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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-07-03 ADM/A/1821/23
Isaac Nicholls, late Master of the CONCEPTION PRIZE, was accidentally killed on board this Ship going to New England.
We direct you to cause his Wages to be paid to such as shall be fully empowered to receive the same, if you have no other objection than the want of his Journal.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-07-03 ADM/A/1821/21
We direct you to sign Bills on the Navy Treasurer for the allowance of Admiral of the Blue, to Sir George Rooke, from the 25th April 1695 to the 25th May following.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-07-03 ADM/A/1821/17
Notwithstanding the difficulties mentioned in your letter of yesterday's date of victualling the GLOUCESTER at Kingswood, we direct you to give Orders to the Victualling Commissioners to supply immediately a month's Provisions, enabling her to proceed to Kinsale.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-07-03 ADM/A/1821/27
We direct you to cause the JERSEY and QUEENBOROUGH to be cleaned and refitted at Portsmouth for service in the Channel, and victualled for ten weeks each with all possible dispatch.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-07-05 ADM/A/1821/44
By our late Orders you were directed to provide three hundred Guineas for Mr Meesters. We direct you to imprest the same to him for rewarding such persons as he judges convenient, as shall be employed in the present Expedition on which he is going with several Machine vessels and others.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-07-05 ADM/A/1821/42
The Lord Justices have requested from this Board an account of the readiness of Stores and Provisions for the Straights to be sent away.
We direct you to give the best account you can as soon as possible, to be laid before their Excellencies.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-07-11 ADM/A/1821/94
We are informed that several of the Frigate and Bomb Vessels which have been employed against St. Malo have lost a great many anchors and cables, for a supply of which they will come to Spithead.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-07-08 ADM/A/1821/66
Several Persons were lately summoned to attend this Board from his Majesty's Yards at Deptford, Chatham and Portsmouth in order to their giving evidence on some complaints made against the Officers of these Yards.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-07-08 ADM/A/1821/64
Warrant for the appointment of Thomas Painter to be Master Cook of the ARUNDEL.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-07-08 ADM/A/1821/62
On consideration of your letter of the 6th inst concerning the Sails to be sent to His Majesty's Ships in the Straits, you are to dispatch them as soon as possible, but those for the Cruisers to be sent before those for the Great Ships.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-07-08 ADM/A/1821/76
Warrant for the appointment of Edward Dickenson to be Master Gunner of the ARUNDEL.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-07-17 ADM/A/1821/130
We direct you to cause the GARLAND to be cleaned and refitted at Sheerness for service in the Channel and victualled for two months.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-07-12 ADM/A/1821/102
We direct you to consider and report to this Board the best place to clean HM Ships attending on the Irish coast, whether at Highlake or Liverpool.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-07-12 ADM/A/1821/100
We direct you to cause the TIGER to be sheathed and fitted at Deptford for a voyage to the West Indies, and victualled for eight months of proper species for such a voyage.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-07-15 ADM/A/1821/110
We direct you to imprest to Mr Edward Whittaker, Solicitor to the Admiralty and Navy, the sum of three hundred pounds, enabling him to perform his Duty of Employment.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-08-16 ADM/A/1822/189
Sir Timothy Tyrell, executor for his son Captain John Tyrell deceased, has petitioned the Lords Justices that his son expended several sums of money for the impressing and conveying seamen in several ships in which he had command, which amounted to £135.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-08-21 ADM/A/1822/239
We have received a letter from one John Smith giving an account of several loads of timber taken from Chatham yard and that one piece was found in William Harman's barn at Gillingham.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-08-21 ADM/A/1822/237
We are informed that the main mast of the BERWICK at Blackstakes has received considerable damage by thunder there. You are directed to have her surveyed and repaired to have her serviceable for a Straits voyage.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-08-19 ADM/A/1822/221
John Baker, Boatswain of the ROE ketch, is to be appointed Boatswain of the SPEEDWELL, in place of the former dismissed for neglect of duty. 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) 1695-08-19 ADM/A/1822/219
Richard Coltman, formery Cook of the LINLEY CASTLE, is to be appointed Master Cook of the SEVERN. 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 19 August 1695.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-08-14 ADM/A/1822/145
You are directed to have the SHEERNESS upon her arrival at Plymouth, to be cleaned and refitted for service in the Channel and victualled for 10 weeks.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-08-14 ADM/A/1822/151
Upon consideration of your letter of 10 August about our orders for paying Captain Taylor's wages for the time he commanded the NONSUCH, you are directed to clear him of the imprest of £350 disbursed by him for fitting the ship in New England, and to have his wages paid to such person as is le…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-08-14 ADM/A/1822/153
You are directed to have the wages due to Mr Charles Moody, late First Lieutenant of the PEMBROKE, to be paid to such as is lawfully empowered to receive them, notwithstanding he has not a certificate of his behaviour from the Captain, if you have no other objection than the want of the certificate.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-08-13 ADM/A/1822/123
Peter Frazer, late Purser of the VIRGIN PRIZE is to be appointed Purser of the PENDENNIS. 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 13 August 1695.