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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-01-17 ADM/A/1861/182

We have considered your letter of the 10th inst; together with the Copy of one to your Board from the Victualling Commissioners, concerning the furnishing the East Indies Squadron with Credits.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-01-17 ADM/A/1861/184

By the instructions given to the Commanders in Chief of such Ships as are ordered to be laid up and paid off at Chatham, Portsmouth and Plymouth, for managing the Guard Boats in these harbours, it is directed that the said Boats shall be commanded nightly by Captains and Lieutenants of the aforesaid…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-01-19 ADM/A/1861/192

Warrant for the appointment of Thomas Hurst to be Master Cook of the DEPTFORD.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-02-05 ADM/A/1839/51

You sent us a letter you had received from Consul Kecks at Rotterdam, complaining that he is to disburse money for the care of English seamen that have come into those parts and have gone into the Dutch service for want of someone to provide for them and send them home.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-02-06 ADM/A/1839/61

The Commissioners of the Victualling in their letter of today, have asked for money to procure shipping to carry victuals for 2000 men for 4 months to the West Indies, and to purchase oil instead of butter and cheese.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-02-06 ADM/A/1839/57

We have received a letter from the Ordnance about the 11 coils of cordage, belonging to that office, seized some time since by officers of the Navy on board the SCARBOROUGH merchant ship. We enclose an extract of their letter.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-02-08 ADM/A/1862/69

Captain Thomas Bryan, formerly Commander of the FALCON which was taken by the enemy in the West Indies in May 1694, was lately tried at a court martial for the loss of the ship and acquitted. A copy of the trial is enclosed.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-01-14 ADM/A/1861/278

Warrant for the appointment of George Adney to be Master Gunner of the new third Rate building at Portsmouth.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-02-01 ADM/A/1862/1

By our order of 12 October 1697, in pursuance of an order from the Lords Justices, we directed you to stop the pay of officers of the two Marine Regiments lately commanded by the Marquis of Carmarthen and Sir Cloudesley Shovell until they had given satisfaction to the Office of Ordnance for arms the…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-02-02 ADM/A/1839/13

The ANGLESEA has brought into Kinsale a ship re-taken from the French the SWALLOW prize. You are directed to have her fitted out for Channel service, to be manned with the same number as was formerly allowed her and furnished with 10 weeks provisions.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-02-02 ADM/A/1839/7

At the Court Martial held on board the LONDON on 25 January 1696/7, Captain Munden, Commander-in-Chief of the Thames and Medway President, Captain Grayden of the VANGUARD, complained of several irregularities committed by Lieutenant John Trehearne, First Lieutenant.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-02-04 ADM/A/1862/29

James Small, late Gunner's Mate of the ADVENTURE, has sent a petition stating that in 1694 he was ordered by this Board to attend to give evidence in town against some Irish prisoners.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-02-03 ADM/A/1839/27

You are directed to have the KINGSTON furnished with a tender for the better manning of the ship and to give orders for entering men on board her.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-02-03 ADM/A/1839/25

Captain John Fletcher, Commander of the HAMPSHIRE, is to be furnished with a tender to enable him to procure men to serve in the ship.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-02-04 ADM/A/1862/27

Your letter to our Secretary, sent a copy of a letter from the Master Shipwright at Plymouth proposing the stripping of the sheathing of the CHATHAM as it is very bad. You are directed to have this done and for to see that the ship has a thorough repair.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-02-04 ADM/A/1839/31

We have receive a letter from the two Captains in town to regulate the Press, concerning the Register of Seamen of His Majesty's ships to the westward, who are in town without tickets of leave.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-02-04 ADM/A/1839/29

You are directed that when the EXPRESS advice boat is next in port, where the work can be done, you are to have her masts and sails altered to the same manner she was in before she went to the Cape of Good Hope.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-02-06 ADM/A/1862/38

You are directed to order the Commissioners of the Victualing to send 3 months provisions to the Mediterranean for the ships there with all dispatch.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-02-04 ADM/A/1839/43

We have confirmed the warrant given by the Rt. Hon. Edward Russell on 28 August 1695, to Robert Gibson, to be Master Cook of the PHOENIX fireship, in place of the former removed into the FALMOUTH.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-01-27 ADM/A/1861/268

This Board has taken notice that no Money has been sent down lately to pay the Ships being discharged and laid up for easing the growing Charges. Frequent applications have been made lately by Officers whose Ships are paid off, who have passed their accounts, and who request their Wages.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1698-12-22 ADM/A/1860/229

Enclosing a Certificate provided by Sir Cloudesley Shovell appointing Mr Nathaniel Bull Deputy Judge Advocate of HM Fleet; and requiring Mr Bull to be paid the usual allowance during the time he remains in that role.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-03-29 ADM/A/1863/262

Warrant appointing Robert Philpot, Minister of the Garrison and Chaplain of the Guardship at Sheerness, to be Minister and Preacher to ships and vessels in Ordinary and those on Rigging Wages, and to be payed four pence per man per month in wages.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-03-30 ADM/A/1863/264

Countermanding a Warrant whereby Anthony Barkesdale Purser of the RANELAGH was to exchange with William Worseley Purser of the MEDWAY during the MEDWAY'S voyage, Richard Williams Purser of the DEPTFORD is now to be entered on the Books of the RANELAGH during the MEDWAY'S present voyage.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-05-01 ADM/A/1864/3

Urgently requiring the MONMOUTH at Plymouth to be fitted for Summer service in the Channel.