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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-02-06 ADM/A/1839/65

We have received a letter from Vice Admiral Mitchell and another from Mr Branden about the want of victuals at Portsmouth. Captain Munden also writes about the want of provisions for the ships at the Nore.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-02-08 ADM/A/1839/78

We have received a letter from Israel Browne, Master of the MARGARET yacht of London, giving an account of an anchor at Margate which has the King's mark. You are directed to have the anchor returned to His Majesty's stores.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-02-24 ADM/A/1839/265

Richard Card, late Boatswain of the CHARLES galley, is to be appointed Boatswain of the BETTY. You are directed to enter him accordingly together with such allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant as is proper. His warrant is to be dated 24 February 1696/7.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-02-24 ADM/A/1839/271

Joseph Luke, Carpenter of the COMET, bomb vessel, is to be appointed Master Carpenter of the MILFORD. You are directed to enter him accordingly together with such allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant as is proper. His warrant is to be dated 24 February 1696/7.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-02-24 ADM/A/1839/269

Benjamin Laurence is to be appointed Master Cook of the BETTY. You are directed to enter him accordingly together with such allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant as is proper. His warrant is to be dated 24 February 1696/7.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-02-24 ADM/A/1839/267

John Thompson is to be appointed Master Cook of the LIZARD. You are directed to enter him accordingly together with such allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant as is proper. His warrant is to be dated 24 February 1696/7.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-02-23 ADM/A/1862/245

You received direction to have a stop put on any wages assigned by Rice Lloyd to others without order from this Board on information received that he had been forging letters of attorney assigning wages to others.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-02-23 ADM/A/1839/257

At a Court Martial held on board the DREADNOUGHT in Hamoze on 17 February, Captain Whetstone, Commander of the PRESIDENT. Enquiry was made into the PENDENNIS being run aground in Rye Bay and it being found to be the omission of Richard Brincknell, Master, he was mulcted 6 months pay.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-02-23 ADM/A/1839/261

The CENTURION at the Nore being in want of provisions, you are directed to have her victualling completed to 10 weeks with all dispatch.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-02-18 ADM/A/1839/203

Advice has come from Cadiz by letters dated 11/21 January, that the Turkey convoy has arrived there and is in want of all sorts of provisions, for which it was feared they would have to remain until credits came from England.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-02-19 ADM/A/1839/201

The Commander of the HENRY prize at Hull informs us that her beam is rotten and we have ordered her to the Nore. You are directed to give your opinion as to where she may be most conveniently be fitted for sea.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-02-18 ADM/A/1839/205

Samuel Roberts is to be appointed Master Cook of the BLAST bomb vessel, in place of the former removed to the ST PAUL fireship. You are directed to enter him accordingly together with such allowance of for himself and servant as is proper. His warrant is to be dated 18 February 1696/7.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-02-21 ADM/A/1862/217

We have considered your letter of 13 February, with the copy of one from the Commissioner at Plymouth, asking whether the WINCHELSEA guardship should be rigged and have a Purser. She should be completely rigged, but in because of the small number of men we do not think she should have a Purser.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-02-22 ADM/A/1862/225

The Commissioners for the Victualing have recommended that Mr Robert Westbrooke and Mr Harvey serve as their agent in the Straits, they having been there in 1695. They also think a clerk should be sent there to assist them. The former agent was allowed £200 per annum and his clerk £60 per annum.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-02-22 ADM/A/1839/230

The NONSUCH and POOL are ordered on immediate service and you are directed to have them victualled to 10 weeks each, the former in the Downes and the other at Portsmouth. If the POOL cannot be victualled at Portsmouth you are to have it done in the Downes.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-02-23 ADM/A/1862/237

John Knell, Boatswain of the FALKLAND is to be appointed Boatswain of the NORTHUMBERLAND in place of John Renett dismissed by Court Martial for embezzlement. You are to enter him accordingly and his warrant is to be dated 23 February 1699.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-02-17 ADM/A/1839/181

The commissioners appointed for the registering of seamen have proposed some methods for securing such Land Men as shall register themselves from the Press. We send you a copy of their letter and other papers relating to this and direct you to consider this.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-02-17 ADM/A/1839/179

The Rt. Hon. Lord Berkeley granted a commission to Captain Thomas Jennings on 6 June 1696 to be Second Captain of the BRITANNIA. You are directed to have the wages due to him for the time he served to be paid, if you have no other objection than his commission not being renewed by this Board.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-02-19 ADM/A/1862/179

Your letter of 13 February informed us that the Officers of Sheerness have advised that there are several small works to be done to complete the OXFORD, which were not done after her return to Woolwich in 1697. You are directed to have these works put in hand and completed as soon as may be.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-02-20 ADM/A/1862/186

You are directed to prepare an account of what quantity of naval stores of every species are now in His Majesty's magazines, and for what length of time they may be sufficient for the whole Navy at sea.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-01-26 ADM/A/1861/256

Warrant for the appointment of Anthony Philips to be Boatswain of the CORNWALL.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-01-24 ADM/A/1861/237

We direct you to cause the Men belonging to the BEDFORD GALLEY (lately returned from Newfoundland and now in Longreach) to be reduced to the lowest Complement of Men established on her, and whereas there is now aboard her two boys, Edward Bigley and Daniel Parker, who are evidences against one John …

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-01-14 ADM/A/1861/163

In your letter of yesterday's date you opined that it will be for the Service to send the MEDWAY PRIZE to Sheerness and cut her down there, fit her, and employ her as a Hulk in place of the LEOPARD, which is worn out.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-01-14 ADM/A/1861/165

Warrant for the appointment of Benjamin Warren to be Master Carpenter of the LIZARD.