CHARLES II, King of England, Navy]. Document, partly printed, headed "The Charge Remaining & Expenses of Powder, Shott & Other Stores of Munitions of Warreat Trinity Fort, Gravesend" 26 September 1667. 2 o. 3 pages. Partly printed inventory list, acomplished in manuscript is a fine, elegant scrolling hand, by Jonathan Cokeshott (signature at end), laid out in columns. Docketed on page 4. Bound in nineteenth-century rose-red cloth, upper cover lettered "Charles II's Navy." A very unusual 17th-century naval inventory, recording quantities of some 150 different categories of naval stores including ammunition for cannon, demi-cannon, various weights of bullets, brass and iron ordnance, round shot, "double-headed hammer shot," grape shot, "hand granadoes," spades, wheelbarrows, javelins, "matchlock musquets," hatchets, swords, blunderbusses, nails, tallow, thread and "junck." Provenance: William Cock, MD, his bookplate.
CHARLES II, King of England, Navy]. Document, partly printed, headed "The Charge Remaining & Expenses of Powder, Shott & Other Stores of Munitions of Warreat Trinity Fort, Gravesend" 26 September 1667. 2 o. 3 pages. Partly printed inventory list, acomplished in manuscript is a fine, elegant scrolling hand, by Jonathan Cokeshott (signature at end), laid out in columns. Docketed on page 4. Bound in nineteenth-century rose-red cloth, upper cover lettered "Charles II's Navy." A very unusual 17th-century naval inventory, recording quantities of some 150 different categories of naval stores including ammunition for cannon, demi-cannon, various weights of bullets, brass and iron ordnance, round shot, "double-headed hammer shot," grape shot, "hand granadoes," spades, wheelbarrows, javelins, "matchlock musquets," hatchets, swords, blunderbusses, nails, tallow, thread and "junck." Provenance: William Cock, MD, his bookplate.
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