NAVAL Heavily annotated copy of Regulations and Instructions Relating to His Majesty's Service at Sea, second edition, 1734, the title-page bearing the ownership inscription "Thomas Frankland. 1740", expanded with notes "as they are now in 1781", with details of his career entered, the rest of the volume heavily annotated by him, many entries scored through, seemingly by Frankland himself ("...Never give your Consent to an impressed man being Condemned even to a dozen Lashes... The men are fonder of Biscuit and Grease, than your Pundouddles... Customary nowadays to call a man down from the mast head flogg him & sent him up again... Since Artois Buckels and Hair Dressing is Become the Fashion Tobacco is not used... To suffer no Fruit or Strong Liquors to be sold on board. surely this is a silly order... Some Children were made Lieu.ts at Jamaica and were when walking the Streets followed By the little Negroes dancing & calling them Piccaninny's even so much so, that some of them durst not wear the Lieu.ts Uniform... Admiral Boscawen never sent a Man onshoar to Hasler Hospital as he said it gave the man the Scurvey instead of Curing him as its Built on a salt water marsh, Stinks and has nothing but Salt Water Herbage about it... The American War has ruined this Kingdom..."), rebound and repaired for the family in the late nineteenth century, a vignette cut out, armorial bookplate of Captain Thomas Frankland, library ticket of Loxwood House, inscription to Cadet the Hon Thomas Frankland RN from his father, Christmas 1917, half morocco, worn, 4to, [annotations c.1740-81]; together with a duty-stamped quittance roll of George Aufrère and his fellow French Prize Commissioners for the surplusage on the sale of French prize ships and goods, taken before the declaration of war in 1756, on 5 skins of vellum, the last detached, usual spotting and wear, c.2400 x 290mm., 7 January 1769, subscribed as examined by Edward Woodcock, Deputy Clerk of the Pipe, 8 August 1769 (2) Fußnoten The author of these lively annotations, Admiral Sir Thomas Frankland MP, 5th Bt. (1718-1784) was possessed of 'a vigorous but obscure and not overly literate style', his letters giving the impression of 'an able but unpolished and cantankerous personality' (A.W.H. Pearsall, ODNB). George Aufrère, responsible for the quittance roll included in the lot, was an influential merchant and art collector, as well as 'one of the Admiralty's fourteen commissioners for the sale of French prizes, responsible for the sale of enemy ships and goods captured by the British between 1756 and 1764' (David Hancock, ODNB).
NAVAL Heavily annotated copy of Regulations and Instructions Relating to His Majesty's Service at Sea, second edition, 1734, the title-page bearing the ownership inscription "Thomas Frankland. 1740", expanded with notes "as they are now in 1781", with details of his career entered, the rest of the volume heavily annotated by him, many entries scored through, seemingly by Frankland himself ("...Never give your Consent to an impressed man being Condemned even to a dozen Lashes... The men are fonder of Biscuit and Grease, than your Pundouddles... Customary nowadays to call a man down from the mast head flogg him & sent him up again... Since Artois Buckels and Hair Dressing is Become the Fashion Tobacco is not used... To suffer no Fruit or Strong Liquors to be sold on board. surely this is a silly order... Some Children were made Lieu.ts at Jamaica and were when walking the Streets followed By the little Negroes dancing & calling them Piccaninny's even so much so, that some of them durst not wear the Lieu.ts Uniform... Admiral Boscawen never sent a Man onshoar to Hasler Hospital as he said it gave the man the Scurvey instead of Curing him as its Built on a salt water marsh, Stinks and has nothing but Salt Water Herbage about it... The American War has ruined this Kingdom..."), rebound and repaired for the family in the late nineteenth century, a vignette cut out, armorial bookplate of Captain Thomas Frankland, library ticket of Loxwood House, inscription to Cadet the Hon Thomas Frankland RN from his father, Christmas 1917, half morocco, worn, 4to, [annotations c.1740-81]; together with a duty-stamped quittance roll of George Aufrère and his fellow French Prize Commissioners for the surplusage on the sale of French prize ships and goods, taken before the declaration of war in 1756, on 5 skins of vellum, the last detached, usual spotting and wear, c.2400 x 290mm., 7 January 1769, subscribed as examined by Edward Woodcock, Deputy Clerk of the Pipe, 8 August 1769 (2) Fußnoten The author of these lively annotations, Admiral Sir Thomas Frankland MP, 5th Bt. (1718-1784) was possessed of 'a vigorous but obscure and not overly literate style', his letters giving the impression of 'an able but unpolished and cantankerous personality' (A.W.H. Pearsall, ODNB). George Aufrère, responsible for the quittance roll included in the lot, was an influential merchant and art collector, as well as 'one of the Admiralty's fourteen commissioners for the sale of French prizes, responsible for the sale of enemy ships and goods captured by the British between 1756 and 1764' (David Hancock, ODNB).
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