1-272-896 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Letter from Admiral Robert Blake to the Commissioners of the Admiralty, 25th August 1654. Letter written from Plymouth when Blake was about to sail from the Mediterranean in command of the fleet, asking for the payment of his salary up to date, and concluding with pious reflections. From the third series of Facsimiles of royal, historical, literary and other autographs in the Department of Manuscripts, British Museum: Series I-V, (London, 1899).