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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-09-05 ADM/A/1823/65

Ordering Officers in H.M. Yards to receive individually copies of the Proclamtion the subject of Item 63 above and to ensure that further copies are permanently displayed at entrances to H.M. Yards.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-09-04 ADM/A/1823/39

Ordering the CHARLES GALLEY to be cleaned and refitted on her arrival at Portsmouth for service in the Channel together with ten weeks Victuals.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-09-04 ADM/A/1823/45

Warrant appointing Thomas Frith, late Master Carpenter of the LEOPARD, to be Master Carpenter of the EXETER. Countersigned by Josiah Burchett, Admiralty Board Secretary.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-09-04 ADM/A/1823/41

Jonathan Freeman, disharged from the BRITANNIA, has given evidence against persons taken in the PRINCE of WALES Prize and was detained until a date in November is to be born on the Books of the said ship from the time of his discharge to the time he was appointed Gunner of the PORTSMOUTH Prize.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-04-02 ADM/A/1841/20

Ordering the William and Mary Yacht to be coated with a special preparation of pitch donated by the Earl of Scarborough instead of the usual pitch kept in store at Deptford.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-04-01 ADM/A/1841/14

Warrant appointing James Pybus, Boatswain of the MONMOUTH, to be Boatswain of the ALBEMARLE in place of the former who has died.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-10-30 ADM/A/1835/337

The RUBY, DOLPHIN, BIDDEFORD, LINCOLN, TRIDENT and SCARBOROUGH are to go to the West Indies, and you are to have the ships victualled for 8 months and to their middle complement of men.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-10-30 ADM/A/1835/321

We are informed that the LITCHFIELD, in the Downes, has but 6 days provisions for 360 men.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-04-03 ADM/A/1841/44

Warrant appointing William Webster, late Boatswain of the PORTSMOUTH Prize, to be Boatswain of the GRANADA Bomb vessel in place of the former who has been moved to the SHEERNESS. Countersigned by William Bridgeman, Admiralty Board Secretary.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-04-05 ADM/A/1841/57

Warrant appointing Thomas Ferrabee to be Boatswain of the WILLIAM and MARY Yacht. Countersigned by William Bridgeman, Admiralty Board Secretary.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-04-02 ADM/A/1841/30

Allowing a payment to Admiral Aylmer for his time in the Straits. On the reverse is an Account.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-04-02 ADM/A/1841/24

Due to the pressure of work he is under Mr Whittaker, Solicitor to both the Admiralty and the Navy Board, is to be allowed £50 per annum to employ a Clerk.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-04-03 ADM/A/1841/42

Ordering the MONMOUTH to be cleaned and refitted on arrival at Chatham for service with the Main Fleet in the Channel. The OWNER's LOVE is to be refitted at Portsmouth and victualled for four months.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-06-10 ADM/A/1831/73

We direct you to caise the CHESTER at Chatham to be fitted out to Sea for service in the Channel, manned with her highest complement of Men and victualled for three months.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-06-08 ADM/A/1831/67

We direct you to give Orders that when Lord Bekeley, Admiral of the Fleet, sends into Port any of the Ships under his command to clean, this should be dispatched with all possible diligence.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-06-10 ADM/A/1831/80

A Commission was granted by Sir William Phipps, Governor of New England, dated The 3rd of July 1693, for Lieutenant Richard Helson to be Lieutenant of the CONCEPTION Prize.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-06-10 ADM/A/1831/75

Upon consideration of your letter concerning the OXFORD we direct you to cause the Ship to be fitted with all dispatch at Portsmouth, where she now is, for a voyage to Newfoundland, and to supply her with six months provisions for her highest complement of men.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-06-10 ADM/A/1831/77

We are sending enclosed an Order of their Excellencies the the Lords Justices, together with the Proposals of William Partridge for the building of Ships in New Hampshire for his Majesty's Navy, and providing Naval Stores.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-06-08 ADM/A/1831/53

The Advice Boat MERCURY having received some damage by the TERRIBLE Guardship running aboard her, we direct you to cause her to be repaired and put into a condition for Sea with all possible dispatch…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-06-08 ADM/A/1831/59

We direct you to cause the ANGLSEA now 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) 1696-06-05 ADM/A/1831/39

Mr Meester, who is employed in the fitting of Machine Vessels for this Summer's service, informs us that he has taken up several Vessels which he must make up in performance, but he wants Colours to signify their being in his Majesties' service.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-06-01 ADM/A/1831/5

Warrant for the appointment of John Warren to be Master Carpenter of the Fireship VULCAN.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-06-02 ADM/A/1831/7

Warrant for the appointment of Richard Bubb to be Master Cook of the CORNWALL.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-09-04 ADM/A/1823/375

Concerning the naming, crewing, arming and victualling of the new ships building at Blackwall and Deptford as concerning the Burlington, HARWICH and PENDENNIS.