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Harley MS 1247
- Record Id:
- 040-002047076
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002047076
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x0002f1
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1247
- Title:
- Tracts on navigation and the navy
- Scope & Content:
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Book in several hands on navigation, with diagrams, and English navy matters 1658-1665.
Contents:
ff. 1-14: Short geometrical tract for learners, with diagrams.
ff. 15-32: Explanation of some problems in the art of navigation.
ff. 33-37: The doctrine of spherical triangles.
f. 38v: List of all ships (with number of guns and men) that were sent for the Sound, 5 December 1658.
f. 39: List of all ships (with number of guns and men) in the fleet under the command of General Lord Montague, bound from Sole-bay for the Sound; 27 March 1659.
f. 40r: Monthly wages of all the officers, seamen and others serving in the states ships at sea.
ff. 40v-41r: List of all ships (guns and men) of Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector, 1658. Title has subsequently been struck out, and amended to ‘A List of his Majesty Shippes from ye yeare 1658’.
ff. 41v-42r: Instructions for commanders headed ‘Instructions for Commanders of parties remote from the Fleet; and all Captains of Ships at Sea, in the service of the Comonwealth’.
ff. 42v-43r: ‘Instructions for the better orderinge the Fleete in Saylinge’.
ff. 43v-44r: ‘Instructions for the better orderinge and managing the Fleete in Fighting’.
f. 44v: ‘Signes for the respective Commanders of the Fleet, to attend the Commands of the Generall’.
f. 45v: List of the Officers and others who came over under command of General Ayscue.
f. 46: ‘A List of all His Majesties Shipps in theire respective Divisions, for this present Expedition, under the command of his Excellence the Earl of Sandwich’.
f. 47r: Names of the King of Sweden’s ships under command of Sir George Ayscue.
ff. 47v-49v: James Duke of York’s sailing instructions for the Navy. Headed ‘Instructions for the better ordering his Majesties Fleete in sayling’. Dated 16 November 1664.
f. 50r: Orders to be observed, for the better keeping of company beween the Centaur, Ruby, & Caesaire [Caesar].
f. 50v: James Duke of York’s fighting instructions for the Navy.
f. 51: List of ships in the blue, white and red squadrons; with additional instructions as to sailing and fighting, by the Duke of York. 24 April 1665.
f. 52r: Additional instructions for fighting, by the Duke of York. 18 April 1665.
f. 52v: Declaration of the Duke of York on rewards and compensation to be given to men on board the English fire-ships for burning Dutch ships; to the men on board his Majesty’s small ships for destroying enemy fire-ships; or for losing their own vessels in the attempt. 20 April 1665.
f. 53: List of the Navy under the command of the Duke of York, Lord High Admiral.
f. 54: List of ships ordered to go to Portsmouth under Sir William Bartlett’s command; and to be the westward guard. September 1665.
f. 54v: Certificates of the bad condition of the Ship Centurion and the stores on board after the Battle of Lowestoft. 9 June 1665.
f. 55r: List of the King’s second fleet set forth against the Dutch under the command of the Earl of Sandwich, July 1665. Followed by: Order of the Earl for the same fleet, 19 July 1665.
f. 55v: Order made for preventing damage by the enemies fire-ships. 9 August 1665. Followed by: Resolutions made at the Council of War, 12 August 1665.
f. 56: Unidentified chart.
f. 57r: Order of a court-martial, instructing all lower officers not to grant their men permission to go ashore, nor to press men from the colliers returning from London, for fear of the Plague. Signed by the Earl of Sandwich, 19 August 1665. Followed by: Orders made at a Council of War of Flag Men, 29 August 1665.
f. 57v: Account of the ordnance on board his Majesty’s Ship Anne.
f. 58: Some water-damaged ships accounts.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002047076", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 1247: Tracts on navigation and the navy" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002047076 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1247 : Tracts on navigation and the navy - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1247]/040-002047076
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1650
- End Date:
- 1669
- Date Range:
- 1650s-1660s
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 430 x 320 mm.
Foliation: 58 folios
Binding: British Museum, 20th century in-house binding.
- Custodial History:
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The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (1661-1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (1689-1741), 2nd earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts.
Edward Harley bequeathed the library to his widow, Henrietta Cavendish, née Holles (1694-1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (1715-1785), duchess of Portland; the manuscripts were sold by the Countess and the Duchess in 1753 to the nation for £10,000 (a fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library.
- Finding Aids:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I (1808), no. 1247.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)