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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-07-29 ADM/A/1785/268

Warrant for the appointment of William Townes to be Purser of the hired Ship SMYRNA FACTOR.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-07-30 ADM/A/1785/278

We have ordered the KINGFISHER to Sheerness to repair some leaks which she has received in her Bow.
We direct you, upon her arrival there, to cause her to be repaired for the said damage and fitted out to Sea again with all possible dispatch.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-07-22 ADM/A/1832/221

In your report of 17 July you advised us that Richard Asson, Caulker, who lost two fingers of the left hand after falling from the mast at Cadiz, cannot recive anything from the Chest at Chatham as he does not contributes out of his wages as the seamen do.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-07-31 ADM/A/1832/226

A commission was granted by Sir William Beeston, late Governor of Jamaica, to Captain Thomas Kenny to be Commander of the EXPERIMENT, dated 12 October 1694, and also another commission to Captain Kenny dated 30 October 1694 to command the HAMPSHIRE.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-08-12 ADM/A/1798/120

You are directed to have Captain Wishart, Commander of the SWIFTSURE, to be furnished with another tender, besides which is already ordered, to enable him to procure men for the ship.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-08-10 ADM/A/1798/115

By the direction of this Board the sum of £600 was put into the hands of the Treasurer of the Navy by the owners of the TIGER, as reward to the Commander and company of the MARY and CHARLES galleys, for re-taking the TIGER from the enemy.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-08-11 ADM/A/1798/116

You are directed to pay the wages due to Captain John Ward for the time he commanded the HARP ketch, notwithstanding that he has not produced a journal or accounts of the victualling as is required by instructions. His papers were taken with the ketch by the enemy.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-07-20 ADM/A/1832/203

Richard Jones, late Cook of the POST BOY advice boat, is to be appointed Master Cook of the HIND pink. You are to enter him accordingly together with such allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant. His warrant is to be dated 20 July 1696.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-07-22 ADM/A/1832/215

The late Court Martial suspended the 1st Lieutenant of the KENT, Mr Miles, for one month for his negligence in suffering the RESTORATION to come on board the KENT. You are directed to have his pay for one month disposed of to the Chest at Chatham.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-07-22 ADM/A/1785/210

We direct you to consider some Persons who by their service in the Navy, either as Clerks in your Office, in the Yards, or to the Commanders of Ships, or otherwise in the Fleet, you judge qualified to be employed as as Pursers in their Majesties' Ships, and send us a List of their names, with a…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-08-10 ADM/A/1798/103

You are directed to have Captain Crow, Commander of the NORWICH , furnished with a smack to enable him to procure men for the ship.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-07-22 ADM/A/1785/205

We direct you to cause one month's Victuals for twenty thousand Men to be forthwith shipped and sent to their Majesties' Fleet by some fitting Merchant Ships to be taken up for that purpose, and that all possible dispatch be made, sending us an account in what time they can be got ready to…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-08-09 ADM/A/1798/95

You are directed to have the provisions to be put on board the PORTSMOUTH sloop, on her arrival at the Buoy of the NORE, completed to 2 months .

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-08-10 ADM/A/1798/111

The GUERNSEY, lately returned from the West Indies, is ordered to Deptford to be cleaned and refitted. You are directed to have this completed as soon as possible and to have her made up to her highest complement of men and furnished with 3 months victuals for service in the Channel.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-08-10 ADM/A/1798/113

Valentine Cocklyn, Boatswain of the yard at Chatham, is suspended from his employment for embezzlement of stores. You are directed to discharge him and pay him the wages due to him to the time he was first suspended. You are to recommend to us some fitting person to replace him.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-08-10 ADM/A/1798/109

Your letter of 7 August that it appeared necessary to you that more forges should be set up at Portsmouth as they are not capable of answering the demands from the iron works, especially in the winter season when the fleet is refitting.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-08-10 ADM/A/1798/105

You informed us in your letter of 5 August that you had agreed with the owners of the ENGLAND frigate, that she should serve as a 5th Rate and allowed 180 men for her complement and have 42 guns viz.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-07-20 ADM/A/1832/197

You are directed to have the SOLEBAY, upon arrival at Harwich, cleaned and refitted for service in the Channel and victualled for 10 weeks with all dispatch.

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) 1692-08-19 ADM/A/1786/141

Appoint John Charter, Master carpenter, the UNITY hired ship.

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) 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.…