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Collection of transcripts of manuscripts and early printed tracts relating to Admiral Blake, 1640-57.
Collection of transcripts of manuscripts and early printed tracts relating to Admiral Blake, 1640-57.
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ID:
POW/1
Type:
Manuscript
Display location:
Not on display
Creator:
Powell, John Roland
Date made:
1640-1657-12-31; 1640-01-01 - 1657-12-31 1640-1657
Credit:
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Parts:
Powell, John Roland, Reverend, Author, 1889-1980. (Manuscript)
Collection of transcripts of manuscripts and early printed tracts relating to Admiral Blake, 1640-57. (Manuscript) (POW/1)
Collection of historical notes on Admiral Blake, 1640-57. (Manuscript) (POW/2)
Collection of transcripts of manuscripts relating to the maritime aspect of the Civil War, 1642-48. (Manuscript) (POW/3)
The capture of Jersey by Blake, 1651, and transcripts of the French account from the Clarendon State Papers 43 (in French). (Manuscript) (POW/4)
Collection of transcripts of manuscripts relating to Sir George Ayscue, Ireland, Scilly and Barbados, 1651-2. (Manuscript) (POW/5)
'The Letters of Robert Blake', edited by J.R. Powell, Publications of The Navy Records Society, Volume 76, 1937. (Manuscript) (POW/6)
Annotated copy of 'The Writings and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell', Volume 4, with an introduction by Wilbur Cortez Abbott, 1947. (Manuscript) (POW/7)
Uncorrected advance proof of 'Robert Blake General-at-Sea' by J.R. Powell, published by Collins, London, 1972. (Manuscript) (POW/8)
'Robert Blake, Admiral and General at Sea' by Hepworth Dixon, published by Chapman and Hall, London, 1856. (Manuscript) (POW/9)
'Documents relating to the Civil War 1642-1648', edited by J.R. Powell and E.K. Timings, published by The Navy Records Society, 1963. (Manuscript) (POW/10)
'The Navy in the English Civil War' by the Reverend J.R. Powell (a typescript draft bound in two parts). (Manuscript) (POW/11)
Original artwork to accompany text by the Reverend J.R. Powell, and a copy of his article 'Blake's Reduction of the Scilly Isles in 1651', reprinted from the 'Mariner's Mirror' 1931. (Manuscript) (POW/12)
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