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Date from | Date to | Event | Source |
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1665 | Lieutenant | CSORN | |
1665 | 1667 | Adventure (32), Lieutenant | B051 |
3.6.1665 | Battle of Lowestoft | ||
25.7.1666 | 26.7.1666 | St James Day Battle | |
1667 | 4.10.1668 | Princess (56), Lieutenant | B051 |
17.5.1667 | Action of 1667-05-17 | ||
4.10.1668 | Captain | CSORN | |
5.10.1668 | 25.6.1669 | Deptford (10), Captain and Commanding Officer | B051 |
23.7.1670 | 30.12.1670 | Advice (42), Captain and Commanding Officer | BWAS-1603 |
25.9.1671 | 3.1.1671/72 | Rainbow (64), Captain and Commanding Officer | BWAS-1603 |
1672 | Pearl (4), Captain and Commanding Officer | B051 | |
4.1.1671/72 | 2.6.1673 | Pearl (22), Captain and Commanding Officer | BWAS-1603 |
31.5.1673 | 12.11.1673 | Lion (58), Captain and Commanding Officer | BWAS-1603 |
4.6.1673 | Second Battle of Schooneveld | ||
11.8.1673 | Battle of Texel | ||
10.9.1674 | 16.1.1677/78 | Rose (28), Captain and Commanding Officer | B051 |
17.1.1677/78 | 8.7.1679 | Dunkirk (50), Captain and Commanding Officer | BWAS-1603 |
26.3.1678 | Dunkirk (2), Captain and Commanding Officer | B051 | |
8.4.1680 | 5.5.1682 | Constant Warwick (42), Captain and Commanding Officer | BWAS-1603 |
18.8.1681 | 9.8.1684 | Mary Rose (50), Captain and Commanding Officer | BWAS-1603 |
1685 | 27.9.1685 | Montagu (58), Captain and Commanding Officer | B051 |
27.9.1685 | 6.3.1686/87 | Henrietta (8), Captain and Commanding Officer | B051 |
6.3.1686/87 | 3.9.1688 | Mordaunt (48), Captain and Commanding Officer | B051 |
15.9.1688 | 1689 | Defiance (64), Captain and Commanding Officer | B051 |
1.5.1689 | Battle of Bantry Bay | ||
16.5.1689 | Appointed Knight Bachelor | TKE2 | |
8.6.1689 | Rear-Admiral of the Blue | CSORN | |
17.2.1689/90 | Vice-Admiral of the Blue | CSORN | |
5.1690 | 7.1690 | Sandwich (90), as Flag Officer, Vice-Admiral of the Red | BWAS-1603 |
3.6.1690 | Vice-Admiral of the Red | CSORN | |
30.6.1690 | Battle of Beachy Head | ||
6.8.1690 | Admiral of the Fleet | CSORN | |
1691 | 1692 | Royal James (100), as Flag Officer, Admiral of the Blue | E-WIKI |
20.12.1691 | Admiral of the Blue | CSORN | |
19.5.1692 | Commanded the Main - Blue Squadron at the Battle of Barfleur | ||
9.1692 | Albemarle (90), as Flag Officer, Admiral of the Blue | BWAS-1603 | |
1693 | 12.7.1693 | London (96), as Flag Officer, Admiral of the Blue |
Information kindly supplied by Jill Groves
[Transcription from digitised Will written into the Probate book of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury and made available online via The National Archives – PROB no.???]
'Imprimis I give and bequeath to my Cosen James Miles living in the Towne of Loastiffe in the County of Suffolke Gentleman the full sume of Three hundred pounds of good and lawfull money of England. Item, I give to my Cosen Thomas Miles living in the Towne of Loastiffe in the County of Suffolke the full sume of three hundred pounds of good and lawfull money of England Item I give and bequeath to my Cousen Mary Utton living in the Towne of Loastiffe in the County of Suffolke the full sume of three hundred pounds of good and lawfull money of England likewise the use of three hundred pounds which is now in the Exchequer at the rate of fourteen pounds Centen [per cent?] for her life Item I give and bequeath to my Cousen Sir Thomas Allen Knight of Summerley Hall [son of John's uncle Admiral Sir Thomas Allen] in the County of Suffolke the full sume of two hundred pounds of good and lawfull money of England for mourning Item I give and bequeath to Capt[ain] John Clements Comander of their M[ajes]ties ship St Andrew the full sume of two hundred pounds of good and lawfull money of England. Item I give and bequeath to Capt[ain] Andrew Lake [Leake] the full sume of two hundred pounds of good and lawfull money of England including what he owes me. Item I give and bequeath to Capt[ain] Thomas Jennings Comander of the London the full sume of fifty pounds of good and lawfull money of England. Item I give and bequeath to Henry Worth Chirurgeon of the Victory the full sume of fifty poundes of good and lawfull money of England. Lastly I give and bequeath to my brother Thomas Ashby living in the Towne of Loastiffe in the County of Suffolke gentleman the sume of three thousand pounds of good and lawfull money of England in case my said brother Thomas Ashby should dye without issue that two Thousand pounds should then fall to the afores[ai]d Cousens Miles, James and Thomas and one thousand pound to my Neece Mary Utton, whom viz my brother Thomas Ashby I make constitute and appoint my sole Executor of this my last will and Testament, and I doe hereby utterly disallow, revoke and disanull all and every other former Testament, will Legacies, bequests and Executors by me in any way before this time named willed and bequeathed ratifeing and allowing this and noe other to be my last will and Testament In Witness whereof I have hereunto sett my hand and seale this eleaventh day of June in the yeare abovewritten
John Ashby
Signed sealed published pronou[nc]ed and declared by the said Sir John Ashby as his last will and Testament in the presence of us the subscriber vizt
John Clements
Thomas Jennings
Andew Lake [Leake]
Henry Worth
Thomas Hutchins