NAVAL REGULATIONS.

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Regulations and Instructions relating to His Majesty's Service at Sea. First issued in 1731, this publication standardized the regulations governing "the organization and discipline of the British Navy" (Uden & Cooper). This copy has a pleasing provenance, having been aboard a ship in 1788, then to the library of Admiral Henry Edwyn Stanhope in the 1810s, and to another naval officer, James William Murray Ashby, on his way to fight in the Crimean War.The first evidence of provenance can be found on the rear free endpaper, which is inscribed "HM Ship" and dated 31 December 1778. It was then owned by Henry Edwyn Stanhope (1754-1814), who signed the title page as Ad:[miral] Stanhope. Stanhope enjoyed a long and prominent naval career, serving on Commodore Hood's flagship, HMS Romney, in 1768, commanding a group of boats at the Battle of Bunker Hill in 1775, capturing four ships during the American Revolutionary War, and flying his flag on HMS Pompee as second-in-command to Admiral Gambier at the Battle of Copenhagen (1807). He was promoted to admiral of the blue on 12 August 1812.The title page also features a gift inscription: "Thomas Rowe to J. W. M. Ashby, May 1851". James William Murray Ashby (1822-1911) served in the Royal Navy from 1839 to 1878. He was made a clerk in 1844 and paymaster in 1852, served at the taking of Bomarsund, Kertch, and Sebastopol in 1854, and then in the Second Opium War, where he was commended for his bravery at the battles of Taku Forts. He became

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