Capt. Roger Cuttance

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• - David Quidnunc on Wed 26 Mar 2003, 02:31am. Flag this

  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 on Wed 26 Mar 2003, 02:37am. Flag this

  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 on Sun 6 Apr 2003, 03:59am. Flag this

  He was a native of Weymouth

  — according to Latham note 4, p 103, Vol. 1, Latham & Matthews edition of the diary.

• - Emilio on Sat 3 May 2003, 12:21pm. Flag this

  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 on Sat 3 May 2003, 12:50pm. Flag this

  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/p/721.php
  

• - Sjoerd on Fri 21 May 2004, 09:59am

  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.html#july_1665

• - Sjoerd on Fri 12 Aug 2005, 12:44pm. Flag this

  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.blogspot.com/2004_12_01_17th-centurynavwargaming_archive.html

References in the diary

1660

Feb: 15, 16
Mar: 25, 26
Apr: 6, 11, 21, 23, 24, 30
May: 2, 7, 9, 15, 22, 26, 28, 30, 31
Jun: 1, 2, 20
Aug: 27
Oct: 13, 17
Dec: 22

1661

Jan: 16, 17, 18, 24, 26
Feb: 28
Mar: 5
Apr: 11, 13

1662

Jul: 1
Oct: 27
Nov: 29
Dec: 1

1663

May: 11
Sep: 28
Oct: 14

1665

Sep: 18, 24, 25
Oct: 1
Nov: 23, 29

1666

Jan: 22
Feb: 2

1667

Nov: 26

1668

Feb: 25
Dec: 27