Manuscript Document, signed by William Brouncker, Admiral Sir John Mennes, and Thomas Middleton, confirming the payment of large sums for the delivery of timber to His Majesty’s Stores at Portsmouth by NAVY OFFICE, 1667. Lord Brouncker and others

Navy Office, 13 February 1667 [1668]. 1 page 12 x 7 inches, minor blemishes, in good condition. Signed by colleagues of Samuel Pepys; all three appear in the Diary. William Brouncker, second Viscount Brouncker of Castle Lyons in the Irish Peerage (1620–1684), mathematician, author, first President of the Royal Society of London, and assistant comptroller to the treasurer of the Admiralty. Admiral Sir John Mennes (1599–1671), comptroller of the Navy. Thomas Middleton (d. 1672), surveyor of the Navy. The Navy Office was the government office charged with responsibility for day-to-day civil administration of the Royal Navy from 1576 to 1832.