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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-03-17 ADM/A/1773/88

The orders of this Board of 14 March having directed that 6th Rate ships should be sent out to Virginia and Maryland, to supply in place of the DUNBARTON, you are to consider and report to us which 6th Rates will be most fitting to be sent and may be soonest fitted for that voyage.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-03-21 ADM/A/1773/106

You are directed to imprest the sum of £50 to Lord Berkley, for defraying the cost of procuring men for the ST ANDREW under his command, besides the sum he has already received for that service.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-03-21 ADM/A/1773/108

We understand from Admiral Killigrew that the PHOENIX has [?] provisions on board and wants her best bower anchor and cable. You are directed to have 2 months provisions and a best bower anchor and cable sent to her immediately at the Buoy of the Nore.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-03-11 ADM/A/1773/55

You are directed to have the ST GEORGE, now a 1st Rate, reduced to a 2nd Rate.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-03-16 ADM/A/1773/80

You are directed to have built at Chatham, two galleys each with 40 oars, for towing ships to and from that yard and the Blackstakes. The two vessels to be of 80 ft in length, midships breadth to be 16 ft and the bank for the oars to project 2ft 6ins.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-03-16 ADM/A/1773/82

You are directed to have the salaries of this office for the Christmas quarter last past, paid out of what now remains with the Treasurer of the Navy of money appropriated by Act of Parliament.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-03-13 ADM/A/1773/67

Your letter of yesterday advised us that the new 4th rate ship building at Woolwich, will be ready to launch the next spring tides, and that the Master Shipwright proposes the launch on 21st of the month.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) ADM/A/1773/69

Your letter of 13 February sent us an estimate for building and equipping 27 new ships, with 17 of the 3rd Rate to be about 1100 tons to carry 80 guns and 10 of the 4th Rate to be about 900 tons and carry 60 guns, according to the late Act of Parliament.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-03-14 ADM/A/1773/73

You are directed that when paying their Majesties fleet to 1 October, pursuant to our order, you pay only those men who personally appear to receive their wages, the letters of attorneys and administrations to be paid at the office, upon the recalls of ships according to the practise of the Navy.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-06-19 ADM/A/1796/122

Warrant for the appointment of Edward Stafford to be Purser of the hired Ship PRINCE GEORGE.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-06-19 ADM/A/1796/124

As soon as the PLAY Prize comes to Spithead, out of Portsmouth Harbour, where we have ordered her to be cleaned and refitted, we direct you to cause her to be paid to the time the Ships of the Main Fleet are paid.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-06-16 ADM/A/1796/104

We direct you to sign Bills on the Navy Treasurer for paying to Lord Cornwallis his Salary as one of the members of this Board, for Lady Day Quarter last, in which Quarter his Lordship resigned his appointment.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-06-16 ADM/A/1796/108

It appears to us by a letter from Sir Edward Gregory, a Commissioner at Chatham, enclosed in yours of the 14th inst; to our Secretary, that Valentine Cocklyn, Boatswain of that Yard, did several years since, when Boatswain of the ROTTERDAM Hulk, embezzle one of their Majesties' Warpes and sell …

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-01-20 ADM/A/1780/158

Warrant for the appointment of Bennett Smith to be Master Cook of the JULIAN PRIZE.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-06-19 ADM/A/1796/120

Having ordered the PLAY Prize into Portsmouth Harbour to be cleaned and refitted, we direct you to cause her to be taken in hand and completed as soon as possible, and furnished with three months victuals, and such proportion of Stores fitting for Channel service.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-06-14 ADM/A/1796/85

Captain Lawrence Wright served as C-in-C of twelve Ships of War, over and above Fireships and other small Craft, in his late voyage to the West Indies.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-06-13 ADM/A/1796/80

We direct you to cause the Dutch Longboat, that some time since was driven ashore within the jurisdiction of the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, and is now in the custody of Mr Stock, their Muster Master and Storekeeper at Deal, to be delivered to the Lord Warden's Officer, taking care if Mr S…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-06-15 ADM/A/1796/93

In your letter of May 31st you have opined that the number of Men and number and nature of Ordnance hereafter mentioned are fitting to be established on the hired Ship the PRINCE GEORGE, Viz; one hunded and twenty Men and thirty six Guns of the nature mentioned in your letter, and that she be establ…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-06-14 ADM/A/1796/89

Warrant for the appointment of William Skeffington to be Master Carpenter of the new fourth Rate Ship building by Mr Snelgrove.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-06-08 ADM/A/1796/61

We direct you to cause Captain Kirkby, Commander of the SOUTHAMPTON, to have five days further use of the Vessel now in the River that lately tended on the SUSSEX, for the better enabling him to secure such Men as he has got for the said Ship under his Command.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-06-07 ADM/A/1796/57

Captain Evans, Commander of the RICHMOND, has informed us that in turning the Ship down St. Clement's Reach the wind took her astays and backed her on the edge of a shelf, where she sat upwright and easy till the next flood.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-01-18 ADM/A/1780/118

Warrant for the appointment of Richard Jenkins to be Master Gunner of the FALCON.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-01-18 ADM/A/1780/116

Warrant for the appointment of Samuel Smith to be Purser of the new third Rate Ship building in the Chatham Yard.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-01-15 ADM/A/1780/114

By our warrant of May 31st 1689 you were directed to cause an exchange to be made between John Cart, Purser of the SUFFOLK, and Christopher Lovelace, Purser of the FALCON…