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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-01-27
ADM/A/1771/146
We do herby direct to emprest Captain Francis Wyvell £100 towards defraying charges for procuring Seamen for the Fleet.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-04-19
ADM/A/1794/141
Josias Moors is to be appointed Boatswain of the SOOSDYKE yacht. You are to enter him accordingly together with such allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant. His warrant is to be dated 19 April 1693.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-04-20
ADM/A/1794/145
You are directed to have an able Surgeon sent to the NEWCASTLE, in place of the former who appears to us to be an apprentice, according to the letter from Surgeons Hall enclosed to us in your letter of 19 April.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-04-13
ADM/A/1794/111
You are directed to take off the stop put on the wages due to Captain George Byng for his service in the ROYAL OAK, when he received on board a considerable quantity of oil taken from the enemy by Captain Fitzpatrick.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-04-14
ADM/A/1794/115
We have spoken to the Lords of the Cabinet about your being supplied with better funds to pay the yards, and to contract with merchants for naval stores, but being referred to the Treasury and foreseeing a greater delay, you are directed to bring to this office on Monday morning next, such memorials…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-04-13
ADM/A/1794/113
You are directed to have the wages due to Captain Byng for service in the ROYAL OAK, to be paid to last Michaelmas.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-01-30
ADM/A/1771/168
We direct you two immediately to send two months provisions to the Bouy of the Nore for HMS SWEEPSTAKES.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-04-17
ADM/A/1794/121
You are directed to have the HIND ketch, now at Sheerness, furnished with 4 months victuals for Channel service.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-04-12
ADM/A/1794/91
You are directed to have the EAGLE fitted for sea at Chatham, for service in the Channel, furnished with the same quantity of provisions as ships of the 3rd Rate.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-04-12
ADM/A/1794/95
We send you the enclosed a copy of a sentence of a Court Martial held on board the VICTORY at the Buoy of the Nore on 29 March 1693, Sir John Ashby, Admiral of the Blue, President; and direct you to have the fine mentioned upon Captain Vaughan, Commander of the MILFORD, to be deducted out of his wag…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-04-13
ADM/A/1794/100
cover sheet to doc 99
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-04-13
ADM/A/1794/99
Robert Benetland is to be appointed Master Carpenter of the SOESDIKE yacht. You are to enter him accordingly together with such allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant. His warrant is to be dated 12 April 1693.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-04-13
ADM/A/1794/107
Captain Kerr, Commander of the LENOX, has applied for the money he disbursed to several men brought from the DEPTFORD at Plymouth to the LENOX at Portsmouth.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-04-10
ADM/A/1794/75
Mr Blackwell, their Majesties' Consul at Livorno, that as directed by the Earl of Nottingham and the Lord Sydney, he has disbursed several sums of money for maintaining distressed seamen that came from Toulon to that place, for which he has drawn a bill of exchange on this office.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-04-08
ADM/A/1794/69
Michael Norris, late Carpenter of the ROYAL OAK, by reason of age and infirmity contracted in the service of the Navy, is incapable of employment and we have thought fit to discharge him.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-04-10
ADM/A/1794/81
John Brockhurst is to be appointed Boatswain and Gunner of the DILIGENCE brigantine. You are to enter him accordingly together with such an allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant. His warrant is to be dated 10 April 1693.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-04-11
ADM/A/1794/85
You are directed to have the DEFIANCE laid up at Chatham and that the officers not turned over to any other ship paid their wages.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-04-10
ADM/A/1794/83
You are directed to have the rigging, stores and furniture for such of the shallops now remaining, to be carefully laid up and kept in readiness and put on board upon their being ordered on service.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-05-01
ADM/A/1795/21
Enclosing an account of the damage ships of the Fleet received in sailing from the Nore to the Downs.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-05-02
ADM/A/1795/27
Ordering the remnant of the Company of the EAGLE to be turned over into the SUSSEX now at Chatham due to the length of time the repairs to the EAGLE are likely to take; and confirming that the PRINCE of WALES Prize recently taken by the YORK and brought into Portsmouth is to serve in HM Fleet as a S…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-05-02
ADM/A/1795/29
Captain Knapp of the NEW AFRICA Hired ship at the Nore is complaining of not having been supplied with all of the Boatswain's and Carpenter's Stores. Instructions are given for the Owners to be pressed to complete the supply of same.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-12-02
ADM/A/1779/15
Confirm warrant from Captain Mathew Aylme, Commander the ROBERT, and appoint Arthur Bass, master gunner, the SAPHIRE.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-12-03
ADM/A/1779/17
Appoint Thomas Elliot, boatswain, the DOVER.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-04-05
ADM/A/1794/249
In pursuance of His Majesty's warrant to this Board dated 16 March 1693, you are directed to have a pension of £120 a year settled on Peter Chasseloup, a French sea officer and refugee, who served as a volunteer in the Navy in the years 1691/1692.…
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