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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-05-29 ADM/A/1774/445

Authorising the payment of half the freight of the BRIDGETT Sloop as owned by the Earl of Danby by the Crown in accordance with an earlier agreement.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-05-04 ADM/A/1774/380

Warrant appointing Daniel Tadpoole, Master Carpenter of the SWEEPSTAKES, to be Master Carpenter of the WARSPIGHT. Countersigned by James Southerne, Admiralty Board Secretary.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-05-04 ADM/A/1774/386

Warrant appointing Richard Baldwin to be Cook of the EAGLET Ketch in place of the former who has been discharged. Countersigned by James Southerne, Admiralty Board Secretary.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-05-27 ADM/A/1774/418

Confirming a warrant issued by Captain Lawrence Wright Commander in Chief of HM ships in the West Indies dated June 1691 for Joseph Archer to be Boatswain of the RICHARD AND JOHN Fireship. Countersigned by James Southerne, Admiralty Board Secretary.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-10-21 ADM/A/1777/139

We direct you to cause the Wages due to the Soldiers of the Marine Regiments for their service on board the HARWICH to be stopped, and not paid to them or their Attorneys until further Orders.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-10-21 ADM/A/1777/141

We direct you to cause the GREYHOUND and the FUBBS Yacht to cleaned and refitted at Deptford for service in the Channel, and that the GREYHOUND be victualled for three months or as much as she can conveniently stow.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-10-21 ADM/A/1777/143

A request has been made by Thomas Gosling, Boatswain of the NORWICH, and David Browne, Boatswain of the SUFFOLK, that they may exchange places during NORWICH's present voyage to the West Indies, which we think fit to grant.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-10-22 ADM/A/1777/145

We direct you to cause the CONCEPTION PRIZE at Spithead to be furnished with such further quantity of Stores fitting for her on a voyage to Virginia, and also that she be supplied with eight month's victuals of species proper for that voyage.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-10-22 ADM/A/1777/147

Upon consideration of the account you sent us in your letter of the 19th this month from the Portsmouth Officers of the present condition of the NORTHUMBERLAND, in which it is proposed that she may be brought into the Dock, and in two Tides secured to be brought about to Chatham, we direct you cause…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-10-20 ADM/A/1777/129

Captain Meese, late Commander of the EXETER, has informed this Board that at the late blowing up of this Ship he lost all his Books and Papers, whereby he is unable to give in his Journals and other Papers directed by the Lord Admiral's Instructions.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-10-20 ADM/A/1777/133

We direct you to cause the Fireship HALF MOON upon her arrival at Deptford to be paid off and laid up.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-10-26 ADM/A/1777/160

We direct you to cause the Prize lately taken by the CROWN, and now at Portsmouth, to be fitted out to Sea as a Man of War, victualled for three months or as much as she can conveniently stow, and established as a sixth Rate, with the complement of one hundred Men and twenty six Guns, according as p…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-10-26 ADM/A/1777/162

Having considered your report of the 21st of this month concerning the hiring of some Merchant Ships to be employed as Men of War we direct you to treat further with the Owners of two of the Ships, namely the CHANDOIS and the GEORGE, for hiring those Ships, and enquire from them positive answers wh…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-10-26 ADM/A/1777/166

Warrant for the appointment of Michael Browne to be Master Cook of the GREYHOUND.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-10-23 ADM/A/1777/149

We direct you to cause one month's victuals to be sent down immediately to the LION at the Buoy of the Nore.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-10-23 ADM/A/1777/151

We direct you to cause one month's victuals to be immediately sent down to the VIRGIN PRIZE at the Buoy of the Nore, she being ordered on present Service.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-10-19 ADM/A/1777/120

We direct you to cause the SHEERNESS, now at Portsmouth, to be cleaned and refitted for service in the Channel, and victualled for three months, or as much as she can conveniently stow.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-10-19 ADM/A/1777/122

Her Majesty has been pleased by her Order in Council of the eighth of this month to declare that timely provisions of Sea Victuals be made for thirty thousand Men for thirteen Lunar months, commencing the first of January next 1691.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-08-25 ADM/A/1810/270

Having ordered Captain Cooper, Commander of the hired Ship ENGLAND Frigate to get Credit for a months Provisions for her at Bristol, and to draw Bills on the Victualling Commissioners for the same, we direct you to order the said Bills to be punctually paid.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-08-25 ADM/A/1810/241

Your letter of the 23rd informed us what Officers will be necessary to be settled at Kinsale if it is thought fit to establish that Port as a Yard for cleaning and refitiing their Majesties' Ships during the War.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-06-15 ADM/A/1784/96

Wanting to know how many Captains of Fireships who, having lost their ships in the service of the Navy, have continued to serve and be paid as Captains until receiving promotions or otherwise.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-08-24 ADM/A/1810/245

This Board thinks it necessary for their Majesties' Service to have a Ship to lie at Plymouth as a Guardship and to receive and secure such Men as shall be put on board her from Ships ordered into that Port to refit.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-06-21 ADM/A/1784/93

Petition of Peter Rowby in which he shows that having served at sea as Boatswain for twenty-nine years and having been wounded in the shoulder and put ashore to recover he became Boatswain of HM Yard at Deptford and now applies for superannuation.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-08-20 ADM/A/1810/198

Your letter of the 17th inst; sent to this Board an account of the Moneys certified by the Treasurer of the Navy to have been received by him from the Commissioners for Prizes for the tenths of the several Prizes taken from the Enemy, pursuant to the late Act of Parliament on that behalf.…