Demands for and issues of gunners' stores circa 1690-1750, mostly for use by the Navy.
Demands for and issues of gunners' stores circa 1690-1750, mostly for use by the Navy. There are some local demands, including a few relating to St Philip's Castle in Minorca, which Byng failed to relieve in 1756. A few army orders have been included. Consisting of 11 documents bound together, not arranged in any order.
Record Details
| Item reference: | RCL/15 |
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| Catalogue Section: | Artificial collections previously assembled |
| Level: | ITEM |
| Date made: | 1690 - 1750 |
| Creator: | Phillipps-Cole |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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- Naval Administration: expense of gunner's stores at the battle of Trafalgar, 1805 (Manuscript) (RCL/5)
- Navy Board Warrants and papers connected with naval pay including some powers of attorney and a few Nelson items, 18th and 19th centuries (Manuscript) (RCL/6)
- Orders from Navy Board and Commanders-in-chief including Pellow, Duckworth, Calder and Keith. (Manuscript) (RCL/7)
- Admiralty orders, commander-in-chief's orders and demands for stores and accounts of expense of gunner's stores. (Manuscript) (RCL/8)
- This volume includes much of Cole's own correspondence as well as documents from Sir Nicholas Harris Nicholas, Sir William Beatty, Mrs. Horatia Ward, Jeafferson Miles and Page Nicol Scott. (Manuscript) (RCL/9)
- Naval autographs: mixture of collector's items, naval officers of the early nineteenth century and Cole's correspondence c.1841, also some demands for gunner's stores, n.d. (Manuscript) (RCL/10)
- Naval officers letters on routine matters, some letters by Thomas Bolton, Nelson's brother-in-law, c.1800-40 (Manuscript) (RCL/11)
- Lady Nelson, widow of Admiral Lord Nelson, letters from Lady Nelson to her agent March & Co., London, about financial affairs, 1807-20 (Manuscript) (RCL/12)
- Naval officers letter - a mixed collection mostly on legal or financial topics - 1790-1830 (Manuscript) (RCL/13)
- Mixed collection of early 19th century letters - mostly routine matters of a personal nature - written by naval officers, some letters written by Lady Nelson, 1819-20. (Manuscript) (RCL/14)
- Demands for and issues of gunners' stores circa 1690-1750, mostly for use by the Navy. (Manuscript) (RCL/15)