Publications of the Navy Records Society, Volume 51Navy Records Society, 1918 - 244 pages |
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Page xvi
... Thomas and William de Melche- burn . The accounts show that the master carpenter ( magister carpentariorum ) of the galley was John Kech , who was paid at the rate of six- pence a day and had under him six carpenters at fivepence a day ...
... Thomas and William de Melche- burn . The accounts show that the master carpenter ( magister carpentariorum ) of the galley was John Kech , who was paid at the rate of six- pence a day and had under him six carpenters at fivepence a day ...
Page xli
... a Committee was lost , and thus went out the last spark of life of a Corporation that had struggled in vain for a hundred years to carry out the intentions of its founders . 2. - The Family of Pett . WHEN Thomas Heywood INTRODUCTION xli.
... a Committee was lost , and thus went out the last spark of life of a Corporation that had struggled in vain for a hundred years to carry out the intentions of its founders . 2. - The Family of Pett . WHEN Thomas Heywood INTRODUCTION xli.
Page xlii
... Thomas Aylesbury1 in 1620 to propose Peter Pett as builder of the new pinnaces ; re- commended him on the ground that ' his family have had the employment since Henry the Seventh's time , ' while forty years later , Fuller , in his ...
... Thomas Aylesbury1 in 1620 to propose Peter Pett as builder of the new pinnaces ; re- commended him on the ground that ' his family have had the employment since Henry the Seventh's time , ' while forty years later , Fuller , in his ...
Page xliv
... Thomas Pett of Skipton in Cumberland ' through John Pett his grandfather and Peter Pett his father , who had been a shipbuilder at Harwich . The fact that there is no Skipton in Cumberland shows that this record is hardly reliable as ...
... Thomas Pett of Skipton in Cumberland ' through John Pett his grandfather and Peter Pett his father , who had been a shipbuilder at Harwich . The fact that there is no Skipton in Cumberland shows that this record is hardly reliable as ...
Page xlv
... Thomas Pett living there at that time . But it seems very doubtful whether Skipton really was a wilful substitution for , or a mis- transcription of , an original ' Hopton , ' for there is no evidence that anyone of the name ever lived ...
... Thomas Pett living there at that time . But it seems very doubtful whether Skipton really was a wilful substitution for , or a mis- transcription of , an original ' Hopton , ' for there is no evidence that anyone of the name ever lived ...
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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 Fleet 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 Trinity House unto vessels voyage Wardens and Assistants Wardens and Commonalty Waymouth whatsoever wife William wind Woolwich workmen yard
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Page v - 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 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 lxi - Chancellor of the Exchequer ; Sir Thomas Parry, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster...
Page 60 - almost disheartened and out of breath, but the prince's Highness, standing near me, from time to time encouraged me as far as he might without offence to his father, labouring to have me eased by standing up, but the king would not permit it.
Page 178 - Clerk. . . . [Power to meet in their hall and] to entreat consult determine constitute ordain and make any Constitutions Statutes Laws Ordinances Articles and Orders whatsoever...
Page 215 - Therefore three tier of ordnance must not be, neither can the art or wit of man build a ship well conditioned and fit for service with three tier of ordnance.
Page 2 - ... was on the site now occupied by the Foreign Cattle Market. in Kent, to one Mr. Webb, with whom I boarded about one year, and afterward lay at Chatham Hill in my father's lodging in the Queen's House, from whence I went every day to school to Rochester and came home at night for three years space. Afterwards, by reason of my small profiting at this school, my father removed me from thence to Greenwich to a private school kept by one Mr. Adams, where I so well profited that in three years I was...