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Bartholomew Pitts, later being cashiered for this offence. He was sent back to England in 1682 with a letter begging for his readmission into His Majesty's Service, and he was reinstated as an Ensign in his old Company on 8 March 1683. In 1684 he returned to England. In 1685,
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Elliott's father, George Elliott, died at Tangier in 1668, and his widowed mother remarried there on 22 February 1670 to Robert Spotswood (17 September 1637 – 1680), the assistant and replacement Chirurgeon at the Garrison, and thirdly the Rev. Dr George Mercer, the Garrison schoolmaster. Roger
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National Archives | National Register of Archives | Admiralty Memorial | PRO PC 1/2/51 Admiralty memorial concerning the rival claims to a prize ship of the Lieutenant Governor of Gibraltar (memorial dated 5 February 1707: the captured prize ship, Nostra Seigniora del Rosario, master: Francis
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National Archives | National Register of Archives | Elliott vs Burroughs | Chancery: Master Tinney's Exhibits (Bills paid by William Elliot on behalf of Charlotte Elliot) - C104/251, C11/1169/24
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financial approval. The arguments over the accounts for these defences subsequently caused problems for the probate of his personal estate. On 1 January 1710, he was promoted to
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Pujal, was disputed by Roger
Elliott and the Captain and crew of HMS Carcass. The decision was to split the prize, with 1/8 going to Roger Elliott and 7/8 going to the crew)
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General Sir
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National Archives | National Register of Archives | Roger Elliott | Prerogative Court of Canterbury - PROB 11/543/112, PROB 10/1515 CC 2646
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The National Archives | National Register of Archives | Elliott vs Lawrence (1714) | Chancery: C11/848/105, C11/1384/32
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The National Archives | National Register of Archives | Elliott vs Morris (1714) | Chancery: C11/1729/14, C11/2344/27
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The National Archives | National Register of Archives | Elliott vs Cleland (1714) | Chancery: C11/715/27, C11/715/33
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1271:Jackson
1211:Liddell
1096:Houston
1077:Chatham
1062:Cradock
977:Clayton
953:Stanwix
948:Elliott
851:Unknown
838:Unknown
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790:Unknown
760:Unknown
744:Unknown
736:Unknown
720:Unknown
483:1692 -
397:Belgium
308:to the
294:Morocco
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58:England
1344:Dutton
1334:Fulton
1266:Grandy
1241:Redman
1196:Godley
1176:Hunter
1106:Wilson
1042:O'Hara
1027:Eliott
982:Sabine
938:Nugent
528:Orrery
467:Family
461:Surrey
457:Barnes
286:London
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1354:Steel
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1339:Johns
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1191:Monro
1181:Miles
1166:White
1151:Smyth
1126:Airey
1017:Irwin
997:Fowke
992:Bland
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