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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-01-21
ADM/A/1780/181
A complaint has come to his Majesty from the Council of Virginia that the Commander of the hired ship WOLF, which lately came from there, left unsatisfied a considerable debt to several of the inhabitants of that Colony for the assistance given by them in rescuing the Ship when she was aground in t…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-01-21
ADM/A/1780/177
Warrant for the appointment of Edward Ward to be Master Carpenter of the hired Hospital Ship CONCORD.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-03-28
ADM/A/1773/149
Your letter of 24 March advised us that in pursuance of our orders you have hired the ENQUIRY sloop at Dover to attend the fleet at £14 a quarter.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-03-17
ADM/A/1773/95
Petition of Thomas Marshall, late Commander of THOMAS & ELIZABETH from 1 April 1689 to August 1690. [petition as set out in doc 93].…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-03-23
ADM/A/1773/116
You have lately advised us of the failures of several Commanders of their Majesties' own and hired ships in their service, in not performing the Lord High Admiral's Instructions.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-03-23
ADM/A/1773/123
You are directed to have seamen who are either entertained as volunteers or pressed by Captain Winell, Commander of the CENTURION, to serve in the ship and be borne for wages but not victuals from the time they were entertained or pressed.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-03-21
ADM/A/1773/112
You are directed to have the ENQUIRY sloop, belonging to Mr Knight of [Dover], hired to attend their Majesties' fleet for this summer, upon the best terms you can.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-03-11
ADM/A/1773/57
You are directed to have the sum of £5,000 of the money now remaining in the hands of the Treasurer of the Navy, appropriated by Act of Parliament for the Navy, to be applied to victualling.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-03-11
ADM/A/1773/61
You are directed to have the MODENA hired ship discharged from their Majesties service and her officers and men turned over to the ROYAL KATHERINE.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-03-14
ADM/A/1773/75
You are directed to have the sum of £4,000 of money now remaining in the hands of the Treasurer of the Navy, appropriated by Act of Parliament. be applied to the service.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-03-16
ADM/A/1773/84
Your letters of 23 February and 13 March advised us of the agreement made with the following persons for building 27 the new ships.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-03-14
ADM/A/1828/187
Direct you to imprest to the two Captains of the Marine Regiments now in England, Fifty pounds, and each Lieutenant Twenty Five pounds.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-03-15
ADM/A/1828/196
Cause the CHARLOTTE yacht to be refitted at Deptford.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-03-14
ADM/A/1828/192
Forward copy letter from Sir Cloudesley Shovell requesting cables and Anchors for his fleet of Calais. Inform the Mary has something about her Keel that rubs her cables.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-01-08
ADM/A/1826/103
Captain Windsor, commanding the EXPRESSE, Advice Boat, applies for the wages due to him from his service as Lieutenant in the NORWICH.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-06-16
ADM/A/1796/106
Your letter of the 13th inst; informed us of the Wages due to Thomas Podd junr; Shipwright, who some time since belonged to the Portsmouth Yard, for his service on board the DOVER, and that you have no objection to this payment, but his being made Run in the Portsmouth Yard Books for absenting himse…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-06-17
ADM/A/1796/114
We direct you to cause the DREADNOUGHT, OXFORD and HUNTER Fireship to be paid at Spithead as soon as may be, to the time the Ships belonging to the Main Fleet are paid. …
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-06-16
ADM/A/1796/110
We direct you to consider whether some good sailing sixth Rate Frigates to carry twenty Guns each may be built either at their Majesties' Yards or or the Merchant Yards where third Rates are now building, without hindrance to the dispatch of the said third Rates or the other Works of the Navy, …
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-01-20
ADM/A/1780/156
In your report to this Board dated 11th December last you have informed us that having stated the accounts of the ten persons named hereunder for Clothes furnished by them to the two Marine Regiments, there appears to be due to them the several sums following:viz; …
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-06-17
ADM/A/1796/112
We direct you to cause the CHARLES GALLEY to to be carried down to Longreach as soon as possible by the Ordinary and Riggers belonging to their Majesties' Ships and Yards at Deptford and Woolwich.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-01-20
ADM/A/1780/154
We direct you to cause their Majesties' Ships appointed for the Marine Fleet for this year's service to be victualled with four months dry Provisions, and the first and second Rates with eight weeks Beer, and the third Rates with ten weeks Beer, and that the proportion of Beer which shall …
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-06-17
ADM/A/1796/118
We direct you to cause the ASSURANCE at the Buoy of the Nore to be immediately supplied with three months victuals.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-01-08
ADM/A/1826/105
Lieutenant Meades to be paid the wages due to him for his service in the SOUTHAMPTON.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-06-13
ADM/A/1796/83
We direct you to cause to be imprest to Mr Edward Whittaker, Solicitor for the Affairs of the Admiralty and Navy, the Sum of three hundred pounds towards his defraying such charges as he shall be at in soliciting any matters which he shall have directions from the Board.
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