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Navy Board, Navy Pay Office, and Admiralty, Accountant General's Department: Treasurer's...
Catalogue reference: ADM 20
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ADM 20
Naval and Victualling Ledgers of the Treasurer of the Navy.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- ADM 20
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Title (The name of the record)
- Navy Board, Navy Pay Office, and Admiralty, Accountant General's Department: Treasurer's Ledgers
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1660-1836
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Description (What the record is about)
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Naval and Victualling Ledgers of the Treasurer of the Navy.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The earlier volumes (some of which are indexed) separate the two accounts, but from 1800 they are unified in annual volumes.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Board of Admiralty, Accountant General's Department, 1832-1932
- Navy Pay Office, 1546-1835
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 357 volume(s)
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C1729/
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