Navy; England: Signet Warrants for various appointments, etc.: 1717-1725. Pattee Byng, 2nd Viscount Torrington: Signet Warrants for his appointment as Treasurer of the Navy, and for payments to: 1724.
Navy; England: Signet Warrants for various appointments, etc.: 1717-1725. Pattee Byng, 2nd Viscount Torrington: Signet Warrants for his appointment as Treasurer of the Navy, and for payments to: 1724.
LETTERS on general and public business, addresses and petitions, partly to King William III., but principally to William Bentinck, Earl of Portland, from natives of Holland and others, in the years 1688-1696, with some of earlier and later dates, from 1679 to 1708. They, include many letters fro...
MISCELLANEOUS papers concerning England, chiefly in relation to Holland and other, countries, and comprising, papers on political matters, trade, finance, etc., from 1674 to 1772; and copies of diplomatic correspondence during the years 1747 to 1757. Among them are:- 1. Papers relating to the ...
COPIES of political tracts, reports of trials, precedents, versw, etc., chiefly of the first half of the xviith century. The principal are:- 1. Song, "How happie is hee borne or taught," by S' H[enry] W[otton], f. 11 b. 2. "The names and ages of the Queene of Bohemia her children, September 1627," f. 12. 3. Satirical epitaphs upon Geo. Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, f. 12. 4. Heraldic devices for the Puritan, Jesuit, Usurer, etc., f. 14 b. 5. Report of the trial of Mervin [Touchet],...
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Poetry: Collections of English political and miscellaneous pieces: 17th and 18th centt. includes: f. 11 b Sir Henry Wotton, Ambassador to Venice, and (1623) Provost of Eton: Song, " How happie is hee borne": 17th cent.f. 12 Bohemia, King of. Frederic V: Names and ages of his children: 1627...
" A LIST of his Majesty's royal navy;" Navy Office, 31 July, 1761. On f. 2 is a note in the hand of Admiral Richard Howe, Earl Howe. Paper. Small Octavo.
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Navy; England: Lists and establishments.: 1594 - 1810. includes: f. 2 Richard Howe, Viscount and 1st Earl Howe: Note in a navy-list: 1761.
"A List of His Majesty's Royal Navy," giving the dimensions, armaments, dates of building, etc., of the several ships; 18 Sept. 1763. Paper. Small Octavo. From the Farnborough Fund.
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Navy; England: Lists and establishments.: 1594 - 1810.