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Austen, Robert
Cary, Anthony
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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-06-22
ADM/A/1775/139
Are sending an account rendered by several tradesmen for clothing, lodging and subsistence supplied by them for the Marine Regiments.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-06-22
ADM/A/1775/84
James Smiter, late Gunner of the GEORGE, Hired Ship, to be paid as a Lieutenant for the time during which he took command of the ship after her captain died. John Smith, late Gunner of the DRAKE, to be paid for the time he assumed the post of Gunner of the GEORGE.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-07-31
ADM/A/1775/269
Confirming a Warrant by Captain Mathew Aylmer, Captain of the RUPERT and Commander-in-Chief of ships in the Mediterranean, appointing John Langrick, to be Master Carpenter of the SWALLOW.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-07-01
ADM/A/1775/268
Recto: The petition of Captain Richard Cotton, late Master Attendant at Plymouth, requesting that he be paid the appropriate allowances for his service as Captain of the Plymouth Hulk.
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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-07-29
ADM/A/1775/274
Enclosing a copy of letter from Mr John Whitlow of Dartmouth who has in his custody a cable and four anchors salvaged from Torbay. The men who recovered these items having never been paid for this service, Mr Whitrow asks that he be allowed to sell the cable and use the proceeds to pay them.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-07-24
ADM/A/1775/222
The CHARLES GALLEY ordered to Chatham where she is to be cleaned, refitted and victualled for service in the Channel.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-07-24
ADM/A/1775/220
Distribution of appropriated money.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-07-25
ADM/A/1775/226
The ROYAL CHARLES to be victualled at Portsmouth ready for her being brought round to Woolwich
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-07-24
ADM/A/1775/224
The ANN, Ketch, lately returned from the Mediterranean, to be paid off and discharged.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-07-26
ADM/A/1775/232
The REBECCAH [REBECCA], Hired Ship, to be provisioned at the Nore.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-07-27
ADM/A/1775/236
1. Enclosing a letter from Phineas Pett, in which he offers to build on commission two of the 27 ships that are to be built in accordance with an Act of Parliament. Consider and advise.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-07-20
ADM/A/1775/207
The NORWICH and the DIAMOND to be fitted out and provisioned for a voyage to the West Indies and manned with her middle-complement of men.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-07-20
ADM/A/1775/211
Consider and report which yards are to refit the ships returned from the Mediterranean, namely the: RUPERT, MORDAUNT, SWALLOW, NEWCASTLE, OXFORD, PORTLAND and GREENWICH. The ROYAL CHARLES is to bring some of the men belonging to these ships from Portsmouth to Woolwich.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-07-10
ADM/A/1775/181
The ASSURANCE and the PEARL[E], currently on the coast of Flanders, to be victualled at the Nore in readiness for their being deployed on convoy duties to the East Country.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-07-13
ADM/A/1775/189
To impress money to Henry Waddell, Mayor of Canterbury, for reimbursing those inhabitants of Canterbury who have provided quarters for Marine Regiments.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-07-14
ADM/A/1775/193
The JULIAN, Prize, to be victualled at Portsmouth.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-07-13
ADM/A/1775/191
The KITCHEN, Yacht, to be cleaned and refitted at Deptford.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-07-14
ADM/A/1775/195
Office salaries to be paid.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-07-16
ADM/A/1775/199
The HART, Ketch, to be refitted, cleaned and victualled at Sheerness.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-05-02
ADM/A/1830/9
A Commission was granted by The Rt. Hon. Admiral Russell dated 16th Oct. 1694 to Mr Gerrard Lestock to be First Lt. of HMS LENOX under the command of Captain Christopher Myngs.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-05-01
ADM/A/1830/5
We desire you to pay the Rt. Hon. Edward Russell £42 10s he having disbursed this to 17 Pilots sent from Newport to serve in the Fleet which was under his command off Dunkirk.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-05-02
ADM/A/1830/7
We desire and direct you to cause HMS RUPERT PRIZE (upon her arrival at Sheerness) to be forthwith Cleaned and Refilled there for Service in the Channel, and Victualled for 3 Months Service
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-05-04
ADM/A/1830/19
At a Court Marshall held on board HMS QUEEN on 22 Feb. 1695/6 Sir George Rooke Admiral of the White President John Marshall Boatswain of the FLAME Fireship tried for carelessness in endangering the burning of the Fireship.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-05-11
ADM/A/1830/91
We direct you to supply a proper vessel to procure men for HMS FOWY now at Shoreham.
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