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Chicheley, John
Herbert, Arthur
Herbert, Thomas
Lee, Thomas
Lowther, John
Navy Board, In-Letters And Orders
Vaughan, John
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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-03-04
ADM/A/1766/6
All necessities, provisions and documentation to be handed over to the Commissioner for Transportation of the Army to Ireland.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-03-06
ADM/A/1766/19
Captains Samuel Atkinson, Henry Greenhill and Humphrey Ayles to receive an annual salary of £420, together with an allowance of £30 for a clerk, for their service in the [BUSINGSON] transporting troops to Ireland.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-03-07
ADM/A/1766/27
1. The planned rebuilding of the ADVENTURE to be put in hand. Are returning herewith the estimate for the cost of rebuilding her. The Treasury is to be solicited for the money for the rebuilding.
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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-03-07
ADM/A/1766/25
The CADIZ MERCHANT, Fireship, to be refitted at Portsmouth for service in the Channel, manned with her highest complement and provisioned for three months service.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-01-20
ADM/A/1765/83
We have ordered the GARLAND to Deptford to be refitted, so we direct you to take this in hand and complete as soon as possible, supply her with Stores for service in the Channel, and such Provisions as will complete what she will have on board when refitted, to three months.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-01-19
ADM/A/1765/79
We direct you to give immediate directions for supplying their Majesties' Ships at Spithead which are designed for the Straits with Admiral Russell, and those for the West Indies under the command of Captain Lawrence Wright, with such a proportion of Provisions as will complete what they now ha…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-01-22
ADM/A/1765/95
A request is made by Mr St. Michell, late Commissioner of the Deptford and Woolwich Yards, that he, together with his Clerks, may have his Salary for the whole of the Midsummer Quarter last, whereas his employment at those Yards was discontinued, which we think fit to allow.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-01-20
ADM/A/1765/87
The last Victualling Commissioners have by their letter of the 17th inst; applied to be allowed their Salaries up to last Christmas, notwithstanding that the present Commissioners entered their employment on the 25th November last.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-01-23
ADM/A/1765/99
We having appointed the GUARDLAND to carry Governor Sloughter to New York, we direct you to cause her to be sheathed and refitted at Deptford for that service, and supplied with six months victuals proper for such a voyage.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-01-11
ADM/A/1765/39
We direct you to cause the JAMES GALLEY at Blackstakes to be supplied with her Provisions, and what else she needs, so that she may proceed to the Downs, according to our directions to her Commander.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-01-11
ADM/A/1765/47
We are sending you on the other side a List of the Ships lately ordered by this Board to be fitted now for this years' service at sea, over and above those already abroad, and direct you with all possible dispatch to consider and report to us, against each of the said Ships' names, the res…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-01-11
ADM/A/1765/41
By a Warrant from Arthur Herbert (now Earl Torrington), Admiral of the Fleet in the Narrow Seas, dated May 2nd 1689, Thomas Horner was appointed by him to be Provost Marshall of the Fleet, which he performed from May 2nd 1689 to October 2nd 1689, the time of his discharge from the ELIZABETH.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-01-16
ADM/A/1765/63
We have considered your letter of yesterday's date and direct that a proper Person be appointed and sent down to Plymouth to act as Clerk of the Survey and be allowed a Salary of sixty pounds per annum.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-01-02
ADM/A/1765/1
Captain Wise, Commander of the hired Ship MARY at Deptford, desires in his letter of the 31st last month that he may have two dozen Hammocks for his Men.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-01-09
ADM/A/1765/22
We direct you to pay the Seamen turned over from the LION into the BURFORD, in the same manner as we have directed you to pay those who have been turned over into other of their Majesties' Ships designed for the Mediterranean and West Indies.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-07-31
ADM/A/1761/449
Appoint William Harris, cook, the EXPEDITION.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-07-31
ADM/A/1761/425
Appoint William Hodges, master gunner, the SAINT GEORGE.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-07-30
ADM/A/1761/332
Appoint William Peet, purser, the RESTORATION.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-07-19
ADM/A/1761/225
Appoint, George Goody, master gunner, the PROSPEROUS Ketch in the room of John Peterson.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-07-30
ADM/A/1761/336
Appoint Willim Harmer, purser, the ROYAL JAMES.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-07-06
ADM/A/1761/105
Appoint, Joseph Phillips. purser, the ASSISTANCE.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
ADM/A/1761/57
Blank Sheet.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-07-31
ADM/A/1761/433
Appoint John Silvester, cook, the SAINT GEORGE.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-07-31
ADM/A/1761/411
Appoint John Sedgewick, boatswain, the HOPE.
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