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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-10-12 ADM/A/1835/121

You are directed to have the DEFIANCE and DUNKIRK at Chatham and the CHARLES galley and VESUVIUS fireship at Sheerness, cleaned and refitted for a voyage to the Canaries and each victualled for 4 months.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-10-12 ADM/A/1835/129

Our order of 10 October directed that the LITCHFIELD be refitted at Portsmouth. She has since been ordered to Plymouth and is to be cleaned and refitted there and victualled for 10 weeks.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-06-08 ADM/A/1831/63

We direct you to cause the PENZANCE at Liverpool to be cleaned and refitted there for service in the Channel, and victualled for three months.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-10-09 ADM/A/1835/107

You are asked for your opinion as to where the BIDEFORD, now in the Hope, should be ordered to be sheathed.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-10-09 ADM/A/1835/103

A commission was given by Rear Admiral Benbow dated 12 June 1696 for Captain Henry Turvill to be captain of the PEARL. You are directed to have him paid for the time he acted in that capacity if you have no objection.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-10-09 ADM/A/1835/111

You are directed to give orders that the CENTURION and ESSEX prize at the Nore, be furnished as soon as possible with such quantity of provisions to complete what they now have to 10 weeks each.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-10-09 ADM/A/1835/113

We send you herewith the defects of the VULCAN and St PAUL fireshipsat the Nore, and direct you to have them surveyed and report their condition and where they should be repaired.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-06-04 ADM/A/1831/27

Warrant for the appointment of William Cornwall to be Master Gunner of the Pink PARAMOUR.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-06-04 ADM/A/1831/29

Warrant for the appointment of John Matthews to be Boatswain of the Pink PARAMOUR.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-10-08 ADM/A/1835/85

We have considered your letter of 6 October and direct you to give orders to the Commissioners of the Victualling to immediately furnish credit to the commanders of the PENDENNIS and CHESTER, to provide victuals at Hull.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-10-08 ADM/A/1835/79

You are directed to have the BURLINGTON upon her arrival at Portsmouth, cleaned and refitted there for service in the Channel and victualled for 10 weeks.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-10-08 ADM/A/1835/83

You proposed bringing the ten bomb vessels MORTAR, GRANADA, COMET, CARCASS, FIREDRAKE, SERPENT, BLAST, BASILISKE, FURNACE and TERROR to Deptford and putting them into the wet dock.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-10-09 ADM/A/1835/97

At the Buoy of the Nore are the ships BRITANNIA, ROYAL WILLIAM, SANDWICH, NEPTUNE, ALBERMARLE and OSSORY, not yet ordered to Chatham where they are to be fitted for next summer's service.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-06-05 ADM/A/1831/41

Warrant for the appointment of William Nunn to be Purser of the GOSPORT.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-10-09 ADM/A/1835/95

Your letter of today sent an extract from one of the Commissioners of the Victualling, advising that they were unable to victual the ten ships which were ordered for foreign convoys, for want of money.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-10-08 ADM/A/1835/89

A commission was granted by the Hon. Sir George Rooke, Admiral and Commander-in-Chief of His Majesty's fleet, to Mr Robert Pennecuik to be Master and Commander of the OWNERS ADVENTURE bomb vessel, dated 24 May 1696.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-06-03 ADM/A/1831/9

Having received a letter from Lord Berkeley, Admiral of the Fleet, giving an account of what the Butchers near Torbay offer to kill fresh Provisions for the Fleet, we are sending herwith an extract of the said letter, and direct you to communicate the same to Victualling Commissioners, and order the…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-10-06 ADM/A/1835/57

Sir George Rooke, Admiral and Commander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean, granted a commission dated 20 January 1696, for Captain Robert Hollqinan to be Captain of the FIREDRAKE bomb vessel.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-10-06 ADM/A/1835/61

You are directed to have the allowance of 6 shillings per diem, made out to Mr George Larkin, Deputy Judge Advocate, for as many days as it appears to you he has attended at Courts Martial out of the fleet, since the date of his commission, over and above his allowances of 8 shillings per diem, in t…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-10-06 ADM/A/1835/59

Renatus Jordam, who is going as Secretary of Languages with the squadron bound for foreign service under command of Sir Cloudlessly Shovell, was appointed Muster Master of the Red Squadron in the Mediterranean by the Rt. Hon. Edward Russell.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-06-04 ADM/A/1831/23

We direct you upon the arrival of the LION at Chatham (where she is ordered) to cause her to be forthwith cleaned and refitted there for service in the Channel, and her victualling completed for four months.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-06-04 ADM/A/1831/19

Having granted Warrants to William Maunder, William Cornwall and John Matthews, appointing them Boatswain, Gunner and Carpenter of the Pink PARAMOUR for the better performance of the voyage on which she is going under the command of Mr Edmund Haley, these Officers are to be paid by the persons who a…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-10-07 ADM/A/1835/75

Abraham Jones is to be appointed Boatswain of the BRISTOL. You are to enter him accordingly together with such allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant. His warrant is to be dated 7 October 1696.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-06-04 ADM/A/1831/25

Warrant for the appointment of William Maunder to be Master Gunner of the Pink PARAMOUR.