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Series
Navy Board, and Admiralty, Royal Greenwich Hospital: Chatham Chest, later The Chest...
Catalogue reference: ADM 82
What's it about?
ADM 82
The records consist chiefly of accounts and ledgers of payments of compensation and pensions made from the chest.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- ADM 82
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Title (The name of the record)
- Navy Board, and Admiralty, Royal Greenwich Hospital: Chatham Chest, later The Chest at Greenwich, Records
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1617-1807
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Description (What the record is about)
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The records consist chiefly of accounts and ledgers of payments of compensation and pensions made from the chest.
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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Three volumes of accounts of the Chatham Chest, 1637-1644, 1654-1655 and 1697-1698 are held by the National Maritime Museum (Museum references SOC/15, SOC/16 and SOC/20).
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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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- Navy Board, Chatham Chest, 1590-1803
- Royal Greenwich Hospital, the Chest at Greenwich, 1803-1832
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 130 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/C1791/
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Within the department: ADM
Records of the Admiralty, Naval Forces, Royal Marines, Coastguard, and related bodies
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Navy Board, and Admiralty, Royal Greenwich Hospital: Chatham Chest, later The Chest at Greenwich, Records
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