Papers dated from July to December 1634, Relating to Appointments in the Navy

Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I, 1634-5. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1864.

'Papers dated from July to December 1634, Relating to Appointments in the Navy', in Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I, 1634-5, (London, 1864) pp. 436-440. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/domestic/chas1/1634-5/pp436-440 [accessed 19 April 2024]

PAPERS dated from July to December 1634, RELATING TO APPOINTMENTS IN THE NAVY

To Offices under the Rank of Captain.


Date.	Office.	Nature of Document.	Reference to Document.

1634.
July 4.	Cook in one of the ships now building.	Petition of William Warde to the Lords of the Admiralty. Prays appointment. Annexed,	Vol. cclxxi., No. 22. ½ p.
July 4.	Cook in one of the ships now building.	i. Officers of the Navy to the same. Recommed William Warde for appointment.	Ibid., No. 22. i. ¾ p.
Aug. 4.	Purser's place.	Petition of William Holmes to Lord Cottington. Has lately obtained his Majesty's pardon of sentence of death given against him by the Lord High Constable and Earl Marshal in the Court Military. Prays appointment.	Vol. cclxxiii., No. 15. ¾ p.
Aug. 5.	Master gunner of a forty gun ship.	Petition of John Lathbury, gunner of the Eighth Lion's Whelp, to the Lords of the Admiralty. States services. Prays appointment.	Ibid., No. 17. ¾ p.
Aug. 9.	Master gunner of one of the new ships.	Petition of William Ayliffe, master gunner of the Assurance, to the same. Has served seven years in the Assurance. Prays appointment. Annexed,	Vol. cclxxiii., No. 29. ¾ p.
		i. Officers of the Navy to the same. Recommend petitioner for appointment. Mincing Lane, 27th July 1634.	Ibid., No. 29. i. 1 p.
		ii. John Reynolds to the same. Similar recommendation.	Ibid., No. 29. ii. ¾ p.
Aug. 21.	Master carpenter in one of his Majesty's ships.	Certificate of Henry Goddard and others of the competency of John Dalton, son of William Dalton, as a ship carpenter, with further underwritten testimonial of Kenrick Edisbury. The latter dated 4th Sept. 1634	Ibid., No. 62. 1 p.
Sept. 6.	Boatswain in one of the ships now building.	Petition of Samuel Story, boatswain of the Dreadnought, to the Lords of the Admiralty. Sets forth various past services since petitioner was nine years old, and prays appointment. Annexed,	Vol. cclxxiv., No. 9. ¾ p.
Sept. 6.	Boatswain in one of the ships now building.	i. Certificate of Officers of Navy recommending petitioner. 4th Sept. 1634.	Ibid., No. 9. i. 1 p.
Sept. 26.	Purser of the Lion's Fourth Whelp, vacant by death of John Kendall.	Petition of John Thomas to the same. Sets forth services. Prays appointment. Annexed,	Ibid., No. 47. 1 p.
Sept. 26.		i. Certificate of Officers of Navy recommending petitioner. 26th Sept. 1634.	Ibid., No. 47. i. 1 p.
Oct. 2.	Master carpenter in new ship now building at Woolwich.	Petition of George Parker, shipcarpenter, to the same. States past services, and prays appointment. Annexed,	Vol. cclxxv., No. 14. 1 p.
		i. Certificate of Officers of Navy. 7th July 1634.	Ibid., No. 14. i. 1 p.
		ii. Certificate of Henry Goddard and others, shipwrights, recommending petitioner.	Ibid., No. 14. ii. ¾ p.
Oct. 15.	Purser's place in the Vanguard.	Memorandum of John Wriothesley of his desire to relinquish the pursership of the Vanguard to Thomas Newman. Annexed,	Ibid., No. 54. 1 p.
Oct. 15.	Purser's place in the Vanguard.	i. Certificate of Officers of the Navy recommending Thomas Newman. [Indorsed by Nicholas as having been received on 24th October 1634, with the addition that on the 4th November 1634 the Lords of the Admiralty rejected the application.]	Ibid., No. 54. i. 1 p.
Oct. 17.	Pursership in one of the King's ships.	Officers of Navy to Lords of Admiralty. Recommendatory certificate for George Pearson, signed only by Sir William Russell. Annexed,	Vol. cclxxv., No. 70. ½ p.
		i. Duplicate of the same certificate, without date, but signed by Sir William Russell and Kenrick Edisbury, and referring to	Ibid., No. 70. i. ½ p.
		ii. Hugh Perry and others to Officers of Navy. Recommendatory certificate for George Pearson. 25th August 1634.	Ibid., No. 70. ii. ½ p.
Oct. 26.	Master carpenter of the Garland, vacant by the death of Robert Fisher.	Petition of Thomas Rumney, master carpenter of the Adventure to the Lords of the Admiralty. Prays appointment. Inclosed,	Vol. cclxxvi., No.33. 1 p.
Oct. 26.		i. Certificate of Capt. Phineas Pett and others recommending Thomas Rumney. 29th December 1629.	Ibid., No. 33. i. ¾ p.
Oct. 30. The Charles, in the Downs.	Boatswain of one of the new ships.	Sir John Pennington to Sir Henry Vane, in favour of Abraham Sampson, boatswain of the Fourth Lion's Whelp, and master's mate in the Charles.	Ibid., No. 45. 1 p. [Seal with arms.]
Oct. 30. Whitehall.	Master carpenter in the Garland.	Lords of Admiralty to Officers of Navy. To enter appointment of Thomas Rumney.	Vol. cclxiv., fol. 40 a. ½ p.
Nov. 4.Whitehall.	Boatswain of the new ship at Woolwich.	The same to the same. To enter appointment of David Mitchell.	Ibid., fol. 42. ⅓ p.
Nov. 4.Whitehall.	Boatswain of the new ship at Deptford.	The same to the same. To enter appointment of Samuel Story, now boatswain of the Dreadnought.	Ibid., fol. 42. a. 3 lines.
Nov. 4.Whitehall.	Boatswain of the Dreadnought.	The same to the same. To enter appointment of Abraham Sampson, now boatswain of the Fourth Whelp.	Ibid. 4 lines,
Nov. 4.Whitehall.	Boatswain of the Fourth Whelp.	The same to the same. To enter appointment of Benjamin Jackson.	Ibid. 5 lines.
Nov. 4. Whitehall.	Purser of the new ship at Woolwich.	The same to the same. To enter appointment of Valentine Pyne.	Ibid. ⅓ p.
Nov. 4. Whitehall.	Purser of the new ship at Deptford.	The same to the same. To enter appointment of William Thomas, now purser of the Antelope.	Ibid. 6 lines.
Nov. 4. Whitehall.	Purser of the Antelope.	Lords of the Admiralty to Officers of the Navy. To enter appointment of George Pearson.	Vol. cclxiv, fol. 42 a. 4 lines.
Nov. 4. Whitehall.	Master gunner of the new ship at Woolwich.	The same to the same. To enter appointment of William Ayliffe, now master gunner of the Assurance.	Ibid., fol. 43. 4 lines.
Nov. 4. Whitehall.	Master gunner of the Assurance.	The same to the same. To enter appointment of John Lathbury, now master gunner of the Lion's Eighth Whelp.	Ibid. 5 lines.
Nov. 4. Whitehall.	Master gunner of the Eighth Whelp.	The same to the same. To enter appointment of John Cox.	Ibid. 5 lines.
Nov. 4. Whitehall.	Master gunner of the new ship at Woolwich.	The same to the same. To enter appointment of Richard Mitchell, now master gunner of the Mary Rose.	Ibid. ¼ p.
Nov. 4. Whitehall.	Master gunner of the Mary Rose.	The same to the same. To enter appointment of Ralph Chessle, now master gunner of the Lion's Fifth Whelp.	Ibid., fol. 43 a. 6 lines.
Nov. 4. Whitehall.	Master gunner of the Fifth Whelp.	The same to the same. To enter appointment of Robert Tray.	Ibid. 5 lines.
Nov. 4. Whitehall.	Master carpenter of the new ship at Woolwich.	The same to the same. To enter appointment of George Parker.	Ibid. ⅓ p.
Nov. 4. Whitehall.	Master carpenter of the new ship at Deptford.	The same to the same. To enter appointment of John Dalton.	Ibid. 3 lines.
Nov. 4. Whitehall.	Master cook of the new ship at Woolwich.	The same to the same. To enter appointment of Thomas Blaxton.	Ibid. ¼ p.
Nov. 4. Whitehall.	Master cook of the new ship at Deptford.	The same to the same. To enter appointment of William Ward.	Ibid., fol. 44. 3 lines.
Nov. 4. Whitehall.	Purser of the Fourth Whelp, in place of John Kendall, deceased.	The same to the same. To enter appointment of John Thomas, purser of the Moon.	Ibid. ⅓ p.
Nov. 13. Mincing Lane.	Boatswain of the Constant Reformation.	Kenrick Edisbury to Nicholas. Recommends William Waymond, boatswain of the Antelope, to succeed — Cadman, who is dangerously sick, and John Moore, boatswain of the Tenth Whelp, to be removed to the Antelope.	Vol. cclxxvii., No. 44. ½ p. [Seal with arms.]
Dec. 18.	Boatswain in one of his Majesty's ships.	Officers of the Navy to Lords of the Admiralty. Recommend William Parker, who served boatswain of the Samaritan pink at Rochelle.	Vol. cclxxviii., No. 57. 1 p.
[Dec. 19.]	Cook in the St. Andrew in place of William Willis, deceased.	Petition of John Cheeswick to the Lords of the Admiralty. Prays for the appointment. Annexed,	Vol. cclxxviii. No. 61. ¾ p.
[Dec. 19.]		i. Officers of Navy to the same. Recommend John Cheeswick for appointment.	Ibid., No. 61. i. ¾ p.
Dec. 22. [Portsmouth] Dock.	Cook in the Triumph as successor to William Crumpton.	John Brooke to Nicholas, on behalf of Phineas Eddy, who having been appointed Crumpton's deputy by the Officers of the Navy, is now sought to be fraudulently deprived of the place.	Ibid., No. 73. 1 p.
Undated.	Carpenter in the Vanguard.	Petition of John Gaile to the Lords of the Admiralty. Prays appointment.	Vol. cclxxxi., No. 81. ½ p.