Pepys (Samuel, 1633-1703). English diarist and naval administrator. Document Signed, ‘Samuell Pepys’, Navy Office, 5 April 1661, warrant addressed to William Sheldon, Clerk of the Cheque of the naval yard at Woolwich, for an order from his Royal Highness James Duke of York &c. Lord High Adm[ira]l of England, ‘dat[ed] 3rd instant These are to pray and require you to enter Dan[ie]l Kempe boatswaine of his Ma[jest]ys Shipp the Yarmouth with such allowance of wages and victuals for himselfe and his servant as is usuall and propper for the Boatswaine of his Ma[jest]ys, said shipp…’, signed at foot of text by Pepys and three others, Robert Slingesby, William Batten and William Penn, some spotting and light old dampstaining (affecting Penn’s autograph), 1 page with integral blank, endorsed, tipped onto a paper mount, folio (Quantity: 1) Signed by Pepys, (unusually with his full first name), as Clerk of the Acts to the Navy Board. Pepys’s Diary (pepysdiary.com) for 5 April 1661 reads: ‘Up among my workmen and so to the office, and then to Sir W. Pen’s with the other Sir William and Sir John Lawson to dinner, and after that, with them to Mr. Lucy’s, a merchant, where much good company, and there drank a great deal of wine, and in discourse fell to talk of the weight of people, which did occasion some wagers, and where, among others, I won half a piece to be spent. Then home, and at night to Sir W. Batten’s, and there very merry with a good barrell of oysters, and this is the present life I lead. Home and to bed.’ Sir Robert Slingsby 1st Baronet (1611–1661), naval commander and Comptroller of the Navy, and in his last years a much-loved colleague of Samuel Pepys.Sir William Batten (1601-1667), naval officer and administrator. As Surveyor of the Navy he was a colleague of Samuel Pepys, who mentions him frequently in his ‘Diary’, often to his detriment. Sir William Penn (1621-1670), English admiral and politician. In 1660 he was appointed a Commissioner of the Navy Board where he worked with Pepys. He was the father of William Penn, founder of the Province of Pennsylvania.
Pepys (Samuel, 1633-1703). English diarist and naval administrator. Document Signed, ‘Samuell Pepys’, Navy Office, 5 April 1661, warrant addressed to William Sheldon, Clerk of the Cheque of the naval yard at Woolwich, for an order from his Royal Highness James Duke of York &c. Lord High Adm[ira]l of England, ‘dat[ed] 3rd instant These are to pray and require you to enter Dan[ie]l Kempe boatswaine of his Ma[jest]ys Shipp the Yarmouth with such allowance of wages and victuals for himselfe and his servant as is usuall and propper for the Boatswaine of his Ma[jest]ys, said shipp…’, signed at foot of text by Pepys and three others, Robert Slingesby, William Batten and William Penn, some spotting and light old dampstaining (affecting Penn’s autograph), 1 page with integral blank, endorsed, tipped onto a paper mount, folio (Quantity: 1) Signed by Pepys, (unusually with his full first name), as Clerk of the Acts to the Navy Board. Pepys’s Diary (pepysdiary.com) for 5 April 1661 reads: ‘Up among my workmen and so to the office, and then to Sir W. Pen’s with the other Sir William and Sir John Lawson to dinner, and after that, with them to Mr. Lucy’s, a merchant, where much good company, and there drank a great deal of wine, and in discourse fell to talk of the weight of people, which did occasion some wagers, and where, among others, I won half a piece to be spent. Then home, and at night to Sir W. Batten’s, and there very merry with a good barrell of oysters, and this is the present life I lead. Home and to bed.’ Sir Robert Slingsby 1st Baronet (1611–1661), naval commander and Comptroller of the Navy, and in his last years a much-loved colleague of Samuel Pepys.Sir William Batten (1601-1667), naval officer and administrator. As Surveyor of the Navy he was a colleague of Samuel Pepys, who mentions him frequently in his ‘Diary’, often to his detriment. Sir William Penn (1621-1670), English admiral and politician. In 1660 he was appointed a Commissioner of the Navy Board where he worked with Pepys. He was the father of William Penn, founder of the Province of Pennsylvania.
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