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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-01-29 ADM/A/1815/292
Your letter of 26 January advised that the Volunteers entered aboard His Majesty's ships at Plymouth should be paid the bounty money pursuant to His Majesty's late proclamation.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-02-13 ADM/A/1816/300
Men turned over from capital ships into the MONCK, PEMBROKE and GREENWICH are to be paid to the time the ships they formerly belonged to are paid and before they leave for the Straits; and all of the Men who have entered the latter voluntarily - and including Bomb Vessels - are to be paid Bounty mon…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-11-02 ADM/A/1789/16
We have considered your letter of 29 October and direct you to dispense with the want of Surgeons Mates' certificates, for their Majesties' Bounty to relations of such persons who were slain on board the JERSEY in an engagement with the French when she was not yet returned from the West In…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1698-12-30 ADM/A/1860/297
Richard Brooks has been rewarded for exposing a plot for commandeering the SPEEDWELL.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-03-07 ADM/A/1805/74
Orders are given for the Earl of Danby and Lord Berkeley to recruit two regiments of Marines consisting of one hundred men in each company.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1689-12-23 ADM/A/1764/448
Authorising the payment of Bounty to the relations of Men who were reported killed by Captain George St. Lo Commander of the PORTSMOUTH including those who have died of their wounds fighting the French at Brest. Care is to be taken in proving entitlement.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-01-07 ADM/A/1826/93
Lord Berkeley, Admiral of the Blue, other Flag Officers and Commanders in the fleet have suggested that men who have been discharged from the Yards and who wish to volunteer to serve in the Fleet should be entitled to receive the bounty money offered in the King's proclamation.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-06-29 ADM/A/1784/218
Questions have arisen concerning the entitlement of the widows of serving personnel who are killed at sea applying for Bounty after they have remarried. An Order in Council however has ruled in favour of such widows continuing to be awarded compensation regardless of subsequent status.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-08-28 ADM/A/1822/292
Thomasin Tregleith, Widow, has made application to this Board for an allowance of Bounty Money according to His Majesty's Establishment, for the loss of her husband Thomas Tregleith, who died of wounds on board the PRINCE OF ORANGE hired ship at Guardalupa on 7 May 1691.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-09-01 ADM/A/1799/2
Warrant by her Majesty's Royal Bounty to grant unto Bridgett Woollett, Relict of the late Robert Woollett, Purveyor of the Chatham Dockyard, the sum of one hundred pounds in consideration of his faithful service.
Direct you sign a Bill on the Navy Treasurer for paying this sum.…
Registrar General Of Shipping And Seamen, Agreements, Crew Lists And Official Logs (Manuscript) 1865 RSS/CL/1865/1365
15630 - Allan, 15631 - Maria, 15634 - Rob Roy, 15637 - Juventa, 15638 - Jane, 15643 - Comely, 15644 - Alfred, 15651 - British Monarch, 15658 - William, 15662 - Telegraph, 15667 - Tasmania, 15680 - John Banks, 15681 - Martaban, 15686 - Ratcliff, 15687 - Alcides, 15691 - John, 15693 - Sir Richard Jack…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-04-19 ADM/A/1794/239
The King has given orders to the Council in Scotland to provide a number of seamen to serve in the fleet this year, and to be put on board such ships as are appointed to receive them at Leith, and to direct that each man shall receive 40 shillings as their Majesties' Bounty.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-04-04 ADM/A/1829/315
Mary Morden, Widow of George Morden, lately belonging to the MILFORD, has presented a Petition to this Board stating that her husband was slain in fight on board that Ship when she was taken by the Enemy, but as most of her Officers were killed, she does not have their Certificates.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-10-11 ADM/A/1812/140
The Navy Board has sought advice concerning the payment of the Commanders of Fireships and Hospital Ships and the payment of Masters and Surgeons and the bounty to be paid to the widows and orphans of Officers killed in action and including Pilots.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-03-09 ADM/A/1773/39
The certificate under the hands of the late Captain of the [SOVEREIGN] and Captain Warren, late Commander of the HOPEWELL fireship, states that John Sinclair, Master of the fireship, was after the accidental burning of her in the Downes last summer, ordered on board the DEPTFORD and was killed in an…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-01-18 ADM/A/1780/133
Your Report to this Board of December 22nd last concerning the Petition of Blanch Colvin, Widow of James Colvin, informed us that the Petitioner's husband, a Quarter Gunner of the TIGER PRIZE, voluntarily went onshore in the Expedition against St Christopher's and received a facial woun…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-02-06 ADM/A/1781/40
You are directed to have allowances made of their Majesties' Bounty to the widows and relatives of men who were slain in the HAPPY RETURN in a fight with the French, notwithstanding that their Captain has not signed their certificate.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-07-07 ADM/A/1785/61
We understand that Admiral Russell has sent the MONTAGUE to Spithead to Convoy the Victualling Ships to the Fleet.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-04-27 ADM/A/1783/150
Petition of Triphona Wild, widow of William Wild [Mariner] deceased. He having served on board the LOYAL MERCHANT hired ship, lost his life in an engagement against the French.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-02-28 ADM/A/1862/322
Petition of Judith Clayton, Widow of Isaac Clayton, who died on board the HAMPSHIRE. She asks that their Lordships grant an order that the allowance made to widows may also be made for the loss of her son.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-04-03 ADM/A/1829/35
We have decided that the Ketches MARTIN, QUAKER and ROE will be employed in future as Tenders on the Flag Ships of the Fleet. We direct you to reduce their Company of Men to the number allowed for Vessels of their tonnage in this employment.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-05-19 ADM/A/1830/218
Hereby we are informed that a considerable sum of money has been allocated to the Navy, and so more will be furnished weekly for wages to Seamen serving in the Fleet.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1689-09-27 ADM/A/1762/324
You are directed to send me tomorrow morning, as early as you can, the date of the order for his late Majesty's Bounty to the Widows and Orphans of such who were slain in his service at sea.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-02-29 ADM/A/1781/194
Upon the humble petition of the widows of the seamen of the CORONATION, which by weather and the springing of a leak was cast away near Plymouth, praying His Majesty's Bounty Money for their loss, His Majesty is pleased to grant 4 1/2 months of their husbands' pay and allowances at the ti…