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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
This series features correspondence between Fairfax and the various offices of the Admiralty, as well as a series of memorials. The majority of Admiralty correspondence concerns the award, of or delays in the award of, half pay (FFX/3/1) or disputes over prize money, 1704-1725 (FFX/3/2).…
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
This series represents business correspondence. It includes letters between Fairfax and his solicitors and agents (FFX/5/1), concerned with the protracted business dealings (FFX/5/2) surrounding Fairfax’s purchase of the Bilborough estate in Yorkshire between 1702- 1722.
Series comprises family correspondence: letters to his mother and from his uncle Thomas Fairfax in Dublin (Manuscript) 1681 - 1710 FFX/6
This series comprises family correspondence: letters to his mother (FFX/6/1), his wife (FFX/6/2) and from his uncle Thomas Fairfax in Dublin (FFX/6/3). The letters to his mother include his first letter written home from sea at the age of 15, (1681).…
Letters to and from the Admiralty, relating to prize money, appointments and promotions. (Manuscript) 1704 - 1713 FFX/3/2
Letters to and from the Admiralty, relating to prize money, appointments and promotions.
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
This series includes two certificates, authenticating that Fairfax received communion ‘according to the usages of the Church of England’ and a chart showing the wages paid to all classes of sailors at the end of the seventeenth century.…
Letters received by Fairfax from the Admiralty Pay Office, 1704 - 1725. (Manuscript) 1704 - 1725 FFX/3/1
Letters received by Fairfax from the Admiralty Pay Office, 1704 - 1725.
Memorial to Thomas, Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, requesting his influence in the expected promotion of flag officers. (Manuscript) 1708 FFX/3/3/3
Memorial to Thomas, Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, requesting his influence in the expected promotion of flag officers. [Pembroke succeeded Prince George as Lord High Admiral]. Undated (1708).
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
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, undated.
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
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. Undated.
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
Petition to the Queen Anne, requesting half pay or other service, in view of being overlooked for flag rank. Undated.
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 to Henry Duke of Beaufort, requesting he petition the Queen on Fairfax's behalf, should any vacancy arise in the Board of Admiralty, undated.
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
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. Undated
Orders from Admiral Hughes, relating to vessels sailing under convoy, undated (enclosed in with FFX/2/1/15), undated. (Manuscript) FFX/2/1/16
Orders from Admiral [?] Hughes, relating to vessels sailing under convoy, undated (enclosed in with Ffx/2/1/15), undated.
Letters to his wife. (Manuscript) 1704 FFX/6/2
Letters to his wife. Two relate to the attack on Gibraltar in which Fairfax captained the BERWICK (1704) under Admiral Byng. One is written days before the battle, the other a few days after.
Certificate of exemption from press gangs of 9 persons named and described, of the merchant vessel TWO BROTHERS, February 1754. (Manuscript) 1754 FFX/7/1/6
Certificate of exemption from press gangs of 9 persons named and described, of the merchant vessel TWO BROTHERS, February 1754. [As Fairfax had been dead nearly thirty years, it is not clear what connection this item has with the Fairfax collection].
Letter relating to sale of a mast for $260, August 1705 . (Manuscript) 1705 FFX/7/1/4
Letter relating to sale of a mast for $260, August 1705 .