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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-09-30 ADM/A/1787/285
Timber is available to be fetched from Ireland but a lack of available shipping there is causing delays. Approval is given for the Navy Board to procure a new ship recently built in the Thames to transport it.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-09-30 ADM/A/1787/283
Ordering a temporary stop to be put to the payment of the Wages of Sir Francis Wheeler and his Servants.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-09-30 ADM/A/1787/279
Ordering the LARK to be paid off on arrival at Deptford and her Company - excepting the Captain and Officers - to be turned over into the LOYAL MERCHANT Hired ship.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-09-29 ADM/A/1787/276
Confirming a Warrant given by Sir Edward Russell on 14th May 1692 appointing William Scott to be Master Cook of the ST ANDREW. Countersigned by James Southerne, Admiralty Board Secretary.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-09-24 ADM/A/1787/239
Urgently requiring the CHARLOTTE Yacht at Deptford to be cleaned and refitted.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-09-23 ADM/A/1787/237
Urgently requiring one months Victuals each to be sent down to the GUARDLAND and LONDON MERCHANT at the Nore.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-09-24 ADM/A/1787/241
Ordering the hammocks for the use of Soldiers going to the West Indies to be put aboard the MERMAID at the Nore for delivery to Mr Fotherby, Commissary for Land Forces, at Portsmouth; and requesting an Estimate of the Pay due to HM Ships in Pay to the end of 1691.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-10-01 ADM/A/1835/2
William Morrill, Purser of the MARY galley, is to be appointed Purser of the NORWICH in place of the former preferred. You are to enter him accordingly together with such allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant. His warrant is to be dated 1 October 1696.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-10-01 ADM/A/1835/10
Jewell Guy is to be appointed Master Carpenter of the EAGLE advice boat. You are to enter him accordingly together with such allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant. His warrant is to be dated 1 October 1696.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-10-01 ADM/A/1835/14
Having ordered the RESOLUTION to Blackstakes, you are directed to have her surveyed and to give us an account of her defects, together with your opinion where it will be best to have her refitted.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-30 ADM/A/1834/366
Warrant for the appointment of John Sealliff to be Master Carpenter of the new third Rate building at Chatham.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-09-23 ADM/A/1787/233
Robert Pitman, Boatswain of the SAPHIRE has been fined three months Pay at a Court Martial held aboard the ROYAL SOVEREIGN.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-09-24 ADM/A/1823/295
Ordering that the SERPENT, BLAST, GRANADA and CARCASS Bomb Vessels be paid off and laid up at Deptford.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-09-23 ADM/A/1787/228
Admiral Rooke has been ordered to bring the ten Second Rate ships round to Chatham. An Order is given for competent Pilots to meet the ships off Dover.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-09-24 ADM/A/1823/291
Ordering the CHANDOISE Merchant ship to be supplied with a stout new cable should she put in at Spithead.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-09-23 ADM/A/1787/221
Petition of Thomas Bates in which he claims that due to infirmity he has been unable to collect the pension granted him and assumes that he may have been declared dead and applies for reinstatement.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-09-25 ADM/A/1823/301
The Lords Justices have issued an Order in Council requiring Victuals for forty thousand Men to be provided from next January for the year ahead. An opinion is required regarding the proportions to be distributed between the various ports.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-30 ADM/A/1834/345
The Advice boat EXPRESS has returned to the Downs from the Cape of Good Hope, and is ordered to Sheerness to refit. We direct you cause her to be cleaned and refitted for Channel Service and victualled for two months for the highest complement of Men.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-30 ADM/A/1834/343
Warrant for the appointment of John Miller to be Master Carpenter of the DUCHESS.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-09-23 ADM/A/1823/275
Captain Douglas of the HARWICH has informed the Admiralty that the Masters of Surgeons' Hall has appointed a non Naval Surgeon's Mate to her. An Order is given for him to be discharged and for George Dundall to be appointed in his stead.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-09-20 ADM/A/1823/255
Requiring the ENDEAVOUR Smack Machine Vessel to be used for the occasional carrying of Stores to HM Vessels in Longreach, the Hope, Buoy of the Nore and including the Downs as formerly employed.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-09-21 ADM/A/1787/186
Confirming an appointment made by Captain Henry Boteler Commander of the MARY appointing William Sadler Master Cook of the said ship. Countersigned by James Southerne, Admiralty Board Secretary.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-09-20 ADM/A/1823/253
Ordering a sum of money to be paid to Mrs Judith Gourney Widdow of the late Captain Edward Gourney out of Prize Money and in recognition of his good service.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-09-21 ADM/A/1787/184
Urgently requiring the recently purchased CANTERBURY to be fitted for sea as a Storeship for the West Indies by the Riggers and Ordinary at Deptford and to take the ship to the Nore where she is to manned by Men from other ships.