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Papers Relating to the Impressment of Seaman
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 December 2009
Abstract
- Type
- The Official Papers of Sir Nathaniel Bacon, as Justice of the Peace
- Information
- Copyright
- Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1915
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page 67 note 1 sic. Query reading wthhelde.
page 68 note 1 Here follow towns and names of those pressed.
page 69 note 1 Paper destroyed.
page 69 note 2 Son of Sir Roger. Sir John was knighted by the E. of Essex at Cadiz and died in 1603 as the result of a duel with Sr Matthew Browne of Beechworth Castle.
page 69 note 3 There are similar lists of mariners pressed at Burnham and Sheringham in June 1602.
page 69 note 4 The entries here printed in italics are underlined in the original. The numbers at the side are in a different hand, probably the same as that of the last entry. Those with no numbers were probably discharged in their own town or village before receiving conduct money to Norwich.
page 71 note 1 c[ori]d[uct].
page 74 note 1 The existing records of the Admiralty Imprest and Ticket Offices date from the Revolution only but some Chatham records date back to the 16th century. The book referred to in the last paragraph was the “Description Book.”