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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary
… pretending to have found out an invention for taking up wrecks, have obtained grants of the said wrecks, but have hitherto made little or no progress therein, … a grant to enable them to work upon and take up all such wrecks as shall be recovered by them, and to have one half of …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary
… in his fortune. Prays a grant for ten years to "fish for wrecks" in the west of Ireland, in any part within fifty …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary
… of the coast of Leinster, he has been informed of several wrecks which formerly happened upon the said coast, and being … of them at his own charge, prays a grant of all such wrecks upon the said coast. Referred to the Treasury. [ S.P. … for letters patent granting him and his assigns all such wrecks, &c. (without infringing any grant made already), …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… Prize, for his voyage to America in search of gold mines, wrecks and other treasure (as in Vernon's letter of 28th …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… in getting palisades for the forts, and breaking up the wrecks in the harbour for the purpose. On the 20th I received …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary, 1695
… by her tenants, chattels of felons, and waif, strays and wrecks in the said parishes of St. Clement and St. Heliers …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… of the wreck and of credible information of other wrecks in those parts, and the Admiralty desiring his … of H.M.S. Dolphin, from you and those concerned in the wrecks that are to be fished up, are approved. As to the … proceeding to the West Indies, to take up several wrecks, described in papers left by him with Samuel Travers, …