1660 *Sir Robert Slingsby. Cal. St. Pap.; Pepys’s Diary.
The Navy Board in its old form was re-established at the Restoration.
1671 Sir Thomas Allen. Duke of York’s Instructions (MS. Admiralty Library).
1685 Sir Richard Haddock. Addit. MS. 9322.
The principal officers (except the Treasurer) were suspended, and the office placed temporarily under the charge of a body of equal Commissioners, as described in Pepys’s “Memoir.”
1688 Sir Richard Haddock, Pepys’s Memoir. restored.
Special Commission revoked, and former officers restored.
1715 Sir Charles Wager. Byng MSS. vol. 13 (Admiralty Library).
[407] This volume contains a transcript of part of Pepys’s Naval Collections in the Library of Magdalene College, Cambridge. It comprises some extracts from Lord Clarendon’s copy of the Council Books of King Henry VIII. from 1541 to 1543, one of which records a letter being written to Mr. Stanhopp and John Osburne, “Comptroller of the King’s H.’ˢ Ships.” I cannot find the date of his first appointment.
[408] Afterwards Sir George Carteret, Treasurer of the Navy.
_To the commencement of the 18th century_.
circ. 1546 Benjamin Gonson. Harleian MS. 249. (_See_ Robert Legg, Treasurer.)
Gonson was appointed Treasurer of the Navy in 1549.
1549 *Sir William Winter. Addit. MS. 5752, fo. 6ᵇ.
Letters Patent of Philip and Mary, dated 2nd Nov. 1557, recite a patent of Edward VI. appointing William Wynter to be “Surveyor of our Ships,” and go on to appoint him “Master of our Ordnance of our Ships,” in addition to the Surveyorship. He continued to hold the joint offices for many years--certainly till 1589, perhaps later. The date of his death is uncertain.
1611 *Sir Richard Bingley. Phineas Pett’s Autobiography.
1616 *Sir Thomas Aylesbury. Cal. St. Pap.
This is the “Old Edgborough,” whose ghost was supposed to haunt the Hill House at Chatham. (Pepys’s Diary, 8th April, 1661.) He died in 1638.
Afterwards Sir William. (See 1660 below.)
1642 In abeyance. Addit. MSS. vol. 9311 fo. 188.
A body of Commissioners appointed by Parliament instead of the principal officers.
1660 Sir William Batten, Cal. St. Pap., and restored. Pepys’s Diary.
1667 Colonel Thomas Pepys’s Diary, 10th Dec. 1667. Middleton.
_See_ Middleton in List of Commissioners at Chatham, 1672.
