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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1699-02-23
ADM/A/1862/245
You received direction to have a stop put on any wages assigned by Rice Lloyd to others without order from this Board on information received that he had been forging letters of attorney assigning wages to others.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1697-02-23
ADM/A/1839/255
We have received a petition from James Lordeau, lately belonging to the VICTORY, that by a fall he broke his back but could not get a certificate from the Surgeon. He is unable to get a pension from the Chest at Chatham and prays to be received as a cripple on board one of His Majesty's ships.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1697-02-23
ADM/A/1839/261
The CENTURION at the Nore being in want of provisions, you are directed to have her victualling completed to 10 weeks with all dispatch.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1697-02-19
ADM/A/1839/201
The Commander of the HENRY prize at Hull informs us that her beam is rotten and we have ordered her to the Nore. You are directed to give your opinion as to where she may be most conveniently be fitted for sea.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1697-02-18
ADM/A/1839/205
Samuel Roberts is to be appointed Master Cook of the BLAST bomb vessel, in place of the former removed to the ST PAUL fireship. You are directed to enter him accordingly together with such allowance of for himself and servant as is proper. His warrant is to be dated 18 February 1696/7.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1697-02-22
ADM/A/1839/232
In pursuance of His Majesty's pleasure signified to William Blathwayte Esq., Secretary at War, you are directed to have allowed on the accounts of the Purser of the NONSUCH, the sea provisions which the Scots officers and soldiers were supplied with from the time they came on board to that of t…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1699-02-22
ADM/A/1862/225
The Commissioners for the Victualing have recommended that Mr Robert Westbrooke and Mr Harvey serve as their agent in the Straits, they having been there in 1695. They also think a clerk should be sent there to assist them. The former agent was allowed £200 per annum and his clerk £60 per annum.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1697-02-22
ADM/A/1839/230
The NONSUCH and POOL are ordered on immediate service and you are directed to have them victualled to 10 weeks each, the former in the Downes and the other at Portsmouth. If the POOL cannot be victualled at Portsmouth you are to have it done in the Downes.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1697-02-21
ADM/A/1839/226
William Powell is to be appointed Master Carpenter of the BLAST bomb vessel. You are directed to enter him accordingly together with such allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant as is proper. His warrant is to be dated 21 February 1696/7.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1697-02-17
ADM/A/1839/181
The commissioners appointed for the registering of seamen have proposed some methods for securing such Land Men as shall register themselves from the Press. We send you a copy of their letter and other papers relating to this and direct you to consider this.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1697-02-17
ADM/A/1839/179
The Rt. Hon. Lord Berkeley granted a commission to Captain Thomas Jennings on 6 June 1696 to be Second Captain of the BRITANNIA. You are directed to have the wages due to him for the time he served to be paid, if you have no other objection than his commission not being renewed by this Board.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1699-02-19
ADM/A/1862/179
Your letter of 13 February informed us that the Officers of Sheerness have advised that there are several small works to be done to complete the OXFORD, which were not done after her return to Woolwich in 1697. You are directed to have these works put in hand and completed as soon as may be.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1699-01-26
ADM/A/1861/256
Warrant for the appointment of Anthony Philips to be Boatswain of the CORNWALL.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1699-01-20
ADM/A/1861/202
We have considered your letter of the 18th inst; to our Secretary, together with the Account from the Victualling Commissioners of the Officers and Clerks employed in their Office, with the respective Duties they perform, and what Salaries are allowed them yearly.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-03-27
ADM/A/1828/354
The TERRIBLE at Plymouth to be manned and victualled as the other Guardships.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-03-27
ADM/A/1828/360
Enclose letter from Captain Lumley, Commander the FORTUNE Fireship that she has received damage to her Boat etc. Her damage to be repaired and furnished with another boat.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1699-01-24
ADM/A/1861/237
We direct you to cause the Men belonging to the BEDFORD GALLEY (lately returned from Newfoundland and now in Longreach) to be reduced to the lowest Complement of Men established on her, and whereas there is now aboard her two boys, Edward Bigley and Daniel Parker, who are evidences against one John …
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-03-30
ADM/A/1828/378
The hired ships JOSHEPH, PRINCE GEORGE, UNITY, and SMYRNA FACTOR being come up to Longreach, and in want of hands to get up their anchors, we direct you to supply them with labour from Deptford and Woolwich Yards. Bring them to Blackwall where they are to be discharged.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1699-01-14
ADM/A/1861/163
In your letter of yesterday's date you opined that it will be for the Service to send the MEDWAY PRIZE to Sheerness and cut her down there, fit her, and employ her as a Hulk in place of the LEOPARD, which is worn out.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1699-01-14
ADM/A/1861/165
Warrant for the appointment of Benjamin Warren to be Master Carpenter of the LIZARD.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-03-24
ADM/A/1828/314
Appoint John Greathead, Cook, of the TERROR.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1699-01-15
ADM/A/1861/172
On the 31st December we directed you to cause three of the six Clerks that belonged to the Members of your Board who are employed in the Registry Office, and were discharged, to be re-entered again for the better carrying on of the business of that Office, the Charge of which Clerks it is intended s…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-03-24
ADM/A/1828/322
Give an account of the condition of the LIVELY prize taken by Captain Mees of the SANDWICH. The TRUE-LOVE, the GREYHOUND, the MARY ANNE Bomb vessels to be put into ordinary.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-03-24
ADM/A/1828/320
Appoint John Delamere, Master Carpenter, of the new 5th Rate Building by Mr Ellis at Shoreham.
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