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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-01 ADM/A/1834/18

Captain Littleton, Commander of the PORTLAND, has informed this Board that he has taken and brought into Dartmouth a French Spy carrying six Guns and four Patereroes.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-06-25 ADM/A/1784/188

A Contract is to be placed for three vessels which Captain Phillips has surveyed and considers suitable as Bomb Vessels to accompany a current Expedition. On conclusion they are either to be discharged or purchased.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-06-24 ADM/A/1784/182

Launching an enquiry into the victualling of the THOMAS and ELIZABETH Fireship when commanded by Captain Thomas Marshall and wanting to know what provisions were secured by money and what by Credits.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-06-27 ADM/A/1784/192

Believing that the DOVER is at Chatham she is ordered to be cleaned and refitted there and supplied with three months Victuals; and requiring the GODDWIN Prize to be cleaned and refitted at Portsmouth on arrival and supplied with three months Victuals.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-01 ADM/A/1834/5

Captain Tollat, who now commands the WARWICK, is going on a foreign voyage. We direct you to cause the Wages due to him for his service in the TALBOT Pink, SEAHORSE and WINCHELSEA to be paid, provided he shall have passed his accounts for the said Ships, and that you have no objection to the same.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-06-25 ADM/A/1784/190

Requiring two months Provisions to be sent to the LONDON MERCHANT Hired ship at the Nore.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-01 ADM/A/1834/1

At a Court Martial held on board the VANGUARD at the Nore on the 29th August last, Captain John Graydon, C-in-C of HM Ships in the Thames and Medway, President, John Okey, late Surgeons Mate of the ASSISTANCE, was tried for speaking treasonable and seditious words on board the said Ship on the 3r…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-06-20 ADM/A/1784/133

Very urgently requiring the KATHERINE Yacht now at Deptford to be cleaned and refitted for service in the Channel.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-06-20 ADM/A/1784/129

Instructing a sum of money to be received from Captain Man late Commander of the CADIZ MERCHANT for distributing to the Crew as shares in connection with goods taken from the French when employed in the West Indies.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-06-20 ADM/A/1784/127

Ordering the SHEERNESS to be refitted at Sheerness for a voyage to Newfoundland together with eight months Victuals; and requiring the [RESERVE] in the Downs and the BONAVENTURE at Portsmouth to be similarly victualled.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-06-20 ADM/A/1784/123

Warrant appointing William Rice to be Master Carpenter of the CYGNET Fireship in place of the former who has been removed. Countersigned by James Southerne, Admiralty Board Secretary.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-06-23 ADM/A/1784/158

Enclosing a Paper by Captain Ashe Commander of the Marine Regiment and asking for an opinion.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-06-21 ADM/A/1784/145

Petition of Francis Marsh Gunner who has lost his sight and is applying for a pension. The Potion is referred to the Navy Board for opinion.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-06-21 ADM/A/1784/143

Giving instructions for estimates for building a new Fourth Rate to be obtained from shipbuilders based on the .

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-06-18 ADM/A/1784/111

Warrant appointing Benjamin Merritt, late Boatswain of the PORTLAND, to be Boatswain of the EXETER. Countersigned by James Southerne, Admiralty Board Secretary.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-06-18 ADM/A/1784/109

Requiring surveys to be made with costs of refitting and victualling the two Fireships called the ST VINCENT and the RUZEE recently taken from the French and now at Portsmouth together with recommendations for the number of Men and Armaments required to equip them.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-18 ADM/A/1834/181

We direct you to cause the Fireship LIGHTNING at the Nore to be surveyed , and if not found fit for Sea service you are to let us know where it is best for her to be paid off and put into Ordinary.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-18 ADM/A/1834/179

We did sometime since direct Captain Lapthorne, Commander of the Advice Boat MERCURY, to arrive at Dover to carry to Ostend thirteen Danish soldiers, and it appears to us by Certificate that he did receive on board and deliver at Ostend eleven of the said thirteen soldiers, whose names are mentione…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-09-09 ADM/A/1823/119

Warrant appointing Robert Pinn to be Boatswain of the JOSEPH Hired ship in place of the former who has resigned. Countersigned by William Bridgeman, Admiralty Board Secretary.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-14 ADM/A/1834/151

Warrant for the appointment of John Scott to be Boatswain of the DOLPHIN.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-14 ADM/A/1834/149

We direct you to cause the Wages due to Mr Griffith Phillips for the time he served as Lieutenant of the DORSETSHIRE to be paid, notwithstanding he does not produce his Captain's Certificate of his having complied with his instructions, if you have no other objection thereto.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-15 ADM/A/1834/153

We direct you to cause an allowance of fifty pounds per annum each for house rent, to be made to Captain Byng and Mr Baker, two of the Commissioners for the Registering of Seamen, commencing from the date of their Commissions.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-09-10 ADM/A/1823/127

Very urgently ordering the NAVY Yacht to be cleaned and refitted at Deptford.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-16 ADM/A/1834/163

The Lords Justices direct you to cause to be delivered to Sir Cloudesley Shovell or his Order, two Cables, the one of sixteen and the other of eighteen inches, being part of the Present his Majesty is sending to the Government of Tripoli.…