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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-17 ADM/A/1834/173

We direct you to cause the Fireship CRESCENT to be cleaned and refitted there for service in the Channel and victualled for three months with all dispatch.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-17 ADM/A/1834/171

The several Ships named in the margin have arrived at St. Helens from the Soundings under the command of Vice Admiral Mitchel, are in need of Provisions, and are ordered to Spithead.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-18 ADM/A/1834/185

We direct you to cause the ROYAL TRANSPORT, now at Deptford, to be cleaned there, and that she be fitted according as the Marquess of Carmarthen shall direct, with all possible dispatch, as you were directed by our Order to you sometime before she sailed out of the River for Holland.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-18 ADM/A/1834/183

We direct you to cause the Wages due to Mr Robert Hobbs and Mr John Hare, first and second Lieutenants of the PORTLAND, for the time they served as Lieutenants of the said Ship, to be paid, notwithstanding they do not produce Captain Smith's Certificate of their having complied with their instr…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-15 ADM/A/1834/157

Warrant for the appointment of James Trumball to be Master Cook of the Fireship VESUVIUS.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-16 ADM/A/1834/169

Hannah Turner has petitioned this Board stating that her husband, Francis Turner, was Lieutenant of the EXPERIMENT in the West Indies where he died, and that during the time of his Illness of twenty days he kept no journals, for want thereof she has not received Pay. …

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-16 ADM/A/1834/167

We direct you to cause Captain Fairfax, Commander of the CORNWALL, to be furnished with a Tender for the better enabling him to procure Men for her.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-16 ADM/A/1834/165

We direct you to cause the SWIFTSURE at Deptford to be fitted out to Sea for Channel service, manned with her highest complement of Men, and victualled for three months.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-12 ADM/A/1834/137

We direct you to cause Doctor Cockburn and Mr Larkin, Deputy Judge Advocates, who are appointed to go with the Squadron designed to go on Foreign Service, to be paid the whole of the Wages due to them before they proceed.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-12 ADM/A/1834/131

Having received a letter from Mr Bully, the Muster Master at Dartmouth, together with an account of his disbursements for subsisting several Seamen for the Fleet and other charges, we send you a Copy of his letter and account enclosed, and direct you consider these and report to this Board your opin…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-12 ADM/A/1834/141

We direct you to impress to Sir Cloudesley Shovel the sum of three thousand pounds for defraying the Contingent Services of the Squadron which is going on foreign Service under his Command.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-14 ADM/A/1834/139

We are informed by Sir Cloudesley Shovel that upon the sudden surprise of the late intended invasion, and being ordered by Admiral Russell to make all possible dispatch with the Ships then at the Nore to the Downs, he was obliged to take about one hundred and fifty Men out of the DUCHESS to put the …

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-14 ADM/A/1834/145

A Commission was granted by Admiral Russell to Lieutenant Westcomb to be third Lieutenant of the ROYAL OAK and also to be third Lieuteant of the BOYN.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-14 ADM/A/1834/143

The Surgeons appointed to Ships in the Fleet fitting out for a Foreign voyage have been disappointed by their replacement by Officers and Companies from other Ships, and have Petitioned to be restored or appointed to other Ships.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-10 ADM/A/1834/115

Warrant for the appointment of John Parton to be Master Cook of the ASSISTANCE.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-10 ADM/A/1834/117

We direct you to cause the LANCASTER, fitting out at Portsmouth, to be furnished with a Tender for her better manning.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-11 ADM/A/1834/123

We direct you to cause an allowance to be made to John Benbow, equal to the Pay of a Rear Admiral in HM's Fleet, for the fifty eight days he was by order of this Board employed the last year with the Bomb Vessels, taking care to deduct there from the fifty pounds which was imprested to him when…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-11 ADM/A/1834/121

A letter concerning the dismissal of Mr Abraham Stock, Storekeeper at Deal, and Mr Gibbs, Muster Master at Deal, for negligence in the performance of their duties.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-09 ADM/A/1834/94

When Captain Hardy commanded the SWALLOW PRIZE which attended on Guernsey he had twelve Supernumerarys employed in the Boats allowed the Governor of the Island. Captain Urry has succeeded him and we direct you to allow the same to be allowed him accordingly.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-09 ADM/A/1834/92

You informed us by your Report of the 3rd inst; on the Petition of John Phillips, formerly first Lieutenant of the DOVER, that he was entered on her Books on the 3rd April 1694, and is paid only from that time.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-09 ADM/A/1834/100

We direct you to cause the Brigantine DILIGENCE upon her arrival at Plymouth to be cleaned and refitted there for Channel service and her victualling completed for ten weeks.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-10-31 ADM/A/1835/344

Edward Chamberlaine is to be appointed Purser of the BRISTOL. You are to enter him accordingly together with such allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant. His warrant is to be dated 12 October 1696.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-10-30 ADM/A/1835/352

Stephen Tymwell is to be appointed Purser of the WARWICK in place of the former removed for neglect of duty. You are to enter him accordingly together with such allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant. His warrant is rto be dated 30 October 1696.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-10-31 ADM/A/1835/346

We have confirmed a warrant given by Sir Cloudesley Shovell, Vice Admiral of the Red, dated 12 October 1695, to Thomas Langford to be Master Carpenter of the SHARK brigantine in place of the former.…