Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Descriptive Catalogue of the Naval Manuscripts in the Pepysian Library, Vol. 3: At Magdalene College, Cambridge
In the present volume the official correspondence of the secretary to the admiralty during Samuel Pepys's tenure of the office is continued from 1 January, 1674-5, to 7 May, 1677, the letters calendared being those contained in vols. iv. and v. of the series in the Pepysian Library entitled S. P's Letters Admiralty. The importance of the Pepysian papers as a whole has been discussed already in the General Introduction, and the general character of the Admiralty Letters has been described in the Introduction to the preceding volume. The arrangement there adopted for indicating points of interest has been adhered to, and the Introduction to the present volume is divided into sections as follows: (1) Administration; (2) Finance; (3) Men; (4) Pay; (5) Victuals; (6) Discipline; (7)Ships; (8) Guns; (9) Miscellaneous.
I. Administration
The composition of the admiralty commission established in 1673 was not greatly changed during the period covered by the correspondence in the present volume.
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