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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-02-03 ADM/A/1827/27

Warrant appointing Benjamin Kirkby, late Purser of the PRINCE of ORANGE, to be Purser of the NEWCASTLE in place of the former dismissed for neglect of duty. Countersigned by William Bridgeman, Joint Secretary to the Admiralty Board.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-02-04 ADM/A/1827/35

Lord Berkeley has been asked to state what quantities of provisions will be required for vessels of various I Rates to be deployed this Summer, including water.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-02-03 ADM/A/1827/13

All of the inferior Officers in the NEW AFRICA have been turned over into the LONDON. An Order is given for them to be paid before that ship sails.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-02-03 ADM/A/1827/11

Captain Kirkby of the SOUTHAMPTON has reported that he will be short of provisions when departing for the West Indies. Instructions are given for him to be supplied immediately with the greatest amount of provisions he can take aboard.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-02-03 ADM/A/1827/9

Directing that Fireships named in the margin be fitted for service with the Main Fleet in the places in which they currently lie. They are to be cleaned last of all and victualled for four months for the highest complement of Men.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-02-03 ADM/A/1827/17

Orders are given for the new Brigantine the POST BOY building at Deptford, The INTELLIGENCE at Woolwich and the FLY at Portsmouth, to be launched and fitted for service in the Channel and entered on the List of the Navy. They are to be manned with Establishment crews and victualled for two months.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-02-13 ADM/A/1827/166

The LENOX at Portsmouth is to be part of the Channel Fleet during the coming Summer. Every effort is to be made to clean, refit and victual her in common with other vessels in the fleet without delay.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-02-14 ADM/A/1827/174

The Navy Board had been instructed by Privy Seal to sell the TIGER Prize. Fresh instructions are now issued for her to be sunk at Sheerness to form a breakwater to the graving dock.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-02-14 ADM/A/1827/172

Riggers at Chatham are to be retained at Chatham until the work of fitting out the Capital ships is complete. They are then to join those ships with the usual allowance of bounty.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-02-18 ADM/A/1827/201

The Navy Board has reported that they have hired a French Prize at Biddeford called THE TOWN OF ST MALO to serve as a Fifth Rate Man-of-War. Their recommendation for her to receive a crew of 120 men together with some thirty-six large and six smaller guns already on board is accepted.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-02-12 ADM/A/1827/156

Informing that Colonel Russell, Governor in Chief in Barbadoes, has written to the Committee for Trade and Plantations complaining of the difficulties he is experiencing in obtaining Stores for ships in the West Indies.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-02-11 ADM/A/1827/122

Amplifying an earlier instruction to the Navy Board to send a Commissioner down the Thames and into the Medway to chase progress in the preparing of ships both in dock and afloat for sending to the Nore.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-02-11 ADM/A/1827/126

Warrant appointing John Sinclair, late Boatswain of the BASILISK Bomb Vessel, to be Boatswain of the SCARBOROUGH. Countersigned by William Bridgeman, Secretary to the Admiralty Board.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-02-11 ADM/A/1827/128

Warrant appointing Thomas Lowry (Carpenter of the BASILISK Bomb Vessel) to be Carpenter of the FLY Brigantine. Countersigned by William Bridgeman, Secretary to the Admiralty Board.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-02-12 ADM/A/1827/136

Warrant appointing Daniel Randell, late Cook of the BERKELEY CASTLE, to be Cook of the DOVER in place of the former who has died.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-08-26 ADM/A/1822/361

Representations were made to the Lords Justices that several seamen had deserted and orders were given to the Earl of Romney, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports and Lord Lieutenant of Kent, to send directions to the Mayors of Canterbury and Sandwich, to set watches to secure such seamen and send them o…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-08-26 ADM/A/1822/357

John Curling, Pilot, was sentenced by Court Martial at Blackstakes to pay £20 to the Chest at Chatham on 26 December next, for running the HENRY prize aground. We enclose a copy of the sentence and direct you to take care that £20 is paid accordingly.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-08-06 ADM/A/1822/355

Richard Rawlinson, Martha his wife, Sarah his daughter, have confessed to receiving several sums of money on forged Letters of Attorney in seamen's names. £231.16.07 for men of the GUERNSEY, HAMPSHIRE and HARWICH. £75 for men of the SCARBROUGH ketch. £21.10.06 for men of the DRAGON.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-08-26 ADM/A/1822/365

We have considered your letter of 23 August, enclosing one from Mr Whittaker, and your observation on the inconvenience of paying persons who seize the King's goods, the third part of the value before the offenders are convicted.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-08-26 ADM/A/1822/363

The PENZANCE now fitting at Sheerness by order of the Lord Berkeley, Admiral of the Blue, you are directed to have her victualled for 10 weeks for service in the Channel with all dispatch.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-08-07 ADM/A/1822/341

You are directed to pay the wages of John Crabb for his service on board the ADVENTURE, to such as shall be legally empowered to receive them, notwithstanding our order to you of 25 January 1692/3.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-08-06 ADM/A/1822/351

The seamen of the HAPPY RETURN have applied for their share of the prize money for the VIRGIN prize taken by her. You are directed to give an account to this Board of the condition of this prize when she was delivered into the charge of the Officers of the Navy.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-08-06 ADM/A/1822/347

Captain Elliott, Commander of the LYME, complained in his letter of 5 August of the ship being very crank. An extract of his letter is enclosed. You are directed to make inquiry of she comes to be crank and whether this is caused by over building her or otherwise and to make a report to this Board.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-08-08 ADM/A/1822/343

Your letter to us of 21 April 1692 advised us that you perused the account of Mr Phineas Bowles and how he had disposed of £1500 impressed to him for defraying contingency charges of the fleet commanded by the late Lord Dartmouth Notwithstanding that he had provided receipts, you did not think your…