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SP 46/99/fo9 Cornelius Burroughs [Steward-General of the fleet at Jamaica] recommending assistance for Capt. Christopher Mings [Myngs]. 18 April 1658
 
SP 46/99/fo9 Cornelius Burroughs [Steward-General of the fleet at Jamaica] recommending assistance for Capt. Christopher Mings [Myngs]. 18 April 1658
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SP 82/11 Description: Lady Utricia [otherwise Hester] Swann to [Williamson]. Her husband having gone to Cuxhaven to procure from Sir Christopher Myngs a convoy for home-bound English merchant ships `which are verie rich'; encloses communication from Talbot to Arlington. Folio 13. Note:  Endorsed `For your selfe' Date: 1666 Mar. 10/20 Hamburg
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SP 82/11 Description: Jollivet to [Williamson]. Transmits communication from Sir Godfrey Floyd to Swann, handed in by Lady Floyd, that he has obtained leave from duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg [-Celle] to resign (see f.9) and, following King's command signified to him by Arlington, is preparing his departure for England; he has permission to draw bill of exchange for over £200, Swann having passed word to a merchant [at Hamburg]. Myngs has gone, leaving behind most merchantmen, they could not join him `for contrary wind and sands'; those he has with him are laden with pipe staves [i.e. staves used for making casks, required by navy]. Folio 14 Date: 1666 Mar. 13/23 Hamburg
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SP 82/11 Description: Swann to Williamson. Merchant vessels `richly laden' with cloth and other commodities could not reach Myngs in time and are now awaiting another convoy. Has applied to Morrice for home leave of a month or six weeks to attend to personal affairs. Enclosesanother communication from Floyd `who is at present with me'. Folio 15. Note:  Endorsed `For your selfe' Date: 1666 Mar. 24/Apr. 3 Hamburg
  
 
SP 82/11 Description: Swann to Williamson. Myngs received Wrangel `handsomely' before his departure aboard his ship The Fayrefax. Thinks he has good reason to believe that Sweden will `keepe firm' to her league with England and will not allow Denmark to close the Sound especially to her ally; feels certain [elector of] Brandenburg has made `an ill bargain for himselfe' with Holland `especially if things were well managed on the other syde'; notwithstanding all reports, does not anticipate that bishop of Münster will make peace with Dutch or be induced thereto, being offered carte blanche by them; though being Catholic, he will be `constant' to a Protestant king. 800 Dutch, horse and foot, taken prisoner by bishop's army in Friesland, are being transferred to Münsterland, among them a captain Harris, Englishman, whom Swann knew well in Holland. Folio 16 Note: Endorsed `For your selfe' Date: 1666 Mar. 17/27 Hamburg
 
SP 82/11 Description: Swann to Williamson. Myngs received Wrangel `handsomely' before his departure aboard his ship The Fayrefax. Thinks he has good reason to believe that Sweden will `keepe firm' to her league with England and will not allow Denmark to close the Sound especially to her ally; feels certain [elector of] Brandenburg has made `an ill bargain for himselfe' with Holland `especially if things were well managed on the other syde'; notwithstanding all reports, does not anticipate that bishop of Münster will make peace with Dutch or be induced thereto, being offered carte blanche by them; though being Catholic, he will be `constant' to a Protestant king. 800 Dutch, horse and foot, taken prisoner by bishop's army in Friesland, are being transferred to Münsterland, among them a captain Harris, Englishman, whom Swann knew well in Holland. Folio 16 Note: Endorsed `For your selfe' Date: 1666 Mar. 17/27 Hamburg
  
 
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<document-start>
1. The 30th of October 1657
2. <margin value="Left">Cox against Norbrooke.}</margin>
3. Exámined upon an allegation given in on the behalfe of
4. the said Cox the 28th instant.
5. <margin value="Left">Rp. 1</margin>
6. John Morris of the parish of Saint Buttolphs Algate London
7. Sailor; aged 19 yeares or thereabouts sworne and exámined.
8. To the first and second árticles hee saith and deposeth
9. that in the time of the late Warrs betwixt this Nation and the States of
10. the United Netherlands the producent Thomas Cox served in the
11. Elizabeth frigot whereof Captaine Mings was commander in the
12. immediate service of this Common Wealth, and was in a fight against
13. the Dutch at sea wherein the said frigot tooke twenty saile of Dutch or
14. hollanders, and saith the said Cox behaved himselfe very stoutly and
15. valiantly in the said service and fight, and was wounded in the same
16. by a splinter that strooke him on the throat of which hee bled very much
17. and there was much adoe to stench the bleeding, and soe much the
18. more difficult it was, because hee bled inwardly and that in such abundance
19. that hee had much adoe to breathe, and had severall other wounds
20. about him in that fight, All which notwithstanding the said Cox
21. still stood to his place and charge and performed his part very
22. manfully and stoutly and desisted not untill the fight was ended
23. and the dutch vanquished, but plied about the guns where his quarter
24. was: All which hee knoweth because hee this deponent was in the
25. said shipp and service and saw him soe behave himselfe. And
26. otherwise hee cannot depose.
27. To the third hee saith fourth and fifth articles hee saith and deposeth
28. that the said Captaine Mings being about Christmas at the
29. Barbada's in the frigot the Marston Moore whereof hee was then
30. Commander in the said service of this Commonwealth, and being in
31. the roade there and thence bound for Jamaica, and ˹hearing that˺ the said
32. Cox ˹was˺ aboard a shipp there (the name whereof hee knoweth not, but
33. heard that shee came from Ginney) hee the said Captaine called a board
34. the said shipp, and asked for the said Cox, and hee appearing, the
35. said Captaine told him hee must goe alwaye with him, and soe hee
36. declared to the men on the deck, namely that hee would presse and have
37. the said Cox, and accordingly sent his boate and fetcht him aboard
38. the frigat and impressed him into the service of this Commonwealth
39. and declared that hee would not heave him because hee knew him to be
40. a valiant stout fellow; and the said Coxes clothes were alsoe fetcht
41. in the frigats boate. And from the said roade the said frigot sailed
42. to Jamaica, where there were about 150 man put ˹out of her˺ ashore on service
43. to take a towne and fort, of which number this deponent and the
44. said Cox were two, and in the said service the said fort and towne were
45. taken by assault, and therein the said Cox behaved himselfe very stoutly
46. and valiantly in fight of this deponents sight and knowledge, And
47. saith hee this deponent was in the said frigit at the Barbadas when
48. the said Cox was there soe pressed and thereby knoweth the same
49. And otherwise cannot depose.
50. To the sixth hee saith that the said Cox had only three and twenty
51. shillings wages per month for his service in the said frigot the
52. Marston Moore, whereas in the shipp out of which hee was soe
53. impressed, hee had as hee said thirtie shillings per moneth,
54. And otherwise hee cannot depose.
55. <margin value="Bottom right, under main body of text, as lead to next page">To</margin>
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Captain Christopher Mings (Myngs)

Bodleian Library, Oxford

"Original [subscribed & signed]Contents: Sir Christopher Mings hath brought in five prizes more,... and considerable ones;... so that, from this whole campagna, we are furnished with a good story to carry to the Parliament..."[1]

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ADM 106/492/25 Captain Christopher Myngs, the St. Michael. Weekly account of men, provisions and stores. 17 January 1696
ADM 106/492/73 Captain Christopher Myngs, the St. Michael. Weekly account of men, provisions and stores. 28 February 1696

PROB 11/359/556 Will of Dame Rebekah Mings, Widow of Hertford, Hertfordshire. 05 May 1679

SP 46/99/fo9 Cornelius Burroughs [Steward-General of the fleet at Jamaica] recommending assistance for Capt. Christopher Mings [Myngs]. 18 April 1658

SP 82/11 Description: Lady Utricia [otherwise Hester] Swann to [Williamson]. Her husband having gone to Cuxhaven to procure from Sir Christopher Myngs a convoy for home-bound English merchant ships `which are verie rich'; encloses communication from Talbot to Arlington. Folio 13. Note: Endorsed `For your selfe' Date: 1666 Mar. 10/20 Hamburg

SP 82/11 Description: Jollivet to [Williamson]. Transmits communication from Sir Godfrey Floyd to Swann, handed in by Lady Floyd, that he has obtained leave from duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg [-Celle] to resign (see f.9) and, following King's command signified to him by Arlington, is preparing his departure for England; he has permission to draw bill of exchange for over £200, Swann having passed word to a merchant [at Hamburg]. Myngs has gone, leaving behind most merchantmen, they could not join him `for contrary wind and sands'; those he has with him are laden with pipe staves [i.e. staves used for making casks, required by navy]. Folio 14 Date: 1666 Mar. 13/23 Hamburg

SP 82/11 Description: Swann to Williamson. Merchant vessels `richly laden' with cloth and other commodities could not reach Myngs in time and are now awaiting another convoy. Has applied to Morrice for home leave of a month or six weeks to attend to personal affairs. Enclosesanother communication from Floyd `who is at present with me'. Folio 15. Note: Endorsed `For your selfe' Date: 1666 Mar. 24/Apr. 3 Hamburg

SP 82/11 Description: Swann to Williamson. Myngs received Wrangel `handsomely' before his departure aboard his ship The Fayrefax. Thinks he has good reason to believe that Sweden will `keepe firm' to her league with England and will not allow Denmark to close the Sound especially to her ally; feels certain [elector of] Brandenburg has made `an ill bargain for himselfe' with Holland `especially if things were well managed on the other syde'; notwithstanding all reports, does not anticipate that bishop of Münster will make peace with Dutch or be induced thereto, being offered carte blanche by them; though being Catholic, he will be `constant' to a Protestant king. 800 Dutch, horse and foot, taken prisoner by bishop's army in Friesland, are being transferred to Münsterland, among them a captain Harris, Englishman, whom Swann knew well in Holland. Folio 16 Note: Endorsed `For your selfe' Date: 1666 Mar. 17/27 Hamburg
  1. Oxford University, Bodleian Library, Special Collections and Western Manuscripts: Carte Papers (MS. Carte 45 - MS. Carte 48): Letters from Lord Arlington to the first Duke of Ormonde, on public affairs in England and Europe MS. Carte 46 1660-71: Arlington to Ormond: written from Sarum MS. Carte 46, fol(s). 207 23 September 1665, viewed 21/05/13