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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-03-21
ADM/A/1793/170
The KENT, CAMBRIDGE, EDGAR, and SWIFTSURE to be Surveyed and such repairs as can be done at Spithead to be got in hand. Inform which Port those unable to be repaired should be ordered.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-03-21
ADM/A/1793/168
To pay the 4th Rates and under to Michaelmas last.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-03-21
ADM/A/1793/172
Appoint Henry Island, Master Gunner, the new 4th Rate building in the Thames.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-03-22
ADM/A/1793/182
Supply at the request of Lord Nottingham, a large boat or Sallop and another boat with eight oars, to be sent to the island of Guernsey.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-03-22
ADM/A/1793/180
Appoint John Hingston, Master Carpenter, the new 3rd Rate building at Deptford.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-03-22
ADM/A/1793/186
Provide and send to the Island of Guernsey. two months dry provisions for five hundred men, of the Earl of Nottingham's Squadron.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-03-22
ADM/A/1793/184
Sir George Rooke to take men from the CAMBRIDGE to complete the middle compliment for the ships of his Squadron. The said men to be paid at Portsmouth before the Squadron sails.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-03-18
ADM/A/1793/150
Direction upon the Queries by the Comptroller about paying Seamen, last year, pursuant their majesties later Proclamation.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-03-21
ADM/A/1793/164
To reimbursing the Earl of Shaftsbury £67.19/1d for his procuring Seamen in Dorsetshire.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-03-17
ADM/A/1793/134
Additional encouragement to be given to Surgeons to join the Navy. Increased allowances to be paid from January 1693.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-03-18
ADM/A/1793/145
Pay Captain King, late Commander the SAINT ALBANS PRIZE the wages due to him until the time he fully complied with his Instructions. How did Lieutenant Ezekil Yates, the SAINT MICHAEL come to be made Run on the said ships books.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-03-17
ADM/A/1793/138
Hire two Merchant Ships for Men of War of the 5th Rate. Cause two new 5th Rate Frigates to be Built with all speed.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-03-17
ADM/A/1793/141
Appoint Joseph Hall, Boatswain, the NEW AFRICA, hired ship.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-04-10
ADM/A/1794/55
Mr Thomas Copping, Rector of the parish of St Olav Hartstreet, is to be appointed Minister and Preacher of the Word of God, on board their Majesties' ships and vessels lying in ordinary and rigging at Deptford, and of their Majesties' yachts there and at Greenwich, in the place of Mr Georg…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-04-14
ADM/A/1794/51
Thomas Geach is to be appointed Master Cook of the MARIANA prize. You are directed to enter him accordingly together with such allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant. His warrant is dated 5 April 1693.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-04-14
ADM/A/1794/49
Robert Browne is to be appointed Master Carpenter of the MARIANA prize and you are directed to enter him accordingly, together with such allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant. His warrant is dated 5 April 1693.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-04-05
ADM/A/1794/33
You are directed to have the provisions for the PEARL sent to her at the Buoy of the Nore with all possible dispatch.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-04-05
ADM/A/1794/35
You are directed to have £1,000 imprested to the Admirals of their Majesties' fleet, for defraying the contingent charges of the same, in addition to £2,000 which you have already furnished them with.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-04-06
ADM/A/1794/47
John Kendell is to be appointed Boatswain of the SAMUEL and HENRY hired ship, and you are directed to enter him accordingly, together with such allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant. His warrant is dated 5 April 1693.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-04-01
ADM/A/1794/9
You are directed to have the WARSPITE, GOODWIN sloop and ETNA fire ship, cleaned and refitted at Portsmouth for service in the Channel, and have the WARSPITE and ETNA victualled in like manner as other ships of the main fleet. The GOODWIN sloop is to be furnished with 1 month's provisions.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-04-03
ADM/A/1794/17
Mr Peter Southwick, an officer of the Customs at Lyme Regis, supplied 20 seamen to the fleet with conduct money from that place to Weymouth of 30 shillings, as it appears by the certificate signed by Lieutenants of the KENT and NORTUMBERLAND and attested by the Comptroller and Surveyor of the Custom…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-04-03
ADM/A/1794/23
Captain John Bomstead, late Commander of the JERSEY, has been tried at a Court Martial and condemned for surrendering the ship to the enemy in the West Indies, and the Lieutenant and other officers acquitted. You are directed to have the Lieutenant and Officers paid the wages due to them.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-04-03
ADM/A/1794/21
His Majesty has been pleased to direct that Captain John Votour, late Commander of the SAMUEL & HENRY hired ship, by reason of his great age and infirmities which render him unfit for further service, receive a pension as a superannuated officer.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-04-13
ADM/A/1794/19
Sir George Rooke has advised us by his letter of 11 April, that convoys to Virginia and the Straits squadron, are spending on their 8 months victuals and the Victualler's Agent at Portsmouth has nothing left to supply them or other of their Majesties' ships until it comes from London.…
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