The Autobiography of Phineas Pett

by Phineas Pett

[81] Gawdy MSS. (Hist. MSS.) 405; what appears to be Pett's draft of this letter is to be found in Egerton MS. 2713.

[82] It is also possible that Thomas of Skipton did not bear the surname 'Pett.' According to Bardsley, Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature, p. 3, 'Among the middle and lower classes these (descriptive surnames) did not become hereditary till so late as 1450 or 1500.'

[83] Ipswich Probate Court Bk. III. f. 202.

[84] Ac xxxviijli. xvjd. tam super novas iact' (? jacturas) et le calkynge de le Overlope navis regis vocatae le Regent quam pro le calkynge anti ventum et aquam ejusdem navis ac aliis necessariis pro eadem nave fiendis et providendis per manus Johannis Pett ut prius per billam suam inde factam plenius apparet datam xiij die Novembris A^o xv^o Regis Henrici vij^mo.. P.R.O. E. 405 (80).

[85] Naval Accounts and Inventories of Henry VII., N.R.S., Vol. viii.

[86] P.R.O. Augmentation Office Misc. Bk., 317, f. 236.

[87] N.R.S., vol. viii. pp. liv, 222.

[88] In 1487, Thomas Rogers, clerk of the King's ships, was paid xxvis. viijd. for his expenses in going to Harwich, and victualling the King's ships there. See Material Illustrative of the Reign of Henry VII, vol. ii. p. 143.

[89] Administration, p. 74.

[90] P.R.O., H.C.A. 7 (1), 'probos viros Petrum Pette et Johannem Moptye villae Harewici (and two others) fabros lignarios, anglice shipwrights.'