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APPENDIX C.
LIST OF AUTHORITIES.
DOCUMENTS IN THE PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE :
Admiralty Digest for 1797, Index (Series III) 74.
The Digest contains a section of more than eighty pages on
the Mutinies. It gives summaries of a great number of useful
documents, and it is particularly valuable now because many
of the original papers have disappeared.
Admiralty Secretary In-Letters :
Letters from Admirals and Commanding Officers :
Portsmouth, Sir Peter Parker, A.S.I., 1022, 1023.
Channel Fleet, Lord Bridport, A.S.I. 107.
Nore, Buckner, A.S.I. 727, 728.
North Sea Fleet, Duncan, A.S.I. 524.
Plymouth, Orde and King, A.S.I. 811.
Mediterranean Fleet, Jervis, A.S.I. 396.
Cape of Good Hope, Pringle, A.S.I. 56.
Jamaica, Sir Hyde Parker, A.S.I. 248.
Admirals Unemployed, A.S.I. 529.
The Admirals' letters are the most important source of
information on the Mutinies. The dispatches from Portsmouth
and the Channel Fleet are particularly full and instructive
they give practically a consecutive account of the Spithead
mutinies from beginning to end. Buckner's letters from the
Nore are by no means so full, but they provide a solid
framework to which details can be fitted from other sources.
Duncan's letters are useful for the outbreak at Yarmouth before
the fleet deserted him, although they give very little impression
of Duncan's own services.
Captains' and Lieutenants' Letters :
Unfortunately I have only been able to examine a few bundles
of these letters. The alphabetical arrangement of the bundles
makes research in these letters a slow and tedious process,
unless the research is biographical. But in all probability the
captains' and lieutenants' letters will not provide much new
information. References in the Digest do not raise the hope of