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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-03-16
ADM/A/1805/221
Warrant appointing Thomas Field to be Purser of the JOSEPH Hired ship. Countersigned by James Southerne, Secretary to the Admiralty Board.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-03-16
ADM/A/1805/223
Warrant appointing Mathew Bateman to be Purser of the DOVER Prize. Countersigned by James Southerne, Secretary to the Admiralty Board.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-03-16
ADM/A/1805/227
Ten of the Shallops at Portsmouth are to be fitted out for sea and the remainder are to be repaired as soon as circumsteances at the Yard allow.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-03-16
ADM/A/1805/231
Requiring the wages of Captain Richard Edwards of the GREENWICH to be paid. Edwards had been commissioned by Admiral Russell of the Blue Squadron on the tenth of March 1689/90.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-03-15
ADM/A/1805/209
Villiers Bathhurst Esquire, Judge Advocate of the Fleet, is to be paid forty pounds expenses.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-03-15
ADM/A/1805/213
Admiral Russell is to be paid a thousand pounds in addition to the four thousand pounds already paid to him for the expenses of the Fleet.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-03-16
ADM/A/1805/219
Warrant appointing Ely Penwardes to be Master Gunner of the JOSEPH Fireship in the place of John Wavell who has been moved to the VESUVIUS. Countersigned by James Southerne, Secretary to the Admiralty Board.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-04-20
ADM/A/1806/184
Captain Fitzpatrick has informed us that when he was removed from command of the ELIZABETH to the SUSSEX, he sent some of the Men which he carried from the ELIZABETH in a Vessel to the Northward to press for the SUSSEX, and that Captain Main, who succeeded him in that Ship, discharged those Men with…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-04-27
ADM/A/1806/262
Warrant for the appointment of John Johnson to be Master Cook of the DOVER Prize.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-02-13
ADM/A/1804/164
The HUMBER and the BERWICK are to be cleaned and refitted at Portsmouth and victualled for four months service in the Channel.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-02-13
ADM/A/1804/166
Instructing a new yacht to be built at Chatham to a design submitted by the Surveyorr to the Navy; and at a cost of two thousand and sixty pounds.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-02-28
ADM/A/1804/339
The King has instructed that shipping is to be made available to transport the effects of Colonel Francis Russel to Barbados where he is to be Governor. Furthermore, extra shipping is to be provided to ship two coaches, a number of horses and servants and a quantity of coal.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-04-30
ADM/A/1806/298
Warrant for the appointment of John Norton to be Master Carpenter of the Bomb vessel TRUE LOVE.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-04-30
ADM/A/1806/300
Warrant for the appointment of Robert Long to be Master Carpenter of the CROWNED HERRING.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-02-10
ADM/A/1804/128
In admitting that Captain Shovell had Orders from Admiral Mitchell to carry a number of supernumeries in the Duke he is to be paid his wages for his service in that ship.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-03-19
ADM/A/1805/258
All of the Third Rates and below currently at the Nore are to be paid and proceed to the Downs. Victuals earmarked for them are to be put aboard as soon as possible.
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)
1695-06-04
ADM/A/1820/24
The Garland, at the Nore, is to be supplied with provisions for two months.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-04-19
ADM/A/1806/162
We direct you to cause a survey to be taken of the defects of the hired Ship ARCHANGEL (now in the River) and report to this Board your opinion how long it will take to refit her for Sea service again.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-06-05
ADM/A/1820/32
A Treasury Bill is to be signed for paying the sum of fifty pounds to Thomas Neale, Master of the Mint, who is to provide a medal and chain to be given to William Williams, Master of a Whitsand Bay fishing boat, as a reward for his having retaken several merchant vessels from the enemy.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-04-30
ADM/A/1806/296
We direct you to cause all possible dispatch to be made in fitting out to Sea the six Machine vessels named in the margin, and that they be manned with the numbers of Men lately appointed for them, victualled for four months, and established as vessels of the sixth Rate.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-04-19
ADM/A/1806/164
Warrant for the appointment of John Jenkins to be Master Carpenter of the hired Ship BERKELEY CASTLE.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-06-05
ADM/A/1820/38
Warrant appointing Stephen Maddocks, to be Master Cook of the BETTY, Hired Ship.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-03-05
ADM/A/1805/38
Warrant appointing John Dykes, late Master Gunner of the EAGLE Fireship, to be Master Gunner of the BLAZE Fireship. Countersigned by James Southerne, Secretary to the Admiralty Board.
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