Catalogue description Various papers: Copy of Admiralty order to form dockyard workmen into battalions for...

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Details of ADM 1/5116/16
Reference: ADM 1/5116/16
Description:

Various papers:

  • Copy of Admiralty order to form dockyard workmen into battalions for local defence (1756);
  • Offer to tender ship Great Britain for sale to the Navy (3 May 1757);
  • Lord Plymouth, forwarding a petition (10 June 1758);
  • Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Hawke, justifying his hauling down his flag without orders (10 May 1758);
  • Colonel John Boscawen requesting a passage to Portsmouth for some men of his regiment (3 November 1758);
  • Protections from the press for fishermen of Penzance and Falmouth (1759, 1761);
  • Rear-Admiral Phillip Durrell, reporting affairs at Portsmouth (31 October 1760);
  • Original press warrant (1761);
  • Lieutenant Robert Edgcumbe of HM Cutter Cholmondley, reporting seizure of smuggled brandy (26 June 1766);
  • Correspondence regarding the exemption from jury service of Charles Wright, an Admiralty clerk (1769);
  • Copy of Admiralty order of 1756 respecting payment by ticket of men discharged from hospital (1783).

Date: 1756-1783
Separated material:

For an item extracted from this piece see

MFQ 1/119
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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