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Transferred to ADM 1/8998
Catalogue reference: ADM 1/8766/75
Transferred to ADM 1/8998
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Various papers: Copy of Admiralty order to form dockyard workmen into battalions...
Catalogue reference: ADM 1/5116/16
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This record is about the Various papers: Copy of Admiralty order to form dockyard workmen into battalions... dating from 1756-1783 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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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- ADM 1/5116/16
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1756-1783
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Description (What the record is about)
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Various papers:
- Copy of Admiralty order to form dockyard workmen into battalions for local defence (1756);
- Offer to tender ship Great Britain for sale to the Navy (3 May 1757);
- Lord Plymouth, forwarding a petition (10 June 1758);
- Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Hawke, justifying his hauling down his flag without orders (10 May 1758);
- Colonel John Boscawen requesting a passage to Portsmouth for some men of his regiment (3 November 1758);
- Protections from the press for fishermen of Penzance and Falmouth (1759, 1761);
- Rear-Admiral Phillip Durrell, reporting affairs at Portsmouth (31 October 1760);
- Original press warrant (1761);
- Lieutenant Robert Edgcumbe of HM Cutter Cholmondley, reporting seizure of smuggled brandy (26 June 1766);
- Correspondence regarding the exemption from jury service of Charles Wright, an Admiralty clerk (1769);
- Copy of Admiralty order of 1756 respecting payment by ticket of men discharged from hospital (1783).
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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- Open Document, Open Description
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C4776247/
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Series information
ADM 1
Admiralty, and Ministry of Defence, Navy Department: Correspondence and Papers
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Various papers: Copy of Admiralty order to form dockyard workmen into battalions...
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