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LIST OF AUTHORITIES 395
the Admirals' letters. The Board's Minutes, A.S.M. 118, are
much more formal, and contain very few allusions to the
Mutinies.
The Bridport Papers, British Museum, Addl. MSS. 35,i97>
are a useful supplement to Bridport's official dispatches.
PRINTED BOOKS :—
Neale, W. J., History of the Mutiny at Spithead and the Nore
(1842). Neale is the author of " Paul Periwinkle " and other
nautical novels. His account of the Mutinies has very little
historical value : it resolves itself into an attack on Pitt and
his colleagues, and it is very inaccurate in detail. Neale seems
to have drawn his information from Schomberg or Brenton and
newspapers of 1797, but he introduces mistakes which are not
found elsewhere.
Cunningham, Rear-Admiral Charles, A Narrative of the
Occurrences that took place during the Mutiny at the Nore
(1829). A reliable account (with the exception of one or two
slight mistakes in chronology) written by an observant and
fair-minded eye-witness. The book was written thirty-two years
after the Mutiny, but it was evidently worked up from a diary
made at the time of the rising. There is an excellent portrait
of Cunningham as a frontispiece.
Colpoys, Rear-Admiral E. G. (formerly Captain E. Griffiths,
of the London), Letter to Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Byam Martin
(1825). A pamphlet containing an account of the author's
uncle, vSir John Colpoys, written to correct Brenton 's description
of the mutiny on the London.
Short Accounts of the Mutinies :
Annual Register, vol. 39, chap. xii.
Schomberg, Naval Chronology (1802), vol. iii, p. 8-38. A
contemporary account, correct in the main outlines, but—in
spite of the title—with some confusion in dates.
James, Naval History (1822-4), vol. ii, pp. 22-27, 62-66. A
very short description, with only one or two minor inaccuracies.
James gives a very good sketch of the characteristic quota-man.
Brenton, Naval History of Great Britain (1837), vol. i, chap. xv.
Brenton follows Schomberg's account and adds a good deal of
true and false information of his own. His pages on the Spithead
Mutinies should be read in conjunction with Colpoys 's
Letter to Sir T. B. Martin. For the mutiny in the North Sea