Royal Navy.- Naval Prize Money and the rights of capturing vessels.- Heads of an Argument delivered at Serjeants Inn... touching the Legality of the Commission of Appeals in Prize Causes, manuscript,

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Royal Navy.- Naval Prize Money and the rights of capturing vessels.- Heads of an Argument delivered at Serjeants Inn... touching the Legality of the Commission of Appeals in Prize Causes, manuscript, 23pp., slightly browned, original wrappers, upper cover working loose, 1748; Stephens (Anthony, cashier to the Navy treasurer, fl. 1680s) Money order of 4,000 to the Treasurer of the Navy, D.s. "A Stephens", manuscript, 1p. with conjugate blank, creased, folds, browned, 23rd April 1684; and 3 others including a copy letter from Canton, incomplete at end, 1765, folio (5). *** Second mentioned because of their overlapping roles handling naval finances and logistics, Stephens is mentioned in Pepys’s diary.

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