Accounts kept at Woolwich Dockyard 1634-1649 and a warrant from Navy Commissioners to the Storekeeper Clerk of the Cheque and Ropeyard, at Woolwich, 7 January 1678, signed Sir Richard Haddock, concerning the 'New Ships'.
Several accounts also specify particular building works, or other works including: April- June 1635: house carpenters fitting new 'Axtrees to his Majesties tymber cart and gravell cart and making a new pair of trucks; July-September 1635: house carpenters, sawyers, bricklayers et cetera working on enlarging the smith's forge and new building the adjoining lodgings, housecarpenters, joiners and working on fitting lodgings for the storekeeper within the yard; July-September 1636: house carpenters, joiners and so on, working on the storekeeper's lodgings, lodgings of 'Mr Shippworth' and the Clerk of the Cheque's house; July-September 1637: carpenters, bricklayers and so on, repairing the smith's forge.
There are some specific accounts: July-September 1636: wages for 'Shipkeepers' in the King's ship ANN ROYALL, in dry dock at Blackwall, listing 13 individuals from Thomas Austin Master to Stephen Constable, gunner. July-September 1637: watchmen watching on board the King's 'royall Shipp the Soveraigne of ye Seas [SOVEREIGN OF THE SEAS], 'laders of water' paid per tide etc.
On the reverse of the 1636 account is a note 'Captain Pett.'
Includes a warrant from Navy Commissioners, Navy Office, to the Storekeeper Clerk of the Cheque and Ropeyard, at Woolwich, 7 January 1678, signed Sir Richard Haddock, concerning the 'New Ships' and 15 lasts of tar [1 last=12 barrels, 1 barrel=30 gallons; £11.10s for 1 last]. Marginal note states that 14 lasts, 11 barrels received. On the reverse is a copy of a contract, 4 January 1678, between Navy Comms and William Fownes, salter of London, for the latter to supply to the store at Deptford and Woolwich (for the 30 ships to be built and appointed by the late Act of Parliament)
There are some specific accounts: July-September 1636: wages for 'Shipkeepers' in the King's ship ANN ROYALL, in dry dock at Blackwall, listing 13 individuals from Thomas Austin Master to Stephen Constable, gunner. July-September 1637: watchmen watching on board the King's 'royall Shipp the Soveraigne of ye Seas [SOVEREIGN OF THE SEAS], 'laders of water' paid per tide etc.
On the reverse of the 1636 account is a note 'Captain Pett.'
Includes a warrant from Navy Commissioners, Navy Office, to the Storekeeper Clerk of the Cheque and Ropeyard, at Woolwich, 7 January 1678, signed Sir Richard Haddock, concerning the 'New Ships' and 15 lasts of tar [1 last=12 barrels, 1 barrel=30 gallons; £11.10s for 1 last]. Marginal note states that 14 lasts, 11 barrels received. On the reverse is a copy of a contract, 4 January 1678, between Navy Comms and William Fownes, salter of London, for the latter to supply to the store at Deptford and Woolwich (for the 30 ships to be built and appointed by the late Act of Parliament)