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A plea for protection from Captain Jones’s raid
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Series
Navy Board and Admiralty: Department of the Comptroller for Victualling Services...
Catalogue reference: ADM 113
What's it about?
ADM 113
Pay lists, musters and pension lists of various ports, yards, etc., registers of labourers and description books.
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 113
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Title (The name of the record)
- Navy Board and Admiralty: Department of the Comptroller for Victualling Services and predecessors: Registers
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1703-1857
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Description (What the record is about)
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Pay lists, musters and pension lists of various ports, yards, etc., registers of labourers and description books.
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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, Comptroller of Victualling and Transport Services, 1832-1862
- Navy Board, Victualling Board (Board of Victualling Commissioners), 1683-1832
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 279 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/C1822/
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