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Chicheley, John
Herbert, Arthur
Herbert, Thomas
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Lowther, John
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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-03-22
ADM/A/1766/110
1. Are sending a copy of a letter from the Ordnance Officers recommending a change in the number and type of guns specified for the fireships now building. Advise whether the recommendations should be implemented.
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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-03-22
ADM/A/1766/108
James Sothern [Southerne], Secretary to the Admiralty, to receive a salary of £500 a year, paid quarterly.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-03-21
ADM/A/1766/106
The Lord Bishop of Exon, Vice-Admiral of the Southern Parts of Cornwall, complains that his officers are discouraged by them not having been reimbursed for money expended in pressing seamen.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-07-06
ADM/A/1761/89
Pay Edward Gregory his salary of £500 per annum, commencing from Ladyday last.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-07-20
ADM/A/1761/235
Order the vessels with water for the fleet to proceed to the Nore Buoy. Send account of abilities of Yards.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-07-12
ADM/A/1761/170
Send stores to the ESSEX by some small vessel from Chatham.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-07-26
ADM/A/1761/267
Provide Medal and chain to the Value of £50 given to Robert Cason, Master the RICHARD ADVICE of Ipswich, as reward for his courage and valour in defending himself against two Harwich Privateers. Pay Thomas Neale, Master of the Royal Mint for providing the same.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-07-16
ADM/A/1761/196
The two French prizes taken by NONSUCH to be fitted and provisioned. Whether to supply the ships going to the West Indies with stores on board, or to provision them there. Can the QUAKER be spared for service in the West Indies? Hire two vessels proper for the same.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-07-16
ADM/A/1761/198
The EAGLE, ELIZABETH, and SARAH having returned to Sheerness, direst to cause the men on board belonging to the NONSUCH be forthwith returned to her.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-07-30
ADM/A/1761/296
Supply the hired ship SUCCESS with stores, deducting the cost from the monies payable to the owners.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-07-24
ADM/A/1761/263
To hire a Ship at Bristol to be fitted as a man-of-war, to go in pursuit of two privateers operating off Milford Haven.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-07-09
ADM/A/1761/124
Two ships lately taken by the JAMES GALLY to be brought to Deptford.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-07-19
ADM/A/1761/213
Forward condition report from Captain Jones of the FORESIGHT, on her fitness for voyaging to the West Indies.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-07-01
ADM/A/1761/1
Furnish Captain John Giles with a vessel to hasten by convoy the ships now in the Thames, and laden with provision and ordnance stores, to Chester, Whitehaven, and Londonderry.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-07-06
ADM/A/1761/85
DUNKIRK, FORSIGHT, and BRISTOL to be provisioned for service to the Plantations.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-07-10
ADM/A/1761/130
Fit out the two French ships, MAY and JESTER, taken by the NONSUCH. What establishment is needed for their Service in the Channel.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-07-23
ADM/A/1761/253
Lord Torrington complains of Insufficient beer for the fleet at Plymouth. Supply same proportionally.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-07-03
ADM/A/1761/25
Lord Nottingham enquires what provisions are in store at Plymouth.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-07-26
ADM/A/1761/271
Hasten the Store ship to the Nore Buoy, in order for her to proceed from there under the Convoy of the MONMOUTH and the ESSEX.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-07-23
ADM/A/1761/255
Hired ships SAMPSON, HANNIBAL, and SCEPTRE to convoy Water Ships from the Nore, take the Hulk for Plymouth under their Convoy.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-03-14
ADM/A/1766/51
1. A new 4th-Rate to be laid down at Chatham, having the same dimensions as the SEDGMORE and, where possible, materials and stores salvaged from the wreck of the SEDGMORE to be used in her.
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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-03-13
ADM/A/1766/49
Captain Wren, commanding the CORONATION, Hired Ship, has returned a large quantity of defective provisions. To be disposed of.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-03-15
ADM/A/1766/53
To provide transportation for two companies of foot soldiers to New York under convoy by the ARCHANGEL, Hired Ship.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-02-28
ADM/A/1766/71
No men employed by the Commissioners of the Navy, Victualling or Ordnance, and who carry a Protection signed by three or more Commissioners, are to be pressed.
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