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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-01-22 ADM/A/1826/246

Enclosing, for consideration, Benjamin Timewell's account of the expenses he incurred in moving from Portsmouth to take up his appointment as Commissioner at Kinsale.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-01-22 ADM/A/1826/242

Flag pay to be paid to: Admiral Russell as Admiral of the Fleet; Lord Berkeley as Admiral of the Blue; Sir Cloudesley Shovell as Admiral of the Blue; Matthew Aylmer as Vice Admiral; and Peregrine Marquess of Carmarthen as Rear Admiral.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-08-10 ADM/A/1833/77

Warrant appointing John Deeble to be Boatswain of the GERMOON Prize. Countersigned by William Bridgeman, Admiralty Board Secretary.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-08-10 ADM/A/1833/75

The PORTSMOUTH has sprung her foremast and is to receive a replacement either at Portsmouth or Sheerness.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-08-10 ADM/A/1833/79

Warrant appointing Peter Babb to be Master Carpenter of the GERMOON Prize. Countersigned by William Bridgemen, Admiralty Board Secretary.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-07-28 ADM/A/1832/282

You are directed to have a bill made out to Mr Edward Burt, on of the Chief Clerks belonging to our Secretary, for his salary for the last quarter ending 24 June, as if he had served the whole quarter in this office, and that his salary as Secretary to the Commissioner for Registering of Seamen comm…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-07-28 ADM/A/1832/280

We sent you an account delivered to this Board by Mr Blackwell of charges incurred, during his residency at Livorno as Consul, in maintaining clothing services to mariners taken by the enemy and then sent to that port.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-08-07 ADM/A/1810/69

Notwithstanding any former Orders we direct you to give directions to the Plymouth Yard Officers that the NORWICH is not to be cleaned until the next Spring tides after those that are now coming on, but that she be repaired meanwhile.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-08-07 ADM/A/1810/71

Warrant for the appointment of Benezar Robinson to be Master Gunner of the Yacht HENRIETTA.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-08-07 ADM/A/1810/63

We direct you to cause a survey to be taken of a Prize lately taken by the WEYMOUTH and now at Plymouth, and if she shall be found fitting to serve as a Man of War you are to order her being bought for this purpose, and to solicit the Lords of the Treasury for money to do the same, giving us an acco…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-08-07 ADM/A/1833/59

Ordering the cleaning and refitting of the ASSISTANCE and PEARL on arrival at Sheerness and Chatham respectively together with ten weeks Provisions.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-08-10 ADM/A/1833/71

Ordering the cleaning and refitting of the WILLIAM and MARY Yacht at Deptford.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-08-03 ADM/A/1810/47

Warrant for the appointment of Andrew Rogers to be Master Gunner of the SHOREHAM.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-08-03 ADM/A/1810/45

We direct you to cause a Survey to be taken of a Prize lately taken by the DUNKIRK and WEYMOUTH, and now at Kinsale in Ireland.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-08-06 ADM/A/1833/44

Concerning the sending of a deputation to New England to assess the suitability of timber grown there and to bring back samples.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-08-05 ADM/A/1833/36

Ordering the cleaning and refitting of the PORTSMOUTH on arrival at Sheerness together with a supply of ten weeks Victuals for service in the Channel.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-08-06 ADM/A/1810/57

In pursuance of her Majesties ' pleasure signified to this Board by Sir John Trenchard, Principal Secretary of State, we direct you forthwith to imprest to Lord Berkeley five hundred pounds for the contingencies of the Fleet under his command.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-08-02 ADM/A/1810/29

We direct you forthwith to order the Master Shipwright of the Portsmouth Yard to make a Draught or Model of a Bomb Ketch according as Colonel Richards shall direct.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-08-02 ADM/A/1810/31

We direct you to cause the Wages due to Captain Warren, late Commander of the PEMBROKE, for the time he commanded her, as also the Wages due to Lieutenant Foster, late Lieutenanant of the said Ship for the time he served in her, to be forthwith paid them, notwithstanding their Journals and other Pap…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-08-02 ADM/A/1810/33

Your letter of the 30th July past proposed that the GREYHOUND Dogger and FROG Machine Vessels should be allowed the same number of Officers and Men as the MASTERLAND and YOUNG LADY, and the twelve Vessels with the little Machines (whose names are mentioned in the margin) a Master and four Men in eac…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-08-01 ADM/A/1810/7

Warrant for the appointment of James Barber to be Purser of the SUFFOLK Hagboat.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-08-01 ADM/A/1810/11

Warrant for the appointment of Leonard Buck to be Boatswain of the new Yacht now building at Chatham.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-08-01 ADM/A/1810/1

We direct you to cause the DOVER (now at Sheerness) to be cleaned and refitted there for Channel service, manned with her highest complement of Men, and victualled for three months.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-04-04 ADM/A/1829/315

Mary Morden, Widow of George Morden, lately belonging to the MILFORD, has presented a Petition to this Board stating that her husband was slain in fight on board that Ship when she was taken by the Enemy, but as most of her Officers were killed, she does not have their Certificates.…