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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-05-30
ADM/A/1795/254
Directing Captain Kirkby of the SOUTHAMPTON to have the use of a tender formerly used by the SUSSEX in the Thames.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-01-01
ADM/A/1780/1
It appears to us by a Certificate under the hands of the Minister, Churchwardens and other inhabitants of the Parish of Battersea in the County of Surrey, that Richard Levey has been an inhabitant of the said Parish for twenty five years and keeps a Yard for building and repairing Lighters .…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-05-30
ADM/A/1795/263
Ordering the ST VINCENT Fireship to be repaired at Portsmouth and fitted out for service in the Channel.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-10-17
ADM/A/1779/259
Appoint Samuel Furzer, Master Carpenter, the new 4th rate being built at Sheerness.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-05-30
ADM/A/1795/265
Confirming that several of the Warrant Officers at Portsmouth Yard have been aquitted of embezzlement and requiring the Navy Board that they be returned to the Yard without delay.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-12-14
ADM/A/1779/257
To settle a pension on Thomas Farrar as Gunner of a 3rd Rate.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-05-30
ADM/A/1795/259
Wanting to know when the Surveyor to the Navy will be at Falmouth so that the Bretheren of Trinity House can also be there when surveying the port; and requesting that the Navy Board urge the Surveyor to use his best endeavours in negotiating the purchase of land owned by Mr Morris where the new Doc…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-12-14
ADM/A/1779/255
To settle a pension on Robert Thomlinson as Gunner of a 3rd Rate.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-05-30
ADM/A/1795/261
Admirals of the Fleet have complained that insufficient beer has been delivered with other Victuals. The Navy Board is ordered to meet the shortfall.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-12-31
ADM/A/1779/253
To hire vessels to procure Men for the Fleet now fitting to sea for the next Expedition
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-10-21
ADM/A/1824/300
Appoint John Waterhouse, Purser, the VIRGIN prize.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-01-07
ADM/A/1780/29
Warrant for the appointment of Samuel Price to be Boatswain of the BLAZE.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-01-04
ADM/A/1780/21
We direct you to cause the Salaries of this Office for Christmas Quarter last past to be forthwith paid out of the Money for the current services of the Navy.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-10-07
ADM/A/1780/31
Warrant for the appointment of John Whitehorn to be Master Gunner of the ISABELLA.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-01-04
ADM/A/1780/19
We direct you to cause the Money in the Navy Treasurer's hands, remaining of the Million appropriated by Act of Parliament to be applied to the current service of the Navy.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-01-04
ADM/A/1780/17
We direct you to sign Bills of Imprest on the Navy Treasurer for paying the sum of three hundred pounds to each of the Colonels of the two Marine Regiments or their order, for enabling them to pay subsistence money to the Soldiers of the Regiments while they are on shore.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1697-06-08
ADM/A/1843/65
Confirming that the EAGLE Advice Boat should go in to Dover every month while cruising between South Foreland and Dungeness for cleaning.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-12-28
ADM/A/1779/228
The wages of the Officers and Company of the PORTLAND and the PHEONIX only to be paid to October 1690 and not to Oct 1691.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-02-23
ADM/A/1772/260
Warrant for the appointment of William Dolby to be Boatswain of the ASSURANCE.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-12-28
ADM/A/1779/226
Cause six weeks Victuals to be forthwith sent down to the PEMBROOK in the Hope.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-02-24
ADM/A/1772/262
Warrant for the appointment of Nicholas Peirce to be Master Gunner of the ADVENTURE.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-12-28
ADM/A/1779/222
Allow bounty to Mary Edward for the loss of Robert Edwards, her husband, slain on board the DEPTFORD Ketch. Certified by the Surgeon the Commander having Drowned.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-12-26
ADM/A/1779/220
The VIRGIN PRIZE, the LARK, and the HARP Ketch , now in the Downs, to be supplied from Dover with two months Victuals.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-02-23
ADM/A/1772/248
Warrant for the appointment of Joseph Streater to be Master Gunner of the Fireship VULCAN.
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