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Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 430
Title:
Scope & Content:: REGISTER Of Instructions, warrants, letters, etc., relating to the Navy; 1661-1692. There are several additions by Thomas Astle, to whom the volume belonged. At the end (ff. 94, 107) are copies of papers in Cotton MS. Julius F. x. and Royal MS. 14 B. xiii., relating to the English attack on the ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century-18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 431
Title:
Scope & Content:: " THE METHOD Of building, rigging, apparelling and furnishing his Majesties ships of war, according to their rates; with the exact proportion and charge of all things requisite thereunto also the charge of wages, victualls, and necessaries, as well for ships in harbour as at sea. The number and ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1685-1688
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 432
Title:
Scope & Content:: " A LIST Of ships of His Majesty's Royal Navy," giving dimensions, complement of men and guns, date and place of building, etc.; 24 Nov. 1756. Paper; ff. 63. Small octavo. Navy; England: Lists of ships: 1756, 1762, 1780-83.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 24 Nov 1756
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 433
Title:
Scope & Content:: " A LIST of ships of His Majesty's Royal Wavy "; 21 Oct. 1762. With particulars as above, No. 432. Paper; ff. 52. Small octavo. Navy; England: Lists of ships: 1756, 1762, 1780-83.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 21 Oct 1762
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 434
Title:
Scope & Content:: ROUGH LIST of ships of the Royal Navy, with particulars of men, guns, tonnage, date of building, etc.; apparently drawn up in 1780, with additions down to 1783. Paper; ff. 52. Small octavo. Navy; England: Lists of ships: 1756, 1762, 1780-83.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1780-1783
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 435
Title:
Scope & Content:: " AN ABSTRACT of the total number of ships, with their tonnage, which have been registered in the British Dominions in pursuance of the Acts passed in Great Britain in the twenty-sixth year, and in Ireland in the twenty-seventh year of His Majesty's [Geo. III.] reign"; 30 Sept. 1790. Paper; ff. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 30 Sep 1790
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 436
Title:
Scope & Content:: 1. " A LIST of His Majesty's Royal Navy in July, 1790, etc., with their principal dimensions." f. 2. 2. " Dimensions of masts and yards," and " dimensions of sails for a ship of each class and sloops, with the value of workmanship." ff. 63, 68. Followed (f. 87) by particulars as to ship stores...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1790-1794
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 437
Title:
Scope & Content:: "SIGNAL-BOOK for the Ships of War, 1799 " : the printed official code issued by the Admiralty, with MS. additions. Preceded (f. 2) by a printed circular to " the respective captains and commanders of His Majesty's ships," signed by [Sir] T[homas] Troubridge, [Bart., Admiral], James Adams and J[o...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1799
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 438
Title:
Scope & Content:: "AN AWAKT MEMORYE, or A callinge to acounte of those Preceptts and Dutyes which belonge to the Captayns, Muster-masters, and other Offycers of ye Trayned Bandes. . . . . By Gervase Markham." Printed, with enlargements, under the title of The Souldier's Accidence, [by] G. M., London, 1625, 4o. Pa...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1625
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 439
Title:
Scope & Content:: PREFACE, Introduction, and Prospectus to a proposed work on Military Science and Tactics, based on the Prussian system. The author speaks of himself as having had " a service of many years in varied situations, of much regimental practice, and of five campaigns in the war of 1756 "; he attended ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1785
Extent:: 1 item

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