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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-07-25 ADM/A/1785/226

The loss of the SWALLOW, PORTLAND, PHOENIX and HAPPY RETURN has been inquired into at a Court Martial on board the BRITANNIA on the 9th of July. The Court has aquitted the Commanders and Officers of these Ships.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-08-12 ADM/A/1798/120

You are directed to have Captain Wishart, Commander of the SWIFTSURE, to be furnished with another tender, besides which is already ordered, to enable him to procure men for the ship.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-07-27 ADM/A/1785/244

Warrant for the appointment of Joshua Bell to be Purser of the hired Ship WARRINGTON.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-07-22 ADM/A/1785/210

We direct you to consider some Persons who by their service in the Navy, either as Clerks in your Office, in the Yards, or to the Commanders of Ships, or otherwise in the Fleet, you judge qualified to be employed as as Pursers in their Majesties' Ships, and send us a List of their names, with a…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-07-23 ADM/A/1785/214

We direct you to cause the Brigantine DISCOVERY upon her arrival at Portsmouth to be forthwith cleaned and refitted for service in the Channel, and victualled for three months or as much as she can conveniently stow, and that all possible dispatch be used.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-08-10 ADM/A/1798/103

You are directed to have Captain Crow, Commander of the NORWICH , furnished with a smack to enable him to procure men for the ship.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-07-22 ADM/A/1785/205

We direct you to cause one month's Victuals for twenty thousand Men to be forthwith shipped and sent to their Majesties' Fleet by some fitting Merchant Ships to be taken up for that purpose, and that all possible dispatch be made, sending us an account in what time they can be got ready to…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-08-10 ADM/A/1798/111

The GUERNSEY, lately returned from the West Indies, is ordered to Deptford to be cleaned and refitted. You are directed to have this completed as soon as possible and to have her made up to her highest complement of men and furnished with 3 months victuals for service in the Channel.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-08-10 ADM/A/1798/113

Valentine Cocklyn, Boatswain of the yard at Chatham, is suspended from his employment for embezzlement of stores. You are directed to discharge him and pay him the wages due to him to the time he was first suspended. You are to recommend to us some fitting person to replace him.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-08-10 ADM/A/1798/109

Your letter of 7 August that it appeared necessary to you that more forges should be set up at Portsmouth as they are not capable of answering the demands from the iron works, especially in the winter season when the fleet is refitting.…

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.