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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/1786/33
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.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-07-22 ADM/A/1821/179
We direct you to pay Mrs Mary Symonds, Widow of Captain Thomas, late Commander of the HAMPSHIRE, the sum of two hundred pounds, out of the money in the hands of the Navy Treasurer for the tenth of Prizes taken from the Enemy, in consideration of the particular good service performed by her husband, …
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-10-11 ADM/A/1812/140
The Navy Board has sought advice concerning the payment of the Commanders of Fireships and Hospital Ships and the payment of Masters and Surgeons and the bounty to be paid to the widows and orphans of Officers killed in action and including Pilots.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-09-15 ADM/A/1811/158
Whereas John Rixwell was appointed Master Caulker of the West India Squadron, and his widow Rebecca Rixwell having petitioned this Board for his Wages for the same, we direct you to cause such an allowance to be made him for the time he served in the said employment, as by our letter to you dated 19…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-06-13 ADM/A/1796/87
A Petition by Sarah Hunter, Widow, concerning her Son, Thomas Hunter, who served on the hired Ship PRINCESS ANNE, then on ST MICHAEL, but was made Run on the former Ship and did not receive his Wages for his service on her.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-01-18 ADM/A/1780/133
Your Report to this Board of December 22nd last concerning the Petition of Blanch Colvin, Widow of James Colvin, informed us that the Petitioner's husband, a Quarter Gunner of the TIGER PRIZE, voluntarily went onshore in the Expedition against St Christopher's and received a facial woun…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-07-29 ADM/A/1797/211
Requiring a Pension to be settled on Anne Skelton, the Widow of Captain Charles Skelton late Commander of the CORONATION. Further details are given.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-07-13 ADM/A/1785/118
Captain John Votear, formerly Commander of the FIREDRAKE, and the Widow of William Rogers, Gunner of the PORTSMOUTH, which were taken by the French, have presented their Petitions, stating that upon their return from Prison there to Plymouth in March 1689, Sir Cloudesley Shovell ordered them on boar…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-02-01 ADM/A/1781/3
Application has been made by Mary Swarton, widow of John Swarton a Midshipman in the PRINCESS ANN hired ship, praying their Majesties' Bounty for the loss of her husband, alleged to have been in command on shore at Guadalupe in the West Indies when killed by enemy shot.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-08-07 ADM/A/1822/339
Your report of 17 July 1695 on the petition of Mary Kercher, Widow of Captain Thomas Kercher, late Commander of the RUPERT, advised us that he entered men for the ship on 24 February 1693 and continued in that service until she was launched on 4 April 1693.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-08-07 ADM/A/1822/373
We have received a petition from the widow of Joseph Tippior, setting forth that her husband was in a merchant ship in the West Indies, the KATHERINE, Robert Scottin, Master, hired by the Governors of Barbados for an expedition against Martinique.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-02-06 ADM/A/1781/40
You are directed to have allowances made of their Majesties' Bounty to the widows and relatives of men who were slain in the HAPPY RETURN in a fight with the French, notwithstanding that their Captain has not signed their certificate.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-08-03 ADM/A/1786/25
Enclose petition, supporting the wife of Captain George Aylmer, slain in a fight at sea. Desire and direct her Widows Pension to be paid.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-07-24 ADM/A/1832/232
Upon consideration of your report of 30 June of the petition of Hannah Budwell, widow of Mathias Budwell, you are directed to make the usual allowance to him for the time he served as Provost Marshall of the fleet.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-06-25 ADM/A/1784/253
Urgently requiring the Commissioners for Victualling to be instructed to reach agreement with the Commissioners for Transportation, or the Masters of the Transport ships, for feeding the Watermen manning the Shallops round to Portsmouth