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Chicheley, John
Herbert, Arthur
Herbert, Thomas
Lee, Thomas
Lowther, John
Onslow, Richard
Priestman, Henry
Russell, Edward
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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-03-17
ADM/A/1766/76
The GRAFTON, ordered into the Hope, to be stored and provisioned
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-07-06
ADM/A/1761/89
Pay Edward Gregory his salary of £500 per annum, commencing from Ladyday last.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-07-12
ADM/A/1761/170
Send stores to the ESSEX by some small vessel from Chatham.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-07-30
ADM/A/1761/296
Supply the hired ship SUCCESS with stores, deducting the cost from the monies payable to the owners.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-07-09
ADM/A/1761/124
Two ships lately taken by the JAMES GALLY to be brought to Deptford.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-07-01
ADM/A/1761/1
Furnish Captain John Giles with a vessel to hasten by convoy the ships now in the Thames, and laden with provision and ordnance stores, to Chester, Whitehaven, and Londonderry.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-07-06
ADM/A/1761/85
DUNKIRK, FORSIGHT, and BRISTOL to be provisioned for service to the Plantations.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-07-10
ADM/A/1761/130
Fit out the two French ships, MAY and JESTER, taken by the NONSUCH. What establishment is needed for their Service in the Channel.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-03-13
ADM/A/1766/49
Captain Wren, commanding the CORONATION, Hired Ship, has returned a large quantity of defective provisions. To be disposed of.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-03-06
ADM/A/1766/15
The PORTSMOUTH, Sloop, ordered to Sheerness, where she is to be cleaned and provisioned for service in the Channel.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-03-06
ADM/A/1766/13
1. The FORESIGHT is to be manned with her highest complement of men and victualled for four months.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-01-17
ADM/A/1765/75
We directed you to cause two Pinnaces to be supplied to the PLAY Prize, LARK and MARY hired Ship, appointed to cruise between Scotland and Ireland, in addition to the Boats that belong to them.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-01-18
ADM/A/1765/77
We direct you cause such of their Majesties' Ships which have returned from the West to Spithead to be surveyed by the Portsmouth Yard Officers and an Account returned to this Board of their respective defects, what time it will take to repair them, and which Ships should have these repairs ef…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-01-23
ADM/A/1765/97
We have received notice from the Victualling Commissioners that the sum of five thousand pounds was appointed yesterday for the service of victualling their Majesties' Navy.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-01-09
ADM/A/1765/30
The KINGFISHER at Sheerness is ordered to be refitted and supplied with Stores and Provisions for service in the Channel.
The ESSEX is ordered to be refitted at Portsmouth and supplied with Stores and Provisions for service in the Channel.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-01-14
ADM/A/1765/51
We have received a letter from Sir John Ashby, Rear Admiral of the Blue and C-in-C in the Downs, setting out an account of the damages sustained by the ANTELOPE and the hired Ships SAMUEL& HENRY and SCEPTRE in the late bad weather. Direct you let us know where they should be refitted.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-01-15
ADM/A/1765/61
We have ordered the ANTELOPE to Sheerness to refit. In case the winds prove Easterly so that she cannot proceed there, she is to proceed to Spithead to refit there.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-01-03
ADM/A/1765/3
We direct you to cause the Ships mentioned in the Margin to be taken in hand and put into condition of receiving their Guns, Stores and Provisions.
12 Ships, commencing with the ST. ANDREW…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1690-10-13
ADM/A/1769/247
Make out Bills for the Pilots employed in piloting the Dutch Men of War into and out of the Thames.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1690-10-10
ADM/A/1769/239
HARWICH, having lost her Main Mast to be furnished at Plymouth with what shall be necessary to bring her to Portsmouth.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-04-04
ADM/A/1765/14
The Lords of the Committee for the Affairs in Ireland desire to know what has been done concerning the appointment of a Person to reside in that Kingdom to inspect the business of transporting their Majesties' Forces.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-01-06
ADM/A/1765/18
His Majesty having resolved (at our attending him yesterday at the Robes) that he would have a Dry Dock built of Stone at Ham Oze [Hamoaze] in the Port of Plymouth, we direct you to give Orders that this be taken in hand with all possible dispatch and good husbandry.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1690-10-13
ADM/A/1769/251
The DEFIANCE to be fitted at Portsmouth, SWALLOW and MORDANT at Plymouth, RESOLVE at Woolwich, and RICHMOND, HAWKER and PELICAN at Sheerness.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1690-10-13
ADM/A/1769/249
The SMYRNA MERCHANT to be surveyed, Report of her defects and whether she is fitting to be sent to the West Indies. The SAPHIRE to be surveyed, Report her condition.
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