Document signed by Josiah Burchett (c.1666-1746), Secretary to the Admiralty (1694-1742)

Mr Hale has presented a Petition to the Admiralty Commissioners setting out some inconveniences that will attend him on account of a Contract which your Board is going to make with the Plumbers for Lead.
I am sending the enclosed Copy of his Petition and the Commissioners direct you consider this and report to them not only the fact, but your opinion upon the several particulars contained therein.

Record Details

Item reference: ADM/A/1884/144
Catalogue Section: Public records: records of the central administration of the Royal Navy and the Merchant Navy
Level: PAGE
Extent: 1 page
Date made: 1701-07-19
Creator: Burchett, Josiah
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London