10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PURSERSHIP»
Discover the use of
pursership in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
pursership and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
To George Bancroft, secretary of the navy: the traducer and ...
It relates to the dismissal and the appointment of a Purser in the Navy. Is there not
, in jyashington a gentleman formerly from the West, who is an applicant for a
Pursership in the Navy, and who is strongly recommended by Western
gentlemen?
2
Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, of the Reign of ...
To procure a pursership for William Cox, the writer's sister's son. 25. Bishop Neile
of Vllinchester to Francis 'Nindebank. Has promised his brother Dr. N ewell to be
a suitor for placing his son at VVinchester. If he will release the writer of that ...
Great Britain. Public Record Office, John Bruce, William Douglas Hamilton, 1860
3
Calendar of State Papers: Of the Reign of Charles I, ...
Prays the King to signify t0 the Lords of the Admiralty that petitioner Clarke,
having a fortune lately fallen to him, may be permitted to resign his pursership to
petitioner Holt. U nolerwritten, 4-5. 1. Reference to the Lords of the Admiralty to
do ...
Great Britain. Public Record Office, John Bruce, William Douglas Hamilton, 1863
4
Calendar of State Papers: Preserved in the State Paper ...
Pursership in the Maria pinnace, void by- death of the late parser. Kenrick
Edisbury to Nicholas. Recommends Richard Cole to succeed John Somers.
lately drowned. [Underneath is a further recommendation, signed "Henry Clerke."
] Sir Henry ...
John Bruce, William Douglas Hamilton, Sophia C. Lomas, 1869
5
Calendar of State Papers, Preserved in the State Paper ...
Cook of the Anne Royal and pursership of the great ship. Boatswain's deputy in
the Merhouour until the St. Andrew's return, in which the Merhonour's boatswain
was then at sea. Philip Warde to Nicholas. Recommends the bearer, his ...
6
A Gentlemanly and Honorable Profession: The Creation of the ...
Moreover, the evidence suggests that a navy pursership was often a tempting
alternative career for a man who had been less than successful in the world of
private business. Purser Joshua B. Langdon is an excellent case in point.
7
American State Papers: Documents, Legislative and Executive ...
... on his disbursements as acting purser of the Ariel, but as his pursership
commenced prior to the 1st of October, 1832, it is impossible to ascertain what
portion of these commissions accrued within the period embraced in the "
resolution.
United States. Congress, 1861
8
LONDON SOCIETY. JANUARY 1871.
We're relations, it seems. Come and dine with us to-night— Onslow Square,
seven o'clock. Meantime, about this pursership.' ' I beg your pardon ?' '
Pursership I' ' Ain't that something in a steamboat?' ' There are pursers and
pursers : this is in ...
9
Report from the Commitee Appointed to Inquire Into the ...
No, he deserted me ; he acknowledged that lie was bribed to do it ; he got a
Pursership for his son, to go out of the way, and I was unsortunately made the
cat's-paw by the East-India Directors, to save their Patronage ; in the year 1800,
they ...
A pursership in the navy, or a handsome pecuniary reward, would after all be an
inconsiderable recompense, compared with the magnitude of his services." Of
this individual the commander had previously reported a contrivance to make a ...
A SENATOR OF THIRTY YEARS, 1856
