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Folio 50: Richard Runwa Bowyer, Regulating Captain, Lynn. Acknowledges the letter...
Catalogue reference: ADM 1/1539/24
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This record is about the Folio 50: Richard Runwa Bowyer, Regulating Captain, Lynn. Acknowledges the letter... dating from 1806 July 14 in the series Admiralty, and Ministry of Defence, Navy Department: Correspondence and Papers. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1806 July 14
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Folio 50: Richard Runwa Bowyer, Regulating Captain, Lynn. Acknowledges the letter enclosing one from Thomas Brindley about the impressment of his servant John Beaver. Is returning the documents. He ordered Beaver to be impressed in line with an Admiralty order dated 12 May 1803. Beaver is fit and healty, and the indenture appears to have been filled up by a Mr Berton, clerk to Mr. Brindley.
Folios 51-52: enclosed with folio 50. Letter dated 11 July 1806 by Thomas Brindley, Lynn, to the Admiralty. Captain Richard Bowyer, regulating officer at Lynn, has impressed his servant John Beaver, who is apprenticed to him. Beaver belongs to the Ida, and Captain Bowyer has refused to release him so that he can sail as Mate in this vessel. Asks for his immediate release.
Folio 53: enclosed with folio 50. Letter dated 4 July 1806 by Robert Cock, mariner, Kings Lynn. A deposition sworn before Thomas Ph Bagge, Mayor of Kings Lynn and Magistrate, that Cock is Master of a vessel called the Ida and that he has appointed John Beaver, 19 years old, as Mate of this vessel and that Beaver does not belong to any ship of the Navy, nor has he deserted from one.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Cap B374
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- English
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