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Austen, Robert
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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1698-12-30
ADM/A/1860/299
Authorising payment of expenses to Sir Cloudesley Shovell Admiral of the Blue providing he produces the necessary vouchers.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1698-12-30
ADM/A/1860/297
Richard Brooks has been rewarded for exposing a plot for commandeering the SPEEDWELL.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-08-31
ADM/A/1833/275
Ordering the PORTLAND to be fitted for Foreign Service on arrival at Spithead and victualled together with other ships.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-08-28
ADM/A/1833/254
Sanctioning the provision of Victuals to Captain Edward Bibb of the NORFOLK due to his having accomodated Soldiers and others in his ship while under acting under the orders of Admiral Nevill in the Straits.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-08-26
ADM/A/1833/237
The Navy Board is seeking directions as to what is to happen to the DEFIANCE and the LITCHFIELD. The Admiralty replies that Litchfield is not to be cleaned and sheathed on coming into port, neither is the DEFIANCE to go on foreign service.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-08-27
ADM/A/1833/235
Ordering the QUEENBOROUGH to be cleaned and refitted on arrival at Liverpool and supplied with two months' victuals for service in the Channel.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-08-27
ADM/A/1833/231
Ordering the DISPATCH Brigantine to join the BRILLIANT Sloop and FLY Brigantine cruising off South Foreland to intercept wool smugglers. The DISPATCH is to be cleaned at Dover and cleaned every month for a long as she remains on that service.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-08-27
ADM/A/1833/233
Requiring three hundred pounds to be paid to Mr BURT the Secretary to the Commissioners for Registering Men.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-08-27
ADM/A/1833/239
Ordering the payment of all Men in Men-of-War to be paid their wages up until Michealmas 1695 and directing that the ships whose Crews have been turned over into other ships are to be put in Ordinary and their repairs proceeded with as a matter of great urgency.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-08-24
ADM/A/1833/207
The SMYRNA MERCHANT and TIGER Hired ships are to be cleaned and refitted at Bristol for service in the Channel at the expense of their owners. Their Provisions are to be made up to three months as urgently as possible.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-08-25
ADM/A/1833/213
Confirming a Warrant issued by Sir George Rooke Commander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean for Abraham Goose to be Master Cook of the Hospital ship SIAM. Countersigned by William Bridgeman, Admiralty Board Secretary.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-08-26
ADM/A/1833/227
The letter shows some twenty-seven ships destined for Foreign service in the margin including the QUEEN, CAMBRIDGE and ESSEX. The letter also names seven other ships including the KENT, ELIZABETH and BERWICK whose crews are to be turned over into some of the ships shewn in the margin.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-08-26
ADM/A/1833/225
Requiring the WOOLWICH to be provided with a recruiting tender.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-08-25
ADM/A/1833/221
Orders are to be given to the Commissioners of Victualling to supply the Men-of-War selected for Foreign service with four months' Victuals for four thousand men and to report on progress.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-08-22
ADM/A/1833/193
Ordering the SIAM to be equipped as a Hospital ship at the expense of her owners and to proceed with other ships going on foreign service.and victualled as are the others.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-08-21
ADM/A/1833/191
Ordering the PEMBROKE to proceed either to Sheerness or Chatham for cleaning and refitting in prepartion for a Foreign voyage. She is to have her highest complement of Men and is to be victualled the same as other ships detailed for the same service.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-08-22
ADM/A/1833/203
Urgently requiring progress with getting listed ships selected for Foreign service to be made ready. The named ships include the CAMBRIDGE, ESSEX and WARSPITE among others.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-08-22
ADM/A/1833/197
Warrant appointing Mr Robert Longcroft Preacher on ships and vessels lying in Ordinary and Rigging Wages at Portsmouth. He is to be paid in the usual way with money deducted from the Men. Countersigned by William Bridgeman, Admiralty Board Secretary.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-08-22
ADM/A/1833/199
Provided they have passed their Accounts, Captain Baron Wild of the LINCOLN and NORTHUMBERLAND and Captain Ker.l Roffey of the GRIFFIN Fireship are to be paid despite their ships not having been paid; and provided they are not found to have born Men unnecessarily.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1699-04-04
ADM/A/1864/39
Authorising the paying of John Browne Carpenter of the CAPTAIN until his suspension and dismissal providing the Navy Board has no further objections.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1699-04-04
ADM/A/1864/55
Having interviewed Captain Bostock of the SWIFT Advice Boat instructions are given for him to be paid his wages less a deduction made following his Court Martial.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1699-04-04
ADM/A/1864/57
Authorising Captain Hickman to be paid as Lieutenant in the WINCHELSEA although at that time he served as Lieutenant aboard the ELIZABETH Ketch acting as tender to the WINCHELSEA when used for recruiting Men.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1699-04-06
ADM/A/1864/61
Warrant appointing Thomas Wooten, Boatswain of the PORTLAND, to be Boatswain of the GUERNSEY in place of Thomas Jennings who has been moved to the PORTLAND. Countersigned by Josiah Burchett, Secretary to the Admiralty Board.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1697-02-02
ADM/A/1839/365
Richard Burdett, Purser of the ANGLESEA, is to be appointed Purser of the BURFORD. 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 2 February 1696/7.
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