Samuel Pepys and the Royal Navy

Part 8

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Middleton, Colonel Thomas, commissioner and surveyor of the navy, 24, 45, 46, 58

Midshipmen, establishments for (1676 and 1686), 73

Monck, George, 12, 23

Monson, Sir William, 2, 5, 9, 24

Myngs, Sir Christopher, 13, 14

Narbrough, Sir John, 70; on special commission of 1686, 35

Naval Discipline Act (1661), 64

Naval stores, embezzlement of, 64

Navy Board: in 1659, 18; in 1660, 22; in 1673, 30; in 1679, 33; in 1688, 35; a body of experts, 18, 23, 27, 30, 33; its functions, 26, 50

North Foreland, 13

Northumberland, Earl of, 5

Nottingham, Earl of; _see_ Finch

Orange, Prince of, 36

Ordnance Office, 40, 76 _n._

Parliament, 76; vote of 1665, 40; of 1666, 41; of 1677, 32; of 1678, 43

Pay, rates of, 52; continuous pay for naval officers, 55; _see also_ Wages

Pearse, James, chirurgeon-general of the navy, 51

Penn, Sir William, commissioner of the navy, 22, 25; his _Naval Collections_, 2

Pension Parliament, 31

Pensions, 56

Pepys, John, clerk of the acts, 30

—— Mrs, 20

—— Paulina, 11

PEPYS, SAMUEL: clerk of the acts (1660), 21; treasurer of Tangier commission (1665), 28; surveyor-general of victualling (1665), 28, 59; secretary of the admiralty (1673), 30; his speech in Parliament (1677), 31; involved in the Popish Plot and resigned (1679), 32; second secretaryship (1684), 34; deprived (1689), 36. His projected history of the navy, 1, 2; pronunciation of his name, 11; the Diary, 11; his official style, 14; services to the navy, 16, 77; question of his corruption, 28; a disciplinarian, 66; his views on gentlemen captains, 70; on drunkenness in the navy, 73; a framer of 'establishments,' 70, 71

Pepysian Library, 1, 49, 76

Pett, Peter, commissioner of the navy, 22, 38

—— Phineas, 7

—— Sir Phineas, 35

Petty, Sir William, 4, 22

Plate carriage, establishment for (1686), 72

Plymouth, 49

'Poor John,' 61

Popish Plot, 32

Portsmouth, 5, 39, 44, 45, 46, 58, 72 _n._, 74

Principal Officers, 18, 35, 41; _see also_ Navy Board

Prisoners of war, care of, 49

Public accounts, commission of, 41, 54

Puritans, 37

Pyend, Captain Stephen, 61 _n._

Riot, Act against (1664), 64

Rochester, 50

Royal Society, 4, 25

Rump Parliament, 18

Rupert, Prince, commissioner of the admiralty, 24, 30, 60

Sandwich, Earl of, 21, 58

Scurvy, 63

Seymour, Sir Edward, commissioner of the navy, 26

Shipbuilding, 75; Act of 1677, 31, 75

Ships: Augustine, 60 Centurion, 43 Coventry, 58 Diamond, 73 Gloucester, 60 James, 9 Lark, 67 Little Victory, 45 Pearl, 45 Reserve, 60 Rupert, 43 Swan, 43

Shipwrights' Company, 3

Shish, Jonas, 46

Sick and wounded seamen, 48

Slyngesbie, Sir Robert, comptroller of the navy, 20, 24; his _Discourse of the Navy_, 4

Southampton, 49

Southwell, Sir Robert, 4

Southwold, 49

Special Commission of 1686, 34, 48

Spithead, 47 _n._

Stratton, 22

Surveyor of the Navy, 18

Tangier, 28, 29

Test Act (1673), 30

Tickets, wages paid by, 7, 47, 53

Tilbury Hope, 9

Timber, abuses in, 10

Tippetts, Sir John, commissioner and surveyor of the navy, 25, 35

Tower, Pepys sent to the, 32

Treasurer of the Navy, 18

Treasury Chamber, 36

Trinity House, 3

Turenne, 22

Victualling, 57-64; abuses in, 5, 9; victualling 'upon account,' 10, 57, 63; contract of 1677, 61; contract for the Mediterranean, 62

Volunteers, establishments for (1676 and 1686), 73

Wages, abuses in, 6; tickets for, 7, 47, 53; 'dead pays,' 7, 54

Wapping, 70

Warren, Sir William, timber contractor, 28

Warwick, Sir Philip, 40

Watermen's Hall, 46, 47

Weymouth, 49

Wounded seamen, scale of relief for (1685), 51; _see also_ Sick and Wounded

Yachts, 75

Yarmouth, 49

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