Greenvile Collins again kept a journal, in which he recorded his encounters with the Algerine and Ottoman pirates and their destruction at the hand of the English ship, and drew maps which showed his hydrographic skill.
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Greenvile Collins then undertook another Mediterranean tour as master of the Leopard; this voyage ran through the whole of 1680 and into the first few months of the year following.
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Greenvile Collins's surveying was carried out under the supervision of Trinity House, who supported the project with financial contributions.
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Samuel Pepys insisted that Greenvile Collins be made a younger brother of Trinity House.
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Greenvile Collins eventually spent seven years on the survey, at first on the Merlin and Monmouth, later aboard the Martin and Younge Spragge.
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Greenvile Collins began gathering engraved copper plates with which to print his charts while he was engaged on the survey, and continued gathering more plates in the years following.
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The work covered England and Scotland, and though Greenvile Collins proposed a further study to cover Ireland, the plan came to nothing.
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In 1684 Greenvile Collins surveyed encroachments onto the River Thames by riparian bank owners within the City of London.
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Greenvile Collins had married Elinor Hocker in 1679 at St Margaret's, Westminster; they had ten children together.
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Collins's publications bear various ways of spelling his first name, but Greenvile is the most dominant.