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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1689-10-25 ADM/A/1763/292

Are enclosing an account of money disbursed by Mr Lewis Stucley of Plymouth, for impressing seamen to serve His Majesty, pursuant to the warrant of this Board of 16 July, amounting to £44.13.02.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1689-10-21 ADM/A/1763/227

You are directed to have the ships in service in the Mediterranean supplied with blue colours.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1689-10-21 ADM/A/1763/225

You are directed to have the provisions at Plymouth for the squadron of ships on the coast of Ireland, kept in readiness to be transported under convoy.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1689-10-22 ADM/A/1763/237

You are directed to have the provisions now on board the squadron at Plymouth, under the command of Lord Berkeley, Rear Admiral of the Red, to be completed to 3 months each for their respective complements.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1689-10-24 ADM/A/1763/243

The PORTLAND is ordered to Sheerness for refit and you are directed to have this done as soon as possible and to have her supplied with stores and victuals proper for service in the Channel.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1689-10-24 ADM/A/1763/249

You are directed to have an exact survey made of the defects of the ANTELOPE at Woolwich and to report to us.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1689-10-19 ADM/A/1763/209

You are directed to appoint a person you shall think fit, to provide necessaries for the sick and wounded seamen in the fleet until further order, according to the established rules. You are to give him instructions as you think necessary.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1689-10-18 ADM/A/1763/207

William Stiggant is to be appointed Master Shipwright at Portsmouth, in place of Isaac Betts whom we have thought fit to discharge. You are directed to enter him accordingly, together with such salary, wages, allowances, accommodation, perquisites, privileges and immunities belonging thereto.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1689-12-05 ADM/A/1764/275

Requiring the MARY Hired ship to be supplied with three months victuals for service in the Channel and for her Owners to supply her with whatever Stores she needs.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1689-12-00 ADM/A/1764/279

Pursuant to an Order in Council the Commissioners for Victualling are to be instructed to make provisions available for sending to Jersey for the eventual use of HM Forces there.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1689-12-06 ADM/A/1764/277

Requiring the Men of the SAMPSON and the ELIZABETH AND SARAH Fireships to be paid aboard the DUKE in the Downs to which they were recently turned over.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1690-04-12 ADM/A/1767/42

The house at the Chatham yard, formerly made use of by the Master Attendant, is ordered to be returned to the Clerk of the Survey who formerly had it.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1690-04-01 ADM/A/1767/134

James Lambert is to be appointed Cook of the LENOX. 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 1 April 1690.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1690-06-23 ADM/A/1767/326

You are directed to have the PORTSMOUTH sloop at Deptford, cleaned and refitted for service in the Channel, and furnished with 3 months victuals with all possible dispatch.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1690-06-28 ADM/A/1767/353

We lately directed you to appoint two vessels to be employed in getting men for the three hired merchant ships fitting at Sheerness. You are now directed to furnish each of these ships with a vessel proper for that service and to send them down to Sheerness.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1690-06-17 ADM/A/1767/307

Your letter of 16 June presented a method proposed by the Surveyor of the Navy for weighing the ST DAVID, sunk in Portsmouth harbour, for about £3,500.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1689-11-07 ADM/A/1764/251

Warrant appointing Mr George Freeman, Bachelor of Divinity, to the Office and Place of Preacher to HM Vessels in Ordinary and in Rigging Wages at Deptford in place of Dr.Daniel Mills who has died.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1690-06-02 ADM/A/1767/280

You are directed to make an allowance to Mr Frederick Bachor, Judge Advocate of their Majesties fleet, for his travelling charges in attending Courts Martial, as has been usually allowed.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1690-06-30 ADM/A/1767/355

You are directed to appoint as many of the small vessels taken up, in pursuance of the orders of 24 June, as you shall judge fitting to attend on each of their Majesties ships ordered to be fitted for sea.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1690-06-03 ADM/A/1767/383

Peter Bartlett is to be appointed Cook of the SWIFT prize, in place of the former deceased. 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 3 June 1690.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1689-11-03 ADM/A/1764/269

The ADVENTURE Frigate having been sold, it is now felt that she should have been rebuilt. An Order is given for the Navy Board to negotiate with her present owners for her purchase.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1690-04-12 ADM/A/1767/44

Your letter of 24 February to our Secretary, stated that a survey taken of the CHARLES & HENRY fireship lately cast away at Plymouth, reported that she is incapable of repair but may be of service if broken up, for repairing the wharf near the gravening place or building a shed or floating stage…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1690-04-01 ADM/A/1767/5

You are directed to have the CHARLOTTE yacht, cleaned and refitted at Deptford as soon as possible.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) ADM/A/1767/7

His Majesty has given order for providing a medal and chain to the value of £50, to be given to Mr John Leech, Master of the ship ANNE OF LONDON, as reward for his courageous defending of his ship against a French man-of-war of 26 guns on 29 December 1689, on her return from Jamaica.…