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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-07-23
ADM/A/1809/193
The Navy Board are required to attend at the Admiralty on the following day to bring with them Mr Hooker's contract for supplying timber to the Navy as previously notified; and in the event that Mr Hooker is available, he is also to attend.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-07-25
ADM/A/1809/207
The Master Storekeeper of Ordnance has opined that each of the vessels the Navy Board has provided can load two of the small Machines; but orders are given to stick to the original instruction to provide one vessel for each Machine.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-07-25
ADM/A/1809/205
The PRINCE of ORANGE is to be cleaned and refitted on arrival in Plymouth at her owner's expense and victualled for three months service in the Channel; but if her owner refuses to pay for the refit the charge is to be deducted from her hire.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-06-30
ADM/A/1808/304
You are directed to have the JERSEY cleaned and refitted upon her arrival at Portsmouth, for service in the Channel. She is to be victualled for 3 months with all possible dispatch.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-06-29
ADM/A/1808/302
You advised in your letter of 27 June, that the privateer lately taken by the PORTSMOUTH and brought into Falmouth, is fit to serve as an advice boat and may carry 45 men and 10 guns in war and 30 men and 8 guns in time of peace.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-07-02
ADM/A/1809/7
Thomas Crow has been Court Martialled for running the HAMPTON COURT aground on the Galloper and is deemed unfit to continue as a pilot. A copy of the proceedings held at the Nore is enclosed.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-06-26
ADM/A/1808/266
Captain Phillips, Commander of the POST BOY advice boat, has advised us by his letter yesterday from the Downs, that the boats belonging to her are so heavy and long that upon tacking she is brought out of trim.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-06-25
ADM/A/1808/264
Captain Paynton, Commander of the BASING galley at Rye, advises us that she needs a boat having none but a Deal yawl. Also several stores.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-06-25
ADM/A/1808/262
You are directed to imprest to Mr Francis Payntor, one of our Secretary's clerks, the sum of £300 to enable him to defray the contigencies of this office.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-06-26
ADM/A/1808/272
You are directed to pay to Captain Desborow, Commander of the VIRGIN PRIZE, the sum of £20 for the charge of going from London to Ireland to command the DOVER prize.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-06-28
ADM/A/1808/300
In your letter to this Board of 25 June, you asked to be informed who is to bear the charge of the marked paper which in pursuance of the late Act of Parliament is to be used in your office for Warrants to Masters of their Majesties' ships, contracts, charter parties and other things.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-06-28
ADM/A/1808/298
You are directed to make enquiry as to which vessels are at Dover, Deal or thereabouts, fitting to serve their Majesties as advice boats and to buy two of the best sailers and have them fitted for sea.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-07-03
ADM/A/1809/17
A Ketch is to be provided for pressing men in the Thames for the MONCK which is currently refitting at Portsmouth.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-07-02
ADM/A/1809/11
Two months victuals are to be sent immediately to the PRINCE GEORGE Hired ship at the Nore.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-07-03
ADM/A/1809/19
The MESSENGER Advice boat at Falmouth is to be cleaned and readied for sea as soon as possible and provided with two months victuals.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-07-04
ADM/A/1809/31
Mr John Parker at Corunna is to be paid for the Pieces of Eight he purchased and sent to Admiral Nevill at Cadiz and carried in the GERMOON Prize.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-07-04
ADM/A/1809/29
Captain Barber of the PRINCE GEORGE has reported that following survey her main mast has been found unserviceable. Her owners are to be instructed to send a replacement mast to her at the Nore.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-07-11
ADM/A/1809/94
A new Yacht is being built at Chatham. An opinion as to the number of men required to crew her as well as the number and nature of guns with which to arm her is required.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-07-11
ADM/A/1809/106
Warrant appointing Charles Bridgar to be Master Sailmaker to the Navy in place of William Blackway who has been dismissed. Countersigned by James Southerne, Secretary to the Admiralty Board.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-07-11
ADM/A/1809/104
Edward Whittaker, Solicitor to the Admiralty and the Navy, is to be paid three hundred pounds to cover the expense of his conducting business for the two bodies.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-07-11
ADM/A/1809/102
The JOSEPH is to be victualled on arrival at Portsmouth with eight months dry provisions together with as much wet provision as she can stow; and any necessary stores for a voyage to Newfoundland.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-07-11
ADM/A/1809/98
Requiring the wages due to John Walster for his time in the BRISTOL to be paid despite his having been entered on the books of the WOOLWICH as having deserted.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-07-12
ADM/A/1809/114
Thomas Bare, late Boatswain of the DEVONSHIRE, is to be awarded a pension based upon his length of service.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-07-13
ADM/A/1809/126
Requiring that the wages due to Captain James Ward late Commander of the DUNKIRK be paid to his Executors for his time in that ship despite her books being said to be lost.
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