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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-02-18 ADM/A/1827/199

Directing that an imprest be raised to pay Sir Edward Whitaker, Solicitor to the Navy, the sum of four hundred pounds for expenses.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-09-01 ADM/A/1799/18

Warrant for John Whore, late Master Gunner of the EAGLETT, to be appointed Master Gunner of the hired ship SMIRNA MERCHANT

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-09-26 ADM/A/1799/277

Warrant for James Dunken to be appointed Master Gunner of the Transport ship KATHERINE.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-09-26 ADM/A/1799/275

Having ordered the SHEERNESS into Portsmouth Harbour to be cleaned and refitted for Service in the Channel, we direct you to cause this to be taken in hand and completed as soon as possible, and to furnish her with three Months Victuals for this Service.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-02-10 ADM/A/1827/110

Officers at Plymouth Yard together with the Commander and Officers of the EXPRESS Advice Boat have reported that she has been forced into Plymouth due to heavy weather, casting doubt on her fitness to embark on service with the East Indies Company.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-02-11 ADM/A/1827/116

Two new Advice Boats are to be built urgently in places chosen by the Navy Board. They are, in general, to follow the design of previous advice boats but are to incorporate any improvements thought necessary for them to succeed on foreign service.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-02-12 ADM/A/1827/144

Warrant appointing John Muffet to be Boatswain and Gunner of the FLY Brigantine. Countersigned by William Bridgeman, Secretary to the Admiralty Board.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-02-11 ADM/A/1827/118

A Petition has been sent to the Admiralty in the name of Sir Cloudesley Shovell naming several Marine Officers who are complaining about pay. The Navy Board is to look into the matter and report to the Admiralty. The petition is enclosed.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-02-11 ADM/A/1827/124

Requiring the NAVY Yacht to be cleaned and refitted at Deptford as a matter of urgency; and informing that as the FUBBS and the MARY Yachts have been reported as being in a bad state of repair prompt action is to be taken to put them in order and to clean them.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-02-11 ADM/A/1827/130

Requiring the SAPHIRE at Spithead to be supplied with six months provisions and as much wet supplies as she can stow for her forthcoming voyage to Newfoundland.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-08-14 ADM/A/1822/331

Tobias Webb, late Gunner of the PEMBROKE, is to be appointed Master Gunner of the WINDSOR. You are directed to enter him accordingly together with such allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant as is proper. His warrant is to be dated 14 August 1695.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-08-30 ADM/A/1822/329

You are directed to have the bomb vessels ordered from the Downes to the Buoy of the Nore refitted and cleaned at Sheerness, as Captain Benbow shall desire, and victualled for 6 weeks each.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-08-07 ADM/A/1822/371

Henry Lane, Gunner of the MARIANA prize, is to be appointed Master Gunner of the BURLINGTON. You are directed to enter him accordingly together with such allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant as is proper. His warrant is to be dated 7 August 1695.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-08-30 ADM/A/1822/333

The Surveyor of the Navy has said that he can no longer inspect the building of ships, the docks and other works in hand, with the present help he has. You are directed to consider whether he should be allowed another assistant, and if so you are to recommend a proper person to this Board.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-08-13 ADM/A/1822/345

Your letter of 9 August concerned the additional stores you are providing and sending to the Mediterranean, upon the demand of Commissioner Willshaw, and of which their Excellencies the Lords Justices expect an account of from this Board.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-09-14 ADM/A/1799/159

Direct you to cause the hired Ship ENGLAND Frigate to be carried to the Buoy of the Nore by the Ordinary and Riggers belonging to the Deptford and Woolwich Yards.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-09-28 ADM/A/1799/301

Captain Benbow, Master Attendant of the Deptford Yard, being ordered by her Majesty on a particular Service, we direct you to cause John Mackay, Boatswain of the hulk at Deptford, to perform the duty of Master Attendant at that Yard during such time as Captain Benbow is employed on his Service.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-09-28 ADM/A/1799/305

Are sending a Proposal of Mr Dowding about building a Brigantine for cruising on the Sussex Coast in order to hinder the Commerce and Correspondence with France, and direct you to consider this, and report your opinion.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-02-03 ADM/A/1827/7

Captain Lestock of the CAPTAIN informs that the Clerk of the Cheque at Woolwich has recorded a number of Plymouth Men as having deserted whereas they now belong to the DEVONSHIRE.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-02-03 ADM/A/1827/5

The MESSENGER Advice Boat is to be cleaned and readied for sea on her arrival in Plymouth.

Document signed by Sir John Lowther, Admiralty Commissioner, bap.1642-1706 and Robert Austen, Lord of the Admiralty, 1642-1696 (Manuscript) 1693-09-13 ADM/A/1799/137

Mr Robert Gaselee, Storekeeper of the Plymouth Yard went by our Order to Hythe in Kent to prosecute two persons for altering a Protection granted by this Board, and from there came here to give an account of the proceedings.…

Document signed by Sir John Lowther, Admiralty Commissioner, bap.1642-1706 and Robert Austen, Lord of the Admiralty, 1642-1696 (Manuscript) 1693-09-22 ADM/A/1799/225

In pursuance of her Majesty's pleasure, signified by Sir John Trenchard, a Principal Secretary of State, we direct you to cause the hired Hospital Ship the CONCORD, also the MUSCOVIA MERCHANT Storeship, with the Stores in her, together with the eight ships named in the Margin, to have such Work…

Document signed by Sir John Lowther, Admiralty Commissioner, bap.1642-1706 and Robert Austen, Lord of the Admiralty, 1642-1696 (Manuscript) 1693-09-13 ADM/A/1799/143

Warrant for Henry Wallis to be appointed Master Carpenter of the hired Ship ENGLAND Frigate in place of the former who has deserted the Service.

Document signed by Sir John Lowther, Admiralty Commissioner, bap.1642-1706 and Robert Austen, Lord of the Admiralty, 1642-1696 (Manuscript) 1693-09-21 ADM/A/1799/215

Several Men are to be turned over from the Ships ordered from Portsmouth to Chatham into the Ships mentioned in the List on the other side, which are designed on particular Service.…