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Folios 66-67: Peter Spicer, Swansea. Responding to Admiralty letter of 1st October,...
Catalogue reference: ADM 1/2528/21
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This record is about the Folios 66-67: Peter Spicer, Swansea. Responding to Admiralty letter of 1st October,... dating from 1811 Oct 6 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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Folios 66-67: Peter Spicer, Swansea. Responding to Admiralty letter of 1st October, asking for details of a man, Evan Ellis, impressed by Lt Notters from the brig Eleanor because his mate's protection was dated from seven months before he had joined that ship. At that date he would have been at Cadiz on another ship. Spicer has no doubt of his collusion, gives the false dates etc and adds that Lt Notters says there are quite a few cases where the mates of ships prove to have false papers to avoid the impress.
Folio 68: enclosure with folios 66-67. Undated petition from Richard Williams, the part-owner and master of the Eleanor, of Pwllheli, confirming he had hired Ellis as his chief mate, and sent him to Swansea on 15 September to collect a cargo of coal for Dublin. He was impressed on the 19th. But Williams says Ellis is vital to the business and urges that their Lordships release him.
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Letters from Captains, Surnames S: 1811, numbers 1101-1303. (Described at item level)
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