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Page xxv
... appointed and installed . This was the patent that gave Phineas such great discouragement ' ( p . 20 ) . It is drawn up in due form , and it is difficult to understand on what grounds it can legally have been set aside . The patent ...
... appointed and installed . This was the patent that gave Phineas such great discouragement ' ( p . 20 ) . It is drawn up in due form , and it is difficult to understand on what grounds it can legally have been set aside . The patent ...
Page xxvi
... appointed as Master Shipwright in the vacancy caused by the death of Baker in 1613. In 1614 he was Master Shipwright at Portsmouth , and was in 1621 serving with Phineas as his ' fellow ' Master Shipwright at Chatham , where he died ...
... appointed as Master Shipwright in the vacancy caused by the death of Baker in 1613. In 1614 he was Master Shipwright at Portsmouth , and was in 1621 serving with Phineas as his ' fellow ' Master Shipwright at Chatham , where he died ...
Page xxxi
... appointed in ' every convenient and needful place ' to see that the ordinances of the Corporation were properly carried out , and to collect dues ; members might be admitted who were not shipwrights ; the admission of apprentices was ...
... appointed in ' every convenient and needful place ' to see that the ordinances of the Corporation were properly carried out , and to collect dues ; members might be admitted who were not shipwrights ; the admission of apprentices was ...
Page xxxv
... appointed Lord High Admiral upon a petition from the City Company , and by an Order in Council of March 1639 that Company was exempted from the jurisdiction of the ' New Corporation of the Suburbs , ' although , in view of the fact that ...
... appointed Lord High Admiral upon a petition from the City Company , and by an Order in Council of March 1639 that Company was exempted from the jurisdiction of the ' New Corporation of the Suburbs , ' although , in view of the fact that ...
Page lxvii
... appointed , and the construction had not proceeded far before questions were raised as to the correctness of the design , the suitability of the material , and the competence of Pett as designer and builder . On the 15th December ...
... appointed , and the construction had not proceeded far before questions were raised as to the correctness of the design , the suitability of the material , and the competence of Pett as designer and builder . On the 15th December ...
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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...