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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-08-01 ADM/A/1810/21
We direct you to cause fourteen days' Provisions to be furnished to the LONDON at the Buoy of the Nore.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-07-31 ADM/A/1832/308
The late Captain of the SWALLOW prize, Captain Urry, has stated that when the ship was taken he lost all his accounts and papers. We direct you to have the wages due to him.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-07-27 ADM/A/1832/316
John Davis, late Boatswain of the KINGFISHER, is to be appointed Boatswain of the NONSUCH. You are to enter him accordingly together with such allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant. His warrant is to be dated 27 July 1696.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-06-20 ADM/A/1808/224
Upon consideration of your report of 13 June on the petition of Elizabeth Austen, widow and administratrix of Richard Austen, deceased, praying his wages for the time he served as Boatswain of the MARY, you are directed (notwithstanding there are no accounts of the stores committed to his custody) t…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-01-21 ADM/A/1815/210
We have received information upon oath of crimes and offences committed by Captain Christopher Billop, Commander of the LONDON, touching the making of false tickets and procuring persons to personate the wives, widows and relations of ticket holders.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-01-22 ADM/A/1815/237
Your letter of 19 October last gave us an account of wages due to Captain Henry Boteler for his service in the MORDANT and what supernumerary men he has borne in her during the time he commanded her.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-08-11 ADM/A/1810/126
Concerning the Petition of Susannah Mahiel, Widow of James Mahiel, Pilot, slain in the FALCON on the 19th May 1692, we direct you to cause the usual allowances of Bounty to be paid to her and her two children.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-04-21 ADM/A/1864/130
The Widow of Captain George Mister is to receive forty pounds as reimbursement for money spent by her husband in recruiting Men for the COVENTRY.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-12-10 ADM/A/1814/98
Your letter of the 7th inst; concerns their Majesties' Bounty being claimed by the Widow of John Hall, late Midshipman in the STERLING CASTLE and killed on that Ship in a fight against a Danish Man of War.
We opine that his Widow and Children are by Establishment entitled to this Bounty.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-03 ADM/A/1834/40
A letter concerning the late Act of Parliament which directed that sixpence per month shall be deducted out of the Wages of all Seamen serving in HM Ships and the Money so deducted shall be employed for support of the Hospital building at Greenwich for the relief of disabled Seamen and their childre…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-03-30 ADM/A/1817/355
Pay the Widow of the late Captain Thomas Heath two hundred pounds, in consideration of her husbands good service in burning the ROYAL SUN at Cherbrooke.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-07-26 ADM/A/1821/218
In pursuance of the Lord Justices' directions to this Board we direct you to cause an allowance of half pay to be made to the Widow of Captain John Bridges, late Commander of the VANGUARD, from the time that Captain Fairborne succeeded him in that Ship until his death on the 3rd July 1694.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-07-09 ADM/A/1821/84
We direct you to cause to be forthwith paid to Mrs Cotton, Widow of Captain Richard Cotton, late Commander of the DIAMOND, and his children, the sum of two hundred pounds , out of the money in the hands of the Navy Treasurer, for his Majesty's Tenths of the Prizes taken from the Enemy, in consi…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-11-16 ADM/A/1813/145
1. An account is required of the circumstances wherein Mrs Everard, mother of the late Captain Boteler, paid £100 to his widow.
2. An account is also required of what wages are due for his service on any of their Majesties' ships and what the supernumeraries charged to him amount to.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-11-27 ADM/A/1813/275
The widow of Mr Austin Lucas, late Lieutenant of the MONMOUTH, has petitioned for his wages to be paid; his sudden death having resulted in the loss of his papers. His wages are to be paid to anyone lawfully empowered to receive them.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-07-27 ADM/A/1832/264
You are directed to give orders to the Commissioners of the Victualling to send one of their members to Torbay to provide fresh provisions for the seamen in the fleet.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-10-30 ADM/A/1812/345
A survey of the UNITY Hired ship has been received but due to her defects she is to be discharged the service and paid off.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-03-09 ADM/A/1817/126
The Marquis of Carmarthen desires his Watermen and Servants be paid for the time they were considered absent.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-03 ADM/A/1834/34
A Petition to have R taken off by John Addison, a Watermans Servant,who had served on the CAPTAIN, and who was one of a Press Gang in which a Carpenter from FOWY was killed by Bargemen, and who gave evidence as a material witness, is agreed.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-10-09 ADM/A/1835/105
Commissions and warrants were granted for the captain, 1st and 2nd lieutenants, boatswain and gunner of the BRISTOL in the west Indies viz Captain Edmund D'Oyley - command of the BRISTOL 6 February 1695; Lt Roger Brown - 1st Lieutenant 24 October 1694; Lieutenant James Anderson - 2nd Lieutenant…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-02-15 ADM/A/1816/146
In October of last year the Admiralty ordered the wages due to Captain Lyell to be paid into the Chatham Chest; but a change of heart requires the wages to be paid to him direct, provided the Navy Board has no objections.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-12-18 ADM/A/1814/257
We are sending enclosed Copies of three sentences of Court Martials, whererby Lieutenant Thomas Langrish, third Lieutenant of the HOPE, is fined one months Pay to the Chest at Chatham, Peter Adams, Boatswain of the PLYMOUTH Hulk, two months Pay, and Alexander Tuab, Chaplain of the ASSISTANCE, one mo…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-12-19 ADM/A/1837/226
A Court Martial was held aboard the LONDON at Blackstakes on December 17th, President Captain Munden, C-in-C of HM Ships in the River Thames and Medway, at which the Master, Gunner and Carpenter of the ESSEX were sentenced to forfeit a year's Wages to the Chatham Chest.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-07-23 ADM/A/1821/190
Captain Soanes, late Commander of the JAMES GALLEY, was tried on April 5th last by Court Martial held at Blackstakes for the loss of this Ship and sentenced to forfeit his Pay for her, with three hundred pounds to be paid to the Chatham Chest, and to be imprisoned till this sum is paid.…