Navy Board and Office of the Lord High Admiral: contemporary copies of official records.

Contents include an estimate for the charge as well for the launching, rigging and furnishing of his Majesties ships the VICTORY and VANGUARD in the dry dock of Woolwich, and the ST DYONIS in the dock at Deptford, also for their transportation from there to Chatham to be floated.

An estimate of the extraordinary charges for materials, workmanship and other incident charges in rigging and fitting his Majesties shipps and pinnaces now riding in harbour at Chatham and Portsmouth, April 1631.

An estimate of the quantity of timber, planks, ironails, mast yards, ironworks and all other provisions and necessaries for the building of a new ship for his Majesties of the burthen of 500 tons beside tonnage, made by Captain Pett, c. November 1631.

An estimate of the ordinary charge for all his Majesties shipps and vessells in Harborough and serving on the Narrow Seas for one whole yeare to begin this first of January 1631, signed William Russell, Palmer, Kenelme Digby, Den: Fleming, Phineas Pett. [10 pages].

Ordenances and statutes devised by the Kings most excellent Majesty for the government and surety of his Highnesses castles, bull-workes and other fortresses appointed to the survey of the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports. [101 pages].

Administrative / biographical background
Twenty-one items in all, bound in one volume, 194 numbered pages followed by 54 un-numbered leaves (misnumbered between pp. 40 and 43), written in red italic and dark brown court hand apparently by one writer within sepia rules, original vellum, bookplate of William Morehead, 1626-1632.