Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

Formerly Wilshire and Swindon Record Office.

Accounts of the Vice Admiralty of Dorset, c.1640-69, including list of shipping with an analysis of the numbers of different ranks of crew and types of guns, c.1640; an account and memorandum of the vice admiralty, 1641; two orders and two account

Papers relating to George Pley, collector of customs at Weymouth, Dorset, and those of George Pley, junior, collector of customs at Lyme Regis, Dorset, 1660, 1679

Printed instructions to George Pley, senior, as collector of customs for Weymouth, and to George Pley, junior, as the same for Lyme Regis, with related bonds, 1668-76

Book of counterfoils of tickets to New York, Cleeland, Philadelphia, Quebec, St John, Montreal, Halifax, giving details of emigrants, port of embarkation, ships, etc., 1883-1920

Circulars relating to emigration to Australia, 1831-6

Account book including lists of emigrants on ships for Quebec, 1842-52

Letters regarding emigration to America including references to steerage, 1830-5

Mss including notes on `the voyages of Captain John Ley, brother of Sir James Ley, knight of Westburie in Wilts 1601'

Diaries of Robert Montagu Poore, including visit by steamer to St Petersburg, 1832

Letters from Charles Nicholas Paul Phipps while at Rio de Janeiro, and then on a tour round the coast of south America to Panama, subsequently to Jamaica and New Orleans, 1866-9, with a diary to the tour, October 1867 -February 1868

Programmes and photocopies of diaries of reminiscences of cruises on HMS Renown and Revenge, etc., c.1920-30

scrapbook recording in detail the naval career of Admiral Sir Richard Poore, 4th bart. (1853-1930), includes some original documents and press cuttings, 1865-1917

Broad sheet addressed to Lord Dundas, treasurer of the Navy, on recruitment of native troops for service in the West Indies, and conditions of service there, by William Dalrymple. n.d., ?early eighteenth century

 surgeon's certificate discharging seaman from Rochester hospital on being cured of scurvy, 1719/20

inventory of the rigging of HMS Foresight, 1666; demand for supply of stores for HM frigate Pearl, c.1664; table of pay of various ranks of naval officer, c.1665

naval papers, mainly relating to the brig Pearl, 1664-1705

papers of the Commissioner for Dutch prisoners, including order appointing provost marshals and two appointments, 1664, 1672; council order regarding Dutch prisoners from Winchester, 1665; rough summary account relating to prisoners at Porchester

packet containing c.50 Ms notes and drawings, mainly concerning military and naval inventions, naval architecture, firearms, tactics and public buildings, by John Provis of Chippenham, mid nineteenth century

Papers of the Commissioner for sick and wounded seamen and soldiers, 1664-73, including council's order of appointment, 1664; volume of copies of letters and orders, 1664-6; register of sick and wounded sent to Portsmouth, 25 October 1664 - 29 Sep

letter from the regulating officer at Southhampton to the Mayor about a deserter from his Majesty's ship Royal Lion, 1798

 papers of Captain (later rear admiral) Charles Fielding dealing with his service in north America, 1772-81, and in the Napoleanic wars, 1803-7.  These mainly comprise orders and related correspondence but also noted are two printed sign

bound typescript transcript of the journal of Capt., later rear-Admiral, Armar Lowry Corry (1793-1855), 1830-1, 1833, 1835

 papers of Bullen Reymes in capacity of the deputy treasurer for prizes at Portsmouth, 1664-6, including account book in tabular form giving details of each prize ship, 1664; day book, 1664-5; instructions, 1665; two rough account books of th

service record of able seaman Wm George Harry Hind, 1911-33, 1941-6

commission to William Huyshe Yeatman-Biggs as lieutenant in the RN. Volunteer Reserve, 20 March 1915

Printed circular letter from Thomas Owen, agent to the London Underwriters and to the Postmaster General at Waterford, proposing the construction of a harbour at Porthdinlleyn, Carnarvonshire, 1804

 two deeds relating to the liberty and authority of Harwich lighthouse, 1731 & 1752

Correspondence and papers concerning the loss of the Drummond Castle, with Harold Stephens and family aboard, 1896

papers relating to of Mrs Mildred Mary Bruce's power boat activities, 1920s - 1930s, including bundle of misc. correspondence and accounts relating to the running of Southern Speed Boats of Littlehampton, Sussex, 1929; conversion of an ex-Admiralt

bill of sale of 1/32 of Fonthill, of 350 tons, enroute from Gibraltar to Jamaica, 1762

 letter book of merchants trading to Alicante, Spain, 1648-52

 trade and estate account books of the Bouverie, including to the Levant, seventeenth and early eighteenth century

 account book relating to trade in India, 1726-36

 letter and account books of Ezekiel and Caleb Dickinson, of Bowden Park, Wilts, including references to Jamaican plantations and sugar and rum trade, 1745-1801

 six volumes containing accounts of merchandise shipped to India and China, memoranda relating to stores, details of provisions taken on, dimensions of one of the vessels, its masts, rigging, etc., 1747-51, 1751 (2), 1755-6, 1755-7 (voyage fr

 printed account of cotton and muslin goods sold by the East India Company, 1770-1818

abstract of title to plantation in Figtree and Ginger Land, Island of Nevis, West Indies, 1774-92

Executor's papers of the estate of Norris and Marshall of Nonsuch, Bromham, including five letters relating to the export of sugar from St Christopher to Bristol, 1783

three deeds and probate of Benjamin Hopkinson, late of Demerary, South America and Bath, Somerset, relating to Rotterdam plantation, Demerary, 1794, 1795, 1801

 interest account of Messrs Humble, Hurry & Holland, merchants of Liverpool with Heywood Sons & Co., 1797

business papers of the Pool family of Liverpool and Bradon Lodge and Leighfield Lodge in Cricklade St Sampson parish, Wilts, mainly referring to cotton trade, late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries

bill of lading for goods shipped by John Lawrence & Co. aboard the Hussar from Venice to Liverpool for Messrs Humble, Holland & Co., 1803

Signals and Instructions for Ships under Convoy, printed, belonging to Robert [?]Wetherby, master of merchant ship Zephyr of Ellesmere Port, 1803

 account of Messers Humble, Hurry & Holland, merchants of Liverpool with Campbell Brown of Antigua, 1801

printed sale catalogue, belonging to Michael Pool, of goods for auction at the Customs House, Liverpool, 1803

includes four papers relating to the disposition of prize property captured in Java, 1811 (East India Company)

 seven letters referring to a sugar plantation belonging to the Broome family, Demerara, South America, 1815-27

business papers of Heyworth, Phipps & Co., of Liverpool, trading with South and Central America, especially with Brazil, in coffee, bananas, etc., with branches at New York and New Orleans, 1839-1910

correspondence about four months trading in the Orange Free State and Basutoland, 1897-8

Royal Navy Store Depot, Copenacre: photographs and papers, 1940-95.