Letters from Captain William Burton, Royal Marines, to R A Devonport, 1803-6

History and Biography: letters from Captain William Burton, Royal Marines, to R A Devonport, 1803-6

ID:	PHB/2
Type:	Manuscript
Display location:	Not on display
Creator:	Phillipps
Date made:	1803-01-01 - 1806-12-31; 1803-1806 1803-1806-12-31
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Parts:	Collection of naval manuscripts gathered by Sir Thomas Phillipps. (Manuscript) Phillipps-Croker (Manuscript) (CRK) Calendar and selection of translated transcriptions of PHB/1B (Manuscript) (PHB/1A) "Papels varios tocant a Inglaterra manuscritos" (Manuscript) (PHB/1B) Letters from Captain William Burton, Royal Marines, to R A Devonport, 1803-6 (Manuscript) (PHB/2) Letters and dispatches from Admiral Vernon and Governor Trelawnay to Sir Charles Wager, 1738-40 (Manuscript) (PHB/3A) Admiral Vernon's dispatch to Sir Charles Wager, First Lord of the Admiralty, 1740. (Manuscript) (PHB/3B) Letters from Admiral Viscount Augustus Keppel to the Prime Minister, the Duke of Portland, 1783 (Manuscript) (PHB/4) Diplomatic papers - Capitulation of Malta, 1799-1807 (Manuscript) (PHB/5) Logbook of the BLACKHAM, Frigott, Captain Charles Newman from London to Constantinople, probably kept by the surgeon, 1696-98 (Manuscript) (PHB/6) Journal of East India Company Ship CERES, Captain Hugh Scott, outward to Saint Helena, Bencoolen and China and back, 1812-14, written in verse with some explanatory notes (Manuscript) (PHB/7) Logbook of HMS SHREWSBURY, Baltic, Commanded by Sir George Rooke, kept by the Admiral's secretary, 1700 (Manuscript) (PHB/8) Midshipman's journal of HMS VICTORIA, flag ship, Captain GOODENOUGH, Mediterranean, also HMS VICTORY at Portsmouth and HMS PYLADES, kept by George H Cherry, 1865-70 (Manuscript) (PHB/9) Narrative account of smugglers on the East Coast by Mr Page Spratlin of Harwich, a pilot, with proposals for establishing an excise cutter, September 1774, see full list in printed catalogue for further details (Manuscript) (PHB/10) Nelsoniana, papers relating to Clarke and McArthur's 'Life of Nelson', 1806. (Manuscript) (PHB/11) Logbook of HMS LAPWING, Captain Robert Barton, on active service in the West Indies, kept by Francis Hiernan, who had served in the MONACH, 1796-1800, see full list in printed catalogue for further details (Manuscript) (PHB/12) Logbook of the East India Company Ship WAGER, Captain Charles Raymond, kept by Edward Lord Chick 3rd mate, from Bengal to England; logbook of East India Company Ship MIDDLESEX, Captain William Studholm, when he made the Basses in India, 1734-46 (Manuscript) (PHB/13) Logbook, 1743-45, of the East India Company Ship CERES, Captain Robert Mylne, India to China and back, also short logbooks of AUGUSTA and ST NICOLAS, relating to the same area (Manuscript) (PHB/14) Memoirs of Lord Nelson, by the Rev William Nelson, 1799 (Manuscript) (PHB/15) Nelsoniana correspondence between the publishers and McArthur relating to the life of Lord Nelson by Clarke and McArthur, 1809, also legal opinions on Lord Nelson's legacy to Lady Hamilton, July 1807 (Manuscript) (PHB/16) Letter and orderbook of Cloudesley Shovell, 1695-96, in HM Ships DUCHESS, MONTAGU and QUEEN (Manuscript) (PHB/17) Letter and account book kept by Jonathan Andrews, Captain of East India Company Ship CHARLES II, 1687-88 (Manuscript) (PHB/18) Collection of naval manuscripts, letters and documents collected by Sir Thomas Phillipps. (Manuscript) (PHB/P) Law and Administration: book of papers relating to Holland's discourse of the Navy of England, 1638 (Manuscript) (PLA/1) Book of naval records collected by Sir Robert Cotton (1571-1631), the antiquarian and collector, containing summaries of papers on naval matters and defence from the time of Henry III to Elizabeth I, 13th and 16th century. (Manuscript) (PLA/2) Regulation for the Ordnance Office, 1683-1706 (Manuscript) (PLA/3) Precedents of the Court of Admiralty, 1658-83 (Manuscript) (PLA/4) Treatise on Maritime Law - French, chiefly prizes taken at sea, 1690 (Manuscript) (PLA/5) Customs and Maritime Law, 17th century (Manuscript) (PLA/6) Abstract of the Law of Oleron and the Black Book of the Admiralty, c.1620 (Manuscript) (PLA/7) report on the Court Martial of Lieutenant F Hickey and Surgeon D MacCarthy of HMS FISGUARD, (Captain Mark Kerr), 1804 (Manuscript) (PLA/8) case of Captain Maxwell, 1810 (Manuscript) (PLA/9) Navy Board letters to officials at Deptford and Woolwich Yards, 1664-1716 (Manuscript) (PLA/10) Prize money: collection of pay tickets of seamen, 1755-90 (Manuscript) (PLA/11) Prize money: collection of seamens' certificates, 1740-1837 (Manuscript) (PLA/12) Navy Office returns and Official Forms, 1760-80 (Manuscript) (PLA/13) Navy papers, letters and warrants (Hosier), 1711-69 (Manuscript) (PLA/14) Navy papers, mainly instructions, warrants etc., (Moutray), 1770-1800 (Manuscript) (PLA/15) List of Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, 1672-1783 (Manuscript) (PLA/16) Ship list of the Royal Navy, c.1770 (Manuscript) (PLA/17) Navy accounts kept by William Soper, Keeper of the King's Ships. (Manuscript) (PLA/18) Account of the dispute concerning importation of cottons and kerseys between Samuel Pepys and Col Middleton, 1667-68 (Manuscript) (PLA/19) Ship Administration: Lord Keith's letters and orders to Captain E Owen, 1806-7 (Manuscript) (PLA/20) Ship Administration: watch, quarter and station bill, HMS FORTE, n.d., c.1820 (Manuscript) (PLA/22) Ship Administration: copies of Admiralty orders, some relating to Admiral Benbow and suppression of piracy, 1698-99 (Manuscript) (PLA/23) Prize money: certificates and letters relating to questions of pay, 18th century (Manuscript) (PLA/24) Prize money: mixed papers, mainly certificates and papers relating to Pay Office and some to the Ordnance office, 18th century (Manuscript) (PLA/25) Mixed papers, certificates and letters, many relating to questions of pay, 18th century (Manuscript) (PLA/26) Prize money: papers relating to the case between Lord Nelson and Lord St Vincent, 1802 (Manuscript) (PLA/27) Navy papers, including orders relating to administration, 18th century (Manuscript) (PLA/28) Miscellaneous papers, mainly autographs including letters dealing with administration, 1757-1842 (Manuscript) (PLA/29) Prize money: navy papers, chiefly orders and letters about pay and prize money and list of ships in sea pay, 1713-14 (Manuscript) (PLA/30) Ship list of all ships and vessels in Her Majesty's Royal Navy, 1705 (Manuscript) (PLA/31) Prize money: seamen, condition of pay, Act of Parliament 31, George II, 1758 (Manuscript) (PLA/32) Navy papers, demands for gunner's stores and letters about the diving bell at Gibraltar, 1700-1800 (Manuscript) (PLA/33) Manuscript (PLA/P) Observations on measuring timber, and shipwrights practice, 1720, notebook with explanations and some diagrams including details of the establishment of 1705, proportions for designing dimensions for any ships, establishment of 1716 (Manuscript) (PNS/1) Book of Naval papers of Peter Pett, 1660-1714, relating to shipbuilding. (Manuscript) (PNS/2) Book relating to the establishment of lighthouses at North and South Foreland, c.1630 (Manuscript) (PNS/3) Shipbuilding: papers and orders relating to the building of HMS WOLVERINE sloop, 1798 (Manuscript) (PNS/4) Naval Science and Technology papers. (Manuscript) (PNS/P)

Letters from Captain William Burton, Royal Marines, to R A Devonport, 1803-6

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