The Report of the Committee appointed to enquire into the Frauds and Abuses committed in the Victualling Her Majesty's Navy

The Report of the Committee appointed to enquire into the Frauds and Abuses committed in the Victualling Her Majesty's Navy

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with the resolutions and orders of the House of Commons thereon

London, printed for Samuel Keble at the Turk's Head in Fleet Street...., 1710.

small folio [29x17cm]. pp11. disbound.

good condition.


the committee were tasked to investigate the supply of beer to H.M. Navy ships and discovered many instances of large and small scale frauds, with casks of beer being embezzled or diverted to merchant ships, often with collusion between the brewers and ships' pursers