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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-09-11 ADM/A/1811/91

You have sent us a Copy of a letter from the Victualling Commissioners about the four months Provisions ordered to be provided for seventeen hundred Men going to Jamaica.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-09-11 ADM/A/1811/89

Upon the arrival of the ROYAL WILLIAM, QUEEN and NEPTUNE at Chatham, (where they are ordered) we direct you to cause them to be refitted for the next year's service with all possible dispatch.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-09-12 ADM/A/1811/105

Upon consideration of your letter today we direct you, notwithstanding any former Orders, to cause either the SYAM or BRISTOL, whichever you consider proper for this service, to be fitted as well for a Hospital as a Storeship, and that her Surgeon and crew be continued and furnished with Medicines,…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-09-12 ADM/A/1811/109

We are sending enclosed a Copy of a Petition in the name of the greatest part of the Shipwrights of England which has been sent to us, and we desire you to examine this and make a Report to this Board as soon as possible your opinion of what is fitting to be done for the benefit of their Majesties s…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-09-17 ADM/A/1811/166

Your letter of the14th inst; proposed the allowing of five more Men to the hired Ship BRISTOL, which is ordered to be fitted as a Storeship to go to the Mediterranean.
We direct this be allowed and that she be established with the Complement of forty five.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-09-17 ADM/A/1811/168

Warrant for the appointment of Peter Jackson to be Master Cook of the SOLEBAY.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-09-19 ADM/A/1811/186

We direct you to cause the Wages due to Lieutenant Peters for the time he served as Lieutenant of the DOVER to be paid to such Person as shall be lawfully empowered to receive them, if there are no other objection than the want of his Captain's Certificate.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-09-20 ADM/A/1811/192

Upon consideration of our discussion with you today concerning the DEFIANCE, we direct you to consider a report to this Board as soon as possible with your opinion as to whether to have the Ship refitted for next year's Expedition, or for her to lie at the Buoy of the Nore as a Storeship.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-09-24 ADM/A/1811/246

We direct you to give orders to the Victualling Commissioners to take care that Provisions be provided at Dover for supplying Ships that come into the Downs from time to time and are in need of them.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-09-25 ADM/A/1811/258

Warrant for the appointment of John Slaughter to be Porter of their Majesties' Yard at Woolwich.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-09-25 ADM/A/1811/256

Warrant for the appointment of Bartholomew Clements to be Master Attendant of their Majesties' Port of Kinsale.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-09-25 ADM/A/1811/252

Our Order of the 24th last month directed you to provide three months Dry Victualls for the Fleet in the Straights under the command of of Admiral Russell. We direct you to cause three months more Dry Provisions for the Fleet to be provided and got ready to be sent away about Christmas next.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-09-21 ADM/A/1811/205

Rear Admiral Cloudesley Shovell informed us by letter yesterday that the STERLING CASTLE in the Downs has sprung her Bowsprit, and lost her Anchor and Cable.
We direct you to cause the Ship to be furnished with another Bowsprit, Anchor and Cable with all possible dispatch.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-09-21 ADM/A/1811/203

The HAMPTON COURT, having received some damage in Falmouth Harbour, and being ordered to Plymouth, we direct you to cause a survey to be taken of the Ship on her arrival there, and that she be refitted and put into a condition for Sea again with all possible dispatch.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-09-21 ADM/A/1811/213

The Board has been informed that at times there is a shortage of Pilots at Dover and Deal to take Their Majesties' Ships to the River.
We direct you to inquire into this matter and give us your opinion as to what should be done to redress this inconvenience.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-09-22 ADM/A/1811/224

Warrant for the appointment of Henry Roper to be Boatswain of the DRAKE

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-09-24 ADM/A/1811/236

Warrant for the appointment of Thomas Corbett to be Boatswain of the FALCON.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-09-24 ADM/A/1811/234

Warrant for the appointment of Edward Wilkinson to be Boatswain of the SOLEBAY.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-09-28 ADM/A/1811/302

We direct you to order the Victualling Commissioners to send such Credits to the Fleet under Admiral Russell as shall be necessary for paying to the Seamen what money is or shall be due from time to time to them on account of their short allowance of Provisions.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-09-04 ADM/A/1811/8

You sent us yesterday a Copy of what materials you think necessary to be sent to the Straights for refitting the Fleet, and informed us that four Smiths, forty Caulkers, four Ockam Boys, a Master Caulker, and a Foreman of the Shipwrightry are intended to be sent with the said Stores to assist the Ca…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-09-05 ADM/A/1811/18

The Muster Master of their Majesties' Ships at Rye has informed us that the Men he sent off in a Sloop to carry a Packet to Lord Berkeley are demanding payment for that Service.
Also, the Charge of cleaning the BASING GALLY at Rye is not yet satisfied.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-09-05 ADM/A/1811/16

The Duke of Shrewsbury has asked to know in what readiness are the Stores for the Straights.
We direct you to give us an account also, as soon as you can judge, by what time these Stores for the Mediterranean will be shipped.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-09-04 ADM/A/1811/12

Warrant for the appointment of John Hayward to be Master Boat-maker of the Deptford Yard.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-09-05 ADM/A/1811/24

We direct you to prepare and present to this Board an Account of what Stores have been furnished to any Ships belonging to the States General of the United Provinces and have not been returned again in specie or paid for, expressing the names of the Ships supplied and the names of the persons to wh…