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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1697-02-17
ADM/A/1839/172
We think that one of the members of your Board should be sent to Portsmouth to assist in the dispatch of the works to be done to the ships there. You are directed to order Commissioner Willshan to use his utmost endeavours in the dispatch of works to be performed there.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1697-02-17
ADM/A/1839/174
We have received your letter of 15 February to our Secretary together with a copy of one from the Commissioners of the Victualling and this is to advise you that the ETNA fireship at Plymouth (and not the BLAZE) is to be fitted for foreign service.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1699-02-07
ADM/A/1862/184
Thomas Crisp, Cook of the DEVONSHIRE, is to be appointed Master Cook of the ST. MICHAEL in place of Thomas Pickering removed to the DEVONSHIRE. You are directed to enter him accordingly together with such allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant as is proper.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-03-26
ADM/A/1828/346
To cause the Wages of Captain Charles Cornwall to be payed for the time he commanded the ADVENTURE, notwithstanding his not complying with the order to deliver his books and papers to his successor.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-03-27
ADM/A/1828/352
Pay the officers and crew, the DRAKE, Captain John Stapleton, the wages due to them up to the 20th December when it is believed the ship foundered off the Irish Coast.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-03-27
ADM/A/1828/358
Appoint Thomas Griffin, Master Gunner, of the St MALO.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-03-27
ADM/A/1828/356
The WINCHELSEY to be cleaned and refitted upon her arrival at Sheerness. To be victualled for three months service in the channel.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-03-28
ADM/A/1828/364
The Lord Berkeley having by his letter of the 27th instant to this board acquainted us that Mr Gerey and others have Clothed his Regiment for the year 1694, and that there is due to them £6395.6s.6d, which his Lordship desires may be imprested to them, and charged on the Soldiers Wages, without whic…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-03-28
ADM/A/1828/370
From time to time, victual the TERRIBLE fireship, guardship at Plymouth.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-03-28
ADM/A/1828/368
Cause the ARUNDELL to be victualled and stored at the Nore for her voyage to New England.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-03-28
ADM/A/1828/374
The damage to the SAINT PAUL Fireship to be repaired at Sheerness, and put into condition for the Sea.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-03-30
ADM/A/1828/380
The Bomb Vessels BLAST, GRANADO, CARCASS, FURNACE, and TERROR are ordered to Woolwich to take on board their Mortars.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-03-28
ADM/A/1828/376
Cause the MARTIN to be cleaned and refitted at Sheerness, for service in the Channel.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1698-11-15
ADM/A/1861/166
Warrant for the appointment of Edward Cole to be Master Cook of the MARGATE.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-03-24
ADM/A/1828/310
Appoint Anthony Bennet, Master Carpenter, of the LYNN.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-03-25
ADM/A/1828/326
Cause Lieutenant Robert Dround, formally the KATHERINE, to be payed the wages due to him as Lieutenant the SUNDERLAND.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-03-26
ADM/A/1828/334
Appoint Edward Woollett, Carpenter, of the MERCURY advice boat.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-03-25
ADM/A/1828/330
The TERRIBLE fireship to be fitted at Plymouth for a Man of War, the same sort of size as the DOLPHIN, the SPEEDWELL, and the ROEBUCK, and to have the same number of men and number and nature of guns established for her.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-03-26
ADM/A/1828/336
Appoint Thomas Wells, Boatswain/Gunner, of the MERCURY advice boat.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-03-26
ADM/A/1828/340
Appoint Charles Robertson, purser, of the VIRGIN Prize.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-03-22
ADM/A/1828/294
Appoint Henry Miller, Master Carpenter, of the FAULKLAND.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1697-02-05
ADM/A/1839/45
Zachery Martin is to be appointed Purser of the SHOREHAM, . in place of the former removed into the new 4th Rate building at Plymouth. You are directed to enter him accordingly together with such allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant as is proper.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1697-02-05
ADM/A/1839/53
In your letter of 29 January, you informed us that the Surveyor of the Navy had viewed a pump which Colonel Richards had made. You having proposed to us that an experiment be made in one of the ships at Deptford, as Colonel Richards proposes, at His Majesty's charge.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1699-02-07
ADM/A/1862/59
John Barnard, late Cook of the LOYAL MERCHANT, hired ship, is to be appointed Master Cook of the KATHERINE storeship. 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 February 1699.
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