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A series of letters from Mr DIxon, Mr March and Mr Lampburgh 1716 - 1717 (Manuscript)
1689 - 1710
FFX/5/2/1-9
Letters to and from the Admiralty, relating to prize money, appointments and promotions, 1705 -1713 (Manuscript)
1689 - 1710
FFX/3/2/1-8
A series of letters to his wife. (Manuscript)
1689 - 1710
FFX/6/2/1-3
Miscellaneous series including charts, letters and loose seals. (Manuscript)
1689 - 1710
FFX/7/1/1-8
Letters from different people offering Fairfax their congratulations. (Manuscript)
1689 - 1710
FFX/4/2/2-12
This series features correspondence between Fairfax and the various offices of the Admiralty, as well as a series of memorials. (Manuscript)
1704 - 1725
FFX/3
Business correspondence includes letters between Fairfax and his solicitors and agents concerned with the protracted business dealings and surrounding Fairfax’s purchase of the Bilborough estate in Yorkshire between 1702- 1722. (Manuscript)
1702 -1722
FFX/5
Series comprises family correspondence: letters to his mother and from his uncle Thomas Fairfax in Dublin (Manuscript)
1681 - 1710
FFX/6
Letters to and from the Admiralty, relating to prize money, appointments and promotions. (Manuscript)
1704 - 1713
FFX/3/2
Series includes two certificates, authenticating that Fairfax received communion and a chart showing the wages paid to all classes of sailors at the end of the seventeenth century. (Manuscript)
1699 - 1754
FFX/7
Orders from Sir Cloudsley Shovell 1706-1707. (Manuscript)
1689 - 1710
FFX/2/1/21-29
Orders received by Fairfax between 1692 and 1706. (Manuscript)
1689 - 1710
FFX/2/1/1-10
Letters received by Fairfax from the Admiralty Pay Office, 1714 - 1718. (Manuscript)
1689 - 1710
FFX/3/1/10-19
Letters received by Fairfax from the Admiralty Pay Office, 1704 - 1725. (Manuscript)
1704 - 1725
FFX/3/1
Memorial to Thomas, Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, requesting his influence in the expected promotion of flag officers. (Manuscript)
1708
FFX/3/3/3
Memo by Fairfax telling how he met the Prince (George of Denmark, Lord High Admiral) at Windsor and next day kissed the Queen's (Anne) hand, and then took his place at the Board of Admiralty, (Manuscript)
FFX/3/3/10
Memorial addressed to Thomas, Duke of Leeds, relating how he (Fairfax) was overlooked for promotion to Flag rank and has been without half pay since the death of Prince George of Denmark. (Manuscript)
FFX/3/3/8
Petition to the Queen Anne, requesting half pay or other service, in view of being overlooked for flag rank. Undated. (Manuscript)
FFX/3/3/9
Memorial to Henry Duke of Beaufort, requesting he petition the Queen on Fairfax's behalf, should any vacancy arise in the Board of Admiralty, undated. (Manuscript)
FFX/3/3/6
Memorial addressed to Lord Dartmouth, Principal Secretary of State, relating to Fairfax's revoked promotion to Vice Admiral of the Blue and his half pay having been cancelled since October 1709. (Manuscript)
FFX/3/3/5
Orders from Admiral Hughes, relating to vessels sailing under convoy, undated (enclosed in with FFX/2/1/15), undated. (Manuscript)
FFX/2/1/16
'The Case of Captain Richard Rouzier', a memorial describing how Sir Edward Whitaker, commanding at Port Mahon, made Rouzier captain of the SOMERSET. (Manuscript)
FFX/3/3/1
A series of letters including some to Robert Fairfax's mother. (Manuscript)
1689-03
FFX/2, 3, 4, 6 - OS
Commissions for Fairfax, 1689 - 1707. (Manuscript)
1689-03
FFX/1/1-4, 7-15, 18-19, 21
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