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PEPYS, Samuel (1633-1703). Document signed (twice, on recto and verso, as Secretary of the Navy), a warrant addressed to the Clerk of the Stores at Chatham, also signed by three Naval Commissioners, Lord Brouncker, Sir William Penn and Sir Thomas Hervey, Navy Office, 30 April 1667, 1½ pages, folio (lightly browned, small splits at edges in folds).
An order to receive timber from Mr John Mason and to make out bills in accordance with the contract on the verso of the warrant. The contract is for oak in various dimensions, elm and beech, at prices from two pounds to two pounds fifteen shillings per load.
Written at the time when Pepys was full of justified complaints about the under-funding of the navy, and the King's failure to concentrate on the critical state of the Dutch War. The Dutch attack on the Medway within only six weeks of the present document proved his point, by inflicting the worst humiliation England had suffered for six centuries (Clare Tomalin. Samuel Pepys, 2002, p.189).
Sir William Penn, the father of William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania, was not always on cordial terms with Pepys, who mocked and belittled him. Lord Brouncker, a commissioner since 1664 ('wholly ignorant in the business of the Navy', according to Pepys' Diary, 10 December 1664), was also a ship designer, a mathematician and free thinker, and President of the Royal Society.
An order to receive timber from Mr John Mason and to make out bills in accordance with the contract on the verso of the warrant. The contract is for oak in various dimensions, elm and beech, at prices from two pounds to two pounds fifteen shillings per load.
Written at the time when Pepys was full of justified complaints about the under-funding of the navy, and the King's failure to concentrate on the critical state of the Dutch War. The Dutch attack on the Medway within only six weeks of the present document proved his point, by inflicting the worst humiliation England had suffered for six centuries (Clare Tomalin. Samuel Pepys, 2002, p.189).
Sir William Penn, the father of William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania, was not always on cordial terms with Pepys, who mocked and belittled him. Lord Brouncker, a commissioner since 1664 ('wholly ignorant in the business of the Navy', according to Pepys' Diary, 10 December 1664), was also a ship designer, a mathematician and free thinker, and President of the Royal Society.
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