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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-12-10 ADM/A/1837/133

Warrant for the appointment of John Yeames to be Master Gunner of the SUN PRIZE.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-12-10 ADM/A/1837/131

We direct you to cause the BONAVENTURE, SEVERN and CROWN at Plymouth to be fitted and cleaned and victualled for two months, without obstructing the fitting and victualling of the Foreign Convoys at that Port.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-12-10 ADM/A/1837/129

We direct you on arrival of the ESSEX PRIZE at Sheerness to cause her to be cleaned and refitted there for service in the Channel, and victualled for ten weeks with all dispatch.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-12-09 ADM/A/1837/113

A warrant was given by Admiral Russell, dated May 9th 1995, for Mr Bradly Vyoll to be a Volunteer on board the Fireship CRESCENT.
We direct you to cause the usual allowance to be made to him during the time he served in that capacity.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-12-09 ADM/A/1837/109

We are sending you an extract of his Majesty's Order in Council , dated the 3rd December, relating to a Naval Officer or Officers in the Plantations, and the supplying of the Men of War which shall be appointed to attend on the same with fresh Provisions for the health of their Men, and direct …

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-12-09 ADM/A/1837/107

We direct you to cause the SHEERNESS, on her arrival at Chatham, to be sheathed and fitted there for a voyage to the West Indies, and victualled for eight months of proper Species for that voyage for her middle complement of Men.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-12-14 ADM/A/1837/162

Warrant for the appointment of James Brown to be Master Carpenter of the ANGLESEY.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-12-15 ADM/A/1837/172

We direct you to cause Richard Bond, Surgeon of the SUFFOLK, to be turned over into the EDGAR along with his Commander and his Men.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-12-15 ADM/A/1837/168

We direct you forthwith to give Orders for entering Men on all HM Ships designed for the Main Fleet for the next Summer Service.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-12-15 ADM/A/1837/164

Admiral Russell granted a Warrant on the 13th December 1694 to John Chaddock to be Purser of the GRAFTON, who had been for several years Clerk to Vice Admiral Mitchell.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-12-11 ADM/A/1837/142

We direct you to cause the DUKE at Chatham to be fitted out for service in the Channel as one of the Ships of the Main Fleet, manned with her highest complement of Men, and victualled in the same manner as the other Ships of the Main Fleet.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-12-11 ADM/A/1837/137

A Petition of Edmund Lowance, Carpenter of the DEVONSHIRE, to be considered for superannuation.
The Petition is referred for consideration and Report.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-11-10 ADM/A/1837/135

Warrant for the appointment of John Meecham to be Boatswain of the SEAFORD.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-12-07 ADM/A/1837/81

As you have proposed in your letter of the 5th inst; we have ordered the SORLINGS to Deptford and the HAMPSHIRE to Woolwich, and direct you on their arrival there to cause them to be cleaned and refitted for Service in the Channel, their present complement of Men increased to the highest number, and…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-12-08 ADM/A/1837/91

We direct you to cause the BRISTOL at Plymouth to be fitted there for a voyage to the West Indies and victualled for eight months of proper Species for that voyage for her middle complement of Men.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-12-07 ADM/A/1837/85

Your letter of the 5th inst; has represented to us that the members of your Board who are Commissioners of the Registry are of the opinion that a Quarterly Account instead of a Monthly Account of the deductions made from the Seamen for the Greenwich Hospital will be more proper and easy for the Navy…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-12-22 ADM/A/1837/235

There were some time since delivered to your Board from the Officers of the two Marine Regiments, Lists of their respective Company's, and we direct you to cause the Lists to be Cast, and the Captains to be paid the Wages due to their Men for the year 1695.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-12-23 ADM/A/1837/253

Mr Edward Whitaker, Solicitor for the affairs of the Admiralty and Navy, has presented to this Board his Account of Disbursements between the 4th November 1695 and the 5th November 1696, amounting to the sum of three thousand eight hundred and fifty seven pounds, nineteen shillings and two pence.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-12-22 ADM/A/1837/251

Warrant for the appointment of Hezekial Stevens to be Master Gunner of the SEAFORD.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-12-19 ADM/A/1837/222

The HAMPSHIRE SORLINGS, which are to lie some time at the Buoy of the Nore, are in great need of Provisions. We direct that you give orders for them to be immediately supplied, and also the Vessels in the River taken up for pressing Men, without which they cannot sail. …

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-12-19 ADM/A/1837/218

We direct you to cause the DUNWICH, upon her arrival at Plymouth, to be cleaned and refitted there for service in the Channel, and victualled for ten weeks, with all possible dispatch.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-12-18 ADM/A/1837/214

The Plymouth Commissioner has informed us that there is a great lack of Provisions at Plymouth for Ships that are there to be victualled.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-12-21 ADM/A/1837/230

We directed you to consider and report to this Board what Prices are proper to allow to Pursers in the Fleet to the Seamen for Provisions of each Specie which they shall save from time to time out of their daily allowance, so they may be kept in the Fleet and not sold as formerly to Merchant ships o…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-12-19 ADM/A/1837/224

Warrant for the appointment of Humphrey Hayward to be Master Carpenter of the ESSEX PRIZE.