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Austen, Robert
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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-06-05
ADM/A/1831/37
We direct you to cause the DUNWICH upon her arrival at Portsmouth to be forthwith cleaned and refitted there for service in the Channel and victualled for ten weeks.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-10-09
ADM/A/1835/91
You are directed to prepare and present to this Board an estimate of the following: wages, victuals, wear and tear and ordnance; stores for 40,000 men serving in ships at sea for 13 months at £4.10.0 per man per month; the Ordinary of the Navy for next year; the officers of the two Marine Regiments;…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-06-03
ADM/A/1831/13
Katherine Lovelace stands indicted for forgery of three Seamens' letters, they said to belong to the SALLY ROSE,Robert Rich; of which Captain Peircy Kerke , her son in law, was Commander.She is willing to repay the sum of nearly one hundred pounds, received by false attorney, to the Navy Trea…
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)
1696-06-04
ADM/A/1831/21
Notwithstanding any directions concerning the paying off the CORNWALL, we direct you to cause the Master, Midshipmen and other inferior Officers belonging to the said Ship, to be borne on her till such time as you proceed to paying her.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-06-03
ADM/A/1831/15
We direct you to give Orders that one of the Victualling Commissioners immediately repair to Torbay and remain there for the dispatch of the victualling of the Fleet, during their continuance in Torbay, notwithstanding one of their Agents is already with the Fleet.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-10-07
ADM/A/1835/73
George Daw is to be appointed Master Gunner 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)
1696-10-03
ADM/A/1835/40
You are directed to have Captain Stafford Fairborne paid as Captain of the LONDON for the time he acted as such by virtue of an order from Lord Berkeley dated 5 June 1696.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-10-05
ADM/A/1835/44
Your letter of 3 October proposed bringing the BURFORD to Woolwich to be repaired, either by one of the King's or merchant yards, as on survey shall be thought most advisable.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-06-01
ADM/A/1831/1
We direct you to cause two months Provisions to be sent down to the WINCHELSEA at the Buoy of the Nore.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-06-01
ADM/A/1831/3
We direct you to cause the HIND Pink upon her arrival at Sheerness to be cleaned and refitted there for service in the Channel and victualled for ten weeks.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-10-06
ADM/A/1835/54
We send you a list of ships of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Rates, excluding those great ships at Chatham, which are now at Spithead the Nore or Blackstakes, or will come to those places, and are to be fitted fior the next summer service.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-10-05
ADM/A/1835/50
You are directed to have men of the SCARBOROUGH, who are entitled to His Majesty's Bounty, by entering themselves voluntarily, to be paid as soon as she arrives at the Nore.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-10-02
ADM/A/1835/20
The Rt. Hon. Edward Russell, Admiral of the Fleet, granted a commission dated 20 June 1694, for Captain William Cleveland to be Captain of the PORTSMOUTH.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-10-02
ADM/A/1835/18
We direct you the have the EXPERIMENT cleaned and refitted at Portsmouth for service in the Channel and victualled for 10 weeks.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-10-02
ADM/A/1835/22
You are directed to have the wages due to Captain Samuel Whittaker, commander of the SOUTHSEA CASTLE, to be paid to Michaelmas 1695, taking care that the KING be made a saver out of the pay which shall in future grow due to him.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-10-02
ADM/A/1835/16
Having ordered the BURFORD stopped at the Buoy of the Nore and since she cannot now be refitted at Portsmouth, you are to give your opinion where she may best be ordered to refit.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-10-02
ADM/A/1835/30
We have confirmed a warrant given by Sir George Rooke, Admiral of the Fleet in the Mediterranean, dated 28 February 1695, for Thomas Reed to be Master Gunner of the LYME in place of the former removed to the COVENTRY.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-10-03
ADM/A/1835/34
At a Court Martial held on board the LONDON at Blackstakes on 29 September 1696, Captain John Munden, Commander-in-Chief in the River Thames and River Medway, President, enquiry was made into the loss of the FORTUNE machine vessel.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-10-02
ADM/A/1835/26
We have confirmed a warrant given by Sir George Rooke, Admiral of the Fleet in the Mediterranean, dated 25 November 1695, for Michael Allen to be Master Carpenter of the LYME in place of the former removed to the ROMNEY.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-06-23
ADM/A/1831/189
We direct you to cause the DREADNOUGHT at Spithead to be supplied with all speed with so much Provisions as will complete what is now on board her to six months for her highest complement at whole allowance. …
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-06-23
ADM/A/1831/191
We direct you to imprest unto Mr John Fawler, one of the Clerks belonging to our Secreatary, the sum of five hundred pounds for his defraying the Contingencies of this Office.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-06-23
ADM/A/1831/187
We direct you to sign Bills on the Treasurer of the Navy for the Flag Pay due to David Mitchell, Vice Admiral of the Blue, from the 29th September 1695 to the 1st January last.
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