Document signed by James Southerne, Secretary to the Admiralty, fl. 1690-1694.

I send you enclosed a Press Warrant for fifty Shipwrights for work at Chatham which you desired in your letter of yesterday's date, and direct you to send me the name of the Person to whom it shall be directed.
The Admiralty Commissioners Orders for your causing the third Rate Ships at Chatham to be fitted is sent to you, and their Orders are also given to the Admiralty Marshall for the discharging of Edward Hichcock and William Bell, two of the Ropemakers committed for misdemeanours.

Record Details

Item reference: ADM/A/1777/176
Catalogue Section: Public records: records of the central administration of the Royal Navy and the Merchant Navy
Level: PAGE
Date made: 1691-10-27
Creator: Southerne, James
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
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