[Plans for Plymouth Docks. Drophead title on p. 1:] Notes on the First & Second Draughts. [- Notes on the Eighth Draught.]

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The plans are for the new King’s Dock at Point Forward / Froward where the River Tamar enters Plymouth Sound (just to the west of Plymouth). The new dock comprised an outer wet dock and an inner dry dock. It was accompanied by a grand Neo-classical Officers’ Dwelling House, a great Store House, and a Rope House (1056 feet long). The text, which describes the first eight folding plates, has no title or author but was composed by Edmund Dummer (1651-1713), shipbuilder and Surveyor of the Navy (from August 1692, Assistant Surveyor from April 1689). It includes: a short report dated “Plymouth, 4th of November, 1692” following an inspection by Henry Greenhil, Commissioner of the Navy, Henry Hook, Deputy-Governor of the Citadel, four Officers of the Yard at Plymouth (Elias Waff, Thomas Stollard, John Addis, Richard Lea) and seven Gentlemen of Plymouth (p. 10-11); a Letter from Captain St. Lo [George St Lo (1658-1718), His Majesty’s Commissioner at Plymouth to the Navy-Board dated 1 Dec. 1695 benefits from acquiring the estate of Mountwise and accommodating the workmen there instead of two miles away (p. 11-13); a letter from the Officers of the Yard at Plymouth (Thomas Stollord, Elias Waff, T. Holms, Richard Lea, J. Pownall, Richard Stace, Thomas Yeo, Robert Waters) to Edmund Dummer, dated from Hamoze-Dock, 7 January 1697/8 (p. 24-27) on the same subject of acquiring the lands of the ‘Bartin of Montwise’ [ i.e. Barton (= demesne-land) of Mount Wise] an area immediately north of the

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