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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-04-26 ADM/A/1864/196
Confirming a Warrant issued by Captain Phineas Bowles Commander of the NORWICH on 28th September 1698 for John Baxter to be Boatswain of the NORWICH. Countersigned by Josiah Burchett, Admiralty Secretary.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-01-09 ADM/A/1861/102
We direct you upon the arrival of the RYE in the Downs (where she is ordered) to cause her victualling to be completed to three months for her lowest complement of Men, and furnished with what stores are needed for a voyage to the Canaries with all dispatch.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-04-27 ADM/A/1864/204
Enclosing a report on the condition of the Docks at Portsmouth and the Docks and Buildings at Plymouth that indicate that repairs are required and requesting an opinion as to how matters are to be taken forward.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-01-10 ADM/A/1861/113
Warrant for the appointment of John Tricker to be Master Gunner of the CHATHAM.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-01-10 ADM/A/1861/123
Warrant for the appointment of Richard Lucas to be Boatswain of the CHATHAM.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-04-29 ADM/A/1864/228
Enclosing the Petition of Lady Laton, the Mother of the late Captain John Laton who was killed taking the MAGDALEN a French Privateer delivered to Officers in the Yard at Plymouth.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-04-25 ADM/A/1864/176
A number of ships named in the margin have been ordered to proceed to the Downs. The Commissioners for Victualing are to be instructed to provide a sufficient quantity of victuals to enable all ships to make up their stores to two months.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-04-25 ADM/A/1864/178
Requiring that the Commissioners for Victualing be instructed to send a year's foodstuffs to Newfoundland aboard the Hampshire sufficient for sixty-one Soldiers. The money to be requested from the Treasury.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-04-25 ADM/A/1864/184
Confirming a Warrant issued by Captain Phineas Bowles of the NORWICH on the 4th August 1698 for George Marshall to be Master Gunner of the NORWICH in place of the former who has died. Countersigned by Josiah Burchett, Secretary to the Admiralty Board.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-04-26 ADM/A/1864/186
Acknowledging the input of the Navy Board in the removal of "Q's" and "R's" from the names of Men listed in a Petition and giving instructions as to the course of action to be taken in each case.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-09-02 ADM/A/1823/20
Warrant appointing Henry Lane, Gunner of the BURLINGTON, to be Master Gunner of the ASSURANCE in place of the former who has been moved to the BURLINGTON. Countersigned by William Bridgeman, Admiralty Board Secretary.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-09-02 ADM/A/1823/16
Warrant appointing John Bird to be Boatbuilder at Portsmouth in place of the former who has been dismissed. Countersigned by William Bridgeman, Admiralty Board Secretary.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-09-02 ADM/A/1823/18
Warrant appointing Ralph Jeffrys, Gunner of the ASSURANCE, to be Master Gunner of the BURLINGTON in place of the former who has been moved to the ASSURANCE. Countersigned by William Bridgeman, Admiralty Board Secretary.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-09-03 ADM/A/1823/26
Captain Benbow has submitted an Account of Expenses incurred on the Coast of France. The Navy Board is aked to examine it and to report to the Admiralty.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-09-03 ADM/A/1823/28
Captain John Jennings and Captain Henry Haughton of the MARY and DEVONSHIRE are to be paid two thirds of their wages as they are required suddenly to return to the Mediterranean in the CHICHESTER and SHREWSBURY.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-08-02 ADM/A/1810/337
Warrant for the appointment of Joseph Simmons to be Master Carpenter of the MERCURY Advice Boat.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-08-30 ADM/A/1810/321
Warrant for the appointment of William Platt to be Boatswain of the JOSIAH.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-08-30 ADM/A/1810/315
We direct you forthwith to prepare and present to this Board an Estimate of the Charge of paying three thousand Seamen unto Michaelmas next ensuing, who are intended to be turned over from the great Ships ordered about to Chatham to be refitted, into some other of their Majesties' Ships.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-08-31 ADM/A/1810/327
Warrant for the appointment of Michael Bowen to be Master Cook of the JOSIAH
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-08-31 ADM/A/1810/333
You have informed us by your report of the 14th inst; on the Petition of John Stephenson, Boatswain of the HUMBER, that he and his servant were employed in fitting the Ships Rigging from January 15th 1693 to the 30th March following, when she was launched.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-08-29 ADM/A/1810/311
We direct you, upon the arrival of the hired Ship DELAWALL at the Buoy of the Nore (where she is ordered) to cause her Officers and Company, excepting the Commissioned and Warrant Officers, to be forthwith turned over into the SWIFTSURE at that place.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-04-22 ADM/A/1864/157
Acknowledging the input of the Navy Board in the removal of "Q's" and "R's" from the names of Men listed in a Petition and giving instructions as to the course of action to be taken in each case.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-09-10 ADM/A/1823/123
Warrant appointing Edward Nicholson to be Purser of the ROCHESTER in place of the former who has died.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-09-10 ADM/A/1823/125
Settling a Pension on John Bond, later Master Carpenter of the SANDWICH.