Collection of naval documents, 1583-1778

Naval Documents: includes official sixteenth and early seventeenth century Admiralty orders, instructions, surveys, patents and financial documents, c. 1540 - 1607; three accounts on the abuses in the Navy, 1608; piracy in Ireland, 1609 - 1614, contracts and orders concerning cordage and cable, 1615 - 1617; official letters concerning abuses and better government of the Navy, 1618 - 1635; four orders concerning the CONSTANT WARWICK, 1648 - 1649; agreements, requests and accounts on the subject of supplying beer in the Navy, 1648 - 1652; four documents on mariners grievances during the Reformation, 1652 - 1653; instructions, a letter, an order, an agreement and proposals on the exhibition to Barbadoes, 1654 - 1660; official financial documents relating to debts and conditions of the Navy, 1660 - 1662; letters to the Duke of York, 1662 - 1687; orders, lists and letters relating to marines, 1690 - 1713; eight letters and two lists on the subject of the South Sea Bubble, 1720 - 1724; two descriptions and a letter on the subject of the Battle of Hieres Bay, 1743; four letters to Captain Maplesden, 1746 - 1747; letters concerning British relations with Morocco (chiefly through Captain Maplesden), 1754 - 1778. An itemised list is available within the volume, which can be used as a finding aid to specific letters.