from L&M Companion (d. 1663). Naval officer. He served under the Commonwealth, and afterwards held only one command (that of the Rosebush). He married a sister of Sir William Batten and like him had a house at Walthamstow.
BROWNE, John,—commanded the Rosebush in the year 1660, by commission from the duke of York, as lord high admiral; but we have not been able to obtain any farther account of him.
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from L&M Companion
(d. 1663). Naval officer. He served under the Commonwealth, and afterwards held only one command (that of the Rosebush). He married a sister of Sir William Batten and like him had a house at Walthamstow.
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BROWNE, John,—commanded the Rosebush in the year 1660, by commission from the duke of York, as lord high admiral; but we have not been able to obtain any farther account of him.
---Biographia navalis. J. Charnock, 1794.