Woolwich Dockyard expenses signed by Fulke Grenville.
A one page document detailing the ordinary charges (wages etc) at 'Woolwitch' for the month of May 1601; there are four entries:
Wages of a clerk and keeper of the 'plugge'; wages of watchmen watching her Majesty's Timberyard; wages of labourers for sundry works and burning reed: 6000 sheaves at 13.4 per 1000.
The document is also signed Hugh Lydyard; Pe: Buck and Th: Trever.
Administrative / biographical background
Fulke Grenville, 1st Baron Brooke, poet and statesman (1554-1628) had become Treasurer of the Navy by 1598 and became Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1614.
Wages of a clerk and keeper of the 'plugge'; wages of watchmen watching her Majesty's Timberyard; wages of labourers for sundry works and burning reed: 6000 sheaves at 13.4 per 1000.
The document is also signed Hugh Lydyard; Pe: Buck and Th: Trever.
Administrative / biographical background
Fulke Grenville, 1st Baron Brooke, poet and statesman (1554-1628) had become Treasurer of the Navy by 1598 and became Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1614.
Record Details
| Item reference: | ADL/K/7; MSS/76/048.0 |
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| Catalogue Section: | Manuscript documents acquired singly by the Museum |
| Level: | ITEM |
| Extent: | 1 sheet |
| Date made: | 1601 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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