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Page lviii
... charges made . One of the gravest indictments subsequently brought by the Commission of Inquiry of 1608- The 1609 ... charge related merely to the sale of ordnance and ammunition to the Spaniards , but the malpractices alleged went ...
... charges made . One of the gravest indictments subsequently brought by the Commission of Inquiry of 1608- The 1609 ... charge related merely to the sale of ordnance and ammunition to the Spaniards , but the malpractices alleged went ...
Page lx
... charges , as given in his signed deposition of 12th May 1608 , seem rather weak . He stated that the riggings ' of the Foresight were found to be so ill that they stood him in little or no stead , ' that the accounts for the provisions ...
... charges , as given in his signed deposition of 12th May 1608 , seem rather weak . He stated that the riggings ' of the Foresight were found to be so ill that they stood him in little or no stead , ' that the accounts for the provisions ...
Page lxiii
... charged with wrong - doing . " The first point made against him is that while he was keeper of the timber store at Chatham he had failed to reject bad timber ... charge against the Master Shipwrights that , for reasons of INTRODUCTION lxiii.
... charged with wrong - doing . " The first point made against him is that while he was keeper of the timber store at Chatham he had failed to reject bad timber ... charge against the Master Shipwrights that , for reasons of INTRODUCTION lxiii.
Page lxiv
charge against the Master Shipwrights that , for reasons of private gain , ships were repaired ' when they were not worth the labour nor the charges bestowed on them , ' the case of the Victory is cited as an example : Thus did the ...
charge against the Master Shipwrights that , for reasons of private gain , ships were repaired ' when they were not worth the labour nor the charges bestowed on them , ' the case of the Victory is cited as an example : Thus did the ...
Page lxv
... charged with ' wasteful and lavish expense ' in repairing the ironwork of the Anne Royal at a cost of 800l . , or more than double the amount necessary for the purpose . In the only charge to which Pett himself refers , namely , e that ...
... charged with ' wasteful and lavish expense ' in repairing the ironwork of the Anne Royal at a cost of 800l . , or more than double the amount necessary for the purpose . In the only charge to which Pett himself refers , namely , e that ...
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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...