In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board
The Commissioners for the Victualing have recommended that Mr Robert Westbrooke and Mr Harvey serve as their agent in the Straits, they having been there in 1695. They also think a clerk should be sent there to assist them. The former agent was allowed £200 per annum and his clerk £60 per annum. You are directed to give order to the Commissioners to appoint Mr Thomas Harvey their agent with an allowance of £200 with an allowance of £60 for a clerk.
Record Details
| Item reference: | ADM/A/1862/225 |
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| Catalogue Section: | Public records: records of the central administration of the Royal Navy and the Merchant Navy |
| Level: | PAGE |
| Extent: | 1 page |
| Date made: | 1699-02-22 |
| Creator: | Houblon, John; Kendall, James Wharton, Goodwin Priestman, Henry Cornwallis, Charles Rooke, George |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |