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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-10-27 ADM/A/1777/172
The Commissioners for Victualling have presented us a Breviate of the victualling of the Navy in the year 1690 and for the present year until the 30th September last and desired a further Declaration for victuals for carrying on the service of this year.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-06-18 ADM/A/1784/117
Some French Prizes having been taken the NANTWICH previously hired at Plymouth as an Advice Boat is to be discharged.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-10-30 ADM/A/1777/201
We have ordered the RUBY to proceed from the Buoy of the Nore with the Right Honourable William Harbord Esq; with his Servant, to {Hilvortsluce} and direct you to cause one months victuals to be sent to the Ship at the Buoy of the Nore.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-06-18 ADM/A/1784/115
Wanting to know who has put in hand the fitting out of three captured French ships currently at Portsmouth and on whose orders.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-10-30 ADM/A/1777/203
We direct you to cause the RUBY on her arrival at Woolwich, where she is ordered, to be cleaned and refitted for service in the Channel, and victualled for three months or as much as she can conveniently stow.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-06-18 ADM/A/1784/113
Authorising the purchase of the SUCCESS Merchant ship used as a Man-of-War and now to be used as a Hulk at Deptford. An Estimate of the cost of fitting her as such is required.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-10-30 ADM/A/1777/205
We direct you to sign Bills of Imprest on the Treasurer of the Navy for paying the sum of three hundred pounds to each of the Colonels of the two Marine Regiments, or to their Order, for enabling them to pay subsistence Money to the Soldiers of the said Regiments when on shore.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-10-30 ADM/A/1777/207
Warrant for the appointment of James King to be Master Carpenter of the GREYHOUND.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-06-17 ADM/A/1784/107
Warrant appointing Henry Miller, late Master Carpenter of the CONSTANT WARWICK, to be Master Carpenter of the new Fourth Rate being built by Mr Snelgrove. Countersigned by James Southerne, Admiralty Board Secretary.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-06-17 ADM/A/1784/105
Ordering the SALLY ROSE to be supplied with two months' Victuals at the Nore.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-09-06 ADM/A/1823/79
Enclosing a copy of a letter from Captain [Beawes] Commander of the BERKELEY CASTLE Hired ship in which he asks urgently for cables. Instructions are given for the Owners to be contacted as a matter of urgency to supply the ship currently in the Downs.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-09-07 ADM/A/1823/89
Announcing that John Layton is going to the Mediterranean in the GLOUCESTER in order to establish longitude. Instructions are given for him to be paid for his time in the KATHERINE.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-06-23 ADM/A/1784/245
Ordering the Commissioners for Victualling to negotiate with the Commissioners for Transport for Victualling the Men employed in bringing the Shallops to Portsmouth on the best available terms.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-09-05 ADM/A/1823/65
Ordering Officers in H.M. Yards to receive individually copies of the Proclamtion the subject of Item 63 above and to ensure that further copies are permanently displayed at entrances to H.M. Yards.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-06-17 ADM/A/1784/263
Detailing the size and fitting of canvas dodgers to the sides of Shallops to protect assault troops and their weapons from spray, instructing immediate commencement and requiring an Estimate of the time it would take to accomplish.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-11-12 ADM/A/1778/75
Warrant appointing John Smith, formerly Master Gunner of the DRAKE, to be Master Gunner of the MARY Yacht in place of the former who has died. Countersigned by James Southerne, Admiralty Board Secretary.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-11-10 ADM/A/1778/63
Ordering the PHOENIX to be graved and fitted for service in the Channel on arrival at Portsmouth and victualled for four months cruising.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-06-22 ADM/A/1784/238
Giving an Order for the Officers of HM Yard at Deptford to equip the forty Shallops with small guns.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-06-22 ADM/A/1784/236
Ordering the Navy Board to negotiate with the Commissioners for Transportation for the Victualling of Men employed in bringing forty Shallops to Portsmouth.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-01-06 ADM/A/1791/64
Warrant for the appointment of Edward Crisp to be Purser of the JAMES GALLY.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-01-03 ADM/A/1791/23
Warrant for the appointment of John Cauley to be Master Cook of the Fireship MACHINE.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-01-02 ADM/A/1791/13
We direct you cause the Ships hereunder named to be forthwith furnished with so much victuals as will complete what they now have on board to two months from the last day of this month.
ELIZABETH, EXPEDITION and LENOX at Spithead
DEVONSHIRE at Portsmouth…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-01-04 ADM/A/1791/47
A Petition of John Benton and Thomas Wood states that the were imprest from their Merchant Ship RESOLUTION onto the HAMPTON COURT, and that their Wages due for service on RESOLUTION were made over to Mary Harwood, the wife of Lieutenant Harwood of the HAMPTON COURT.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-01-04 ADM/A/1791/42
We direct you to cause the PLYMOUTH, on coming into Portsmouth to be refitted for the damages she lately received, and her victuals to be completed to two months from the last day of this month.