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Oct. 1.
Portsmouth. |
Benjamin Johnson and St. John Steventon to the Navy
Commissioners. Whereas Israel Pownall, mastmaker here,
besides his duty in that employment. has assisted the storekeeper
in measuring timber, etc., without any consideration for his
extraordinary attendance, Sir W. Batten at the last general
survey here being moved how some allowance might be made
him directed us to send up a certificate of the quantities thereof,
wherein Pownall has been useful:—certifying the quantities of
timber, etc., received the last quarter which has required daily
attendance to measure it. [S.P. Supplementary 136, No. 48.] |
| Oct. 1. |
John Tippetts to the Navy Commissioners. According to
their order on Pownall's petition certifying that it is necessary
that a person of good skill and judgement be employed to
receive out stores into the yards, which Pownall has effectually
performed for divers years and also measured all glaziers' work
and has had no other reward than the allowance of a servant
extraordinary. [Ibid. No. 49.] |
Oct. 1.
Chatham Hill House. |
Sir John Mennes, Sir W. Batten and Peter Pett to the Navy
Commissioners. The making the wet dock is of so great concernment that we desire you to send a warrant and a letter to Capt.
Badily, master attendant at Deptford, and Jonas Shish, the
assistant, Mr. Johnson, the shipwright at Blackwall, and Mr. Castle
at Redruth to repair here by next Friday morning to join two
or three able men of the Trinity House and such others as we shall
appoint to view where it is to be made, resolve on the manner and
estimate the charge, that so we may have full satisfaction while
we are here and be better able to give the account when we come
to London. We desire also that Mr. Randle, the house carpenter at Deptford that made the dock there, may come down.
[Ibid. No. 50.] |
| Oct. 7. |
Certificate by William Quick, commander of the Kingsale
frigate, that Stephen Trotle, having gone away 29 July and continued absent, he ordered a R. to be put on him, and by —
Trewinnard that he set the R. on him. [Ibid. No. 51.] |
| Oct. [11]. |
The King to the Lord Lieutenant. In favour of the Royal
Society. (Calendared in Cal. S.P. Ireland. 1660–62, p. 602.)
[S.P. Dom., Signet Office 1, Vol. 5. p. 296.] |
| Oct. 13. |
Letter missive to the Dean and Chapter of Worcester. Requiring them to elect John Earles, D.D., Dean of Westminster,
to be bishop of that see, void by the late bishop's decease. [Ibid.
p. 279.] |
| Oct. 13. |
Robert Smyth to Samuel Pepys. Reporting favourably on
the sureties proposed for Thomas Petty, purser of the Sorlings.
[S.P. Supplementary 136, No. 52.] |
Oct. 14.
Deptford. |
Capt. William Badiley to the Navy Commissioners. Advising
that the Gift should remain at Woolwich and not come to Deptford as the berths are full there. [Ibid. No. 53.] |
| Oct. 28. |
Report by Robert Magors on Mr. Dalmahoy's timber at Guildford. [Ibid. No. 54.] |
| Oct. 29. |
Warrant from the Navy Commissioners to the Storekeeper and
Clerk of the Checque at Deptford to issue such provisions as the
master shipwright's assistant and the house carpenter shall
require for repairing the crane and making a pair of stairs at the
yard there. [Ibid. No. 55.] |
| Oct. |
Certificate of the ministers, churchwardens and others in
Essex that the collection brief for Milton Abbas could not be
found, nor was anything paid thereon in their respective parishes,
except at Aufley (Aveley), where the money was paid to John
Lambert, high constable. |
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Also like certificate relative to a brief for Fleet Street. |
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Also like certificate relative to a brief for Tuttl (Tothill) Street
relating to briefs for collections for losses by fire. One certificate
is dated 22 Oct., 1662. [S.P. Supplementary 134, No. 297.] |
