NAVAL CHAPLAINS IN THE EARLY STUART PERIOD

References

• Dom , S. P. Chas. I., xcvi. 57; March 20: Order of the King in Council. Also S.P. Dom., xcviii. 48 I.; March 24: Reasons why the Preachers in the Navy should be paid their allowance of 4d. a man a month, on the full complement of their ships
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• Ibid, cxxxii. 3 and 9; January 10 and 13
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• Ibid, cxxxii. 39; January 19
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• Ibid, cxxxiii. 67; January?
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• Ibid, cxxxv. 9; Feb. 5. Also ibid, cxxxiii. 33; Jan. 29; Certificate of Daniel Ambrose, to the effect that in accordance with the Order of the King in Council he had been paid by Captain Harper, who deducted a tenth part for his fees, as he termed it
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• Ibid, cxxxix. 96; March
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• Nonstick Ibid, clxiv. 6; April 4. Petition of William Crosse, preacher to the company of the in the last expedition to La Rochelle, to the Admiralty Commissioners
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• Ibid, ccxxxiv. 42; March 23. Petition of Bryan Smith to the Admiralty Commissioners
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• Ibid, cccxlvi. 55, cccclxxv. 106, cccxlvii. 62, cccxlviii. 91; February. It was alleged that the minister was a “deboist” man, and a friend of the captain, who championed his cause. Wells' grant covered the 2d. a month deducted from the pay of the seamen towards the support of a surgeon, as well as the 4d. for the chaplain
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• Pipe Office, Declared Accounts, Roll 2259; reference to £36 14s. allowed to these two “preachers.”
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• 1626 . B.M. Additional MSS. 9,294 if. 204–5: Statement of Preachers' Allowances for. A. G. Kealy, in “Chaplains of the Royal Navy, 1626–1903,” gives a list of chaplains for Charles I.'s reign (five in 1626, one in 1628, one in 1633, one in 1635), but the list is very incomplete and is not documentated
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• Dom , S. P. 1628 . Red Lion xcviii. 48; March 24,. They served in theTriumph.
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• 1621 . e.g. S.P. Dom. Jas. I., cxxi. 57 I; May 29,: Instructions to Captain Wilbraham, of the Victory, for management of the ship and crew
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• 1623 . Ibid, cxlv. 82; May,. In connection with this fleet there is a curious correspondence in the State Papers in reference to some rumoured religious disagreement on board the ships. Whether there was any real trouble of the sort, sectarian or otherwise, cannot be gathered from the scanty evidence. But on June 21st Secretary Conway wrote to Rutland to say that the King had heard that there was some interruption to public religious service, by relieving watch, etc., and wished him to avoid disputes on points of conscience, and severely to punish all who refused reformation (Ibid, cxlvii. 28). Rutland wrote back to say that he had called together the captains and masters of the fleet and inquired of them and others as to religious disputes and the interruptions and scandals said to be given to inferior officers and mariners when they were at common prayer and singing of psalms, but he had found the rumours to be false. He enclosed a certificate from the captains and masters to the effect that there had been no disputes amongst them in regard to religion (Ibid, cxlvii. 84). The King accepted the statement (Ibid, cxlvii. 85). Perhaps the object of the expedition—to fetch Charles and Buckingham, and, it was hoped, a Spanish bride, from Madrid—had provoked some controversy in the fleet, as it certainly had in the kingdom at large; and probably the King himself was fidgety in the matter, as well he might be
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• 1618 . The Navy Board was in commission from to 1628
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• Dom , S. P. 1625 . Jas. I. clxxxii. 29; January
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• Dom , S. P. Chas. I. xxxv. 77; Sept. 12
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• 1627 . Ibid, xxxix. 33; November 6. In the following May Buckingham was asked to order John Piham, Curate of Chatham, to allow Spencer the use of his church on Wednesday afernoons, to catechise the servants of the officers of the ships! (Ibid, lxiv. 6; May 21,.)
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• Dom , S. P. 1634 . Chas. I. lxxxiv. 99. In a new minister was appointed at Portsmouth; the former minister being disabled. Apparently the former minister had required the men to attend Iiis church on shore, and it was urged in favour of the new man that the ships would be “better looked to upon the Sabbath days” (Ibid, cclxvi. 44, 45, cclxix. 5.)
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• Ibid, ccxcv. 26: Petition of Parishioners of Chatham and his Majesty's servants in the Navy, to the Admiralty Commissioners. Sir Henry Palmer, one of the Principal Officers of the Navy, told Nicholas (the Secretary to the Lords of the Admiralty) that Piham was “an arrant dunce and a scraping wretch” (Ibid, ccxcv. 39); but Palmer was always abusing people and the statement gains nothing by its violence
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• Ibid, ccxciv. 71; ccxcvi. 22, 28
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• Ibid, cclxiv. f. 167a
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• 1635 . Ibid, cclxxxiv. 16; March 4th
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• Ibid, cclxiv., f. 97: March 25th
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