Lot 2042 , Statement of [Robert] Arris, captain of HMS Ipswich of the ‘Gunner’s demand for Sea Store’; 6 May 1707

Statement of [Robert] Arris, captain of HMS Ipswich of the ‘Gunner’s demand for Sea Store’; 6 May 1707 List of round shot for 12-pounders and sakers, ladles, gunpowder, match, sheet lead and spikes, nails, great and small pulleys, paper, tallow, rope, parchment, cartridges for 12-pounders, sakers and minions, canvas and other commodities

HMS Ipswich was a 70-gun third-rate ship of the line, 1049 tons burden, launched at Harwich on 19 April 1694, and rebuilt by Joseph Allin the younger at Portsmouth, relaunching on 30 October 1730. She was finally broken up in 1764.
Robert Arris was baptized at St Albans St Peter on 5 June 1670, the eleventh of the fourteen children of Thomas Arris, a prosperous doctor of physic and lord of the manor of Great Munden, and his wife Olive. His father died in 1683, which is presumably when Robert went to sea. He is first seen as a lieutenant on HMS Windsor Castle (George Churchill, commander) in January 1690; he was master of the Fortune prize, 1696, the Charles galley, 1696-1697, HMS Looe, 1697-1701, HMS Rye and HMS Assistance 1702-1703, HMS Pembroke (on which he saw action at the battle of Marbella on 10 March 1705), 1703-1706, HMS Ipswich, 1706-1708, HMS Kent, 1708, HMS Torbay, 1708-1710, HMS Devonshire 1710-1711 and HMS Windsor, 1711-1714. He was appointed commander in chief, River Medway and The Nore, in September 1714, and served as Commissioner of the Victualling Board from December 1714 until his death. The next year he was a resident of St James Piccadilly, when his son John was baptized on 20 February. On 17 January 1719 he was buried at St Botolph Aldgate, as Robert Arris esquire of the Victualling Office, a resident of Tower Hill, His widow Margaret, to whom he had left his entire estate by his will of 2 June 1717, married Josiah Burchett (c1666-1746) of St Martins in the Fields, MP for Sandwich 1705-1713, 1722-1741, who between 1680 and 1687 had served as a clerk to Samuel Pepys as secretary to the Admiralty
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