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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-01-20 ADM/A/1780/150

We direct you to cause the Officers and Company belonging to the VANGUARD (except the Commission and Warrant Officers) to be forthwith turned over into the DUKE.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-06-06 ADM/A/1796/53

A proposal having been made for the building of a Gun Wharf at Blockhouse Point at Portsmouth, we direct you to give your Opinion whether this may done without prejudice to the Harbour,

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-01-18 ADM/A/1780/137

In your report to this Board of the 5th inst; upon the Petition of the Clerk of the Survey at the Woolwich Yard you informed us that his Salary is fifty pounds per annum, whereas the Salary of the same Officer at Chatham is one hundred, and at Deptford and Portsmouth sixty pounds per annum.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-06-06 ADM/A/1796/49

We direct you to consider what Sums of Money, and at what times, and in what proportions will be requisite to be furnished for timely carrying on the Works of the new third Rate Ship which you were lately directed to contract for, to be built at Southampton, without hindering the dispatch of the Wor…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-06-06 ADM/A/1796/47

We direct you to cause Captain Lawrence Wright, who served as Commander in Chief of their Majesties' Ships in the West Indies, to be paid for that service as Captain of the MARY to the time he hoisted the Flag in pursuance of the Orders he received for that purpose, and after the rate of twenty…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-01-03 ADM/A/1826/46

Confirming a warrant given by Captain Robert Willmott, appointing Richard Marlow, to be Carpenter of the FIREBRAND, Fireship.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-01-03 ADM/A/1826/44

Confirming a warrant given by Captain Robert Willmott, appointing Matthew Pain, to be Boatswain of the FIREBRAND, Fireship.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-01-13 ADM/A/1780/88

Warrant for the appointment of William Hilton to be Master Carpenter of the new third Rate Ship building in the Deptford Yard.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-01-13 ADM/A/1780/84

Warrant for the appointment of Edmund Lowance to be Master Carpenter of the new third Rate Ship building in a Merchant Yard at Bursledon.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-06-03 ADM/A/1796/31

The ADVENTURE Prize at Plymouth, being to be employed in getting and leaving Seamen at that Port, we direct you to cause her to be forthwith fitted for the Sea at that place , and that she be allowed ten Men, and furnished with three months Provisions.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-03-10 ADM/A/1773/49

You are directed to have sufficient credit sent by the next post to Barnstaple to Lieutenant Smith, 4th Lieutenant of the ANDREW under the command of Lord Berkeley, to pay conduct money to such seamen as he has procured, said to be 150 men..

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-01-13 ADM/A/1780/74

We direct you to give us an account which of the new third Rate Ships now building will be ready to be employed in the Fleet designed for this Summer's service, and the time when you judge each of them will be ready to launch.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-06-04 ADM/A/1796/33

Warrant for the appointment of John Kennard to be Boatswain of the Yacht CHARLOTTE.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-06-03 ADM/A/1796/27

We direct you to cause the hired Ship WOLF to be surveyed and report to us your opinion whether she can be made fit for service, and by what time she may be got ready.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-06-03 ADM/A/1796/29

The ST ALBANS Prize being suddenly designed for a Foreign voyage, we direct you to cause her to be paid at Spithead, to the time the Ships in the Fleet are paid.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-01-15 ADM/A/1780/102

Warrant for the appointment of Thomas Rutherford to be Master Gunner of the Fireship EXTRAVAGANT.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-01-15 ADM/A/1780/100

Warrant for the appointment of William Walker to be Master Carpenter of the SALAMANDER.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-01-15 ADM/A/1780/94

Warrant for the appointment of Nicholas Smithitt to be Master Gunner of the new third Rate Ship building in the Deptford Yard.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-01-14 ADM/A/1780/92

We direct you to cause the French Packet Boat now at Plymouth to be fitted out to Sea, that she may be ready to be sent abroad upon any occasion of service for her, and till she be employed at Sea, some of the Hulk's Company there be appointed to look after her.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-02-24 ADM/A/1772/101

Having ordered the SAUDADOES to Deptford to be refitted for Channel service, we direct you to cause this to be taken in hand on arrival there, and that she be supplied with a fitting proportion of Stores for this service, together with three months Provisions, or as much as she can conveniently stow…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-02-24 ADM/A/1772/103

A Petition by Thomas Swanne, gunner of the ROYAL CHARLES and ROYAL SOVEREIGN, to receive a Pension by reason of his age and infirmity
Petition referred to the Navy Board Commissioners for examination and report back.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-02-25 ADM/A/1772/106

We direct you to cause two months Provisions to be sent down immediately to the GARLAND at Sheerness.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-02-28 ADM/A/1772/125

We direct you to cause the ROYAL PRINCE to be brought into the Double Dock at Chatham, to the head of the Dock, and a survey taken of the works needed to be done to put her in a full repair, sending us a copy of the survey together with an Estimate of the Charges of these Works.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-06-10 ADM/A/1820/249

Are sending a copy of Captain St. Lo's account of expenses totalling £63-10s-8d, incurred in relocating himself, his family and servants to Plymouth in March and April 1695 to take up his post as Commissioner.