Royal Navy. Manuscript list of Royal Navy ships, 1705, single sheet, written to one side in a neat hand in four tabled columns, listing the names of all the 279 ships in the Royal Navy in 1705, listed under the rating (one to six) and with the weight of each ship, number of crew and guns, listings total each class along with other types of ships (i.e. fire ships, hulks, hospital ships etc.), docketed in French to verso 'a leste des fregattes d'Anletterre et des ... pour l'anne 1705', folded, some early waterstains, folio (34 x 43 cm), together with: Charles II Royal Navy finances, Single sheet document signed John Shales, from the recently appointed Inspector of Excise Revenue to Charles II's First Minister, the Earl of Danby, on the issue of delayed returns into the financial state of the Navy, [London] 2nd December 1674, single sheet written in secretary hand signed by Shales, giving reference to Samuel Pepys "the charge of the Navy continues its progression to a degree far beyond the establishment which your Loxx. (Lordships) has design'd to consult Mr Pepys in & put a stopp to", addressed & docketed, folded for delivery with evidence of seal wax, folio, Royal Navy Board, A collection of five manuscript documents signed by Sir Cloudsley Shovell & others, issued to the store keeper at their Majesties Yard at Woolwich regarding supplies etc., 1693-1700, written in secretary hand, few torn, small folio, William III Army, A manuscript listing the cost of running the Army during the reign of William III, [London] November 7th 1700, 3 pages of neatly written tables comprising 92 entries listing regiments such as the Horse Guards, Light Horse, Dragoons, Langstone's Regiment of Foot, and other regiments and personal companies such as the Hanovers, and the French Reformed Officers of the Rhine etc., integral 4th page docketed, some toning, folded, folio, plus other documents, including a report on testing an instrument to assist artillery, c.1825, etc. (Qty: 13)
Royal Navy. Manuscript list of Royal Navy ships, 1705, single sheet, written to one side in a neat hand in four tabled columns, listing the names of all the 279 ships in the Royal Navy in 1705, listed under the rating (one to six) and with the weight of each ship, number of crew and guns, listings total each class along with other types of ships (i.e. fire ships, hulks, hospital ships etc.), docketed in French to verso 'a leste des fregattes d'Anletterre et des ... pour l'anne 1705', folded, some early waterstains, folio (34 x 43 cm), together with: Charles II Royal Navy finances, Single sheet document signed John Shales, from the recently appointed Inspector of Excise Revenue to Charles II's First Minister, the Earl of Danby, on the issue of delayed returns into the financial state of the Navy, [London] 2nd December 1674, single sheet written in secretary hand signed by Shales, giving reference to Samuel Pepys "the charge of the Navy continues its progression to a degree far beyond the establishment which your Loxx. (Lordships) has design'd to consult Mr Pepys in & put a stopp to", addressed & docketed, folded for delivery with evidence of seal wax, folio, Royal Navy Board, A collection of five manuscript documents signed by Sir Cloudsley Shovell & others, issued to the store keeper at their Majesties Yard at Woolwich regarding supplies etc., 1693-1700, written in secretary hand, few torn, small folio, William III Army, A manuscript listing the cost of running the Army during the reign of William III, [London] November 7th 1700, 3 pages of neatly written tables comprising 92 entries listing regiments such as the Horse Guards, Light Horse, Dragoons, Langstone's Regiment of Foot, and other regiments and personal companies such as the Hanovers, and the French Reformed Officers of the Rhine etc., integral 4th page docketed, some toning, folded, folio, plus other documents, including a report on testing an instrument to assist artillery, c.1825, etc. (Qty: 13)
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