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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1689-11-30 ADM/A/1764/155

Ordering the rebuilding of the Cooperidge at Tower Hill to be put in hand.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1690-05-16 ADM/A/1767/209

You are directed to have the wages due to the officers and company of the KINGFISHER ketch, taken by the French, paid to them or their relations or attorneys duly empowered to receive the same.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1689-11-19 ADM/A/1764/83

Requiring the Provisions aboard the SAMPSON Hired ship in the Downs to be made up to five months; and to provide a sufficient number of Barges to be at Tower Wharf next Thursday morning to carry a Company of Grenadiers to the GREYHOUND in Long Reach.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1690-05-14 ADM/A/1767/201

You are directed to imprest to Mr Samuel Pitt, one of the Clerks of our Secretary, the sum of £300 to enable him to defray the contingencies of this office.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1690-04-23 ADM/A/1767/92

Joseph Townes, Storekeeper at Harwich, has petitioned for an allowance for mustering ships at that port, and your report of 20 April gave your opinion that his present yearly salary of £25 should be increased to £60 for employment as both Storekeeper and Muster Master.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1690-04-24 ADM/A/1767/95

The King has been pleased to order Colonel Dering, Commander of the MARY galley, to leave his command to attend his service in Ireland as Colonel of a Regiment of Foot. You are directed to have the wages paid due him for his service in the Navy.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1690-04-04 ADM/A/1767/13

Your letter of 29 March and survey of some provisions remaining in the Tower of London delivered there for the garrison advised that some part was defective. You are directed to give order to the Commissioners of the Victualling to receive the provisions and dispose of them.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1689-11-22 ADM/A/1764/107

Ordering sweeping a change in the way that victualling is administered and controlled by requiring all Houses and Offices at Tower Hill and in the out Ports to be emptied of all victuals, cask hoops and bread bags etc and delivered by Survey to five named individuals appointed by the Crown.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1689-11-25 ADM/A/1764/111

Informing that Captain Thomas Jennings has been appointed to be one of the Master Attendants at Chatham in place of Simon Duning

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1689-11-25 ADM/A/1764/121

Enclosing an Estimate for Victuals for a large number of Men for various periods in the next year.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1690-05-08 ADM/A/1767/164

The fleet under the command of the Earl of Torrington is to rendezvous in the Downes and you are directed to have the fleet supplied with victuals during their continuance there, so that when they sail they may have on board as much as they can conveniently stow.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1690-05-08 ADM/A/1767/166

You are directed that when the pay of the men on board ships at the Buoy of the Nore is dispatched, the Comptroller of the Navy is to pay the men in ships at the Hope.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1689-11-18 ADM/A/1764/77

Requiring the Provisions aboard the BERKELEY CASTLE Hired ship currently in the Hope to be made up to five months; and for the WOOLWICH to be refitted and victualled for service in the Channel on arrival at Chatham.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1689-11-19 ADM/A/1764/81

Informing that a number of new Fireships are to be built by next Spring and asking how many of these can be built in Royal Yards, in time, without prejudicing other works. Those that cannot are to be built in Merchant Yards care being taken that they are good sailers.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) ADM/A/1760/29

Lord Berkeley to be paid as Rear Admiral, 14th December 1699 to 17th January following.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1689-12-07 ADM/A/1764/453

Warrant appointing John Cross, Boatswain of the TIGER, to be Boatswain of the EAGLE in place of the former who has been discharged. Countersigned by Phineas Bowles, Secretary to the Admiralty Board.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1689-12-17 ADM/A/1764/457

Warrant appointing Thomas Ratcliffe to be Boatswain of the TIGER in place of John Cross who has been moved to the EAGLE. Countersigned by Phineas Bowles, Secretary to the Admiralty Board.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1689-12-12 ADM/A/1764/412

The RICHARD and MARTHA Hired Ketch, Arthur Condore late Commander, has been lost on the coast of Ireland. The Navy Board is instructed to solicit the Treasury for money to cover her freight and for the wages of the Captain and Crew for their time in the ship.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1689-12-17 ADM/A/1764/428

Warrant appointing Henry Stanyford to be Master House Carpenter at Portsmouth Yard in place of his Father who has resigned his commission. Countersigned by Phineas Bowles, Admiralty Board Secretary.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1689-12-17 ADM/A/1764/426

Warrant appointing John Stephenson to be Boatswain of the BRISTOL in place of the former who has been moved to the HOPE. Countersigned by Phineas Bowles, Admiralty Board Secretary.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1689-12-21 ADM/A/1764/430

Warrant appointing Oliver Smith to be Cook of the EXPERIMENT. Countersigned by Phineas Bowles, Admiralty Board Secretary.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1689-12-21 ADM/A/1764/432

Warrant appointing Thomas Parsons, Gunner of the LARK, to be GUNNER of the EXPERIMENT.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1689-12-21 ADM/A/1764/438

Warrant appointing John Beale to be Cook of the SWAN. Countersigned by Phineas Bowles, Admiralty Board Secretary.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1690-05-09 ADM/A/1767/235

Request is made to us by Mrs Rebecca Hayter, widow of Thomas Hayter, late Assistant to the Comptroller of the Navy, that she may be allowed her husband's salary to the end of that quarter in which he died.…