The Autobiography of Phineas PettNavy Records Society, 1918 - 244 pages |
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Page xli
... leave be given to bring in a Bill , of regulating clauses , to be inserted in a new charter for the better breeding of Shipwrights and for the more firm and well building of ships and other vessels . The motion to refer it to a ...
... leave be given to bring in a Bill , of regulating clauses , to be inserted in a new charter for the better breeding of Shipwrights and for the more firm and well building of ships and other vessels . The motion to refer it to a ...
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... leave , ever resting ready to do you service . Chatham this 10 April , 1603 . Your Servant , PHINEAS PETT . To the worshipful and my loving friend Mr. Mathew Baker , one of his Majesty's Master Shipwrights , give this at Woolwich or ...
... leave , ever resting ready to do you service . Chatham this 10 April , 1603 . Your Servant , PHINEAS PETT . To the worshipful and my loving friend Mr. Mathew Baker , one of his Majesty's Master Shipwrights , give this at Woolwich or ...
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... leave to have the benefit of law against him . ' Pett was ordered to satisfy her or show cause why the law should not take its course . Pett explained his loss on the transaction , and asserted that , ' notwithstanding this great loss ...
... leave to have the benefit of law against him . ' Pett was ordered to satisfy her or show cause why the law should not take its course . Pett explained his loss on the transaction , and asserted that , ' notwithstanding this great loss ...
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... leave , ' so that he can go about his business without fear of arrest and that she may be enforced to accept her debt at such reasonable times as he is able to pay . ' The remainder of the story is not to be found in the State Papers ...
... leave , ' so that he can go about his business without fear of arrest and that she may be enforced to accept her debt at such reasonable times as he is able to pay . ' The remainder of the story is not to be found in the State Papers ...
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... leaving all things to my mother's directions , her fatal match- ing with a most wicked husband , one Mr. Thomas Nunn , a Minister , brought a general ruin both to herself and whole family . Some two months after my father's decease or ...
... leaving all things to my mother's directions , her fatal match- ing with a most wicked husband , one Mr. Thomas Nunn , a Minister , brought a general ruin both to herself and whole family . Some two months after my father's decease or ...
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AUTOBIOG OF PHINEAS PETT Phineas 1570-1647 Pett,W. G. (William Gordon) 1874 Perrin No preview available - 2016 |
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Admiralty aforesaid anchored annuity appointed art or mystery attended barge boats breadth brother brought building built Burrell Captain charge charter Chatham Clerk clock command Commissioners Corporation Deptford deputies divers Earl entertainment favour friends gave George Waymouth granted Gravesend heirs and successors honourable journey keel King King's launched letters patent Limehouse lodged London Lord Admiral Lord High Admiral Lordship Majesty Majesty's Navy malicious Master Shipwrights Master Wardens Mathew Baker month morning mystery of Shipwrights night ordinances ordnance person or persons Peter Pett Pett's Phineas Pett pinnaces plank pleased present Prince's Highness Principal Officers ready received repairing returned rode servant set sail shipbuilding ships pinnaces Sir Henry Palmer Sir John Trevor Sir Robert Mansell Suffolk thence thereof Thomas timber tonnage took Trinity House unto vessels voyage Wardens and Assistants Wardens and Commonalty Waymouth whatsoever wife William wind Woolwich workmen yard
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Page vi - SOCIETY desire it to be understood that they are not answerable for any opinions or observations that may appear in the Society's publications; the Editors of the several Works being alone responsible for the same.
Page 174 - Society was first incorporated by letters patent under the great seal of England, bearing date at Westminster the...
Page 173 - England, by his letters patent, under the great seal of England, bearing date at Westminster, the...
Page 177 - Wales had been incorporated under the style of the Master, Wardens and Commonalty of the Art or Mystery of Shipwrights of England (SP Dom.
Page xlii - -• I am credibly informed that that mystery of shipwrights for some descents hath been preserved faithfully in families, of whom the Petts about Chatham are of singular regard.
Page xlii - Majesty's navy, whose ancestors, as father, grandfather, and great-grandfather, for the space of two hundred years and upwards, have continued in the same name officers and architects in the Royal Navy,' he was, it may be presumed; recording the local tradition of the Pett family.
Page 206 - ... or provided or any other matter cause or thing whatsoever to the Contrary thereof in any wise Notwithstanding...
Page 206 - ... or discharge such President, Vice-President, Treasurer or Secretary, from their offices respectively, although the yearly or other time for their respective services shall not be expired, any thing before in these presents contained to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding.
Page lxi - Chancellor of the Exchequer ; Sir Thomas Parry, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster...
Page 182 - SALTERS' HALL, OXFORD COURT, ST. SWITHIN'S LANE, the Hall of the Master, Wardens, and Commonalty of the Art or Mystery of Salters.