Hampshire Damage Report - 5 December 1696

Right  Honourable                                                                                   348

This humbly comes to Informe your [honours]

That on Tuesday last I left [Plymouth] and arrived

here yesterday, and in my passage home

I mett with very bad weather which much

Impaired ye ship in every part of her thatt

I had hardly one place that was Lite or dry

on board of her not somuch as to putt a

Suite of Sailes In. I like wise washed away

All ye sailes of my head that it is now fastened

With ropes. Ye Pintells of my ruther (rudder) is somuch

worne, that they fetch great way in ye

Gudgeons when att sea and have  Losend

Ye sterin poste - a small matter  alofte,

If ye Right Honourable ye Lords of ye Admiralty

Shall bee pleased to order me up ye river I

Desire your honers order to ye Store Keeper here­

To supply me with a small anchor and a

Long boate or a small Hooker  to ye which I

Humbly referr my Selfe and Take leave to

Remaine

Your Honourable: humb. Servt:

                                                 Jn. Fletcher

 [Decem] ber ye 5th : 96: from on board his

Majestyies Ship Hampshire in ye Downs.




                                                                           source: National Archives of England ADM 106/485