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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-02-11 ADM/A/1839/117
The DEPTFORD and SMIRNA MERCHANT, now in Yarmouth Roads, are ordered to convoy the trade from there to Holland, and to stay there 8 days for them.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-02-08 ADM/A/1839/78
We have received a letter from Israel Browne, Master of the MARGARET yacht of London, giving an account of an anchor at Margate which has the King's mark. You are directed to have the anchor returned to His Majesty's stores.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-02-24 ADM/A/1839/265
Richard Card, late Boatswain of the CHARLES galley, is to be appointed Boatswain of the BETTY. You are directed to enter him accordingly together with such allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant as is proper. His warrant is to be dated 24 February 1696/7.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-02-24 ADM/A/1839/271
Joseph Luke, Carpenter of the COMET, bomb vessel, is to be appointed Master Carpenter of the MILFORD. You are directed to enter him accordingly together with such allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant as is proper. His warrant is to be dated 24 February 1696/7.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-02-24 ADM/A/1839/269
Benjamin Laurence is to be appointed Master Cook of the BETTY. You are directed to enter him accordingly together with such allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant as is proper. His warrant is to be dated 24 February 1696/7.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-02-24 ADM/A/1839/267
John Thompson is to be appointed Master Cook of the LIZARD. You are directed to enter him accordingly together with such allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant as is proper. His warrant is to be dated 24 February 1696/7.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-02-23 ADM/A/1862/245
You received direction to have a stop put on any wages assigned by Rice Lloyd to others without order from this Board on information received that he had been forging letters of attorney assigning wages to others.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-02-23 ADM/A/1839/257
At a Court Martial held on board the DREADNOUGHT in Hamoze on 17 February, Captain Whetstone, Commander of the PRESIDENT. Enquiry was made into the PENDENNIS being run aground in Rye Bay and it being found to be the omission of Richard Brincknell, Master, he was mulcted 6 months pay.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-02-19 ADM/A/1839/201
The Commander of the HENRY prize at Hull informs us that her beam is rotten and we have ordered her to the Nore. You are directed to give your opinion as to where she may be most conveniently be fitted for sea.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-02-20 ADM/A/1839/213
John Daniel is to be appointed Master Gunner of the MILFORD. You are directed to enter him accordingly together with such allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant as is proper. His warrant is to be dated 20 February 1696/7.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-02-22 ADM/A/1839/232
In pursuance of His Majesty's pleasure signified to William Blathwayte Esq., Secretary at War, you are directed to have allowed on the accounts of the Purser of the NONSUCH, the sea provisions which the Scots officers and soldiers were supplied with from the time they came on board to that of t…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-02-22 ADM/A/1862/225
The Commissioners for the Victualing have recommended that Mr Robert Westbrooke and Mr Harvey serve as their agent in the Straits, they having been there in 1695. They also think a clerk should be sent there to assist them. The former agent was allowed £200 per annum and his clerk £60 per annum.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-02-22 ADM/A/1839/230
The NONSUCH and POOL are ordered on immediate service and you are directed to have them victualled to 10 weeks each, the former in the Downes and the other at Portsmouth. If the POOL cannot be victualled at Portsmouth you are to have it done in the Downes.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-02-21 ADM/A/1839/226
William Powell is to be appointed Master Carpenter of the BLAST bomb vessel. You are directed to enter him accordingly together with such allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant as is proper. His warrant is to be dated 21 February 1696/7.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-02-23 ADM/A/1862/237
John Knell, Boatswain of the FALKLAND is to be appointed Boatswain of the NORTHUMBERLAND in place of John Renett dismissed by Court Martial for embezzlement. You are to enter him accordingly and his warrant is to be dated 23 February 1699.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-02-17 ADM/A/1839/179
The Rt. Hon. Lord Berkeley granted a commission to Captain Thomas Jennings on 6 June 1696 to be Second Captain of the BRITANNIA. You are directed to have the wages due to him for the time he served to be paid, if you have no other objection than his commission not being renewed by this Board.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-02-19 ADM/A/1862/179
Your letter of 13 February informed us that the Officers of Sheerness have advised that there are several small works to be done to complete the OXFORD, which were not done after her return to Woolwich in 1697. You are directed to have these works put in hand and completed as soon as may be.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-01-20 ADM/A/1861/202
We have considered your letter of the 18th inst; to our Secretary, together with the Account from the Victualling Commissioners of the Officers and Clerks employed in their Office, with the respective Duties they perform, and what Salaries are allowed them yearly.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-01-15 ADM/A/1861/172
On the 31st December we directed you to cause three of the six Clerks that belonged to the Members of your Board who are employed in the Registry Office, and were discharged, to be re-entered again for the better carrying on of the business of that Office, the Charge of which Clerks it is intended s…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-01-17 ADM/A/1861/182
We have considered your letter of the 10th inst; together with the Copy of one to your Board from the Victualling Commissioners, concerning the furnishing the East Indies Squadron with Credits.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-01-17 ADM/A/1861/184
By the instructions given to the Commanders in Chief of such Ships as are ordered to be laid up and paid off at Chatham, Portsmouth and Plymouth, for managing the Guard Boats in these harbours, it is directed that the said Boats shall be commanded nightly by Captains and Lieutenants of the aforesaid…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-01-20 ADM/A/1861/198
Captain Whittaker, Commander of the Chatham at Plymouth, has informed us that he has about six weeks of West India Provisions on board, which not being of the same species with which other Ships in the harbour are victualled, the Men desire their return to the Victualling Office, or distributed to t…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-03-25 ADM/A/1828/342
Make Mr. Codner an allowance as a Volunteer during the time he served aboard the TRIDENT PRIZE.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-02-08 ADM/A/1862/69
Captain Thomas Bryan, formerly Commander of the FALCON which was taken by the enemy in the West Indies in May 1694, was lately tried at a court martial for the loss of the ship and acquitted. A copy of the trial is enclosed.…