| Description | Hearing that his Lordship was forced into Portsmouth by the late storms, and supposing that the damage sustained by the fleet will keep him there some time, has sent this short and melancholy account of our affairs in the Ordnance Office, need money, none sent from the Treasury, very low on small arms, ships already ordered cannot be fitted out, complaints from Ireland of the arms sent from Chester, the Lord Deputy writes to know what station the Italian engineer should be in, and with what allowances, relates the disputes between Sir Edward Hales and the Ordnance officers about the mounting of batteries at the Tower
For full description see HMC Calendar (11th Report Appendix 5), 1887, available for consultation at the Staffordshire Record Office and at the William Salt Library, Stafford |