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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-08-07 ADM/A/1810/69

Notwithstanding any former Orders we direct you to give directions to the Plymouth Yard Officers that the NORWICH is not to be cleaned until the next Spring tides after those that are now coming on, but that she be repaired meanwhile.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-08-07 ADM/A/1810/71

Warrant for the appointment of Benezar Robinson to be Master Gunner of the Yacht HENRIETTA.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-08-07 ADM/A/1810/63

We direct you to cause a survey to be taken of a Prize lately taken by the WEYMOUTH and now at Plymouth, and if she shall be found fitting to serve as a Man of War you are to order her being bought for this purpose, and to solicit the Lords of the Treasury for money to do the same, giving us an acco…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-08-07 ADM/A/1833/59

Ordering the cleaning and refitting of the ASSISTANCE and PEARL on arrival at Sheerness and Chatham respectively together with ten weeks Provisions.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-08-10 ADM/A/1833/71

Ordering the cleaning and refitting of the WILLIAM and MARY Yacht at Deptford.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-08-03 ADM/A/1810/47

Warrant for the appointment of Andrew Rogers to be Master Gunner of the SHOREHAM.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-08-03 ADM/A/1810/45

We direct you to cause a Survey to be taken of a Prize lately taken by the DUNKIRK and WEYMOUTH, and now at Kinsale in Ireland.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-08-06 ADM/A/1833/44

Concerning the sending of a deputation to New England to assess the suitability of timber grown there and to bring back samples.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-08-05 ADM/A/1833/36

Ordering the cleaning and refitting of the PORTSMOUTH on arrival at Sheerness together with a supply of ten weeks Victuals for service in the Channel.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-08-06 ADM/A/1810/57

In pursuance of her Majesties ' pleasure signified to this Board by Sir John Trenchard, Principal Secretary of State, we direct you forthwith to imprest to Lord Berkeley five hundred pounds for the contingencies of the Fleet under his command.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-08-02 ADM/A/1810/29

We direct you forthwith to order the Master Shipwright of the Portsmouth Yard to make a Draught or Model of a Bomb Ketch according as Colonel Richards shall direct.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-08-02 ADM/A/1810/31

We direct you to cause the Wages due to Captain Warren, late Commander of the PEMBROKE, for the time he commanded her, as also the Wages due to Lieutenant Foster, late Lieutenanant of the said Ship for the time he served in her, to be forthwith paid them, notwithstanding their Journals and other Pap…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-08-02 ADM/A/1810/33

Your letter of the 30th July past proposed that the GREYHOUND Dogger and FROG Machine Vessels should be allowed the same number of Officers and Men as the MASTERLAND and YOUNG LADY, and the twelve Vessels with the little Machines (whose names are mentioned in the margin) a Master and four Men in eac…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-08-01 ADM/A/1810/7

Warrant for the appointment of James Barber to be Purser of the SUFFOLK Hagboat.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-08-01 ADM/A/1810/11

Warrant for the appointment of Leonard Buck to be Boatswain of the new Yacht now building at Chatham.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-08-01 ADM/A/1810/1

We direct you to cause the DOVER (now at Sheerness) to be cleaned and refitted there for Channel service, manned with her highest complement of Men, and victualled for three months.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-04-04 ADM/A/1829/315

Mary Morden, Widow of George Morden, lately belonging to the MILFORD, has presented a Petition to this Board stating that her husband was slain in fight on board that Ship when she was taken by the Enemy, but as most of her Officers were killed, she does not have their Certificates.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-06-08 ADM/A/1808/71

The widow of Samuel Pennial, last Lieutenant of the MONMOUTH and formerly in the ST MICHAEL, who was blown up in a French fireship last summer off the coast of Portugal, has petitioned praying that her husband's wages may be paid him for his service in the ST MICHAEL.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-06-21 ADM/A/1808/230

In pursuance of Her Majesty's Order in Council of 8 June 1694, you are directed to have a pension of £100 per annum settled on Hannah Roomcoyl, widow of Captain Thomas Roomcoyl, late Commander of the NONSUCH, slain in a fight against the enemy.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-06-10 ADM/A/1831/84

Mary Kercher, Widow of Thomas Kercher, late Commander of the RUPERT, has petitioned in respect of his Wages stopped for Supernumerary Men when he commanded the DOLPHIN, and Imprest Money when he commanded the RUPERT.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-05-22 ADM/A/1819/203

Mrs Sarah Wilkins, the widow of Captain Michael Wilkins Commander of the EXPERIMENT, is to be paid two hundred pounds from His Majesties tenths of Prizes held by the Treasurer of the Navy.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-05-17 ADM/A/1819/158

Mrs Anne Pugh, widow of Captain Richard Pugh, late Commander of the NORWICH; Mrs Hannah Warren, widow of Captain George Warren, late Commander of the PEMBROKE; and Mrs Susannah Browne, widow of Captain Nathaniel Browne, late Commander of the FALCON are each to receive two hundred pounds from the Tre…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-07-22 ADM/A/1821/179

We direct you to pay Mrs Mary Symonds, Widow of Captain Thomas, late Commander of the HAMPSHIRE, the sum of two hundred pounds, out of the money in the hands of the Navy Treasurer for the tenth of Prizes taken from the Enemy, in consideration of the particular good service performed by her husband, …

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-09-15 ADM/A/1811/158

Whereas John Rixwell was appointed Master Caulker of the West India Squadron, and his widow Rebecca Rixwell having petitioned this Board for his Wages for the same, we direct you to cause such an allowance to be made him for the time he served in the said employment, as by our letter to you dated 19…