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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-01 ADM/A/1834/20

We have already directed that the Ships and Vessels bound for foreign voyages shall be victualled for four months dry and three months wet Provisions for their highest complement of Men at whole allowance .…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-01 ADM/A/1834/18

Captain Littleton, Commander of the PORTLAND, has informed this Board that he has taken and brought into Dartmouth a French Spy carrying six Guns and four Patereroes.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-08-03 ADM/A/1833/294

Confirming an appointment made by Rear Admiral Benbow dated 4th July 1696 for Pater Braviour to be Purser of the Pendennis in place of the former who had died.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-08-17 ADM/A/1833/287

Warrant appointing Edward Now to be Boatswain of the BLAST Bomb vessel in place of the former who has been dismissed for embezzlement. Countersigned by Josiah Burchett, Admiralty Board Secretary.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-01 ADM/A/1834/5

Captain Tollat, who now commands the WARWICK, is going on a foreign voyage. We direct you to cause the Wages due to him for his service in the TALBOT Pink, SEAHORSE and WINCHELSEA to be paid, provided he shall have passed his accounts for the said Ships, and that you have no objection to the same.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-01 ADM/A/1834/1

At a Court Martial held on board the VANGUARD at the Nore on the 29th August last, Captain John Graydon, C-in-C of HM Ships in the Thames and Medway, President, John Okey, late Surgeons Mate of the ASSISTANCE, was tried for speaking treasonable and seditious words on board the said Ship on the 3r…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-04-21 ADM/A/1864/153

Warrant appointing Clement Nichols, Gunner of the ADVICE to be Master Gunner of the WARWICK in place of James Smith who has been moved to the ADVICE. Countersigned by Josiah Burchett, Secretary to the Admiralty Board.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-04-25 ADM/A/1864/161

Captain Gardner, Commander of the QUEENBOROUGH, took command of the NORWICH on the death of her Captain. Despite not being commissioned as Commander of the NORWICH, he is to be paid for his time in that capacity in that ship.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-04-25 ADM/A/1864/163

Warrant appointing Allen Knight, Boatswain of the new Third Rate building at Portsmouth, to be Boatswain of the EXPEDITION, in place of the former who has been moved to the new Third Rate.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-04-25 ADM/A/1864/165

Settling the matter of the loss of privilege of Labourers to carry out chips of timber from H.M. Yards by allowing their wives and the poor of the Parish to gather chips at permitted times.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-04-25 ADM/A/1864/169

In the past the poor of Portsmouth have derived income from picking oakum, but this has been denied them due to the oakum now being taken to Newport in the Isle of Wight. A copy of their Petition is enclosed and a report is required.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-18 ADM/A/1834/181

We direct you to cause the Fireship LIGHTNING at the Nore to be surveyed , and if not found fit for Sea service you are to let us know where it is best for her to be paid off and put into Ordinary.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-18 ADM/A/1834/179

We did sometime since direct Captain Lapthorne, Commander of the Advice Boat MERCURY, to arrive at Dover to carry to Ostend thirteen Danish soldiers, and it appears to us by Certificate that he did receive on board and deliver at Ostend eleven of the said thirteen soldiers, whose names are mentione…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-14 ADM/A/1834/151

Warrant for the appointment of John Scott to be Boatswain of the DOLPHIN.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-14 ADM/A/1834/149

We direct you to cause the Wages due to Mr Griffith Phillips for the time he served as Lieutenant of the DORSETSHIRE to be paid, notwithstanding he does not produce his Captain's Certificate of his having complied with his instructions, if you have no other objection thereto.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-15 ADM/A/1834/153

We direct you to cause an allowance of fifty pounds per annum each for house rent, to be made to Captain Byng and Mr Baker, two of the Commissioners for the Registering of Seamen, commencing from the date of their Commissions.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-16 ADM/A/1834/163

The Lords Justices direct you to cause to be delivered to Sir Cloudesley Shovell or his Order, two Cables, the one of sixteen and the other of eighteen inches, being part of the Present his Majesty is sending to the Government of Tripoli.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-12 ADM/A/1834/135

We direct you to cause the Yacht FUBBS at Deptford to be cleaned and refitted there, and put into a condition for the Sea with all possible dispatch.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-11 ADM/A/1834/127

Understanding from a late letter from you that the Ships with Provisions for Rear Admiral Benbow's Squadron are returned from Gunfleet, he having sailed, we direct you to cause the said Provisions to be sent to Harwich with the Convoy that shall be appointed, and to remain there for them agains…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-14 ADM/A/1834/147

We direct you to cause the CORNWALL at Chatham to be fitted out to Sea 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) 1696-09-10 ADM/A/1834/113

Warrant for the appointment of Thomas Baker to be Master Cook of the KENT.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-09 ADM/A/1834/107

Warrant for the appointment of Hugh Head to be Boatswain of the Fireship VESUVIUS.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-10 ADM/A/1834/111

The loss of the Ketch ALDBOROUGH, Captain Thomas Mitchell Master and Commander, which was blown up by an unknown accident on the 9th February last off Brighthelmstone, was the subject of a Court Martial at which the Officers and Company were acquitted.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-09 ADM/A/1834/109

Warrant for the appointment of Hugh Gaine to be Purser of the BREDA.