THE OFFICIAL PAPERS TRANSFERRED BY PEPYS TO THE ADMIRALTY BY 12 JULY 1689

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THE OFFICIAL PAPERS TRANSFERRED BY PEPYS TO THE ADMIRALTY BY 12 JULY 1689

13 y J. P. 117. Ehrman

THE two documents given in full below contain the list of books and papers surrendered by Pepys to his successor as Secretary of the Admiralty. They form part of the collection of naval items recently

acquired by the National Maritime Museum from the Bibliotheca Phillippica at Cheltenham, and are reproduced here by courtesy of the Trustees of the Museum.I As the contents of this acquisition have not yet been catalogued, I have referred in this article simply to List I and List 2.

The lists themselves are separate documents, and are drawn up in columns headed in each case by the number of the book press in which the papers lay. They are both endorsed in a late seventeenth-century hand, 'March 1688/9 A Particular of the Publick Books belonging to the Admiralty, delivered over by Mr Pepys to the New Comm• ofye Admiralty', and both are signed in receipt by Phineas Bowles, the new Secretary. So far as I have been able to compare these signatures with others by the same man at the same period, which are to be seen in the Bodfeian Libraryz, they do not appear to be similar. Bowles himself regularly spelt his name 'Bowless', the penultimate 's' being written 'S ', whereas these signatures, although not unlike those in the Bodleian, are spelt 'Bowles'. But while the documents may not, therefore, be the originals, they are certainly contemporary with them; and they can, moreover, be checked against lists made upon the same occasion and now in the Pepysian Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge) These lists, which are included in Pepys's Miscellanies, are fair copies of the original transaction, and, except for a few minor differences, correspond exactly to Lists I and 2 below.4 Our documents thus enjoy the authority allowed to the contents of the Pepysian Library, although they

1 I must also acknowledge my gratitude to the late Sir Geoffrey Callender, who drew my attention to these and other papers of the late seventeenth century in this collection, very shortly after it arrived at Greenwich. ·

2 Rawlinson MSS., A. 170, ff. 73, 75; A. r86, f. I73· 3 Sea MS. 2879, pp. 95o-8. I am indebted to the Master and Fellows of Magdalene for

permission to cite the documents in their possession which are mentioned in this article. 4 The variations are noted in their place against the details of the lists themselves;

pp. 264, 26 5 infra.

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256 PAPERS TRANSFERRED BY PEPYS TO THE ADMIRALTY

themselves have the provenance of a made collection of the early nineteenth century.1

Their importance lies in the fact that from them can be ascertained the nature of the records with which the modern Admiralty was equipped by its predecessors. For 168 9 was a turning-point in naval administration. In that year the Office of Lord High Admiral was replaced by a Commission of Admiralty which, unlike those of the previous thirty years, survived to be the first of a line lasting, with only two interruptions, until to-day, and which, in the continuity of its legal form and in its internal organization, may be regarded as the beginning of modern naval administration. Of more immediate importance was the alteration in the status of its Secretary. The regime of Pepys had seen the end of the ancient system whereby the holder of that office was the personal secretary of the Lord High Admiral, but also the corollary of his elevation into virtually a Secretary of State for Marine Affairs. With his retirement, that recent development came to a sudden end. Within a year his successors had become purely departmental officials, salaried servants of the Board whose conditions of entry and promotion were gradually prescribed towards the end of the century. The change was embodied in the office documents. The Secretaries after 1688 had no incentive to remove official papers, and with the Revolution begin the series of their letters and orders which are practically complete between that time and the present day." The arrangement, as well as the disposal, of records was in the style which has since become traditional, and the docketing and classification of the Board Minutes and correspondence reflected the work of a permanent administration which the political character of the Commissioners themselves did not disturb. Government was in fact getting more complicated. Its agents were discarding their medieval titles and the personal nature of their places and records of business. Files of papers and departmental buildings became increasingly necessary, as the scale of the wars transformed the paternalism of the seventeenth century into the oligarchic control of the eighteenth. The Admiralty, in the ten years after Pepys, partook of this development perhaps more quickly and more completely than any other Office of State. And its new buildings and revised secretariat, and the disposal and the character of its documentation, marked the disappearance of an age which comprehended Buckingham with Pepys, and the Spanish wars with the Dutch, and set the tone for that

I For the origins of the Phillips Collection, see Seymour de Ricci, English Collectors of Books G' Manuscripts, I 530-I930, pp. I I9-30.

2 I know of only one letter book of a Secretary of the Admiralty of William's reign outside the Public Record Office. B.M. Lansdowne MS. II 52 B contains letters on naval affairs addressed to William Bridgeman between I 694- and I 697; and many of them include private matters.

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equally long period which, beginning with the wars of Louis XIV, ended only after those of Napoleon. The lists reproduced below, therefore, form a link between the Admiralty records as we know them, and their arrangement and preservation under the Stuarts.

For there was a link. It is important not to exaggerate the very real change that took place into a complete and abrupt break with the recent past. In particular, the preservation of papers at the Admiralty from I689 has been contrasted with the retention of the earlier records by Pepys in that year. 1 Such a contrast is natural. If we wish to investigate the navy of Charles II or James II, we turn to the Pepysian Library at Magdalene rather than to the Public Record Office; and the miscellaneous papers for the period which now exist in the P.R.O. suggest that the Admiralty in the last decade of the seventeenth century was deprived of most of the documents for the period immediately before it. But this was not the case, as the lists reproduced here clearly show. The transfer of the records which Pepys held was remarkably full and, moreover, the records themselves had been well preserved despite such disadvantages, inherent in any change of administration between I66o and I688, as the redistribution of various clerical jobs on personal grounds, the alteration in political climate, and sometimes the physical movement of papers from one office building to another. Indeed, shortly after Pepys's retirement it would have been easier to inquire into the history of most years of the Restoration navy at the Admiralty than in his own library. Some comparisons between the two collections will illustrate the position.

In the library now at Magdalene, the Admiralty Letters exist from I9 June I673 to 2I May I679, and begin again only on 23 May I684,z while the series of orders and warrants stops at 3 I December I 67 3· In the documents transferred, the former are continuous from I January I673/4 to 19 May r684, and the latter to I3 May I684.3 Similarly, where the Admiralty Journal at Magdalene covers the period from I January I673/4 to 2 I April I 679,4 the corresponding Journal transferred to the Admiralty covers 28 June 1673 to IO May I684.s. Several series are duplicated, for instance, a Register of Officers, records of Commissions and Warrants, and some Passes. 6 And whereas the Pepysian Library is comparatively weak in records before I 6 7 3, List I shows regular documentation from April I 6 56.7

I See Hubert Hall, 'The National Study of Naval History', in Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, vol. xxr, pp. 96-7.

2 Pepysian Sea MSS. 2849-62. 3 List I, nos. 27-38 infra. 4 Pepysian Sea MS. 2865. 5 List I, nos. I8-z6 infra. 6 For details, see J. R. Tanner, Bibliotheca Pepysiana: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Library

of Samuel Pepys. Part I, Sea Manuscripts, pp. ix-x. 7 Ibid.; List I, nos. 2-I3 infra.

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For the later years, however, I684-I688, the collection at Magdalene remains unique. For while the papers transferred to the Admiralty include letters and orders from James between August I684 and December I688, and then from William to 20 February I688j9, they do not contain the Secretary's Letter Books for the period which are complete in the Pepysian Library. 1 Some correspondence, indeed, ensued on this point. On 2 I February I688j9, Pepys was reminded that 'their Lordships find themselves in want of the entry-books of your publick letters, during your being Secretary of the Admiralty';~ and when this demand was unsuccessful, he was again asked to hand them over on 7 June I700, particularly 'the letters that past between the Lord Dartmouth and yourselfe when he commanded the Fleete in the yeare I 6 8 8 '.3 A fair copy of some of the letter books is now in the P.R.O. ;4 but whether this was the result of the agitation, or whether it is a later transcription from the Pepysian Library is not certain.

Continuity and retention of records at the Admiralty did not begin, therefore, only in I689. Apart from the later letter books already mentioned (and it was a notable gap) Pepys, unlike many of his contemporaries, did surrender most of the official papers in his custody. For his own use, however, and this is where he differed from his successors, he retained one series of transcripts, and also a selection of material, from the documents of his own periods of office and from those of earlier and intervening years, which he included in the eleven volumes of his 'Miscellanies' .5 It is not clear which collection contains the originals. At some time it was agreed that copies of certain volumes should be made for Pepys and that the originals should be transferred to the Admiralty, 6 but how far this was carried out it is difficult to say, and Dr Tanner, after many years' acquaintance with the contents of the Pepysian Library, was not prepared to be dogmatic on this point. On this question, the lists given below are of no assistance, although it would seem probable that where items are included which are not paralleled at Magdalene, these were the originals. 7 In some cases, where the

I List I, nos. 33, 39, 40, 4I, 47, 48 infra. Tanner, /oc. cir. p. ix, remarks on the absence of the Minutes of the Admiralty for Pepys's second Secretaryship, but it is not clear what he means. There was no Commission of Admiralty or Committee of the Council for naval affairs, in those years, when James himself was Lord High Admiral. The only Minutes could have been those of the Navy Commission of 1686, of which Pepys was not Secretary, and which are now among the papers in the National Maritime Museum.

2 Pri'Oate Correspondence and Miscellaneous Papers of Samuel Pepys, I679-1703, ed. J. R. Tanner, pp. 168-<). 3 Ibid. p. 354·

4 Ibid. p. I68, n. 3· 5 Sea MSS. 2869-79. 6 D. Bonner Smith, 'Samuel Pepys and York Buildings', M.M. vol. XXIV, no. 2, p. 233· 7 E.g. List I, nos. 67-9 infra.

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material was not important enough to be transferred, the originals are to be found in neither collection, but among the unregulated mass of Pepysian papers in the Rawlinson MSS. at the Bodleian Library. 1

The disappearance of the majority of these records from the Admiralty library must have taken place largely during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Some were perhaps deliberately removed ;z more were destroyed by fire. The destruction of Whitehall in I 698 was exceptional in its scale rather than in its occurrence, and the Admiralty was not immune. Further loss may have taken place in the course of moving some of the papers to Deptford, where they lay until they were transferred later in the nineteenth century to the Tower, and then to Chancery Lane.3 But several series still exist in the P.R.O. which were sent there direct from the Admiralty Library during the I 9 I 4- I 8 war ;4 and these were listed by Tanner before their removal. He noted (a) The Admiralty Letters and Orders, 2 January I673/4 to I9 May I684, 5 volumes; (b) The Secretary of the Admiralty's Letters, 5 June I679 to 30 May 1684, 3 volumes; (c) The Admiralty Journal, 28 June I673 to IO May I684, 4 volumes; (d) The Register of Sea Officers, I66o-85, I volume; (e) The Duke of York's Instructions, 4 June I66o to I4 March I673/4, 4 volumes; (f) his Orders, 6 June I66o to 24 January I 684/5, 2 volumes; (g) his Civil Commissions and Warrants, 8 December I663 to 25 February 1684/ 5; and (h) The Orders of Charles II and James II to the Principal Officers, I 9 May I 684 to I o December I 68 8, 2 volumes.5

Of these series, (a) tallies with List I, nos. 34-8; (b) in number, though not exactly in opening date, with nos. 67-9; (d) with no. 6 5; (e) with nos. 7-10; (f) apart from two days' difference in the opening date, with nos. I I and I2, and (h) possibly with nos. 39 and 40. (c), while covering the same dates as nos. I 8-2 6, consists of only four volumes to their eight, and may either have been rebound or have been copied at a later date; while (g) does not occur in that form in either List I or List 2. Some of these volumes, and others in the P.R.O., are known to have been demanded of Pepys in the

1 Tanner, Bibliotheca Pepysiana, vol. I, p. viii. Bodleian, Rawlinson MS. A. 186, ff. 2-5, contains a list of' Letters and other Papers relating to ye Last Current Affaires of my Office, put up at my last quitting ye same', which were 'contained in the upper Presses within the Clerkes Office of ye Admiralty', and most of which do not appear in Lists 1 and 2 infra. They were mainly cancelled Passes and printed Instructions and Proclamations, but included journals by Commanders, Lieutenants, Midshipmen and Volunteers from 1684- to 1688.

2 For a slightly later instance, the volume of courts-martial containing the minutes of Torrington's trial in 1690 seems to have vanished in this way.

3 Information about Deptford supplied by Sir Geoffrey Callender. See also, znd and 17th Reports of the Deputy Keeper of Public Records (I 8p and I 8 s6).

4- Information kindly supplied by Mr Bonner-Smith. 5 Bib/iotheca Pepysiana, vol. I, pp. ix-x.

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period leading up to the final transference of documents, 1 so that it seems probable that they are the ones received in the early months of 1689.

The circumstances of their surrender may be briefly given. With the flight of James II and the advent of William of Orange, Pepys no longer wished to remain Secretary. For a short time, immobilized by the Proclamation of 31 December which retained all officials in their jobs until further orders, he continued to manage Admiralty business for the Prince;z but on 20 February r688/9 he retired. Orange himself was known not to be anxious to act as Lord High Admiral, and this retirement therefore opened the way for an entirely new administration. On the 22nd, a Warrant was issued for a Commission of Admiralty, 3 and to fill the gap while the Letters Patent were preparing, Arthur Herbert, the English commander of William's fleet, was empowered on the 28th temporarily to act in its place.4 He had already begun to do so on the 26th, and until the end of the month Pepys was tidying up overlapping business. It was not until r March that he cleared the last outstanding details,5 and for the first eight days of this month Herbert and his new Secretary, Phineas Bowles, acted on their own. On the 9th the new Board of Admiralty, with Herbert at their head and Bowles as their· Secretary, met to hear the reading of their Patent and to begin their work. 6

But if Pepys had finished with Admiralty affairs, he had not done either with the building in which they had been transacted, or with the records on which they largely depended. In the first case, there was no reason why he should. There was as yet no such thing as an Admiralty building, and business had been done since 1684 at Pepys's house, first no. 12 and later no. 14-Buckingham Street, which had been bought in the name of his devoted friend William Hewer.7 The connexion between department and private house was to be seen there in the Admiralty shield which hung on the wall outside, like that of many a Consulate to-day.8 But it was not a legal connexion, and there were no grounds on which the new administration could take over the former office. As early as 6 March, it was attempting to do so,9 from its own unsatisfactory building in Channel Row, where Herbert lodged, but of which he was neither the landlord nor the householder.10 Bowles was sent

I Seep. 261 infra; e.g. P.R.O. Admiralty, 2ji747-52, 2/275-6. 2 A Bibliography of Royal Proclamations of the Tudor and Stuart Sovereigns, q.8 5-I7I4, ed.

R. Steele, vol. x, p. 47 5; Descriptive Catalogue of the Na'llal Manuscripts in the Pepysian Library, ed. J. R. Tanner, vol. I, p. 98.

3 Cal. S.P. Dom., I689-9o, p. 6. 5 Pepysian MSS.; Admiralty Letters, vol. xv, pp. 596-8. 7 Bonner-Smith, Joe. cit. p. 230. 9 Ibid. p. 232.

4 Ibid. p. I 1.

6 P.R.O. Admiralty, 3/I; 9/3· 8 Ibid.p.23I.

IO G. F. James, 'The Admiralty Buildings, I695-I723', in M.M. vol. xxvi, no. 4, p. 357·

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to discuss terms with Pepys, who referred him to Hewer. But nothing came of it, and in May the Admiralty moved to new premises close to the old office, in York Buildings. 1

The correspondence turned all the more insistently upon the other link which remained with the former Secretary, and concentrated on the official records still in his possession. The Board was on firmer ground here, for it could base its demands upon the Order in Council of 23 June 1673 detailing the duties of the Secretary to the Lord High Admiral. On its authority he was to keep a fair record of all official correspondence and business, to be 'methodically ... digested, and safely laid up ... to remain to the use of his Majesty, and information of all succeeding Admirals as any occasion of service calling for the same'. z On 9 March the new Commission decided at its first meeting that Bowles should write to Pepys 'for all Books, Papers & things belonging to the affairs of the Admiralty',3 and a comprehensive demand was accordingly made for all official papers held by him both while he was in office, and before, together with 'every Appurtenance and thing whatsoever, that hath been fitted and provided at the pub lick charge, for the more regular keeping and preserving the said Bookes, Papers, &c.'.4 This apparently met with little success, but a compromise seems soon to have been reached. Pepys gave Bowles a set of keys to his book presses, and Bowles from time to time sent one of his clerks, by name Pett, to fetch the documents and to sign the receipt.S Requests were made for papers several times during March and April; on I 56 and I 9 March, and on 9, I 6 and 26 April. 7 They included' The Pass books in Mr Brisbands time. Petition books in y" late Commr• time. Certificates of J no Harris & Rd H uet Carpenters. Orders of Counsil of ye I I th of May I 6 8 2 '; the Order Book of the Commissioners for I678,8 and the letter book of Secretary Hayter.9 On 29 April, the Board also returned to the question of furniture;10 and on 6 May Pepys wound up the correspondence by replying:

This is only to give cover to y" inclosed pticular you desire of all the Goods (old & new) in this Office belonging to his Mati•, comprehending as well those w"h have been already deliver'd to you on your Order for y" use of my Lords of the Adm'Y, as what are now in further readiness to be

I Ibid. 2 G. F. James, 'Admiralty Administration and Personnel, I619-17I4', in Bulletin of the

Institute of Historical Research, vol. XIV, p. 168, where the text of the passage is quoted in full. 3 P.R.O. Admiralty 3/I; 9/3. 4 Bodleian, Rawlinson MS. A. 170, f. 71. 5 P.R.O. Adm. 2/377; 19/3. 6 Bodl. Rawl.loc. cit. f. 77· 7 P.R.O. Adm. 2/377; 19/3, 9/4, r6/4, 26/4. 8 See List I, nos. 58, 59; s6; 3 5; List 2, presses 3 and 6 infra. 'Brisband, is obviously Brisbane,

the former Secretary. 9 Now P.R.O. Adm. 2/1752. 10 Bodl. Rawl.loc. cit. f. 75·

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deliver'd, when ever demanded; As the remainder of the Bookes & Papers of y" Office also are, at your owne time, I having had Inventories thereof in readiness long since to be interchangeably signed between you and mee, in right noe less to my Lords on behalfe of the King, then to my selfe (upon your or Mr Atkins's comparing them withy" List thereof heretofore joyntly taken by you two & attested by your Selfe) and with your Discharge to me for what of them have been already deliver d to you. I

The rest of the papers were transferred over the two months, and by I 2 July the lists were ready for the exchange of signatures of which this copy of the receipt remains.

Appended to Lists I and 2 is a third list,~ not reproduced in detail but only in outline, which contains the papers existing in the Navy Office at about the same time. This has been given to round off the inventory of records at the disposal of the administration on the outbreak of the French war, and a word may be said about the reason for its original compilation. It is dated I2 October I688, and corresponds, therefore, to 9 March I689 in the history of the Admiralty; for on that day the emergency administration inaugurated by Pepys came to an end, with the replacement of the Commission of I686 by a normal Navy Board.3 There was, however, no change similar to that experienced at the higher levels. Continuity of personnel was largely, and of administration entirely, maintained; while the Navy Board's records continued to be treated after the Revolution much as they had been treated before it. 4 The interest of this last list lies not so much in its circumstances as in its contents, which complement those of the other two. Together, they give a good idea of the scope of the naval administration at the end of the Stuart regime, and of the distribution of business and the supporting records with which it embarked upon a different and a more fruitful age.

1 Ibid. f. 73 2 B.M. Additional MS. 9303, ff. 124-5. See pp. 269, 270 infra. 3 Pepys, Memoires (169o), pp. 127-9· 4 For example, the later removal by Charles Sergison of its Minutes for the years 1673 to 1718

to his home in Sussex, where they stayed until recently.

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THE LISTS

The dates in all three lists are those given in the documents themselves; i.e. they are in Old Style and refer to years beginning on 25 March and not I January.

List r. March 9th I688f9· A Particular of the Publick Books then resting in the Office of the Secretary of the Admiralty of England; and since by him deliver'd=over to the present Coiiiissioners for Executing the Office of the Lord High Admirall.

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Contents Press rst

Instructions, Orders, &c. from ye Comm" ofye Adm'Y & Navy.

Letters & Instructions from ye Comrs of ye Adm'Y & Navy.

Orders, W arr'• &c. from ye Cpmmissrs of ye Adm'Y & Navy.

Orders & Instructions from do. Do. Do. Instructions, Commissions, Warrants &c.

from D. of Yorke; Do. Do. Instructions, Orders, &c. Do. Do. Letters, Do. Do Entries of Passes; Admiralty-Court-Affairs Do. Do. Do.

Press 2nd

Time

From Octob. 8, I646 to Febr. 29, 1647

From Aprl. I, I656 to Mar. 31, 1657

From April I, I657 to Deer. 27, I658

From April 2, I657 to Deer. 30, I658 From Jany I, I658 to June 29, I66o From Jany I, I658 to July 2, I66o From June 4, I66o to Septr 30, I662

From Octob. 2, I662 to Mar. 24, I665 From Mar. 14, I667j8 to Mar. 5, I67I/2 From Mar. 5, I67I/2 to Mar. I4, I673/4 From June 4, I66o to April4, I668 From April 7, I668 to Jany 24, 1684/5 From June 28, I662 to Mar. 20, I667 From Deer. 8, I663 to Febr. 25, I684/5 From July IO, 1673 to Mar. 27, I679 From Mar. 27, I679 to Janry 22, I683/4 From May .. , I684 to Deer ... , r688

I8 Journall ofye Admty Commission; From June 28, 1673 to Deer. 31, I673 I9 Do. From Janry I, I673/4 to Deer. 3I, I675 20 Do. From Janry I, I675/6 to Deer. 3I, I677 2I Do. From Janry I, I677/8 to April2I, I679 22 Do. From April2 r, I679 to Janry 3 I, I679j8o 23 Do. FromJanry3I,I679/8otoDecr.3I,I68o 24 Do. FromJanry I, I68o/I to Decem. 3I, I68I 2 5 Do. From Janry I, I68 I/2 to Decem. 3 I, I68z 26 Do. From Janry I, I682j3 to May Io, I684 27 Orders, Warrts & Sailing=lnstructions by From Janry r8, I673 to Dec. 2I, I673

ye King & Admty Com'" 28 Do.-By The King; From Janry I, I673/4 to May I4, I676 29 Do. From May I4, I676 to Dec. 3I, I678 30 Do. From Janry I, I678/9 to May 3 I, I679 3I Instructions to Commanders from ye From May I3, I679 to Dec. 3I, I683

Admty Commissioners; 32 Do. From Janry I, I683/4 to May I3, I684 33 Do.-By The King From May ... , I684 to Dec .... , I688

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List I (continued) Contents Press 3rd Time

Let~ers & Orders of ye Adm'Y Commis- From Janry I, I673/f to Dec. JI, 1676 swners

Do. Do. Do. Do. Orders & Warrants from ye King; Ditto Do.-from The Prince of Orange (now

His Majesty) Register of Persons recommended to Em-

ployments; Do. Do. Commissions and Warrants of the King's

for Sea=Employments; Do.-Of ye Adm'Y Commissioners Do.-Of the King's Do.-Alphabeticall Monthly & Annual Lists of Ships at Sea,

the Stations, Names of Command" & Lieuts Time in Sea Pay & Complem•• of Men

Do. Do.

Estimates Do.-Do.--

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Abstract of ye King and Council's Orders; f Abstract of ye King's Council's Orders; ~Do. Ofye Navy-Officers Letters; Do. References upon Petitions; Do. Do. Key to ye Register of Passes; Registr of Passes; Do. Do. A Registr of all Comission Officers; General Survey of his Majesty's Ships The Secretary of ye Admiralty's Letters left

at Mr Brisbane's Death; The Secretary's of ye Admiralty's Letters

left at Mr Brisbane's Death; Do.

From Janry I, 1676/7 to May I9, I679 From May I9, I679 to Dec. JI, r68o From Janry 1, I68oji to Janry I, I683/4 From Janry I, I68J/f to May I9, I68f From May I9, I68f to Oct. 30, I687 From Nov. I, I687 to Deer. Io, r688 From Dec. 2 5, I688 to Febr. 20, 1688/9

From June I8, 1673 to May 2I, I679

From May 2I, I679 to May 2I, I68f From May I, I68f to Febr .... , I688/9 From June I9, I673 to May 2I, I679

From May 2I, I679 to May 22, I68f From May ... , I68f to Dec .... , r688 From May ... , I684- to Dec .... , I688 From July I, I673 to May IJ, I679

From May IJ, I679 to May If, r68f From May ... , r68f to Febr. I688/9

From Aug. 8, I673 to Febr. 28, 1678/9 From Febr. 28, I678/9 to April 30, I684 From May ... , I68f to Febr .... , I688/9 From Febr. 25, I673 to Mar. 28, I678/9 From Mar. 28, I679 to May 2, r68f From May IJ, I679 to May If, I68f From May ... , I684- to Dec .... , I688 From Sept. 5, I674- to April Zf, 1679 From April 2f, I679 to May 6, I68f From May ... , r68f to Dec .... , I688 From Aug. z, I675 to April I7, I679 From Aug. 2, I675 to April I8, I679 From Janry JI, r682/3 to May I7, I684 From May 21, I68f to Dec. 7, I688 From ...... , I66o to ...... , I68s June I, I68f From May 2I, I679 to Feb. 3, I679j8o

From Febr. 3, I679j8o to Janry 2, 168Ijz

From Janry z, I68I/2 to May 2I, I684

I Pepysian Sea MS. 2879, p. 957; no. 55 begins July 25, I673· It is followed by 'Do.-of the Navy Officers Letters-from June 2I, !673 to May IJ, I679', before no. s6 above.

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701 List dated Aug. 23, I686 of Bills in Ar- I686 rears for Service in his Majesty

71 Establishment of men and guns for the Royal Navy

72 Establishment of Boatswains and Car- Nov. r, r686 pen~ers Sea-Stores for 8 & I 2 months service

73 Seller's Sea-Atlas 74 Do. Coasting-Pilott 75 Do. English-Pilott 76z Keble's Statutes at large

3 Printed Articles of Peace betw• ye King and Algier

5 Printed Treaty-Books Several! Commissions and Warrants under

the Great and Privy Seales relateing to the Admiralty.

Viz. 4 Privy Seales 6 Great Seales

I doe hereby acknowledge to have This Day (&others on we• I have by Parcels demanded ye same) receiv'd from Samuel Pepys Esqr• late Secretary for ye Affaires ofye Admiralty of England, the severall Publick Books mention'd in ye Schedule above-written, relating to ye Office of t!Je sayd Admiralty; ye same being deliver'd to me for ye service of t!Jeir MaH••, by virtue of a Letter to that purpose to ye sayd Mr Pepys directed from ye Rt Honh1• ye present Comissionrs of ye sd Admty bearing Date ye 9th day of March r688/9· Dated atye Office ofye Admty in York Buildings this 12th Day July r689 P=Bowles.

List 2. March 9th r688/9· Particular of the Publick Papers then resting in ye Office of ye Secretary of ye Admiralty of England & since by him deliver'd over to ye present Commissioners for executing the Office of the Lord High Admiral!.

Contents Extent Year Bundles Press rst

Letters from Persons distinguished by ye From A toY r673 8 Initial Letters of their Surnames-viz. A toY r674 9

A toY r675 7 A to Z r676 8 A toY r6n 9 AtoP r678 13

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{Mr Pepys From R toY r678 5 to .. A toY r679 6 ye ComiSSionrs Letters from Persons distinguished as before A toY r679 7

A to Z r68o 8

r Pepysian Sea MS. 2879; no. 70, adds after 'Majesty's' the word 'Navy'. 2 Ibid. p. 958; after no. 76, adds '8 Printed Articles of Peace betw• ye King & Algier', not 3

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Press 2nd Letters from Persons distinguished as before From A to Y

Letters from Persons distinguished as before Do. fro ye Navy Bord

Affidavits for Protections Do. for dispensing w'h Embargos Orders of Council

Do. upon Embargo

Miscellaneous

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A toY A toY A toY A to Z A to B

From C toY

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1681 1682 J683 J684 J684 1685

1685 J673 1674 !675 J676 1677 !678 !679 168o 1681 1682 1683} !684 !684/5} 1685 J686 !688 !688

1673} J674 !675 !676} J677 !678 1678 !679} 168o

1681} 1682 !683 1673 1674 !675 !676 !677 1678 1679 168o 1681 1682

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Contents Extent Year

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r683} r684 r684 r685

Petitions fro Persons distinguished as before From A toW 1673 I 1674Jt !675

A to Z 1676 Do. for Deputys 1673

Press 4th Petions. from "Persons distinguished as before From A to Z

Do. for Employments Petitions fro Persons distinguish'd as before From A to Q.

A toY AtoZ A toW AtoZ A toY A toY A toW

Certificates for Persons employed and dis- From A to Z tinguished as before

Certificates for Captains and Lieutenants r-Boatsw"" Do. for Gunnrs

Carpent'" Cooks

Certificates from ye Navy= Board Do. for Yard=Employments Affidavits for Protections Journ11" of yachts

!674 !675 1676 !677 1678 !679

1677} !678 1678 1679 1679 x68o r68r r682 r683 r684 r685 From 1673 to 1679 !679 r68o r68x r682 r683} r684 r685 r686 From 1673 to r684 Do. Do. Do. Do. Do. From 1671 to 1679 From 1678 to r684 x688 From 1675 to x684

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Lists of shipsMustrs from ye Yards

List 2 (continued)

Extent

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Do. of Sould" transported into Flanders Do. of Seamen returned from ye Vice-Admir11'

Do. of Bills assign'd for Payments by ye Navy=Board

Estimates of ye Charge of the Navy Results of Courts Martial! Certificates from ye Treasurer of ye Navy Letters from ye Vice-Admirals about Pressing Do. from Captain's about Sheathing Ships with Lead Do. to ye Lords of the Admiralty Do. from Admiral! Herbert Admiralty=Court Tests

Certificates Weekly from the Navy=Board Instances of Affronts done to his Majesty's

Flaggs Victualling= Accounts Differences between Binning & Hunt Affidavits & Certificates for Passes

Press 6th

Year

From I674 to I686 I678 1678 From 1674 to 1678

From 1679 to 1684 From 1673 to 1684 From I68o to I684 1678 From 1673 to I 677 From I673 to 1679 From I679 to I682 1679 From I679 to I684 From 1673 to I679 From I677 to I678

From 1674 to I679

Letters from Persons distinguished as before From A toY I686

Petitions from Persons distinguished as before

Miscellaneous

Journals of Yachts

Yard=Lists of Ship'sMusters Certificates for Persons employ'd Orders of King and Council! Letters from the Navy=Officers Certificates for Captains, Lieutenants and

Yard=Officers

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Boatswains Gunners

D c Pursers

O. IOf C arpenters Cooks Persons put into Employment

Peticons for Persons distinguish'd as before Estimates Sentences of Courts Martiall

J687 1688

From A to Z r686 1687 J686 1687 J688 I68s} J686 I687 J687 I687 From 1684 to I688 From I687 to I688 From Septem. I 677 to

Janry I688/89 I688/9 I688/9 1688/9 I688/9 1688/9 1688

From A toW From 1685 to 1689 From I684 to I686 From I679/8o to I688

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Voluntiers Certificates Yachts Journals

List 2 (CO?ttinued)

Extent

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Lists of Ships M ustrs from Deptfd & W oolch Yards

Do. from Portsmo. Yard Do. from Chatham & Sheerness Yards Progress of ye Works of Deptford & W oolwcl> Letters fro Persons distinguish'd as before From A to Y Do. from ye Navy Board

Year

From I68o to 1688 From 1687 to 1688/9 From 2 5 Sept' to

12 Oct< 1688 From 1687/8 to I688/9 From I687j8 to 1688 From 1687/8 to 1688/9 1688/9 1688/9

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I do hereby acknowledge to have this Day (&others on wch I have by Parcels demanded ye same) receiv'd from Samuel Pepys Esqrc late. Secretary for ye Alfaires of ye Adm'Y of Engld ye sever11 Publick Papers mencon'd in ye Schedule above= written, relating to ye Office of ye sd Adm'Y, ye same being deliver'd to me for ye Service of their Majestie's by virtue of a Letter to that purpose to ye sd Mr Pepys directed from ye R' Honohie ye present Comissioners of ye sd Admiralty, bearing Date ye 9th Day of March r688/9· Dated at ye Adm'Y Office in York-Buildings this 12th day of July 1689. P: Bowles.

List 3· (B.M. Additional MS. 9303, lf. I24-5). An Inventory of the books remaining in the Office of the Clerk of the Acts, 12/Io/88. This in 3 presses.

1. Great Press

34- Letter Books, July I66o to 26th March, r686. I8 Warrant Books, July I66o to 26th March, I686. 2 Letter Books, concerning the building of the thirty ships, May I677 to September

168 5· 6 Letter Books, to Lord High Admiral, Lord Treasurer, and their Secretaries, August

I 66o to 26th March I 686. 3 Books ofLetters and Warrants forthe Victuallers of the Navy, July I 66o to 2 sth March,

I686. 6 Books of Abstracts of Orders, June I 6 57 to March, I 68 5. 7 Books of Contracts, September r66o to March r68 sf6. 2 Books of Contracts for the thirty ships, 3oth March 1677 to October I682. 2 Books of Estimates, February 1677 to March I68 5/6. 1 Book of Estimates on the Poll Act. 4 Memorandum Books, January 1665 to I685.

2. Press over the door

20 Bill Books, 1659 to 1684. Io Books oflmprest Books, I66o to 1685. 2 Bill Books for the thirty ships, 1677 to 1683. 1 Bill Book on the Poll Act. 1 Book of Imprest Bills on the Poll Act. 4 Numbering Books of Bills, I672 to 1686. 4 Books with Abstracts of Bills, 1670 to I 67 4·

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3 Books of Assignments, I674 to I68 5· I Book of Assignments for the thirty ships. I List Book of Bills for the thirty ships.

I3 Minute Books, I67I to z6th March, I686.

3· In the Press adjoining

3 Books certifying the weekly expences of each Yard, I67o to I685. I Book certifying the weekly expences in building the thirty ships. 3 Books of Tickets, I66o to I686. z Books of Entry for Muster Books, received from ships abroad, I673 to I686. 3 Entry Books of Places for Officers, I66o to r686. 3 List Books of Ships, September I 667 to January I 68 5. I Entry of Musters, May I679 to March I685.

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THE OFFICIAL PAPERS TRANSFERRED BY PEPYS TO THE ADMIRALTY BY 12 JULY 1689