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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-01-14 ADM/A/1861/157

Upon consideration of a letter from you to our Secretary concerning the debt of £14600 on Bills for Stores and Workmanship in the first Book, we directed the Cashier to the Treasurer of the Navy to give us an Account to whom the said debts were paid.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-04-24 ADM/A/1864/255

Copy of an Order addressed to Lieutenant Wilkinson in Ireland in which, having brought a Prize taken by the DOLPHIN off the coast of Portugal to Kinsale, he is ordered to ask to the Governor of the Port to imprison the mutineers of the ANGEL GABRIEL in Kinsale Castle until they can be transported to…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-04-25 ADM/A/1864/261

Warrant appointing James Yorke, Boatswain of the EXPEDITION, to be Boatswain of the new Third Rate building at Portsmouth in place of the former who has been moved to the EXPEDITION - as soon as the new vessel is ready to receive him. Countersigned by Josiah Burchett, Admiralty Board Secretary.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-04-06 ADM/A/1864/265

Warrant appointing Thomas King, late Cook of the FORTUNE Fireship, to be Master Cook of the new Fourth Rate building at Chatham in place of Daniel Sawyer deceased - as soon as she is ready to receive him. Countersigned by Josiah Burchett, Admiralty Board Secretary.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-01-10 ADM/A/1861/111

Warrant for the appointment of Thomas Griffin to be Master Cook of the SANDWICH.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-04-27 ADM/A/1864/220

Urgently ordering ships named in the margin to be fitted out for service with their lowest complements of Men and victualed for three months. The list numbers thirty-one ships all of which are 3rd Rates or below.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-04-27 ADM/A/1864/222

Charles Ardescoife is asking for payment for coating the bottoms of ships with his special compound at Deptford. A report on his account is requested.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-04-28 ADM/A/1864/224

Announcing the results of deliberations concerning the removal of "Q's" and "R's" from the names of Men listed in a Petition and instructing action.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-01-07 ADM/A/1861/60A

We direct you to imprest to Villers Bathurst, Judge Advocate of HM Fleet, the sum of fifty pounds to enable him to perform the duty of this employment.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-04-25 ADM/A/1864/180

The crew of the FLAMBOROUGH now on the coast of Ireland have been afflicted with dysentery. Orders are given for a quantity of Dr Cockburn's Medicine to be delivered to James Christie a Surgeon living in the Strand for forwarding to the ship.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-04-26 ADM/A/1864/188

Sir William Beeston Governor of Jamaica appointed Captain Thomas Bryan to be Captain of the FALCON on 12th February 1694. Orders are given for Bryan to paid wages for his time in that ship despite the appointment not having been confirmed by the Admiralty.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-04-25 ADM/A/1864/182

Giving instructions for the BURFORD currently building in Mr Snelgrove's Yard at Deptford to be launched on the first Spring tide in May.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-05 ADM/A/1834/78

We direct you to Imprest unto Mr John Fawler, the Chief Clerk belonging to our Secretary, the sum of five hundred pounds for his defraying the Contingency Charges of this Office.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-07 ADM/A/1834/82

Warrant for the appointment of Thomas Parsons to be Gunner of the ROSE Guard Ship.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-07 ADM/A/1834/80

Warrant for the appointment of John Strutton to be Master Carpenter of the SHREWSBURY.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-04 ADM/A/1834/52

We direct you to cause the Fireship HUNTER at Woolwich to be cleaned and refitted there for Channel service and victualled for three months.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-04 ADM/A/1834/38

Your letter of the 4th inst; to our Secretary informed us that the new fifth Rate Ship FEVERSHAM, building at Shoreham by Mr Ellis, may be ready to launch the next Spring.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-02 ADM/A/1834/30

Warrant for the appointment of Arthur Allen to be Master Gunner of the VESUVIUS.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-02 ADM/A/1834/28

We have considered your letter of the 28th past to our Secretary giving an account that upon your receipt of Orders for fitting to Sea the ESSEX, RUPERT, WARSPIGHT, EAGLE, BREDA, YORK and PLYMOUTH, Masters and Surgeons were appointed to them as usual.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-02 ADM/A/1834/32

The SHREWSBURY, NEWARK, CHICHESTER, and RESTORATION at Spithead, being suddenly designed for Sea, we direct you to cause them to be fitted there and put into a condition for Channel service with all dispatch, and their victualling completed to two months or ten weeks each.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-03 ADM/A/1834/44

Vice Admiral Aylmer has been ordered to cause a careful survey to be taken of the Hulls of the first and second Rates and of the old Gun Ship at Spithead, in order that we may better know which of them are in the best condition to continue there this Winter.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-01 ADM/A/1834/16

Having ordered the MONTAGUE to sail to Woolwich we direct you, upon her arrival there, to cause her to be laid up and paid off, and that her Repairs be taken in hand and dispatched as soon as may be.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-01 ADM/A/1834/14

We direct you to cause the Brigantine SPY upon her arrival at Sheerness to be cleaned and refitted for Channel service and victualled for ten weeks.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-02 ADM/A/1834/26

Having ordered the VANGUARD and ROYAL KATHERINE to proceed to Chatham to be refitted, we direct you upon their arrival there to cause their repairs to be taken in hand and the Ships put into condition for next Summer's service at Sea with all dispatch.…