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'MEMOIRS OF THE EARLY LIFE OF JOHN ELLIOTT, of Elliott House, Near Ripon-Yorkshire, Esqre and, Lieut: of the Royal Navy: written by himself, at the request of his Wife, for the use, and amusement of his children only', extending from his birth (11 Jan. 1759) to the Battle of the Saintes (12 Apr. 1782). The most important part of the work is an account (ff. 7b- 45 b) of the second voyage of Captain James Cook, in H.M. S. 'Resolution,' in which Elliott served as a Midshipman, 1772-1775. Elliott's log of the voyage is now in the Public Record Office (cf. Public Library of New South Wales, Bibliography of Captain )James Cook, P. 48). On f. 1b is a list of officers and civilians on the quarter-deck of the 'Resolution', with notes of their ages and characters. From 1775 to 1779 Elliott was in the service of the East India Company; he then returned to the Navy and after passing for Lieutenant was appointed to H.M.S. 'Ajax'; he was superannuated with the rank of Commander in 1814 and d. 1834. At the end of the volume (ff. 100-102) are three rough sketch-maps of the Battle of Waterloo, in which his son, William Henry Elliott (G.C.B. 1870; General 1871) took part; at f. 101b is a drawing of 'Bounapartes (sic) Observatory erected on the field of Battle at Waterloo'. Sir W. H. Elliott married, in 1831, Mary Anne Ashmore, into whose family the present manuscript presumably passed. Paper;ff.ii+102.Early XIX cent.(Watermark 1811).Presented by MrsR.G. Ashmore.