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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-07-31 ADM/A/1797/227
Enclosing a letter from the Privy Council to certain Justices of the Peace requesting assistance in getting supplies of timber to Harwich.
Document signed by Josiah Burchett (c.1666-1746), Secretary to the Admiralty (1694-1742) (Manuscript) 1696-07-04 ADM/A/1832/45
The LITCHFIELD, EXPERIMENT, VULCAN and BLAZE fireships being ordered from the Nore to the Downes on immediate service, you are directed to see that the pilots are dispatched to them without delay.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-07-31 ADM/A/1797/229
Requiring all available Navy Board Commissioners to attend at the Admiralty next Thursday.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-07-24 ADM/A/1797/191
The PEARL is at the Buoy of the Nore ready to convoy ships laden with Navy Stores to the Downs and on to Portsmouth. The Navy Board is instructed to ensure that ship's Masters join their ships without delay.
Document signed by Josiah Burchett (c.1666-1746), Secretary to the Admiralty (1694-1742) (Manuscript) 1696-07-02 ADM/A/1832/23
In answer to your letter of 1 July about convoy for the GREENFISH and MUSCOVIA MERCHANT storeships to Ireland, I am to advise you that orders are with this post to the Commander of the CROWN at Plymouth to convoy the storeships to Kinsale.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-07-21 ADM/A/1797/179
The Navy Board have informed the Admiralty that the Yard at Portsmouth is desparately short of money Their letter is being passed to Lord Trenchard, Secretary of State for presentation to Her Majesty.…
Document signed by Josiah Burchett (c.1666-1746), Secretary to the Admiralty (1694-1742) (Manuscript) 1696-07-15 ADM/A/1832/153
Captain Stevens, Commander of the ROEBUCK, has advised us in his letter of 13 July from Sheerness that she is ready for sea but stays only for her sails. We send you an extract of his letter that you may give the necessary directions for hastening the sails to the ship.
Document signed by Josiah Burchett (c.1666-1746), Secretary to the Admiralty (1694-1742) (Manuscript) 1696-07-13 ADM/A/1832/119
Their Lordships having received an account from Commissioner Greenhill at Portsmouth, of interruptions to the execution of his duty, given by the Lieutenant Governor of the garrison and laid with a Memorial before the Lords Justices, have commanded me to send you copies of this.…
Document signed by Josiah Burchett (c.1666-1746), Secretary to the Admiralty (1694-1742) (Manuscript) 1696-07-13 ADM/A/1832/117
Their Lordships direct that you ask Commissioner Wilshaw whether when he acted as Commissioner of the Navy at Portsmouth, he applied to the Lieutenant Governor of that garrison for leave to fire the guns on the fortifications of the yard on days of solemnity, and to give their Lordships an account.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-08-01 ADM/A/1798/8
The HAMPSHIRE having been ordered to the westward, and having but 10 days provisions, you are directed to prepare an order to supply her with a month's provisions at Dover.
Document signed by Josiah Burchett (c.1666-1746), Secretary to the Admiralty (1694-1742) (Manuscript) 1696-07-08 ADM/A/1832/67
Their Lordships having named several of the ships now building, I send you an account thereof. King's Yard - 2nd Rates: ASSOCIATION (Deptford), NAMURE (Woolwich), REVENGE (Chatham), BARFLEUR (Portsmouth).…
Document signed by Josiah Burchett (c.1666-1746), Secretary to the Admiralty (1694-1742) (Manuscript) 1696-07-07 ADM/A/1832/61
The estimate for building a new 6th Rate ship at Sheerness, being confirmed by their Lordships, I return it to you.
Document signed by Josiah Burchett (c.1666-1746), Secretary to the Admiralty (1694-1742) (Manuscript) 1695-01-18 ADM/A/1826/208
The WINCHELSEA, ordered from Newcastle will convoy several merchant ships from Hull to the Nore. The Master of the ship which Sir Edward Abney has loaded with plank is to be instructed to drop downriver to join this convoy.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-06-26 ADM/A/1796/183
A letter altering the victuals to be supplied to the DEFIANCE from four months to three months.
Document signed by Josiah Burchett (c.1666-1746), Secretary to the Admiralty (1694-1742) (Manuscript) 1696-07-29 ADM/A/1832/298
In answer to your letter of 27 July, this is to advise you that orders are sent to Captain St Lo to order the first ship bound from Plymouth to the eastward to convoy the YARMOUTH transport.
Document signed by Josiah Burchett (c.1666-1746), Secretary to the Admiralty (1694-1742) (Manuscript) 1696-07-29 ADM/A/1832/296
In case pilots have not been sent to the PENDENNIS and CHESTER bound for Norway, as desired in my letter of yesterday, I ask you to send them to ships in the Downes to carry them to Norway. Will you also order a pilot to the CHESTER at the Nore to carry her to the Downes, where she is ordered.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-08-14 ADM/A/1798/142
Mr Taylor asks if the convoy going to Elsinore may not sail until 23 August, as the two ships he is sending for plank cannot be ready sooner.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-08-12 ADM/A/1798/128
In reply to your letter of 11 August about the WOLF, orders have been given for turning her company to the EAGLE. The Commander and officers must also be discharged, but I have not yet received their Lordships pleasure thereon.…
Document signed by Josiah Burchett (c.1666-1746), Secretary to the Admiralty (1694-1742) (Manuscript) 1698-12-08 ADM/A/1860/71
Covering letter to a Petition submitted by the widow of Captain Fisher who died aboard the JERSEY when in the West Indies. The situation is complicated by the misdemeanours of Captain Bragden who succeeded Fisher. The opinion of the Navy Board is sought.
Document signed by Josiah Burchett (c.1666-1746), Secretary to the Admiralty (1694-1742) (Manuscript) 1696-07-04 ADM/A/1832/318
Having received a paper from Kath Miller, widow of the late Gunner of the RUBY, wherin she prays that her husband died in the RUBY and his papers and accounts were afterwards lost and that she may receive the wages due to him.Their Lordships have commanded me to send you the paper that you may make …
Document signed by Josiah Burchett (c.1666-1746), Secretary to the Admiralty (1694-1742) (Manuscript) 1695-03-28 ADM/A/1817/305
To direct Deptford Cheques to acquaint the Captains of Yachts that when they send their men in Wherrys they must be directed to suffer the Rules of Watermen's Hall and that their Captains give them Certificates that they belong to the Yachts.
Document signed by Josiah Burchett (c.1666-1746), Secretary to the Admiralty (1694-1742) (Manuscript) 1699-02-01 ADM/A/1862/4
Questions from the House of Commons. (i) The Navy to lay before the House tomorrow morning an account of the condition the RESOLUTION since the order last made on 24 November 1697 to keep her at sea and the order since made for paying her off and laying her up and when this order was given.…