| Samuel Smiles - 1884 - 410 pages
...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. Good success have they with their skill, and carefully keep so precious a pearl, lest otherwise amongst... | |
| Thomas Fuller - 1892 - 288 pages
...credibly informed, that that mystery of shipwrights, for some descents, hath been preserved successively in families, of whom the Petts about Chatham are of singular regard. 'Good success have they with their skill ; ' and carefully keep so precious a pearl, lest otherwise... | |
| 1904 - 308 pages
...credibly informed that that Mystery of Ship-Wrights for some descents hath been preserved successively in Families, of whom the Petts about Chatham are of singular regard ; Good success have they with their skill, and carefully keep so precious a pearl, lest otherwise amongst... | |
| 1918 - 356 pages
...was strong and persistent is clear from the fact that Mansell, writing to Thomas Aylesbury 1 in 162o to propose Peter Pett as builder of the new pinnaces;...Peter. The name ' Pett ' is said by a modern writer on the history of English surnames to be a Kentish variant of the name ' Pitt.' This would imply a... | |
| John Evelyn - 1920 - 258 pages
...more accurate, saying, 'the mystery of shipwrights hath been for some descents preserved successively in Families, of whom the Petts about Chatham are of singular regard '. The autobiography of Phineas has been largely printed in Archaeologia (vol. xii. 217 ff.). He was... | |
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