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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-08-10
ADM/A/1798/105
You informed us in your letter of 5 August that you had agreed with the owners of the ENGLAND frigate, that she should serve as a 5th Rate and allowed 180 men for her complement and have 42 guns viz.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-08-07
ADM/A/1833/61
Granting Charles Lightfoot Purser of the RUPERT one month's sick leave.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-08-07
ADM/A/1833/57
Countermanding a previous Order and informing that the allowance of a boat for the use of the Governor of Guernsey is to be continued.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-08-10
ADM/A/1833/67
Authorising the payment of an allowance to James Guman who had volunteered aboard the MONMOUTH.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-04-09
ADM/A/1783/51
You are directed to have the men of the LEOPARD, except the standing officers, turned over to the WOOLWICH.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-04-18
ADM/A/1783/79
In pursuance of an Order in Council of 14 April, you are directed to contract with the masters of the ships BEAVER and RESOLUTION, lying near Tower Wharf, which are to proceed to New York for transporting 40 tons of goods and 19 servants for Colonel Fletcher, Governor of New York.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-04-16
ADM/A/1783/75
The CHESTER is sheathed and graved with black stuff and you are directed to have the ship tallowed.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-08-29
ADM/A/1798/240
You are directed to have the wages due to the late Lieutenant Hayes for his service as First Lieutenant of the MARY in the West Indies, to be paid to such person who shall be lawfully empowered to receive them.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-07-29
ADM/A/1832/332
You are directed to have Rear Admiral Benbow in the Downes, furnished with a vessel of burthen for carrying water to the ships under his command.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-08-26
ADM/A/1798/224
The Admirals have advised us that there is a general want of slop clothes in the fleet and especially for such ships as are to continue out in winter. You are directed to have a fitting quantity supplied as soon as possible.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-04-05
ADM/A/1783/38
We have considered your letter of 2 April concerning the ESSEX, which is offered by her owners as a man-of-war. You are directed to treat further with the owners and to hire the ship if she is found fitting, without any consideration of whether her master Captain Hudson is to command her.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-03-30
ADM/A/1782/256
Wanting to know how many Men have been discharged from the EXPERIMENT since she arrived in the Thames to refit, and the reasons for their discharge; and requiring the LION now in the Downs to have her Provisions made up from Dover.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
ADM/A/1783/4
You are directed to give orders to the officers of the yards for the utmost dispatch of the several works and that there are as many workmen of each sort employed and are constantly kept at work, as well as on Sundays and other holidays.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-03-31
ADM/A/1782/264
The Dutch ship GOES is to be allowed to come into Portsmouth Harbour and granted facilities in order to be cleaned so long as HM works are not hindered.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-03-07
ADM/A/1782/268
Requiring fifteen Ketches to be hired in addition to the number necessary to attend the Fleet, to be employed as H.M. directs. Forty Shallops are also to be built in Merchant Yards to designs provided by Captain Phillips. An Estimate of the cost of building all of these ships is to be submitted.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-08-03
ADM/A/1786/35
Appoint Edward Sergent, Master Gunner, the SMIRNA FACTOR.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-08-03
ADM/A/1786/33
Make the usual allowances to James Juniper for the time he served in the EDGAR as volunteer
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-08-03
ADM/A/1786/43
To Impress £500 to Mr Pett to defray the contingencies of their Office.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-06-08
ADM/A/1808/71
The widow of Samuel Pennial, last Lieutenant of the MONMOUTH and formerly in the ST MICHAEL, who was blown up in a French fireship last summer off the coast of Portugal, has petitioned praying that her husband's wages may be paid him for his service in the ST MICHAEL.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-06-21
ADM/A/1808/230
In pursuance of Her Majesty's Order in Council of 8 June 1694, you are directed to have a pension of £100 per annum settled on Hannah Roomcoyl, widow of Captain Thomas Roomcoyl, late Commander of the NONSUCH, slain in a fight against the enemy.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-05-03
ADM/A/1807/41
Widow Wyatt and John Button, Builders at Redbridge have offered to set up another 3rd Rate at Bussledon (Bursledon).
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-04-20
ADM/A/1783/108
The petition of Anne Whitlock, widow. Petitions for pay due to her late husband Joseph Whitlock, employed as Muster Master of ships on Channel service. Petitions for £56.14.02 which is due to her but the Navy Board will not pay without an Admiralty order.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-08-24
ADM/A/1810/259
You have informed us by your Report of the 15th inst; on the Petition of Jane Butt, Widow of Dr Jeremiah Butt, late one of the Physicians of their Majesties' Fleet, that finding two persons borne as Physicians' servants aboard the Ship he served in, though his Commission makes no mention o…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-03-27
ADM/A/1793/233
Examine the matter of fact in the enclosed Petition. Petition of Mary Carpenter widow of John Carpenter, Agent to one of the Marine Regiments in 1690. Requests payment of bills.
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