COPIES OF ALL THE MINUTES AND PROCEEDINGS TAKEN AT AND UPON THE SEVERAL TRYALS OF CAPTAIN GEORGE BURRISH, CAPTAIN EDMUND WILLIAMS, CAPTAIN JOHN AMBROSE, LIEUTENANT HENRY PAGE, LIEUTENANT CHARLES DAVIDS, LIEUTENANT WILLIAM GRIFFITHS; AND LIEUTENANT CORNELIUS SMELT, RESPECTIVELY: BEFORE THE COURT MARTIAL LATELY HELD AT CHATHAM: AND ALL THE PROCEEDINGS RELATING THEREUNTO.
[London]: 1746. Folio, printed in two columns per page. [2], 150; [2], 72; [2], 195, [1 blank] pp. PLUS: large folding engraved, illustrated plate, 'The Situation of the English, French and Spanish Fleets, when They Began the Engagement in the Mediterranean, on the Eleventh of Feby. 1743/4. Cape Sicie Bearing then N.N.E. & from the Center of the Fleet About ten Leagues.' Mild wear [occasional light toning and mild foxing], bound in modern institutional buckram with gilt-lettered spine title, call numbers at base of spine. Title page with two rubberstamps. Very Good.
These gentlemen were charged with permitting the combined French-Spanish fleet to escape after the British victory at Toulon during the War of Austrian Succession. It was feared that the fleets were heading for Gibraltar and a planned invasion of England.
ESTC T114204. Item #35112
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