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Page lvi
... timber was not without its perquisites , and Pett's thankfulness that nothing could be proved against him ' when the accounts of his doings in Suffolk and Norfolk were scrutinised , indicates that his labours had not been without some ...
... timber was not without its perquisites , and Pett's thankfulness that nothing could be proved against him ' when the accounts of his doings in Suffolk and Norfolk were scrutinised , indicates that his labours had not been without some ...
Page lvii
... timber sawn into boards ; fifty 1 Miscell . , vol . x . pp . 257-262 : A large and particular complaint against Phineas Pett relating to abuses in the Navy about the end of the Queen's and beginning of King James's Reign . Cf. Dr ...
... timber sawn into boards ; fifty 1 Miscell . , vol . x . pp . 257-262 : A large and particular complaint against Phineas Pett relating to abuses in the Navy about the end of the Queen's and beginning of King James's Reign . Cf. Dr ...
Page lviii
... timber sawn into posts to hang clothes on and painted at the Queen's cost . Although the writer has an obvious grievance against Pett , there seems no reason to doubt the substantial accuracy of the charges made . One of the gravest ...
... timber sawn into posts to hang clothes on and painted at the Queen's cost . Although the writer has an obvious grievance against Pett , there seems no reason to doubt the substantial accuracy of the charges made . One of the gravest ...
Page lxiii
... timber store at Chatham he had failed to reject bad timber and plank brought in by one of the purveyors . His answer to this was that Sir Henry Palmer had been so quick with him for some of these exceptions as he would complain no more ...
... timber store at Chatham he had failed to reject bad timber and plank brought in by one of the purveyors . His answer to this was that Sir Henry Palmer had been so quick with him for some of these exceptions as he would complain no more ...
Page lxiv
... timber and other materials come to be received into the stores , of the Clerk of the Check combining closely with the deliverers to increase the quantity of that which is delivered some time to a third part Ixiv INTRODUCTION.
... timber and other materials come to be received into the stores , of the Clerk of the Check combining closely with the deliverers to increase the quantity of that which is delivered some time to a third part Ixiv INTRODUCTION.
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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...