherto  supplied 
with  them  and  by  whom  the  charge  thereof  was  borne. 

3716.  [p.  334.]    5  Feb.  S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners  for  the 
Customs. — About  passes  for  the  Patience,  of  Bideford,  John 
Small  master,  in  that  port ;  the  Dolphin,  Thomas  Cowell 
master,  at  Dartmouth  ;  the  Resolution,  of  Bideford,  George 
Darracott  master,  in  that  port ;  the  Prosperous,  of  Exeter, 
Henry  Perdon  master,  in  that  port  ;  and  the  Phcenix,  of 
Teignmouth,2  in  that  port  bound  to  the  Straits. 

3717.  [p.  334.]     6  Feb.     The  same  to  the  same. — About 
a  pass  for  the  True  Love,  of  Minehead,  in  that  port. 

3718.  [p.    334.]     6   Feb.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Hastings? 
commander  of  the   Quaker   ketch. — To   continue  in  the 
Downs  instead  of  coming  to  Deptford  [3724]. 

3719.  [p.  334.]     6  Feb.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  St.  Michel?  at 
Deal. — To  deliver  the  enclosed  [3718]  to  the  Quaker  ketch, 
lately  returned  from  Tangier. 

3720.  [p.  334.]     %  Feb.     A  Memorial  for  his  Majesty  in 
Council. — A  petition  having  been  lately  presented  to  the 
lords  by  Nicholas  Roe  and  other  merchants,  part-owners 
of  the  Diamond,  of  London,  Vasmer  Harlah  master,  whose 
pass  dated  19  Oct.  1675  is  now  expired,  praying  a  pass  for 
bringing  her  from  Bremen  to  an  English  port  and  offering 
sufficient  security  that   she  shall  proceed    thither  direct, 
and  that  both  this  and  the  former  pass  shall  be  delivered 
up  in  3  days  after  her  arrival,  the  same  is  humbly  laid 
before  his  Majesty  in  council  for  his  direction,  as  the  said 

1  Deputy-governor  of  Plymouth  [2918]. 

1  MS.  '  Tinrn0 '  is  usually  Tynemouth,  but  these  are  all  west  country 
ships. 

3  Anthony  Hastings,  second  lieutenant  of  the  Cambridge,  had 
been  appointed  to  command  the  Quaker  ketch  in  1676  (i.  362  supra). 

-  See  note  to  No.  2387. 


1676-7  FIFTH    VOLUME  375 

ship  being  in  a  foreign  port  the  lords  are   not  enabled 
thereto  without  such  special  order. 

Underwritten  :  '  By  command  of  the  lords.— S.  P.' 

3721.  [p.  335.]     8  Feb.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Jenifer,  com- 
mander-in-chief  in  the  Downs,  on  board  the  Saudados. — 
Upon   the   petition  of  Mr.    Ralph  Hardick,  of  London, 
merchant,  he  is  ordered  to  convoy  over  to  Mardyke  the 
ships  named  in  the  margin,  lately  come  from  Nantes  and 
Bayonne,  and  now  riding  in  the  Downs. 

Margin:  The  Thomas  and  Benjamin,  of  Dover,  Thomas 
Phillpott,  master,  from  Nantes  ;  the  Richard  and  Ann,  of  Margate, 
Thomas  Jarman,  master,  from  Bayonne. 

3722.  [p.  335.]     9  Feb.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Robert  Southwell.1 
— Encloses  a  petition  from  the  fishermen  of  Walfleet  for  a 
hearing  before  his  Majesty  in  council  upon  the  controversy 
between  Lord  Fitz- Walter2  and  them  'touching  the  liberty 
01  fishing  by  them  pretended  to  in  Walfleet  water'  [3159]. 
The  case  of  the  widow  of  the  land-soldier  killed  at  sea  is 
like  a  great  many  others,  whose   relief  (granted  by  his 
Majesty)  has  been  from  time  to  time  received  from  Sir 
Stephen  Fox 3  as  treasurer  of  the  army  and  of  him  only  ; 
presumes  this  poor  woman  must  expect  it  (if  at  all)  from 
his  successor. 

3723.  [p.  336.]     9  Feb.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Jenifer?  com- 
mander of  the   Saudados,  in    the   Downs. — The   convoy 
going  to  Dunkirk  [3721]  is  to  take  with  him  all  ships  of 
the  king's  subjects  bound  thither. 

3724.  [p.  336.]     9  Feb.      S.  P.  to  Captain  Hastings? 
present  commander  of  the  Quaker  ketch,  at  Deptford. — 
Since  his  orders  for  his  staying  in  the  Downs  till  orders 
were  given  for  the  disposal  of  the  prisoner  on  board  him 
[3731]  failed  of  coming  timely  to  his  hands  [3/18],  his 
ship  is  to  be  paid  off  and  laid  up  at  Deptford.     He  is  to 
get  his  books  ready  for  the  pay,  and  to  send  up  his  journal. 

3725.  [p.  337.]    9  Feb.    S. P. to  Mr. James  Houblon*— 
The  king  has  appointed  Captain  Lovell,  in  the  Katherine 

1  See  ii.  63  n.  supra.  2  See  note  to  No.  3159. 

3  D.  N.  B.  xx.  133. 

4  Commander-in-chief  in  the  Downs  [3721]. 

*  See  note  to  No.  3718.  *  See  note  to  No.  2498. 


376  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          Feb. 

yacht,  to  his  service  [3726] ;  whereof  the  writer  leaves  to 
him  the  advertising  Mr.  Barr. 

3726.  [p.  337-]     9  Feb.      S.  P.  to  Captain  Lovell,  com- 
mander of  the  Katherine  yacht,  at  Greenwich. — At  the 
request  of '  my  cousin  James  Houblon  ' !  he  is  to  carry  the 
French   money  (lately  brought   from    Cadiz)   to   Dieppe 

[3725]- 

3727.  [p.   338.]       10  Feb.      S.  P.  to  Captain  Jenifer? 

Saudados,  in  the  Downs. — Has  received  his  of  the  6th,  and 
is  glad  the  vessels  with  the  Duke  of  Monmouth's  horses 
got  safe  to  Calais.  His  Royal  Highness  desires  the  con- 
tinuance of  his  care  in  looking  out  diligently  for  the  Antego 
Merchant,3  and  stopping  her. 

3728.  [p.  338.]     10  Feb.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Carverth? 
Francis,  in  the  Downs. — Will  inform  the  king  and  lords  of 
what  he  writes  concerning  the  taking  of  the  vessel  with 
the  horses,  in  case  any  reports  shall  arise  to  his  prejudice 
about  that  affair.     Orders  are  gone  to  the  officers  of  the 
navy  for  increasing  his  complement  to  the  number  ap- 
pointed for  his  ship  in  time  of  peace  in  the  Channel. 

3729.  [p.  338.]     10  Feb.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Richard  Beach? 
at  Chatham. — Signifies  the  king's  leave  for  his  coming  to 
town.     The  business  about  Mr.  Sliter  is  under  debate  before 
the  lords.     An  order  was  this  day  sent  to  the  officers  of  the 
navy  about  the  duty  of  the  officers  of  the  ordinary  [3714]. 

3730.  [p.  339.]     10  Feb.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Ridley,  com- 
mander of  the  Wivenhoe,  at  Portsmouth. — Is  glad  to  hear 
the  Dutch  captain  did  so  readily  discharge  the  two  English- 
men that  were  on  board  him  [3667]. 

3731.  [p.  339.]     [io  Feb.}     S.  P.  to  Captain  Hastings? 
present   commander   of    the   Quaker   ketch. — To   deliver 
Augustine  Garland  to  Captain  Day 7  on  sight  of  the  king's 
warrant,  for  conveyance  to  Southsea  Castle  [3724]. 

3732.  [p.  339.]     12  Feb.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners 
for  the   Customs. — About   passes  for  the  Nightingale,  of 

1  See  note  to  No.  2498.     3  Commander-in-chief  in  the  Downs  [3721]. 

3  Formerly  the  St.  Martin,  of  Bruges,  bought  by  Thomas  Biss,  a 
Bristol  merchant,  re-named,  and  employed  in  the  West  India  trade 
(Ceil.  S.  P.  Dom.  1673-5,  P-  249)-  4  See  note  to  No.  3608. 

6  Resident  commissioner  of  the  navy  at  Chatham  [3291! 

6  See  note  to  No.  3718. 

7  Commander  of  the  Bezan  yacht,  at  present  commanding  the 
Merlin  [3596,  3624,  3773]-    See  note  to  No.  2967. 


1676-7  FIFTH   VOLUME  377 

Bideford,  William  Hacker  master,  arid  the  New  Amity,  of 
Bideford,  George  Powell  master :  in  that  port. 

3733.  [p.  339.]     12  Feb.     S.P.to  the  Navy  Board.— 
To  supply  the  3  Dutch  ships  at  Portsmouth  with  3  anchors, 
7  cables,  and  some  sails, '  upon  paying  for  them  in  the  same 
manner  as  was  directed  concerning  the  former  supply  given 
them'  [3600,  3614,  3615]. 

3734.  [p.  340.]      12  Feb.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners 
for  the  Customs. — About  a  pass  for  the  John,  of  Newnham,1 
Thomas  North  master. 

3735.  [p.  340.]     1 2  Feb.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Lovell? — To 
give  Mr.  Francis  Hopcgood,  son  of  Mr.  Hopegood,3  mer- 
chant, passage  to  Dieppe  in  his  voyage  thither  with  the 
money  [3726]. 

3736.  [p.  340.]     13  Feb.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners 
for  the.  Customs. — About  a  pass  for  the  Trial,  of  Swansea,4 
Robert  Breholtt,  master,  at  Swansea.4 

3737.  [p.    340.]      13    Feb.     The  same   to   the  same. — 
About  passes  for  the  Isabella,  of  Bristol,  Dennis  Taylor 
master,  and  the  Robert  and   Hester,  of  Bristol,  Francis 
Rogers  master :  in  that  port  bound  to  the  Straits. 

3738.  [p.    340.]     13  Feb.      S.  P.  to  Colonel  Piper?  at 
Plymouth. — To  receive  from  the  men  who  brought  Gerau- 
deau  up  an  account  of  their  expenses  [3750]  and  report 
hither,  when  the  lords  will  give  order  for  their  reimbursement 
and  determine  of  the  gratuity  fit  to  be  further  given  them, 
towards  which  they  have  already  received  50^.  from  him 
and  3/.  from  the  writer  [3706]. 

3739.  [p.  340.]     13  Feb.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners 
for  the  Customs. — About  passes  for  the  Richard  and  Sarah, 
of  Dartmouth  ;    the  Experience,  of  Dartmouth,  Richard 
Grigg  master ;   and  the  Resolution,  of  Dartmouth,  John 
Grigg  master :  in  that  port  bound  to  the  Straits. 

3740.  [p.  341.]     13  Feb.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Speaker.*— The 
king  and  lords  desire  that  he  will  take  his  first  opportunity 
of  moving  the  lord  treasurer  in  that  which  relates  to  the 

1  Newnham,  a  town  1 1  miles  S.W.  of  Gloucester,  is  on  the  Severn. 
a  Commander  of  the  Katherine  yacht  [3726]. 

5  Mr.  Edward  Hopegood  was  a  London  merchant  of  eminence 
engaged  in  the  Mediterranean  trade  (Cal.  S.  P.  Dom.  1673-5,  P- 

4  MS.  'Swanzey.' 

*  Deputy- govern  or  of  Plymouth  [2918]. 

6  See  note  to  No.  3390. 


378  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS         Feb. 

Charles,1  now  in  the  dock  at  Chatham,  and  the  entering 
of  more  men  and  providing  of  materials  relating  thereto, 
and  the  general  repairs  mentioned  in  the  letter  of  the  navy 
board  [3742]  ;  also  about  '  the  payment  of  the  wages  due 
to  the  Queenborough  yacht,  which  is  said  to  be  35  or  36 
months  in  arrear,  a  master  and  one  man  being  all  that  is 
borne  upon  her.' 

3741.  [p.  341.]     13  Feb.     Certificate  from    S.  P.  that 
Richard  Mayne  hath  returned  into  the  office  of  the  ad- 
miralty the  pass  dated  20  May  1676  for  the  Alicante  Mer- 
chant, of  Plymouth,  whereof  he  was  master. 

3742.  [p.  341.]     14  Feb.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board. — 
Has  communicated  to  the  king  and  lords  their  late  letter 
touching  the  repairs  of  his   Majesty's  ships  [3740],  who 
have  committed  it  to  the  care  of  Mr.  Speaker 2  to  move  the 
lord  treasurer  for  a  supply  of  moneys  necessary  to  carry  on 
that  work.     Till  the  result  of  that  conference  is  known,  the 
lords  think  fitting  to  respite  the  issuing  their  orders  to  the 
board  for  proceeding  on  the  said  repairs. 

3743.  [p.  342.]     \6Feb.,  Friday  afternoon.    5.  P.  to  Sir 
John  Knight? — The  writer's  clerk  '  utterly  denies  his  having 
given  you  any  such  answer  this  morning  as  that  he  neither 
would  nor  could  give  you  a  pass,  but  that  on  the  contrary 
he  offering  for  your  service  to  give  you  an  account '  of  how 
to  obtain  one  under  the  rules  established  by  his  Majesty  in 
council.     In  pursuance  of  these  it  will  be  needful  to  be 
shown  that  this  is  the  same  ship  to  which  the  pass  he 
formerly  had  was  granted,  and  that  the  propriety  thereof 
still  remains  the  same,  with  bond  entered  into  for  delivering 
up  the  pass  at  its  expiration. 

3744.  [p.   343.]      1 6  Feb.     Memorial  about  a  pass. — 
Application   having   been    made   to    the   lords   by    John 
Tancock,  master  of  the  Paragon,  of  Plymouth  (now  lading 
in  the  Thames  and  bound  for  France),  for  a  pass  for  her 
in  pursuance  of  the  marine  treaty  with  the  Dutch,  and 
whereas,  although  her  propriety  is  in  his  Majesty's  subjects 

1  A  ist-rate  of  1,229  tons  burden  and  96  guns,  built  at  Deptford  in 
1667,  by  Mr.  Jonas  Shish,  to  replace  the  earlier  vessel  of  that  name 
which  had  been  carried  off  by  the  Dutch  from  Chatham  in  1667 
(i.  266  supra). 

*  See  note  to  No.  3390. 

3  A  notable  merchant  of  Bristol.     D.  N.B.  xxxi.  255. 


1676-7  FIFTH   VOLUME  379 

yet  (in  regard  all  her  owners  except  the  said  master,  who 
resides  at  Plymouth,  do  dwell  at  Hamburg)  the  lords 
cannot  grant  it  without  particular  orders  from  his  Majesty 
in  council, '  forasmuch  as  by  the  form  of  the  pass  prescribed 
in  the  said  treaty  the  master  is  to  depose  that  the  ship 
belongs  to  the  inhabitants  of  some  place  within  his 
Majesty's  dominions,'  the  same  is  hereby  humbly  sub- 
mitted to  his  Majesty's  direction  accordingly. 

Underwritten  :  '  By  command  of  the  lords. — S.  P.' 

3745.  [p.  342.1]     17  Feb.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners 
for  the  Customs. — About  passes  for  the  Bachelor,  of  South- 
ampton, William  Fryer  master,  and  the  Janex,  of  South- 
ampton, William   Cotton    master,    both   at  Southampton 
bound  to  the  Straits. 

3746.  [p.  342.1]      19  Feb.      The  same  to  the  same.— 
About  a  pass  for  the  Ann,  of  Plymouth,  Samuel  Blake 
master,  at  Plymouth. 

3747.  [p.  343.]    19  Feb.    S.P.  to  Captain  Jenifer?  com- 
mander [of  the]  Saudados,  Downs. — Has  received  his  of 
the   1 3th  and   i6th,  and  thanks  him  for  his  intelligence 
from  the  ships  that  came  in  from  the  southward. 

3748.  [p.  343.]     20  Feb.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Sanderson, 
commander  of  the  Portsmouth  yacht. — He  is  to  continue 
in   the    River  till  to-morrow  morning   or  night,  to  carry 
Madam  Greene,  sister  to  my  lord  of  Plymouth,3  over  to 
Dieppe   in   his   present  voyage  thither  for  bringing  over 
the  said  lord. 

3749.  [p.  344.]      20  Feb.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners 
for  the  Customs. — About  passes  for  the  Increase,  of  Ply- 
mouth, Nicholas  Parker  master,  in  that  port ;  the  St.  Peter, 
of  Dartmouth,  Michael  Gould  master,  in  that  port ;   the 
William,  of  Weymouth,  Christopher  Ousby  master,  and 
the  William,  of  Weymouth,  Jacob  Chubb  master,  in  that 
port ;    the    Phoenix,   of   Teignmouth,4    Thomas    Jackson 
master,  and  the  Fortune,  of  Teignmouth,4  William  Pearne 
master  ;  the  Southampton  ketch,  William  Milbery  master, 

1  Out  of  order  in  the  MS. 
3  Commander-in-chief  in  the  Downs  [3721]. 

3  Charles  FitzCharles,  Earl  of  Plymouth,  was  a  natural  son  of 
Charles  II  by  Catherine  Pegge.    D.  N.  B.  xix.  106. 
*  MS.  '  Tingm0.' 


38o  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          Feb. 

in  that  port;   the  John,  of  Plymouth,  Thomas  Burgess 
master,  in  that  port. 

3750.  [p.  344.]      20  Feb.      S.  P.  to  Colonel  Piper}  at 
Plymouth. — Will  acquaint  the  lords  with  the  contents  of 
his  of  the  i6th,  with  the  enclosed  account  of  charges  of  the 
persons  who  brought  up  Geraudeau  [3738]. 

3751.  [p.  344.]    20  Feb.    S.  P.  to  Sir  John  Kempthorne? 
at  Portsmouth. — Has  moved  his  Majesty  in  what  he  de- 
sires for  removing  the  boatswain  of  the  Centurion  into  the 
Mary,  and  the  gunner  of  the  Mermaid  to  the  Hampshire, 
'  in  the  room  of  the  former,  deceased,'  who  is  pleased  to 
consent  thereunto.     Will  be  ready  to  serve  Mr.  Lath,  '  late 
in  the  Oxford,'  on  occasion.     Is  very  glad  he  has  accom- 
modated the  differences  between  the  town  and  the  officers 
of  the  yard  about  the  parish  duties  [371 1]. 

3752.  [p.  345.]     20  Feb.     S.  P.  to  the  Commanders  of 
any  of  his  Majesty's  ships  in  the  Straits. — To  recommend 
the  bearer,  Mr.  Peckett,  master  of  the  Providence,  'being 
bound  into  the  Straits  upon  merchants'  affairs.  .  .  .' 

3753.  [p.  345.]      21  Feb.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners 
for  the  Customs. — About  passes  for  the  Rachel,  of  South- 
ampton, Edward  Petty  master  ;  the  Restoration,  of  South- 
ampton, Benjamin  Pittfeild  master ;   and  the  Providence, 
of  Southampton,  Henry  Wall  master — all  at  Southampton 
bound  to  the  Straits. 

3754.  [p.  345.]     23  Feb.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— 
'  I  doubt  not  but  ere  this  you  may  have  heard  the  issue  of 
this  morning's  debates  in  the  House  of  Commons  touching 
the  navy,  wherein  I  thank  God  the  account  they  received 
from  me  of  the  past  and  present  state  thereof,  compared 
first  with  one  another  and  then  with  the  naval  force  of  our 
neighbours  as  it  now  is,  different  from  what  it  ever  hereto- 
fore has  been,  was  so  received  as  that  the  debates  arising 
therefrom   terminated    in   a  vote    for   the   supplying  his 
Majesty  with  a  sum  of  money  for  building  ships  not  ex- 
ceeding 6oo,ooo/.     Nor  did  I  omit  doing  my  part  in  laying 
before  them  (in  the  most  intelligible  manner  I  thought  to 
that  assembly)  the  present  ill  condition  of  the  old  fleet- 
namely,  by  representing  to  them  the  sum  of  money  that  it 
would  require  to  put  the  same  into  repair,  furnishing  them 

1  Deputy-governor  of  Plymouth  [2918]. 

2  See  note  to  No.  2734. 


1676-7  FIFTH   VOLUME  381 

for  the  sea,  and  making  a  provision  for  a  magazine  of 
stores  for  a  reserve,  which,  guiding  myself  by  your  late 
estimates,  I  valued  at  about  3OO,ooo/.  But  upon  that  head 
nothing  was  then  prosecuted  beyond  my  lodging  it  plainly 
and  fairly  with  them,  out  of  respect  to  the  particular  work 
appointed  for  the  day  (and  which  took  it  up  till  almost 
6  a  clock  at  night),  which  was  the  obtaining  a  supply  for 
the  building  new  ships.  So  that  part  being  left  to  another 
occasion,  that  which  causes  my  present  writing  is  the  con- 
sideration that  many  things  possibly  may  be  fit  to  be  pro- 
vided for  in  the  method  of  drawing  up  the  Act 1  for  this 
money,  which  may  conduce  to  the  rendering  the  same  more 
effectual  towards  the  great  end  proposed  by  it  for  building 
of  ships  than  may  perhaps  be  thought  on  ;  unless  you,  who 
may  foresee  better  than  any  other  what  are  the  helps  that 
may  be  needful  and  what  are  the  evils  that  would  be 
obviated  in  the  putting  this  work  in  execution,  either  as 
to  the  times  and  proportions  of  raising  and  paying  in 
the  money,  means  of  having  early  credit  upon  it  for  this 
service  before  the  money  can  be  raised,  limitations  (if  it  be 
possible)  to  the  king's  being  imposed  upon  by  any  excessive 
enhancements  of  prices  for  commodities,  wages  for  labour, 
rates  for  carriage,  means  for  facilitating  the  importation  of 
foreign  stores,  or  aught  else  which  upon  debate  may  occur 
to  you  upon  this  subject,  and  wherein  I  will  not  also  be 
idle,  but  endeavour  an  opportunity  of  conferring  with  you 
about  it  some  time  between  this  and  Tuesday  next,  when 
by  order  of  the  House  the  method  of  raising  the  money  is 
to  come  under  consideration.' 

'  But  one  more  thing  there  is,  which  in  right  to  his 
Majesty  and  yourselves  I  would  not  omit  to  mind  you  of — 
namely,  that  forasmuch  as  the  rates  per  ton  by  which  the 
House  has  in  their  debates  proceeded  in  their  estimating 
the  charge  of  building  ships  (though  I  must  own  they  have 
in  this  sum  of  6oo,ooo/.  given  more  than  by  those  rates  of 
theirs  and  their  tonnages  the  building  of  30  ships  would 
have  required),  do  come  a  great  deal  short  of  what  by  the 
advice  of  those  gentlemen  of  your  board  (who  must  be 
allowed  the  best  able  to  understand  it)  I  demanded,  and 
to  the  end  insisted  upon,  without  having,  I  must  confess, 

1  On  the  Act  of  1677  for  building  thirty  new  ships,  see  i.  48-55 
and  223  supra. 


382  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          Feb. 

any  objection  thereto  that  was  the  least  convincing,  more 
than  the  vote  of  the  House,  which  must  be  submitted 
to ;  and  whereas  it  is  most  likely  that  the  price  of  all  things, 
both  labour  and  commodities,  will  rise  upon  so  great  an 
undertaking,  and  other  occasions  of  charge  magnified  be- 
yond what  can  now  be  judged,  or  (it  may  be)  thought  on, 
you  will  think  fit  to  cause  strict  information  by  particular 
instances  to  be  taken  of  the  present  prices  and  rates  of  all 
sorts  of  materials  and  workmanship,  freights,  carriage,  and 
other  heads  of  expense,  both  foreign  and  domestic,  given 
at  this  day,  either  by  the  king  or  private  men,  in  any 
matters  appertaining  to  the  building  of  ships — for  many 
more  I  doubt  not  that  there  are  than  can  come  at  once 
into  my  recollection — and  that  you  will  provide  that  those 
instances  be  so  registered  as  may  become  vouchers  on 
behalf  of  his  Majesty's  conduct  and  yours,  in  case  by  any 
excessive  increases  of  price  or  otherwise  the  charge  of 
building  these  ships  should  arise  beyond  what  the  same  is 
now  reasonably  to  be  judged,  or  shall  be  found  in  our 
present  measures  to  be  provided  for.  I  have  only  to  add 
that  if  in  anything  else  any  methods  of  precaution  relating 
either  to  good  husbandry  or  despatch  can  be  thought  of 
beyond  what  come  within  your  present  practice,  none 
ought  to  be  thought  unnecessary  in  an  affair  of  so  much 
importance  to  the  public,  and  of  which  a  future  account 
may  reasonably  be  expected  to  be  hereafter  called  for 
from  us.' 

3755.  [p.  347.]    23  Feb.     S.  P.  to  Sir  John  Narbrough> 
—Having   this   day  received    from    Mr.   Bertie2  the   lord 
treasurer's  determination  touching  the  disposal  of  the  brim- 
stone [3587,  3641],  the  writer  desires  to  know  in  whose 
custody  it  at  present  lies,  and  whether  it  was  put  into  the 
ship  by  measure  or  weight,  with  a  bill  of  lading  signed  by 
any  person  that  was  to  be  accountable  for  its  well-delivery  ; 
to  the  end  the  order,  either  of  the  lord  treasurer  or  the 
lords,  may  be  so  drawn  up  as  may  best  secure  the  king, 
justify  him,  and  discharge  the  party  (if  any)  that  stands 
accountable  for  the  goods. 

3756.  [p.  348.]     23  Feb.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— 
Sends  a  copy  of  Mr.  Bertie's 2  letter  about  the  brimstone 

1  D.  N.  B.  xl.  89.  3  Secretary  to  the  lord  treasurer  [3563} 


1676-7  FIFTH   VOLUME  383 

[375  5]>  and  desires  they  will  consider  if  they  have  anything 
to  advise  therein  before  the  writer  prepares  any  order  of  the 
lords  pursuant  to  this  determination  of  the  lord  treasurer's 
[3764].  Desires  them  to  hasten  the  account  from  Kinsale  of 
the  present  condition  of  the  Norwich.  Has  lately  received  a 
letter  from  Captain  Wright,1  commander  of  the  Phoenix,  in 
which  he  sends  the  demands  of  his  boatswain,  gunner,  and 
carpenter  for  a  supply  of  stores  to  enable  her  to  continue 
abroad  ;  the  writer  desires  to  know  if  any  supply  of  stores 
was  sent  to  her  along  with  the  victuals  lately  sent. 

3757.  [p.  349.]    23  Feb.    S.  P.  to  Captain  Fasby,  Charles 
yacht,  at  Rotterdam. — At  the  request  of  Mr.  Freeman,  a 
scrivener  in  Westminster,  the  writer  desires  him  to  bring  back 
his  apprentice,  Henry  Wiggins,  who  lately  left  him,  and  is 
gone  over  into  Holland  in  his  yacht  among  the  retinue  of 
the  envoy  of  the  Elector  of  Cologne.    He  is  to  bring  over  a 
box  with  three  pictures  for  the  Portugal  ambassador. 

3758.  [p.  349.]    24  Feb.    S.P.  to  Sir  John  Kempthorne? 
at  Portsmouth. — Leave  to  come  to  town  when  the  Dutch 
ships  shall  be  gone  [3714]. 

3759.  [p.    349.]     24   Feb.     S.  P.    to    Captain  Jenifer? 
commander    [of    the]    Saudados,    Downs. — Will   do   his 
brother  any  office  of  friendship  he  may. 

3760.  [p.  350.]     24  Feb.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Purser,  master- 
shipwright  at  Portsmouth. — No  blame  accrues  to  him  about 
the  business  of  the  parish  duties  being  not  paid  [3711]. 
'  I  would  to  God  I  could  say  the  like  to  you  in  reference  to 
your  arrears,  the  consideration  of  which  shall  and  doth  often 
grieve  my  heart,  nor  do  I  fail  upon  any  occasion  of  mention- 
ing you  either  to  his  Majesty  or  my  lord  treasurer,  to  put 
them  in  mind  of  your  condition,  and  that  it  hath  been  his 
Majesty's  service  that  hath  reduced  you  to  it.'      Cannot 
give  any  tolerable  assurance  of  success. 

3761.  [p.  350.]     24  Feb.     S.'P.  to  Captain   Carverth* 
commander  [of  the]  Francis,  in  the  Downs. — The  increase 
to  his  number  of  men  was  not  by  request  of  the  writer,  but 
by  advice  from  the  navy  board.     Would  advise  him  to 
resign  himself  more  willingly  to  his  Majesty's  pleasure  in 
case  he  shall  continue  the  Francis  abroad  [3769]. 

1  See  note  to  No.  2788.  2  See  note  to  No.  2734. 

3  Commander-in-chief  in  the  Downs  [3721]. 

4  See  note  to  No.  3608. 


384  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          Feb. 

3762.  [p.  351.]     26  Feb.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners 
for  the  Customs. — About  passes  for  the  St.  John  Merchant, 
of  Dartmouth,  now  in  that  port ;  and  for  the  Society,  of 
Minehead,  Richard  Luckes  master,  in  that  port. 

3763.  [p.    351.]     28    Feb.      The  same   to   the   same. — 
About  passes  for  the  Elizabeth,  of  Weymouth,  John  Percie 
master,   and   the    David,   of  Weymouth,   Robert   Barker 
master  :  in  that  port. 

3764.  [p.  351.]    28  Feb.  S.P.  to  Mr.  Bertie}— Encloses 
a  copy  of  a  letter  from  the  officers  of  the  navy  touching 
the  business  of  the  brimstone  [3756],  wherein  he  will  find 
them  ready  to  receive  the  50  tons  designed  for  the  use  of 
the  navy  ;  but  proposing  that  the  moneys  required  from 
them  for  the  same  '  may  not  be  called  for  faster  than  by 
such  yearly  proportions  as  the  brimstone  shall  be  expended 
by,'  which  will  not  be  after  the  rate  of  more  than  8  or  10 
tons  for  the  present  year.     Desires  him  to  let  the  lord 
treasurer's  determination  in  this  be  notified  to  them,  and 
that  directions  may  be  sent  to  the  officers  of  the  ordnance 
to  receive  with  all  convenient  speed  the  quantity  which  they 
are  to  have,  as  the  officers  of  the  navy  will  be  directed  from 
the  lords  to  take  theirs,  for  preventing  any  mischance  that 
may  arise  by  it  lying  long  aboard  his  Majesty's  ship  after 
the  hold  shall  be  opened. 

3765.  [p.  352.]     28  Feb.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— 
Upon  occasion  of  a  letter  newly  come  from  Sir  Robert 
Robinson,2  the  writer  is  led  to  '  a  very  great  apprehension  ' 
that  the  service  may  suffer  much  inconvenience  through 
the  want  of  victuals  for  the  ships  at  Tangier.     Fears  that 
'  what  may  have  at  other  times  been  only  pretence,  may  be 
in  a  little  time  the  real  condition  of  that  port,  that  victuals 
may  not  be  to  be  had  there  for  their  supply,  and  so  com- 
manders have  a  just  occasion  of  looking  for  it  further  off; 
and  this  the  rather  when  I  remember  that  the  galleys  went 
from  hence  with  not  above   three  months'   provisions   in 
them,  and  that  the  Dragon  and  Portsmouth  may  at  their 
return  speedily  from  the  eastward  be  in  want  also.'    Desires 
an  account  of  how  that  matter  is  likely  to  stand. 

3766.  [p.   3 S3.3]     28  Feb.     Certificate  from   S.  P.  that 
Edward  Petty  hath  returned  into  the  office  of  the  admiralty 

1  Secretary  to  the  lord  treasurer  [3563].        2  See  note  to  No.  2872. 
3  Out  of  order  in  the  MS. 


1676-7  FIFTH   VOLUME  385 

a  pass  dated  18  July  1676  for  the  Rachel,  of  Southampton, 
whereof  he  was  then  master. 

Underwritten :  '  The   like  for  William  Fryer,  master  of  the 
Bachelor,  of  Southampton.' 

3767.  [p.  352.]    I  Mar.    S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners  for 
the  Customs. — About  a  pass  for  the  Betty,  of  Southampton, 
Benjamin  Petty  master,  now  there  bound  to  the  Straits. 

3768.  [p.  352.]     i  Mar.    S.  P.  to  Captain  Jenifer?  com- 
mander of  the  Saudados,  Downs. — Thanks  for  his  of  24 
Feb.,  '  not  doubting  but  these  easterly  winds  have  cleared 
the  Downs,'  and  freed  him  '  from  the  apprehension  of  any 
damage   which   might   happen    by   reason    of    the  great 
number  of  ships  there.' 

3769.  [p.  353.]     i   Mar.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Carverth? 
commander  of  the  Francis,  in  the  Downs. — Has  received 
his  letters,  and  is  glad  he  takes  his  advice  in  good  part 
[376i]. 

3770.  [p.  353.]  2  Mar.  Certificate  [from  S.P.],  that  Cap- 
tain Houlding  hath  delivered  in  a  journal  of  his  proceedings 
in  the  Assistance  to  the  Straits. 

3771.  [p.  353.]     3  Mar.    S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners  for 
the  Customs. — About  passes  for  the  Elizabeth,  of  London, 
at  Portsmouth ;  the  Seraphim,  of  Barnstaple,  George  Fle- 
ming master,  in  that  port ;  the  Mayflower,   of  Bideford, 
Edmund  Pickard  master,  in  that  port ;  the  William  and 
George,  of  Poole,  Robert  Bennet  master,   in    that  port ; 
and   the  Delight,  of  Bideford,3   Samuel  Cade  master,  in 
that  port. 

3772.  [p.  353.]     3  Mar.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Ridley,  com- 
mander of  the  Wivenhoe,  at  Portsmouth. — Thanks  for  his 
of  27  Feb. 

3773.  [p.  353.]     3  Mar.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Day?  com- 
mander of  the  Merlin  yacht,  at  Portsmouth. — Thanks  for 
his  of  27  Feb.  giving  notice  of  his  arrival  at  Portsmouth. 

3774.  [p.  354.]     6  Mar.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board. — 
Sends  them  a  demand  from  Captain  Jenifer  5  in  the  Downs 

1  Commander-in-chief  in  the  Downs  [3721]. 

2  See  note  to  No.  3608.  3  MS.  '  Bytheford.' 

4  See  note  to  No.  3731.     Captain  Day's  commission  to  command 
the  Merlin  yacht  was  not  signed  until  16  Jan.  1677-8  (i.  344  supra}. 

5  Commander  of  the  Saudados  [3768]  and  commander-in-chief  in 
the  Downs  [3721]. 

VOL.   III.  C  C 


386  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          Mar. 

for  a  supply  of  cables  and  some  other  necessaries,  in  lieu 
of  what  was  lost  in  the  late  foul  weather.  The  Garland 
is  lately  arrived  in  the  Downs  from  Gottenburg  having 
but  7  days'  victuals  on  board  ;  desires  they  will  supply  her 
with  3  months'. 

3775.  [p.  354.]     6  Mar.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Savile.— Orders 
are   gone  to   the  commander-in-chief  in  .the  Downs  for 
convoying  the  ship  he  wrote  of.     The  reason  of  the  writer's 
'  demanding  a  sight  of  the  bill  of  lading  was  for  the  preventing 
the  ill  use  which  hath  sometimes  been  attempted  to  be 
made  of  it  by  masters  of  ships  for  the  convoying  of  contra- 
band goods,  an  instance  whereof  we  had  but  few  days  since.' 

Postscript. — Understands  that  the  vessel  is  not  yet  out 
of  the  River. 

3776.  [p.  354.]    6  Mar.    S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners  for 
the  Customs. — About  passes  for  the  Friend's  Adventure,  of 
Bristol,  William  Bowry  master,  now  at  Bristol  bound  to 
the   Straits ;  and   for  the   Eagle,  of  Plymouth,   Edmund 
Glassworthy  master,  at  Plymouth. 

3777.  [p.  354.]     6   Mar.     S.  P.   to    Captain   Lassells, 
commander  of  the  Garland,  in  the  Downs. — Has  received 
his  very  welcome  letter  of  the  ist,  intimating  his  safe  return 
to  his  station  in  the  Downs,  his  long  absence  without  any 
account  of  his  safety  having  'begot  great  doubts'  concerning 
him,  his  letter  from  Stockholm  of  14  Jan.  being  but  very 
few  days  come  to  hand.     Thanks  for  his  advertisement  of 
the  proceedings  of  the  Swedes.     Has  sent  the  officers  of 
the  navy  instructions  for  his  being  supplied  with  victuals 
[3774]>  and  encloses  orders  empowering  him  to  take  upon 
him  again  the  command  in  chief  in  the  Downs. 

3778.  [p.  355.]    6  Mar.    S.  P.  to  Captain  Jenifer,  com- 
mander of  the  Saudados,  in  the  Downs. — Has  signified 
his  wants  to  the  navy  board  [3774].     '  As  to  your  inquiry 
concerning  the  Count  d'Estrees,  I  do  not  forget  the  informa- 
tion you   some   time   since   gave   me   from   the    Spanish 
gentleman,  nor  shall  I  fail  to  make  fitting  use  of  it,  if  ever 
I  live  to  see  his  Majesty  in  a  condition  of  doing  it.'     It  is 
not  yet  known  where   Count   d'Estrees1    is,  nor  whither 
designed,   '  which    much   amuseth   both   the   Dutch   and 

1  Admiral  of  the  French  fleet.     See  Hoefer   Nouvelle  Biographic 
Umvcrselle,  xvi.  575. 


1676-7  FIFTH   VOLUME  387 

Spaniard,'  but  a  little  time  will  inform  us.  The  Garland 
being  now  returned  to  the  Downs,  the  king  has  directed 
Captain  Lassells l  to  resume  his  former  command  in  chief 
there,  and  '  to  demand  of  you  the  pennant  of  distinction 
which  he  is  to  wear  in  that  quality.' 

3779.  [p.  355-]     7  Mar.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners  for 
the  Customs. — About  a   pass  for  the  St.  John   Merchant 
[3762],  of  Dartmouth,  in  that  port. 

3780.  [p.  355.]     10  Mar.     S.  P.   to  Captain  Jenifer? 
Saudados,  in  the  Downs. — Thanks  for  his  hint  concerning 
the  keeping  some  ships  cruising  in  the  Narrow  [3783]. 

3781.  [p.  356.]     10  Mar.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Fowler? 
commander  [of  the]  Swallow,  in  the  Downs. — The  lords 
approve  of  his  demanding  a  month's  victuals,  and  have 
issued  their  orders  for  it.     Hopes  the  weather  will  favour 
his  timely  getting  it  on  board,  that  he  may  no  longer  be 
forced  to  borrow  of  his  brethren. 

3782.  [p.  356.]     10  Mar.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Carverth? 
commander  [of  the]  Francis,  in  the  Downs. — Has  received 
his  of  the  6th,  and  is  very  glad  he  escaped  with  so  little 
damage   in  the  late  bad  weather,  and  has  recovered   his 
anchors  and  cables.     Has  acquainted  the  lords  with  his 
shortness  of  victuals,  and  3  months'  are  ordered  him. 

3783.  [p.  356.]     12  Mar.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Lassells? 
Garland,   Downs. — Encloses  orders  for  his  keeping  some 
ships  abroad  cruising  in  the  Narrow  [3780].     The  lords 
have  ordered  the  officers  of  the  navy  to  supply  him  with 
3  months'  victuals  [3774.] 

3784.  [p.  357.]     12  Mar.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Martin  Wes- 
combe?  at  Cadiz. — Desires  his  care  of  two  packets  for  the 
commander  of  the  Portsmouth  [3785],  one  to  be  lodged  for 
him  at  Tangier  and  the  other  reserved  for  him  in  case  he 
shall  touch  at  Cadiz  on  his  way  home. 

3785.  [p.   357.]     12   Mar.      S.   P.   to   Captain   Story, 
commander  of  the  Portsmouth,  in  the  Straits. — Encloses 
orders  for  his  returning  to  Tangier  so  soon  as  he  has  seen 

1  See  note  to  No.  3441. 

2  Late  commander-in-chief  in  the  Downs  [3721,  3778]. 

3  See  note  to  No.  2274.  4  See  note  to  No.  3608. 

5  Commander-in-chief  in  the  Downs  [3778]  in  succession  to  Captain 
Jenifer,  commander  of  the  Saudados.     See  ii.  236  n.  supra. 
y  Consul  at  Cadiz  [1553]. 


388  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS         Mar. 

his  convoys  homewards  as  far  as  the  North  Cape,  which  is 
judged  may  be  sufficient  to  secure  them.  Has  received  his 
of  20  Dec.  from  the  Bay  of  Gibraltar,  and  has  moved  the 
king  and  his  Royal  Highness  in  what  he  desires  of  returning 
to  Smyrna  for  bringing  thence  the  merchant  ships,  though 
without  success. 

3786.  [p.   357.]     14   Mar.     S.   P.  to   Captain  Jenifer, 
commander  [of  the]  Saudados,  Downs. — Has  received  his 
of  the  8th.     The  king  is  well  satisfied  with  his  readiness  to 
deliver  over  his  command  to  Captain  Lassells  [3778]  and 
the  care  he  is  taking  for  the  recovery  of  his  anchors. 

3787.  [p.  358.]     14  Mar.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Lassells ? 
commander  [of  the]  Garland,  Downs. — Leave  to  stay  on 
shore  5  or  6  days  for  the  recovery  of  his  health.     Is  glad 
he   receives  no   complaints  of  any  injuries  done  by  the 
privateers,  and  hopes  the  keeping  some  ships  cruising  in 
the  Narrow  will  induce  them  to  continue  quiet. 

3788.  [p.  358.]     15  Mar.     S.  P.  to  Colonel  Piper;-  at 
Plymouth. — Thanks  for   his   account   of  the  6th,  of  the 
information  given  in  before  the  Mayor  of  Plymouth  con- 
cerning  injuries   by  an  Ostender;   he   has   done   well  to 
detain  her  [3807]. 

3789.  [p.  359.]     15  Mar.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Martin,  consul 
at  Argeir. — 'The  East  India  Company  having  made  applica- 
tion to  his  Majesty  concerning  the  having  of  passes  for  their 
ships  trading  to  the  East  Indies,  whose  voyages  are  likely  to 
be  longer  than  for  a  year,  and  so  cannot  be  sufficiently 
secured  by  the  ordinary  passes  granted  by  my  lords  of  the 
admiralty  in  pursuance  of  the  treaties  with  Argeir,  Tunis, 
and  Tripoli,  which  passes  are  limited  only  to  a  year,  his 
Majesty  was  pleased,  upon  advising  with  my  lords  of  the 
admiralty  and  a  full  debate  had  of  that  matter,  to  direct 
their  lordships  to  issue  passes  to  the  said  Company's  ships 
which  should  continue  in  force  for  one  year,  or  such  longer 
time  as  the  said  ships  should  be  out  on  their  voyages  to 
the  Indies.'     By  command  of  the  lords  the  writer  sends 
him  enclosed  the  form  of  the  said  passes,  and  desires  him 
forthwith  to  acquaint  the  government  of  Argeir  with  this 
matter,  to  the  end  they  may  not  interrupt  ships  having 
these  passes.     Encloses  for  their  better  satisfaction  a  list  of 

1  See  note  to  No.  2783. 

3  Deputy-governor  of  Plymouth  [2918]. 


1676-7  FIFTH    VOLUME  389 

such  passes  as  have  to  this  day  been  granted  in  this  form 
by  the  lords,  and  will  continue  to  give  him  the  like  account 
hereafter,  as  any  more  shall  be  granted  by  them. 

List  appended :  Bernardiston,  of  London,  William  Baker 
master ;  Loyal  Subject,  of  London,  William  Goodlad  master ; 
and  Unity,  of  London,  William  Crufts  master — dated  30  Oct. 
1676. 

London,  of  London,  George  Erwin  master ;  Caesar,  of  London, 
Thomas  Andrews  master ;  Bengal  Merchant,  of  London,  John 
Goldsborough  master — dated  4  Nov.  1676. 

George,  of  London,  Nehemiah  Earning  master — dated  7  Feb. 
1676-7. 

Success,  of  London,  George  Swanley  master ;  Bombay  Mer- 
chant, of  London,  Roger  Bennett  master ;  Anne,  of  London, 
Zachary  Browne  master ;  East  India  Merchant,  of  London, 
James  Cooke  master — dated  10  Feb.  1676-7. 

3790.  [p.  3S9.1]     1 6  Mar.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners 
for  the  Customs. — About  passes  for  the  Amity,  of  Bideford, 
John    Prettiman    master  ;     the    Unity,   Robert    Gammer 
master  ;  and  the  Love's  Increase,  Walter  Popham  master  : 
now  at    Barnstaple.     Also   for   the   Elizabeth,   of  Poole, 
William  Pyke  master ;  and  for  the  Charity,  Richard  Davis 
master,  in  the  port  of  Lyme ;  and  the  Primrose,  Robert 
Hawkins  [master],  at  Bristol. 

3791.  [p.   360.]     1 6  Mar.     S.  P.  to    Captain   Fowler, 
commander  [of  the]  Swallow,  Downs. — As  his  late  supply 
of  a  month's  victuals  will  last  so  little  a  time  after  he  has 
paid  what  he  borrowed,  the  lords  have  directed  the  officers 
of  the  navy  to  furnish  him  with  a  month's  more,  to  enable 
his  ship's  continuing  some  longer  time  in  the  Downs. 

3792.  [p.  360.]     1 6  Mar.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners 
for  the  Customs. — About  passes  for  the  Elizabeth,  of  Lon- 
don, Owen  Hurst  master,  at  Portsmouth  ;  and  the  Richard 
and  Mary,  of  Barnstaple,  John  Marshall  master,  now  in 
that  port. 

3793.  [p.  360.]     1 6  Mar.     S.  P.    to  Captain  London, 
commander  [of  the]  Norwich,  at  Kinsale. — Is  glad  his  ship 
is  put  into  so  good  a  condition  to  continue  abroad. 

3794.  [p.   360.]     1 6  Mar.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Martin  Wes- 
combe?  Cadiz. — Desires   his  care  of  the  enclosed  packet 
[3795]  to  the  Governor  of  Tangier. 

1  Out  of  order  in  the  MS.  2  Consul  at  Cadiz  [1553]. 


390  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          Mar. 

3795.  [p.  360.]     1 6  Mar.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Palmes  Fair- 
borne}  govern  or  at  Tangier. — Desires  his  care  of  the  enclosed 
packet  to  the  consul  at  Argeir  [?  3789]. 

3796.  [p.  361.]     1 6  Mar.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Richard  Beach? 
commissioner  at  Chatham. — Thanks  for  his  of  the  I3th, 
and  the   care   he  therein  shows   'to  the   preservation   of 
discipline  in  the  navy,  and  particularly  in  the  business  .  .  . 
of  the  liberty  taken  by  the  master-shipwright  to  employ 
men  at  his  own  pleasure  and  his  Majesty's  extraordinary 
charge,  in  the  building  of  models.'    Will  take  his  Majesty's 
pleasure  '  touching  the  model,  which  you  also  tell  me  Mr. 
Lawrence's  son  3  is  going  about  for  the  king's  use.' 

3797.  [p.  361.]     17  Mar.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners 
for  the  Customs. — About  passes  for  the  H[appy]  Return  of 
Plymouth,  Thomas  Foord  master,  now  in  that  port  bound 
to  the  Straits  ;  the  John,  of  Bristol,  John  Paine  master  ; 
the  Hopewell,  of   Dartmouth,   now   there ;  the  Peter,  of 
Plymouth,  Richard   Bone  master,  now  there ;  the  Tobias 
and  Barbara,  of  Dartmouth,  in  that  port ;  the  Black  Swan, 
of  Bideford,  George  Bues  master,  in  that  port ;  and  the 
Hannah,  of  Topsham,  at  Topsham. 

3798.  [p.  361.]     [17  Mar.]    S.  P.  to  Captain  Wright.'1— 
To  fetch  Mr.  Benson  from  Dieppe,  waiting  for  him  4  days 
after  the  22nd.     To  give  passage  thither  to  any  gentlemen 
directed  to  him  from  Mr.  James  Houblon,  merchant.5 

3799.  [p.  363.6  ]     18  Mar.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Sanderson, 
commander  of  the  Portsmouth  yacht. — To  proceed  to  Rye 
[3808]  and  carry  Mr.  Caleb  Bankes  to  Dieppe,  returning 
thence  to  Greenwich. 

3800.  [p.  362.]     19  Mar.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners 
for  the  Customs. — About  passes  for  the  Swallow,  of  Bideford, 

John  Scamp  master  ;  the  Elizabeth  and  James,  of  Bide- 
ford, John  Tracey  master ;  and  the  Pelican,  of  Bideford, 
John  Whitfeild  master. 

3801.  [p.  362.]     19  Mar.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Trevanion? 
Yarmouth,    Downs. — Received    his    of    the     I7th    from 

1  D.  N.  B.  xviii.  125.     See  note  to  No.  2212. 

2  See  note  to  No.  3729. 

3  The  reference  is  perhaps  to  the  son  of  Mr.  Joseph  Lawrence,  the 
shipwright's  assistant  at  Chatham  (Cal.  S.  P.  Dom.  1673,  index). 

4  Probably  Captain  William  Wright,  commander  of  the  Kitchen 
yacht.     See  ii.  12  n.  supra.  »  See  note  to  No.  2498. 

6  Out  of  order  in  the  MS.  7  See  note  to  No.  2304. 


1676-7  FIFTH   VOLUME  391 

Plymouth,  bringing  the  welcome  news  of  his  safe  arrival 
there.  Notwithstanding  his  former  orders  to  repair  to 
Woolwich,  he  is  to  continue  in  the  Downs  till  further 
orders  [3802].  Desires  an  account  of  the  condition  of  his 
ship. 

3802.  [p.  362.]     19  Mar.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  St.  Michel.1— 
To  take  care  to  deliver   the  enclosed   [3801]  to  Captain 
Trevanion,  '  his  Majesty's  occasions  calling  very  much  for 
the  service  of  that  ship  in  the  Downs.' 

3803.  [p.  362.]     19  Mar.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Lassells? 
commander   of  the  Garland,   Downs. — To   order  convoy 
for  6  horses  from  Dover  to  Calais. 

3804.  [p.    363.]     20   Mar.     S.  P.  to    Captain  Ridley, 
commander  of  the  Wivenhoe,  at  Portsmouth. — Thanks  for 
his  information  of  the  i8th  of  the  Bordeaux  fleet. 

3805.  [p.  363.]     20  Mar.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Day?  com- 
mander of  the  Merlin   yacht,  at  Portsmouth. — Leave  to 
come  to  town  [for]  16  or  18  days. 

3806.  [p.  363.]     20  Mar.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Lassells? 
commander  [of  the]  Garland,  Downs. — To  order  convoy 
to  Dunkirk  for  the  ships  come  from  Bordeaux. 

3807.  [p.  364.]     20  Mar.     S.  P.  to  Colonel  Piper,  at 
Plymouth. — Has  received  his  of  the  i6th,  and  thanks  him 
for  his  care  in  delivering  his  letter  to  the  captain  of  the 
Yarmouth.     Hopes  suddenly  to  send  directions  concerning 
the  captain  and  lieutenant  of  the  Ostender  [3788,  3812], 

3808.  [p.  364.]     20  Mar.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Sanderson, 
commander  [of  the]  Portsmouth  yacht,  Rye. — To  rectify 
a  mistake  in  his  letter  of  the  i8th  [3799],  which  directed 
him  to  Rye  instead  of  Dover  [3816]. 

3809.  [p.  364.]     20  Mar.     The  same  to  the  same,  in  the 
Downs. — If  this  comes  time  enough  to  meet  him  in  the 
Downs,  it  serves  to  direct  him  to  Dover  instead  of  Rye 
[3808]. 

3810.  [p.  365.]     20  Mar.     S.  P.  to  Mr.   St.  Michel? 
Deal. —  Prays  he'll  take  care  of    the  enclosed  [3809]    to 
Captain  Sanderson,  who  departed  from  Gravesend  this  day. 

3811.  [p.  365.]     22  Mar.     S.  P.  to   Captain  Lassells? 
commander  [of  the]  Garland,  in  the  Downs. — Has  received 

1  See  note  to  No.  2387. 

3  Commander-in-chief  in  the  Downs  [3778].    See  ii.  236  n.  supra. 

3  See  note  to  No.  3773. 


392  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          Mar. 

his  of  the  2Oth,  giving  account  of  the  information  he  has 
received  of  a  vessel  being  robbed  by  an  Ostender.  Desires 
sworn  particulars. 

3812.  [9.365.]     23  Mar.    S.  P.  to  Sir  John  Nicholas  >- 
Desires  him  to  move  his  Majesty  at  the  council-table  this 
evening  for  his  pleasure  how  Colonel  Piper 2  shall  dispose  of 
the  captain  and  lieutenant  of  the  Ostender  and  their  vessel 
[3807]. 

3813.  [p.  366.]     23  Mar.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Caruerth? 
commander  of  the  Francis,  Downs. — Has  acquainted  the 
king  and  lords  with  his  account  of  the  iQth  of  what  passed 
between  himself  and   the  three  Frenchmen,  '  who  are  so 
sensible  of  the  said  Frenchmen's  ill-behaviour  towards  his 
Majesty '  that  they  desire  a  more  particular  account  [3843] 
of  the  whole  action,  with  a  description  of  the  man-of-war 
and  the  two  sloops,  '  to  the  end  not  only  satisfaction  may 
be  demanded  by  his  Majesty  of  that  Crown  for  the  said 
affront,  but  that  in  case  either  of  them  shall  be  met  withal 
by  any  of  his  Majesty's  ships,  they  may  be  brought  in  and 
their  commander  and  officers  called  to  a  strict  account  for 
the  same.'     Desires  him  to  communicate  his  said  descrip- 
tion to  the  commander-in-chief  in  the  Downs,  that  he  may 
give  it  in  charge  to  ships  going  out  to  cruise,  to  look  out 
for  and  seize  them  [3815],     The  officers  of  the  navy  will 
furnish  him  with  stores,  and  for  the  foulness  and  defects 
of  his  ship  the  lords  will  direct  her  in  so  soon  as  she  can 
be  spared  to  be  cleaned  and  refitted,  or  laid  up,  as  her 
condition  shall  appear  to  be. 

3814.  [p.  366.]     23    Mar.     S.   P.  to  Captain    Charles 
Atkins,1'  on  board  the  Yarmouth,  in  the  Downs. — Is  very 
sorry  for  his  present  great  indisposition.     Has  obtained 
the  king's  leave  (signified  by  the  enclosed  from  the  lords 
to  Captain  Trevanion 6)  for  his  going  on  shore  to  his  own 
house  till  further  orders. 

3815.  [p.  367.]     23  Mar.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Lassells? 
commander  of  the   Garland,  in  the  Downs. — Supposing 

1  The  son  of  Sir  Edward  Nicholas,  secretary  of  state  to  Charles  I. 
and  Charles  II.  (Shaw,  The  Knights  of  England,  i.  164).  See 
D.  N.  B.  xl.  422. 

3  Deputy-governor  of  Plymouth  [2918].       3  See  note  to  No.  3608. 

4  See  No.  3308  and  Introduction,  p.  xxxviii,  supra. 

5  Commander  of  the  Yarmouth  [3801].     See  note  to  No.  2304. 

6  Commander-in-chief  in  the  Downs  [3778]. 


1676-7  FIFTH   VOLUME  393 

that  ere  this  arrives  the  Francis  may  be  returned  from 
cruising,  this  comes  to  inform  him  of  an  affront  done 
to  his  Majesty's  flag  borne  upon  her  between  Dover  and 
Calais  by  3  French  vessels  [3813],  and  to  desire  him  to 
have  them  looked  out  for. 

3816.  [p.  367.]     24  Mar.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Sanderson. 
— In  case  Sir  John  Bankes  shall  upon  his  arrival  at  Dover 
have  occasion  of  keeping  the  yacht  there  three  or  four  days 
longer  than  was  designed,  it  is  the  king's  pleasure  that  he 
stay  [3808]. 

3817.  [p.  367.]    26  Mar.    S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners  for 
the  Customs. — About   passes   for   the   Charles,   of  Bristol, 
Robert  Norman  master,  in  that  port ;  and  the  Desire,  of 
Southampton,  James  Bayly  master,  in  that  port. 

3818.  [p.  367.]     27  Mar.     The  same   to   the  same. — 
About  passes  for  the  John,  of  Dartmouth,  Nicholas  Boone 
master,  in  that  port ;  the  Expedition,  of  Topsham,  Solomon 
Andrews  [master],  in  that  port ;  the  Hopewell,  of  Bide- 
ford,  John  Strong  master,  in  that  port ;  the  Katherine,  of 
Dartmouth,  John   Miles  master,  in  that  port ;  the  Lamb, 
of  Bideford,  Robert  King  master,  in  that  port ;  and  the 
Golden    Dove,  of  Topsham,  William  Caweed    master,  in 
that  port. 

3819.  [p.  368.]     27  Mar.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Royden}— 
The  enclosed  paper  of  Matthew  Page,  purser  of  the  Stavo- 
reen  [3820,  3821],  having  been  communicated  to  the  lords, 
and  '  the  said  purser  having  declared  that  the  clothes  therein 
said  to  be  issued  and  supernumeraries  victualled  was  done 
by  your  order,'  the  lords  desire  to  know  if  this  was  so. 

3820.  [p.  368.]     N.d.      Petition  from  Matthew  Page, 
purser  of  the  Stavoreen,  to  the  navy  board  [3819]. — '  The 
purser  of  the  Stavoreen  prays  your  honours  for  the  real 
and  full  issue  of  clothes,  having  passed  the  examination 
and  exceptions  per  informers  before  the  Rt.  honourable 
treasurer   and   comptroller,  who  did  then  allow   all  as  it 
was  stated,  and  agree  that  there  was  an  order  to  advance 
clothes  in  times  of  war  beyond  the  instructions  now  in  force. 
And  that  your  honours  would  grant  him  your  assistance 
to  recover  an  order  from  the  admiralty  for  bearing  super- 

1  Captain  Charles  Royden,  commander  of  the  Guernsey  [2785], 
had  commanded  the  Stavoreen  in  1673  (*•  4°°j  supra}. 


394 


ADMIRALTY  LETTERS         Mar. 


numeraries  arising  by  soldiers  and  sick  and  wounded  in 
'73,  if  relief  cannot  be  had  other  ways'  [3821]. 

Margin :  '  Read  20  Dec.,'  i.e.  before  '73. 

3821.  [p.    368.]     [21  Dec.  1676.]      The  Navy  Boards 
reference  on  the  foregoing  [3820]. — '  Although  the  informers 
have  not  objected  against  the  allowance  of  clothes  above 
desired,  yet  in  regard  the  said  clothes  are  charged  upon 
runaways,  and   do  exceed  the  allowance  granted  by  the 
instructions  for  vending  of  clothes — namely,  2s.  per  man 
for  2  months — it  is  not  in  our  power  to  allow  more  than 
what  is  permitted  by  the  said  instructions,  there  having 
not,  so  far  as  we  know,  been  any  dispensation  in  the  late 
war,  as  there  was  in  the  former,  for  allowing  to  seamen 
greater  quantities  of  clothes  than  after  the  rate  of  lod.  a 
man  for  every  two  months.     As  for  the  supernumeraries, 
we  are  satisfied  that  there  were  two  companies  of  soldiers 
entered  on  board  before  the  ship's  sailing  from  Sheerness, 
who  were  there  mustered  by  the  clerk  of  the  check,  and 
also  that  there  were  sick  men  sent  home  from  the  fleet  in 
this  ship,  by  which  supernumeraries  have  arisen  ;  but  the 
orders  by  which  the  said  soldiers  were  entered  and  the 
sick  men,  &c.,  were  brought  home  from  the  fleet  not  being 
produced  to  us,  we  do  not  think  it  in  our  power  to  allow 
the  said  supernumeraries  (although  their  allowance  seems 
reasonable)  without  special  warrant  for  the  doing  of  it' 

Initialled:  Brfouncker] ' ;  TPhomas]  A[llin] 2 ;  J[ohn]  W[erden] 3; 
R[ichard]  Hjaddock] 3 ;  J[ohn]  P[epys].4 

3822.  [p.  369.]     27  Mar.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Richard  Beach? 
— Leave  to  come  to  town. 

3823.  [p.  369.]     27  Mar.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners 
for  the  Customs. — About  passes  for  the  Desire,  of  Fowey, 
Walter  Crowl  master ;  and  the  Ruby,  of  Plymouth,  Israel 
Symons  master. 

3824.  [p.    369.]     28   Mar.     S.  P.    to    Captain   Fasby, 
Charles  yacht. — He  is  to  carry  Mr.  Nathaniel  Hornby,  and 
such  other  goldsmiths   as   shall   accompany  him,  to  the 

1  Navy  commissioner  and  comptroller  of  the  treasurer's  accounts. 

2  Comptroller  of  the  navy.  3  Navy  commissioner. 

4  One  of  the  clerks  of  the  acts.  5  See  note  to  No.  3729. 


1 67  7  FIFTH   VOLUME  395 

Yarmouth,  in  the  Downs,  and  bring  back  such  moneys  as 
they  shall  direct  unto  Greenwich. 

3825.  [p.  369.]     29  Mar.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Lassells}  of 
the  Garland,  in  the  Downs. — Thanks   for   his  advices  of 
what  passes  in  the  Downs. 

3826.  [p.  369.]     29  Mar.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners 
for  the  Customs. — About  passes  for  the  Providence,  of  Mine- 
head,  Henry   White  master ;  the  Friend's  Adventure,  of 
Swansea 2  ;  and  the  John,  of  Topsham,  John  Bass  master, 
at  Exeter  [3831]. 

3827.  [p.  369.]    y>Mar.    The  same  to  the  same. — About 
a   pass   for   the   Eagle   ketch,   of  Plymouth,  Christopher 
Skeene  master,  now  in  that  port  bound  to  the  Straits. 

3828.  [p.  370.]    30  Mar.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Trevanion? 
of  the  Yarmouth,  in  the  Downs. — His  Majesty's  purpose 
in  stopping  him  in  the  Downs  is  principally  for  the  keeping 
him  there  '  to  give  countenance  to  the  smaller  ships  yet 
employed  in  that  station,  until  some  others  of  greater  force 
(which  are  now  in  fitting  forth)  shall  be  added  to  them,' 
the  Swallow  being  detained  there  upon  the  same  account. 
His  work  therefore  '  being  no  other  than  to  remain  in  the 
Downs,  or  at  least  to  make  a  trip  over  to  the  coast  of 
Flanders  or  France,'  the  writer  hopes  he  may  be  able  to  do 
it  without  any  great   supplies,  and    therefore   desires  an 
account  of  the  sails  and  cables  and  other  supplies  that  he 
needs.     He  may  expect  to-morrow  a  warrant  for  a  month's 
provisions  from  Dover. 

3829.  [p.  370.]     30  Mar.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board— 
They  are  to  give  orders  for  what  supplies  shall  be  necessary 
to  enable  the  Yarmouth  to  remain  for  some  time  in  the 
Downs  [3828]. 

3830.  [p.  371.]  30  Mar.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners 
for  the  Customs. — About  a  pass  for  the  Neptune,  of  Jersey, 
David  le  Breton  master,  at  Cowes. 

3831.  [p.  3  7 1 .]    31  Mar.    The  same  to  the  same. — About 
passes  for  the  John,  of  Topsham,  John  Bass  master,  in  that 
port  [3826] ;   and  the  True  Dealing,  of  Plymouth,  John 
Mooreshead  master,  in  that  port. 

3832.  [p.  371.]    2  Apr.     The  same  to  the  same. — About 

1  Commander-in-chief  in  the  Downs  [3778].     See  ii.  236  n.  supra. 
•  MS.  'Swanzey.'  s  See  note  to  No.  2304. 


396  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS         Apr. 

a  pass  for  the  Vintage,  of  Plymouth,  Samuel  Foote  master, 
at  Plymouth. 

3833.  [p.  371.]    2   Apr.     S.   P.  to  Captain  Lovell}— 
When  he  carries  Mr.  Brisbane a  to  Dieppe,  he  is  to  continue 
there  4  days  after  the  7th  for  Lord  Mordaunt.3 

3834.  [p.  371.]     3  Apr.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners 
for  the  Customs. — About  passes   for   the  Dove  ketch,  of 
Topsham,  John  Lyle  master,  at  Topsham  ;  the  Richard 
and  Sarah,  of  Barnstaple,  John   Marshall  master,  now  in 
that  port ;  the  Humility,  of  Bristol,  Ellis  Ashby  master, 
now  at  Bristol ;  and  the  Endeavour,  of  Boston,  Samuel 
Smith  master,  now  in  the  Downs. 

3835.  [p.  371.]    3  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Ridley,  com- 
mander of  the  Wivenhoe,  at  Portsmouth. — Commanders 
are  some  time  since  appointed  to  the  ships  fitting  forth, 
so  a  journey  to  town  on  that  score  will  be  fruitless  to  him. 

3836.  [p.  372.]     3  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Trevanion? 
commander  of  the  Yarmouth,  in  the  Downs. — The  officers 
of  the  navy  will  supply  him  with  stores.     Leave  to  come 
to  town  for  7  or  8  days. 

3837.  [p.    372.]     3    Apr.     Memorial    concerning    the 
Thomas  and  George,  of  Youghal,  arrested  at  Dover. — The 
Thomas  and  George,  Thomas  Browne  master,  having   a 
pass  dated  19  Jan.  i676[-7],  signed  by  the  Earl  of  Essex,5 
Lord  Lieutenant  of  Ireland,  is  arrested  at  Dover  by  warrant 
from  the  court  of  admiralty  on  behalf  of  several  French- 
men who  claim  the  propriety  of  her.     As  the  master  must 
have  made  oath  that  the  ship  was  English,  it  is  submitted 
to  his  Majesty  what  orders  he  will  be  pleased  to  give  [3838] 
concerning  the  said  master's  being  called  to  account  for 
the   corrupt   means  by  him  used   for  obtaining  the  said 
pass. 

3838.  [p.  372.]     3  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Brereton,  at 
Dover. — Thanks  for  his  of  the  26th,  intimating  the  cheat 
practised  by  Thomas  Browne.     Has  put  a  memorial  [3837] 

1  Commander  of  the  Katharine  yacht  [3726]. 

•  See  note  to  No.  3267. 

*  The  cavalier  John  Mordaunt,  Viscount  Mordaunt,  had  died  in 
1675  (•#•  -M  B.  xxxviii.  406),  so  the  reference  must  be  to  his  son  and 
successor  in  title,  the  famous  Charles  Mordaunt,  afterwards  Earl  of 
Peterborough.     See  D.  N.  B.  xxxviii.  393. 

4  Commander  of  the  Yarmouth  [3828].    See  note  to  No.  2304. 

5  D.N.B.  ix.  12. 


i6;7  FIFTH   VOLUME  397 

into  the  hands  of  one  of  the  principal  secretaries  of  state, 
by  whom  the  writer  doubts  not  his  Majesty's  pleasure  as 
Warden  of  the  Cinque  Ports  will  be  signified  to  the  Governor 
of  Dover  Castle. 

3839.  [p.  372.]    3   Apr.     S.   P.   to   Captain   Lassells,1 
commander  of  the  Garland. — The  king  and  lords  are  well 
satisfied  with  his  care  in  communicating  the  description  of 
the  French  vessels  to  the  ships  cruising   abroad  [3815]. 
They  think  it  best  that  Lieutenant  Hodder  2  be  continued 
on  the  books  of  the  Garland  for  the  time  he  was  absent 
from  her  in  the  Drake.     Presumes  the  king  will  make  him 
some  extraordinary  allowance  therein. 

3840.  [p.  373.]    3  Apr.    S.  P.  to  Sir  Richard  Haddock? 
one  of  the  commissioners  of  the  navy. — It  is  much  to  be 
wished  that '  the  settlement  which  is  like  very  shortly  to  be 
in  the  business  of  men  and  guns '  might  take  place  upon 
the  Leopard  and  Guernsey  and    the  other  ships  ordered 
to  be  fitted  forth.     Supposes  '  very  little  remains  towards 
the  getting  that  settlement  made,  more  than  your  providing 
an  answer  to  the  satisfaction  of  his  Royal  Highness  in  two 
or  three  points.  .  .  .'     Prays  despatch,  and  will  hasten  it 
with  the  king  and  lords. 

3841.  [p.  373.]     3  Apr.    S.  P.  to  Colonel  Piper,4  at  Ply- 
mouth.—  Desires  to  know  where  the  two  witnesses  reside 
who  gave  in  the  information  against  Captain  Dragger,  that 
they  may  be  secured  to  give  testimony  at  the  trial  of  him 
and  his  lieutenant,  at  a  sessions  of  the  admiralty  to  be  held 
'  presently  after  the  next  term '  [3865].    Desires  also  to  know 
where   the   masters   of  the   vessels  which   the  Ostenders 
plundered  may  be  found,  whose  testimonies,  if  they  can  be 
had,  would  be  much  more  convincing  against  Dragger  ; 
and  whether  he  hears  anything  further  concerning  Dragger's 
ship,  that  so  his  Majesty's  pleasure  may  be  known  for  her 
disposal. 

3842.  [p.  374.]      3  Apr.    S.  P.  to  Captain  Booth?  at 

1  Commander-in-chief  in  the  Downs  [3778].      See  ii.  236  n.  supra. 

3  See  note  to  No.  3473.  3  D.  N.  B.  xxiii.  427. 

4  Deputy-governor  of  Plymouth  [2918]. 

5  Captain  Thomas  Booth,  formerly  commander  of  the  Pearl,  was 
appointed  to  the  Falcon  by  a  commission  dated  14  April,  1677  (i.  327 
supra).     He  is  not  to  be   confused   with   Captain   William   Booth, 
commander  of  the  Eagle  fireship. 


398  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          Apr. 

Chester. — Acquaints  him  that  his  Majesty  hath  given  him 
the  command  of  the  Falcon,  now  ordered  to  be  fitted  forth. 

3843.  [p.  374.]     3  Apr.     S.  P.  to   Captain  Carverth? 
Downs. — The  king  and  lords  are  well  satisfied  with  the 
account  under  his  and  his  officers'  hands  of  what  passed 
between  him  and  the  French  vessels  [3813]. 

3844.  [p.  374.]     6  Apr.    S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners  for 
the  Customs. — About  passes  for  the  Mary  pink,  William 
Stiles  master,  in  the  Downs  ;  and  the  Frog  dogger,  Richard 
White  master,  at  Weymouth  bound  to  the  southward. 

3845.  [p.  374.]     7  Apr.     The  same  to  the  same. — About 
passes  for  the  Hunter,  of  Dartmouth,  Henry  Smith  master, 
in  that  port ;   the  Phoenix,  of  Bideford,  in  that  port ;  the 
Torrington  Merchant,  at  Torrington  ;  and  the  Success,  of 
Dartmouth,  Benjamin  Mitchell  master. 

3846.  [p.  374.]     7  Apr.     S.  P.  to  the  Bailiffs  of  Yar- 
mouth.— The   king   and   lords   have   ordered  a  couple   of 
frigates  to  be   fitted   out   for  a  convoy  for   the   Zeeland 
fishery. 

3847.  [p.  374.]    ZApr.   S.  P.  to  Colonel  Strode,  Governor 
of  Dover. — The  business  of  Hastings  fishery  [3851]  being 
to  be  brought  before  the  king  at  the  cabinet  council  this 
afternoon   at   Mr.  Secretary  Coventry's,2  it   is  proper   he 
should  be  present. 

3848.  [p.  375.]     9  Apr.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board— 
They  are  to  cause  the  neglect  by  which  the  fire  happened 
in  the  yard  at  Chatham  to  be  with  all  strictness  inquired 
into,  and  the  names  of  the  guilty  parties  represented  to  the 
lords  for  punishment ;  after  consideration  not  so  much  of  the 
actual  damage  ('  which  by  God's  mercy  seems  not  to  be 
very  great,  beyond  that  of  the  loss  of  the  books  and  papers 
of  the  clerk  of  the  control's  office ')  as  of  the  hazard  the 
whole  yard,  stores,  and  ships  adjoining  were  exposed  to, 
and  'at  a  juncture  of  time  that  might  have  rendered  an 
accident  of  this  kind  most  unhappy  to  his  Majesty  and  his 
government'  [3853]. 

Desires  them  to  cause  the  ships  in  fitting  to  be  hastened. 
Has  received  a  letter  from  Captain  Hamilton,3  commander 
of  the  galley-frigate  Charles,  dated  at  Alicante,  5  March, 
acquainting  him  that  in  the  late  bad  weather  'he  was 

1  See  note  to  No.  3608. 

*  D.  N.  B.  xii.  357.  s  see  note  to  No.  3310. 


1677  FIFTH   VOLUME  399 

afraid  of  rolling  her  masts  by  the  board,  her  rigging  being 
too  small,  and  several  of  her  shrouds  having  given  way, 
and  therefore  desires  that  a  new  set  of  shrouds,  bigger  than 
the  former,  should  be  sent  to  Tangier  for  her  .  .  .'  [3871]. 

3849.  [p.  375.]    gApr.    S.  P.  to  Captain  Lassells,1  com- 
mander [of  the]  Garland,  in  the  Downs. — Having  commu- 
nicated to  his  Majesty  a  late  letter  from  Captain  Jenifer,2 
'  wherein  he  offers  it  to  consideration  that  his  Majesty  might 
suffer  some  dishonour  in  case  the  vessels  which  you  now 
send  abroad  to  cruise  single  should  meet  with  one  or  more 
capers  of  greater  force  than  themselves,  as  he  himself  had 
some  apprehension  he  might  do  in  case  the  three  French 
men-of-war  which  lately  did  the  indignity  to  the  Francis 
[3813]  should  come  in  his  way  in  their  coming  forth  from 
Boulogne,  from  whence  he  expected  them,'  his    Majesty 
directs  that  the  Swallow  should  go  forth  to  cruise  for  10 
days  with  a  small  frigate  to  accompany  her. 

3850.  [p.  376.]    gApr.    S.  P.to  Sir  Martin  Wescombe? 
at  Cadiz. — To  forward  the  enclosed  letters  for  Sir  Roger 
Strickland4  [3855]  and  Captain  Story5  [3854]  to  Tangier, 
'  they  carrying  orders  to  them  from  his  Majesty  of  much 
importance  to  his  service.' 

3851.  [p.  376.]     9  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Colonel  Strode*— 
Desires  him  to  inform  himself  from  Hastings  what  have 
been  the  usual  restrictions  heretofore  enjoined  upon  the 
French  fishermen  who  have  had  licences  from  the  Lord 
Warden  of  the  Cinque  Ports,  as  to   the   seasons,  places, 
numbers,  size,  or  shape  of  their  nets  or  other  engines,  the 
despatch  of  his  Majesty's  instructions  to  the  commanders 
of  his   ships  who   shall   at   the   desire   of  that   town   be 
sent  to  the  visiting  of  the  said  French  fishing  vessels  de- 
pending upon  it. 

3852.  [p.  377.]     9  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Pett?  master- 
shipwright,  at  Chatham. — The  king   and   lords  expect  a 
very  strict  inquiry,  by  all  means  possible,  for  the  discovery 
of  the  true  occasion  of  the  fire  [3848]. 

1  Commander-in-chief  in  the  Downs  [3778].     See  ii.  236  n.  supra. 

2  Commander  of  the  Saudados  and  late  commander-in-chief  in  the 
Downs  [3721]. 

3  Consul  at  Cadiz  [1553]. 

4  Commander  of  the  Dragon  [3855].     D.  N.  B.  Iv.  52. 

5  Commander  of  the  Portsmouth  [3854]. 

6  Governor  of  Dover  Castle  [3847].  7  See  ii.  92  n.  supra. 


400  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          Apr. 

3853.  [p.  377.]     9  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Sir  William  Poole} 
commander  of  the  Leopard,  at  Chatham. — ' .  .  .  We  have 
great  reason  to  thank  God  Almighty  that  the  effects '  of 
the  fire  [3848]  '  proved  no  worse  ;  however,  it  ought  to  be 
esteemed  an  evil  of  very  great  weight  to  his  Majesty  to 
have  such  a  danger  brought  upon  his  ships  and  stores,  at 
this  time  too  when  there  is  a  probability  of  so  much  need 
of  them,  and  therefore  ought  to  have  the  occasion  thereof 
very  well  enquired  into,  and  no  less  severely  punished  if  it 
can   be   discovered.  .  .  .'  Is  very  glad    for  the  Leopard's 
escape. 

3854.  [p.  378.]     9  Apr.    '  Sent  to  Tangier.'     5.  P.  to 
Captain  James  Story,  commander   of  the    Portsmouth. — 
The  king  and  lords  are  not  well  satisfied  with  the  merchants 
having  made  it  their  request  for  his  staying  at  Zante  to 
convoy  their  ships,  the  Scipio  and  the  William  and  Thomas, 
and  then  rendering  his  long  stay  unnecessary  by  their  ships 
omitting  to  touch  there ;  and  they  will  take  fitting  notice 
thereof  to  them.      Sends  orders  enclosed  for  his  joining 
with  Sir  Robert  Robinson 2  and  following  his  directions ; 
and  will  in  a  little  time  send  him  the  pleasure  of  the  king 
and  lords  '  concerning  the  commanders  of  the  king's  ships 
taking  portents  in  foreign  ports.' 

3855.  [p.  378.]    9  Apr.   '  Sent  to  Tangier.'    5.  P.  to  Sir 
Roger  Strickland*  commander  of  the  Dragon. — The  king 
and  lords  approve  of  what  he  did  at  the  importunity  of  his 
convoys  in  omitting  to  touch  at  Zante,  and  going  with  them 
directly  to  Smyrna.     Sends  him  orders  to  join  Sir  Robert 
Robinson 2  and  follow  his  directions.     Will  inform  him  con- 
cerning portents  [3854]. 

3856.  [p.  379.]      10  Apr.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners 
for  the   Customs. — About   passes   for   the  Scanderbeg,   of 
Barnstaple,  Robert  Fishley  master ;  the  Swallow,  of  Exeter, 
Isaac  Symons  master ;  the  Sarah,  of  Topsham,  Christopher 
Holly  master,  in  that  port ;   the  Expedition,  of  Bideford, 
Peter   Luxon    master,   in   that   port;   the   Success   ketch, 
Thomas  Ratte  master,  at  Exeter. 

3857.  [p.  379.]     10  Apr.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— 

1  Charnock,  Biog.  Nav.  i.  26.     Sir  William  Poole's  commission  to 
the  Leopard  is  dated  27  Feb.  1676-7  (i.  394  supra). 

8  Commander  of  the  Assurance  [2663!.     See  note  to  No.  2872. 
3  D.  N.  B.  Iv.  52. 


1677  FIFTH   VOLUME  401 

Conveys  the  proposal  of  Mr.  Samuel  Travell,  merchant,  for 
'  providing  such  hemp  as  his  Majesty's  service  shall  call  for 
out  of  the  east  country  upon  occasion  of  the  ships  now 
designed  by  the  Parliament  to  be  built.'  The  gentleman  is 
entirely  a  stranger  to  the  writer,  but  is  lauded  to  him  by 
Colonel  Kirkby,1  a  member  of  the  House  of  Commons,  '  as 
a  person  of  long  experience  and  good  credit  in  that  trade.1 
Desires  them  to  consider  it. 

3858.  [p.  379.]      10-14  -Apr.     Memorandum  of  certifi- 
cates for  taking  up  bond  for  the  Frederick,  of  Plymouth, 
John  Matthews,  dated   10  Apr.  1677  ;  the   Expedition,  of 
Topsham,  Solomon  Andrews,  dated   13  Apr.;    the  Hope- 
well,  of  Plymouth,  John  Pearce,  dated   13  Apr.;  and  the 
Hopeful  Adventure,  of  London,  John  Bant  master,  14  Apr. 

3859.  [p.  379.]      13  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Gunman, 
commander  of  the  Anne  yacht,  at  Greenwich. — To  bring 
the  Duke  of  Cr£qui 2  from  Calais. 

3860.  [p.  380.]      14  Apr.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners 
for  the  Customs. — About  passes  for  the  Mary,  of  Weymouth, 
William  Gates  master ;  the  Paragon,  of  Dartmouth,  James 
Lake    master  ;    the    Benjamin,    of    Dartmouth,    Thomas 
Blakeler ;    the    Laurel,   of    Topsham,    Samuel    Hayman  ; 
and  the   John   and  Francis,  of  Southampton,  John   Wall 
master. 

3861.  [p.  382.3]       14  Apr.     The  same  to   the  same.— 
About  passes  for  the  Exeter  Merchant,  of  London,  Roger 
Matthews  master,  in  that  port ;  the  Thomas  and    Mary  ; 
the  Bonadventure, Barnes  [master],  at  Dartmouth. 

3862.  [p.  380.]    1 5  Apr.    S.  P.  to  Captain  Davies?  Cleve- 
land yacht. — To  bring  Mr.  Thornhill  from  Dieppe. 

3863.  [p.  380.]     1 6  Apr.     Monday  night.     S.  P.  to  Sir 
John  Tippetts,  surveyor  of  the  navy. — 'This  comes  to  tell 
you  that  after  the  many  difficulties  which  the  Bill  for  the 
600,000!.  for  building  ships  has  met  with,  and  particularly 
that  which  I  observed  to  you  this  morning,  arising  from  the 
differences  between  the  two  Houses  about  it,  even  to  the 
rendering  me  then  very  distrustful  of  the  success  of  the 
Bill  and  the  great  work  of  our  building  ships  depending 
thereon,  the  lords  have  thought   fit  to   depart   from    the 

1  MS.  '  Kirby.'  *  Michaud,  Biog.  Univ.  ix.  469. 

3  Out  of  order  in  the  MS.  4  See  note  to  No.  2561. 

VOL.  III.  D  D 


402  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS         Apr. 

amendment  they  so  earnestly  insisted  upon,1  and  (by  their 
yielding)  the  Bill  (blessed  be  God)  is  (with  the  rest  of  the 
bills  in  present  readiness  for  it)  passed  this  night  by  the 
king,  and  the  Parliament  thereupon  adjourned  to  the  2ist 
of  May.  My  end  of  telling  you  which,  besides  the  general 
one  of  giving  you  the  satisfaction  of  knowing  that  we  are 
likely  to  have  wherewith  to  enable  us  to  employ  our  several 
industries  in  the  raising  a  new  stock  of  ships  of  more 
value  than  was  ever  at  once  undertaken  by  this  nation 
for  so  many,  is  that  of  informing  you  in  particular  that  by 
this  means  you  are  now  (with  his  Majesty's  leave)  at  liberty 
to  begin  as  soon  as  you  will  your  journey  towards  Shore- 
ham  with  Sir  Richard  Haddock  *  for  the  surveying  that 
place  and  considering  how  far  the  same  is  capable  of  being 
rendered  a  place  fit  for  the  building  a  3rd-rate  ship,  his 
Majesty  being  very  desirous  to  increase  the  number  of 
building-places  as  much  as  may  be,  as  well  out  of  the  con- 
siderations of  having  thereby  the  more  room  at  home  for 
continuing  our  repair  of  old  ships  together  with  the  build- 
ing new,  the  prospect  of  the  condition  wherein  matters 
are  likely  to  stand  between  us  and  France  rendering  the 
despatch  of  our  repairs  no  less  indispensable  than  that  of 
our  new  building.  Which  having  said,  that  which  I  have 
to  add  is  that  the  king  and  his  Royal  Highness  are  ex- 
tremely importunate  that  not  an  hour's  time  be  lost  that 
may  be  saved  in  our  preparations  for  each  of  these  matters, 
and  that  therefore  though  [they]  are  themselves  under  a 
purpose  of  setting  forth  to-morrow  morning  for  New- 
market for  some  days,  yet  do  they  expect  that  in  their 
absence  every  hand  do  fall  to  work  for  the  forwarding  of 
each  of  these  services  with  the  same  vigour  as  if  they 
themselves  were  here  ;  so  as  (if  I  may  take  the  liberty 
of  advising)  I  could  wish  both  yourself  and  Sir  Richard 
Haddock  would  make  your  stay  abroad  as  short  as  con- 
veniently you  may,  as  not  knowing  but  that  my  lords 
may  (notwithstanding  the  holidays)  call  for  your  services 
suddenly  again  here,  or  the  king  send  for  it  to  Newmarket, 
or,  that  the  difficulty  being  now  removed  about  payments, 
merchants  and  tradesmen  may  be  willing  to  part  with  their 

1  The  controversy  related  to  the  right  of  the  Lords  to  amend  a 
money  bill.     See  Lord?  Journals,  xiii.  108,  109,  115,  116,  117,  118. 
*  See  note  to  No.  3268. 


1 677  FIFTH   VOLUME  403 

goods  (which  through  the  uncertainty  of  passing  this  Bill 
they  seemed  to  have  been  hitherto  shy  of),  and  in  such 
case  the  navy  board  may  stand  in  want  of  your  assistance, 
and  the  season  (you  know)  for  the  felling  and  buying 
timber  is  now  entered  upon  us.  My  request,  therefore,  and 
advice  to  you  is,  that  you  would  please  to  consider  of  your 
ordering  business  so  as  that  your  being  out  of  town  may 
be  as  short  as  may  be,  and  that  you  would  communicate 
this  to  Sir  Richard  Haddock,  to  the  end  he  may  also  have 
the  same  considerations  before  him  touching  this  matter  ; 
and,  if  you  please,  let  me  also  propose  to  you  and  him  the 
gathering  the  best  informations  you  can  during  your  being 
abroad  touching  what  bargains  for  materials  of  any  kind 
may  be  to  be  had  towards  our  great  work  out  of  the 
country  you  are  to  pass  through,  and  the  number  of 
workmen.  .  .  .' 

3864.  [p.  382.]     17  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Denis  Gauden} 
— Desires  to  confer  with  him. 

3865.  [p.  382.]     17  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Colonel  Piper?  at 
Plymouth. — Thanks  him  for  his  care  in  '  finding  out  and 
sending   up   hither   John    Wilson,  the    evidence   against 
Captain   Dragger'  [3841].      The   Parliament   being    now 
adjourned  [3863],  the  lords  will  suddenly  meet  and  will  give 
directions  in  the  matter  that  hath  so  long  depended  con- 
cerning   the   charges   of    the    persons    that   brought   up 
Geraudeau  [3750]. 

3866.  [p.  382.]     17  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Flawes?— 
Encloses  orders  for  his  bringing  the  Mermaid  about  into  the 
Downs  so  soon  as  possibly  may  be,  the  service  of  Ireland 
(for  which  she  is  designed)   requiring  that   no   time   be 
lost. 

3867.  [p.  382.]     17  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Ridley*— 
Leave  to  stay  on  shore  10  days  or  a  fortnight  for  the 
recovery  of  his  health. 

3868.  [p.  382.]    17  Apr.  S.  P.  to  Lieutenant  Gregory?— 

1  See  note  to  No.  3689. 

2  Deputy-governor  of  Plymouth  [2918]. 

3  Captain  William  Flawes  had  just  been  appointed  commander  of 
the  Mermaid  by  a  commission  dated  4  April,  1677  (i.  350,  supra). 

4  Commander  of  the  Wivenhoe  [3835]. 

s  William   Gregory  had  been  just  appointed  lieutenant  of  the 
Portland  by  a  commission  signed  10  April,  1677  (i.  357,  supra). 

D  o  2 


404  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          Apr. 

Will  inform  the  king  of  his  care  and  diligence  in  hastening 
the  fitting  of  the  Portland. 

3869.  [p.  383.]     17  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Lassells.1— 
Acknowledges  his  of  the  nth  and   I2th,  with  the  papers 
enclosed    in   the   latter  from  Captain  Carverth,2   Captain 
Clements,3  and  the  Mayor  of  Rye,  and  doubts  not  but  he  will 
give  notice  to  the  commanders  of  the  ships  cruising  '  of  the 
Ostend  sloop  that  robbed  the  Rye  vessel.'     As  to  what  he 
writes  '  of  the  complaint  of  the  commanders  of  the  ships 
for  the  want  of  men,  which  may  occasion  their  receiving 
some  affront  from  the  privateers,'  the  writer  hopes  '  in  a 
little  time  some  of  the  ships  fitting  out  will  get  into  the 
Downs  to  be  employed  in  cruising,  who  will  be  well  able 
to  deal  with  anything  they  shall  meet  with.'    In  the  mean- 
time it  will  be  advisable  that  the  small  frigates  he  sends 
out  keep  in  company. 

Postscript. — Since  writing,  has  received  his  of  the  i6th 
from  the  Downs,  with  advice  about  the  privateer  of  Ostend 
being  now  in  his  custody.  Hopes  speedily  to  receive  his 
Majesty's  orders  for  the  further  disposing  the  said  vessel  ; 
in  the  meantime  he  is  to  cause  the  complement  of  men 
belonging  to  her  to  be  victualled  according  to  his  Majesty's 
allowance  to  his  own  seamen  serving  in  his  ships. 

3870.  [p.  383.]     17  Apr.    S.  P.  to  Sir  John  Narbrough. 
— A  commission  hath  for  10  days  past  been  signed  by  his 
Majesty  for  his  commanding  the  Plymouth,4  in  order  to 
his  taking  command  of  the  squadron  that   shall  be  em- 
ployed this  year  in  the  Straits.     Desires  to  know  how  soon 
the  state  of  his  new  affairs  will  allow  him  to  be  looking 
after  the  carrying  on  of  his  old.     With  wishes  of  good 
fortune  and  satisfaction  to  him  and  his  bride.5 

3871.  [p.  384.]     17  Apr.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— 
Thanks  for  theirs  of  the  loth,  with  advice  of  their  having 
sent  hawsers  to  Tangier  for  the  furnishing  of  the  galley- 
frigates  with  the  shrouds  of  the  bigger  size  than  those  they 

1  Commander  of  the   Garland  and    commander-in-chief  in   the 
Downs  [3778].     See  ii.  236  n.  supra. 

2  See  note  to  No.  3608. 

1  Commander  of  the  Greyhound  [3592]. 
4  The  date  given  in  Pepys's  Register  is  7  May  (i.  387,  sufira}. 
'  Narbrough  had  been  married  on  9  April  to  his  first  wife,  Eliza- 
beth Calmady  (D.  N.  B.  xl.  89). 


1677  FIFTH   VOLUME  405 

now  have  and  complain  of  [3848] ;  as  also  of  the  forward- 
ness of  several  of  the  ships  now  in  fitting,  in  which  they 
are  '  to  cause  all  endeavours  of  despatch  to  be  continued, 
and  particularly  in  quickening  the  victuallers  in  their  taking 
care  for  sending  the  victuals  on  board  so  soon  as  the  ships 
shall  be  in  condition  to  receive  them,'  the  king's  service 
and  time  of  the  year  calling  for  their  being  abroad.  Hopes 
they  will  in  a  little  time  so  be,  in  case  the  want  of  men 
(which  some  of  the  commanders  complain  of  coming  but 
slowly  in)  do  not  hinder. 

3872.  [p.  384.]     17  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Richard  Beach.1 
—Thanks  for  his  of  the  I4th,  with  information  as  well  of 

the  election  of  a  burgess  at  Queenborough,  as  the  inquiry 
made  by  himself  and  the  other  officers  of  the  navy  (lately 
with  him)  touching  the  occasion  of  the  late  fire  [3848]. 

3873.  [p.  384.]     17  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Sir  William  Pooled 
—Thanks  for  his  letters.     Will    report   to  the  king  and 

lords  his  diligence  in  getting  his  ship  ready. 

3874.  [p.  385.]     17  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Trevanion? 
—Thanks  for  his  of  the  I4th.     Is  glad  his  ship  is  in  so 

good  a  readiness,  in  case  the  service  shall  require  her  being 
sent  abroad  for  some  days  to  cruise. 

3875.  [p.  385.]     17  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Trotter*— 
Has  received  his   of  the    I4th,  with   an    account   of  the 
readiness  of  his  ship.     Desires  the  continuance  of  his  care 
for  her  despatch,  that  she  may  be  brought  about  into  the 
Hope. 

3876.  [p.  385.]     1 7  Apr.     S. P.  to  Captain  Kempthorne* 
commander  of  the  Monmouth  yacht,  at  Dublin. — Has  re- 
ceived his  of  the  7th  from  Dublin,  and  will  acquaint  the 
king  and  lords  with  the  condition  of  his  yacht  in  order 
to  their  giving  directions  for  her  repair. 

3877.  [p.  385.]     1 8  Apr.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners 
for  the   Customs. — About   passes    for    the    William    and 

Thomas,  of  Portsmouth,  Richard  Matthews  master,  now 
at  Portsmouth  ;  the  Joan,  of  Southampton,  Richard  Wyatt 

1  Resident  commissioner  of  the  navy  at  Chatham  [2756]. 

2  Commander  of  the  Leopard  [3853].     See  note  to  No.  3853. 

s  Commander  of  the  Yarmouth  [3828].     See  note  to  No.  2304. 

4  Captain  David  Trotter  had  just  been  appointed  to  command  the 
Kingfisher  by  a  commission  dated  5  April,  1677  (i-  4J6,  supra). 
Charnock's  account  of  his  commands  is  very  incomplete  (Biog.  Nav. 
i.  377).  b  See  ii.  113  n.  supra. 


406  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS         Apr. 

master,  at  Southampton  ;  the  Primrose,  of  London,  John 
Lawson  master,  in  the  Downs. 

3878.  [p.   385.]     [18  Apr.]     The  same  to  the  same.— 
About  passes  for  the  Mary  ketch,  of  Bristol,  John  Baker 
master,  in  that  port ;   the  Mary,  William  Tozer  master ; 
the  Dorothy,  Gilbert  Wakeham  master  ;  the  Hawk,  Thomas 
Fowles  master,  at  Dartmouth. 

3879.  [p.  386.]     1 8  Apr.     '  10  at  night.'     5.  P.  to  Sir 
John  Werden,1  at  Newmarket. — This  comes  only  to  give 
cover  to  the  enclosed  just  now  come  from  Virginia — one 
addressed  to  his  Royal  Highness,  and  the  other  to  him- 
self.    Desires  he  will  learn  the  duke's  pleasure  when  the 
writer  is  to  come  to  Newmarket  to  attend  the  king  and 
himself  [3892]. 

This  letter  is  preceded  by  part  of  a  cancelled  letter  in  a 
different  form. 

3880.  [p.  386.]     19  Apr.     'Sent  forward  by  express  at 
1 1  at  night.'     5.  P.  to  Mr.  Fownes,  clerk  of  the  check  at 
Deptford. — The  bearers  being  recommended  to  the  writer 
by  a  member  of  Parliament  as  two  honest  and  able  ship- 
wrights, he  is  to  enter  them  in  the  yard  at  Deptford  in  case 
any  order  be  given  for  entering  more   men,  unless  the 
master-shipwright  or  himself  shall  have  any  exception  to 
their  ability  or  honesty. 

Underwritten  :  John  Wanklin,  Henry  Forest. 

3881.  [p.  386.]     [19  Apr.]     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners 
for  the  Customs. — About  passes  for  the  President,  of  Bide- 
ford  ;  the  Thomas  and  Mary,  of  Lyme,  John  Clear  master  ; 
and  the  Blessing,  of  Plymouth,  John  Hoskins  [master]. 

3882.  [p.  386.]     19  Apr.     '  Sent  by  express  at  1 2  o'clock 
at  noon.'     5.  P.  to  Sir  John  Ernie?  commander  of  the 
Woolwich,  at  Chatham. — His  Royal  Highness  concurs  with 
his  and  his  father's  request  for  the  change  of  his  station 
from  the  Downs  to  the  Mediterranean,  '  declaring  it  as  his 
belief  that  the  king  would  do  the  like,  but  asked  if  the 
Woolwich  was  not  an  unsheathed  ship,  and  if  so,  proposed 

1  See  note  to  No.  3475. 

2  Sir  John  Ernie  had  been  comptroller  of  the  stores  from  1671  to 
1676,  holding  commands  also  during  this  period  (see  ii.  377  n.  supra). 
His  commission  to  the  Woolwich  is  dated  2  April,  1677  (i.  w^'supra). 
Charnock,  Biog.  Nav.  \.  331. 


1 677  FIFTH   VOLUME  407 

that  it  should  be  considered  whether  she  ought  not  to  be 
sheathed.'  Desires  an  account  in  what  condition  of  de- 
spatch his  ship  is  for  being  brought  into  the  dock  to  be 
sheathed  [3889]. 

3883.  [p.  387.]     19  Apr.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— 
Upon  theirs  of  the  I2th,  recommending  the  case  of  Mr. 
Dam,  the  purser  of  the  Newcastle,  the  writer  has  moved 
the  king,  and  shall  with   the  first  opportunity  have  his 
warrant  for  Mr.  Curtis,  purser  of  the  Monck,  to  officiate  for 
him  during  the  Newcastle's  present  voyage.     But  desires 
their  considering  '  whether  pretence  or  fear  of  arrests '  ought 
to  be  held  '  a  good  justification  for  pursers  not  passing  their 
accounts,  it  seeming  to  be  a  plea  that  few  pursers  of  the 
fleet  can  want,  and  consequently  the  force  which  the  fear 
of  losing  their  employments  hath  upon  them  for  the  urging 
them  towards  the  passing  the  same  will  be  quite  taken 
away  if  under  that  pretence '  (of  arrests  only)  '  they  shall, 
instead  of  correction,  be  gratified  with  leave  to  hold  their 
employments  by  deputy,  or  exchange  with  other  pursers.' 

Postscript. — Since  his  writing,  the  enclosed  petition  to 
the  lords  hath  been  brought  to  his  hand  from  Mr.  Shales, 
purser  of  the  Diamond,  praying  leave  to  put  in  a  deputy  in 
that  ship  during  her  present  voyage.  Prays  them  to  con- 
sider it,  well  knowing  that  the  lords  will  not  grant  it  unless 
the  board  be  first  satisfied  in  the  ground  the  petition  gives 
for  his  having  not  yet  passed  his  account  for  his  first 
voyage.  An  order  is  desired  to  take  up  one  of  the  Jersey's 
chain-pumps  [3884]. 

3884.  [p.  388.]     20  Apr.     The  same  to  the  same. — The 
king  directs  them  to  instruct  the  officers  of  the  yard  at 
Woolwich  to  take  out  one  of  the  chain-pumps  in  the  Jersey 
frigate,  that  Sir  Samuel  Morland  l  may  make  an  experi- 
ment with  a  pump  of  his  in  place  of  it. 

3885.  [p.  388.]    20  Apr.    S.  P.  to  Sir  Joseph  Williamson? 
at  Whitehall. — Pursuant  to  the  late  Order  in  Council  for 
bringing  in  all  Ostend  privateers,  the  writer  encloses  an 
account  [3886]  of  one  of  them  now  detained  in  the  Downs, 
in  order  to  its  being  published  in  the  '  Gazette '  for  the 
informing  such  as  may  have  been  injured  by  her. 

3886.  [p.   388.]      20  Apr.     An  account  of  an  Ostend 
privateer  lately  brought  into  and  now  detained  in  the  Downs 

1  D.  N.  B.  xxxix.  68.  2  D.  N.  B.  Ixii.  2. 


4o8  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS         Apr. 

[3885].  'The  Dolphin,  of  Ostend,  with  one  great  gun,  2 
peters,1  44  men,  a  white  mainsail,  a  black  foresail,  a  strik- 
ing topmast,  a  square  stern,  and  an  open  vessel  ;  the  cap- 
tain's name,  Nicholas  Vererucy  [sic],  the  owners',  Charles 
de  Vleeschawer  [sic]  and  Bowdewine  Borme  [sic]  ;  the  com- 
mission is  signed  by  R.  Lamberty.  There  was  found  on 
board  her  20  skins  of  leather,  which  the  captain  affirms  he 
took  out  of  a  French  prize  ;  and  also  6  English  hats,  which 
the  men  confesses  [sic]  were  taken  out  of  an  English  vessel.' 

3887.  [p.  389.]    20  Apr.    S.P.  to  Sir  Richard  Beach? - 
Thanks  him  for  his  advertisements  about  Edmund   Fick, 
and  desires  he  may  now  be  discharged. 

3888.  [p.  389.]     21  Apr.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners 
for  the  Customs. — About  passes  for  the  Exchange,  of  Bide- 
ford,  Aaron  Browning  master,  in  that  port ;   the    Kathe- 
rine,  of  Poole,  Shadrach  Beale  master,  in  that  port ;  the 
Endeavour,  of  Dartmouth,  Joseph  Allen  master,  in  that 
port ;   the  John  and  Thomas,  of  Topsham,  John  Balage 
master,  in  that  port ;  the  Bonadventure,  of  Hull,  Edward 
Farthing  master ;  and  the  Rose  pink,  William  Trump,  at 
Topsham. 

3889.  [p.  389.]     21  Apr.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board,— 
Desires  they'll    order   the   Woolwich   to   be  sheathed   at 
Woolwich,  whither  Sir  John  Ernie  hath  directions  to  bring 
her  [3890],  and  that  all  endeavours  may  be  used  for  the 
saving  of  this  spring  in  the  doing  of  it  [3882]. 

3890.  [p.  390.]     21  Apr.     S.  P.   to  Sir  John  Ernie? 
commander   [of  the]   Woolwich. — To   bring   his   ship   to 
Woolwich  [3889]. 

3891.  [p.  390.]     21  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Bedford,  regis- 
trar of  the  admiralty. — Sends   him  John  Wilson,  one  of 
the  persons  who  informed  against  Dragger,  the  commander 
of  the  Ostend  caper  which   is  secured  at  Plymouth  [3865, 
3903]. 

3892.  [p.   390.]     23  Apr.     S.  P.  to    Colonel  Werden? 
attending  his   Royal    Highness   at    Newmarket— At   his 

1  See  note  to  No.  2068. 

8  Resident  commissioner  of  the  navy  at  Chatham  [271561. 

1  See  note  to  No.  3882. 

4  MS.  'Worden.'  Robert  Werden  or  Worden  was  lieutenant- 
colonel  m  the  Duke  of  York's  Guards  ;  in  1679  he  became  comptroller 
of  his  household  (D.  N.  B.  lx.  296). 


i677  FIFTH   VOLUME  409 

return  this  afternoon  from  Chatham  (whither  he  went  .on 
Saturday)  the  writer  received  his  intimation  of  his  Majesty's 
and  his  Royal  Highness's  command  for  his  attending  them 
with  all  speed  at  Newmarket  [3879].  Will  be  at  his  Royal 
Highness's  rising  on  Wednesday  morning. 

3893.  [p.  3Q2.1]     23  Apr.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners 
for  the  Customs. — About   passes   for   the    Mary,    William 
Tozer  master ;    the  Dorothy,  Gilbert  Wakeham  master  ; 
the  Hawk,  Thomas  Fowle[s]  master,  at  Dartmouth  ;  the 
Adventure,  of  Barnstaple,  William  Bennett  master,  in  that 
port 

3894.  [p.    391.]     24   Apr.     S.    P.    to    Captain   Fasby, 
Charles  yacht. — He  is  to  take  Mr.  William  Yonge's  ser- 
vants and  goods  to  Rye,  and  to  carry  him  and  them  thence 
to  Dieppe,  staying  there  4  days  for  Mr.  Arthur  Fleetwood  2 
and  bringing  him  thence. 

3895.  [p.   391.]     24  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Lassells? 
commander-in-chief  in  the  Downs. — The  East  India  Com- 
pany have  a  ship  called  the  Loyal  Merchant  newly  arrived 
in  the  Downs  from  Bantam,4  but  her  spending  her  masts  in 
her  passage  makes  it  unsafe  for  her  to  come  about  without 
assistance.     He  is  to  order  the  Francis  or  other  small  ship 
now  in  the  Downs  to  see  her  safe  in  the  river  of  Thames, 
the  lords  judging  it  but  necessary  as  well  on  behalf  of  the 
said  Company  as  his  Majesty's  service,  the  customs  of  the 
said  ship  amounting  to  about  4,ooo/. 

3896.  [p.  392.]     24  Apr.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners 
for  the  Customs. — About  passes  for  the  Constant  Martha, 
Walter  Uppington  [master]  ;  the  Crown,  John  Moore  ;  the 
Sapphire   ketch,   Joseph    Bowry ;    and  the  Bristol  ketch, 
John  Smith — all  at  Bristol,  bound  to  the  Straits. 

3897.  [p.  392.]    26  Apr.    The  same  to  the  same. — About 
passes  for  the  Dartmouth  Merchant,  John  Roope  [master] ; 
the  Happy  Entrance,  James  Koldwich  ;  the  Paragon,  James 
Lake — all  at  Dartmouth  ;  the  Rainbow,  of  Bideford,  George 
Causey  master,  in  that  port ;  the  Lily,  of  Yarmouth,  Samuel 
Callow  master,  in  that  port ;  and  the  Priscilla,  of  Plymouth, 
now  there. 

3898.  [p.  392.]    27  Apr.    The  same  to  the  same. — About 
passes    for  the  Hopewell,  of  Minehead,  John  Holbrooke 

1  Out  of  order  in  the  MS.  2  See  note  to  No.  2828. 

3  Commander  of  the  Garland  [3849].          *  In  Java. 


4io  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          Apr. 

master,  at  Minehead ;  and  the  Thomas  and  Benjamin,  of 
Bristol,  John  Frogg,  at  Bristol. 

3899.  [p.  396.1]     28  Apr.     An  account  of  an  Ostend 
privateer  sent  into  the  Downs   the  2^th   inst.    by  Captain 
Jenifer,  commander  of  the  Saudados,  and  now  detained  there. 
1  The  St.  Mary,  of  Ostend,  with  22  men,  Captain  John  de 
Vroi  commander,  having  2  guns,  one  afore  and  the  other 
abaft ;  she  is  open  in  the  midships,  and  sails  with  a  lug-sail 
and  one  topsail.' 

3900.  [p.    392.]      29   Apr.     Sunday  night.     5.  P.   to 
Mr.  Hayter? — Desires  a  copy  of  the  lord  treasurer's  letter 
to  the  board.    To  convey  the  enclosed  to  Sir  John  Tippetts. 

3901.  [p.  392.]     30  Apr.     S.  P.  to   the  Commissioners 
for  the  Customs. — About  passes  for  the  Bilbao  Merchant,  of 
Topsham,  Thomas  Ricker  [master],  at  Topsham  ;  and  the 
Content,  of  Plymouth,  Matthew  Hutchinson  master,  now 
at  Plymouth. 

3902.  [p.  392.]    30  Apr.    S.  P.  to  Mr.  West,  at  Hamp- 
stead. — Does  not  remember  Sir  Charles  Harbord  3  hath  at 
any  time  mentioned  the  matter  he  writes  about.    The  king 
'  is  not  yet  come  to  any  determinate  resolution  touching  the 
building  of  any  of  the  ships  by  contract,  but  seems  inclined 
to  build  them  all  in  his  own  yards  if  time  and  room  will 
admit  it,'  so  cannot  invite  his  friend  to  come  up  about  it  as 
yet. 

3903.  [p.  393.]     30  Apr.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— 
The  bearer,  John  Wilson,  a  seaman,  who  by  order  from  the 
lords  hath  given  in  his  written  testimony  at  the  admiralty 
court  against  the  Ostend  privateer  [3865,  3891],  is  willing 
to  remain  in  town  to  confirm  it  orally  at  the  approaching 
sessions  of  the  admiralty  in  June  next  if  some  means  can 
be  found  for  maintaining  him  here  without  charge  ;  which 
as  it  is  necessary  one  way  or  other  to  be  done,  it  cannot  be 
better  than  by  bearing  him  upon  one  of  the  ships  fitting 
forth,  or  some  other  way  here  in  this  River  or  at  Chatham 
where  he  may  be  kept  in  victuals  and  wages  without  being 
liable  to  be  carried  abroad.     Desires  them  to  take  such 
order  in  it  as  may  be  most  regular  and  effectual  for  the 
preserving  of  the  man  in  readiness  for  giving  his  testimony. 

1  Out  of  order  in  the  MS.  2  See  note  to  No.  2857. 

s  MS.  '  Herbord.'     Sir  Charles   Harbord  was    surveyor-general 
(Cal.  S.  P.  Dom.  1673-5,  index). 


1 677  FIFTH   VOLUME  411 

3904.  [p.  393.]     30  Apr.     The  same  to  the  same.— 
Having  attended  the  king  at  Newmarket  to  receive  his 
pleasure  in  several  matters  relating  to  the  building  of  the 
new  ships  and  the  despatch  away  of  some  advice  to  Vir- 
ginia— as  to  the  former,  orders  shall  be  prepared  when  he 
comes  to  town  ;  as  to  the  latter,  he  doth  purpose  forthwith 
to  despatch  away  a  vessel  with  advice  to  the  Governor  of 
Virginia,  and  that '  both  for  despatch  and  good  husbandry 
he  pitcheth  upon  doing  of  it  by  the  Quaker  ketch  now 
fitting  forth  for  the  Leeward  Islands,'  and  therefore  they 
are  to  cause  '  all  imaginable  haste '  to  be  made  in  her  fitting. 
Moreover,  having  acquainted  him  with  the  present  state  of 
the  victualling  of  his  ships  and  forces  lately  sent  to  that 
colony,  his  Majesty  desires  that  they  will  forthwith  make  a 
calculation  of  what  quantity  and  of  what  species  of  pro- 
visions are  required  to  be  sent  away  for  bringing  back  the 
same  number  of  soldiers  that  were  sent  hence,  as  also  what 
supply  (if  any)  for  bringing  back  the  king's  ships, '  it  seem- 
ing to  be  his  present  resolution  that  both  men  and  ships 
shall  be  called  home  as  soon  as  ever  those  necessary  sup- 
plies can  arrive  with  them.'     Not  but  that   his    Majesty 
doth  incline  to   what  was  mentioned   by   some   of  their 
board  to  the  lord  treasurer  '  about  leave  to  be  allowed  to 
as  many  of  the  soldiers  to  stay  there  as  shall  desire  it,  as 
also  to  the  leaving  some  small  number  of  them  there  as 
a  standing  security  to  the  colony.  .  .  .' 

3905.  [p.  394.]     30  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Lassells,1 
commander   of  the  Garland,  in  the  Downs. — Thinks  he 
has  done  very  advisedly  in   ordering  the  men  belonging 
to  the  last  privateer  brought  in  to  be  kept  on  board  the 
Swallow,   in    regard    of  the  smallness  of  his  own  ship's 
company,  and  the  other  privateer's  men  being  on  board 
him.     Is  very  sorry  that  his  distemper  proves  so  violent. 
Believes  the  king  will  not  deny  his  order  to  any  of  his 
chirurgeons  that  are  thereabout  in  the  country  to  advise 
with  Mr.  Hannam,  under  whose  care  he  now  is,  but  it  will 
be  hard  to  spare  one  of  them  from  their  ordinary  service 
here.     In  that  case  if  he  will  let  his  case  '  be  thoroughly 
stated  as  to  the  beginning,  growth,  and  present  symptoms ' 

1  Commander-in-chief    in    the   Downs  [3778].      See  ii.   236  n. 

supra. 


412  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS         Apr. 

of  his  distemper,  one  of  the  king's  physicians  or  chirurgeons, 
or  both,  will  give  his  opinion  upon  it  [3931]. 

3906.  [p.   395.]     30  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Lodge,  post- 
master at  Deal. — Desires  a  particular  account  upon  oath 
before  a  magistrate  of  the  injuries  mentioned  in  his  list  of 
the  2ist,  as  done  at  sea  to  some  subjects  of  his  Majesty's 
by  vessels  of  the  King  of  France  belonging  to  Dunkirk, 
in  order  to  his  speedy  laying  the  same  before  the  king 
and  lords. 

3907.  [p.  395.]     30  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Trevanion? 
commander  of  the  Yarmouth,  Downs. — Has  received  his 
of  the  2 1  stand  22nd,  and  is  glad  to  know  his  ship  is  in 
so  good  a  readiness  for  service.     The  officers  of  the  navy 
have  directed   the  speedy  supplying  him  with    14   days' 
victuals,  which  he  is  to  get  on  board  with  all  speed    in 
order  to  cruise  abroad  some  days. 

3908.  [p.   395.]     30  Apr.     S.  P.  to   Captain  Fowler, 
commander  of  the  Swallow,  in  the  Downs. — Has  received 
his  of  the  25th,  giving  an  account  of  his  arrival  in  the 
Downs  after  cruising  abroad.     As  to  what  he  writes  con- 
cerning the  master  of  a  French  vessel  which  he  detains  as 
having    been    found   on   board    the   Ostender   taken    by 
Captain  Jenifer2  [3899],  the  writer  thinks  he  ought  to  be 
returned   unto  the  Ostender,  whose  prisoner  he  is,  being 
taken  in   a   vessel  belonging  to  those  who  are  in  open 
hostility  with  the  King  of  Spain. 

3909.  [p.  395.]     30  Apr.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Lassells? 
commander  [of  the]  Garland,  in  the   Downs. — He   is  to 
order  one  of  the  ships  under  his  command  to  sail  unto 
Rye  Bay,  and  on  his  arrival  to  give  notice  thereof  unto 
Mr.  Lewis  Tillard  in  Rye,  and  there  take  under  his  pro- 
tection a  vessel  carrying  1 1  horses  for  the  service  of  Mrs. 
Churchill,4  and  give  her   a   safe  convoy  to  Dieppe,  with 
any  other  vessels  bound  that  way,  doing  the  like  to  any 
others  bound  back  thence  homeward  ;  and  to  return  into 
the  Downs. 

3910.  [p.  396.]     30  Apr.      S.  P.  to  Captain   Trotter? 
commander   of  the   Kingfisher,  in  the    Hope. — Leave  to 
come  up  for  a  few  days. 

1  See  note  to  No.  2304.         *  Commander  of  the  Saudados  [3786]. 

3  Commander-in-chief  in  the  Downs  [3778].     See  ii.  236  n.  supra. 

4  See  note  to  No.  2602.         '  See  note  to  No.  3875. 


1677  FIFTH   VOLUME  413 

3911  [p.  396.]  i  May.  S.  P.  to  Mr.  Pett^  at  Chatham. 
— Hopes  some  provision  will  be  made  of  money  for  the 
buying  in  of  materials,  as  that  they  may  '  go  cheerfully  in 
hand  with  the  repair  of  his  Majesty's  ships.'  Is  very  glad 
to  understand  from  him  that  these  may  in  case  of  necessity 
by  a  timely  and  sufficient  supply  of  materials  and  hands 
be  put  into  a  condition  of  going  to  sea. 

3912.  [p.  396.2]     i  May.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners 
for  the  Customs. — About  passes  for  the  Ebenezer,  of  Ply- 
mouth, Laurence  Tave[r]ner  master  ;   the  Arms  of  Lyme, 
John  David    master,  at  Lyme ;   and  the   Lamb,  of  Ply- 
mouth, in  that  port. 

3913.  [p.   396.]     -2  May.       The  same  to  the  same.— 
About   passes   for   the    Edward   and   John,    of    London, 
William  Cock  master,  at    Rochester ;    and   the  St.  Malo 
Merchant,   of  Plymouth,    Arthur    Hole  [master],  at  Ply- 
mouth. 

3914.  [p.    396.]     2    May.     The  same  to   the    same. — 
About   a    pass    for   the    Advice,   of  Yarmouth,   William 
Spooner  master,  at  Yarmouth  bound  to  the  Straits. 

3915.  [p.  397.]     2  May.    Memorial  from  the  Admiralty. 
— '  That  forasmuch  as  his  Majesty's  ships  now  fitting  forth 
to  sea  for  this  summer's  service  are  hindered  in  their  despatch 
from  the  want  of  seamen,  as  by  the  information  and  com- 
plaint of  the  commanders  of  the  said  ships  has  been  made 
appear  to  his  Majesty  and  the  lords  of  the  admiralty,  and 
forasmuch  as  by  like  information  from  the  principal  officers 
and    commissioners   of    the    navy   it    also   appears   that 
neither  the  repairs  of  his  Majesty's  ships  now  in  hand,  nor 
the  building  of  the  30  ships  granted  by  the  Parliament,  can 
be  carried  on  without  a  power  of  impresting  carpenters, 
shipwrights,  caulkers,  joiners,  and    what   other  workmen 
shall  be  needful  over  and  above  what  are  already  enter- 
tained in  his  Majesty's  yards,  or  can  be  expected  to  come 
in  voluntarily  while  they  may  be  elsewhere  employed  by 
merchant  builders  at  higher  wages  than  what  is  allowed 
by  his  Majesty  :  it  is  humbly  submitted  to  his  Majesty  in 
council  to  consider  of  a  power  to  be  given  '  to  the  lords 
of  the  admiralty  '  for  the  issuing  from  time  to  time  their 

1  Master-shipwright  at  Chatham  (ii.  92  n.  sitpra). 

2  Out  of  order  in  the  MS. 


4H  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          May 

press-warrants  in  usual  form  to  the  officers  of  the  navy 
for  the  impresting  of  such  shipwrights,  carpenters,  caulkers, 
joiners,  and  other  workmen  and  artificers  as  shall  be  need- 
ful for  the  forwarding  and  despatch  of  the  ships  which  now 
are  and  shall  come  under  repair,  as  also  the  building  of 
the  said  30  ships,  with  the  like  to  the  commanders  of  his 
Majesty's  ships  for  the  impresting  such  and  so  many  sea- 
men as  shall  be  wanting  for  the  manning  of  the  ships  now 
and  hereafter  to  be  set  forth  for  the  summer's  service 
[3928,  3929].  It  is  also  humbly  laid  before  his  Majesty 
to  direct  whether  such  vessels  of  Ostend  as  shall  be 
brought  in  in  pursuance  of  his  Majesty's  late  Order  in 
Council  of  23  March  last,  and  shall  have  no  l  complaint 
exhibited  against  them  within  7  days  after  publication 
made  in  the  'Gazette'  of  their  being  so  brought  in,  shall 
not  then  be  discharged,  as  in  like  case  of  the  bringing  in 
of  ships  of  the  same  place  was  lately  practised.' 

3916.  [p.  397.]    2  May.    S.  P.  to  Captain  Davies?  com- 
mander   of   the    Cleveland    yacht. — To    transport    Mrs. 
Churchill 3  to  Calais  or  Dieppe  as  she  shall  direct,  and  this 
done  to  return  to  Greenwich. 

3917.  [p.  398.]     3  May.     S.  P.  to  Sir  Robert  Holmes? 
Governor  of  the  Isle  of  Wight. — His  ship  the  Country's 
Welfare  being  in  the  Isle  of  Wight,  her  master  must  apply 
himself  for  a  pass  to  the  magistrate  and  officers  of  the 
customs  of  that  outport  where  she  lies,  the  lords  of  the 
admiralty  in  their  issuing  of  any  other  passes  than  those 
for  ships  bound   to  the  Straits  being  limited   to  giving 
them  to  those  ships  and  no  others  that  are  bound  out  of 
the  Thames.     Thanks  for  his  advertisement  touching  the 
fleet  he  observed  at  sea  off  the  Isle  of  Wight. 

3918.  [p.  398.]      3  May.      S.  P.  to  Captain    William 
Harman,5  commander  of  the  Guernsey,  in  the  Hope. — 
Leave  to  come  to  town. 

3919.  [p.  398.]     4  May.     S.  P.  to  the  Navy  Board.— 
Desires  they  will  cause  all  despatch  to  be  made  in  victual- 

1  MS.  '  more  '—apparently  a  slip  of  the  pen. 

8  See  note  to  No.  2561.  s  See  note  to  No.  2602. 

4  D.  N.  B.  xxvii.  194. 

5  Captain  William  Harman,  formerly  commander  of  the   Bristol, 
had  been  appointed  to  command  the  Guernsey  by  a  commission  dated 
27  March,  1677  (i.  360,  supra).     See  also  ii.  88  n.  supra. 


1677  FIFTH   VOLUME  415 

ling  the  ships  now  preparing  for  the  sea,  that  they  may 
repair  to  the  Downs  ;  and  to  consider  whether  any  small 
matter  of  stores  may  not  be  better  sent  after  them  thither, 
than  the  ships  stay  for  them  after  they  shall  have  their 
victuals  and  men  on  board.  Hopes  the  want  of  the  latter 
will  not  remain  long  unsupplied  '  now  his  Majesty  has 
been  pleased  in  council  to  authorise  the  doing  of  it  by 
pressing'  [3915]. 

3920.  [p.  399.]  4  May.  S.  P.  to  Sir  John  Holmes? 
commander  of  the  Mountagu,  in  the  Hope. — The  service 
earnestly  calling  for  him  in  the  Downs,  the  writer  desires 
an  account  for  the  satisfaction  of  the  king  and  lords,  of  the 
condition  of  his  ship  in  reference  to  her  readiness  to  sail, 
with  respect  to  her  stores,  victuals,  men,  or  aught  else  ; 
giving  a  particular  account  touching  that  of  his  men,-  how 
many  are  entered  and  how  many  appeared  at  his  last 
muster,  and  what  (if  any)  he  shall  find  himself  under  a 
necessity  of  making  use  of  a  press- warrant  for  ; '  his  Majesty 
having  (upon  the  report  made  by  some  commanders  of  the 
difficulty  of  manning  their  ships  complete  without  pressing) 
been  pleased  in  council  to  allow  of  what  has  been  seldom 
done  or  demanded  in  time  of  peace — namely,  that  where 
commanders  cannot  by  their  industry  or  interest  provide 
themselves  of  men  without  pressing  (and  not  otherwise), 
they  may  be  enabled  thereto  by  press-warrants  .  .  .'  [3915]. 

Underwritten :  The  like  to  Sir  John  Ernie,2  commander  of  the 
Woolwich,  at  Woolwich ;  Sir  William  Poole,3  Leopard,  in  the 
Hope ;  Captain  Harman,4  Guernsey,  in  the  Hope ;  Captain 
Wood,5  Diamond,  at  Long  Reach  ;  Sir  Richard  Munden,6  St. 

1  Sir  John  Holmes,  the  brother  of  Sir  Robert  Holmes  [3917],  had 
been  appointed  to  command  the  Mountagu  by  a  commission  dated 
12  April,  1677  (i.  367,  supra).     See  D.  N.  B.  xxvii.  192.     On  14  April 
he  had  been  appointed  commander-in-chief  in  the  Downs  with  the 
right  to  wear  the  union  flag  at  the  maintop  (i.  314,  supra},  but  Captain 
Lassells   of  the  Garland  appears  to  have  been   still   acting  in  that 
capacity  as  late  as  24  April  [3895]. 

2  See  note  to  No.  3882.  3  See  note  to  No.  3853. 

4  Captain  William  Harman.     See  note  to  No.  3918. 

5  Captain   John   Wood,   formerly  commander  of  the   Speedwell 
[2839],  had  been  appointed  to  command  the  Diamond  by  a  commission 
dated  2  April,  1677  (i.  426,  supra). 

6  D.  N.  B.  xxxix.  301.     Sir  Richard  Munden  had  been  appointed 
to  command  the  St.  David  by  a  commission  dated   14  April,  1677 
(i.  386,  supra}. 


416  ADMIRALTY  LETTERS          May 

David,  at  Long  Reach  ;  Captain  Lhostein,1  Newcastle,  at  Wool- 
wich ;  Captain  James,2  Portland,  at  Woolwich ;  Captain  Rooke,3 
Nonsuch,  at  Portsmouth  ;  Captain  Trotter,4  Kingfisher,  in  the 
Hope ;  Captain  Royden,  Sweepstakes,5  at  Portsmouth ;  Captain 
Booth,6  Falcon,  at  Long  Reach ;  Captain  Flawes,7  Mermaid,  at 
Portsmouth  ;  Captain  Delavall,8  Constant  Warwick,  at  Long 
Reach  ;  Captain  Haddock,9  Quaker  ketch,  at  Deptford. 

3921.  [p.  399.]     4  May.     S.  P.  to  the  Commissioners  for 
the  Customs. — About  a  pass  for  the  Anna  Maria,  of  Bristol, 
Edward  Cleavely  master,  at  Bristol. 

3922.  [p.  400.]      4  May.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Gunman, 
commander  of  the  Anne  yacht,  at  Greenwich. — To  transport 
Monsieur  Crequi  from  Dover  to  Calais  or  Dieppe,  and  this 
done  to  return  to  Greenwich. 

3923.  [p.  40 1.10]   4  May.    S.  P.  to  Captain  Trevanion,n 
Downs. — Hopes  this  will  find  his  provisions  on  board  and 
him  ready  to  cruise  in  the  Channel  the  time  his  Majesty 
hath  set  him,  by  the  expiration  whereof  some  fresh  ships 
will  be  come  into  the  Downs,  so  as  to  leave  him  at  liberty 
to  come  in  to  be  laid  up  in  case  his  ship's  condition  will 
not  admit  her  longer  stay  abroad. 

3924.  [p.  402.10]      4  May.      S.  P.  to  Captain  Fowler, 
Swallow,  Downs. — The  king  approves  his  care  of  easing 
the  Garland  of  some  of  the  privateer's  men  [3905].  Allow- 
ance will  be  made  to  his  purser  for  their  victuals. 

1  See  ii.  24  n.  Captain  Lhostein  had  been  appointed  to  command 
the  Newcastle  by  a  commission  dated  4  April,  1677  (i.  378,  supra). 

a  Captain  Richard  James  had  been  appointed  to  the  Portland  by  a 
commission  dated  4  April,  1677  (i.  370,  supra.) 

3  D.  N.  B.  xlix.  204.     Captain  George  Rooke's  commission  to  the 
Nonsuch  is  dated  12  April,  1677  (i.  399,  supra). 

4  See  note  to  No.  3875. 

'"  MS.  'Guernsey,'  but  sec  No.  3928.  Captain  Charles  Royden 
had  commanded  the  Guernsey  since  1674,  but  he  had  just  been 
succeeded  by  Captain  William  Harman  [3918].  His  commission  to 
the  Sweepstakes  is  dated  5  April,  1677  (i.  400,  supra). 

See  note  to  No.  3842.  7  See  note  to  No.  3866. 

8  See  ii.  302  n.     Captain  Ralph  Delavall's  commission  to  command 
the  Constant  Warwick  is  dated  9  April,  1677  (i.  344,  supra}. 

9  Captain  Richard  Haddock  had  been  appointed  to  command  the 
Quaker  ketch  by  a  commission  dated  9  April,  1677  (i.  358,  supra].  He 
is  not  to  be  confused  with  his  namesake  the  commissioner  of  the  navy. 

10  Out  of  order  in  the  MS. 

11  Commander  of  the  Yarmouth  [3828].     See  note  to  No.  2304. 


i6;7  FIFTH    VOLUME  417 

3925.  [p.  402.1]      4  May.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Lassells?  in 
the  Downs. — Takes  notice  of  his  having  appointed  Captain 
Clements  to  go  to  Rye  about  the  horses,  and   Captain 
Jenifer  to  accompany  the  Yarmouth  in  her  cruising,  both 
of  which  his  Majesty  will  approve  of.     Will  send  him  the 
opinion  of  the  physicians  [3931]. 

3926.  [p.  403.1]     4  May.     S.  P.  to  Mr.  Lodge,  post- 
master, at  Deal. — Unless  the  masters  of  the  vessels  from 
whom  he  shall  receive  any  account  of  wrongs  sustained  at 
sea  will  be  at  the  trouble  of  repairing  to  a  civil  magistrate, 
to  whom  they  may  regularly  exhibit  complaints  in  writing 
upon  oath,  they  can  never  expect  any  fruits  of  their  com- 
plaints.   The  vessels  of  the  king's  allies  cannot  be  brought 
in  and  kept  in  custody  upon  a  bare  report. 

3927.  [p.  403.1]   4  May.  S.  P.  to  Captain  Booth?  Falcon, 
at  Long  Reach.4 — Has  received  his  of  the  3rd. 

3928.  [p.  400.]      5  May.      S.  P.  to  Captain  Royden? 
Sweepstakes,  at  Portsmouth. — Hopes  that  being  now  come 
to  the  Spithead,  he  will  not  be  long  out  of  a  condition  of 
repairing  to  his  station.     Doubts  not  his  letter  concerning 
a  press-warrant  [3920]  will  forward  him  for  men,  which 
seems  to  be  his  greatest  want. 

3929.  [p.  400.]     5  May.     S.  P.  to  Captain  Rooked— 
Upon  advising  the  writer  what  number  of  men  he  cannot 
otherwise  procure,  he  shall  be  supplied  with  a  press-warrant, 
the  king  and  lords  being  very  much  concerned  that  no 
time  be  lost  in  bringing  the  ships  to  the  Downs. 

3930.  [p.  401.]    5  May.    S.  P.  to  Sir  John  Kempthorne? 
at  Portsmouth. — To  hasten    the  Mermaid,  Nonsuch,  and 
Plymouth  ;    '  the  want  of  men  seems  to  be  the   impedi- 
ment most  likely  to  hinder  it.'     Has  demanded  an  account 
from  the  commanders  of  every  ship  now  going  forth  of  the 
number  of  men  they  have  on  board,  and  what  they  shall 
stand  in  need  of  a  press-warrant  for  [3920],     Desires  to 
know   whether    he   has   heard   anything    from   Sir   John 


1  Out  of  order  in  the  MS. 

2  Acting  commander-in-chief  in  the  Downs.     See  note  I  to  No. 
3920. 

3  See  note  to  No.  3842. 

*  Between  Erith  and  Gravesend. 

*  See  note  5  to  No.  3920.  "  See  note  3  to  No.  3920 
1  See  note  to  No.  2734. 

VOL.   III.  E    E 


4i8      ADMIRALTY  LETTERS     May  1677 

Narbrough,1  and  how  the  work  of  his  ship  is  forwarded  in  his 
absence  ;  and  whether  any  hindrance  will  arise  in  getting 
forth  these  ships  from  any  backwardness  in  the  victualling 
office.  Will  speedily  signify  the  mind  of  the  king  and 
lords  in  what  he  writes  about  another  ship  to  be  appointed 
to  take  on  board  the  extra  guns  lately  mounted  on  the 
Plymouth,  for  the  better  security  of  the  harbour  when  the 
French  and  Dutch  men-of-war  were  there. 

3931.  [p.  402.]    $  May.    S.P.  to  Mr.Pearsefchirurgeon- 
general  of  the  navy. — This  comes  by  his   Majesty's  and 
Royal  Highness's  particular  command  to  communicate  to 
him  '  the  present  ill  condition  of  poor  Captain  Lassells,  now 
commanding  the  Garland  in  the  Downs,  under  an  illness 
he  contracted   in  his   last  voyage  to  Gottenburg  and  of 
which  he  has  ever  since  languished.'     He  has  '  contented 
himself  hitherto  with  the  single  directions  and  care  '  of  Mr. 
Hannam,  at  Deal ;  but  his  case  is  now  become  such  that 
his  Majesty, '  in  consideration  of  the  poverty  of  the  poor 
man's  case  and  his  illness  contracted  in  his  service,'  recom- 
mends him  to  his  care  with  such  other  of  his  Majesty's 
physicians  or  chirurgeons  as  he  shall  think  requisite  to  be 
consulted  [3905]. 

3932.  [p.  404.]    5  May.    S.  P.  to  Captain  Lassells,  com- 
mander of  the  Garland,  in  the  Downs. — The  king  '  having 
occasion  of  sending  a  person  of  quality  (son  to  the  King 
of  France  his  ambassador  in  Sweden)  to  Gottenburg,  and 
from  thence  to  Stralsund,  and  so  back  home,'  the  writer 
moved  his  Majesty  that  in  consideration  of  his  having  been 
there  already,  and  of  what  he  has  suffered  in  his  health  by 
that  voyage  [3905,  3931],  he  might  have  the  refusal  of 
this,   which   possibly   may   be   of   some   benefit   to   him. 
Desires  to  know  if  he  will  adventure  it. 

3933.  [p.  404.]    7  May.    S.  P.  to  Mr.  Bedford,  register 
of  the  admiralty. — Desires  him  to  take  Patrick  Garroch's 
information  against  Dragger  [3841]. 

1  Formerly  commander  of  the  Harwich  [3330],  but  a  commission 
signed  7  May,  16/7,  appointed  him  to  command  the  Plymouth  (i.  387, 
supra).  See  also  No.  3870. 

3  MS.  '  Pierce.' 


INDEX 


OF 


PERSONS,  PLACES,  AND  SHIPS 


ADAMS,  W.,  312 

African  Company,  190,  198  (3),  21  r, 
227,  235,  235  «.,  239,240  (2),  241, 
292,  346 

Albemarle,  Duke  of,  32  n. 

Aldeburgh,  85  «.,  123 

Alderson,  Cornelius,  242 

Aldworth,  Richard,  Esq.,  chief 
secretary  to  the  Lord  Lieutenant 
of  Ireland  :  letter  to,  354 

Algiers,  Algier,  Algerines,  xi  (2), 
xvi  (2),  xvi  ««.,  xvii  (2),  xix,  xx, 
xx  n.,  xxi  «.,  xxii  «.,  lii,  18  «.,  64, 
181  //.,  229,  230,  231,  266,  267, 
268,  271,  280  (2),  365,  371.  See 
also  Argeir 

Alicante,  xvi  «.,  17,  398 

Alleburton,  James,  summons  to,  140 

Allin,  John,  172 

Allin,  Sir  Thomas,  comptroller  of 
the  navy  :  letters  to,  2,  6,  147, 
220,  224,  232,  239  ;  references  to, 
6,  220  «.,  232  «.,  306,  310,  312  ; 
signature  of,  394 

Almonde,  Heer  Philip  van,  Dutch 
admiral,  350,  350  «.,  351,  356  (2) 

Amsterdam,  128,  323  (2) 

Andrews,  Boatswain,  letter  to,  68  ; 
reference  to,  68 

Andrews,  Mr.,  letter  to,  145  ; 
references  to,  132,  145 

Andrews,  Solomon,  401 

Andrews,  Thomas,  389 

Anglesey,  Earl  of,  lord  privy  seal 


and     admiralty     commissioner, 
letters  to,  86,  96,  271,  326,  344  ; 
references  to,  5,  5  ».,  33,  195 
Anguish,  Captain  William,  18,  60 
Anne  yacht,   Commander  of  the, 
letters  to,  74,  331.    See  also  Gun- 
man, Captain  Christopher 
Annesley,  Mr.,  196 
Argeir,  xiv,  xxxviii,  18  (3),  38,  41, 
64,  81,  118,  130,  131,   134,  152, 
160(2),  174,  176,  177,  196,  241  (2), 
242  (2),  245,  261,  263,  287,  290, 
324,  366,  388  (3),  390.     See  also 
Algiers 

Arlington,  Earl  of,  lord  chamberlain 
of  the  household  and  admiralty 
commissioner :    letter    to,    127 ; 
references  to,  304  «.,  337  n. 
Arran,  Earl  of,  236,  239 
Arundel,  Mr.,  letter  to,  177 
Ash,  George,  summons  to,  140 
Ashby,  Captain  John,  letters  to  204, 
208,  214,  250,  253,  254,  259,  263, 
266,  268,  276  (2),  278,  281,  299, 
300,  313,  328,  331,  334  (2) ;  re- 
ferences to,  xxv,  254,  320,  325, 
326,  328  (2),  329,  331 
Ashley,     Lord,     vice-admiral     of 

Dorset,  165 
Ashley,  Richard,  138 
Ashton,  Mr,  servant  to  the  Duke 

of  York,  25,  25  n. 
Ash  worth,  Robert,  148,  149 
Atkins,  Captain  Charles,  letters  to, 

B  E  2 


420 


INDEX 


45,  174,  182,  190,  192,  287,  392  ; 

references    to,   xxxviii,   96,    103, 

I74«.,  290,291 
Atkins,  Sir  Jonathan,  governor  of 

the  Barbados,  46,  96, 108,  174  «., 

361 
Attorney-General,  Mr.,  358 


BACKWELL,  NICHOLAS,  343 

Bacon,  Nathaniel,  xxv,  xxvi,  294, 
294  n. 

Baker,  Captain  (merchantman) : 
letters  to,  3,  4  (2) ;  reference  to, 
20 

Baker,  Mr.,  consul  at  Tunis,  64,  81 

Baker,  Captain  Jacob,  letters  to,  24, 
37,  42,43,44,47,  1 1 6,  187,  215; 
references  to,  n  (2),  24  «.,  47, 
213  «.,  216,  230 

Baker,  William,  389 

Ball,  Mr.,  consul  at  Leghorn  :  letters 
to,  40,  67,  87,  iii,  122;  refer- 
ences to,  6,  88,  109,  121 

Baltic,  the,  258,  367 

Bankes,  Mr.  Caleb,  390 

Bankes,  Sir  John,  merchant  and 
contractor:  letters  to,  172,  177, 
334,  347  5  references  to,  xxv  «., 
Iii,  177  «.,  265,  265  «.,  353, 

393 
Bant,    Mr.    John,  letter    to,   302  ; 

references  to,  301,  401 
Bantam  (Java),  409 
Barbados,  4,  71,  80,  96, 113  «.,  114, 

151,  174  «•,  192,  192  «.,  361 
Barber,  Mr.  Edward,  255 
Barber,  Thomas,  290 
Barker,  Richard,  188  (2) 
Barling  (Essex),  256.;*. 
Barnstaple,  107 
Barr,  Mr.,  376 
Bartlett,  Mr.,  goldsmith,  366 
Barton,  Captain,  52 
Barton,  Mr.,  notary  :  letter  to,  157 
Bateou,  Nicholas,  248,  254,  291 
Bath,  100 

Batley,  Thomas,  274 
Battell,  Nicholas,  43 
Batten,  Lady,  35 
Batten,  Sir  William,  late  surveyor 

of  the  navy,  35  (2),  35  nn. 


Baylie,  Mr.  Francis,  shipbuilder  at 
Bristol :  letter  to,  306 ;  references 
to,  8 1,  8 1  «.,  89 

Bayonne,  375  (2) 

Beach,  [Sir]  Richard,  resident  com- 
missioner of  the  navy  at  Chat- 
ham :  letters  to,  10,  13,  22,  27, 
34,44,  51,  54,  123,  135,  149,  165, 
166,  171,  186,  215,  219,  224,  228, 
277,  278,  282,  285,  301,  327,  331, 
376,  390,  394,  405,  408  ;  refer- 
ences to,  xl  (4),  48,  151,  162, 
165  «.,  176,  226,  268,  329 

Beachy  [Head],  76,  254 

Beaman,  Mr.,  149 

Beane,  Edward,  174 

Beard,  William,  34 

Beaufort,  Mademoiselle,  203,  206 

Beaumaris,  129 

Beckett,  Mr.,  xxxviii,  244 

Beckford,  Major  Thomas,  slopseller 
to  the  navy,  43,  43  «.,  44,  215 

Bedford,  ,  194,  228 

Bedford,  Mr.,  registrar  of  the  court 
of  admiralty  :  letters  to,  222,  408, 
418 

Bedford,  William,  140  (2) 

Belbin,  Captain  Peter,  6  (2) 

Belmar,  Marquis  of,  96 

Bennett,  Roger,  389 

Benson,  Mr.,  390 

Berkeley,  Lady,  353 

Berkeley,  Lord,  xxv  n. 

Berkeley,  Lord  Ambassador,  127, 
127  «.,  189 

Berkeley,  Sir  William,  353  n. 

Berry,  Sir  John,  letters  to,  24  (2), 
26,  29,  47,  56,  58,  59,  142,  239, 
255,  259,  267,  276,  304,  308,  319, 
32i,  339  ;  memorials  relating  to, 
317  (2) ;  references  to,  xxv  (3), 
xxvi,  24  «.,  47  (2),  47  «.,  55,  58  «., 
61,  no,  132,  145,  154,  157,  174, 
244,  259,  275  (2),  311,  316,  317, 
317  «.,  318,  320  (4),  325  (3),  338, 
33?  «•,  353,  361 

Bertie  (Bartie  or  Bartue),  Charles, 
Esq.,  secretary  to  the  lord  trea- 
surer:  letters  to,  6,  174,  341, 
347,  360,  384  ;  references  to,  342, 

382  (2) 

Berwick-on-Tweed,  xxi,  141  «.,  354 


INDEX 


421 


Bethune  (or  Vethune),  Marquis  de 
175,  1 88,  189 

Betts,  Mr.,  134 

Betts,  Mr.,  312 

Betts,  Mr.  Isaac,  master-shipwrigh 
at  Portsmouth,  351  n. 

Betts,  Mr.  William,  master  attend 
ant  at  Tangier  :  letter  to,  80 ;  re 
ferences  to,  20,  351,  351  n.,  352 

Beverley,  Mr.,  56,  59 

Beverly,  Captain,  262 

Biddulph,  Mr.  Richard,  188,  188  n 

Biddulph,  Sir  Theophilus,  letter  to, 
173;  references  to,  173  n.,  175  n 

Binning,  Captain,  188,  189 

Biss,  Mr.  Thomas,  merchant  o: 
Bristol,  376  n. 

Blackborne,  Mr.,  153 

Blackwall,  xlv,  57,  250,  273,  273  «. 

Blagge,  Mr.  William,  273 

Blake,  George,  53  n, 

Blake,  Peter,  12,  13  (2) 

Blanchard,  Monsieur,  letter  to,  175; 
reference  to,  230 

Bland,  Mr.  John,  comptroller  at 
Tangier,  69,  81,  126,  291 

Blathwayt,  Mr.,  secretary  to  the 
committee  of  trade  :  letters  to, 
337, 3°  * 5  references  to,  29 1, 337  n. 

Boatman,  Mr.,  214,  215 

Bonaventure,  337,  337  n. 

Bonavista,  337,  337  nn. 

Bonavista  Bay,  337  n. 

Bond,  Mr.,  late  marshal  of  the  vice- 
admiralty  of  Dorset,  165 
Bond,  Sir  Thomas,  82 
Booth,  Captain  Thomas,  letters  to, 
5,  *4,  J5>  16,  19,  21,  22,  29,  31, 
57  (2),  60,  69,  73,  82,  94  (2),  97, 
98,  99,  101,   104,  106,  122,   153, 
397,  416,417  ;  references  to,  126, 
i Son.,  i83».,  397  n. 
Booth,    Captain   William :    letters 
to,  150,  159,  227,  244,339  5  refer- 
ences to,  1 50  n.,  397  n. 
Bordeaux,  391  (2) 
Borme,  Bowdewine,  408 
Bostock,  Stephen,  summons  to,  244 
Boston    (Lincolnshire),   1,   62    (2), 

72(3) 

Boulogne,  293,  399 
Bowerman,  Mr.  George,  102 


Bowles,  Mr.,  265 

Bowles,  Mr.  Phineas,  paymaster  at 
Tangier,  2,  81,  86,  123,  126,  137, 
201  (2),  241  (2),  288,  291  (2) 

Bowles,  Thomas,  100,  113 

Boyce,  Mr.,  letter  to,  146 

Boyer,  William  van,  238 

Brading,  Mr.,  comptroller  of  the 
customs,  163 

Bradly,  Mr.  Arthur,  consul  at 
Tripoli,  41,  81 

Bramston,  Mr.,  256 

Bramston,  Sir  John,  vice-admiral 
of  Essex  :  letters  to,  256,  257, 
322  ;  reference  to,  256 

Brandenburg,  21,  84 

Brandenburg,  Elector  of,  8$ 

Bremen,  374 

Brereton,  Captain  (of  Dover),  letter 
to,  396 

Brereton,  Mr.,  clerk  of  the  check  at 
Woolwich  :  letters  to,  61,  89,  95 

Brest,  51,  76,  86 

Brett,  Mr.,  a  commissioner  for  the 
admiral's  rights  :  letter  to,  72  ; 
reference  to,  165 

Brewer,  Mr.,  175 

Bridgeman,  Mr.  William,  clerk  to 
Sir  Joseph  Williamson  :  letters 
to,  337,  338  ;  reference  to,  337  n. 

Bridges,  224 

Bridges,  Sir  Thomas,  vice-admiral 

of  Somerset,  8 
Brill,  the,  82,  182 

Brisbane,   Mr.  John,  judge-advo- 
cate :  letter  to,  358  ;   references 
to,  1 8  (2),  272,  277,  277  n.,  396 
Brison,  David,  219,  254 
Bristol,  li,  8  (2),  23  (2),  8 1  (2),8i»., 
89,   92  (2),    150  n.,    162,  162  n., 

171    n.,     236,     238,     239,    254    (2), 

376  ».,  378  n. 
Bristol,  Mayor  of:  letters  to,  150, 

338 

Broad,  George,  20  (3) 
Broad  Street,  119 
Brome,  Mr.  John,  34,  194,  228  (2)  ; 

summons  to,  140 
Brooking,  Mr.,  10 

Brouncker,  Lord,  comptroller  of  the 
treasurer's  accounts  :  letters  to, 
30,  35,  356 ;  references  to, 


422 


INDEX 


xxxix  n.t  10,  356  nn. ;  signature 

of,  394 
Brouncker,   Mr.,  purser,  letter  to, 

161  ;    references    to,    xxxix  (2), 
xxxix  ».,  xl  (2),  27,  34,  135,  162, 
165,  166,  278 

Brouncker,  Mr.  Henry,  cofferer  to 
the  king,  xxxix  ».,  15,  15  *• 

Brown, ,  57  (2),  61  (3),  120 

Brown,   Mr,,  deputy  clerk  of  the 
check  at   Chatham :    letter    to, 

162  ;  reference  to,  165 
Brown,  William,  142 
Browne,  Mr.,  58 
Browne,  Thomas,  396  (2) 
Browne,  Zachary,  389 
Bruges,  376  n, 
Brussels,  37,  45 
Buchanan,  Mr.,  194,  197 
Buckworth,  Mr.  John,  merchant : 

letters  to,  98,  104,  112,  212  ;  re- 
ference to,  270 

Bugby,  John,  135 

Bullack,   Mr.,  mayor    of   Dover : 
letter  to,  234 

Bulls,  Bay  of,  337,  337  ». 

Bunce,  Mr.,  33 

Burden,  Mr.  Joseph,  251 

Burgess,  Mr.,  storekeeper  at  Wool- 
wich :  letter  to,  135 

Burlington,  Lord,  187,  187  n. 

Burnham  (Essex),  256,  256  nn.,  322 

Burntisland,  292  n. 

Burton,  William,  242 

Butcher,   Lieutenant    John,    letter 
to,  152  ;  references  to,  180,  i8o». 

Butler,  Mr.,  collector  of  customs  at 
Boston  :  letters  to,  62,  72 


CADAVAL,  Duchess  of,  105 

Cadiz,  xvi,  xvi  n.,  2,  16  (2),  17  (3), 
19,  39,  40,  49,  79,  81,  87,  89,  no, 
117,  131,  137,  145  (2),  145  «., 
146,  149,  229  (4),  230  (2),  231, 
241  (2),  271,  287,  291,  298,  322, 
364  (2),  365,  366,  368,  369,  370, 
371,  376,  387  (2),  389,  399 

Cadiz,  Bay  of,  xxxiii,  xxxviii,  117, 
127,  244,  373 

Calais,  x,  6,  9,  12  (2),  43  (2),  73,  83, 
94  (3),  i°2,  104,  124  (2),  129, 137, 


139,   163,  164,   165,  166  (2),  174, 
177,  182  (4),  185,  187,  236,  254, 
263,  295,  309,  366,  373,  376,  391, 
393,  401,  414,  416 
Calais,  Governor  of,  223 
Callington  (Cornwall),  354  «. 
Calloet,  Monsieur,  124 
Calmady,    Elizabeth  (Lady    Nar- 

brough),  404  n. 
Calmar  (Sweden),  254 
Cane,  Mr.,  letter  to,  244 
Canning,  Captain   George,   letters 
to,  341,  357,   362  (2),  365,  368, 
372  ;  references  to,  340,  340  »., 
344  (2),  346,  363,  364  (2) 
Canterbury,  150 
Canvey  Island,  222 
Cape  Coast  Castle,  240 
Cape  St.  Mary,  145 
Cape  St.  Vincent,  145  ».,  270 
Cape  Verd  Islands,  II 
Carrickfergus,  23 

Carter,    Captain    Richard,     letter 

to,  44  ;  references  to,  44  «.,  132 

Carverth,  Captain    Henry,   letters 

to,  6,  1 12,  352,  357,  359,  376, 383, 

385,  387,  392,  398  ;  references  to, 

112  n.,  352  n.,  367,  368,  370,  404 

Castel  Melhor,  Conde  de,  137,  139 

Cephalonia,  Little,  xii,  48,  48  «. 

Certificates    by  S.   Pepys:   of  the 

receipt   of  journals,    10,   II,  14, 

3'7,  36i,  370,  385  J  relating  to 

passes,  230,  261,  367,  378,  384, 

385  ;    miscellaneous,    222,    326, 

364 
Chamberlen,  Dr.  Peter,  physician 

to  the  king,  156,  156  n. 
Chambers,  Mr.,  at  Pembroke,  letter 

to,  32 

Chancellor  of  the  Exchequer,  refer- 
ence to,  5 
Channel,  the,  ix,  xi,  xvii,  xxxv,  33, 

36,  60,  84,  93,  143,  245,  25°,  255, 

285,  376,  416 
Chapman,  Mr.  Abraham,  merchant 

of  London,  323  (2) 
Charing  Cross,  10 
Charles  I,  85  n.,  392  n. 
Charles   II,  85  n.,  173  «.,  353  n., 

379  ».,  392  n. 
Charterhouse,  xxxiii,  265 


INDEX 


423 


Chatham,  xxxii,  xl,  xlv,  10  (2),  13, 
22  (2),  27,  34,  40,  43,  51,  55  (2), 
56,  63  (2),  65  ».,  102,  123,  135, 

142,    149   (2),     l6l,    162    (2),    165, 

166,  171,  176,  177,  1 86  (2),  193, 
214, 214  n.,  215  (3),  216,  218, 219, 
220,  224  (3),  226,  277,  282,  301, 

303,  323,  327,  329  (3).  33i,  376, 
378, 378  ».,  390, 398,  399, 400,  406, 
409,  410,  413 

Chatham  Chest ',  £**,  33,  43,  113, 
138,  218  ;  letter  to  the  governors 
of,  138 

Chatham  Yard,  xxix  ».,  xlii,  li,  171, 
185,  268 

Chavigny,  Count  de,  295 

Chelmsford,  256 

Cherbourg,  323 

Chester,  86,  89,  90,  153  «.,  342,  398. 
See  also  Westchester 

Chicheley,  Sir  John,  commissioner 
of  the  navy,  viii 

Chicheley,  Sir  Thomas,  master- 
general  of  the  ordnance  :  letters 
to,  20,  26,  34,  51,  56,  63,  84,  126, 
213,  328  ;  references  to,  63,  311 

Chichester,  360,  362,  374 

Chiffinch,  Mr.,  78, 78  n.,  205,  205  ». 

China,  xxv  ».,  257 

Christian,  Mr.,  letter  to,  260 

Christ's  Hospital,  li,  li  n.,  127  »., 
356,  357  n. 

Churchill,  Colonel  John  (after- 
wards Duke  of  Marlborough), 
126,  126  n. 

Churchill,  Mrs.,  126,  126  ».,  187, 
412,414 

Cinque  Ports,  li,  277,  397,  399 

Clare,  William,  343 

Clarendon,  Earl  of,  279  (2),  279  n. 

Clarke,  Mr.,  203 

Clayton,    Sir   John,   li,    53,   53  »., 

224,  233,  239  (2) 

Clements,  John,  summons  to,  244 
Clements,  Captain  John,  letters  to, 
14,  16,  19,  23,  34,  53,  61  (2),  87, 
93,  98,  112,   125,    128,  134,   135, 
155,  164,  165,  174,  184,  187,  191, 
193,  198,  199,  203,  214,  331,  348, 
359  ;    references   to,    74  ».,    77, 
195  (2),  198,  308,  346,  404,  417 
Clifford,  Nathaniel,  115 


Clock,  William,  290 

Clutterbuck,  Sir  Thomas,  victual- 
ling contractor  for  the  Mediter- 
ranean :  letters  to  18,  87,  99, 106, 
in,  115,  133,  152,  160,  182,  190, 
369  ;  references  to,  17,  47,  67  (2), 
67 n.,  84  (2),  85  (2),  105  (2),  in, 
129,  132,  145,  152,  160  (2),  161, 
169  (2),  182 

Cock,  Caleb,  82 

Cockpit,  the,  278 

Coggan,  Mr.,  165 

Coghlan,  Justinian,  102,  125 

Cognard,  Monsieur,  98 

Cole,  Mr.  Thomas,  collector  of 
customs  at  Southampton  :  letters 
to,  293,  297 

Coleman,  Captain  William,  collec- 
tor of  customs  at  Plymouth : 
letters  to,  70,  152,  156,  209,  246, 
274,  322  ;  reference  to,  154 

Coliver,  John,  290 

Collier,  Richard,  112,  136 

Collins,  Captain,  letter  to,  9 

Collins,  Mr.,  260 

Cologne,  Elector  of,  xxxiii,  383 

Colston,  Mr.  Humphry,  consul  at 
Malaga:  letters  to,  87,  117,  142 

Colwell,  Mr.,  356  «.,  357 

Commissioners  for  the  Admiralty 
Rights  :  letters  to,  10,  161,  250 

Commissioners  of  Customs,  letters 
to,  93,  201  ;  letters  about  passes, 
175,  182,  196,  198  (2),  200,  201, 

203,  205,  206,  207,  209,-  211  (4), 
212  (2),  213  (2),  215,  2l6  (3),  221, 
223  (2),  227  (3),  230  (2),  231  (2), 
234  (2),  235  (3),  236  (2),  238, 

241  (2),  242,  243,  244,  245  (3), 
248  (4),  249  (3),  251  (4),  252  (5), 
253  (2),  254,  255,  258  (4),  259  (4), 
260  (6),  261  (2),  262,  263  (3), 

264  (4),  265  (2),  268  (2),  272, 
273  (2),  275,  277  (2),  278,  279, 
28l  (2),  285  (2),  287,  291,  292  (4), 

293,  294  (2),  297  (3),  298,  299, 

300  (2),  307,  308,  309,  314,  318, 
320,  322,  324,  326  (2),  328  (2), 

330  (2);  331  (3),  332  (2),  333  (3), 
335,  336  (2),  338  (4),  339,  34i, 
344,  347,  349  (2),  350,  352,  356, 
357, 358, 359,  36o,  361  (2)  362  (4), 


424 


INDEX 


366  (3),  367,  370  (4),  372,  374  (2),  ! 
376,  377  (4),  379  (3),  380,  3«4  (2),  - 
385  (2),  386,  387,  389  (2),  390  (2),  , 
393   (2),   394,  395  (5),  396,   398  ; 
(2),  400,  401   (2),   405,   406  (2), 
408,  409  (4),  410,  413  (3),  4i6; 
reference  to,  99.     See  also   In- 
dex to  letters  about  passes,  pp. 
451-8 

Conny,  Mr.,  chirurgeon  of  Chatham 
Yard,  171 

Constantinople,  180 

Cook,  Mr.  Nicholas,  179 

Cooke,  Mr.,  goldsmith,  366,  368 

Cooke,  George,  371 

Cooke,  James,  389 

Cooke,  Mr.  John,  clerk  to  Mr. 
Secretary  Coventry :  letters  to, 
106,  302,  315  ;  references  to,  62, 
296 

Cooke,  Mr.  Richard,  at  Dover, 
letter  to,  242 

Cooke,  Richard,  boatswain,  193 

Coppow,  Captain  William,  letters 
to,  146,  147  ;  references  to,  69, 
69  n.y  147  n. 

Cornwall,  189  (2),  189  nn.,  354  n. 

Council  Chamber,  viii 

Country,  Captain  Richard,  letters 
to>  r55»  311  5  references  to,  xlii, 
312(2) 

Courtin,  Monsieur,  French  ambas- 
sador, 272,  361 

Covent  Garden,  85 

Coventry,  Mr.  Henry,  admiralty 
commissioner  and  secretary  of 
state  :  letters  to,  263,  283,  296  ; 
references  to,  viii,  16,  25,  29  n., 
49,  62,  65,  87, 99, 106,  106  ».,  121, 
134,  160,  169  (2),  188,  212,  230, 
246,  276,  286,  301,  302  (2),  3 1 5  (3), 
354,  355,  398  ;  memorials  for, 
3°7,  3M 

Cowes,  350 

Cowes,  Chief  Officer  of  the  Custom- 
house at,  letter  to,  4 

Cowes  Road,  293 

Cox,  Mr.,  letter  to,  6 

Crabb,  Captain  John,  commander 
of  the  boats  at  Portsmouth :  letter 
to,  153  ;  references  to,  173,  355, 
355  n. 


Cranfeild,  Edward,  Esq.,  principal 
commissioner  for  Surinam:  letters 
to,  25,  28,  29  ;  references  to,  xxiv, 

20,  24  (2),  25  (2),  27,  29 

Craven,  Earl  of,  admiralty  commis- 
sioner, viii,  137,  13?  n.,  284,  291 

Craven,  Lady,  177  (2) 

Creed,  Mr.  John,  secretary  to  the 
commissioners  for  Tangier:  letters 
to,  157, 176,  253  ;  reference  to,  I 

Crdqui,  Duke  of,  401,  416 

Crisp,  Captain,  an  elder  brother  of 
the  Trinity  House,  liii,  220  (4), 
225,  232 

Crispin,  Mr.,  203 

Crocker,  Mr.,  125 

Crofts,  Mr.,  335  (2) 

Crow,  Ralph,  290,  338 

Crowe,  Captain  Thomas,  147,  150, 
150  ».,  151,  153 

Crufts,  William,  389 

Cumberland,  54 

Cunningham,  Patrick,  summons  to, 

244 

Curtis,  Mr.,  407 
Cusack, ,  3 


DADELSTONE,  Mr.,  at  Bristol :  letter 
to,  254 

Dallison,  Mr.  Charles,  xxxi,  169, 170 

Dam,  Mr.,  407 

Danby,  Earl  of,  lord  treasurer  and 
admiralty  commissioner  :  letter 
to  270 ;  reference  to,  270  n.  ; 
memorandum  to,  277 

Daniell,  Mr.,  storekeeper  at  Sheer- 
ness  :  letter  to,  221 

Danzig,  175,  187 

Dartmouth,  157 

Davies,  Captain  William :  letters 
to,  151,  191,  222,  226,  401,  414; 
references  to,  37  «.,  116,  116  n., 
151,  206  n. 

Davis,  Bartholomew,  343 

Davis,  Mr.  Thomas,  336 

Day,  Captain  Richard,  letters  to, 
2,  74,  102,  114,  200,213(3),  215, 
216,  217  (2),  230,  235,  249,  265, 
267,  274,  291,  324,  337,  358,  366, 
385,  39i;  references  to,  2«.,  95, 
213  «.,  249  «.,  349,  376,  385  n. 


INDEX 


425 


Deal,  xxxvii,  lii,  6, 61,  74,  75,80, 100, 
101,  103, 113, 113**.,  123,  125, 128, 
133,  138,  145,  M6,  151,  163,  165, 

167,  195,  20)6,  208,  209,  210,  219, 
224,237,243,  311,  3l8,  326,  327, 

328,  330  (2),  332,  334,  335,  336, 
337,  345,  3Si,  352,  367,  370,  37i, 
374,  391,412,417,418 

Deal  Castle,  13 

Deane,  Anthony,  junior,  273,  273  n. 

Deane,  [Sir]  Anthony,  resident  com- 
missioner of  the  navy  at  Ports- 
mouth and  afterwards  comptroller 
of  the  victualling  :  letters  to,  1 1, 
15,  5°,  57,  60,  62,  68,  73,  74,  76, 
80,  83,  85,  86,  89,  278,  303,  307, 
309,  343  ;  references  to,  viii  (2), 
xliii,  xlv  (2),  xlvii,  45  (2),  65  n., 
68  n.,  77,  78,  78  n.,  79  (2),  79  «•,  86, 
87,  QO,  106,  116  (2),  118,  134, 
1597*.,  227,  227  n.,  305,  307,  315, 
319 

Deare,  John,  278 

Deering,  Mr.,  196 

Delavall,  Captain  Ralph,  letter  to, 
416  ;  reference  to,  416  n. 

Dell,  Mr.,  late  mayor  of  Plymouth, 
322 

Denmark,  xxii  n.,  352 

Denn,  Mr.,  letter  to,  5 

Denny,  Mr.,  336 

Deptford,  6,  12,  13  (2),  14,  21,  25, 
26  (2),  35  n.,  47,  56,  60,  74  (3),  75, 
76,  82,  90,  98,  100  (4),  122  (3), 
124,  127,  128,  140,  141,  147,  148, 
155(3),  168,  169(2),  170(3),  183, 
J95,  199,  206  n.,  207,  208,  214, 
217  (2),  264, 265,  274,  279,  285  (2), 
308,  312,  315,  321,  324,  330 «-, 
339  (2),  370,  374,  375  (2),  378  »., 
406  (2),  416 

Deptford,  Master  Attendant  and 
Clerk  of  the  Check  at :  letter  to, 
174.  See  also  Tinker,  Captain 
John 

Deptford  Yard,  xxxii,  14,  260,  269 

Depuy,  Laurence,  Esq.,  xxv  n. 

Derby  House,  viii,  r,  33,  75,  184 

Derby,  Lord,  177,  182  (2),  185 

Desbordes,  Madame,  98 

Deslandes,  Monsieur  Solomon,  mer- 
chant at  Dieppe,  243 


Deswarle,  William,  266 

Deverill,  John,  251 

Devon,  189^.,  190 

Dibusty,  Sir  Laurence,  178,  179 

Dickenson  (or  Dickeson),  Captain 
Richard:  letters  to,  7,  8,  u,  13, 
22,  25,  29,  1 1 8, 123,  138,  140,  156, 
158,  163,  167,  168,  171,  176,  178, 
184,  187,  194,  208,  210,  211,  217, 
226,  232,  239,  346 ;  references 
to,  140,  147,  167  (2),  188,  235  (2), 
241 

Dieppe,  6,  9,  40,  42,  58,  70,  82  (2), 
98, 100,  101  (5),  109, 1 18,  124  (2), 
126,  127  (3),  129,  134,  138,  149, 
151  (2),  177  (2),  178,  179,  207, 
216,  217,  230,  243  (3),  251  (2), 
263,  275,  277,  278,  279,  285,  295, 

327,  376,  377,  379,  39°  (2),  39^, 
401,  409,  412,  414,  416 

Dieppe,  the  commander  of  any  of 
the  king's  yachts  at :  letters  to, 
58,  102,  279 

Dimock,  Mr.  Edward,  24 

Dominica,  62 

Donovan,  Mr.,  267 

Doosche,  Jacob,  234,  253 

Dorman  (?  Dormer),  Sir  John,  155, 
155  n. 

Dorsetshire,  165 

Doughty,  Mr.,  naval  chaplain,  314 

Douglas,  Lord,  156,  156  n. 

Dover,  xx,  xlix,  5  (2),  9  (3),  1 1  (2), 
12,  14,  15,  16,  19  (2),  21,  27, 
32  (2),  40,  54  (2),  56,  58,  59,  61, 
82,  83,  85,  88,  94  (2),  98,  99  (2), 
104  (2),  106,  117,  119  (2),  120, 
125,  141,  163  (3),  166,  167,  169, 
174(2),  194,  206,  232,  234,  238, 
242,  253,  254  (2),  256,  263,  274, 
310,  326  (2),  327  (2),  332,  333(2), 
346,  366,  375,  391  (3),  393  (2), 
395,  396  (3),  398,  416 

Dover ;  Chief  Officer  of  the  Customs 
at\  letters  to,  140,  159 

Dover,  Mayor  of,  19,  27,  120,  125. 
See  also  Bullack,  Mr. 

Dover  Castle,  277,  291 

Dover  Castle,  Governor  of,  397. 
See  also  Strode,  Colonel 

Downes,  Robert,  summons  to,  140 

Downing,  Sir  George,  a  commis- 


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INDEX 


sioner  of  the  customs  :  letters  to, 
159,  174  ;  reference  to,  159  n. 
Downs,  ix,  x,  xxv,  xxxvii  (2),  xlii, 
xlix  (2),  i  (3),  4,  5  (2),  7  (2),  8, 
9  (3),  ii  (2),  12,  13  (3),  14  (4), 
15,  16,  19  (2),  21,  22,  23,  25  (4), 
28,  29  (2),  30,  34  (2),  45,  46, 
50  (2),  51,  53,  55,  56,  57  (3),  58, 
59,  60  (3),  61  (3),  62,  63  (2),  65, 
66,  68,  69  (3),  70  (5),  7i,  72, 
73  (5),  74  (3),  75  (4),  76  (3),  77, 
78,79,80  (3),  81,82,83,  86(2), 

89,  94  (5),  95  (3),  97  (3),  98  (3), 
99  (2),  101  (4),  102  (3),  103, 
104  (4),  106  (3),  in,  112  (4), 
114,  116,  117(2),  118  (3),  119(2), 
120,  122,  123  (4),  124,  125  (2), 

126    (2),     128    (3),     133    (2),     134, 

137  (4),  138  (5),  MO  (3),  146, 
148,  151,  155  (2),  156,  163,  164, 
165,  166,  167  (2),  168  (5),  169, 
172  (2),  174,  176,  177,.  184,  187, 
190,  191,  193(2),  195,  197, 198(2), 

199,  200  (2),  201,  203  (2),  204(2), 

205  (3),  206  (4),  207  (2),  208  (3), 

209  (3),  210  (3),  211,  211  »., 
214  (2),  215,  2l6,  217,  218  (2), 
219  (2),  221,  223  (2),  225,  226  (2), 
228,  231  (2),  232  (3),  233  (2), 

234  (3),  235,  236,  238  (4),  239, 

242,  243,  244,  245,  248,  250  (2), 

252  (3),  253,  254  (4),  255,  256  (2), 

259  (2),  262,  263,  266  (2),  268, 

269,  270,  274,  276  (3),  278,  279, 
281  (4),  282,  284,  285  (2),  290  (3), 
291,  292,  293,  295  (7),  297  (4), 
298,  299  (4),  300  (4),  301  (3), 
302  (3),  303  (2),  308  (5),  309  (6), 
311  (3),  312  (2),  316,  318  (2), 
319  (3),  320,  321  (4),  326  (2),  327, 
328,  329,  330  (2),  331  (3),  332, 
333,334  (5),  336  (2),  338,  339  (2), 
341  (2),  345  (2),  348,  349,  352  (3), 
353,357(2),358,  359(3),362(2), 
364,  365  (5),  366  (3),  367  (2), 
368  (4),  369  (4),  370,  371,  372, 
373  (3),  374,  375  (4),  376  (2), 
379,  383  (2),  385  (4),  386  (6), 
387  (5),  388  (2),  389  (2),  390, 
39i  (7),  392  (4),  395  (7),  396,  398, 
399,  403,  404  (2),  406,  407  (2), 
409  (3),  410,  411,  412  (4), 


415(2),  415  »-,  4i6  (3),  417(2), 
418  (2) 

Doyley,  Sir  William,  late  commis- 
sioner for  sick  and  wounded : 
letter  to,  342  ;  references  to,  124, 

124  «.,   164,  338,  341  (2) 

Dragger,  Captain,  397  (3),  403,  408, 
418 

Drake,  Commander  of  the  :  letter 
to,  300.  See  also  Stepney,  Cap- 
tain Rowland 

Dublin,   xxiii,   90,    113,     124,   354, 

359,  405  (2) 

Dublin  Castle,  354 

Ducane,  Mr.,  merchant,  207 

Dunbar,  Lieutenant  James  :  letters 
to,  275,  363,  365,  366  ;  references 
to,  275  «.,  288,  363,  371 

Dungan,  Lord  (afterwards  Earl  of 
Limerick)  :  letter  to,  291  ;  re- 
ferences to,  265,  267,  290 

Dungeness,  76  (2) 

Dunkirk,  Dunkirker,  x,  2,  43  (2),  54, 
184,  1 88,  218,  233  (2),  234,  253  (2), 
254,  266,  276  (2),  277,  293,  375, 
39i,  412 

Dunnose  [Point],  77,  77  n. 

Dunwich,  85  n.,  123 

Duras,  Lord,  letter  to,  366 

Dutch,  xix  ».,  xxiii,  xxiv  ».,  xxviii, 
xxxiii,  2,  10,  16,  20  (2),  28,  34,  35, 
45  (2),  51,65  •«.,  81  n.}  99,  100, 
124  n.,  127,  134,  138,  138  n., 
185  «.,  207,  208,  237,  343,  353  »., 
355,  356,  365,  373  (2),  374,  376, 
377,  378,  378  n.,  383,  387,  418. 
See  also  Holland,  States  General, 
United  Provinces 

Duteil,  Sir  John  Baptiste,  letter 
to,  31  ;  reference  to,  69 

Dutton,  Mr.,  337 


EARNING,  NEHEMIAH,  389 

East    India,  East    Indies,  xxi   n., 

xxv  ».,  1 1 8,  177  «.,  240  (2),  257, 

388 
East  India  Company,  325,  334,  388, 

409 
East  Indiaman,  51  (3),  97,  207,  208, 

244 
Eccles,  John,  174 


INDEX 


427 


Elbe,  1 6 

Ellis,  James,  13 

Elsinore,  xlix,  188,  189 

England,  English,  Englishmen,  xi, 
xiv  (2),  xvi,  xvii  (3),  xviii  (8), 
xix  (3),  xix  ».,  xx  (3),  xxi  (2),  xxii, 
xxii  n.,  xxiii  (4),  xxiv  (2),  xxiv  «., 
xxx  (2),  3,  19,  22,  28  (3),  36  (2), 
37,  38,  40,  4*i  45,  58  (2),  64  (2), 
83  (2),  86  n.,  99,  ioo,  102,  107, 
109  (2),  120(2),  127,  129  «.,  133, 
138,  142,  144(3),  M9,  IS*,  172  «., 

I9*i    '95    (3),    200,    204    (2),    212, 

214(4),  228(2),  229(5),  231, 237, 

238,  240,  242  (4),  246,  267,  270, 
271  (3),  272, 277, 279  (3),  293,  301, 
3°3,  3°5,  323  (4),  324  (2),  325, 
335,  337  (3),  346,  354  (3),  355,  365, 
369,  37i,  374,  376,  396,  408  (2) 

English  A  mbassador  \at  Parts],  the, 
letter  to,  358.  See  also  Montagu, 
Ralph,  Esq. 

Erith,  71,  182 

Ernie,  Sir  John,  late  comptroller  of 
the  stores  :  letters  to,  406,  408, 
415  ;  references  to,  ix,  406  n.,  408 

Erwin,  George,  389 

Essex,  li,  30,  114,  222,  256,  256  «., 
322 

Essex,  Earl  of,  Lord  Lieutenant  of 
Ireland,  27  n.,  86  n.,  354,  396 

Estrees,  the  Count  d',  admiral  of 
the  French  fleet,  386  (2) 

Evans,  Mr.,  33 

Evans,  Mr.,  135 

Evelyn,  Mr.  John,  13,  175 

Every,  John,  367 

Exchange,  the,  x,  xli,  16,  157,  234, 

237 

Execution  Dock,  3 
Exeter,  190,  302,  349 


FAIRBORNE,  Major  [Sir]  PALMES, 
deputy  -  governor  of  Tangier  : 
letters  to,  241,  390  ;  references 
to,  31,  31  «.,  242,  268,  272  n.,  353 

Falmouth,  126  (3),  155, 156, 159(2), 
266,  305  (3) 

Falmouth,  Mayor  of,  letters  to,  3, 
126,129,156.  Seealso  Fender,  Mr. 

Fareham  River,  77 


Fasby,  Captain  William,  letters  to, 
i,  16,  51,  70,  82,  106,  116,  118, 
134,  139,  182,  203,  257,  279,  329, 
383,  394,  4°9  >  references  to,  134, 
182 

Fendall,  John,  191 

Fenn,  Captain,  49,  63 

Fenn,  Mr.,  a  paymaster  of  the  navy: 
letter  to,  33 

Fenny,  Alexander,  293 

Fenwick,  Colonel  (afterwards  Sir 
John),  129 

Ferrell,  Sir  Timothy,  271 

Ferring  (Sussex),  li,  10 

Fetteau,  Monsieur,  ioo,  101 

Fick,  Edmund,  408 

Fillingham,  Mr.,  letter  to,  35 

Finch,  Captain  William,  146,  146  «. 

Finch,  Lord  (afterwards  Earl  of 
Nottingham),  lord  chancellor 
and  admiralty  commissioner,  viii, 
358  ». 

Finch,  Mr.,  merchant,  letter  to,  362 

Finch,  Mrs.,  146  (2) 

Finch,  Mrs.,  351 

Finn,  Thomas,  summons  to,  244 

Firebrace,  Mr.,  278 

Fisher,  Captain,  156 

Fisk,  Edmund,  22 

Fitzharris,  Mrs.,  351 

Fitz-Walter,  Lord,  li,  256,  256  »., 
260,  375 

Flanders,  Flemish,  14,  32,  223,  395 

Flawes,  Captain  William,  letters  to, 
403,  416;  references  to,  xxv  »., 
265  (2),  265  n.,  403  n. 

Fleetwood,  Arthur,  Esq.,  a  secretary 
to  the  lord  treasurer  :  letters  to, 
178,  1 86;  references  to,  274(2), 
409 

Florence,  48 

Florence,  Grand  Duke  of,  48,  64,  87 

Flushing,  Flushinger,  36,  43,  96 

Ford,     Alderman     Sir     Richard, 

175  (2),  175  «• 
Foreland,  the,  346 
Forth,  Firth  of,  292  n. 
Fossewell,  Mr.,  127 
Fowell,  Sir  John,  vice-admiral  of 

Devon  :  letter  to,  189  ;  references 

to,  189  n.,  190,  250  (2) 
Fowler,   Captain    Thomas,   letters 


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INDEX 


to,  47,  358,  367,  37i,  387,  389, 
412,  416  ;  reference  to,  47  n. 

Fownes,  Mr.,  clerk  of  the  check  at 
Deptford  :  letters  to,  13,  100,  308, 
406 

Fox,  Sir  Stephen,  treasurer  of  the 
army,  74,  76,  375 

France,  French,  Frenchmen,  ix, 
x  (4),  xii,  xxii  n.,  xliv,  xlvi,  xlix  n., 
1,  li,  2  (2),  3  (2),  4,  10,  ii  (2),  25, 
28  (2),  36  (2),  39,  44,  55  (3),  62, 
69,  72,  78,  83,  84,  87,  93,  94,  102, 

105,  105  nn.,  107,  112,  113,  120, 
126  n.,  127,  151  n.,  156  n.,  177, 

178,  187,  188  «.,  189, 194  (2),  195, 
197  (3),  198,  199,  204  (2),  207, 

223,  234,  235,  237  (2),  246  (2), 
252,  255,  259,  263,  266,  268,  271, 
272  n.,  275,  276,  277,  28l,  291, 

295  (2),  303, 323,  332,  336, 337  (2), 
343  (2),  344,  352,  353,  360  (2), 
361,  362,  369,  373,  374,  376,  378, 
392  (2),  393,  395,  396,  397,  398, 
399  (3),  402,  408,  412,  418 . 

France,  King  of,  xiii  n.,  xlvu,  1,  32, 
62,  64,  66,  77,  78  ».,  89,  98,  105, 
243,  263,  309,  332,  412,  418 

Franklin, ,  57,  58  (2),  61 

Frederick,  Alderman  Sir  John, 
merchant  :  letter  to,  1 27  ;  refer- 
ence to,  127  n. 

Freeman,  Mr.,  383 

Freeman,  Mr.  Rice,  13 

Fryer,  William,  385 

Furnis,  Francis,  summons  to,  244 

Furzer,  Mr.,  master-shipwright  at 
Portsmouth  :  letter  to,  383 

GAMBIA  COMPANY,  239 

Garland,  Augustine,  376 

Garroch,  Patrick,  418 

Gatehouse,  the,  140 

Gauden,  Lieutenant,  letter  to,  33  ; 
reference  to,  33  ». 

Gauden,  Sir  Denis,  victualling  con- 
tractor and  victualler  for  Tangier: 
letters  to,  104,  172,  285,  369,  403  ; 
references  to,  31,  33  n. 

Genoa,  Genoese,  17,  81,  87,  96,  no, 
117,237 

Geraudeau,  Peter,  353,  361  (3),  372, 
377,  380,  403 


Gibbs,  John,  226 
Gibraltar,  Bay  of,  388 
Gibson,    Mr.    Richard,    letter    to, 
338  ;  references  to,  1 5,  248,  338  n., 

34i 

Gifford,  Mr.  William,  313  (3),  313  n. 
Gill,  Mr.  Abraham,  28,  32,  36  (2), 

42,47 

Gloucester,  377  n. 

Godolphin,  Sir  John,  vice-admiral 
of  North  Cornwall,  189 

Godwin,  Lieutenant,  at  the  navy 
office:  letter  to,  117 

Gold  (or  Gould),  Mr.  John,  mer- 
chant: letter  to,  139;  reference 
to,  144 

Golden,  Captain,  183 

Golding,  Captain,  167 

Goldsborough,  John,  389 

Goodlad,  William,  389 

Gore,  the,  328,  329,  331  (2) 

Goring,  Lady,  1 16,  1 16  n.,  1 1 7,  1 18, 
i88». 

Gosport,  351 

Gottenburg,  14,  16,  30,  31,  57,  167, 
206 «.,  226,  232,  256,  309,  317, 
321,  328,  333,  341,  386,  418  (2) 

Grammont,  Count  de,  129,  I29«., 
178  n. 

Grand  Signior,  the,  40,  130,  179 

Gravesend,  3,  49,  74  (2),  75,  78  «., 
136,  146(3),  147,  154,  164,  202, 
213  (2),  215  (2),  279,  283,  299  (3), 
310,  342,  346  (2),  357,  367,  391 

Gray,  Leonard,  Esq.,  109 

Greeks,  the,  114  (2) 

Greene,  Captain  Levi,  5,  5  n. 

Greene,  Madam,  379 

Greenland,  254 

Greenwich,  i,  9,  16,  23,  51,  58,  70, 
74,  82,  95,  96,  98,  ico,  101  (4), 
102(2),  109(2),  in,  114,  124(2), 
134  (2),  139,  150, 167, 179  (2),  182, 
187(2),  1 88,  189,200(2),  203(2), 
235  (3),  243,  244  (2),  249,  251, 
263,  267  (3),  275,  279  (2),  292,  295, 
320,  321,  324,  329,  366,  372,  376, 
390,  395,  401,  414,  416(2) 

Gregory,  Lieutenant  William,  letter 
to,  403  ;  reference  to,  403  n. 

Gregory,  Mr.  Edward,  clerk  of  the 
check  at  Chatham,  142 


INDEX 


429 


Grertville,  Sir  Bevil,  257  n. 
Greyhound,    Commander    of    the,  j 

letter  to,  74.    See  also  Clements, 

Captain  John 
Griffith,  Captain    Richard,   letters 

to,  219,  232  ;  references  to,  79  «., 

244 

Griffith,  Mr.,  178 
Griffith,  Mr.,  212 
Grove,  Mr.,  318 
Guernsey,  20,  367,  370 
Guinea,  xxi  «.,  1 88,  190,  199,  208, 

209,  211,  214,346 
Guinea  Company •,  178,  209,  214 
Gunman,     Captain      Christopher, 

letters  to,  i,  25,  45,  82,  96,  99, 

126,  129,  167,  170,  172,  182  (2), 

185,    187,    213,    285,   401,   4i6; 

references  to,  6,  74  «.,  141,  188, 

189,  197  (2) 


HADDOCK,  Captain  RICHARD,  com- 
mander of  the  Quaker  ketch  : 
letter  to,  416  ;  reference  to,  416  n. 

Haddock  [Sir],  Richard,  commis- 
sioner of  the  navy  :  letters  to,  75, 
147,  284,  307,  309,  351,  397; 
references  to,  xlv,  77,  78,  91,  278, 
305,  3?7,  315,  319,  345,402(2), 
403  ;  signature  of,  394 

Hague,  the,  173  «.,  353  n.,  354  «. 

Hall,  Mr.,  officer  of  the  customs  at 
Rye  :  letter  to,  104 

Halsall,  Captain,  236 

Hamburg,  xxiii,  12  (2),  120,  379 

Hamilton,  Captain  Thomas  :  letters 
to,  19,  69,  88,  103,  105,  117,  288, 
363  ;  references  to,  87  (2),  88  «., 
103,  106,  147  n.,  173,  288  «.,  291, 

363,  34°,  398 
Hamilton,    Count    Anthony,    178, 

178  n. 

Hamilton,  Lady,  58,  129,  I29«. 
Hampstead,  410 
Hampton  Court,  viii  (2),  93,  97 
Hanbury,  Philip,  xxxii,  261,  267 
Hanmer,  Sir  John,  52 
Hannam,  Mr.,  chirurgeon  at  Deal, 

411,  418 
Hanwell,  Humphrey,  277 


Harbord,  Sir  Charles,  surveyor- 
general,  410 

Hardick,  Mr.  Ralph,  merchant  of 
London,  375 

Harlah,  Vasmer,  374 

Harman,  Captain  Thomas,  letters 
to,  73,  98,  U7,  "9,  123,  126,  287; 
references  to,  73  «.,  97,  115, 
117(2),  122, 125,  129,  145,  I76(?), 
1 80,  289 

Harman,  Captain  William,  letters 
to,  8,  13,  414,  415  ;  references  to, 

7,  14,  73  «-,  4H  »•-,  4i6  «• 

Harris,  Alexander,  203 

Harris,  Captain  Joseph,  letters  to, 
*55  (2),  J595  references  to, 
xxxviii  (2),  xxxviii  n.,  155  n,, 

167  (2) 

Harris,  Mr.,  '  at  my  lord  chan- 
cellor's '  :  letter  to,  207 

Harvey,  Mr.  Benjamin,  water-bailiff 
of  the  City  of  London,  2 

Harwich,   xlv,   li,    14,    16    (3),    19, 

21   (2),  22    (2),    30,  33   (3),  36,  42, 

57,  68,  68  «.,  83,  93,  118,  120  (4), 
122,  124,  126,  205,  235,  280  n. 

Hastings,  398,  399 

Hastings,  Captain  Anthony :  letters 
to,  374,  375,  376 ;  reference  to, 
374  f. 

Havre  de  Grace,  93,  118,  179,  188, 
189,  203,  226,  235,  252,  255 

Hays,  Mr.  Claude,  a  merchant  of 
London,  61,  120(2),  125 

Hayter,  Mr.  Thomas,  one  of  the 
clerks  of  the  acts  :  letters  to,  10, 
35,  45,  56,  122,  134, 153,  161,  284, 
302,305,  317,  345,  346,  360,  410; 
references  to,  io«.,  i87«. 

Hazelwood,  Captain,  154,  159 

Hemsfeldt,  Lord  General,  169 

Herbert,  Captain  Arthur  (after- 
wards Earl  of  Torrington) : 
letters  to,  55,  69,  182,  185  ;  re- 
ferences to,  xxv  «.,  55, 185  «.,  1 86 

Herne,  Sir  Nathaniel,  merchant, 
257 

Hide,  Captain,  letter  to,  200 ; 
reference  to,  200  n. 

Higgeson, ,  120 

Hoare,  Mr.  Daniel,  mayor  of  Hull, 
letter  to,  2 


43° 


INDEX 


Hockwold  (Norfolk),  354  «. 

Hodder,  Lieutenant  Richard, 
letters  to,  302,  304,  326,  33 i>  333, 
34i,  349J  references  to,  303, 
326  «.,  397 

Holland,  xxii  n.,  xxxin,  16,  25, 
36(2),  82,  116  n.,  163,  194,  349, 
383.  See  also  Dutch,  States 
General,  United  Provinces 

Holmes,  Mr.  Benjamin,  13 

Holmes,  Mr.,  shipowner,  164 

Holmes,  Sir  John,  letter  to,  415  ; 
reference  to,  415  n. 

Holmes,  Sir  Robert,  vice-admiral 
of  Hampshire  and  governor  of 
the  Isle  of  Wight :  letters  to, 
371,  414 ;  references  to,  77,  77  »., 
415*. 

Holstein,  Holsteiner,  185,  187  (2), 

197  (3) 

Holyhead,  44,  342 

Honywood,  Mr.,  35 

Hooke,  Mr.  Robert,  356  n.,  357, 
357  n. 

Hope,  the,  7,  44,  47,  58,  59,  62  (2), 
68,  70,  71,  98,  145,  H6,  155  (2), 
183,  187,  193,  196,  197,  199,  200, 
275,  276,  366,  367,  405,  412,  414, 
415(3),  416. 

Hopegood,  Mr.  Edward,  merchant 
of  London  :  letter  to,  265  ;  refer- 
ences to,  xxv  «.,  377,  377  «. 

Hopegood,  Mr.  Francis,  377 

Hopton,  Mrs.  Joan,  34 

Hornby,  Mr.  Nathaniel,  goldsmith, 
366,  394 

Horsman,  Mr.  Andrew,  merchant 
at  Plymouth,  51 

Houblon  (or  Hublon),  Isaac,  xvi  n. 

Houblon  (or  Hublon),  Mr.  (after- 
wards Sir  James),  merchant  : 
letters  to,  371,  375  ;  references 
to,  xvi  «.,  101  n.,  103,  103  «.,  188, 
226,  229,  251,  376,  390 

Houblon  (or  Hublon),  John,  xvi  n. 

Houblon  (or  Hublon),  Peter,  xvi  n. 

Houblon  (or  Hublon),  Mr.  Wynne, 
101,  101  ». 

Houlding,  Captain  William,  letters 
to,  56,  58,  60,  63,  69,  70, 109,  305, 
3°9,  3rS  5  references  to,  58  »«., 
"5,297,385 


Houseman,   Mr.,  surveyor  of  the 

customs  at  Dover,  163 
How,  Captain  John,  letters  to,  46 ; 

references  to,  45,  45  ».,  96 
Howell,  John,  159 
Hublon,  see  Houblon 
Huddlestone,  Mr.,  54 
Hull,  89,  280 
Hungerford,  Sir  Edward,  251 

Hunter, ,  120 

Hunter,  Commander  of  the,  letters 

to,  208,  232.    See  also  Dickenson, 

Captain  Richard 
Hurlocke,  Thomas,  338 
Hythe,  60,  76 


IDLE,  Captain  WILLIAM,  letter  to, 
249;  references  to,  xxxiii,  10, 
127(2),  161,  190  (2),  250  (3) 

Inchiquin,  Earl  of,  governor  of 
Tangier,  xxiv,  12  (2),  12  «.,  20, 
22,  29,  34,  36,  42,  8r,  126,  221, 
241,  267,  272,  272  nn. 

Indies,  the,  201 

Ipswich,  123 

Ireland,  Irishman,  xxiii,  23  (2),  37, 
37  n.,  42  (2),  43  (2),  44  (2),  45, 
47  (2),  57,  86  «.,  89  n.,  90,  102, 
104, 113,  236,  238, 238  «.,  354  (4), 
354  «-,  355,  403 

Ireland,  Lord- Lieutenant  of,  letter 
to,  27  ;  references  to,  27,  37,  59, 
86,  90,  92,  396.  See  also  Essex, 
Earl  of 

Isle  of  Wight,  22,76,  77,  80,  316, 

371,414(3) 
Ithaca,  xii,  48  n. 


JAMAICA,  97,  150  ».,  151  (3),  151 «., 

157, 175, 191  (2),  192,  192  «.,  193, 

194,  217,  222  (2),  300,  371 
James   II,   xxxvii  n.,   145   n.     See 

also  York,  Duke  of 
James,  Captain  Richard,  letter  to, 

416  ;  reference  to,  416  n. 
James  River,  339  n. 
Jarman,  Thomas,  375 
Jeffreys,   Colonel,   commander    of 

the   land    forces    for    Virginia : 


INDEX 


letters  to,  331,  334  ;  references 
to,  284,  315,  319,  324,  332,  336 

Jelley,  Mr.,  360,  362 

lemmy  yacht,  master  of  the,  letter 
to,  176 

Jenifer,  Captain  James,  letters  to, 
74,  100(2),  in,  118,  124,  128, 
133.  137,  138,  140,  183,  200,  201, 
202,  205,  209,  321,  326,  336,  339, 
34i,  345,  352,  358,  365,  368,  369, 
373,  375  (2),  376,  379,  383,  385, 
386,  387, 388 ;  references  to,  74  n., 
138  (2),  140,  147,  205,  339,  385, 
387  «.,  399,  410,  412,  417 

Jenkins,  Lieutenant  Francis,  138 

Jenkins,  Sir  Leoline,  judge  of  the 
admiralty  court :  letters  to,  2,  26  ; 
references  to,  85,  139 

Jenkins,  Mary,  138 

Jersey,  207,  367,  370 

Jesuits,  1 88  n. 

Johnson,   Captain  Aren,  204,  231, 

234,  237,  245,  253 

Johnson,  Sir  James,  at  Yarmouth, 
letters  to,  28,  32,  36,  42,  47,  100, 

112 

Johnson,  William,  290 

Jones,  Benjamin,  318 

Jones,  Mr.,  8,  69,  119,  119  n.,  171 

Jones,  Mr.,  letter  to,  261 

Joynes,  Mr.,  marshal  of  the  admir- 
alty :  letter  to,  1 36  ;  references 
to,  3,  167,  354 


KATHERINE  YACHT,  Commander 
of  the,  letter  to,  74.  See  also 
Lovell,  Captain  Thomas 

Keeble,  John  338 

Keldridge,  William,  106 

Kell,  Christopher,  89 

Kempthorne,  Captain  John,  letters 
to,  12,  44,  45,  47,  57,  59, 113,  124, 
236, 238, 342, 343, 405 ;  references 

to,   43,   44,   47,   335,   343,   359  J 
summons  to,  244 

Kempthorne,  Sir  John,  resident 
commissioner  of  the  navy  at 
Portsmouth  :  letters  to,  147,  165, 
169,  173,  188,  189,  191,  193,  195, 
200,  216,  224,  274,  304,  309,  311, 
317,  322,  328,  335,  343,  352,  356, 


359,  360,  361,  362,  368,  373,  380, 
383,  417  ;  references  to,  viii,  xlii, 
47,  159,  159  «•,  188,  190,  350,  351 

Kensington,  86,  96 

Killigrew,  Captain  Henry,  letters 
to,  21,  24,  56,  58,  59,  68,  70,  73, 
75,  79,  80,  81,  85,  86,  117,  219, 
232,  236,  244  ;  references  to,  13, 
21  n.,  44,  44  «».,  51,  81,  131,  180, 
226 

Killigrew,  Mr.,  196 

King,  Alderman  Sir  Andrew,  sub- 
governor  of  the  Royal  African 
Company  :  letters  to,  190,  198  (2), 
227,  235,  240,  241  ;  reference  to, 
190  n. 

King,  John,  265 

King,  Thomas,  Esq.,  M.P.,  266 

Kinsale,  23,  27,  97,   104,  107,   113, 

199,  383,  389 
Kirk,  Captain  John,  letter  to,  193  ; 

reference  to,  193  n. 
Kirk,  Mr.,  94 

Kirkby,  Colonel,  M.P.,  401 
Kirkcaldy,  219 
Knapman,     Mr.,    letter    to,    151  ; 

reference  to,  151 
Knight,     Sir    John,    merchant   of 

Bristol  :  letters  to,  8,  81,  89,  162, 

i?1)  378  ;  reference  to,  8  «. 
Knyvet,  Mr.   174 
Knyvett,  Captain,  letter  to,  172 
Konigsmark,  Lord,  12,  1 6  (2),  22 


LAMBERT,  WITTE,  230,  338 

Lamberty,  R.,  408 

Lamotte,  Mr.,  40 

Landguard  Fort,  280 

Langhorn',  William,  251 

Langley,  Captain,  mayor  of  Har- 
wich and  master  of  the  packet- 
boats  there:  letters  to,  83,  118; 
reference  to,  83 

Lardeneire  (?  Lanier),  Chevalier  de, 
217,  217  n. 

Lark,  Commander  of  the,  letter  to, 
74.  See  also  Preistman,  Captain 
Henry 

Lassells,  Captain  Ralph,  letters 
to,  24,  54,  93,  98,  99,  102  (2), 
104,  112,  116,  133,  136,  137,  145, 


432 


INDEX 


155,  166  (2),  168,  169,  205,  206, 
208,  210,  226,  232,  238,  252,  254, 
255,  256,  262,  274,  290,  293,  295, 
297,  298,  300  (2),  301,  303,  308, 
309,  312,  318,  321,  325,  331,  339, 
386,  387,  388,  39i  (3),  392,  395, 
397,  399,  404,  409,  4i ii  412,  417, 
418  ;  references  to,  24  «.,  101, 
167  (2),  206,  300,  302,  330,  387, 
388,415  «.,  418 

Lately,  Mr.,  master  attendant  at 
Chatham,  22 

Lath,  Mr.,  380 

Laurence,  Mr.,  at  the  exchequer : 
letter  to,  175 

Lawrence,  Mr.  Joseph,  shipwright's 
assistant  at  Chatham,  390,  390  n. 

Lawson,  Sir  John,  xxxv,  181,  181  n. 

Le  Febure,  Mrs.,  40 

Le  Roy,  Madame,  134 

Leake,  Mr.,  mathematical  master 
at  Christ's  Hospital,  357  (3), 
357  n. 

Lee,  Dr.,  95 

Lee,  Mr.,  letter  to,  94 

Leeward  Islands,  304  «.,  411 

Legge,  Colonel  George,  lieutenant- 
governor  of  Portsmouth  (after- 
wards Lord  Dartmouth):  letters 
to,  350,  352,  355,  356,  359  ;  refer- 
ences to,  89  «.  215  (2),  215  »., 
350  n.,  361 

Leghorn,  xii,  xii  «.,  67  «.,  257  n. 
See  also  Livorne 

Leighton,  Sir  Ellis  (Elisha),  letter 
to,  189  ;  references  to,  189  «.,  272 

Leith,  98 

Levant,  the,  65,  131,  144  (2) 

Leyenbergh,  Lord,  Swedish  resi- 
dent :  letters  to,  31,  35,  167,  168, 
235  ;  references  to,  21,  30,  31, 
31  «.,  35  «.,  85,  255,  331 

Lhostein,  Captain  Augustus,  261  (2), 
416,  416  n. 

Lichfield,  285 

Lincolnshire,  62 

Lionne,  M.  de,  105  «. 

Little  Cephalonia,  48,  48  n. 

Littleton,  Sir  Thomas,  late  victuall- 
ing contractor,  5,  5  «.,  51 

Lisbon,  65,  88,  no,  183,  201,  202, 
205  (2),  305  (2) 


Livorne,  xvi  «.,  6,  16,  17  (5),  31, 
38,  39,  40  (3),  41  (2),  48,  49,  63, 
64,  66,  67  (3),  72,  79  (3),  81,  84, 
85,  87  (4),  88  (2),  99,  105  (3), 
106,  1 10  (2),  in  (3),  115  (2), 

117,       121       1(2),     22,      129,      131, 

132  (5),  133,    134,  US,  152  (2), 
154,    155,  160  (2),  181,  182  (2), 

183,    190,    212,    221    (2),  258,  271, 

282,  289,  324.     See  also  Leghorn 

Lizard,  the,  339 

Lloyd,  Captain,  letters  to,  277,  368 

Lloyd,  Dr.,  surrogate  to  the  judge 
of  the  admiralty  :  letters  to,  212, 
3°5,  358,  3°o  J  reference  to,  316, 
326 

Lloyd,  Mr.,  357 

Lloyd,  Sir  Philip,  letter  to,  361  ; 
reference  to,  277 

Lock,  Matthew,  Esq.,  secretary  at 
war  :  letters  to,  32,  286,  296,  308, 
3!5»  336;  reference  to,  315 

Lodge,  Mr.  Morgan,  postmaster  at 
Deal  :  letters  to,  100,  113,  311, 
330,  412,  417;  reference  to,  1 13  ». 

Lodington,  Mr.  Nathaniel,  mer- 
chant :  316,  326 

London,  viii,  xxiii,  6,  12,  54,  55,  78, 
82(2),  85,  87,  93,  103,  104,  123, 

128,  149,    171,     191,   200,     211, 
223   (2),  228,  230  (4),   233,  236, 

242   (2),    244,    249,    250,  26l,   290, 
301,    316    «.,    320,    323    (2),    336, 

338   (2),   353  «.,   367,  374,  375, 

377  «-,  389(11) 
London,  Bishop  of,  314 
London,  City  of,  2,  173  «.,  175  «., 

19°  «.,  353  »• 
London,  Port  of,  xxi,  xxi  «.,  xxiii, 

103,  128,  354 
London,  Tower  of,  109  «.,  154,  250, 

264,  283,  299  (2),  301,  303,  311, 

3i6,  347 
London,  Captain   Richard,  letters 

to,  23,  89,  90,  92,  100,  104,  1 06, 

129,  178,  190,  191,  195,  389  ;  re- 
ferences to,  21,  190  «. 

Londonderry,  293 

Long,  Captain   William,  letter  to, 

269  ;  reference  to,  269  ». 
Long  Reach,  98,  183,  196,  284,  297, 

415,  416(3),  417 


INDEX 


433 


Lord  Privy  Sea/,  Me,  letters  to,  86, 
326,  344.  See  also  Anglesey, 
Earl  of 

Lord  Treasurer ;  the,  6,  7,  27  (2), 
67,  70,  71,  124,  128,  137,  217. 
See  also  Danby,  Earl  of 

Louis  XIV,  105  «.,  263  n. 

Lovell,  Captain  Thomas,  letters  to, 
6,  9,  42,  43,  63,  82,  109,  178,  179, 
213,  251  (2),  327,  357,  368,  372, 
376, 377,  396  ;  references  to,  74  n., 
363,  375 

Low,  Captain  Henry,  deputy-sur- 
veyor of  the  Act  of  Navigation  : 
letters  to,  102,  304  ;  references 
to,  xxi  «.,  103  (2) 

Lowestoft,  li,  123,  220,  224,  232, 
232  n.,  233,  239  (3),  249 

Lucas ,  171  (2) 

Luke,  Mr.,  293 

Lynch,  Sir  Thomas,  192  n. 


MCCARTY,  Colonel,  327 

McCragh,  Darby,  175 

Mackenny,  Captain,  letters  to,  274, 
281  ;  references  to,  264  (3),  265, 
281,  290  (2),  364 

Maddockes,  Mr.  Robert,  a  pay- 
master of  the  navy,  119,  217, 
217  n. 

Madeiras,  the,  258,  346 

Majorcan,  Majorcans,  99,  1 1 1 

Malaga,  xxxvi,  87,  88,  117,  142  (2), 
US 

Malstand  (Marstrand),  206 

Malta,  xii  (2),  xii  «.,  xv,  38,  39,  48, 
49,  Si,  62,  66  (2),  67,  69,  71, 
79  (2),  80  (2),  89,  1 10,  115  (2), 
131,  132  (2),  134,  143,  145,  160, 
161  (2),  165,  1 80  (2),  181,  183, 
186,  187,  190,  191,  352  n. 

Malta,  Grand  Master  of,  49,  66 

Man,  Edward,  228 

Manage,  Duval,  266 

Manley,  Sir  Roger,  deputy-governor 
of  Portsmouth,  78,  78  n.,  89  n. 

Mardyke,  375 

Margate,  375 

Margate  Road,  308,  312 

Mark  Lane,  71 

VOL.  III. 


Marlow,  Mr.,  a  king's  messenger  : 
letters  to,  234,  235,  238 

Marseilles,  18,  190 

Marshall,  Charles,  266,  276  (2) 

Marshall,  John,  290 

Marshalsea,  the,  112,  353 

Marstrand.     See  Malstand 

Martin,  Captain  John,  203,  203  n. 

Martin,  Mr.,  consul  at  Algiers  : 
letters  to,  160,  241,388 ;  references 
to,  81,  160,  371 

Martin,  Mr.  Nathaniel,  94 

Maryland,  xxv,  277  (3),  278,  318, 
324  (2),  339  n. 

Matthews,  John,  401 

May,  Mr.,  recorder  of  Chichester, 
360 

Mayne,  Richard,  378 

Mecklenburg,  Prince  of,  187 

Medbury,  Mr.,  134 

Mediterranean,  the,  xi,  xii,  xiii,  xiv, 
xv,  xvi  n.,  xvii  (3),  xviii,  xix, 
xx  (2),  xxi  «.,  xxix,  xxxiv,  xxxvi, 
xxxviii,  xlii,  xlvi,  17,  56  «.,  67  «., 
179,  181  «.,  237,  245,  278  «.,  288, 
294,  312,  322,  369,  370, 377  ».,  406 

Medway,  the,  xxvii,  2,  114,301,  302, 
327,  328 

Melmoth,  Mr.,  92 

Memorandum  :  on  sick  and 
wounded  seamen,  246  ;  for  the 
lord  treasurer,  277  ;  for  the  secre- 
taries of  state,  277  ;  concerning 
Captain  Day's  instructions,  349  ; 
of  certificates,  401 

Memorials  to  the  King  in  Council : 
about  press  warrants,  314,  413  ; 
for  contingent  money,  317  ;  for 
impresting  ships,  317  ;  about 
passes,  323,  324,  374,  378,  396  ; 
about  removing  an  embargo,  324; 
about  the  declaration  of  men  for 
1677,332  ;  about  privateers,  332  ; 
touching  slaves  at  Tangier,  348  ; 
about  Captain  Pibus,  348 

Messina,  xii,  39 

Metefoux,  Cornelius,  219  (2),  223, 

254 

Middleton,  Countess  of,  lii,  262,  265 
Middleton,  Earl  of,  193 
Milford,  Collector  oj  the  Customs  at, 

letter  to,  23 

F  F 


434 


INDEX 


Milles,  Mr.  William,  261 

Mills,  Boatswain,  29 

Mills,  Mr.,  171 

Minehead,  23  (4),  36,  86,  89,  90, 
100  (3),  104,  107  (2) 

Minors,  Mr.,  171  (3) 

Mira,  Don  Ignacio  de,  74 

Mitchell,  Peter,  230 

Monmouth,  Duke  of,  captain- 
general  of  the  forces  :  xlv,  32, 
32  n.,  73  (2),  74,  98,  124  (2),  1 66, 
217  «.,  278,  284,  284  n.,  303,  307, 
308,  309  (2),  310  (2),  315  (3),  373, 
376 

Montforram,  Count  de,  295 

Moody,  Mr.  Samuel,  naval  chaplain, 
170 

Montgomery,  Lieutenant  James, 
letter  to,  238 

Moore,  Mr.,  master  attendant  at 
Portsmouth  :  letters  to,  22,  242 

Moore,  Sir  Jonas,  surveyor-general 
of  the  ordnance  :  letter  to,  99  ; 
references  to,  356,  356  nn. 

Moors,  34,  67,  281,  316 

Mordaunt,  Lady,  124 

Mordaunt,  Lord  (afterwards  Earl  of 
Peterborough),  396,  396  n. 

Montagu,  Ralph,  Esq.  (afterwards 
Duke  of  Montagu),  privy  council- 
lor, master  of  the  king's  great 
wardrobe,  and  from  Sept.  1676 
English  ambassador  to  France  : 
letter  to,  137  ;  references  to,  82, 
82  ».,  137  n.,  263,  263  n. 

Morgan,  Henry,  250 

Morrison,  Colonel,  319 

Morland,  Sir  Samuel  (the  inventor), 
letter  to,  329  ;  references  to,  323, 
328,  407 

Muddiman,  Mr.  Henry,  lii,  280, 
280  ».,  284(2) 

Munden,  Sir  Richard,  letter  to,  415; 
reference  to,  415  n. 

Murray,  Mr.,  340 

Muscovite,  258,  258  n. 

Muscovy,  Emperor  of,  254 


NANTES,  375  (2) 

Naples,  324 

Narborough,  Sir  John,  admiral  in 


the  Mediterranean  :  letters  to,  17, 
38,  40,  48,  63,  78,  88,  105,  109, 

114,  121,  129,  134,  143,  152,  160, 
179,  229,  230,  266,  285,  293,  309, 
322,  382, 404;  references  to,  xi  (2), 
xii  (2),  xiii  (5),  xiv  (3),  xv,  xvi  (2), 
xvii    (3),   xxvi,    xxviii,   xxxv  (2), 
xxxvi,   xli   «.,   xlii,    xlvii   (2),    8, 
15,   17(3),    18,  19(2),  21,  38,51, 
53,   59,  62,  67,  68,  69  (2),  71,  72, 
80,  8 1,  82,  84,  87  (2),  88,  92  (2), 
96,  104,  105,  106  (2),  109,  in  (2), 
117(2),  118,132, 139, 142(2),  145, 
160,   161,   165,   179  #.,   182,   186, 
227,  228,  230,  245,  261   (2),  268, 
269,  270  (3),  271  (3),  286,  297  (2), 
306  (3),  308  (2),  312,  353,  370  «., 
404  «.,  418  ;  state  of  Sir  John's 
fleet,  270 

Narrow,  the,  x,  xi,  xxv,  94,  295,  329, 
387  (2),  388 

Navy  Board,  the,  letters  to,  2,  5,  6, 
7,  8,  9,  12,  13,  16,  20,  21,  23, 
24  (2),  26,  28,  29,  32,  33,  42,43,  50, 
Si  (2),  52,  53  (2),  54,  55,  56,  57, 
58,  59  (2),  60  (2),  62  (2),  63,  67, 
69,  71,  72,  8 1,  83,  85,  89,  90,  92, 
95(2),96,97,  103,  112,  113,  114, 

115,  Il6,  122     124,    126,   127,   128, 

133,  138,  141  (3),  142,  148,  151, 
153,  154,  157,  158,  159,  161,  162, 
164,  165,  167,  168,  169,  171,  172, 
173,  174,  175,  176(2),  177,  178, 
183,  186,  187,  191,  199,  203,  205, 

208,  211,  214  (3),  221,  222,  223, 
224  (2),  226,  227,  236,  245,  246, 
250,  254,  258,  259,  260,  26l,  262, 
268,  269,  272,  273,  275,  278  (2), 
28l,  292,  294,  298,  300,  301,  306, 
309,  312,  314,  315,  316,  320,  321, 
322,  325,  327,  329,  330,  332,  336, 

337,  339,  340  (2),  344  (2),  346, 
349,  35i,  353,  37i,  377,  378,  380, 
382,  384,  385,  395,  398,  400,  404, 
407  (2),  408,  410,  411,  414; 
petition  to,  393  ;  reference  from, 

394 
Navy  Office,  letters  from,  319  (3), 

320  (2) ;  letter  to,  117  ;  reference 

to,  71 
Neale,   Mr.,  postmaster  at   Deal  : 

letters  to,  125,  167 


INDEX 


435 


Nepueu,  Mr.,  of  Dover,  61,  120  (2), 

125 

Ness,  the.     See  Dungeness 
Neuburg,  Prince  of,  70 
Neva,  254 
New  Crane,  9 
New  England,  51,  303 
New  York,  39,  127 
Newcastle,  141 
Newfoundland,  xxiv,  xxiv  n.,  13,  59, 

132, 142, 1 66, 174,  203,207,337(9), 

337  ««-,  371 
Newmarket,  xliv,  14, 15,  1 6,  178, 182, 

184,  185(2),  186(3),  279,  281,  282, 

283,    292,   295,    296,    298,    402, 

406(2),  408,  409,4" 
Newnham,  377  n. 
Newton,  Mr.  Samuel,  at  Harwich, 

letter  to,  36 
Niblett,  Robert,  290 
Nicholas,  Sir  Edward,  85  «.,  392  n. 
Nicholas,  Sir  John  :  letters  to,  85, 

392  ;  reference  to,  85  n. 
Nicholls,  Captain,  an  elder  brother 

of  the  Trinity  House,  220 
Nicoll,    Mr.   John,  servant  to  the 

lord  chancellor  :  letter  to,  358 
Nimeguen,  127  «. 
Nissa,  371 
Noel    (Noell,     or    Nowell),     Mr. 

Edward,  M.P.,  77,  77  ».,  78 
Nore,  the,  or  Buoy  of  the  Nore,  lii, 

14,  21  (2),  22,  29  (2),    31    (2),   134, 

262,  265,  267  (3),  269,  276,  279 
Norfolk,  354  n. 
Norman,  James,  formerly  clerk  to 

Sir  William  Batten,  35 
Norreys,  Lord  (afterwards  Earl  of 

Abingdon),  270  n. 
North  Cape,  388 
North-East  Passage,  xxiv,  xxiv  «., 

lii,  172,  183,  1 86,  196,  265  nn. 
North- West  [Company],  183 

Northall, ,  139  (2),  140,  177 

Norway,  1,  62 

Norwood,  Colonel,  2 

Nova  Zembla,  xxiv,  257,  260 


ONEBYE,  Mr.  THOMAS,  merchant, 

316,  326 
Orange,  Prince  of,  25 


Ordnance,  Principal  Officers  of  the  : 
letters  to,  82,  238,  250,  251,  269, 
280.  See  also  Chicheley,  Sir 
Thomas,  and  Sherburne,  Mr. 

Ormonde,  Duke  of,  admiralty  com- 
missioner :  letters  to  86,  100 ; 
references  to,  xxxiv,  23  (3),  27  «., 
89,90,  104,  318,  318  n. 

Orrery,  Lord,  23  (2),  27 

Orton,  Simon,  20  (3),  23,  24,  25,  28, 
29(2) 

Orwell,  280  n. 

Osborne,  Sir  Henry  (deceased), 
late  treasurer  for  the  affairs  of 
sick  and  wounded  seamen ,  246  (3), 
247,  248 

Ossory,  Earl  of,  admiralty  com- 
missioner, viii,  74 

Ostend,  Ostender,  ix,  xxxviii,  23, 
26,  37,  43,  45,  156,  159,  172  (2), 
172  «.,  192,  223,  229,  238,  263, 

266  (2),  28l,  290  (2),  295,  298  (2), 

300,302, 308,  333, 388, 391,392  (2), 
397,  404  (2),   4°7  (2),  408   (2), 
410(3),  412(2),  414 
Oxford,  Oxfordshire,  270,  270    «., 
272 


PACKER,  Mr.  WILLIAM,  94 

Page,  Captain,  268 

Page,  Matthew,  petition  from,  393  ; 
reference  to,  393 

Paine,  Mr.  Edmund,  letter  to,  261 

Palermo,  324 

Pargiter,  Mr.,  goldsmith  :  letter  to, 
10 

Paris,  1 8,  189,  272,  358 

Paris,  Thomas,  100  (2),  113 

Park,  Mr.,  33,  33  n. 

Peachey,  Mr.,  clerk  of  the  rope- 
yard  at  Portsmouth  :  letter  to, 
128 

Pearce,  John,  401 

Pearl,  Commander  of  the  :  letter  to, 
1 20.  See  also  Booth,  Captain 
Thomas 

Pearse,  Mr.  James,  chirurgeon- 
general  of  the  fleet  :  letter  to, 
418  ;  references  to,  177,  188 

Peck,  Robert,  82 

Peckett,  Mr.,  380 

F  F  2 


436 


INDEX 


Pedee,  Mr.,  of  Rotterdam,  243 

Pegge,  Catherine,  379  n. 

Pembroke,  32 

Pembrooke,  Captain  Jacob  van, 
231,  235 

Fender,  Benjamin,  Esq.,  mayor  of 
Falmouth  ;  letters  to,  159,  269. 

Penn,  Mr.  (deceased),  late  clerk  of 
the  check  at  Kinsale,  199 

Penn,  Sir  William,  181  ». 

Pepys,  Mr.  John,  one  of  the  clerks 
of  the  acts :  letters  to,  187,  207, 
333  5  references  to,  10  «.,  187  «.; 
signature  of,  394 

Pepys,  Mr.  Samuel,  secretary  to 
the  admiralty,  vii,  viii,  ix  (2), 
x  (2),  xi  (2),  xiii  (3),  xiv,  xv  (3), 
xvi  (2),  xvii,  xviii,  xix  (3),  xx, 
xx  ».,  xxi  nn.,  xxv  ».,  xxvi,  xxvii, 
xxviii  (2),  xxix,  xxx,  xxxi  (2), 
xxxii  (3)  xxxiii,  xxxv  (2),  xxxvi, 
xxxvii  (2),  xxxviii,  xxxix,  xl  (2), 
xli,  xlii,  xliii  (2),  xliv,  xlv,  xlvi  (2), 
xlvii  (2),  xlviii,  1,  li  «.,  lii  (3),  liii, 
50  ».,  74  «.,  148,  154,  189  (2), 
356  ».,  et Rossini 

Pepysian  Library,  vii,  xv  n. 

Perceval,  Captain,  deputy-governor 
of  Deal  Castle  :  letters  to,  12,  14 

Perera,  Dominic,  183 

Perkins,  Richard,  278 

Perriman,  Captain  John,  master 
attendant  at  Sheerness  and  sur- 
veyor of  ships  for  passes  :  letters 
to,  23,  136,  139,  164,  195,  304, 
359  ;  references  to,  xxi  n.,  1 1 5  (2), 
133,  157,  164  n. 

Petition  from  Matthew  Page,  393 

Pett,  Christopher,  65  ».,  299  n. 

Pett,  Mr.  Phineas,  master-ship- 
wright at  Chatham  :  letters  to, 
40,  63,  149,  303,  399,  413  ;  refer- 
ences to,  xlvi,  69,  1 66  «.,  176, 
214  n. 

Pett,  Mr.   Phineas,  muster-master 
at  Gravesend :  letters  to,  3,  49, 
146,  299,  342,  346,  367 
Pett,    Mr.    Phineas,    master-ship- 
wright at  Woolwich  :  letters  to, 
71,  103,  262,  267,  283,  341,  343  ; 
references  to,  xlvi,  95  «.,  273, 273  n. 
Pettus,    Sir    John,    deputy   vice- 


admiral  for  Suffolk  :  letter  to 
123 

Petty,  Edward,  384 

Petty  Harbour,  337,  337  n, 

Phillpott,  Thomas,  375 

Pibus,  Captain  John,  348  (2) 

Pickes,  Captain,  336 

Pinder,  Thomas,  244,  269 

Finn,  Captain  Edward,  letters  to, 
134,  149,  159,  200,  203;  refer- 
ences to,  2,  1 1 6,  n6«.,  117  (2), 
202,  207  ;  certificate  for,  317 

Piper,  Colonel,  deputy-governor  of 
Plymouth  :  letters  to,  7,  14,  15, 
35.42,  55,  61,  69,  142,  145,  154, 
165,  203,  227,  232,  252,  336,  353, 
356,  361,  366,  372,  374,  377,  380, 
388,  391,  397,  403  J  reference  to, 
392 

Pitt,  Mr.,  clerk  of  the  control  at 
Portsmouth  :  letters  to,  135,  162, 
207 

Pittenweem,  292,  292  «. 

Pley,  Mr.  George,  senior,  letter  to, 
165 

Plymouth,  7  (2),  8,  42,  51,61,63, 
69,  70  (2),  93,  142  (2),  145,  149, 
152,  153,  154  (2),  155  (3),  156, 

165,  167,  l68,  201,  202  (2),  203  (2), 

204,   208,  209  (4),  211  (3),  217, 

221,  227,  232,  246,    249,    252,  266, 

269,  270,  273,  275,  279,  280, 296, 

297  (2),  3°5  (2),   322,  336,  353, 

356,  358,    36l     (2),    364,    367,  371, 

372,  374,  377,  378  (2),  379,  380, 
388,391  (2),  397,  401  (2),  403,  4°8 

Plymouth^  Collector  of  the  Customs 
at :  letter  to,  149.  See  also  Cole- 
man,  Captain  William 

Plymouth,  Earl  of,  379,  379  n. 

Plymouth,  Governor  of,  13.  See 
also  Piper,  Colonel 

Plymouth,  Mayor  of,  388 

Plymouth  Sound,  63 

Pollexfen,  Mr.,  6 

Polston, ,  1 20 

Pomponne,  Monsieur  de,  105, 105  n. 

Poole,  Sir  William,  letters  to,  63, 
71,  107,  113,  114,  400,  405,  415  ; 
references  to,  xxxix  ».,  107  »., 
114,  400  n. 

Pope, ,  128  (2) 


INDEX 


437 


Popish  Plot,  I38«. 
Porter,  Captain,  52 
Porter,  Mr.  (afterwards  Sir  Charles), 
letter  to,  37  ;  references  to  37  n., 

45 

Portland,  72 

Portsmouth,  viii,  xii  ».,  xxvii,  xxxiii, 
xlii,  xlv,  xlvii,  lii,  6,  II,  12  (2), 
15,  19,  20,  22  (2),  24  (4),  30,  32, 
33>  34  (2),  36  (2),  37,  4°,  42  (3), 
43  (2),  44  (2),  45,  47  (3),  5°,  53  (2), 
57  (2),  59,  60,  62,  63  (2),  65, 
65  «.,68,  70(4),  71,  74  (6),  75,  76, 
77  (2),  78  (2),  78  «.,  79  «-,  80  (2), 
81,  82  (3),  83  (3),  84,  85  (3), 
86(4),  87,  88(3),  89  (5),  89  ».,  90, 
92,  93.  94,  98,  104,  106,  106  «., 
110(2),  116(2),  118  (2),  128,  134, 
135,  139  (2),  140  (2),  141,  153, 
158, 159,  I59«.,  162, 163, 165, 173, 
177,  1 88,  189,  191  (3),  192  (4), 
193  (3),  194  (2),  195  (2),  200, 
207,  216,  219,  224  (2),  226,  236, 

239,  242,  266,  267  (2),  270,  273  (2), 
274  (2),  275,  276,  279  (2),  282, 
285,  294  (2),  296,  297  (2),  298, 
299,  3°0,  302,  3°4  (4),  305  (2), 

306,   308   (4),   309   (3),    311    (4), 

313  (2),  313  «•,  3M,    317  (2),    318, 

319(3),  320  (4),  321,  322  (2),  327, 

328  (3),  335  (2),  343,  35°,  35o  «., 
351 n.,  352  (2),  355  (2), 355  ».,  356, 
357,  359,  36o,  361,  362,  365  (2), 
368  (3),  372  (3),  376,  377,  380, 
383  (2),  385  (3,)  391  (2),  396, 
416  (3),  417  (2) 

Portsmouth,  Duchess  of,  51,  76, 
86».,  243,  255 

Portsmouth^  Mayor  of,  letter  to, 
373.  See  also  Steventon,  Mr. 
St.  John 

Portsmouth  yacht,  Commander  of 
the:  letters  to,  74,  102,  331.  See 
also  Sanderson,  Captain  Ralph 

Portsmouth  Yard,  1,  26,  32 

Portugal,  Ambassador  of ,  139,  173, 

265,  383 
Portugal,   Portuguese,  xxn  n.,  75, 

137  n.,  251,  364 
Powell,  Mr.  Nathaniel,  85  (2) 
Preistman,  Captain  Henry  :  letters 

to,    72,    92,    94,    95.    97,    289; 


references  to,  xxxvii  «.,  14,  72  n., 

74  «-,  85  «.,  89,  91  (2),  92,  95, 

287,  316  (2),  326 
Privateers,  lists  of,  253,  266,  270, 

407,  410 

Proud,  Captain,  172  (2) 
Pugh,  Mr.,  clerk  in  the  navy  office, 

298  (3) 
Pyend,  Captain  Stephen,  summons 

to,  140 


QUAYLE,  FRANCIS,  268 
Queen,  the,  65,  100,  101,  205  (2) 
Queenborough,  23,  405 
Queensferry,  292  n. 
Queroualle,  Count  de,  86 


RADICH,  GEORGE,  230 

Rainger,  John,  323 

Ramsey,  Alexander,  311 

Read,  Mr.  Arthur,  122  (2),  123 

Reed,  Mr.,  155 

Reines,  Richard,  290 

Report  of  the  Lords  of  the  A  dmiralty: 
about  a  petition,  316 

Reserve,  Commander  of  the,  letter 
to,  2 1 1.  See  also  Russell,  Captain 
Edward 

Reynolds,  John,  290 

Richmond,  Duchess  of,  58 

Richmond  yacht,  Commander  of  the, 
letter  to,  74.  See alsolyte,  Captain 
Christopher 

Ridley,  Captain  Hugh,  letters  to,  83, 
104,  139,  140,  141,  177,  192,  194, 
275,  365,  372,  376,  385,  391,  396, 
403  ;  references  to,  83,  83^.,  112 

Roberts,  Mr.  Gabriel,  deputy- 
governor  of  the  Royal  African 
Company  :  letters  to,  190,  198, 
227,  235,  241 

Robes  Chamber  (Whitehall),  viii, 

2,  362,  368 
Robinson,  Colonel,  vice-admiral  of 

North  Wales,  letter  to,  5 
Robinson,  Mr.  Francis,  336 
Robinson,     Mr.     Francis,      naval 

chaplain,  275 

Robinson,  Sir  John,  lieutenant  of 
the  Tower :  letter  to,  3 ; 


438 


INDEX 


references  to,  3  ».,  6,  52,  59  (2), 
299 

Robinson,  Sir  Robert,  191,  196, 
206,  207,  210,  211,  214,  215,  218, 

223  (2),  225,  228,  231,  233,  234, 
236,  243,  244,  248  (2)  251,  262, 
264,  265,  269,  276,  279,  28l,  285, 

290,  295,  364  (2) ;  references  to, 
191  ».,  196,  200,  206,  209,  242, 
250,  253,  260,  265,  267,  269, 
275,281  (2),  286(3),  287,  288(2), 

289,  290  (2),  364,  384,  400  (2) 

Rochelle,  Rocheller,  10,  65,  75,  88, 
1 10,  155,  228,  239 

Rochester,  310,  311 

Rochester  Ground,  25 

Roe,  Mr.,  goldsmith,  368 

Roe,  Nicholas,  merchant,  374 

Rooke,  Captain  (afterwards  Sir 
George  Rooke),  letters  to,  118, 
416,  417  ;  references  to,  118  »., 
150,  150  ».,  416  n. 

Rooke,  Colonel,  letter  to,  1 50 

Rooth,  [Sir]  Richard,  letters  to, 
24  (2),  33,  36,  40,  42,  286,  366, 
369,  3?o,  372,  373;  references 
to,  9,  24  »„  27,  33«.,  46,  221, 
286  ».,  289  (2),  291 

Rotherhithe,  xlv,  116  n. 

Rotterdam,  243,  290  (2),  292,  295, 
300,  301,  302  (2),  308,  309,  321, 

383 

Royal    African     Company.      See  | 
African  Company 

Royal  Society,  356  n. 

Royden,  Captain  Charles,  letters 
to,  8,  9,  11,  12,  15,  19,  20,22,  31, 
34  (2),  35,  168,  169  (2),  170  (2), 
393,  4i6,  417  ;  references  to,  9, 
11,  14,  170,  393  »•,  4i6  «. 

Rumbold,  Mr.,  203,  206 

Rumsey,  Mr.,  collector  of  customs 
at  Bristol :  letter  to,  23 

Rupert,  Prince,  xxxii,  24,  213  (2), 
215,  222 

Russell,  Captain  Edward  (after- 
wards admiral  and  Earl  of 
Orford),  letters  to,  202,  211  ;  re- 
ferences to,  10,  202  n.,  337  (2) 

Russell,  Evan,  waterman  :  letter 
to,  320 

Russell,  Lady,  271 


Russell,  Mr.,  211,  287 

Russell,  Sir  James,  271  n. 

Ruvigny,  Marquis  de,  French  am- 
bassador, 55  (2),  83,  127,  272  ». 

Ruvigny,  Marquis  de,  the  younger 
(afterwards  Earl  of  Galway),  6,  9 

Ruyter,  Admiral  de,  xlix,  9,  119 

Rycote,  270,  270  n. 

Rye,  10,  43,  100,  104,  127  (2),  257, 
274,  278,  331,  333,  365,  390 
39i  (3),  404,  409,  412,  417 

Rye  Bay,  412 

Rye,  Mayor  of,  letters  to,  10,  43; 
reference  to,  404. 


ST.  ANDREWS,  Archbishop  of,  98 

St.  George's  Church,  Southwark, 
32 

St.  Helen's,  343 

St.  James's,  72,  93 

St.  John,  Mr.,  paymaster  at  Tan- 
gier, 2 

St.  John's,  337,  337  nn. 

St.  Lawrence  (near  Canterbury), 
150 

St.  Loe,  Mr.,  337 

St.  Malo,  8,  13,  19,  232,  266,  269 

St.  Martin's,  St.  Martin's  Road, 
105,  159 

St.  Michel,  Mr.  Balthazar,  muster- 
master  at  Deal :  letters  to,  74, 
75, 80,  101, 102, 103, 122, 128, 133, 
145,  146,  151,  163,  166,  195,  197, 
206,  208,  209,  219,  224,  226,  308, 
309,  326,  327,  328,  330,  332,  334, 
335,  338,  345,  35i,  352,  364,  367, 
369,  370,  374,  391  (2) ;  references 
to,  lii,  6,  74  ».,  80  «.,  101  n.,  102, 
I02»».,  104,  113,  164,  165,  332 

St.  Ravy,  Monsieur,  82 

St.  Valery,  9  (2) 

Sallee,  xi,  xvi,  xlv,  16,  18  (2),  27, 
42,  52,  60,  64,  65,  68,  69,  82,  92, 
117,  118,  131,  221,  237,  286  (2), 
287,  288,  289  (2),  294,  316  n. 

Salter,  Mr.  Nicholas,  175 

Sanders,  Mr.  George,  15,  196,  202 

Sanderson,  Captain  Ralph,  letters 
to,  23,  25,  40,  58,  74,  101  (2),  127, 
177,  1 88,  263,  277,  278,  295,  321, 
368,  379,  390,  39i  (2),  393  J  re- 


INDEX 


439 


ferences  to,  40  n.,  74  n.,  101, 102, 

1 88  ».,  189,  391 
Sandford,  Mr.,  clerk  of  the  control 

at  Woolwich  :  letter  to,  349 
Sandown  Bay,  76 
Sandwich,  Earl  of,  358 
Sanita,  the,  96 
SaudadoS)  Commander  of  the,  letters 

to,   74,    1 20.      See  also  Jenifer, 

Captain  James 
Savile,  Mr.,  letter  to,  386 
Scanderoon,  144,  271,  317 
Scotland,  Scotchman,  Scotch,  Scots, 

30,42,   105,  159  (2),  254,  254  «., 

293,  298,  354 
Scroope,  Lieutenant,  letter  to,  259  ; 

reference  to,  259 
Seaforth,  Earl  of,  98 
Secretaries  of  State,  Memorandum 

for  the,  277.     See  also  Coventry, 

Mr.  Henry,  and  Williamson,  Sir 

Joseph 

Sessac,  Monsieur,  243,  327 
Severn,  the,  377  n. 
Seymour,  Edward,  Esq.,  treasurerof 

the    navy  and  Speaker  of  the 

House      of     Commons      ('  Mr. 

Speaker') :   letters  to,   70,   196, 

299,   377  5   references  to,  5,  67, 

217,  221,  306,  306  n.,  378 
Shadwell,  Mr.  J.,  judge  at  Tangier : 

letters  to,  93,  103, 106 ;  references 

to,  82,  82  ».,  105,  291 
Shaftesbury,  Earl  of,  viii 
Shales,  Captain,  letters  to,  52,  137, 

166  ;  reference  to,  119 
Shales,  Mr.,  407 
Shaw,  Sir  John,  collector  of  customs 

for  the  Port  of  London  :  letter  to, 

103  ;  references  to,  xxi  n.,   102, 

195 

Sheeres,  Mr.  (afterwards  Sir 
Henry),  engineer  in  charge  of 
the  mole  at  Tangier  :  letters  to, 
157,  205  ;  references  to,  157  n., 
176,  178,  193,  200,  202,  205,  208, 
216,  291,  348,  353  (2) 

Sheerness,  xxi  n.,  xlv,  23  (2),  61  (3), 
92,  113,  115,  128  (2),  133  (2), 
134,  135,  136  (2),  137,  141,  H6, 
150,  159,  164,  164  n.,  176,  177, 
178,  184,  187,  193.  194,  206,  207, 


208  (3),  210,  211,  213,  214  (2), 
215,  2l6,  217  (2),  2l8,  221  (2), 
222,  226  (4),  227,  232  (3),  244, 

251  (2),  252,  254,  255,  256,  262  (3), 

274  (2),  295,  296,  298  (2),  300  (2), 
301,  302  (2),  305,  309,  310,  313(2), 
315,316,  317,  321,  325,  329(3), 

331,   332   (2),   332  n.,   333,  334, 

339  (2),  34i,  346  (2),  348,  349  (2), 

358,  359  (3),  365,  372,  394 
Sheerness,   Master  Attendant  at : 

letter  to,  359.  See  also  Perriman, 

Captain  John 
Sheerness,  Master  Shipwright  at : 

letter  to,   359.    See  also  Shish, 

Mr.  John 

Sheffield,  Edmund,  Esq.,  101,  102 
Sheppey,  Isle  of,  lii,  216 
Sherburne,  Mr.,  a  principal  officer 

of  the  ordnance  :  letter  to,  347 
Shidendon,  Stephen,  a  bailiff,  100 
Ships,  the  names  of : 

[The  ships  marked  with  an  as- 
terisk belonged  to  the  Royal  Navy, 
and  are  given  in  Pepys's  Register 
of  Skips.] 

Abraham,  261 

Abraham's  Offering,  229 

*  Adventure  (4th-rate),  24,  24  «.,  27, 

33,  50  n.,  221,  226, 237,  286,  288, 
290,  323,  327,  336,  364  (2),  366, 
367,368(2),  369  (3),  37 1,372  n. 

Aleppine,  145 

Alicante  Merchant,  378 

America,  25 

Amity  (merchantman),  318,  325 

Ann,  89 

Ann  (Ostend  privateer),  266 
*Ann  and  Christopher  fireship,  xii 
43,  49,  56,  58,  65,  79,  80,  81, 
88,    no,   270,   280,   292,    293, 
347,  370  n. 

Anne  (merchantman),  290 

Anne  (East  India  Company),  389 

*Anne  yacht,  i,  25,  74,  76,  77  (2), 

82, 100, 126,  129,  141,  157,  167, 

170  (2),  172,  182,  185,  187, 
213  (2),  285,  331,  368,  401, 
4l6 

Antego  Merchant,  376 

*  Antelope  (4th-rate),  170  «.,  250  (3) 
*Arms  of  Horn  (hulk),  72 


440 


INDEX 


Ships,  the  names  of  (continued} : 

[The  ships  marked  with  an  as- 
terisk belonged  to  the  Royal  Navy, 
and  are  given  in  Pepys's  Register 
of  Ships.} 

•^Assistance  (4th-rate),  xn,  xn  «., 
49,  56  (2),  58,  58  nn.,  60  (2), 
62,  63,  65,  68,  69,  70,  ?8,  109, 
no,  114,  US,  126»  13lt  222> 
297,305,309>3I5,385  . 
^-Assurance  (4th-rate),  xvi,  1,  hi, 
39,  58  ».,  7i  "••>  191.  196, 

200     (2),     204,     206     (2),      207, 

211  n.,  236,  243,  245  (2),  248, 
251  (3),  253,  260,  262  (2)> 
264  (3),  265,  267  (2),  269,  270, 

276,  279,  285,  286  (2),  287,  288, 
289,  290  (2),  291,  295,  364 

Bachelor,   xxxiii,  127,    161,    190, 
249,  250 

Bachelor  (of  Southampton),  385 

Banian,  353 

Barnaby,  320 

Bell,  94 

Bengal    Merchant    (East   India 
Company),  389 

Berkeley  Castle,  1 56 

Bernardiston  (East  India  Com- 
pany), 389 

*Bezan  yacht,  74,  75  (2),  95,  102, 
114,  157,  200,  213  (2),  213 »., 
214,  216(2),  218,  235,  249,265, 
349,  376  n. 

Blessing,  294 

Bombay   Merchant  (East  India 

Company),  389 

*Bonadventure  (4th-rate),  172  n. 
^Bristol  (4th-rate),  xxv  (2),  7,  8, 
13,  16,  18,  43,  47,  47  ».,  56,  58, 
58  n.,  59,  61,  69,  73  «.,  132, 
142,  143,  222,  236,  239  (2),  242, 
250,251(2),  255,  258,  259,  267, 
276,  296,  300,  304  (4),  305  (2), 
308,  309,  311,  311  «.,  316(2), 
319  (2),  321,  328,  339,  353, 
360(2),  4147*. 

Caesar  (East   India   Company), 

389 
-'Cambridge  (3rd-rate),  53,  55  (2), 

55  «.,  185  ».,  312,  374  n. 
^Centurion  (4th-rate),  u,  380 
Charles,  31 


*Charles  (ist-rate),  352  (2),  356, 
378,  378  n. 

*Charles  galley  (4th-rate),  xxix, 
xlvi  (3),  273  «-,  275,  275  »., 
288  (2),  288  «.,  314,  323, 
342  (2), -358,  362,  363(3),  364, 

365,  37i,  398 

"Charles  yacht,  xlvi,  116  ».,  117, 
134  (2),  139,  157,  182  (2),  1 88, 
203,^206,  257,  279,  328,  329, 

383,  394,  409 

Christiana,  219  (2) 

City  of  London,  338 
-Cleveland  yacht,  i  (2),  9,  37,137  »., 
51,70,82,83,89,93,  106,  116, 
Ii6».,  118,  134,  149,  157,  159, 

200,  202,  203,  207,  244  (2),  312, 

317, 401, 414 

Concord  merchantman,  ngn. 
Constant,  320 
-Constant  Warwick  (4th-rate),  39, 

155  «.,  416,  416  n. 
Country's  Welfare,  414 
Covenant,  57 
*Crown  (4th-rate),  44  ». 

Daniel,  230 

^Dartmouth  (5th-rate),xii,  xxv  (2), 
2,  21,  21  ».,  24,  28,  39,  41,  42, 
49,  So  K2),  50  n.,  51,  53,  56*., 
65,  87,  1 10,  114,  1 16  ».,  1 18, 

126,  131,  284,  292,  295,  296, 

297,  300,  301,  3Q2,  305,  307  (2), 
312,  313,   316,  327,  328,  329, 

331  (2),  334,  339,  345,  364 
David,  82 

*Deal  yacht,  5 

*Defiance  (srd-rate),  xlv,  214, 
214  ».,  216 

*Deptford  ketch,  xxv  (2),  60,  62, 
74,  75  (2),  76,  86,  95,  101,  104, 
105,  106,  112,  128,  154,  184, 
184  ».,  I97,2o6,  254,  258  (2), 
262,  270,  275,  279,  282,  294, 

298,  308  (2),  3 1 1,  319,  320,  321 
*Diamond   (4th-rate),   xii,    xxxix, 

39,   40,    49,   52,  79,   89,   no, 
in  (2),  114,  132,  181,  219,  221, 

222,  232,  238,  244  (2),  269,  273, 

407,  415,415  «• 

Diamond  (of  London),  374 
Dolphin  (Ostend  privateer),  408 
*Dover  dogger,  292 


INDEX 


441 


Ships,  the  names  of  (continued)  : 

[The  ships  marked  with  an  as- 
terisk belonged  to  the  Royal  Navy, 
and  are  given  in  Pepys's  Register 
of  Ships.'] 

*Dragon  (4th-rate),  xii,  I  (3),  39, 
52,  78,  1 10,  131,  222,270,273, 
274,  276,  293,  309,  312,  3x3  (3), 
317,  322  (2),  335  (2),  384,  400 
*Drake  (6th-rate),  xvi,  149  (2), 
207  (2),  208  (3),  214  (3),  216, 
223,  226,  234,  245,  248,  251  (2), 
252,  254  (3),  259,  263  (2),  266, 
281,  295  (2),  297,  299  (2),  300, 
301,  302,  303  (3),  326,  326  n. , 
33',  332,  333,  34i  (3),  346, 
349  (2),  397 

^Dreadnought  (3rd-rate),  21  n. 
^Dunkirk  (3rd-rate),  34 
*Eagle  fireship,  43,  62,  95,  95  »., 
113,  150,  i sow.,  227,  244,  339, 

397  »• 
East  India  Merchant  (East  India 

Company),  389 
*Edgar  (3rd-rate),  81 
Edward,  223 
Elizabeth,  333 
Elizabeth  (of  London),  323 
*Europa  hulk,  xii,  2,  20,  52,  53, 
79,  80  (2),  89,  131,  351,  35^  »•» 
352,  352  n. 
Expedition,  401 
*Falcon  (4th-rate),  6,  397 ».,  398, 

417 

^Foresight  (4th-rate),  37  ».,  97, 
ii6w.,  151,  157,  191,  192  (2), 
192  «.,  193,  203,  206,  206  «., 

217,  222  (2),  223,  300 

Francis  (merchantman),  320 
^Francis  (6th-rate),  352,  352 «.,  357, 
359,  370,  376,  383  (2),  385,  387, 
392,  393,  399,  409 

Frederick,  401 

Friendship,  290 

*Garland  (5th-rate),  xxxv,  24,  24  »., 
57,  94,  98,  99,  102  (2),  104  (2), 
105,112,116,118,128,133,136,  I 
137,  141,  145,  146,  154,  155, 
157  (2),  158  (2),  166,  168  (2), 
169,  183  n.,  205,  206,  208,  310, 

218,  225,  226,  232,  236,  237,  238, 
243,252,254,255,256,262(3), 


274,  290,  293,  295,  297,  298, 
300,  301,  303,  304(2),  308,  309, 
312,  318,  321  (4),  325,  326  »., 
328,333,334,339,341,386(2), 
387  (2),  388,  391  (2),  392,  395, 

397  (2),  399,  4",  4*2,  415  »•, 
416,  418  (2) 

George  (East  India  Company), 
389 

George  (merchantman),  155, 
158  (2),  261 

Golden  Lion,  320 
"Greenwich  (4th-rate),   5  n.,   165, 

173,  1 88,  191 

^Greyhound  (6th-rate),  6,  14,  19, 
23,  25,  34,  53,  57,  61  (2),  62,  74, 
77»-i  83,  87,  89,  93,  98,  112, 
125,  126,  128,  134,  135,  146, 
155,  163,  164,  165,  166,  174, 
184,  187,  191,  193,  198(2),  199, 
203,  207  (2),  208,  214  (2),  218, 

223  (2),  234,  243,  250,  263,  266, 

276, 301,  309,  345, 346, 348, 349, 
359  (2),  365,  372,  373 
-'Guernsey  (5th-rate),  xxxix,  9  (2), 

II,    12(2),    15,    I9,    20   (2),    22, 

33  (2),  34  (2),  36,  65,  127,  168, 
169  (2),  170,  393  n.,  397,  414, 

414  »-,  415 

Guinea,  103,  106,  145,  280 
Half  Moon,  146 
*Hampshire  (4th-rate),  380 
*Harwich    (3rd-rate),    xii,    xxix, 
xlvii,  38  (2),  39,  43,  44,  44  »., 
49,  51,  56  (2),  58,  59,  65,  68, 
70,  73,  77  (2),   78  (3),  79  (2), 
80,  81  (3),  84  (2),  85,  86,  88, 
no,   in,   115,  117,  131,  161, 

179  (2),  179  «-,  1 80,  266,  269, 
269  ».,  270,  285,  294,  299,  306, 

308,  311,  352,  418  n. 
*Henrietta  (3rd-rate),  xi,  xxxviii, 
19,38  (2),  39,  52,  62,  no,  141, 
180,  183,  219,  221,  224,226(2), 
232,  236,  244  (2) 
Henry  and  Ann,  320 
Henry  and  Sarah,  3,  20 
Hercules,  20 

*Holmes  fireship,  xii,  24  ».,  56, 
56  ».,  65,  68  (2),  71,  71  ».,  79, 
80,  81,  88,  no,  270,  285,  292, 
293,  297,  361 


442 


INDEX 


Ships,  the  names  of  (continued) : 

[The  ships  marked  with  an  as- 
terisk belonged  to  the  Royal  Navy, 
and  are  given  in  Pepys's  Register 
of  Shipsl\ 
Hope,  94 

Hope  (of  Hamburg),  120 
Hope  (of  London),  290 
Hope  (of  Rochelle),  10 
*Hope  fireship,  203  n. 
Hopeful  Adventure,  301,  302,  401 
Hopewell,  80,  401 
Hunter,  65,  109 

*Hunter  (5th-rate),  xxiv,  7  (2),  11, 
13,  22,  25,  29,  1 1 8,  123,  138, 
140,  147,  156,  163,  167,  1 68, 
172,  176,  177,  178,  184,  187, 
1 88,  190,  194,  198  (3),  208  (2), 

209  (2),  210,  211  (2),  2l6,  2l8, 
224,  226,  227,  232,  235  (2), 
238  (2),  238  ».,  239,  346  (2),  348 

James  (of  London),  12 
*James  galley  (4th-rate),  xxix,  xlvi, 
273  «•>  3M,  323,  340  «.,  34i, 
342,  346,  357,  358,  362  (2),  363, 
364,  365,  368 
;::Jemmy  yacht,  176 
*Jersey  (4th-rate),  39,  56  n.,  407  (2) 
Jerusalem,  324 
John  and  Elizabeth,  159,  163 
John  and  Sarah,  233 
John  and  Thomas,  290 
John's  Endeavour  ketch,  191 
Jonas,  82 

Joseph  and  Benjamin,  261 
Katharine    (merchantman),  123, 

128,  132,  134,  143,  145,  146 
*Katherine  yacht  (1661),  213  (2), 

213  n. 

*Katherine  yacht  (1674),  xlvi,  6, 9, 
25,  43,  63  (2),  74,  82,  109,  178, 
179,  213  (2),  251  (2),  260, 269(2), 
346,  357,  363,  365,  368,  375,  376 
*Kingfisher  (4th-rate),  166,  166  n., 
176,  193,  193  n.,  405  ».,  412, 
416 

*  Kitchen  yacht,   75   (2),  90,   98, 
124,  158,  170  n.,  206,  213  (2), 
235,  243  (2),  264  (2),  267,  299, 
304,  306,  308,  309  (2) 
Lady  Francis,  55 
*Lark   (6th-rate),   xxxvii    n.,  xlv, 


57  «-,  63  (3),  67,  72,  72  ».,  74, 
85,  89  (2),  92,  93,  95,  97,  221, 
237,  289,  291,  326,  365 
-Leopard    (4th-rate),     157,     397, 

400(2),  400  ».,  415 
Leopard  (merchantman),  xvi,229, 

230,  242 
Little  Francis  fireship,   258  (2), 

262 

*Little  London  smack,  149 
*London  (ist-rate),  298  (2) 
London  (East  India  Company), 

389 
Loyal     Merchant    (East    India 

Company),  409 

Loyal  Subject  (East  India  Com- 
pany), 389 
Madonna,  114 
-Margaret    galley   (4th-rate),  69, 

88  n.,  288  n.,  348 
Margaret  (of  London),  230,  338 
Marquis,  388 
Martin,  65,  109 
Martin,  145 
*Mary  (3rd-rate),  380 
*Mary  yacht,  37  (3),  37  «.,  44,  62 
Mary  (of  Londonderry),  293 
Mary  (Malagaman),  70  «. 
*Mary  Rose  (4th-rate),  xii,  19,  40, 
49,  52,  65,  69(2),  69  «.,  87(2), 
88  (2),  103, 105  (2),  111(2),  127, 
142,145,147, 147  ».,  153, 154(2), 
155,  156,288 
Merchant's  Consent,  320 
*Merlin  yacht,  1 1, 22, 24,  37, 43  (2), 
44(4),  47  (3),  n6,  150/2.,  157, 
187,  213  (2),  213  «.,  215,  216, 
217  (2),  230,  267,  274,  292,  324, 
358,  366,  376  ».,  385,  385  ».,  391 
*Mermaid    (5th-rate),    158,    380, 

403,  403  ».,  416,  417 

*Monck  (3rd-rate),  13,  21  «.,  407 

*Monmouth  yacht,  12, 42  (2),  43  (3), 

44  (2),  45,  45  ».,  47  (2),  57  (2), 

59,  113,  124,  236,  238,  238  »., 

342,  343,  405 
*Mountagu    (3rd-rate),   224,  415, 

415  n. 

Nativity  of  Christ,  128,  140 
*Navy  yacht,  14  ».,  85  (2),   129, 

147,    150,   153,    157,  173,  279, 

296,  297 


INDEX 


443 


Ships,  the  names  of  (continued] : 

[The  ships  marked  with  an  as- 
terisk belonged  to  the  Royal  Navy, 
and  are  given  in  Pepys's  Register 
of  Ships.] 
Negotia  (French  privateer),  253, 

254 

-''-Newcastle  (4th-rate),  xii,  17,  39, 
52,  1 10,  130,  141,  146,  275  «., 
407  (2),  416,  416  n. 
-Nonsuch  (4th-rate),  33,  150  »., 

170  «.,  416,  416  «.,  417 
'-Norwich  (sth-rate),  21,  23  (3),  27, 
32,  86(2X89,90,92,97, 100(2), 
104, 106,  113,  129, 178, 186, 189, 
190,  190  n.,  191  (2),  195  (2), 
200,  208,  383,  389 
-Oxford  (4th-rate),  139, 163, 165(2), 

1 68,  173,  360,  380 
Paragon,  49,  63 
Paragon  (of  Plymouth),  378 
*Pearl  (sth-rate),  5,  14  (2),  15, 
16,  19,  21,  23,  31  (2),  57  (2), 
60  (2),  69,  73,  82,  94,  97,  98, 
99,  101,  104,  106,  120  (2),  122, 
124,  126,  150  n.,  153  «.,  158, 

183,  183  «.,  197,  199,  202,  203, 

211,  371,  397  «• 
*Pearl  fireship,  150  n. 

Peter,  230 

Petit  La  Force  (Dunkirk  priva- 
teer), 234,  253 

Petit  Louis  (Dunkirk  privateer), 

234,  253 

-Phoenix  (4th-rate),  1,  35,  42,  45, 
45  «.,  46  (2),  57,  62,  96,  158, 
168  (2),  170,  170  «.,  175,  177, 
187,  191  (2),  192  (4),  194,  271, 
371,  383 

'-Plymouth  (3rd-rate),  xvii,  294, 
299,  352  (2),  355  (2),  356,  404, 
417,  418,  418  n. 

Port     Morant     Merchant,    150, 

150  n. 

^Portland  (4th-rate),  168,  169, 
340  #.,  403  «.,  404,  416, 
416  n. 

*Portsmouth  (4th-rate),  xii,  xii  «., 
20,  39,  49,  56  (2),  56  «-,  58,  60, 
62,  63,  65,  70,  74,  75,  88,  105, 
1 10,  131,  132,  143,  180,  222, 
270,  273,  274,  282,  293,  309, 


312,314(2X317(3),  318,  322, 
335,  384,  387  (2),  400 
-Portsmouth   yacht,    23,    25,    40, 
40  n.,  58,  71,  74  (2),  76,  77, 
100  (2),  lor  (3),  102,  127,  177, 
187,   1 88,  1 88  n.,   189  (2),  263, 
277,  278,  320,  321,  368,  379, 
390,  391 
President,  200 
Prince  Rupert,  311,  312,  330 
Prosperous    (of    London),    211, 

223,  228,  231 
Prosperous    pink,    xxv  ».,    182, 

265,  265  n. 
Providence,  380 

'-Quaker  ketch,  xxxviii  (2),  xxxix, 
18,  29,  33,  50  ».,  143,  155, 
155  «.,  156, 159(2),  171,  174(2), 
174  «•,  182,  190,  193,  265  »., 
287,  290,  323,  327,  336,  365, 
374  (2),  374  «-,  375,  376,  411, 
416,  416  n. 

*Queenborough  yacht,  378 
Rachel,  385 
Rebecca,  367 
Recovery,  9,  320 

'-Reserve  (4th-rate),  119,  169,  171, 
174,  202,  202  »,  203,  211,  365, 
371 

'-Resolution  (3rd-rate),  24  n. 
Revenge     (Dunkirk    privateer  , 

219,  254 

Richard  and  Ann,  375 
'-Richmond  (5th-rate),  14,  24  «., 

72  «.,  93 

*Richmond  yacht,  9,  12  (3),  22, 
74,  95,  98,  1 1 8,  122,  123,  124, 
127  (2),  134,  138,  184  «.,  207, 

213  (2),  217,  222,  258,  259,282, 

308 

*Roebuck  (6th-rate),  xii,  52,  no, 
130,  141,  146,  154,  155  (2),  311 
Rooth,  157 

'-Rose  (5th-rate),  xxv  (3),  xxvi,  16, 
127,  204,  207  (2),  208  (3), 

214  (2),  216,  232  (2),  248,  250, 
254,  259,  263,  266,  268,  276  (2), 
278,  28l,  282,  295,  298,  299, 

3oo  (3),  301,  307  (2),  312,  313, 

316,  320,  325,  326,  328  (2), 

329  (2),  33i  (3),  332,  333, 
334  (2),  339 


444 


INDEX 


Ships,  the  names  of  (continued) : 

[The  ships  marked  with  an  as- 
terisk belonged  to  the  Royal  Navy, 
and  are  given  in  Pepys's  Register 
of  Ships.] 
*Royal   Charles    (ist-rate),    311, 

312  (2) 
*Royal  James  (ist-rate),  xlv,  lii, 

60  «.,  63,  65,  65  «.,  68  n. 
"Royal  Katherine  (2nd-rate),  299, 

299  ». 

*Royal  Oak  (3rd-rate),  268 
*  Royal  Sovereign  (ist-rate),  xl,  27, 

171,  298  (2),  301,  348 
*Ruby  (4th-rate),   34,    140,    194, 

224,  228 

*Rupert  (3rd-rate),  47  n. 
*St.  Andrew  (ist-rate),  217  n. 
St.    Anne    (Ostend    privateer), 

238 

*St.    David   (4th-rate),   xxxix  »., 
53,63,69,71(2),  107  (2),  415*., 
416 
*St.  George  (2nd-rate),  37  ».,  215, 

219,  277 
St.  John,  43 
St.  Mark,  336 
St.  Martin,  376  n. 
St.  Mary  (Ostend  privateer),  410 
*St.  Patrick  (4th-rate),  81, ,81  n. 
St.    Peter    (Ostend    privateer), 

270 
St.  Teresa  (Dunkirk  privateer), 

266,  276,  277 
St.  Thomas,  151  (2) 
Sampson,  149,  152 
Samuel,  78  (2) 

*Sapphire  ($th-rate),  xlv,  57  »., 
60,  62,  68  «.,  73,  73  ».,  90, 
93  (2),  95,  98,  104  (2),  115, 
117(4),  118,  119,  122,123,  126, 
145,  180,  237,  287,  291,  365 
*Saudados  (6th-rate),  62,  74  (2), 
100  (2),  in,  118,  120,  124, 
128,  133,  137,  138,  140,  147, 

157,    183,    190,    193,     200,    201, 

205,  205  ».,  209,  321  (3),  326, 
336,  339,  341,  345,  352,  359, 
365,  368,  369,  373,  375  (2),  376, 
379,  383,  385,  386,  387,  387  »-, 
388,  410 
Scipio,  70,  78,  400 


Shaftesbury,  311,  312,  330 
*Speedwell  (5th-rate),  xxiv,  xxiv  »., 
24,  24  ».,  50,  57,  94,   104  (2), 
105,  112,  119  «.,  128,  166,  168, 
172  ».,  174,  175,  178,  183,  196, 
257(3),  260,  265?;.,  415  n. 
*Spy  sloop,  278 
-Stavoreen     (4th-rate),    393    (2), 

393  »• 

^Success    (5th -rate),    xii,     xxxi, 

xxxviii,  xxxviii  n.,   17,  39,  52, 

72,  72  n.,  1 10,  127,  129,  I30»., 

145,147,  152,  169(2),  180,278 

Success  (East  India  Company), 

389 

Susanna,  254 

"Swallow   (4th-rate),   xii,    10,    13, 
24  ».,  26  (2),  41,  42,  47  (3), 

47*.,  49,  50,  53,  56,  56".,  58»., 
65,  1 10,  114,  118,  131,  143, 

202  «.,  222,  356,  358,  364  (3), 
366  (2),  367,  368,  369  (2),  387, 
389,395,399,411,412,416 

:':Swan  or   Swan   prize  (5th-rate), 
13,  21,21  «.,  24,  44  (2),  44»., 
132 
-'•Sweepstakes  (4th-rate),  6  (2),  416, 

416  ».,  417 

"Swiftsure  (3rd-rate),  24  n. 
Thomas  and  Benjamin,  375 
Thomas  and  George,  396  (2) 
Three  Friars  (privateer),  236 
Three  Sisters,  99 
-Tiger  (4th-rate),  73  n. 
Town  of  Newcastle,  1 36 
::=Triumph  (2nd-rate),  37  n. 
Turkey  Merchant,  338 
*Unicorn    (2nd-rate),    xxxix,    27, 

149,  152,  161,  162,  278,  282 
Unity    (East    India   Company), 

389 

Venetian,  280 
:;: Victory    (2nd-rate),   xii,   9,    186, 

224 
Viva  Oranga  (French  privateer), 

266 

*  Vulture  sloop,  97,  192 
"•Warspite  (3rd-rate),  72  n. 
William,  242 
William  and  James,  61 
William  and  Robert,  320 
William  and  Thomas,  400 


INDEX 


445 


Ships,  the  names  of  (continued) : 

[The  ships  marked  with  an  as- 
terisk belonged  to  the  Royal  Navy, 
and  are  given  in  Pepys's  Register 
of  Ships ^\ 

*Wivenhoe  fireship,  n,  24,  24  n., 

43,49,  57,  59,71  n.,  83,  83  nn., 

104,    139,  140,    141,  177,   192, 

194,  275,  365. 376,  385,  39i,  396 

*Woolwich  (4th-rate),  xlv,  95  n., 

177,  406  «.,  408  (2),  415 
*Woolwich  sloop,  83  ».,  112   n., 

192  n. 

^Yarmouth  (4th-rate),  xii,  24  «.,  43, 
49,  56  (2),s6».,  58,  58  n.,  65,  69, 
70,  79,  80,  8 1  (2),  82  (2),  84, 
86,88,  89,93  (2),  no,  131(2), 
133,    143,   180,  222,  390,  391, 
392,  395  (3),  396,  412,  417 
*York  (3rd-rate),  146  n.,  193,  195 
*Young  Spragge,  or  Little  Spragge 
(6th-rate),  112,  112  n.,  255,  258, 
352  n.,  367,  370 
Zante  frigate,  269  n. 
Shipwash,  the,  22 
Shish,  Mr.  John,  master-shipwright 
at  Sheerness  :  letters  to,  141,  146, 
216,  217,  226,  232,  252,  254,  262, 
329,  332,  333,  359,  365  ;  referen- 
ces to,  206  n.,  332  n. 
Shish,  Jonas,  junior,  206  n. 
Shish,  Mr.   Jonas,  senior,  master- 
shipwright    at   Deptford :    letter 
to,  332  ;  references  to,  55,  55  n., 
206,  206  n.,  330,  330  n.,  331  (2), 
332  n.,  378  n. 
Shoreham,  402 
Shovell,  Lieutenant  (afterwards  Sir 

Clowdisley),  xiv,  179,  179  n. 
Shrewsbury,  Countess  of,  101 
Sicily,  1 10 
Sicily,  Naples,  and  Sardinia,  the 

Vice- King  of,  169 
Sidney,  Algernon,  151  n. 
Sidney,     Mr.     Henry    (afterwards 
Earl  of  Romney),  1 5 1  (2),  1 5 1  «. 
Skelton,  Mr.  Bevil,  25,  25  n. 
Skevington,  Thomas,  153 
Skinner,  Mr.  Ephraim,  merchant, 
formerly     consul    at    Leghorn : 
letters  to,   257,   261  ;    reference 
to,  257  n. 


Skreens,  256,  257 

Slader,  Philip,  165 

Slingesby,  Henry,  Esq.,  master  of 

the  mint :  letter  to,  333 
Sliter,  Mr.,  376 
Smith,  Captain  Anthony,  letters  to, 

14,  129,  147,  150,   153,  279,  280, 

297  ;  reference  to,  14  n. 
Smith,  Mr.,  222 
Smyrna,   118,   119,   212,  271,  388, 

400 
Smyth,  Sir  Jeremy,  comptroller  of 

the  victuallers'  accounts :  letters 

to,  42,  85  ;  references  to,  viii,  85, 

122,  150,  159  n.,  227  «. 
Sneedell,  Thomas,  290 
Solicitor-General,  Mr.,  358 
Somerley  (Somerleyton),  232, 232  n., 

239 

Sotherne,  Mr.  235 

South  Foreland,  76  (2) 

Southampton,  1 1  (2),  76,  86,  293  (2), 
297,  385  (2) 

Southesk,  Countess  of,  172,  172  n. 

Southsea  Castle,  376 

South wark,  32,  353  (2) 

Southwark  Fair,  xxxiii,  266 

Southwell,  Robert,  Esq.,  of  Kin- 
sale,  199 

Southwell,  Sir  Robert,  secretary 
to  the  commissioners  of  prizes  : 
letters  to,  8,  n,  20,  21  (2),  23, 27, 
34,  55,  174,  177,  218,  375 

Southwold  (Sole),  123,  282,  282  n. 

Spain,  Spaniard,  Spanish,  xii, 
xxii  «.,  39,  43  (2),  99,  128,  145  n., 
163,  224,  336,  386,  387 

Spain,  King  of,  66,  223,  412 

Sparks.     See  Park 

Speaker,  Mr,,  letters  to,  70,  377. 
See  also  Seymour,  Mr.  Edward 

Spencer,  Thomas,  34 

Spithead,  31,  78,  79,  80,  81  (2),  190, 
242,  309,  316,  317,  350,  417 

Stafford,  Viscount,  138,  I38«. 

States  General,  the,  82,  102,  230, 
354.  See  also  Dutch,  Holland, 
United  Provinces 

Stepney,  Captain  Rowland,  letters 
to,  149,  208,  214  (2),  254,  295, 
299,  300,  303  ;  references  to,  299, 
302,  304,  326  «. 


446 


INDEX 


Stevens,  Mr.,  cashier  of  the  navy  : 

letters  to,  217,  221 
Steventon,  Mr.,  clerk  of  the  check 

at  Portsmouth,  42 
Steventon,  Mr.  John,  purser,  298 
Steventon,  Mr.  St.  John,  mayor  of 

Portsmouth  :  letters  to,  139,  140 
Stile,  Mr.,  at  Genoa,  letter  to,  96 
Stock,   Mr.    Abraham,   at   Dover, 

letters  to,  9,  1 1  ;  references  to,  9, 

261 
Stockdale,  Mr.  Robert,  collector  of 

customs  at  Dover  :  letters  to,  19, 

21,  27,  30,  32,  54,  56,  58,  61,  88, 

99,  119,  125,  156,  163 
Stockholm,  386 
Story,  Captain  James,  letters    to, 

56,  58,  60,  62,  63,  70,  73,  75,  105, 

132,  273,  282,  293,  314,  318,  328, 
387,  400  ;  references  to,  56  «.,  399 

Stout,  Captain  Robert,  letters  to, 
17,  147,  169  ;  references  to,  72, 
72  ».,  152,  1 80,  1 80  n. 

Straits,  the,  xi  (2),  xii,  xv,  xvii  (2) 
xxxv,  8,  10,  14,  16,  17,  39  (2), 
42,  43,  44,  45,  52,  53,  64  (2), 
69  (2),  72,  80  (2),  8 1,  84,  92,  104, 
109,  in,  115,  117,  118  (2),  127, 

133,  166(2),   181,  187,  201,  214, 

221,   227,  231,  252,  257,  268,  269, 
270,     285,     306,     314,     322,     324, 

345  (2),  353,  354,  365,  380(2),  385, 

387,  404,  414 
Straits,  the  commanders  of  any  of 

His  Majesty's  ships  in  the,  letter 

to,  380 

Stralsund,  418 
Stretton,  John,  290 
Strickland,  Sir  Roger,   letters   to, 

I,  16,  273,  276,  293,  313,  322,  327, 

335,  4oo ;  references  to,  i,  39,  40, 

1 86,  190,  313  (2),  399 
Stnckland,  Sir  Thomas,  54 
Strode,  Colonel,  governor  of  Dover 

Castle  :  letters  to,  291,  398,  399 
Suffolk,  249 

Summons  to  attend  the  lords,  329 
Sumpter,   Lieutenant  Robert,  192, 

192  n. 
Surinam,  either  of  the  masters  of 

the  hired  ships  going  to,  letter  to, 

29 


Surinam,  c  Surinamites,'  xxiv  (2), 
xxiv«.,  2,  3,  4  (2),  7,  8  (2),  II, 

20  (2),  21  (2),  22,  23,  24,  25  (3),  27, 

28,  29,  1 1 8,  192 
Sussex,  li,  10,  116 
Swaart,  Captain,  281 
Swanley,  George,  389 
Sweden,  King  of ,  208,  255  (2),  262, 

309,317,  321,  331 

Sweden,  Swedish,  Swedes,  xxn  n., 
30  (2),  31  (2),  85,  105  ».,  167, 
168  (2),  206  n.,  221,  225,  235, 
254  «.,  256,  352,  386,  418 

Swinton,  Mr.  John,  junior,  merchant 
of  London  :  letter  to,  244 


TANCOCK,  JOHN,  378 

Tangier,  xiii,  xvi,  xvi  «.,  xxiv,  xxxi, 
xxxii,  xxxiii,  xxxiv,  xlvi,  xlvii  (2), 
1,  lii,  1,2  (3),  12  (2),  i2».,  19  (2), 
20(3),  21,  22,  29,  31  (6),  31  n.,  32, 
34  (3),  42,  52,  53,  59,  65,  66,  67, 
68,  69  (5),  72,  79  (2),  80,  8 1,  82  (2), 
82  «.,  86,  88  (2),  89,  103  (2),  104, 
104 ».,  105,  109,  1 10,  114,  117, 
119,  123  (2),  126,  127,  128,  131, 

133(2),  136,  137,  142,  145,  M9  (2), 
153,  155,  156(2),  157(2),  157  «-, 

158,  161,  174,  176,  178,  181,  187, 

193,  201  (2),  202  (2),  205  (4),  222, 
228,  241  (3),  253  (2),  257,  262  (2), 
264  (3),  265  (2),  267,  268,  272  (2), 

272  «.,   274,   281   (3),   286,   287, 

288  (3),  289,  291  (2),  294,  295  (2), 

296,  322  (2),  323,  340,  344,  348  (3), 
35 i  «•,  353  (2),  362, 363  (3),  364 (2), 
365  (2),  374,  384,  387  (2),  389, 
390,  399  (2),  400  (2),  404 
Tangier,  the  commander  of  any  ship 
bound  to  England  from,  letter  to, 

293. 

Tangier  Bay,  1 10 

Tartary,  xxv  «.,  257 

Taylor,  Christopher,  61 

Taylor,  Edward,  318  (2),  328 

Taylor,  Mr.  Edward,  6 

Taylor,  Captain  Silas,  storekeeper 
at  Harwich  :  letters  to,  14,  22,  23, 
30,  33,  36,  42,  93,  120,  126  ;  refer- 
ences tO,  1 2O,  122 

Taylor,  William,  301,  302 


INDEX 


447 


Temple,  Captain  John,  letters  to, 
51,  53,  284,  292,  295,  297,  302, 
313,  317  327,  328  (2),  334  ;  refer- 
.ences  to,  xxv,  50,,  50  «.,  87,  328, 
334,  345(2),  351,  364 

Temple,  Lady,  182,  292 

Temple,  Mr.,  goldsmith,  366 

Temple,  Sir  Richard,  senior  com- 
missioner of  customs :  letter  to, 
153  ;  reference  to,  154 

Temple,  Sir  William,  ambassador 
extraordinary  to  the  States 
General  of  the  United  Provinces, 
82,  292  n. 

Terceiras,  323  (2) 

Tetuan,  18 

Thames,  the  ('  the  River'),  xlv,  xlvi, 
i,  8,  9,  12,  13,  50,  55,  60,  85,  89, 
92  (2),  94,  101(2),  129(2),  136(3), 
146,155,  159,164,  164  ».,  166,  168, 
182,  184,  185,  199,  200,  205,  207, 
213  (3),  215,  217  (2),  219(2),  224, 

244,  254, 266, 270, 274, 277, 280,. 
281, 283,  290, 297, 298,  307,  308, 
317,  319, 320,  324,  330,  340,  346, 

357,  366,  368  (2),  378,  379,  386, 
409.  410,  414 

Thierry,  Mr.  James,  merchant  of 
London,  230,  231 

Thomas,  Mark,  43 

Thompson,  Alderman  Sir  William, 
letter  to,  353  ;  reference  to,  353  n. 

Thornhill,  Colonel  Richard  (de- 
ceased), 257  «. 

Thornhill,  Lady  Johanna,  257, 
257  n. 

Thornhill,  Mr.,  401 

Thorpe  (Suffolk),  85,  85  n. 

Thrale,  John,  80 

Throckmorton,  Lady,  285 

Thynne,  Henry,  Esq.,  letters  to,  33, 
.243 

Till,  Captain,  an  elder  brother  of 
the  Trinity  House,  220,  225,  249 

Tillard,  Mr.  Lewis,  412 

Tinker,  Captain  John,  master  at- 
tendant at  Deptford  :  letters  to, 
12,  13,  217  ;  references  to,  28, 
217  «.,  330,  330  ».,  331  (2) 

Tippetts,  [Sir]  John,  surveyor  of  the 
navy  :  letters  to,  30,  37,  42,  50, 
164,  166,  176,  188,  268,  401  ; 


references  to,  xliii,  xliv,  xlv,  45, 

78,  1 06,  io6«.,  134,  158,  323,  329, 

345,  4io 

Titchfield,  77,  78  (3) 
Tong,  Captain  John,  310,  3lo». 
Topsham,  294,  302,  401 
Tower,  the,  see  London,  Tower  of 
Tower  Wharf,  262 
Townshend,  Lord,  vice-admiral  of 

Norfolk,  28,  36,  loo,  112 
Trapani,  no 

Travell,  Mr.  Samuel,  merchant,  401 
Trelawne,  189,  189  n. 
Trelawny,     Captain,     letters     to, 

157,  158,  161  :  references  to,  153, 

154,  158,  159 
Trelawny,  John,  Esq.,  vice-admiral 

of  South  Cornwall  :    letters   to, 

189,  343 

Trelawny,  Sir  Jonathan,  189  n. 

Trelawny,  Lieutenant  William, 
letters  to,  31 1,  319  (2)  ;  reference 
to,  3ii«. 

Tremblaye,  Madame  de  la,  124, 
127 

Trepassy  (Bay),  337,  337  n. 

Trevanion,  Captain  Richard,  letters 
to,  21,  24,  56,  58  (2),  68,  70,  73, 
80,  82,  84,  86,  89,  115,  133,  390, 
395,  396,  405,  4",  416;  refer- 
ences to,  21  «.,  56  ».,  58  n.,  81, 

391, 392 

Trinity  Bay,  337  n.  _ 

Trinity  House,  xxvi,  xxvi  «.,  liii, 
53,  53  »;  92,  98,  187,  207  (2), 
220,  225  «.,  233  «.,  239,  249, 

273 

Tripoli,  Tripolmes,  xi  (3),  xii, 
xiii  (2),  xiii  n.,  xiv  (5),  xvi  (2), 
xvii,  xviii,  xix  «.,  xx  «.,  xxi  n., 
xxxviii  n.,  17  (2),  18  (2),  21,  37, 
38,  39  (2),  40  (2),  41  (2),  45,  48, 
49  (3),  5i,  64  (2),  66,  67  (2), 
69,  72,  79  (3),  80,  81,  82,  88  (3), 
105,  106  (2),  109,  no,  in  (2) 

114    (2),     118,     121     (2),     129    (2), 
130(3),  131  (2),  132,  142,  143,  M4, 

160,  164,   174,  I79».,  i8i«.,  186, 
187,  190,  196,  205,  222,  261  (4), 
280,  370  n.,  388 
Tripoli,  Dey  of  (the  late\  xiv  (2),  64, 

65 


448 


INDEX 


Tripoli,  Dey  of  (the  present},™,  109, 

121,  130,  160 
Tromp,  Sir  Cornelius,  10 
Trotter,  Captain  David,  letters  to, 

24,    94,     112,    405,     412,    416; 

references  to,  24  n.,  176,  405  ». 
Trout,  Simon,  68 
Tunis,  xi   (2),  xiv,   xx  ».,   xxi  «., 

18(2),  49,  63,  64  (4),  81,131,  174, 

181  «.,  196,  261,  388 
Turkey,  Turkish,  Turks,  xvi  n.,  xix, 

xxii,  xlvi,  1 1, 64,  67, 104, 112,  115, 

123,  130  ».,   142,  144,   MS.   !6o» 

163,  270,  287  ».,  305,  314,  354  (2), 

363 

Turkey  Company,  41,  70,  78,  98, 
104,  117(2),  1 1 8,  270 

Turner,  Captain  Francis,  219,  277 

Turner,  Mr.,  173 

Turner,  Mr.,  naval  chaplain,  21 

Tynemouth,  372  n.,  374  n. 

Tyrrell,  Lieutenant  John,  letter  to, 
313  ;  reference  to,  3I3». 

Tyrwhitt,  Captain  John,  173 

Tyte  (or  Tyete),  Captain  George, 
letters  to,  12, 16,95,98, 122, 127(2), 
134,  138,  213,  217,  224,  270,  294, 
298,  308,  311,  320  (2) ;  references 
to,  1 2, 13,74;;.,  124, 184(2),  i84«., 
185,  195,  197  (3),  222,  321 


UNITED  PROVINCES,  82,  230,  354. 
See  also  Dutch,  Holland,  States- 
General 

Underdown,  John,  261 

Urry,  Thomas,  173 

U  thwat, ,  34 

Uthwat,  Mr.  (deceased),  late  clerk 
of  the  survey  at  Deptford,  35 

VAUGHAN,  LORD  (afterwards  Earl 
of  Carbery),  governor  of  Ja- 
maica :  letter  to,  192  ;  references 
to,  151,  151  n.t  194,  226,  371 

Venetian,  273 

Vererucy,  Nicholas,  408 

Versailles,  xlvii,  83 

Vic  (Vique  or  Viques),  Monsieur  de, 
172,  172  n. 

Victualling  Action,  State  of  the,  7 


Victualling  Contractors,  the,  letters 
to,  56,  71,  368.  See  also  Gauden, 
Sir  Denis 

Virginia,  xxv  (4),  xxvi,  xxxii,  xxxv, 
222,  228,  232,  236,  239,  255, 
258  (2),  261,  270,  276,  277  (3), 
278  (2),  280,  282,  283  (3),  284, 
294  (2),  294  n.,  296  (2),  300, 

301  (2),  302  (2),  304,  305,  306(2), 

307  (4),  3°9  (3),  3io,  312,  3H  (3). 
3iS  (2),  316,  317,  317  n.,  318  (3), 
319,  320  (2),  321,  322,  324  (4), 
325  (2),  331  ».,  332,  334,  338, 
339  (2),  339"-,  345,352,  360,  364, 
406,411  (2) 

Vleeschawer,  Charles  de,  408 
Voteer  (or  Votier),  Captain  John, 
letters   to,    19,   58,  62,  80,  293  ; 
references  to,  370,  370  n. 
Vroi,  Captain  John  de,  410 


WADE,  Mr.,  goldsmith,  368 
Waith,  Mr.,  a    paymaster    of  the 

navy  :  letters  to,  30,  33 
Wales,  xxi,  354 

Walfleet,  li,  256  «.,  260,  360,  375  (2) 
Walker,    Sir   Edward,  one  of  the 

clerks  to  the  council:  letter  to, 

53  ;  reference  to,  326 
Walker,   Mr.  Josias,   collector   of 

customs    at    Minehead :    letters 

to,  23,  36 
Waltham,  Captain  Jonathan,  letters 

to,  74,  75,  76,  86,  95,   106,  112; 

references  to,  18,  60 
Wanklin,  John,  406 
Wapping,  3 
Ward,  Captain,  358  (2) 
Warren,  Sir  William,  timber  con- 
tractor :  letter  to,  1 56  ;  reference 

to,  1 56  n. 
Water  Lane,  244 
Waterford,  178 
Watermen's  Hall,  Rulers  of,  xxix, 

314,315,  342,  344(2),  345 
Watson,  Daniel,  62,  72  (3) 
Watson,  Captain  George,  46 
Webb,  Mr.,  216  (2),  217 
Welch,    Mr.   William,   a    London 

merchant :  letters  to,  236,  242 
Welling,  Mr.,  12  (2) 


INDEX 


449 


Wells,  Mr.,  13 

Warden,  Sir  John,  secretary  to  the 
Duke  of  York  and  a  commis- 
sioner of  the  navy  :  letter  to,  406  ; 
references  to,  135,  188,  326,  373 ; 
signature  of,  394 

Werden,  Colonel  Robert,  letter  to, 
408  ;  reference  to,  408  n. 

Wescombe,  Sir  Martin,  consul  at 
Cadiz  :  letters  to,  15,  19,  40,  136, 
149,  229,  241,  298,  387,  389,  399  5 
references  to,  2,  229,  230,  242 

Weser,  the,  16 

West,  Mr.,  at  Hampstead,  letter  to, 
410 

West,  Robert,  summons  to,  244 

West  India,  Indies,,  xxi  «.,  376  «. 

West  Looe,  189  n. 

Westbrook,  William,  Esq.,  10 

Westchester,  153,  153  ».,  343.  See 
also  Chester 

Westminster,  xxxii,  383 

Wetwang,  Captain  (afterwards  Sir 
John),  letter  to,  17  ;  reference 

to,  39 

Weymouth,  165 
Wharton,  Mr.,  335 
Wheeler,  Sir  Charles,  late  governor 

of   the    Leeward    Islands,    304, 

304  «.,  328,  353 
Wheeler,  Mr.  Francis,  304 
Wheeler,  Mr.  Trevor,  304 
White,  Captain,  359 
White,  Anthony,  193 
White,  William,  summons  to,  140 
Whitehall,   letters  from,   1 5,   320  ; 

references  to,  viii,  lii,  75, 76,  103, 

106,  222,  276,  362,  368,  407.    See 

also  Robes  Chamber 
Whitfeld,   Mr.,  at  the  navy  office, 

letter  to,  119 
Widdrington,  141,  141  n. 
Widdrington,  Lord,  141,  141  n. 
Wiggins,  Henry,  xxxii,  383 
Wight,  Isle  of,  lii 
Wilch,  Mr.,  at    Genoa,   letter  to, 

96 

Wildboare,  Mr.  Mark,  178 
Wilford,   Lieutenant   Robert,   372, 

372  n. 

Wilkinson,  Mr.  John,  i  (2) 
Williams,  Captain    Henry,  letters 

VOL.  III. 


to,  24,  40,  71,  80,  293, 297  ;  refer- 
ences to,  24  «.,  71  ».,  361 

Williamson,  Mr.,  164 

Williamson,  Sir  Joseph,  secretary 
of  state  and  admiralty  com 
missioner  :  letters  to,  4,  76,  77, 
167,  253,  407  ;  references  to, 
viii,  xxv  «.,  8,  29  «.,  75,  167  «., 
189  «.,  192  «.,  228,  266,  270,  284, 
304  «.,  337  ».,  338 

Williamson,  Leonard,  136 

Willoughby,  Lord,  113,  H3«. 

Willshaw,  Captain  Francis,  iig«. 

Willshaw,  Captain  Thomas,  119(2), 
iign. 

Willshaw,  Thomas,  324 

Wilson,  Mr.,  late  storekeeper  at 
Chatham,  185 

Wilson,  John,  403,  408,  410 

Wiltshire,  Lord,  127,  1 277*. 

Winchester,  Marquis  of,  I27«. 

Windsor,  83,  94,  107,  310  (2) 

Winsor,  James,  149 

Wivell,  Mr.,  at  Dover,  letters  to, 

9,99 

Wood,  Captain  John,  letters  to,  172, 
257,  415  ;  references  to,xxiv,  172, 

172  «.,  183(2),  197,  415  n. 
Woodbridge,   40,   69,    149,    i66«., 

176(2) 

Woolwich,  xlv,  50,  56,  61,  62,  65  «., 
71  (2),  89  (2),  92,  94,  95  (2),  98, 
103, 109  «.,  135,  148, 164,  170, 173, 

173  «•,  175,  199,  219,   224,    260, 
264,  273,  273  «.,  283,  299  «.,  341, 
343,  349,  39i,  4o6  (2),  406  «.,  407, 
408(2),  415,  416(2) 

Woolwich  Yard,  xxix  n. 

Wrangel,  Lord,  12  (2) 

Wren,  Sir  Christopher,  356,  356  n. 

Wright,  Captain  Lawrence,  letters 
to,  170,  175,  187,  192,  193,  194  5 
references  to,  xxiv  «.,  I7o«.,  177, 

271  (2),  383 
Wright,  Captain  William,  letters  to, 

75,  98,  124  (2),  206,  213,  235,  243, 

264  (2),  267,  280,  299,  308,  390  ; 

references  to,  158,  170^. 
Wrimer,  Captain  Jacob  de,  270 
Wyborne,  Captain  John,  letters  to, 

183,    I9S,    197,    199,   202,   211  ; 

references  to,  183  «.,  337  (2),  371 

G  G 


450 


INDEX 


Wyborne,  Mr.  Edward,  149 
Wyche,  Sir  Cyril,  letter  to,  354  ;  re- 
ference to,  354  n. 
Wylde,  Captain  Charles,  1 1 
Wynne,  Jacob  de,  293 


YARMOUTH,  28  (2),   32,   36,  42   47, 

ioo,  104,  112(2),  116,  118,  126, 

339 

Yarmouth,  Bailiffs  of,  letters  to,  4, 
102,  105,  112,  125,  276,  291,  298, 
312,  398  ;  reference  to,  xix 
Yarmouth  Roads,  112,  125 
Yarmouth  Roads  (Isle  of  Wight),  4 
Yarmouth  (Isle  of  Wight),  Chief 
Officer  of  the  Custom-house  at : 
letter  to,  3 

Yarroway,  Charles,  266 
Yonge,  Mr.  William,  409 


York,  James,  Duke  of  (also  '  His 
Royal  Highness '  or  « the  Duke '), 
letters  to,  15,  185,  186,  280  ;  re- 
ferences to,  ix,  xxv  ».,  xlii,  xlv  (2), 
5,  15,  37,  49,  76,  77,  83,  93,  97, 
126  n.,  135  (2),  135  n.,  137,  148, 
160,  162,  166,  172  (2)  183, 
185  (5),  186  (2),  188,  196,  216, 
229,  235,  235  n.,  239,  262,  265, 
265  n.,  266,  269,  273,  288,  294, 
296,  312,  313  (2),  319,  327,  350, 
35i,  353,  376,  388,  397,  402, 
406  (2),  408,  408  n.,  409  (2),  418 

Youghal,  396 

Young,  Captain  Anthony,  letter  to, 
276 


ZANTE,  xvi  n.,  131,  317,  400  (2) 
Zeeland.  Zeelander,  16,  228,  398 


INDEX  OF   LETTERS  TO  THE  COMMISSIONERS 
OF   THE   CUSTOMS   ABOUT   PASSES 


[SEE  INTRODUCTION,  p.  xxii,  supra.~\ 


Refe- 
rence 
No. 

Ship 

Port  of  Origin 

Master 

Present  Station 

Destination 

3623 

Abraham 

London  . 

John  Babb 

Harwich 

3"9 

Abraham  and  Isaac 

— 

John  Jones 

— 

— 

3618 

Abraham  and  Sarah 

Plymouth 

— 

Plymouth 

Straits 

3893 

Adventure 

Barnstaple 

William  Bennett 

Barnstaple 

— 

3106 

Adventure 

Topsham 

John  Shewer 

Exeter  . 

— 

2984 

Advice     . 

Yarmouth 

William  Spooner 

Yarmouth 

— 

3914 

Advice     . 

Yarmouth 

William  Spooner 

Yarmouth 

Straits 

3I32 

Agreement 

Bristol  . 

John  Teag[u]e  . 

Bristol  . 

— 

3342 

Alethea   . 

Bristol  . 

Edward  Watkins 

Bristol  . 

Straits 

3060 

Alexander 

Bristol  . 

William  Jones  . 

Bristol  . 

— 

324i 

Alicante  Merchant 

Bristol   . 

William  Joye     . 

Bristol  . 

Straits 

2900 

Alicante  Merchant 

Plymouth 

Richard  Mayne. 

Plymouth 

— 

3534 

America  Merchant 

Bristol   . 

William  Martin 

Bristol  . 

Straits 

379° 

Amity 

Bideford 

John  Prettiman. 

Barnstaple 

— 

2893 

Amity 

London  . 

Josiah  Fidd 

Downs  . 

[Straits] 

3467 

Angel      . 

Bristol   . 

—  Roach  . 

Bristol  .   . 

— 

3i6S 

Ann 

Bristol   . 

William  Hammond  . 

Bristol  . 

— 

3746 

Ann 

Plymouth 

Samuel  Blake    . 

Plymouth 

— 

3265 

Ann  and  Mary 

Yarmouth 

— 

Yarmouth 

Straits 

3921 

Anna  Maria     . 

Bristol  . 

Edward  Cleavely 

Bristol   . 

— 

2964 

Anne        .        . 

Lyme    . 

John  Davy 

Lyme    . 

— 

3214 

Antelope  . 

Belfast  . 

Thomas  Hilman 

Bristol  . 

Straits 

3912 

Arms  of  Lyme 

[Lyme]  . 

John  David 

Lyme    . 

— 

3l83 

Arthur     . 

London  . 

Henry  Oak 

Lancaster 

Jamaica 

3«9 

Bachelor  . 

— 

John  Snow 

— 

— 

3098 

Bachelor  . 

Southampton 

— 

Southampton 

Canaries 

3745 

Bachelor  . 

Southampton 

William  Fryer  . 

Southampton 

Straits 

3241 

Baltimore 

Bristol  . 

John  Codnes 

Bristol  . 

Straits 

3860 

Benjamin         . 

Dartmouth    . 

Thomas  Blakeler 

— 

— 

3182 

Benjamin 

Topsham 

Robert  Lyde     . 

— 

Barbados 

3699 

Benjamin 

Weymouth    . 

John  Abbott 

Weymouth    . 

— 

3207 

Benjamin  and  Eliza 

London  . 

Robert  Gildersleve    . 

Harwich 

Straits 

beth 

3011 

Bethesda. 

Bristol  . 

Robert  Norman 

Bristol  . 

— 

3767 

Betty 

Southampton 

Benjamin  Petty 

Southampton 

Straits 

3901 

Bilbao  Merchant 

Topsham 

Thomas  Ricker.        . 

Topsham 

— 

3797 

Black  Swan     . 

Bideford 

George  Bues 

Bideford 

— 

3O93 

Blackamoor     . 

Bristol   . 

Thomas  Gammon 

Bristol  . 

[Straits] 

3119 

Blackamoor    . 

Bristol   . 

Thomas  Gammon     . 

Bristol  . 

Straits 

3881 

Blessing  . 

Plymouth 

John  Hoskins    . 

— 

f*    f+    r* 

452 


INDEX 


Refe 
renc 
No. 

Ship 

Port  of  Origin 

Master 

Present  Station 

Destination 

3861 

Bonadventure  . 

_ 

—  Barnes  . 

Dartmouth    . 



3888 

Bonadventure  . 

Hull      . 

Edward  Farthing 

— 

— 

352I 
3520 

Bonadventure  . 
Bonadventure  ketch 

Southampton 
Topsham 

Thomas  Clotworthy  . 
Michael  Hooker 

Southampton 
Topsham 

Madeiras 

3343 

Bonadventure    Mer- 

London. 

Peter  Belbin 

Portsmouth   . 

Straits 

chant 

3270 

Britain     . 

Yarmouth 

Samuel  Loanes. 

Yarmouth 

— 

3392 

Bristol  frigate  . 

London  . 

Henry  Greenhill 

Plymouth 

— 

3°4' 

Bristol  ketch    . 

Bristol  . 

Gerard  Lane 

— 

— 

3896 

Bristol  ketch    . 

— 

John  Smith 

Bristol  . 

Straits 

3111 

Bristol  Merchant     . 

Bristol   . 

William  Smith  . 

Bristol   . 

Virginia 

3"9 

Bristol  Merchant     . 

Bristol   . 

William  Smith  .        .    [Bristol] 

[Virginia] 

3270 

Centurion 

Yarmouth 

Robert  Smith    . 

Yarmouth 

— 

3I05 

Charles    . 

Bristol   . 

Henry  Totterdale 

Bristol   . 

Straits 

38i7 

Charles   . 

Bristol  . 

Robert  Norman 

Bristol   . 

— 

3*98 

Charles    . 

London  . 

John  Brewer 

Portsmouth   . 

Straits 

3190 

Charles    . 

Plymouth 

Richard  Davis   . 

Plymouth 

Straits 

3790 

Charity    . 

— 

Richard  Davis  . 

Lyme    . 

— 

3084 

Charity    . 

London  . 

Nicholas  Linch  . 

Portsmouth   . 

— 

3320 

Christian  . 

Queensferry  . 

James  Allin 

— 

— 

3176 

Christopher 

Topsham 

William  Salter  . 

Topsham 

Straits 

3364 

Comfort  . 

Bristol  . 

—  Steevens 

Bristol   . 

Straits 

3334 

Concord  . 

Bristol  . 

—  Adams  . 

Bristol  . 

— 

3208 

Concord  . 

London  . 

Robert  Knott    . 

Cowes   . 

Straits 

3270 

Concord  . 

Yarmouth 

John  Parricke    . 

Yarmouth 

— 

3623 

Constance 

Plymouth 

— 

Plymouth 

— 

3264 

Constant  Ann  . 

Brighthelmston 

John  Joy   . 

Dartmouth    . 

Straits 

3896 

Constant  Martha 

— 

Walter  Uppington    . 

Bristol  . 

Straits 

3901 

Content   . 

Plymouth 

Matthew  Hutchinson 

Plymouth 

— 

2985 

Continuance    . 

Yarmouth 

fohn  Francklyn 

Yarmouth 

— 

3167 

Cork  Merchant 

Bristol  . 

— 

Bristol   . 

— 

3896 

Crown 

— 

fohn  Moore 

Bristol   . 

Straits 

3320 

Crown     . 

Burntisland  . 

Thomas  Dewar 

Cowes   . 

Straits 

2893 

Dartmouth  Merchant 

^Dartmouth]  . 

fohn  Roope 

Dartmouth    . 

[Straits] 

3897 

Dartmouth  Merchant 

'Dartmouth]  . 

fohn  Roope 

Dartmouth     . 

— 

3682 

David 

Plymouth 

Amos  Ford 

Plymouth 

Straits 

3763 

David 

Weymouth    . 

Robert  Barker 

Weymouth     . 

— 

377i 

Delight    . 

Sideford 

Samuel  Cade 

Bideford 

— 

3106 

Delight    . 

Bridgwater    . 

ohn  Wilson 

Lyme    . 

Canaries 

3823 

Desire 

i-'owey  . 

Walter  Crowl 

— 

— 

3817 

Desire 

Southampton 

'ames  Bayly 

Southampton 

— 

3696 

Diligence 

Wnehead 

Isaac  Davis 

— 

— 

3°SS 

Dolphin  . 

Bristol  . 

ames  Turner 

Bristol  . 

Straits 

3648 

Dolphin  . 

-.ondon 

ohn  Welbourne 

Harwich 

— 

347i 

Dolphin  . 

New  England 

Thomas  Cowell 

Dartmouth    . 

— 

3716 

Dolphin  . 

\  New  England" 

Thomas  Cowell 

Dartmouth     . 

— 

3028 

Dolphin  . 

Topsham       . 

Slias  Andrews  . 

Downs  . 

— 

3878 

Dorothy  . 

— 

Gilbert  Wakeham      . 

— 

— 

3893 

Dorothy  . 

— 

Gilbert  Wakeham      . 

— 

— 

3956 

Dorothy  . 

'oole     . 

William  Weston 

Poole     . 

— 

2893 
1460 

Dorothy  . 
Dort  frigate 

Weymouth    . 
Yarmouth 

Hugh  Percy 

Weymouth    . 
Yarmouth 

'Straits] 
Straits 

2932 

Jove 

Bristol   . 

jilbert  Tapley  . 

Bristol  . 

Straits 

3834 

Dove  ketch 

"opsham 

ohn  Lyle  . 

Topsham 

— 

3SS8 

iagle 

Sideford 

lobert  Hoxland 

Bideford 

Straits 

3599 

Sagle 

Jideford 

Robert  Hoxland]      .  |  Bideford 

Straits 

3776 

iagle       .        . 

Plymouth 

dmund  Glassworthy   |  Plymouth 

INDEX 


453 


Refe 
renc 

No 

Ship 

Port  of  Origin 

Master 

Present  Station 

Destination 

3827 
3912 

Eagle  ketch     . 
Ebenezer  . 

Plymouth 
Plymouth 

Christopher  Skeene 
Laurence  Tave[r]ner 

Plymouth 

Straits 

3333 

Edgar 

Yarmouth 

Theo.  Downing 



_ 

2965 

Edward  and  Grace 

London 

William  East     . 

Downs  . 

Straits 

3913 

Edward  and  John 

London 

William  Cock    . 

Rochester 

'3285 

Elizabeth 

London 

John  Fletcher    . 

Southampton 

Straits 

3408 
3771 

Elizabeth 
Elizabeth 

London 
London 

[John]  Fletcher  . 
[Owen  Hurst]    . 

Southampton 
Portsmouth 

— 

3792 

Elizabeth 

London 

Owen  Hurst 

Portsmouth 



3693 

Elizabeth 

Plymouth 

John  Potts 



3790 

Elizabeth 

Poole     . 

William  Pyke    . 

— 

— 

3709 

Elizabeth 

Teignmouth 

John  Martin 

Topsham 

Straits 

3176 

Elizabeth 

Topsham 

William  Mann  . 

Topsham 

Straits 

3504 

Elizabeth 

Topsham 

John  Stafford     . 

Topsham 

Straits 

:  3763 

Elizabeth 

Weymouth 

John  Percie 

Weymouth    . 



3800 

Elizabeth  and  James 

Bideford 

John  Tracey 



'3834 

Endeavour 

Boston  . 

Samuel  Smith    . 

Downs  . 



I  3888 

Endeavour       .        . 

Dartmouth 

Joseph  Allen 

Dartmouth 



3076 

Endeavour 

Plymouth 

Thomas  Rouse  . 

Plymouth 

— 

1  2957 

Endeavour 

Poole     . 

William  Lacy    . 

Poole     . 

— 

3208 

Ewe  and  Lamb 

London 

Abraham  Harman     . 

Cowes   . 

Straits 

|3888 

Exchange         . 

Bideford 

Aaron  Browning 

Bideford 

— 

3424 

Exchange 

Bristol  . 

Robert  Morris  . 

Bristol  . 

— 

3001 

Sxeter  Merchant 

Sxeter  . 

Derby  Hickey    . 

Exeter  . 

— 

3I7S 

Exeter  Merchant 

exeter  . 

Derby  Hickey    . 

Exeter  . 

Madeiras 

386! 

exeter  Merchant 

-.ondon 

Roger  Matthews 

London 

— 

3H2 

expectation 

Bristol  . 

Edward  Dover  . 

Bristol  . 

Straits 

3856 

Expedition 

Jideford 

-"eter  Luxon 

Bideford 

— 

3130 

expedition 

^opsham 

Solomon  Andrews 

Topsham 

Straits 

3818 

expedition 

^opsham 

Solomon  Andrews     . 

Topsham 

— 

3739 

experience 

Dartmouth    . 

Richard  Grigg  . 

Dartmouth 

straits 

3486 

rellowship 

Bristol  . 

Thomas  Pynn    . 

Bristol  . 

Straits 

3749 

•"ortune  . 

Teignmouth  . 

Villiam  Pearne 

— 

— 

3012 

rour  Anns 

Condon 

"homas  Scott    . 

Downs  . 

Cadiz 

3625 

rrancis    . 

exeter  . 

"homas  Bushell 

exeter  . 

— 

3225 

Frederick 

3lymouth 

ohn  Matthews  . 

•Hymouth 

traits 

2968 

Friend      . 

Condon 

lichard  Mathew 

•"lymouth 

— 

3"3 

Friends'  Agreement. 

ristol  . 

Caleb  Shuter 

Bristol   . 

— 

3"9 

Friends'  Agreement  . 

Bristol] 

^aleb  Shuter 

Bristol] 

— 

3776 

Friends'  Adventure  . 

Bristol   . 

William  Bowry  . 

Bristol   . 

Straits 

3826 

Friends'  Adventure  . 

wan  sea 

— 

— 

— 

3"4 

Friendship 

ristol  . 

ohn  Webb 

Bristol   . 

West  Indies 

3119    Friendship 

;  Bristol] 

ohn  Webb        .         .     [Bristol] 

West  Indies] 

3320 

Friendship 

Burntisland 

ames  Angus      .         .     Cowes    .         .    Straits 

3120 

Friendship 

London 

[atthew  Fox     . 

Dover    .         .    Straits 

3196    Friendship 

London 

fatthew  Fox     . 

Dover    .        .    [Straits] 

3844    Frog  dogger    . 

— 

ichard  White  . 

Weymouth    .    the  southward 

3505  ;  Gabriel    . 

Bristol   . 

— 

Bristol  .        .  I 

3299 

3enoa  Merchant 

Yarmouth 

tiomas  Appleby 

Yarmouth      .    ' 

?traits 

3178 

3eorge    . 

Bristol  . 

amuel  Isaac 

Bristol   .         .     > 

/irginia 

3285    < 

3eorge     . 

Condon 

Samuel  Edwards       .    5 

Shoreham           Straits 

3653    ( 

Jeorge  and  Martha 

Condon 

.Thomas  Baker  .        .     '. 

Doole     .           i 

3818    ( 

Golden  Dove  .         .    ' 

fopsham 

William  Caweed        .    ' 

Topsham          j            — 

3538    < 

Golden  Fleece          .    '. 

ixeter  . 

__                    i 

£xeter   . 

3537    < 

Golden  Lion    .         .    j 

Bristol   .              ] 

Vathaniel  Sanders     .     ] 

Jristol   .             Straits 

3344    ( 

•Jolden  Lion    .        .    r 

^opsham 

—                     I 

/linehead 

— 

3519  c 

jood  Intent    .        .    1 

^lymouth 

ohn  Wheaton  .         .  |  ] 

•"lymouth           S 

traits 

454 


INDEX 


Refe- 
rence 
No. 

Ship 

Port  of  Origin 

Master 

Present  Station 

Destination 

3275 

Griffin  ketch    . 

._ 

_ 

Plymouth 

_ 

3210 

Hamburg  Merchant 

Hull      . 

John  Wakelin    . 

Downs  . 

— 

3595 

Hannah   . 

Topsham 

Stephen  Whithall 

Topsham 

Lisbon 

3797 

Hannah   . 

Topsham 

— 

Topsham 

— 

3187 

Hannah  and   Eliza 

Bristol   . 

Samuel  Cole 

Bristol  . 

Straits 

beth 

3648 

Happy  Entrance 

Minehead 

Robert  Isaac 

— 

— 

3897 

Happy  Entrance 

— 

James  Koldwich 

Dartmouth    . 

— 

3797 

Happy  Return 

Plymouth 

Thomas  Foord  . 

Plymouth 

Straits 

2900 

Hawk 

Dartmouth    . 

Thomas  Fowles 

Dartmouth    . 

— 

2956 

Hawk 

Dartmouth    . 

"Thomas  Fowles] 

Dartmouth     . 

— 

3878 

Hawk 

[Dartmouth]  . 

Thomas  Fowles 

Dartmouth    . 

— 

3893 

Hawk 

[Dartmouth]  . 

Thomas  Fowles 

Dartmouth    . 

— 

3440 

Heart 

Bristol  . 

William  Hooper 

Bristol  . 

Barbados 

2964 

Hope 

Lyme    . 

Thomas  Gill 

Lyme    . 

— 

3239 

Hope 

Teign  mouth  . 

Robert  Key 

Topsham 

— 

3076 

Hopeful  Adven  ure 

— 

John  Bant  . 

Downs  . 

— 

2986 

Hopewell 

— 

John  Pearce 

Plymouth 

— 

3818 

Hope  well 

Bideford 

John  Strong 

Bideford 

— 

3242 

Hopewell 

Boston  . 

James  Cade 

Cowes  Road  . 

— 

2960 

Hopewell 

Dartmouth    . 

George  Luscombe 

Dartmouth    . 

Straits 

3797 

Hopewell 

Dartmouth    . 

— 

Dartmouth    . 

— 

3606 

Hopewell 

Exeter  . 

— 

Exeter  . 

Straits 

3467 

Hopewell 

London 

William  North  . 

Sandwich 

— 

3898 

Hopewell 

Minehead 

John  Holbrooke 

Minehead 

— 

3638 

Hopewell 

Topsham 

John  Corney 

Topsham 

Bilbao 

3548 

Hopewell 

Yarmouth 

—  Roame  . 

Yarmouth      . 

Straits 

3639 

Hopewell 

Yarmouth 

Joseph  Howard 

Yarmouth 

Straits 

3834 

Humility 

Bristol  . 

Ellis  Ashby 

Bristol  . 

— 

3845 

Hunter 

Dartmouth    . 

Henry  Smith     . 

Dartmouth    . 

— 

3749 

Increase 

Plymouth 

Nicholas  Parker 

Plymouth 

— 

3696 

Industry 

Plymouth 

Joseph  Fuge      .        . 

— 

— 

3647 

Industry 

Yarmouth 

Thomas  Gidney 

Yarmouth 

— 

3737 

Isabella 

Bristol  . 

Dennis  Taylor  .        . 

Bristol  . 

Straits 

3029 

James 

Dartmouth    . 

Rupert  Harris   . 

Dartmouth    . 

— 

3694 

James 

Plymouth 

Edward  Blagg  . 

Plymouth 

— 

2957 

James 

Poole    . 

Walter  White    . 

Poole     . 

__ 

3623 

James  do  ger 

Yarmouth 

William  Dickins 

Yarmouth 



3745 

Janex 

Southampton 

William  Cotton 

Southampton 

Straits 

3132 

Jeremy 

Bristol   . 

John  Lilly 

Bristol   . 

Straits 

3060 

Joan 

Falmouth 

John  Pearce       .        . 

Falmouth 

— 

3877 

Joan 

Southampton 

Richard  Wyatt  . 

Southampton 

— 

3!°5 

John 

Bristol   . 

John  Yeamans  .         . 

Bristol  . 

Straits 

3112 

John 

Bristol   . 

Peter  Wraxall   . 

Bristol   . 

_ 

3"9 

John 

Bristol   . 

Peter  Wraxall   . 

[Bristol] 



3797 

John 

Bristol   . 

John  Paine 



3818 

John 

Dartmouth    . 

Nicholas  Boone 

Dartmouth    . 



3734 

John 

Newnham 

Thomas  North  . 



3320 

John 

Pittenweem   . 

John  Atteson     . 

Cowes  . 

Straits 

3749 
3320 

John 
John 

Plymouth 
Queensferry  . 

Thomas  Burgess        . 
John  Allin  . 

Plymouth 
Cowes   . 

Straits 

3657 

John 

Topsham 

John  Bawdon    . 



Oporto 

3826 

John 

Topsham 

John  Bass  . 

Exeter   . 

— 

3831 

John 

Topsham 

John  Bass  . 

Topsham 



3M6 

John  and  Elizabeth 

Plymouth 

— 

Plymouth 

Straits 

3860 

John  and  Francis 

Southampton 

John  Wall  . 





3284 

John  and  Henry 

Bristol   . 

John  Cades 

Bristol  . 

Jamaica 

INDEX 


455 


Refe- 
rence 
No. 

Ship 

Port  of  Origin 

Master 

Present  Station 

Destination 

3SI2 

John  and  Mary 

Shoreham 

John  Buckshaw. 

Shoreham     . 

3067 

John  and  Richard    . 

London. 

Jonathan  Stodleigh    . 

Dover    . 

Straits 

3039 

John  and  Sarah 

London. 

John  Eaton 

Downs  . 

— 

3083 

John  and  Thomas    . 

— 

Richard  Jones   . 

Falmouth 

— 

3888 

John  and  Thomas    . 

Topsham 

John  Balage 

Topsham 

— 

2938 

Jonathan  . 

Plymouth 

John  Sanders     . 

Plymouth 

Newfoundland 

and  the  Straits 

3061 

Katharine 

Bideford 

Christopher  Browning 

Cowes  . 

— 

3818 

Katharine 

Dartmouth    . 

John  Miles 

Dartmouth    . 

— 

2956 

Katharine 

Poole     . 

William  Cartridge     . 

Poole     . 

— 

3888 

Katharine 

Poole     . 

Shadrach  Beale. 

Poole     . 

_ 

2971 

Katharine 

Southampton 

William  Burwood 

Southampton 

— 

3°44 

,  ketch 

— 

— 

— 

— 

3088 

Lady 

Yarmouth 

John  Hartley     . 

Yarmouth 

— 

3818 

Lamb 

Bideford 

Robert  King 

Bideford 

— 

3326 

Lamb 

Bristol    . 

Arthur  Bible      . 

Bristol  . 

— 

3173 

Lamb 

Plymouth 

— 

Plymouth 

Straits 

3912 

Lamb 

Plymouth 

— 

Plymouth 

— 

S^ 

Lancaster 

— 

Joseph  Tucker  . 

Lancaster 

— 

3"7 

Laurel 

Topsham 

Samuel  Hayman 

Exeter  . 

— 

3860 

Laurel 

Topsham 

Samuel  Hayman 

— 

— 

2813 

Lily 

Yarmouth 

Samuel  Callow  . 

Yarmouth 

Straits 

3897 

Lily 

Yarmouth 

Samuel  Callow  . 

Yarmouth 

— 

3497 

Lily 

Yarmouth 

Norman  Cluneis 

Yarmouth 

Straits 

3032 

Lion 

Bristol   . 

Walter  Davis     . 

Bristol  . 

— 

3i4i 

Lion 

Liverpool 

Thomas  Wallis  . 

Liverpool 

Straits 

3180 

Lion 

Liverpool 

Thomas  Watts  . 

Plymouth 

Straits 

3224 

Love  ketch 

Topsham 

Richard  Whithall 

Topsham 

Madeira    and 

Nevis 

3487 

Love's  Increase 

Bristol  . 

John  Needes 

— 

— 

3790 

Love's  Increase 

— 

Walter  Popham 

Barnstaple     . 

— 

3066 

Loving  Friendship  . 

Newcastle 

Anthony  White 

Newcastle 

Straits 

3104 

Lucy 

— 

Henry  King 

Falmouth 

— 

3298 

Margaret 

Exeter  . 

John  Brown 

Exeter  . 

— 

3550 

Margaret 

London 

James  Andrews 

Downs  . 

Straits 

3190 

Margaret  and  John  . 

Plymouth 

John  Hutchins  . 

Plymouth 

Straits 

3r36 

Marigold  . 

Plymouth 

Edward  Mathews 

Plymouth 

Straits 

3878 

Mary        .         . 

— 

William;  Tozer  . 

— 

— 

3893 

Mary 

— 

William  Tozer  . 

— 

— 

2936 

Mary 

Dartmouth    . 

—  • 

Dartmouth    . 

— 

S^SS 
3576 

Mary 
Mary 

Plymouth 
Topsham 

John  Dotting     . 
[Christopher  Edgar]  . 

Plymouth 
Topsham 

Straits 

3693 

Mary 

Topsham 

Christopher  Edgar    . 

— 

— 

3061 

Mary       .        . 

Weymouth    . 

Peter  Andrews  . 

Weymouth    . 

— 

3860 

Mary 

Weymouth    . 

William  Gates  . 

— 

— 

3878 

Mary  ketch 

Bristol  . 

John  Baker 

Bristol   . 

— 

3844 

Mary  pink 

— 

William  Stiles  . 

Downs  . 

— 

3"9 

Maryland  Merchant 

— 

William  Trego  . 

— 

— 

377  * 

Mayflower 

Bideford 

Edmund  Pickard 

Bideford 

— 

3322 
3285 

Mayflower  ketch 
Negotia  . 

[Yarmouth]    . 
Yarmouth 

John  Morris 
Nathaniel  Wakeman 

Yarmouth 
Yarmouth 

Straits 
Straits 

3361 

Neptune  . 

— 

Nicholas  Parry  . 

Yarmouth 

— 

3J74 

Neptune  . 

Hull      . 

Matthew  Cracombe  . 

Hull      . 

Straits 

3830 

Neptune  . 

Jersey    . 

David  le  Breton 

Cowes    . 

— 

7IIQ 

Nevis  Merchant 

— 

Arthur  Grant     . 

— 

— 

*/      s 
3OOI 

Nevis  Merchant 

Bristol  . 

William  Davis  . 

Bristol   . 

Straits 

3732 

New  Amity 

Bideford 

George  Powell  . 

Bideford 

— 

456 


INDEX 


Refe- 
rence 
No. 

Ship 

Port  of  Origin 

Master 

Present  Station 

Destination 

3363 

Mew  Morlaix    Mer- 

'lymouth 

_ 

— 

Canaries 

chant    .        .        . 

3032 

Mews'  Adventure 

Bristol  . 

ohn  Lilliwhite  . 

Bristol  . 

— 

j  j 
3551 

Nicholas  . 

3lymouth 

Nicholas  Low   . 

3lymouth 

Straits 

3732 

Nightingale     . 

Bideford 

William  Hacker 

Bideford 

— 

3586 

Nonsuch  .        .        . 

Topsham 

fohn  Venner 

Topsham 

Straits 

3467 

Oak 

Yarmouth 

William  Roberts 

Yarmouth 

— 

2901 

Olive  Branch  . 

Falmouth 

Thomas  Dyer    . 

Falmouth 

— 

3656 

Olive  Branch  . 

Plymouth 

Stephen  Culliford 

Plymouth 

Straits 

3657 

Olive  Branch  . 

Topsham 

John  Frankmore 

Topsham 

Straits 

3166 

Olive  Tree 

Bristol  . 

Thomas  North  . 

Bristol   . 

— 

3897 

Paragon  . 

Dartmouth]  . 

James  Lake 

Dartmouth    . 

— 

3860 

Paragon  . 

Dartmouth     . 

James  Lake 

— 

— 

3709 

Paragon  . 

Teignmouth  . 

Richard  Beard  . 

Topsham 

Straits 

2893 

Parrot      . 

London 

John  Baest 

Downs  . 

Straits 

3181 

Patience  . 

— 

John  Davis 

Plymouth 

Rochelle  and 

Lisbon 

3716 

Patience  . 

Bideford 

John  Small 

Bideford 

— 

3472 

Patience  . 

Bristol   . 

Matthew  Nicolas 

Bristol  . 

Straits 

2913 

Pearl 

Plymouth 

John  Smith 

Plymouth 

Straits 

3176 

Pearl 

Topsham 

William  Strong 

Topsham 

Straits 

3S65 

Pearl 

Yarmouth 

Edward  Watson 

Yarmouth 

Straits 

3800 

Pelican    . 

Bideford 

John  Whitfeild  . 

— 

— 

3U2 

Peter       , 

Bristol   . 

John  Mason 

Bristol   . 

Straits 

3797 

Peter 

Plymouth 

Richard  Bone    . 

Plymouth 

— 

3845 

Phoenix   . 

Bideford 

— 

Bideford 

— 

3354 

Phoenix   . 

London 

John  Yeamans  . 

Bristol   . 

Straits 

3716 
3749 

Phoenix  . 
Phoenix   . 

Teignmouth  . 
Teignmouth  . 

[Thomas  Jackson]     . 
Thomas  Jackson 

Teignmouth  . 
[Teignmouth] 

Straits 
[Straits] 

3467 

Planter    . 

Bristol  . 

Robert  Mailings 

Bristol  . 

— 

3881 

President 

Bideford 

— 

— 

— 

379° 

Primrose  . 

— 

Robert  Hawkins 

Bristol  . 

— 

3877 

Primrose  . 

London 

John  Lawson    . 

Downs  . 

— 

2900 

Priscilla  . 

Plymouth 

George  Matthews 

Plymouth 

— 

3897 

Priscilla  . 

Plymouth 

— 

Plymouth 

— 

3716 

Prosperous 

Exeter  . 

Henry  Perdon  . 

Exeter  . 

— 

3«>38 

Prosperous 

London 

Henry  Clerke    . 

Portsmouth  . 

— 

3211 

Providence 

Bristol  . 

William  Jeffreys 

Bristol   . 

— 

3498 

Providence 

Bristol   . 

— 

Bristol  . 

— 

3826 

Providence 

Minehead 

Henry  White     . 

— 

— 

3753 

Providence 

Southampton 

Henry  Wall 

Southampton 

Straits 

3209 

Prudence 

London. 

John  Johnson    .        . 

Downs  . 

Straits 

2971 

Rachel 

Southampton 

Edward  Petty    . 

Southampton 

— 

3753 

Rachel 

Southampton 

Edward  Petty    . 

Southampton 

Straits 

3897 

Rainbow 

Bideford 

George  Causey  . 

Bideford 

— 

3546 

Rebecca           » 

New  York 



Falmouth 

Amsterdam 

2910 

Rebecca 

Plymouth 

John  Evans 

Plymouth 

Straits 

3696 

Rebecca  and  Eliza- 

Yarmouth 

Robert  Downing 

— 

— 

beth 

35l8 

Recovery  . 

London  . 

Richard  Croxford 

Downs  . 



3364 

Reformation    . 

Bristol  . 

Charles  Andrew 

Bristol   . 

Straits 

3716 

Resolution 

Bideford 

George  Darracott 

Bideford 

— 

3739 

Resolution 

Dartmouth 

John  Grigg 

Dartmouth     . 

Straits 

3753 

Restoration 

Southampton 

Benjamin  Pittfeild 

Southampton 

Straits 

3307 

Return     . 

Yarmouth 

Richard  Myles  . 

Yarmouth 

Straits 

3"9 

Richard  and  James  . 

— 

Thomas  Opie    . 

3063 

Richmond 

London. 

Wolf  [g]ang  Hansla[e 

Downs  . 

— 

INDEX 


457 


Refe- 
rence 
No. 

Ship 

Port  of  Origin 

Master 

Present  Station 

Destination 

2956 

Robert     . 

Plymouth 

Richard  Cooke  .        . 

Plymouth 

3737 

Robert  and  Hester 

Bristol  . 

Francis  Rogers  . 

Bristol  . 

Straits 

3792 

Richard  and  Mary 

Barnstaple     . 

John  Marshall  . 

Barnstaple     . 

3834 

Richard  and  Sarah 

Barnstaple     . 

John  Marshall  . 

Barnstaple     . 

— 

3739 

Richard  and  Sarah 

Dartmouth    . 

— 

Dartmouth    . 

Straits 

3888 

Rose  pink 

— 

William  Trump 

Topsham 

— 

3823 

Ruby 

Plymouth 

Israel  Symons   . 

_ 

— 

3137 

St.  Bernard 

Bristol  . 

Richard  Dempster     . 

Bristol  . 

— 

3J79 

St.  George 

— 

Michael  Furlong 

Dover  . 

Straits 

3001 

St.  George 

London  . 

George  Moon    . 

Downs  . 

— 

3467 

St.  George 

London  . 

John  Wild 

Cowes   . 

— 

2949 

St  George 

London  . 

George  Edgers  . 

Harwich 

Straits 

2926 

St.  Jacob. 

Waterford 

Robert  Priestley 

Downs  . 

— 

3762 

St.  John  Merchant 

Dartmouth    . 

— 

Dartmouth    . 

— 

3779 

St.  John  Merchant 

Dartmouth    . 

— 

Dartmouth    . 

— 

3913 

St.  Malo  Merchant 

Plymouth 

Arthur  Hole 

Plymouth 

— 

3200 

St.  Martin 

London  . 

John  Pearce 

Cowes   . 

— 

3749 

St.  Peter  . 

Dartmouth    . 

Michael  Gould 

Dartmouth    . 

— 

2913 

Salamander 

Plymouth 

Samuel  Petell 

Plymouth 

Straits 

3176 

Sallow,  alias  Swallow 

Topsham 

— 

Topsham 

Straits 

3*40 

Samaritan 

Yarmouth 

James  Lutton 

Yarmouth 

Straits 

3319 

Sampson  . 

London  . 

James  Winsor            . 

Southampton 

— 

3694 

Samuel  and  Mary 

Bristol  . 

James  Harris 

— 

— 

3896 

Sapphire  ketch 

— 

Joseph  Bowry 

Bristol  . 

Straits 

2956 

Sarah 

Dartmouth    . 

— 

Dartmouth    . 

— 

3676 

Sarah 

Plymouth 

William  Salmon 

Plymouth 

Straits 

3856 

Sarah 

Topsham 

Christopher  Holly 

Topsham 

— 

3440 

Sarah  and  Elizabet 

Bristol  . 

Richard  White  . 

Bristol  . 

Straits 

2959 

Sarum  Merchant 

Poole    . 

William  Dolbury 

Poole    . 

Straits 

2921 

Scanderbeg 

Barnstaple     . 

Robert  Fishley  . 

— 

— 

3856 

Scanderbeg 

Barnstaple     . 

Robert  Fishley  . 

— 

— 

377i 

Seraphim 

Barnstaple     . 

George  Fleming 

Barnstaple 

— 

3623 

Society    . 

Bristol   . 

Edmund  Dilly  . 

Bristol   . 

— 

3762 

Society    . 

Minehead 

Richard  Luckes 

Minehead 

— 

3749 
3467 

Southampton  ketch 
Speedwell 

[Southampton] 
Dartmouth     . 

William  Milbery 
Joseph  Stocker  . 

Southampton 
Dartmouth    . 

— 

3001 

Speedwell 

London  . 

Laurence  Franck[l]in 

Downs  . 

— 

3648 

Speedwell 

Plymouth 

— 

Plymouth 

Straits 

3241 

Star. 

Bristol   . 

Robert  Con[y]ers 

Bristol  . 

Straits 

3"9 

Stephen  . 

— 

John  Read 

— 

— 

3112 

Stephen  . 

Bristol    . 

John  Read 

Bristol  . 

— 

3653 

Submission 

Bristol    . 

Anthony  Barrow 

Bristol  . 

Madeiras 

3594 
3599 

Success    . 
Success    . 

Bideford 
Bideford 

Christopher  Yeo 
[Christopher  Yeo] 

Barnstaple     . 
Bideford 

Canaries 

Straits 

3845 

Success    . 

Dartmouth     . 

Benjamin  Mitchell 

— 

— 

2979 

Success    . 

London  . 

John  Harwood 

Downs  . 

Straits 

3285 

Success    . 

Yarmouth 

James  Davison 

— 

— 

3856 

Success  ketch  . 

— 

Thomas  Ratte 

Exeter  . 

— 

3*52 

Susanna  . 

Bristol   . 

William  Neds 

Bristol  . 

Straits 

3167 

Susanna  . 

Bristol   . 

— 

Bristol  . 

— 

3670 

Susanna  . 

Scarborough  . 

John  Pate  . 

Hull      . 

Straits 

3800 

Swallow  . 

Bideford 

John  Scamp 

— 

— 

3856 

Swallow  . 

Exeter    . 

Isaac  Symons 

— 

— 

3449 

Swan 

Topsham 

William  How 

Topsham 

Straits 

3898 

Thomas    and    Ben 

Bristol    . 

John  Frogg 

Bristol  . 

— 

jamin 

3105 

Thomas  and  Francis 

Bristol 

Francis  Lawrence 

Bristol  . 

Straits 

458 


INDEX 


Refe- 
rence 
No. 

Ship 

Port  of  Origin 

Master 

Present  Station 

Destination 

3861 

Thomas  and  Mary  . 

_ 

_ 

_ 

_ 

3056 

Thomas  and  Mary  . 

London 

William  Adams 

Isle  of  Wight 

Straits 

3881 

Thomas  and  Mary  . 

Lyme    . 

John  Clear         .        . 

— 

— 

33*4 

Tiger       . 

London 

Henry  Stuple    . 

Woodbridge 

Straits 

3797 

Tobias  and  Barbara 

Dartmouth    . 

— 

Dartmouth 

— 

3845 

Torrington  Merchant 

fTorrington]  . 

— 

Torrington 

— 

3214 

Tradegar 

Newport 

William  Wraxell       . 

Bristol  . 

Barbados 

3736 

Trial 

Swansea 

Robert  Breholt 

Swansea 

— 

3831 

True  Dealing 

Plymouth 

John  Mooreshead 

Plymouth 

— 

3^3 

True  Intent 

Topsham 

John  Bauden     . 

— 

— 

3717 

True  Love 

Minehead 

— 

Minehead 

— 

35" 

Truelove  . 

Topsham 

John  Parker 

Topsham 

— 

3131 

Two  Friends           . 

London 

John  Bantum    . 

Bristol  . 

Straits 

3323 

Unicorn 

— 

John  Ingram     .        . 

Yarmouth 

— 

3132 

Unicom                   . 

Bristol  . 

Thomas  Cooper 

Bristol  . 

— 

379° 

Unity 

— 

Robert  Gammer 

Barnstaple 

— 

2901 

Unity 

Falmouth 

John  Chapman  . 

Falmouth 

— 

2835 

Unity 

London 

John  Borrows    . 

Fowey  . 

Straits 

3299 

Unity 

Yarmouth 

William  Mason          . 

Yarmouth 

Straits 

3322 

Unity 

Yarmouth 

Marmaduke  Scapes  . 

Yarmouth 

Straits 

3i33 

Vintage 

Plymouth 

Samuel  Foote    . 

Plymouth 

Straits 

3832 

Vintage 

Plymouth 

Samuel  Foote    . 

Plymouth 

— 

3145 

Virgin 

Limerick 

John  Flahy 

Cowes  Road 

Straits 

3iS8 

Virgin 

Yarmouth 

— 

Yarmouth 

Straits 

3396 

Warrior 

London 

Robert  Porter    . 

Downs  . 

Straits 

3168 

William 

Plymouth 

George  Painter  . 

Plymouth 

— 

3749 

William 

Weymouth    . 

Jacob  Chubb     . 

Weymouth 

— 

3749 

William 

Weymouth    . 

Christopher  Ousby    . 

Weymouth 

— 

3132 

William  and  Anne  . 

Bristol  . 



Bristol  . 

Virginia 

3251 

William  and  George 

Bristol  . 

William  George 

Bristol  . 

Barbados 

3771 

William  and  George 

Poole    . 

Robert  Bennet  . 

Poole     . 



3671 

William  and  James  . 

London 

James  Mohun    . 

Dover    . 



3877 

William  and  Thomas 

Portsmouth   . 

Richard  Matthews     . 

Portsmouth 



3285 

Yarmouth  Merchant 

Yarmouth 

John  Gunnell     . 

Yarmouth 



2956 

Young    Man's    En- 

Plymouth 

Richard  Tooker 

Plymouth 

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Edited  by  the  Secretary.  (15*.) 

Vol.  XXI.  Papers  relating  to  the  Blockade  of  Brest, 
1803-5  (Vol.  II.).  Edited  by  Mr.  John  Leyland.  (Two 
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of  Sir  William  Monson  (Vols.  I.  and  II.).  Edited  by 
Mr.  M.  Oppenheim.  (Two  vols.  25^.) 

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Martin  (Vol.  I.).  Edited  by  Sir  R.  Vesey  Hamilton. 
(Three  vols.  $\s.  6d.) 

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Jacobins.  Edited  by  Mr.  H.  C.  Gutteridge.  (12*.  6d.) 

Vol.  XXVI.  A  Descriptive  Catalogue  of  the  Naval 
MSS.  in  the  Pepysian  Library  (Vol.  I.).  Edited  by  Mr. 
J.  R.  Tanner. 


In  1904  :  Vol.  XXVII.  A  Descriptive  Catalogue  of  the 
Naval  MSS.  in  the  Pepysian  Library  (Vol.  II.).  Edited 
by  Mr.  J.  R.  Tanner.  (i2s.  6d.} 

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Markham,  1801-7.  Edited  by  Sir  Clements  R.  Markham. 
(i2s.  6d.} 

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Vol.  XXX.  Papers  relating  to  the  First  Dutch  War, 
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and  Mr.  C.  T.  Atkinson.  (\2s.  6d.} 

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James  Anthony  Gardner,  1775-1814.  Edited  by  Sir  R. 
Vesey  Hamilton  and  Professor  J.  K.  Laughton.  (i2s.  6d.} 

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(125.  6d.~) 

In  1907  :  Vol.  XXXIII.  Naval  Ballads  and  Songs. 
Edited  by  Professor  C.  H.  Firth.  (125.  6d.} 

Vol.  XXXIV.  Views  of  the  Battles  of  the  Third  Dutch 
War.  Edited  by  a  Committee  of  the  Council.  (30^.) 

In  1908 :  Vol.  XXXV.  Signals  and  Instructions, 
1776-1794.  Edited  by  Mr.  Julian  S.  Corbett. 

Vol.  XXXVI.  Catalogue  of  the  Pepys  MSS.  (Vol.  1 1 1.). 
Edited  by  Dr.  J.  R.  Tanner. 

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