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Blathwayte, William
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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-09-14
ADM/A/1811/142
Warrant for the appointment of Edward Legg to be Master Gunner of the SWAN.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-09-14
ADM/A/1811/140
Warrant for the appointment of John Symonds to be Master Carpenter of the SWAN.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-09-14
ADM/A/1811/156
We have ordered the SHEERNESS and JERSEY to protect the Herring Fishery at Yarmouth, and direct you to cause the Provisions aboard these ships to be completed to two months each at Yarmouth with all possible dispatch.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-09-14
ADM/A/1811/152
Warrant for the appointment of William Barnes to be Master Cook of the SEA HORSE.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-09-11
ADM/A/1811/87
The loss of the CAMBRIDGE, which was lately cast away in the Mediterranean, having been enquired into at a Court Martial, we direct you to cause her Officers and Company to be paid off, except her Master.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-09-10
ADM/A/1811/85
Warrant for the appointment of David Griffith to be Boatswain of the GARLAND.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-09-10
ADM/A/1811/83
Warrant for the appointment of William Wall to be Master Carpenter of the VANGUARD.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-09-10
ADM/A/1811/79
Upon consideration of your letter of the 8th inst; we direct you to cause the SYAM and BRISTOL to be fitted and accommodated for Hospital Ships and Storeships, if this can be done for both services.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-09-11
ADM/A/1811/91
You have sent us a Copy of a letter from the Victualling Commissioners about the four months Provisions ordered to be provided for seventeen hundred Men going to Jamaica.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-09-11
ADM/A/1811/89
Upon the arrival of the ROYAL WILLIAM, QUEEN and NEPTUNE at Chatham, (where they are ordered) we direct you to cause them to be refitted for the next year's service with all possible dispatch.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-09-12
ADM/A/1811/105
Upon consideration of your letter today we direct you, notwithstanding any former Orders, to cause either the SYAM or BRISTOL, whichever you consider proper for this service, to be fitted as well for a Hospital as a Storeship, and that her Surgeon and crew be continued and furnished with Medicines,…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-09-17
ADM/A/1811/166
Your letter of the14th inst; proposed the allowing of five more Men to the hired Ship BRISTOL, which is ordered to be fitted as a Storeship to go to the Mediterranean.
We direct this be allowed and that she be established with the Complement of forty five.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-09-17
ADM/A/1811/168
Warrant for the appointment of Peter Jackson to be Master Cook of the SOLEBAY.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-09-19
ADM/A/1811/186
We direct you to cause the Wages due to Lieutenant Peters for the time he served as Lieutenant of the DOVER to be paid to such Person as shall be lawfully empowered to receive them, if there are no other objection than the want of his Captain's Certificate.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-09-18
ADM/A/1811/180
We direct you forthwith to imprest to Mr Edward Whittaker, Solicitor for the affairs of the Army and Navy, the sum of three hundred pounds for his defraying the Charges of such business as he shall be employed on by Order of this Board.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-09-20
ADM/A/1811/194
Mr Nicholas Barrett has made a Tender to their Majesties of a small Frigate of his building at Shoreham. We are sending you a Copy of his letter enclosed and direct you to make a survey of this Ship and report to this Board if she is fitting to be employed as a Man of War.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-09-20
ADM/A/1811/192
Upon consideration of our discussion with you today concerning the DEFIANCE, we direct you to consider a report to this Board as soon as possible with your opinion as to whether to have the Ship refitted for next year's Expedition, or for her to lie at the Buoy of the Nore as a Storeship.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-09-24
ADM/A/1811/246
We direct you to give orders to the Victualling Commissioners to take care that Provisions be provided at Dover for supplying Ships that come into the Downs from time to time and are in need of them.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-09-25
ADM/A/1811/258
Warrant for the appointment of John Slaughter to be Porter of their Majesties' Yard at Woolwich.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-09-25
ADM/A/1811/256
Warrant for the appointment of Bartholomew Clements to be Master Attendant of their Majesties' Port of Kinsale.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-09-25
ADM/A/1811/252
Our Order of the 24th last month directed you to provide three months Dry Victualls for the Fleet in the Straights under the command of of Admiral Russell. We direct you to cause three months more Dry Provisions for the Fleet to be provided and got ready to be sent away about Christmas next.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-09-25
ADM/A/1811/250
We direct you to cause a survey to be taken of the GREENWICH at the Buoy of the Nore and make a Report to this Board as soon as possible how long it will take to refit her for the Sea again, and whether she will require to be docked.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-09-21
ADM/A/1811/205
Rear Admiral Cloudesley Shovell informed us by letter yesterday that the STERLING CASTLE in the Downs has sprung her Bowsprit, and lost her Anchor and Cable.
We direct you to cause the Ship to be furnished with another Bowsprit, Anchor and Cable with all possible dispatch.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-09-21
ADM/A/1811/203
The HAMPTON COURT, having received some damage in Falmouth Harbour, and being ordered to Plymouth, we direct you to cause a survey to be taken of the Ship on her arrival there, and that she be refitted and put into a condition for Sea again with all possible dispatch.
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