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, 1748-1831, collection of misc. Admiralty papers, many missing, including 1591, summons from the Admiralty to Sir W. More, Vice-Admiral, 24 May 1574; 1740, Admiralty warrant to Warden of Cinque Ports regarding apprehension of R. Roates of Sussex, 1574; 1748, writ to John de Roches, Admiral of the West and others, ordering restitution of ships and goods to Brittany, 16 December Richard II; 1774, appointment of W. Lusher of Thackham to be Vice-Admiral of the rapes of Arundel, Bramber, Lewes, Pevensey and Hastings, 4 October 14 Eliz.; 1786, view of all vessels, masters and able men within the rape of Chichester, 14 January 1569 (now Folger Library 104); 1787, commission to the Vice Admiral of Sussex regarding piracy, 8 June 1577; 1793, copy of a Royal signet to Lord Clinton & Say, High Admiral, ordering detention of vessels for royal service, 18 July 4 Eliz; 1794, list of mariners in towns and havens between Arundel and Emsworth, 21 July 1569; 1795, articles of instruction for the Vice-Admirals for the preservation of trade, late sixteenth century; 1796, inventory of a ship found on the high seas and taken into Selsey harbour, 29 March 1583; 1797, extent of the Admiralty jurisdiction of the honour of the baronages of Lewes and Bramber, sixteenth century; 1798, list of articles taken out of the sea within the Admiral's jurisdiction, c.1600; 1799, paper regarding right of wreck of Bramber rape, n.d.; 1810, note of poor persons relieved monthly by Trinity House, February 1621; 1819, lists of mariners, n.d.; 1830-1, papers concerning lighthouses in Norfolk, ?early seventeenth century