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Captain Roger Cuttance was a Royal Navy officer who took a prominent role in the Anglo-Dutch Wars.
Cuttance initially commanded the 5th Rate Pearl (24 guns) 1651–2, but then took a prominent role in the first Dutch War (1652-4) when, in August 1652, he fought at the Battle of Plymouth under Sir George Ayscue. In 1653, he commanded the 4th Rate Sussex (46 guns) and fought at the Battle of Portland. At the Battle of the Gabbard, he was in Samuel Howett's division. He was also likely at the Battle of Scheveningen.
Cuttance sailed on the Tunis expedition in 1655, then commanded the 3rd Rate Langport. From 1656 to 1657 and again from 1659 to 1660, he commanded the 1st Rate Naseby, upon which Samuel Pepys sailed. He was flag captain for Edward Montagu, Earl of Sandwich, from 1660 to 1665 on the Naseby (later Royal Charles), then Royal James. At the Battle of Lowestoft, 13 June 1665 (the worst naval defeat in Dutch history), he commanded the 1st Rate Royal Prince (86 guns). When he was knighted on 1 July, according to Samuel Pepys it was on "board of the Prince, a vessel of 90 brasse ordnance (most whole canon) & happly the best ship in the world both for building & sailing: she had 700 men... after dinner came his Majestie (King Charles II) & the Duke & Prince Rupert: & here I saw him knight Capt Cuttance, for behaving himselfe so bravely in the late fight."
However, because Sir Roger Cuttance had been implicated, along with William Penn and the Earl of Sandwich, in the looting of the Indian prize (the Prize Goods Scandal), he was excluded from further command at sea shortly thereafter.
Sir Roger Cuttance died in 1669. His son, Henry Cuttance, was also by then a prominent naval officer.
References
- . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
- http://www.seadogs.org.uk/biography.php?id=143#ftnref1
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First Reading
David Quidnunc • Link
Curriculum Vitae
1652-4 -- First Dutch War, took a prominent role
1655 -- on Tunis expedition
1660-5 -- flag captain for Mountagu on the "Nasby"/"Royal Charles," "Royal James," "Prince"
1662-? -- member, Tangier Committee
1665 -- knighted: Becomes "Sir Roger Cuttance"
1665 -- involved in the "prize goods" scandal
ALSO: member of the Fishery Committee (when?)
1669 -- dies
-- Latham & Matthews edition of the diary, volumes 10 (Companion), 11 (Index)
David Quidnunc • Link
Social -- February 1660
15 Feb. -- Cuttance and fellow navy Capt. Philip Holland "called up" Pepys first thing in the morning, and all repair to Harpers tavern.
16 Feb. -- Cuttance sends to Mountagu, via Pepys, a box of China oranges and two little barrels of scallops.
David Quidnunc • Link
He was a native of Weymouth
-- according to Latham note 4, p 103, Vol. 1, Latham & Matthews edition of the diary.
Emilio • Link
On 1 May, 1660, he was given commission to the Cheriton according to Pepys. This seems like a demotion, as he had previously been flag captain aboard the Naseby. Perhaps, as with vicars of the time, he held the commission but was allowed to hire another captain to command the ship.
Emilio • Link
Nope, on further research Roger is still flag captain of the Naseby, it's his son Henry who gets the new commission. Henry has his own page here:
http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo…
Sjoerd • Link
Evelyn was present when Sir Roger was knighted, on board of the "Prince", "a vessel of 90 brasse ordnance, (most whole canon) & happly the best ship in the world both for building & sailing: she had 700 men".
"after dinner came his Majestie & the Duke & Prince Rupert: & here I saw him knight Cap: Cuttance, for behaving himselfe so bravely in the late fight: & was amaz'd to the good order, decency, & plenty of all things, in a vessell so full of men: The ship received an hundred Canon shot in her body”
http://astext.com/history/ed_1665…
Sjoerd • Link
1651 to 1652, he commanded the 5th Rate Pearl (24 guns). In August 1652, he fought at the Battle of Plymouth, under Sir George Ayscue. In 1653, he commanded the 4th Rate Sussex (46 guns). In early 1653, he fought at the Battle of Portland. At the Battle of the Gabbard, he was in Samuel Howett's division. He was also likely at the Battle of Scheveningen. From 1654 to 1656, he commanded the 3rd Rate Langport. From 1656 to 1657 and again from 1659 to 1660, he was flag captain, and commanded the 1st Rate Naseby. At the Battle of Lowestoft, he was the Earl of Sandwich's flag captain, and commanded the 1st Rate Royal Prince (86 guns). Because he had been implicated, along with William Penn and the Earl of Sandwich, in the looting of the Indian prize, he was excluded from further command at sea. By then, he had been knighted.
http://17th-centurynavwargaming.b…
Second Reading
Bill • Link
CUTTANCE, Sir Roger,—commanded the Royal Charles, a first rate of eighty-two guns, in the year 1660; the Royal James, of the same force, in the following year; and in the year 1665 was removed into the Prince. In this ship sir Roger, though only stiled captain, served as vice-admiral of the blue under the earl of Sandwich. On the 1st of July, 1664, been soon after the duke of York's action with the Dutch, king Charles (among other commanders who had eminently distinguished themselves) knighted captain Cuttings. No such name appears on the list of officers we have already alluded to: the mistake, on one side, or other, has evidently arisen from a corruption in the pronunciation. 'Tis probable he died soon afterwards, or retired from service, as neither public history, nor private information afford us any thing further relative to him.
Biographia navalis, v.1. J. Charnock, 1794
Bill • Link
CUTTANCE, Sir ROGER (ft. 1650-1669), navy captain; commanded the Sussex in the Dutch war, 1652-3; assisted in reduction of Porto Farina, 1655; flag-captain of the Naseby, 1657; knighted, 1665; captain of the fleet, 1666.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.
Bill • Link
Sorry, typo above: "captain of the fleet, 1665."
Terry Foreman • Link
Roger Cuttance, Captain of the Naseby, was in early 1660 fitting it out to as Admiral-at-Sea Mountague's flagship [she would be rechristened Royal Charles]
http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1… and http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
San Diego Sarah • Link
Captain Roger Cuttance was a naval officer who took a prominent role in the first and second Anglo-Dutch Wars.
Cuttance initially commanded the 5th Rate Pearl (24 guns) 1651-2, but then took a prominent role in the first Dutch War (1652-4) when, in August 1652, he fought at the Battle of Plymouth under Sir George Ayscue.
In 1653, he commanded the 4th Rate Sussex (46 guns) and fought at the Battle of Portland. At the Battle of the Gabbard, he was in Samuel Howett’s division. He was also likely at the Battle of Scheveningen.
Cuttance sailed on the Tunis expedition in 1655, then commanded the 3rd Rate Langport. From 1656 to 1657 and again from 1659 to 1660, he commanded the 1st Rate Naseby, upon which Samuel Pepys sailed.
He was flag captain for Edward Montagu, Earl of Sandwich, from 1660-5 on the Naseby (later Royal Charles), then Royal James. At the Battle of Lowestoft, 13 June 1665 (the worst naval defeat in Dutch history), he commanded the 1st Rate Royal Prince (86 guns). When he was knighted on 1 July, according to Samuel Pepys it was on "board of the Prince, a vessel of 90 brasse ordnance (most whole canon) & happly the best ship in the world both for building & sailing: she had 700 men ... after dinner came his Majestie (King Charles II) & the Duke & Prince Rupert: & here I saw him knight Capt Cuttance, for behaving himselfe so bravely in the late fight."
However, Sir Roger Cuttance was later implicated, along with William Penn and the Earl of Sandwich, in the Prize Goods Scandal, he was excluded from further command at sea shortly thereafter.
Sir Roger Cuttance died in 1669. His son, Henry Cuttance, was also by then a prominent naval officer.
References
"Cuttance, Roger". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
http://www.seadogs.org.uk/biograp…
from: https://www.revolvy.com/page/Roge…
Third Reading
San Diego Sarah • Link
L&M: Sir Roger Cuttance (d. 1669) was a naval officer well thought of by both Sandwich and Coventry. Under the Commonwealth he took part in the First Anglo-Dutch War and in Blake's Tunis expedition of 1655. During 1660 and 1665 he was Sandwich's flag captain in the Royal Charles, the Royal James, and the Prince, and had to share with his superior officer the blame for the prize goods scandal. (Pepys puts the greater part of the scandal on him.) After that he held no further commands. He was knighted in 1655, and was a member of the Fisheries and the Tangier Committees.
His son, Henrt, held three commissions between 1660 and 1665, and had died by 1688.