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Document signed by Josiah Burchett (c.1666-1746), Secretary to the Admiralty (1694-1742) (Manuscript) 1696-11-18 ADM/A/1836/168
Their Lordships have received your letter concerning Captain Crosse and they have reprimanded him for writing to you in the style he did in the extract of his letter you enclosed to them.
Document signed by Josiah Burchett (c.1666-1746), Secretary to the Admiralty (1694-1742) (Manuscript) 1696-11-14 ADM/A/1836/122
By order from their Lordships you were directed to have David Kilpatrick, Surgeon of the DUNWICH, removed to a ship not bound for the Straits in order that he should be present when Captain Smith his late commander is tried.…
Document signed by Josiah Burchett (c.1666-1746), Secretary to the Admiralty (1694-1742) (Manuscript) 1696-11-12 ADM/A/1836/94
In answer to your letter about the ships going to and coming from the West Indies, their Lordships have asked me to send you the following account: from the West Indies - ST 16ALBANS prize, COLCHESTER, JERSEY, NEWCASTLE, VIRGIN prize, SOUTHAMPTON, PRINCESS ANN, RESERVE, HAMPSHIRE, RICHMOND.…
Document signed by Josiah Burchett (c.1666-1746), Secretary to the Admiralty (1694-1742) (Manuscript) 1695-02-09 ADM/A/1816/84
Orders have been sent to the SOLEBAY to convoy the JOHN & MARY and the SOMERLY past the Gunfleet and on to the Nore where the Commander-in-chief has instructions that the first available warship should convey them on to Portsmouth.…
Document signed by Josiah Burchett (c.1666-1746), Secretary to the Admiralty (1694-1742) (Manuscript) 1695-01-24 ADM/A/1815/250
Their Lordships having sent orders to Commodore Greenhill at Plymouth, that in case the Cadiz convoy pass by there without calling for the ships at that port, he orders ships or vessels that are laden with provisions or stores for the fleet at Cadiz to come to Portsmouth, so that they may be ready t…
Document signed by Josiah Burchett (c.1666-1746), Secretary to the Admiralty (1694-1742) (Manuscript) 1695-02-06 ADM/A/1816/56
Captain Jackson of the SMYRNA MERCHANT at Gravesend has only one day's provisions left. Orders are given for her to be supplied immediately.…
Document signed by Josiah Burchett (c.1666-1746), Secretary to the Admiralty (1694-1742) (Manuscript) 1696-11-26 ADM/A/1836/256
The HAMPSHIRE being arrived from Jamaica and the advice from there being that the Governor intends to send home the PRINCESS ANNE, there will remain there only the RESERVE and the SOUTHAMPTON. You are advised so that you may better judge the proportion of stores for them by the next convoy.
Document signed by Josiah Burchett (c.1666-1746), Secretary to the Admiralty (1694-1742) (Manuscript) 1696-11-28 ADM/A/1836/266
Your letter of 13 November about the Storekeeper at Harwich, Mr Ferne, has been put before their Lordships.…
Document signed by Josiah Burchett (c.1666-1746), Secretary to the Admiralty (1694-1742) (Manuscript) 1696-12-04 ADM/A/1837/51
The HAMPSHIRE and SORLINGS have lately returned, the former from the West Indies and the other from New England, and they are coming to the Downs, and from there the SORLINGS is ordered to the Nore.…
Document signed by Josiah Burchett (c.1666-1746), Secretary to the Admiralty (1694-1742) (Manuscript) 1696-12-12 ADM/A/1837/156
I inform you that that the Admiralty Commissioners have ordered Captain Munden to send a Frigate with Mr Gould's Hemp Ship from Sheerness to the Downs, and that Orders are lodged in the Downs for her being convoyed from there to Portsmouth.…
Document signed by Josiah Burchett (c.1666-1746), Secretary to the Admiralty (1694-1742) (Manuscript) 1696-12-22 ADM/A/1837/245
The Admiralty Commissioners have received a letter from Captain Butler, Commander of the LION at Woolwich, in which he gives an account that his Ship has received very great damage by ice in her Bows, and they have commanded me to send you a Copy of Captain Butler's letter, with their direction…
Document signed by Josiah Burchett (c.1666-1746), Secretary to the Admiralty (1694-1742) (Manuscript) 1696-12-18 ADM/A/1837/196
In answer to your letter of yesterday's date informing that the Ship with Stores for the new 4th Rate building at Hazell near Hull is still lying at Sheerness for want of a Convoy, I would inform you that Orders were sent to Captain Munden, C-in-C at the Nore on receipt of your letter of the 11…
Document signed by Josiah Burchett (c.1666-1746), Secretary to the Admiralty (1694-1742) (Manuscript) 1697-01-23 ADM/A/1838/244
Enclosing an extract of a letter from Captain Munden notifying the Admiralty of a shortage of bread in ships at the Nore. The Commissioners for Victualling are to informed accordingly.
Document signed by Josiah Burchett (c.1666-1746), Secretary to the Admiralty (1694-1742) (Manuscript) 1697-01-26 ADM/A/1838/290
Enclosing an extract of a letter dated 15th October last from Captain Weighman of the COLCHESTER at Nevis, in which he notifies the Admiralty of a lack of Provisions and Slops. An Order is given that the matter is to be attended to.
Document signed by Josiah Burchett (c.1666-1746), Secretary to the Admiralty (1694-1742) (Manuscript) 1697-01-28 ADM/A/1838/332
A report is required as to how quickly the ASSISTANCE at Sheerness, the HAMPSHIRE and SORLINGS in the Thames and the MONCK at Chatham can be readied for the sea.
Document signed by Josiah Burchett (c.1666-1746), Secretary to the Admiralty (1694-1742) (Manuscript) 1697-01-28 ADM/A/1838/328
Enclosing a copy of a letter from Colonel Richards who claims to have invented a new pump which states should be installed in HM Ships. A speedy opinion is required as Colonel Richards is about to leave the country.
Document signed by Josiah Burchett (c.1666-1746), Secretary to the Admiralty (1694-1742) (Manuscript) 1697-01-30 ADM/A/1838/345
Orders have been sent to Captain Munden at the Nore to order the SHEERNESS to convoy the Transporter to the Downs with Stores for the BREDAH and to return and to assist in the towing of boats and masts.
Document signed by Josiah Burchett (c.1666-1746), Secretary to the Admiralty (1694-1742) (Manuscript) 1695-05-27 ADM/A/1819/263
The Protection granted to Robert Hasnet, a caulker in Chatham Yard, has been confiscated by the Lieutenant of the UNITY, Hasnet having been found "upon another man". The Admiralty wishes to know Hasnet's whereabouts.
Document signed by Josiah Burchett (c.1666-1746), Secretary to the Admiralty (1694-1742) (Manuscript) 1696-01-07 ADM/A/1838/61
The Navy Board is to inform the Admiralty where the NORWICH which is currently in the DOWNS and bound for the West Indies can most speedily be sheathed.…
Document signed by Josiah Burchett (c.1666-1746), Secretary to the Admiralty (1694-1742) (Manuscript) 1697-01-13 ADM/A/1838/103
Forwarding an extract of a letter from Vice Admiral Aylmer in which he reports that the VICTORY has become crank and opines that she should be girdled; and requesting a survey to be made of the SWIFTSURE which has arrived at the Nore having lost her main mast.
Document signed by Josiah Burchett (c.1666-1746), Secretary to the Admiralty (1694-1742) (Manuscript) 1696-01-08 ADM/A/1838/70
Enclosing an Estimate of the Quantity, Cost and Tonnage of Provisions for a large number of Men for Ireland for forwarding to the Commissioners for Victualing for their opinion.
Document signed by Josiah Burchett (c.1666-1746), Secretary to the Admiralty (1694-1742) (Manuscript) 1695-07-24 ADM/A/1821/198
The Admiralty Commissioners have approved of the cleaning of Ships sent into Portsmouth by Lord Berkeley, and have given Orders for cleaning and refitting such Ships that are ordered into Port by Lord Berkeley for that purpose, as you will be informed by their letter to you of today's date.
Document signed by Josiah Burchett (c.1666-1746), Secretary to the Admiralty (1694-1742) (Manuscript) 1695-07-09 ADM/A/1821/47
I received your letter yesterday about the ADVICE, which is ordered to go round England, and in order thereto to proceed North about Scotland and cruise to the westward of Ireland till her provisions are nearly expended, so that by the time she comes to Plymouth she will want cleaning, for which rea…