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Chicheley, John
Herbert, Arthur
Herbert, Thomas
Lee, Thomas
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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1690-04-03
ADM/A/1767/9
The NORTHUMBERLAND and HOPE having received some damage by the bad weather, both ships are coming to Spithead. You are directed to have them refitted with all possible dispatch.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1690-06-25
ADM/A/1767/338
For the greater dispatch in fitting out the 2nd Rate ship lately ted at Portsmouth, you are directed to give orders that she is not new graved, but proceeds to sea with the graving now on her.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1690-05-14
ADM/A/1767/203
You are directed to sign bills for Admiral Russell for his pay as Admiral of the Blue Squadron, at the usual rate, from the date of his commission to this day. His Majesty has signified his pleasure to us that Admiral Russell shall have an extra allowance of 20 shillings a day for this service.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1690-05-27
ADM/A/1767/276
Thomas Young is to be appointed Cook of the Fubbs yacht. 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 27 May 1690.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1690-04-28
ADM/A/1767/115
Your letter of today, advised us that upon your attending the Lords of the Treasury this afternoon, the Commissioners of the Victualling should have an additional £10,000 out of the £400,000 appropriated by Act of Parliament for the service of the Navy.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1690-05-05
ADM/A/1767/158
You are directed to let us know what sum of money will be necessary to be supplied weekly for the current service of the Navy.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1690-06-02
ADM/A/1767/282
In pursuance of His Majesty's order dated this day, you are directed to sign bills quarterly upon the Treasurer of the Navy, for paying Richard Haddock, Comptroller of the Navy, the sum of £500 a year, which His Majesty is pleased to allow him of his Royal Bounty.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1690-06-19
ADM/A/1767/313
You are directed to have the provisions on board the PHOENIX and PLAY prize at the Buoy of the Nore, completed to 3 months with all possible dispatch.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1690-04-07
ADM/A/1767/97
Your letter of 4 April gave an account of the prices at which slopsellers would furnish the several species of clothes which we ordered be put on board their Majesties ships.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1690-05-14
ADM/A/1767/262
Edmund Willmott, Boatswain of the CAPTAIN and John Whitnall, Boatswain of the DIAMOND, have requested that they may exchange places, which we have thought fit leave to grant. You are directed to make the exchange accordingly and the warrant is to be dated 14 May 1690.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1690-04-23
ADM/A/1767/90
In your letter of 19 April to our Secretary, you advise that the new 5th Rate frigate building at Portsmouth, will be ready to launch next spring. You are directed to have her launched accordingly and fitted out with all dispatch for service in the Channel.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1690-04-25
ADM/A/1767/111
Your letter of 23 April advised us that at your meeting with the Lords of the Treasury, their Lordships desired that the Commissioners of the Victualling be given £10,000 out of the £400,000 appropriated for the service of the Navy.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-11-18
ADM/A/1764/193
Warrant appointing Thomas Sheppard to be Cook of the CONSTANT WARWICK in place of the former who has died. Countersigned by Phineas Bowles, Admiralty Board Secretary.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-12-30
ADM/A/1764/401
Countermanding an Order to put Men from the PENDENNIS into the BURFORD and HOPE and requiring them to be put into the BURFORD and DUKE in the Downs (as previously ordered - see Item 399 above) and paid for six months of their service in the PENDENNIS. They are also to be supplied with victuals.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-12-30
ADM/A/1764/395
Mr John Addis, the Storekeeper at Plymouth, is to receive a sum of money for paying the Master of a vessel he has hired for conveying a Packet to John Berkeley.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-12-30
ADM/A/1764/393
Requiring the PLAY Prize to be supplied from Dover with as many Provisions as she can stow for service on the coasts of Scotland and Ireland.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-12-30
ADM/A/1764/397
Captain James Salmon of the SMYRNA MERCHANT hired ship at the Nore is in want of Stores. Instructions are given for him to be supplied either from the Owner's stores or from the Navy's; but if the latter, the cost is to be deducted from the cost of the hire.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1690-06-18
ADM/A/1767/311
You are directed to have the DOVER, upon arrival at Plymouth, cleaned and refitted for service in the Channel and furnished with 4 months victuals with all possible dispatch.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1690-05-17
ADM/A/1767/219
You are directed to let us know what care is taken for furnishing their Majesties fleet, now going to sea, with slop clothes and bedding.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1690-05-17
ADM/A/1767/266
Richard Paull is to be appointed Boatswain of the PORTSMOUTH. 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 17 May 1690.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1690-05-20
ADM/A/1767/270
John Zeal Senior, Purser of the SWIFTSURE, has requested that he may have leave to act by deputy during the ship's present voyage by reason of sickness. We have appointed John Zeal Junior to be Deputy Purser of the ship during the voyage.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1690-04-15
ADM/A/1767/132
There having been two lieutenants appointed to the ESSEX hired ship, before the arrival of the NORTHUMBERLAND at Spithead, which ship's company is to be turned over to the ESSEX, you are directed not to turn over the lieutenants of the NORTHUMBERLAND.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1690-05-30
ADM/A/1767/247
You are directed to have the officers and company of the DEPTFORD ketch, paid the wages due to them to the time she was lost at Virginia. Also, you are to propose a person whom you shall judge fitting to be employed as Master Attendant at Plymouth.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1690-05-06
ADM/A/1767/256
Nicholas Edwin is to be appointed Master Carpenter of the JULIAN prize. 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 6 May 1690.
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