A most interesting volume for other matters, in this single volume there is an alphabetical list of those individuals mentioned at the front. This relates directly to ‘Mates to be allowed to proceed in Stations for which they are not qualified agreeably to the Company’s Regulations’ - found after a wad of the Company’s regulations relating to ‘Qualifications of Commanders & Mates’. The latter covers the period 1756 to 1799 and are not necessarily in chronological order.

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Following this list are various regulations made at the Court of Directors, including uniform details 1787, 1802, 1809 and 1816. Next is a section headed ‘Sale of Commands’. This is a single page giving regulations from 1757 through to 1769. Then there are various regulations for Surgeons, seemingly from about 1769 to 1832, but not necessarily in chronological order. At the end of this are some individual instructions to surgeons.

The two volumes of this series were made up annually, generally with four headings - Name, Present Ship, Last Voyage and Remarks. It should be noted that this source is difficult to use without a starting point.

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Approved 1806

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Some entries had a fifth column, ‘Journal Returned’

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Approved 16^th December 1807

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