Publications of the Navy Records Society, Volume 51Navy Records Society, 1918 - 244 pages |
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Page xxxi
... pinnaces , crayers , ketches , lighters , boats , barges , wherries , or any other vessel or vessels whatsoever used for navigation , fishing , or trans- portation , ' and to this is added another long clause covering accessories made ...
... pinnaces , crayers , ketches , lighters , boats , barges , wherries , or any other vessel or vessels whatsoever used for navigation , fishing , or trans- portation , ' and to this is added another long clause covering accessories made ...
Page xlii
... 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 ' Worthies of England , ' also referred to it in these words : ' I am ...
... 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 ' Worthies of England , ' also referred to it in these words : ' I am ...
Page lxxxiv
... pinnaces , of 120 and 80 tons respectively , sub- sequently named the Mercury and the Spy . It was the habit of the Master Shipwrights to exceed their instructions in building ships for the Navy ; partly , perhaps , from a desire to do ...
... pinnaces , of 120 and 80 tons respectively , sub- sequently named the Mercury and the Spy . It was the habit of the Master Shipwrights to exceed their instructions in building ships for the Navy ; partly , perhaps , from a desire to do ...
Page lxxxv
... pinnaces or his entertainment , we will make present pay- ment of the remainder , as we have formerly offered before your Lordships . ' The matter drifted on until 1624 , and two further remonstrances , from the Admiralty , brought ...
... pinnaces or his entertainment , we will make present pay- ment of the remainder , as we have formerly offered before your Lordships . ' The matter drifted on until 1624 , and two further remonstrances , from the Admiralty , brought ...
Page 90
... pinnaces in the upper reach , not leaving out any one which he was not on board of , taking 1 the same course with them as was done with the other in the forenoon , by which time the day was far spent , and his Highness returned to his ...
... pinnaces in the upper reach , not leaving out any one which he was not on board of , taking 1 the same course with them as was done with the other in the forenoon , by which time the day was far spent , and his Highness returned to his ...
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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...