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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.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-08-05 ADM/A/1833/42

Ordering the payment of John Nevill Rear Admiral of the Blue in line with other Flag Officers.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-08-06 ADM/A/1810/57

In pursuance of her Majesties ' pleasure signified to this Board by Sir John Trenchard, Principal Secretary of State, we direct you forthwith to imprest to Lord Berkeley five hundred pounds for the contingencies of the Fleet under his command.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-08-19 ADM/A/1786/129

To provide 2000 hammocks according to the enclosed proposal of Captain St Lo for the Soldiers to be sent to the West Indies. Send an estimate of the charge.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-08-06 ADM/A/1810/55

We direct you to cause the hired ship NEW AFRICA at Plymouth to be cleaned and refitted there for service in the Channel at the charge of her Owners with all possible dispatch, and you are to order her being victualled for three months.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-08-02 ADM/A/1810/31

We direct you to cause the Wages due to Captain Warren, late Commander of the PEMBROKE, for the time he commanded her, as also the Wages due to Lieutenant Foster, late Lieutenanant of the said Ship for the time he served in her, to be forthwith paid them, notwithstanding their Journals and other Pap…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-08-04 ADM/A/1833/17

Warrant appointing James Pyke, late Boatswain of the SUDADOES, to be Boatswain of the THUNDERBOLT Prize. Countersigned by Josiah Burchett, Admiralty Board Secretary.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-08-05 ADM/A/1833/23

Authorising the payment of a sum of money to Mr [Lambert] Blackwell, late Consul at Livorno, for paying for the subsistence, clothing and passages of Men of the LAZARETTA between October 1693 and April 1696.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-08-04 ADM/A/1833/15

Giving instructions for the Commissioners of Victualling to lodge immediately at Portsmouth two months' provisions for a large quantity of Men over and above what they should already supply to the Fleet although any remaining quantities of foods from the May issue may be put towards it - except…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-08-16 ADM/A/1786/105

The establishment of men and guns for the TARTEN PRIZE as a sixth rate.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-08-13 ADM/A/1786/107

To make William Cromby, Surgeons Mate, the PHEONIX, an allowance for taking care of her Lame and Wounded men at Cadiz and in their passage to England.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-04-09 ADM/A/1783/51

You are directed to have the men of the LEOPARD, except the standing officers, turned over to the WOOLWICH.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-08-05 ADM/A/1833/34

Requiring the Provisions aboard the DORCHESTER at Spithead to be made up to whole allowance until Michaelmas.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-08-05 ADM/A/1833/25

Confirming an appointment made by Admiral Sir John George Rooke of HM Fleet in the Mediterranean for John Richards to be Master Carpenter of the SUFFOLK Hagg Boat in place of the former who was moved to the KATHERINE Yacht. Countersigned by William Bridgeman, Admiralty Board Secretary.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-08-01 ADM/A/1810/7

Warrant for the appointment of James Barber to be Purser of the SUFFOLK Hagboat.