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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-03-28
ADM/A/1828/368
Cause the ARUNDELL to be victualled and stored at the Nore for her voyage to New England.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-03-30
ADM/A/1828/380
The Bomb Vessels BLAST, GRANADO, CARCASS, FURNACE, and TERROR are ordered to Woolwich to take on board their Mortars.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-03-28
ADM/A/1828/376
Cause the MARTIN to be cleaned and refitted at Sheerness, for service in the Channel.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1698-11-15
ADM/A/1861/166
Warrant for the appointment of Edward Cole to be Master Cook of the MARGATE.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-03-24
ADM/A/1828/310
Appoint Anthony Bennet, Master Carpenter, of the LYNN.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-03-25
ADM/A/1828/326
Cause Lieutenant Robert Dround, formally the KATHERINE, to be payed the wages due to him as Lieutenant the SUNDERLAND.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-03-25
ADM/A/1828/330
The TERRIBLE fireship to be fitted at Plymouth for a Man of War, the same sort of size as the DOLPHIN, the SPEEDWELL, and the ROEBUCK, and to have the same number of men and number and nature of guns established for her.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-03-22
ADM/A/1828/294
Appoint Henry Miller, Master Carpenter, of the FAULKLAND.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1697-02-05
ADM/A/1839/45
Zachery Martin is to be appointed Purser of the SHOREHAM, . in place of the former removed into the new 4th Rate building at Plymouth. You are directed to enter him accordingly together with such allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant as is proper.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1697-02-05
ADM/A/1839/53
In your letter of 29 January, you informed us that the Surveyor of the Navy had viewed a pump which Colonel Richards had made. You having proposed to us that an experiment be made in one of the ships at Deptford, as Colonel Richards proposes, at His Majesty's charge.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1699-02-07
ADM/A/1862/59
John Barnard, late Cook of the LOYAL MERCHANT, hired ship, is to be appointed Master Cook of the KATHERINE storeship. 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 7 February 1699.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1699-02-09
ADM/A/1862/73
A petition has been presented by Robert Hawkins, Master of the ROE ketch, on behalf of himself and Edward Deaves, Thomas Wright and John Cutler, setting out that they were ordered to stay in Virginia after the ketch was cast away, to save what they could of the King's stores.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1697-02-02
ADM/A/1839/15
Richard Morley, Purser of the BURFORD, is to be appointed Purser of the ANGLESEA, in place of the former removed to the BURFORD. You are directed to enter him accordingly together with such allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant as is proper.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1699-02-03
ADM/A/1862/10
Your report of 18 and 25 January sent us an account of the cases of John Willis, Thomas Netchill and John Sargent, and in consideration we direct that the "Run" against them be taken off. You are to act in accordance with our directions of 28 November and 23 December 1697.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1699-02-03
ADM/A/1862/14
We have granted a commission to Captain Peter Pickard, late commander of the ROYAL KATHERINE, to be Captain of the SAUDADOES prize, now at Jamaica. He is ordered to take the first opportunity to proceed to her in any merchant ship bound there.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1697-02-03
ADM/A/1839/23
You are directed to have the SOESDYKE yacht at Liverpool, cleaned and refitted there and put in condition for sea with all dispatch.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1697-02-04
ADM/A/1839/41
Roger Gray is to be appointed Purser of SMIRNA MERCHANT hired ship, in place of the former removed to the new 4th Rate building at East Cowes. You are directed to enter him accordingly together with such allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant as is proper.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-03-30
ADM/A/1828/394
Allow Vice Admiral Aylmer five hundred pounds for his service conveying home Turkish and Mediterranean Traders in 1691.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-03-31
ADM/A/1828/398
Appoint Jacob Acworth, Master Carpenter, the SWIFTSURE.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-03-03
ADM/A/1828/408
Appoint Benjamin Davis, Boatswain, the SERPENT Bomb vessel.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-03-16
ADM/A/1828/414
Forward a copy of information against Flight Surgeon the SCARBOROUGH, states he is disaffected to he present government. Enquire into his circumstances and how he came to be entertained.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1699-01-31
ADM/A/1861/270
Warrant for the appointment of William Steele to be Boatswain of the SEVERN.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1699-01-31
ADM/A/1861/272
Warrant for the appointment of William Meddell to be Boatswain of the CHARLES GALLEY.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1699-01-23
ADM/A/1861/276
In your letter of the 21st inst; to our Secretary you have proposed the MONTAGUE, COLCHESTER and ROMNEY as fitting to be Guard Ships in the River Medway.…
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