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Volumes of affidavits sworn by naval officers in connection with passing their accounts at the Navy Pay Office, 1790-1830. (Manuscript)
1790-1830
RCL/1-4
Naval Administration: volumes of affidavits sworn by naval officers in connection with passing their accounts at the Navy Pay Office, 1790-1830.
Prize money: mixed papers, mainly certificates and papers relating to Pay Office and some to the Ordnance office, 18th century (Manuscript)
1700-1800
PLA/25
Prize money: mixed papers, mainly certificates and papers relating to Pay Office and some to the Ordnance office, 18th century
Prize money: certificates and letters relating to questions of pay, 18th century (Manuscript)
1700-1800
PLA/24
Prize money: certificates and letters relating to questions of pay, 18th century
Nelson family documents, n.d. (Manuscript)
PHB/P/24
History and Biography: Nelson family documents, n.d.
Gurrard's Navigation tablet and proportional scale for reducing Lunar Observations in finding the Longitude, printed, c.1810 (Manuscript)
1810
PNS/P/1
Naval Science and Technology: Gurrard's Navigation tablet and proportional scale for reducing Lunar Observations in finding the Longitude, printed, c.1810
Certaine questions and answers very necessarie to be knowne by all saylers, 17th century (Manuscript)
1600-1700
PNS/P/4
Naval Science and Technology: 'Certaine questions and answers very necessarie to be knowne by all saylers', 17th century
Navy papers, including orders relating to administration, 18th century (Manuscript)
1700-1800
PLA/28
Navy papers, including orders relating to administration, 18th century
Customs and Maritime Law, 17th century (Manuscript)
1600-1700
PLA/6
Law and Administration: Customs and Maritime Law, 17th century
Norris accounts. (Manuscript)
1588-12-00
UPC/5/3
A 'note of such somes of money as Sir. John Norreys rapoteth to have disboursed for Armes, &c', December (?) 1588.
Paper relating to Drake's accounts. (Manuscript)
1588-02-07
UPC/5/6
Endorsed 'copie. The Answer to the Lo: Treasore (sic) and the L. Admirall vpon the view of Sr Francis Drakes accompte. 7 febr. 1588.'
Payments made by Sir Francis Drake. (Manuscript)
1588-02-05
UPC/5/5
Payments made by Sir Francis Drake, 5 February 1588/9.
'Naval Characters' - Volume of Letters to Sir John Norris. (Manuscript)
1742-1743
UPC/2
Letters to Sir John Norris, with reference to CENTURION's prize, CABADONGA, 1743. This volume also contains a letter to Lord Anson, 1742, and a share certificate of the South Sea Company. Some of the richest and most distinguished men of the time were stockholders in the company.…
Royal Navy Records: indenture of apprenticeship for Anthony Kempernfelt Nicholson, 1795 (Manuscript)
1795
PLA/P/15
Royal Navy Records: indenture of apprenticeship for Anthony Kempernfelt Nicholson, 1795
Dockyard Administration: report on proposed alterations at Chatham Dockyard, 1682 (Manuscript)
1682
PLA/P/8
Dockyard Administration: report on proposed alterations at Chatham Dockyard, 1682
Dockyard Administration: contract for timber and canvas at Deptford Dockyard, 1701 (Manuscript)
1701
PLA/P/18A
Dockyard Administration: contract for timber and canvas at Deptford Dockyard, 1701
Memoirs of Lord Nelson, by the Rev William Nelson, 1799 (Manuscript)
1799
PHB/15
History and Biography: memoirs of Lord Nelson, by the Rev William Nelson, 1799, see full list in printed catalogue for details
Two documents relating to to the Expedition to Cadiz 1596. (Manuscript)
1597
PHB/P/1
The first document titled 'The advantage Her Majesty hath gotten by that which passed at Cadiz'. The second document is about relations of Expedition to Cadiz 1596.
Account of the battle of the Nile with diagrams (printed), 1798 (Manuscript)
1798
PHB/P/4
History and Biography: account of the battle of the Nile with diagrams (printed), 1798
Admiral Vernon's dispatch to Sir Charles Wager, First Lord of the Admiralty, 1740. (Manuscript)
1740
PHB/3B
History and Biography: Admiral Vernon's dispatch to Sir Charles Wager, First Lord of the Admiralty, 1740.
Ship list of all ships and vessels in Her Majesty's Royal Navy, 1705 (Manuscript)
1705
PLA/31
Ship list of all ships and vessels in Her Majesty's Royal Navy, 1705
Ship Administration: watch, quarter and station bill, HMS FORTE, n.d., c.1820 (Manuscript)
1820
PLA/22
Ship Administration: watch, quarter and station bill, HMS FORTE, n.d., c.1820
Prize money: papers relating to the case between Lord Nelson and Lord St Vincent, 1802 (Manuscript)
1802
PLA/27
Prize money: papers relating to the case between Lord Nelson and Lord St Vincent, 1802
Prize money: seamen, condition of pay, Act of Parliament 31, George II, 1758 (Manuscript)
1758
PLA/32
Prize money: seamen, condition of pay, Act of Parliament 31, George II, 1758
Note of Lord Nelson, 19 Oct 1802 (Manuscript)
1802-10-19
PHB/P/6B
History and Biography: note of Lord Nelson, 19 Oct 1802
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