Elizabethan Naval AdministrationThis is the first general selection from the substantial body of surviving documents about Elizabeth’s navy. It is a companion to The Navy of Edward VI and Mary I (Vol.157 in the NRS Series), where the apparatus serving both volumes was printed, and it complements the other NRS volumes that deal specifically with the Spanish Armada. This collection concentrates (though not exclusively so) on the early years of Elizabeth’s reign when there was no formal war. From 1558-1585 the navy was involved in a number of small-scale campaigns, pursuit of pirates and occasional shows of force. The documents selected emphasize the financial and administrative processes that supported these operations, such as mustering, victualing, demobilisation, and ship maintenance and repair. The fleet varied in size from about 30 to 45 ships during the period and a vast amount of maintenance and repair was required. The main component of the volume is the massively detailed Navy Treasurer's account for 1562-3 which is followed by and collated with the corresponding Exchequer Account. The documents illustrate just how efficiently the dockyards functioned. They were one of the great early Elizabethan achievements. |
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... attending and serving her highness in safekeeping of her Grace's timber-yards wherein lieth her timber, plank and board for the use of her ships, as also for the rigging, grounding and tackling of her Grace's ships to the seas, by the ...
... attending and serving her highness in safekeeping of her Grace's timber-yards wherein lieth her timber, plank and board for the use of her ships, as also for the rigging, grounding and tackling of her Grace's ships to the seas, by the ...
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... attending and serving her highness in labouring about the carriage of provisions and coiling up of cables by like 12 weeks 6 days begun and ended as abovesaid, at 13s 4d per mensem – £2 2s 10d. *[Shipkeeper]. to Giles hall, mariner, the ...
... attending and serving her highness in labouring about the carriage of provisions and coiling up of cables by like 12 weeks 6 days begun and ended as abovesaid, at 13s 4d per mensem – £2 2s 10d. *[Shipkeeper]. to Giles hall, mariner, the ...
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... attending and serving her highness for the safe-keeping of her Grace's storehouses there wherein lieth divers and sundry kinds of provisions as cables, hawsers, small cordage, oakum and other sorts of stuffs for the use of her Grace's ...
... attending and serving her highness for the safe-keeping of her Grace's storehouses there wherein lieth divers and sundry kinds of provisions as cables, hawsers, small cordage, oakum and other sorts of stuffs for the use of her Grace's ...
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... attending and serving her highness for the repairing and mending of her Grace's two galleys,1 by the like 90 days begun and ended as aforesaid, at 16d per diem. Summa – £6. [Page total] – £17 11s 5d. [f. 10] *[Clerk]. to stephen ...
... attending and serving her highness for the repairing and mending of her Grace's two galleys,1 by the like 90 days begun and ended as aforesaid, at 16d per diem. Summa – £6. [Page total] – £17 11s 5d. [f. 10] *[Clerk]. to stephen ...
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... attending and serving her highness about the taking in of cables, hawsers and divers other kinds of stuffs brought into her Grace's great storehouse at deptford strand and delivered out of the same again; as also. 1used for caulking ...
... attending and serving her highness about the taking in of cables, hawsers and divers other kinds of stuffs brought into her Grace's great storehouse at deptford strand and delivered out of the same again; as also. 1used for caulking ...
Contents
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III The Navy Treasurers Declared Account for 15621563 | 511 |
IV Extracts from James Humphreys Book of Forms 1568 | 547 |
V Papers relating to Wages and Wage Rates | 561 |
VI The Navy Victuallers 1565 Contract and related papers | 583 |
VII Papers relating to Sir John Hawkins as Treasurer of the Navy | 607 |
VIII Edward Fentons Notebook and other papers relating to the Expedition of 1590 | 617 |
Appendices
| 647 |
2 Glossary
| 653 |
3 Table of Manuscript Descents | 659 |
4 Description of BL Add MSS 7816978171
| 661 |
List of Sources
| 669 |
Index | 671 |
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