Add MS 5439

A collection of papers on Naval affairs, viz.

1. General list of the Captains of the Fleet, May 1702. Fol.8;

2. General list of the Captains of the Fleet Aug[ust] 1704. f.10.

3. General list of the Captains of the Fleet for Oct[ober] 1707. f.12

4. General list of the Captains of the Fleet for March 1708/9. f.23

5. General list of the Captains of the Fleet for 1710. f.26

6. General list of the Captains of the Fleet for 1711. (printed) f.28

7. General list of the Lieutenants, for 1716. (printed) f.30

8. Duplicate of No. 6: f.34 [General list of the Captains of the Fleet for 1711.]

9. Alphabetical list of the Captains, from the year 1688, and the several ships they commanded in the Navy, from letter A to F inclusive. f.36.

10. List of Captains in letters G and H with date of post – rank of each, and his last command. f.66.

11. List of the Admirals and Commanders in Chief in the Mediterranean, from 1679 to 1699 and their respective allowances: f.72.

12. Order for Half Pay to the first Captain of the Admiral of the Fleet; dated Admiralty Office, 27 Nov[ember] 1700 (copy) f.73

13. Minutes of Privy Council, relative to an order for half pay to the Sea Officers; dated 14th Dec 1704. f.75.

14. Order of the Admiralty for a Pension to Sir John Leake; dated 16th Aug[ust] 1715 (copy) f.77.

15. List of Flag Officers on Half Pay from 1712 to 1724. f.80.

16. Order of the Lord High Admiral for allowing three months pay to the inferior officers & men of the Torbay; with a list of them; dated Admiralty Office, 16th Apr[il] 1703 (copy) f.93.

17. The proceedings upon Sir Cloudesley Shovell’s claim to one-eighth of certain prizes[?] taken by ships under his command; and Her Majesty’s Declaration in Council, that the Certificate of the Lord High Admiral shall be sufficient to entitle him to such; dated 24th June 1703. F97.

18. Certificate of the Commissioners of the Navy, concerning the practice of demanding from foreigners the homage due to the King of England’s ships, dated 21 Jan[uary] 1661. F100.

19. Indenture of Ralph Jeffery, Gunenr of the Burlington, for Ordinance[?] Stores received; Dated 28th Oct[ober] 1701. (printed) f.102.

20. Table of the wages and number of Officers in each rate in the Navy. (printed). f.103

21. Table fo rates for piloting the ships of the Royal Navy. (printed). f.105.

22. Extract from the master of the Barfleur’s Journal, in relation to the Engagement with the Spanish Fleet by Sir Geo[rge] Byng[?], 28th Apr[il] 1718 to 24th January 1718/19. f.107.

23. Account of Capt[ain] Cha[rles] Cavendish’s engagement with three Spanish ships of war, A[nno] 1719. Extracted from the Master’s Journals of the ships concerned in that Expedition, 8th Dec[ember] 1719. f.116.

24. General State of the Royal Navy, from 5th Nov[ember] 1688 to 1st Jan[uary] 1698. f.121.

25. Ordinary of the Navy for the year 1698. f.121 [?]

26. Prices of Slop Cloaths established in 1704. Ib[id]

27. Abstract of the Ships in Sea pay, 1st Jan[uary] 1679 with the wages then due; f.122.

28. Monthly abstract of the Ships and Vessels in Sea pay, with the number of men borne, from 1 Oct[ober] 1701 to 30 Sept[ember] 1710. f.122.b

29. Line of Battle upon attacking the French ships in the Harbour of Rodendello, in 1702. f.127

30. List of ships lost in the great storm, in 1703. f.128.

31. List des Vaisseaux de guerre du Roy de France, L’année 1703. f.128b

32. List of all the ships and vessels built by Order of Parliament in K.[ing] William’s Reign, with their dimensions, where, and by whom built. f.130.

33. Account of the English Ships, with the number of men cleared from them, by the Officer’s of the Custom House, between Dec[ember] 1702 and Dec[ember] 1703. f.132.

34. State of the Royal Navy, in the years 1660 and 1688 and 1702. f.132b

35. Number of men in the Navu in the year 1702. f.133.

36. Estimate of surgeons necessaries for 40,000 men for 12 months. f.133b

37. List of all the Clerks belonging to the Admiralty, Treasures and Commissioners of the Navy in 1702 and their respective salaries, f,134.

38. Abstract of some Orders relating to the Navy in the years 1692, 1693 and 1694. f.135.

39. Proposal submitted to Sir John Leake by Ja[mes] Christie, for the letter Victualling a Hospital Ship. Dated 17 Apr[il] 1704. (original) f.137.

40. Minutes of a Council of War held in Jermyn St[reet] 10 March 1702/3 relative to Seamen’s tickets of leave. f.139.

41. Translation of a letter relating to the French preparations at Toulon. Dated Nice, 27 July 1708. f.141.

42. The original of the last article. f.143 [Translation of a letter relating to the French preparations at Toulon. Dated Nice, 27 July 1708]

43. Copy of a letter from the Earl of Peterborough to the Marquis Del Bosque. Dated Valencia, 11 June 1706. f.145.

44. Copy of Sir John Leake’s Order to Sir George Byng to Command the Fleet in the Mediterranean, A[nno] 1706. f.147.

45. Poctical[?] address of the company of H.M.S. Oxford[?] to the King; by the Chaplain of the said ship. f.148.

46. Estimate of the debt of the Navy at the demise of Queen Anne. 30 Aug[ust] 1714. f.150b

47. Privy Office Bill for 4£ dated 25 Jan[uary] 1710. f.151

48. A proposal for the advantage of the Navy, encouragement of Seamen, and good of the Publick. f.152.

49. Answer of the Commissioners of the Navy to the Order of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty in relation to retrenchment in time of peace. Dated Navy Office, 3rd May, 1713. (copy). f.154.

50. Account of ships in sea pay at home & abroad, with their compliments of men borne, from June to Oct[ober] 1714. f.156.

51. Ships at home in Sea pay in Ordinary, and abroad, in March 1713/14. f.171.

52. Ships in Commission, 12 Nov[ember] 1723. f.176.

53. Account of New Employment and increases of salaries, from 1688 to 1698. f.178.

54. Appropriation of money and state of the Appropriations for the year 1702. f.187.

55. Account of Receipts and Payments by the Treasurer of the Navy, between 1st Jan[uary] 1697/8 and 30 Sept[ember] 1698. f.188b

56. Account of money voted for the Navy by Parliament, and the money received by the Treasurer of the Navy, between 5 Nov[ember] 1688 and 1 Dec[ember] 1698. f.192.

57. Abstract of the Estimates laid before the House of Commons for securing the Harbours, and Dock yards of Chatham, Portsmouth and Plymouth. 20 March 1700. f.193.

58. List of the Navy, with the number of men & a requisite to set forth the same, in 1576. f.194.b

59. Estimate of the charge of the Register Office, (Navy Register Office) between 25th March 1696 and 16 July, 1699. f.196.

60. Account of the Receiver of the [?] Office, 2nd Dec[ember] 1703. f.197.

61. Account of the stores lent to and received from the (Navy) States General, between June 1689 and Dec[ember] 1701. f.200.

62. Accounts of the Register Office for Seamen, from Sept[ember] 1696 to Sept[ember] 1703. f.201.

63. “The Sea Commanders Remonstrance Anno 1701 to the Earl of Pembroke, L]ord] High Admiral of England relating to the fitting out of ships in His Maj[esty’s] Yards.”. f.202.

64. Account of money granted by Parliament, and the proportions to each head of service, from 1711 to 1718. f.204.

65. List of the salaries in the Dock yards exceeding 50£ Per Annum, in Mich[aelmas] quarter, 1726. f.207.

66. Charges of the Navy in it’s several branches, for Christmas Quarter, 1710, sent from the Commissioners of the Navy, to the Admiralty. f.210.

67. “The Duke of Albemarle’s Narrative of the miscarriages in the Dutch War, in 1665, 1666, 1667”. f.214.

68. “Prince Rupert his Narrative”. f.218.

69. Extracts relating to the Navy from Pensliworth’s[?] Collections. f.220.

70. Extracts relating to the Navy from Pensliworth’s[?] Collections, from Strype’s Edition of Stow, 1720 and Journals of the House of Lords. f.226.

A table of is prefixed. Folio. 227 folios.