Summary
Collection of 7 monthly summaries of charges sustained at the Royal Dockyards of Woolwich, Deptford, and Portsmouth. Most line items for wages (of clerks and keeper of the plug; boatswains, carpenters, cooks, etc. aboard ships; and house carpenters and watchmen in timberyards), signed by Sir Fulke Greville, Sir Henry Palmer, Hugh Lydiard (Lydyard), John Trevor, Benjamin Gonson, Peter Buck, and Philip Ellis. (5) also includes charges for iron works employed upon ships as well as "for rozen, brimstone, and oth[e]r provisions of like kinde for these the same shipps and for extraordinarie work doune in the same."
(1) Woolwich, March 1599/1600, signed by Lydiard, Palmer, Trevor, and Gonson (cs1407; de Ricci 1407.1); (2) Woolwich, July 1600, signed by Lydiard, Greville, and Trevor (cs1541; de Ricci 1541.12); (3) Woolwich, September 1600, signed by Lydiard, Greville, Trevor (cs1541; de Ricci 1541.11); (4) Woolwich, December 1600, signed by Lydiard, Greville, Trevor, Buck (cs1541; de Ricci 1541.10); (5) Portsmouth, December 1600, signed Greville, Trevor, Buck (cs1541; de Ricci 1541.9); (6) Deptford, December 1600, signed by Ellis, Greville, Trevor, Buck (Folger MS 6638); (7) Deptford, September 1600, signed by Ellis, Greville, and Trevor (266919).
